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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2018 creates a limited Texas franchise-tax credit for business contributions to qualifying family-support organizations.
Official caption: Relating to the strong families credit against certain taxes for entities that contribute to certain organizations.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2032 gives the state and its community-based foster-care contractors more time to prepare for an early contract ending, while allowing a replacemen…
Official caption: Relating to certain requirements regarding a contract between a single source continuum contractor and the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2034 lets a court put a struggling community-based child-welfare contractor under a temporary receiver—a court-appointed manager—to protect childre…
Official caption: Relating to the receivership of a single-source continuum contractor providing child welfare services.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2037 creates an optional, extra-fee expedited review process for specified liquefied natural gas export-terminal permits and sets deadlines for com…
Official caption: Relating to permit application review and contested case procedures for environmental permits involving a project to construct or modify a liquefied natural gas export terminal; authorizing a fee.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2039 extends specified crossing protections—and crossing duties—to people lawfully riding bicycles, scooters and similar devices on sidewalks.
Official caption: Relating to the applicability of certain pedestrian laws to certain sidewalk users.
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SB2052 adds an upfront sworn-statement requirement and an express clear-and-convincing proof rule for nonparents seeking relief against parents in ch…
Official caption: Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship between a parent and a nonparent.
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SB2053 creates a Governor’s Medal of Service to recognize qualifying Texas residents, with no more than two awards each year.
Official caption: Relating to creating the Governor's Medal of Service award to recognize service to the people of Texas.
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SB2055 broadens institutional participation in the Texas Leadership Scholars Program, sets a minimum research-scholarship allocation for each eligibl…
Official caption: Relating to participation in the Texas Leadership Scholars Program.
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SB2064 exempts qualifying inherited and survivorship motor-vehicle transfers from Texas’s Chapter 152 motor-vehicle taxes, including the $10 gift tax.
Official caption: Relating to an exemption from certain taxes imposed on the transfer of a motor vehicle to a person from a decedent or the decedent's estate.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2065 replaces a cap on state contributions to the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System with a pension-funding calculation aimed at paying its…
Official caption: Relating to the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System.
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SB2066 repeals the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP), which matched qualifying private research gifts to eligible universities with state money.
Official caption: Relating to the repeal of the Texas Research Incentive Program.
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SB2068 makes a child’s name, age, home address and home telephone number confidential when supplied in a property-tax exemption application filed wit…
Official caption: Relating to the duty of an appraisal district to keep confidential certain identifying information provided by a property owner.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2069 requires a study of whether Texas should implement a statewide or regional registry of available acute psychiatric beds.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of a work group to conduct a study on the feasibility of implementing an acute psychiatric bed registry.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2073 expressly allows appraisal districts to finance office property and construction, and changes a taxing unit’s missed response deadline from re…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of an appraisal district to purchase, finance the purchase of, or lease real property or construct or finance the construction of improvements to real property.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2075 standardizes many advisory boards serving the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, changes some membership and term rules, and gives …
Official caption: Relating to the establishment, powers and duties, terms, and governance of certain advisory bodies for programs administered by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
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SB2077 narrows several conflict-of-interest disqualifications for directors of Texas Mutual Insurance Company, expanding who may qualify while keepin…
Official caption: Relating to the qualifications of members of the board of directors of the Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
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SB2078 restricts where certain city-mandated food waste may be deposited for composting, with exceptions for agriculture, county-authorized facilitie…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of composting in certain counties; authorizing a civil penalty.
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SB2112 creates separate penalty tracks for cultivated-oyster offenses: higher penalties for repeat statutory violations, but a lower ordinary penalty…
Official caption: Relating to the punishment for certain criminal offenses related to cultivated oyster mariculture; increasing a criminal penalty.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2121 removes the “principal source of revenue” limitation from the definition of a data broker, while retaining separate revenue-or-volume tests fo…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of certain business entities that act as data brokers.
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SB2122 sets nonrefundable application fees for specified oil-and-gas waste permits and amendments, while keeping the defined fluid-injection-well fee…
Official caption: Relating to imposition of application fees for certain permits and permit amendments for the disposal of oil and gas waste.
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SB2124 moves the annual groundwater monitoring and contamination report deadline from April 1 to June 1.
Official caption: Relating to publication of the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee's annual report.
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SB2127 lowers certain retired and former judges’ service thresholds from eight years to six, narrows specified restrictions on practicing law, and ad…
Official caption: Relating to the assignment of certain retired and former justices and judges.
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SB2129 raises the fine for a railroad-crossing offense when it is proved at trial that the vehicle operator disregarded a flagger’s warning about an …
Official caption: Relating to the operation of vehicles at railroad grade crossings; increasing a criminal penalty.
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SB2137 temporarily bars Texas housing-tax-credit allocation plans from using the educational quality of the public school serving a proposed site as …
Official caption: Relating to the allocation of low income housing tax credits.
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SB2139 creates a process for releasing the State of Texas’s remaining interests in a specific former military tract in Palo Pinto County.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Military Department to negotiate the release of a reversionary interest and certain other interests of the state in certain property in Palo Pinto County owned by the Palo Pinto County Livestock Association.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2141 lets eligible current or visiting state and federal judges choose specialty license plates without the words “State Judge” or “U.S.
Official caption: Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to state and federal judges.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2143 expressly allows counties to commission specified fire-protection personnel as peace officers and says a county may establish a law-enforcemen…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a county to commission certain individuals as peace officers and establish certain law enforcement agencies.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2145 gives two types of local bodies a specific way to meet with most members participating remotely, while requiring someone to be physically pres…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of the advisory body of a public improvement district and the board of directors of a reinvestment zone to hold a meeting by a telecommunication device.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2148 adds recurring practice exercises for responding to threatened or actual physical attacks on critical electric-grid facilities in the ERCOT re…
Official caption: Relating to the reliability of the electricity supply chain.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2155 changes how Texas regulates veterinary professionals and creates registration and operating standards for veterinary facilities, including fac…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of veterinary professionals and facilities by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners and the temporary administration of the board by the Department of Licensing and Regulation.
