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SB53 changes how notice and signed paperwork are handled in court proceedings under the Texas Mental Health Code.
Official caption: Relating to certain notice and filing requirements in court proceedings involving persons with mental illness.
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SB57 strengthens school emergency planning for students and staff with disabilities or impairments.
Official caption: Relating to provisions and plans by public schools to ensure the safety of individuals with disabilities or impairments during a mandatory school drill or a disaster or emergency situation.
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SB60 lets public junior-college libraries donate certain low-value materials to any person or organization.
Official caption: Relating to the disposition by a public junior college library of certain library materials.
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SB65 expands which counties may adopt uniform work-hour rules for county employees.
Official caption: Relating to the adoption of uniform rules for hours of work for certain county employees.
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SB66 orders a study of how people with disabilities could receive help from a designated supporter during legal proceedings without losing confidenti…
Official caption: Relating to a study on authorizing a supporter under a supported decision-making agreement to assist an adult with a disability with legal proceedings.
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SB72 extends Texas’s private-passenger rental-car law to agreements of up to 180 days and requires refunds of certain unused damage-waiver charges.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of private passenger vehicle rental companies.
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SB75 creates a Texas Grid Security Commission to assess major threats and recommend resilience measures, and requires new exercises preparing for phy…
Official caption: Relating to the resilience of the electric grid and certain municipalities.
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SB127 gives prosecutors more time to charge certain professionals who knowingly fail to report child abuse or neglect, with the clock running from di…
Official caption: Relating to the offense of failure to report child abuse or neglect by certain professionals and the statute of limitations for that offense; harmonizing other statute of limitations provisions.
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SB140 expressly brings text, graphic and image solicitations into the telephone-solicitation definition and expands ways to enforce Texas telemarketi…
Official caption: Relating to certain definitions relating to the regulation of and private rights of action arising from certain solicitation-related communications.
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SB204 requires a plain-language parental-rights handbook and parental-rights training for school-district trustees.
Official caption: Relating to a handbook on parental rights in education and training requirements on parental rights in education for a member of the board of trustees of a school district.
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SB207 expressly includes mental-health appointments in the school excused-absence rule for health-care appointments.
Official caption: Relating to excused absences from public school for certain students to attend mental health care appointments.
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SB213 prohibits making home insurance conditional on buying personal auto insurance from the same or an affiliated insurer, and prohibits the reverse.
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the tying of residential property and personal automobile insurance policies.
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SB217 creates the Historic Texas Freedmen’s Cemetery Designation Program to identify cemeteries containing the grave of at least one formerly enslave…
Official caption: Relating to establishing the Historic Texas Freedmen's Cemetery Designation Program; authorizing a fee.
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SB226 gives families a specific way to prove school-district residency when a child is in a parental child safety placement.
Official caption: Relating to establishing residency for children who are the subject of parental child safety placement agreements for purposes of admission into public schools.
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SB227, the Charles Edward Barton Act, changes how Texas reviews applications for delayed birth certificates.
Official caption: Relating to the application review process for certain delayed birth certificates.
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SB231 sets equipment and leasing conditions for temporary emergency generators used by transmission and distribution utilities.
Official caption: Relating to temporary emergency electric energy facilities.
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SB243 expands enforcement of migrant labor housing standards, with complaint deadlines, relocation rules, anti-retaliation protection and revised civ…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of migrant labor housing facilities; changing the amount of a civil penalty.
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SB250 lets a city add certain railroad-adjacent land to an annexation when every owner of the additional land agrees.
Official caption: Relating to municipal annexation of an area adjacent to contiguous or connecting railroad rights-of-way.
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SB251 authorizes Bell County’s commissioners court to select criminal magistrates and set their pay, qualifications and duties.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of criminal law magistrates for Bell County.
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SB260 raises the school safety allotment’s base amounts from $10 to $20 per student in average daily attendance and from $15,000 to $33,540 per eligi…
Official caption: Relating to the school safety allotment under the Foundation School Program.
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SB261 enacted a temporary Texas ban on offering or selling cell-cultured protein for human consumption.
Official caption: Relating to a prohibition on the offering for sale and the sale of cell-cultured protein for human consumption; providing civil and criminal penalties.
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SB262 adds a second education-and-experience route to a Texas CPA certificate: a qualifying bachelor’s degree with an accounting concentration or equ…
Official caption: Relating to eligibility requirements to practice public accountancy.
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SB263 expressly includes qualifying television and radio broadcasters in a franchise-tax rule for deducting the cost of goods sold.
Official caption: Relating to the computation of the cost of goods sold by television and radio broadcasters for purposes of the franchise tax.
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SB264 stops new approvals for workers’ compensation self-insurance groups and directs the wind-down of their guaranty and trust funds.
Official caption: Relating to discontinuing group self-insurance coverage and dissolving the Texas self-insurance group guaranty fund and trust fund under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.
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SB266 changes how taxpayers document and litigate disputes with the state comptroller, including a new court route for disputes over managed-audit re…
Official caption: Relating to certain tax and fee collection procedures and taxpayer suits.
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SB269 requires physicians to report specified serious adverse events after certain vaccines or drugs.
Official caption: Relating to required reports of certain vaccine-related or drug-related adverse events.
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SB293 combines a judicial pay increase with new court deadlines, work reporting and judicial-discipline procedures.
Official caption: Relating to the discipline of judges by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, notice of certain reprimands, judicial compensation and related retirement benefits, and the reporting of certain judicial transparency information; authorizing an administrative penalty.
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SB296 lets one approved driving-safety or motorcycle-training course support dismissal of multiple eligible traffic charges from the same incident.
Official caption: Relating to driving safety or motorcycle operator training course dismissal.
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SB304 lets a city authorize its municipal court to handle specified civil code-enforcement matters and issue related warrants.
Official caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of municipal courts over health and safety and nuisance abatement ordinances.
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SB305 extends Texas’s move-over-or-slow-down law to certain animal-removal and parking-enforcement vehicles.
Official caption: Relating to the criminal offense of passing certain vehicles on a highway.
