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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB500 sets deadlines for sharing adoption-history information and expressly permits access to certain confidential records with privacy safeguards.
Official caption: Relating to access to certain information in the adoption process.
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SB502 puts specified Health and Human Services inspector-general peace officers on the state’s Schedule C pay system and extends hazardous-duty and i…
Official caption: Relating to peace officers commissioned by the Health and Human Services Commission's office of inspector general.
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SB503 requires an online, searchable statewide registry of livestock marks and brands, with owner-identifying information withheld from the general p…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of an electronic registry of livestock marks and brands.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB506 sets a neutral-wording standard for ballot propositions and creates review and enforcement procedures for certain local measures.
Official caption: Relating to requirements for certain ballot propositions and to related procedures and provisions.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB509 requires courts to notify the Texas attorney general before hearings seeking a temporary restraining order under the Election Code.
Official caption: Relating to requiring notice to the attorney general in an action under the Election Code seeking a temporary restraining order.
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SB510 broadens when the Secretary of State may withhold specified election funds from a voter registrar who fails to perform required duties on time.
Official caption: Relating to the failure of a voter registrar to comply with voter registration laws.
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SB512 bars a money transmission licensee from putting a monetary fine or penalty for violating its terms of service into that agreement.
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the imposition of a monetary fine or penalty for a violation of a money services business's terms of service agreement; providing a civil penalty.
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SB513 creates a framework for a locally rooted rural child-welfare pilot, with implementation allowed only if it is sufficiently funded.
Official caption: Relating to a rural community-based care pilot program.
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SB519 directs the Texas Historical Commission to create an annual grant program supporting educational engagement with Texas history.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a grant program to promote educational engagement with Texas history.
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SB522 replaces a national “substantial equivalency” test with specific qualifications for many out-of-state CPAs who work with Texas clients without …
Official caption: Relating to the certification and regulation of certain out-of-state certified public accountants.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB523 lets qualifying parole and probation officers use an office address instead of their home address on a Texas driver’s license.
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a driver's license to certain persons that includes an alternative to the license holder's residence address.
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SB527 prevents covered health plans that already cover general anesthesia from excluding medically necessary general anesthesia for certain children’…
Official caption: Relating to health benefit coverage for general anesthesia in connection with certain pediatric dental services.
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SB528 adds local coordination and annual performance reporting for facilities providing inpatient competency-restoration services through Health and …
Official caption: Relating to inpatient competency restoration services.
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SB529 gives Midland access to additional hotel-and-convention-project tax revenue and lets the eligible city pledge or commit revenue for two qualifi…
Official caption: Relating to the entitlement of certain municipalities to receive and use tax revenue from certain establishments located near a hotel and convention center project.
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SB530 removes the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ special named position in several Texas higher-education accreditation laws.
Official caption: Relating to the accreditation of certain postsecondary educational institutions in this state or of certain programs offered by those institutions.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB535 extends restrictions on using a victim's past sexual behavior as evidence to additional criminal prosecutions.
Official caption: Relating to the admissibility of evidence regarding a victim's past sexual behavior in prosecutions of certain trafficking, sexual, or assaultive offenses.
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SB541 expands what Texas home-based food businesses may sell and creates a limited route for resale through cottage-food vendors.
Official caption: Relating to cottage food production operations.
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SB546 changes Texas school-bus seat-belt requirements, but does not require every bus to be retrofitted immediately.
Official caption: Relating to seat belts on buses that transport children.
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SB565 broadens when the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality may make a compliance agreement for a service being combined into a regional system.
Official caption: Relating to a compliance agreement for the suspension of an enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid waste disposal service for certain violations.
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SB568 rewrites Texas special-education oversight, services and school funding.
Official caption: Relating to special education in public schools, including funding for special education under the Foundation School Program.
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SB569 creates a new framework for public-school virtual and hybrid courses, programs and campuses.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of virtual education in public schools and to certain waivers and modifications by the commissioner of education to the method of calculating average daily attendance in an emergency or crisis for purposes of preserving school district funding entitlements under the Foundation School Program during that emergency or crisis; authorizing a fee.
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SB571 expands school-misconduct reporting, hiring checks and state investigations, and shortens professionals’ child-abuse reporting deadline.
Official caption: Relating to the reporting and investigation of certain misconduct and child abuse and neglect; creating a criminal offense.
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SB599 prevents local governments from imposing health-and-safety standards on covered home child-care operations that are stricter than state law or …
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to regulate a licensed, registered, or listed group day-care home or family home.
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SB608 requires state and local reports to count sexual-assault evidence kits that law enforcement did not collect within the existing legal deadlines.
Official caption: Relating to reporting information regarding certain evidence collection kits.
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SB610 expressly authorizes the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to organize anti-trafficking work and protects information identifying tr…
Official caption: Relating to combating human trafficking by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
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SB612 limits certain water-district pipeline charges to developers to the district’s actual, reasonable and documented costs.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of certain conservation and reclamation districts to impose fees for the construction of certain pipelines and associated infrastructure.
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SB616 permits a narrow new exception to the restriction on injection wells crossing the Edwards Aquifer.
Official caption: Relating to aquifer storage and recovery projects that transect a portion of the Edwards Aquifer.
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SB617 requires advance neighborhood notice and a nearby public hearing before a city converts property it controls into housing for homeless people.
Official caption: Relating to hearing and public notice requirements regarding the conversion by a municipality of certain properties to house homeless individuals.
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SB627 revises Texas dietitian-licensing language and removes several specific administrative requirements; it does not abolish dietitian licensing.
Official caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of dietitians.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB646 broadens mental-health professional student-loan repayment and raises the statutory assistance limits, subject to available funding and service…
Official caption: Relating to repayment of certain mental health professional education loans.
