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SB2165 changes dismissal rules for child-protection cases when a child is missing from substitute care.
Official caption: Relating to prohibiting the dismissal of certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services.
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SB2166 reorganizes voting-equipment testing, moves the main public logic-and-accuracy test earlier, adds electronic-pollbook testing, and spells out …
Official caption: Relating to testing of voting tabulation equipment.
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SB2167 requires a new license when a massage school moves, allows specified delays in establishment or school licensing when human-trafficking concer…
Official caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of massage therapy.
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SB2173 clarifies when a property buyer is protected from back taxes caused by a wrongly granted homestead exemption that is later canceled.
Official caption: Relating to the effect of a tax certificate accompanying a transfer of certain property.
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SB2177 creates a state grant program to help eligible local law-enforcement agencies investigate specified violent and sexual crimes.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist local law enforcement agencies in solving violent and sexual offenses.
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SB2180 creates a training, examination and certification framework for peace officers who conduct specified polygraph examinations.
Official caption: Relating to requiring a certification for peace officers to conduct certain polygraph examinations.
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SB2185 lets selected school districts receive bilingual-education funding for approved alternative dual-language programs when they operate under an …
Official caption: Relating to the bilingual education allotment under the public school finance system.
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SB2196 extends the permitted duration of a magistrate’s emergency protection order by 30 days at both ends of each applicable range.
Official caption: Relating to the period during which an order for emergency protection remains in effect.
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SB2204 expands which Texas Water Development Board program contracts are exempt from the state’s uniform grant and contract management law.
Official caption: Relating to the applicability of uniform grant and contract management standards to certain Texas Water Development Board programs.
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SB2206 replaces Texas’s research-and-development franchise-tax credit with a larger credit and ends the separate research-equipment sales-tax exempti…
Official caption: Relating to a franchise tax credit for, and the application of sales and use taxes to, certain research and development expenses.
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SB2216 requires locked-room storage for voting-system equipment and adds inventory and security-seal procedures to the rules for systems using direct…
Official caption: Relating to security of election system equipment.
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SB2217 adds election-record reports and reconciliation duties and changes how already-registered voters update an address after moving within the sam…
Official caption: Relating to certain election practices and procedures.
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SB2221 creates an affidavit procedure to challenge impermissible financing statements and raises civil damages for knowingly fraudulent filings.
Official caption: Relating to the filing of a fraudulent financing statement in relation to certain secured transactions; authorizing the imposition of a fee.
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SB2231 establishes Free College Application Week during the second full week of October.
Official caption: Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to waive fees for admission applications submitted to public institutions of higher education during certain periods.
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SB2232 designates October 21 as Unplug Texas Day to encourage time away from electronic devices and toward play, creativity, friendship, adventure an…
Official caption: Relating to designating October 21 as Unplug Texas Day.
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SB2237 restricts severance agreements for specified local-government executives.
Official caption: Relating to severance pay for certain political subdivision employees.
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SB2268 changes Texas Energy Fund financing and confidentiality rules.
Official caption: Relating to loans and grants awarded from the Texas energy fund.
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SB2269 strengthens procedural protections for certain long-term care facilities.
Official caption: Relating to dispute resolution for and enforcement actions against certain long-term care facilities.
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SB2284 limits local regulation of archery equipment and changes certain local weapons powers.
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate certain matters related to firearms, air guns, archery equipment, and other weapons and related supplies.
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SB2306 requires licensed child-placing agencies to publish itemized adoption-cost information on their websites.
Official caption: Relating to the provision of adoption cost information by a licensed child-placing agency.
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SB2308 creates a Texas-selected research consortium to pursue FDA-regulated clinical trials of ibogaine and related therapeutics, with non-state matc…
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of a consortium to conduct United States Food and Drug Administration's drug development clinical trials with ibogaine to secure the administration's approval of the medication's use for treatment of opioid use disorder, co-occurring substance use disorder, and any other neurological or mental health conditions for which ibogaine demonstrates efficacy and to the administration of that treatment.
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SB2312 creates a nine-member Texas Advisory Committee on Geopolitical Conflict.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment and powers and duties of the Texas Advisory Committee on Geopolitical Conflict.
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SB2314 establishes My Texas Future’s college-admissions and financial-aid portal duties and a high-school data-sharing election requirement.
Official caption: Relating to the creation of an electronic platform and submission portal, known as My Texas Future, to facilitate public high school students' awareness of and application to institutions of higher education using the electronic common admission application form.
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SB2321 lets Texas environmental regulators use enforcement discretion when extra electricity generation is needed to address an emergency or a signif…
Official caption: Relating to the regulation of emissions by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality during an event affecting electric demand or grid reliability.
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SB2332 puts the Department of Public Safety primarily in charge of maintaining and scheduling aircraft it owns and operates.
Official caption: Relating to aircraft owned and operated by the Department of Public Safety.
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SB2349 changes how residential landlords provide flood-risk notices and exempts two types of short tenancy.
Official caption: Relating to notice requirements for a leased dwelling located in a floodplain.
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SB2351 lets Texas environmental regulators require certain unstarted permanent concrete-plant projects to update their construction plans after a sta…
Official caption: Relating to the construction of certain concrete plants under a standard permit.
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SB2361 transfers the University of Houston–Victoria to the Texas A&M University System as Texas A&M University–Victoria.
Official caption: Relating to the transfer of the University of Houston–Victoria to The Texas A&M University System.
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SB2366 requires the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to establish a rail-project grant program for rural rail transportation districts that…
Official caption: Relating to a grant program to fund certain short line railroad projects.
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SB2367 extends a county park-rule enforcement provision to counties with fewer than 75,000 residents that border three counties each having more than…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of certain counties to enact certain park use rules.
