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SB647 strengthens the process for handling suspected fraudulent property filings, including documents claiming an ownership interest rather than only…
Official caption: Relating to the filing or recording of documents or instruments conveying or purporting to convey an interest in real or personal property.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB650, the Deshawn Jagwan Act, requires visual ID inspection and electronic age verification for covered alcohol sales for off-premises consumption.
Official caption: Relating to requiring the use of electronically readable information to verify a purchaser's age in the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB651 allows a veterans county service office in a county of at least 200,000 people to report directly to a designated county executive official ins…
Official caption: Relating to the requirement that a veterans county service office report to the commissioners court or a designated county executive official.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB663 gives the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Community Justice Assistance Division approval authority over local community supervision and …
Official caption: Relating to the approval of a community supervision and corrections department's budget and strategic plan.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB664 adds common qualifications, bail-training requirements and oversight for appointed judicial officers under Government Code Chapter 54, and rais…
Official caption: Relating to qualifications, training, removal, and supervision of certain masters, magistrates, referees, associate judges, and hearing officers.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB667 creates a list-based investment restriction and divestment process for six specified Texas public funds and retirement systems, with fiduciary …
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting certain state governmental entities from investing in certain Chinese-affiliated entities.
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SB670 creates a Texas-law route for certain patients to obtain investigational sun protection products with a physician’s written recommendation or p…
Official caption: Relating to patient authorization to access certain investigational sun protection products.
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SB672 requires covered hospitals to send the Texas Health and Human Services Commission a written summary of how they plan to divert emergency patien…
Official caption: Relating to a requirement that certain hospitals submit a summary of parts of their emergency operations plans to the Health and Human Services Commission.
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SB681 requires engineering and land-surveying licenses and registrations covered by the amended provisions to last at least two years under rules ado…
Official caption: Relating to the term and renewal of an engineering or land surveying license or registration.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB682 names a specific stretch of Farm-to-Market Road 2493 in Smith County the Captain Kevin Williams and Firefighter Austin Cheek Memorial Highway.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 2493 in Smith County as the Captain Kevin Williams and Firefighter Austin Cheek Memorial Highway.
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SB687 brings registered professional land surveyors and licensed state land surveyors into existing rules limiting how construction and local-governm…
Official caption: Relating to liability for land surveying services in or in connection with certain construction or services contracts.
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SB688 moves the Texas presidential electors’ meeting from Monday to Tuesday: the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December following their…
Official caption: Relating to the date of the meeting of presidential electors of this state.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB693 adds notary education, a ten-year record-retention rule and a criminal offense for knowingly notarizing for a person who did not personally app…
Official caption: Relating to notaries public; creating a criminal offense; authorizing a fee.
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SB703 revises and specifies the offenses that disqualify individuals from massage-related licenses, ties mandatory therapist and instructor revocatio…
Official caption: Relating to the criminal and licensing consequences for the commission of certain offenses by massage establishments, massage schools, massage therapists, and massage therapy instructors.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB705 removes two automatic, nonvoting agency seats from the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Contractors Advisory Board while keeping its nine app…
Official caption: Relating to the air conditioning and refrigeration contractors advisory board.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB706 requires Texas to recognize a valid license to carry a handgun issued by any other state.
Official caption: Relating to the recognition of a handgun license issued by another state.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB710 lets a city authorize separate public online message boards for its boards, commissions and similar entities, in addition to the city’s own mes…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment and use of a written electronic communications system accessible to the public by certain municipal entities.
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SB711 changes condominium information and fees, security-fence rules, and recruitment for certain homeowners’ association architectural-review commit…
Official caption: Relating to property owners' associations, including condominium unit owners' associations.
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SB739 adds investigators commissioned as peace officers by the Texas insurance commissioner to the list of “authorized peace officers” in the state l…
Official caption: Relating to the definition of authorized peace officer for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.
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SB740 changes how Texas handles failing water and sewer systems, infrastructure-related rate charges, and wholesale service disputes between cities.
Official caption: Relating to certain proceedings by the Public Utility Commission of Texas regarding water or sewer service.
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SB745 makes intoxication manslaughter a first-degree felony when the prosecution shows at trial that the person caused more than one death during the…
Official caption: Relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for the offense of intoxication manslaughter in certain circumstances.
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SB746 clarifies representation in guardianship cases, restricts participation by people with adverse interests, and requires written court decisions …
Official caption: Relating to guardianship matters.
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SB748 narrows one administrative provision to laser hair removal and repeals two detailed warning-sign requirements—but does not repeal the requireme…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of laser hair removal.
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SB761 strengthens specified crime-victim notices and participation rights, expands access to support during sexual-assault interviews, and adds a con…
Official caption: Relating to the offense of sexual assault and to the rights of crime victims, including the enforcement of certain rights of sexual assault victims; authorizing a civil penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB763 requires the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to review the protectiveness of specified permanent-concrete-plant standard permits at l…
Official caption: Relating to standard permits for certain concrete plants.
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SB764 removes the electrician-law sentence allowing a hearing to be conducted by a hearing officer designated by the licensing commission.
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for a hearing by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on the denial of an electrician's license or disciplinary action against an electrician.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB765 makes information in a governmental body’s custody relating to fraud detection and deterrence measures confidential under the Texas Public Info…
Official caption: Relating to the confidentiality of fraud detection and deterrence information under the public information law.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB766 updates old references to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, across …
Official caption: Relating to the correction of references to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB767 requires the Texas Forest Service to create and maintain a statewide database of firefighting equipment available for wildfire response.
Official caption: Relating to creating a database of the firefighting equipment in the state available for use in responding to wildfires.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB769 directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to report to the Legislature by December 1, 2027 on college enrollment and success for st…
Official caption: Relating to a report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding enrollment and success in higher education for students with disabilities.
