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SB1241 replaces the named ACT/SAT score alternatives in two public-college admission provisions with examinations and scores designated by the Texas …
Official caption: Relating to the consideration of college entrance examinations for admission to certain public institutions of higher education and a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding those examinations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1242 removes a specific state coordinating-board approval step for Texas State Technical College System land and facility acquisitions.
Official caption: Relating to the acquisition of land and facilities by the Texas State Technical College System.
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SB1243 gives participating public entities an express way to dissolve a joint public utility agency and transfer its obligations, assets, permits and…
Official caption: Relating to the dissolution of a public utility agency.
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SB1245 adds aoudad sheep to the animals that a qualified landowner or landowner’s agent may contract to hunt—or observe being hunted—from a helicopte…
Official caption: Relating to the taking of aoudad sheep by using a helicopter.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1247 consolidates certain nonresident hunting licenses into a general license and a five-day option, eliminating the separate spring-turkey, annual…
Official caption: Relating to consolidating certain nonresident hunting licenses.
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SB1248 restricts disclosure of recreational wildlife-harvest reports submitted to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, including where the animal…
Official caption: Relating to the disclosure of certain harvest report information submitted to the Parks and Wildlife Department.
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SB1252 limits municipal regulation of installing or inspecting qualifying residential backup-energy systems, while preserving municipally owned utili…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a municipality to regulate the installation or inspection of a residential energy backup system.
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SB1254 clarifies what happens when a professional employer organization’s license expires and expands the licensing agency’s express disciplinary rea…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of professional employer organizations.
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SB1255 changes Texas’s mold-assessment and remediation law in two different directions: it exempts post-disaster demolition from this chapter, but re…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of mold assessors and remediators.
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SB1257 requires certain health plans that cover, or have covered, an enrollee’s gender-transition treatment to cover related adverse effects, monitor…
Official caption: Relating to required health benefit plan coverage for gender transition adverse effects and reversals.
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SB1259 makes the land-surveyor licensing law name three distinct examinations and expands written advice and public records about surveying regulatio…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of land surveyors by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
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SB1261 creates a financing route for very large water-supply projects in the state water plan, while separately expanding certain state water-financi…
Official caption: Relating to the financing of water supply projects included in the state water plan; authorizing the issuance of obligations.
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SB1265 requires the Texas Workforce Commission to keep a prominent website link to current, comprehensive child-care information for employers.
Official caption: Relating to certain duties of the Texas Workforce Commission with respect to child-care resources.
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SB1266 requires help for Medicaid providers using the state’s enrollment and credentialing portal, an electronic complaint process, and advance notic…
Official caption: Relating to Medicaid provider enrollment and credentialing processes.
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SB1267 rewrites important parts of Texas boat and outboard-motor titling: electronic records, shorter application periods, hull-damage disclosures, a…
Official caption: Relating to certificates of number and certificates of title issued by and records kept by the Parks and Wildlife Department; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1268 aligns reviews of specified water- and flood-planning rules with Texas’s five-year planning cycles instead of the general four-year rule-revie…
Official caption: Relating to the review and updating by the Texas Water Development Board of guidance principles and rules related to certain plans adopted or approved by the board.
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SB1271 lets the governor accept shared state-and-federal legal authority over specified military land in Texas through a documented application proce…
Official caption: Relating to the concurrent jurisdiction of this state over United States military installations with respect to certain subject matters.
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SB1273 creates a Higher Education Research Security Council to coordinate research protection and reduce foreign espionage and interference risks.
Official caption: Relating to establishing the Higher Education Research Security Council.
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SB1281 expands Texas mail-theft law to cover mail in transit, adds penalties for stealing negotiable instruments from mail, and creates an offense in…
Official caption: Relating to certain criminal offenses involving mail or a mail receptacle key or lock; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB1283 requires qualifying senior retirement communities to check employees' criminal histories, notify residents about known crime reports and crimi…
Official caption: Relating to resident safety from criminal activity in senior retirement communities.
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SB1300 rewrites organized retail theft, raises its basic penalty tiers and changes how prosecutors may charge and prove it.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the criminal offense of organized retail theft; increasing criminal penalties.
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SB1302 prevents an automatic return to a general waste-discharge permit after the environmental commission has denied or suspended a discharger's aut…
Official caption: Relating to eligibility to use a general permit to discharge waste into or adjacent to waters in this state.
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SB1307 requires the Texas Department of Insurance to produce a public health-coverage reference guide every two years, in consultation with the Healt…
Official caption: Relating to a biennial health coverage reference guide developed by the Texas Department of Insurance.
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SB1313 creates a criminal offense for retailers using specified images or designs in marketing, advertising or selling cigarettes, e-cigarettes or to…
Official caption: Relating to prohibited signs, logos, and designs in advertising or marketing cigarettes, e-cigarettes, or other tobacco products; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1316 extends an existing restriction on outdoor cigarette and tobacco advertising near churches and schools to e-cigarette advertising.
Official caption: Relating to a prohibition on e-cigarette advertising in certain locations.
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SB1318 limits noncompete agreements for physicians, dentists, licensed professional or vocational nurses, and physician assistants.
Official caption: Relating to restrictions on covenants not to compete for physicians and certain health care practitioners.
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SB1321 moves commissioned peace officers employed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE) onto the state's Schedule C pay system and adds …
Official caption: Relating to compensation and leave for certain peace officers.
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SB1330 sets conditions on certain medical-equipment charges to Medicare enrollees by nonparticipating suppliers.
Official caption: Relating to billing and reimbursement for certain medical equipment, devices, and supplies provided to Medicare enrollees; creating a criminal offense.
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SB1332 lets certain health insurers and health maintenance organizations waive later months' premiums when a group plan holder reports someone's loss…
Official caption: Relating to a group health benefit plan policy or contract holder's obligation to pay premiums on behalf of an individual after the individual's eligibility for group coverage terminates.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB1333 creates a sheriff-or-constable procedure for removing certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling, adds property-fraud crimes and increases p…
Official caption: Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.
