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SB771 allows a Texas diesel-fuel tax credit or refund for tax-paid fuel used in this state by auxiliary power units or power take-off equipment on mo…
Official caption: Relating to a credit or refund for diesel fuel taxes paid on diesel fuel used in this state by auxiliary power units or power take-off equipment.
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SB777 changes how covered firefighter collective-bargaining disputes reach a binding resolution.
Official caption: Relating to compensation and employment condition standards by municipal charter or collective bargaining agreement and to impasse resolution in collective bargaining with certain political subdivisions.
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SB783 gives the State Energy Conservation Office explicit authority to amend building energy-code editions and requires a cost-and-housing analysis b…
Official caption: Relating to certain regulations adopted by governmental entities for the construction or alteration of residential or commercial buildings.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB785 requires qualifying cities with zoning to provide at least one place where a new HUD-code manufactured home is allowed as a dwelling by right.
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of new HUD-code manufactured housing.
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SB790 lets the Public Utility Commission adopt a simpler way to resolve certain tenant complaints against property owners about water or wastewater b…
Official caption: Relating to the procedure for resolving certain customer complaints before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
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SB800 adds a required video to new-student sexual-misconduct policy orientations and adds the National Sexual Assault Hotline to student ID cards at …
Official caption: Relating to a public institution of higher education's sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking resources and policy orientation.
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SB815 limits automated denials in health-plan utilization review—the process of checking whether care is medically necessary or appropriate.
Official caption: Relating to the use of certain automated systems in, and certain adverse determinations made in connection with, the health benefit claims process.
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SB823 requires imported-shrimp labeling in the supply chain and bars restaurants from presenting imported shrimp as domestic.
Official caption: Relating to labeling and representation of imported shrimp; authorizing an administrative penalty.
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SB826 makes driving while intoxicated in an active school crossing zone a state jail felony.
Official caption: Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in a school crossing zone while intoxicated; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB827 expands and reorganizes hand-count checks of electronically counted ballots, adds online publication of results, and coordinates statewide risk…
Official caption: Relating to the audit of an election using an electronic voting system.
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SB835, called Trey’s Law, makes contract terms unenforceable to the extent they bar disclosure of covered sexual abuse or related facts.
Official caption: Relating to the enforceability of certain nondisclosure or confidentiality provisions with respect to an act of sexual abuse.
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SB836 strengthens privacy protections for sexual-assault examination evidence, invasive recordings and eligible victims’ identities, while preserving…
Official caption: Relating to victims of sex offenses, sex-based human trafficking offenses, or acts of a sexual nature and to the confidentiality of or restrictions on the availability of certain property, material, or information regarding those victims, offenses, or acts.
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SB840 requires qualifying large cities to allow more apartments and residential mixed-use projects in commercial areas and limits restrictions on con…
Official caption: Relating to certain municipal regulation of certain mixed-use and multifamily residential development projects and conversion of certain commercial buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.
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SB841 lets a qualified recipient of an assigned construction-payment claim become a beneficiary of the project’s construction trust funds, but only u…
Official caption: Relating to the beneficiaries of trust funds paid or received in connection with an improvement on specific real property.
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SB842 gives ringside physicians civil-liability protection for acts within their responsibilities at a combative-sports event, but not for acts or om…
Official caption: Relating to immunity for ringside physicians assigned to combative sports events.
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SB843 directs the Texas Education Agency to maintain a database of school bonds, taxes and bond-funded projects, including specified charter-school b…
Official caption: Relating to a Texas Education Agency database of school district and open-enrollment charter school bonds, taxes, and bond-related projects.
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SB850 removes refund-application requirements for property-tax refunds of at least $20, broadens payment deadlines and revises interest and enforceme…
Official caption: Relating to the payment of certain ad valorem tax refunds.
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SB855 allows an authorized medical decision-maker other than the Department of Family and Protective Services to take financial responsibility for a …
Official caption: Relating to the authority of certain medical consenters to assume financial responsibility for certain out-of-network medical care provided to children in foster care.
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SB856 adds the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to the institutions that can use the Skills Development Fund for customized workforce trainin…
Official caption: Relating to the use of the skills development fund by certain entities.
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SB857 expands when an authorized officer may remove a vehicle from a highway, adding specified driver-license and financial-responsibility violations…
Official caption: Relating to the authorized removal of certain motor vehicles.
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SB860 abolishes the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee and redirects or preserves two existing agency reports.
Official caption: Relating to abolishing the Criminal Justice Legislative Oversight Committee.
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SB863 changes where Edwards Aquifer water may be used and separately lets state regulators authorize treated reclaimed water for underground storage …
Official caption: Relating to water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer and to the use of certain reclaimed water in an aquifer storage and recovery project.
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SB865, the Landon Payton Act, expands school CPR certification and requires more detailed cardiac-emergency response plans.
Official caption: Relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators and to a cardiac emergency response plan for certain school employees and volunteers.
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SB868 reserves at least 10% of the relevant annual volunteer-fire-department assistance appropriation for departments in areas classified as high ris…
Official caption: Relating to the allocation of money appropriated to the rural volunteer fire department assistance program.
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SB869 limits pauses or extensions of the Texas Ethics Commission’s preliminary-review settlement-or-dismissal deadline to litigation about the compla…
Official caption: Relating to the deadline for the Texas Ethics Commission to resolve certain complaints.
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SB870 lets appointed school marshals openly carry a handgun while wearing a uniform identifying them as a school marshal.
Official caption: Relating to the open carrying of a handgun by a uniformed school marshal.
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SB876 names the U.S.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 377 in Hood and Johnson Counties as the Bob Cornett Parkway.
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SB879 exempts qualifying closed-loop geothermal permit-by-rule participants from two specified Railroad Commission fee and organization-report statut…
Official caption: Relating to an exemption for drillers or operators of closed-loop geothermal injection wells from certain requirements applicable to persons involved in activities under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
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SB888 allows the Texas attorney general to defend a district or county attorney in certain federal-court lawsuits about enforcement of state law.
Official caption: Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court.
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SB890 expands the judicial-officer definitions used for Texas handgun licensing to expressly include statutory probate court judges and additional vi…
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of a license to carry a handgun to certain active and retired judicial officers.
