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SB1558 adds conditional liability protection for specified nonprofit child-welfare contractors and expands who falls within Texas’s charitable-liabil…
Official caption: Relating to the liability of nonprofit entities contracted with the Department of Family and Protective Services or with a single source continuum contractor to provide community-based care or child welfare services.
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SB1559 changes which protective orders prevail over conflicting family-court orders and adds safety-focused procedures for moving a protective order …
Official caption: Relating to conflicts between a protective order and certain other orders and to the transfer of a protective order.
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SB1563 requires training for county jailers on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
Official caption: Relating to county jailer training on interacting with veterans in the criminal justice system.
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SB1566 removes one municipal paperwork barrier to utility service for qualifying land that has left a city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction—the nearby…
Official caption: Relating to connection of utilities by certain entities in certain subdivisions formerly located in a municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
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SB1567 limits occupancy restrictions in certain home-rule cities near large public college campuses.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of home-rule municipalities to regulate the occupancy of dwelling units.
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SB1568 adds a “Spay.
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of animal friendly specialty license plates.
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SB1569 extends specified personal-information protections to college governing-board members and chief executives.
Official caption: Relating to the availability of certain personal information of a member of the governing board of an institution of higher education, the chief executive officer of the institution, or the chief executive officer of a university system.
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SB1574 requires the Texas Judicial Council to develop a centers-of-excellence recognition program for judges and justices.
Official caption: Relating to a centers of excellence program developed by the Texas Judicial Council for certain justices and judges.
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SB1577 expands temporary alcohol sales at qualifying large racing facilities.
Official caption: Relating to the temporary sale of alcoholic beverages at certain racing facilities.
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SB1579 creates a process that can place certain abandoned, unoccupied and tax-delinquent undeveloped land under a court-appointed receiver—a person m…
Official caption: Relating to the appointment of a receiver for and sale of certain parcels of land that are abandoned, unoccupied, tax delinquent, and undeveloped in certain municipalities.
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SB1580 requires a veteran on the governing body of a local mental health authority, if the authority has a governing body.
Official caption: Relating to the composition of the governing body of a local mental health authority.
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SB1583 updates groundwater districts’ management-plan requirements and provides a way to approve a complete plan while a groundwater-target challenge…
Official caption: Relating to management plans adopted by groundwater conservation districts.
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SB1589 requires community-based child-welfare contracts to let the state take back or transfer case management.
Official caption: Relating to the contract requirements for a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.
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SB1596 removes short-barrel firearms from Texas Penal Code 46.05’s prohibited-weapons offense.
Official caption: Relating to the prohibition of short-barrel firearms.
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SB1598 expands authorized uses of collision reports while retaining restrictions on public release.
Official caption: Relating to the release of motor vehicle collision report information.
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SB1610 changes criminal penalties, bail, registration and administration for people civilly committed as sexually violent predators.
Official caption: Relating to sexually violent predators, to the Texas Civil Commitment Office, and to the prosecution of the offense of harassment by sexually violent predators and other persons confined in certain facilities; amending certain sex offender registration requirements; increasing criminal penalties.
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SB1619 extends Texas epinephrine programs beyond auto-injectors to FDA-approved delivery systems, expressly including nasal sprays.
Official caption: Relating to the use of an epinephrine delivery system by certain entities.
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SB1620 creates a temporary forensic-analyst apprenticeship program to expand Texas crime-laboratory staffing.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Texas forensic analyst apprenticeship pilot program.
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SB1621 expands offenses involving sexual images of children to cover lifelike computer-generated children and rewrites penalties and defenses.
Official caption: Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual material involving depictions of children, computer-generated children, or other persons; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties.
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SB1637 gives peace officers two specific protections under Texas’s deadly-conduct statute.
Official caption: Relating to the prosecution of the offense of deadly conduct.
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SB1644 requires covered insurers to refresh credit information and reconsider policy pricing, and lets insured customers request a renewal re-rating.
Official caption: Relating to the use of a consumer's credit score in the underwriting or rating of certain personal lines property and casualty insurance policies.
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SB1646 adds criminal penalties for certain copper and brass offenses and new safeguards for business-to-business metal recycling.
Official caption: Relating to criminal conduct involving the theft, damage, or destruction of copper or brass or involving the unauthorized possession of certain copper or brass material, to transactions of metal recycling entities involving certain copper or brass material, to training on identifying certain copper or brass material, and to studying the effect of certain regulations on incidents of theft of copper or brass material; creating criminal offenses; increasing criminal penalties; providing an administrative penalty.
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SB1660 requires crime laboratories holding covered intoxication-case specimens to report their possession and receipt dates to prosecutors each year.
Official caption: Relating to the retention and preservation of toxicological evidence of certain intoxication offenses.
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SB1662 lets the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality give certain groundwater-supplied public drinking-water systems up to 24 hours’ notice befo…
Official caption: Relating to notice provided to certain public drinking water supply systems before water quality testing.
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SB1663 expands groundwater-contamination notices to residents within one mile of the contamination site and allows faster delivery methods.
Official caption: Relating to notification procedures concerning groundwater contamination.
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SB1664 requires clearer public explanations of proposed electricity delivery-rate changes by covered transmission and distribution utilities.
Official caption: Relating to public information regarding the rates of a transmission and distribution utility.
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SB1666 changes how Texas routes restitution payments and victim contact information, and shortens when certain unclaimed payments move to the comptro…
Official caption: Relating to the payment of restitution.
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SB1667 changes the paperwork, delivery fees and record-retention rules for expunction—the court process for removing eligible arrest records.
Official caption: Relating to the procedures for the expunction of arrest records and files; authorizing a fee.
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SB1677 requires a university-led study on preventing and reducing diabetes-related amputations.
Official caption: Relating to a study on prevention and reduction of diabetes-related amputation.
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SB1697 requires the Public Utility Commission to create and periodically update a home-solar consumer guide.
Official caption: Relating to a customer guide to home solar energy devices.
