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Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2368 strengthens enforcement of restrictions on certain foreign-linked companies’ access to Texas critical infrastructure, including the electricit…
Official caption: Relating to critical infrastructure and utilities, including affiliation with certain foreign entities of certain persons working or participating in the electricity market; authorizing and increasing administrative penalties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2371 creates a reporting, investigation and enforcement framework for skimmers on electronic payment terminals, including store checkout terminals,…
Official caption: Relating to skimmers on electronic terminals; authorizing a civil penalty; creating criminal offenses.
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SB2373 creates civil remedies and a criminal offense for financial exploitation or abuse using deceptive computer-generated media or phishing.
Official caption: Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing communications; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2383 removes specified job-protection and discharge-appeal provisions for certain retired Department of Public Safety officers who return as commis…
Official caption: Relating to the employment of certain peace officers of the Department of Public Safety.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2398 requires school districts to adopt concussion-response policies beyond interscholastic athletics and directs the Texas Education Agency to pro…
Official caption: Relating to certain policies and procedures related to concussions or other brain injuries sustained by public school students.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2405 continues the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) and its governing board until September 1, 2037, while changing prison oversight, ca…
Official caption: Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to the functions of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee, the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments, and the Windham School District.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2406 updates oversight of the Sabine River Authority of Texas: shorter board terms, a governor-designated board president, director training, compl…
Official caption: Relating to the Sabine River Authority of Texas, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term lengths and grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
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SB2407 changes the Lower Neches Valley Authority’s board terms and governance, requires director training and formal complaint procedures, and provid…
Official caption: Relating to the Lower Neches Valley Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; specifying term length grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.
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SB2411 revises Texas business-entity paperwork, governance, transactions and litigation rules for corporations, nonprofits, limited liability compani…
Official caption: Relating to business organizations.
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SB2419 allows a qualifying limited district to exercise the former special district’s legal powers and duties after a specified kind of municipal dis…
Official caption: Relating to the authority of a special district to exercise certain powers and duties following municipal disannexation of certain areas.
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SB2431 requires covered public colleges and universities to offer students a way to earn foreign-language credit during qualifying study abroad.
Official caption: Relating to requiring foreign language credit opportunities for students enrolled in study abroad components or programs offered by certain institutions of higher education in this state.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2443 lets the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation authorize electronic delivery of correspondence sent or received by its department, incl…
Official caption: Relating to electronic delivery of documents sent or received by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
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SB2448 creates a rural workforce grant program administered by the Texas Workforce Commission.
Official caption: Relating to the establishment of the Rural Workforce Development Grant Program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2476 authorizes a contract transferring the Woodlawn Water Supply Corporation’s assets, debts and contractual rights and obligations to the Angelin…
Official caption: Relating to transfer of the ownership rights of the Woodlawn Water Supply Corporation to the Angelina and Neches River Authority.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2477 limits municipal obstacles to converting qualifying older office buildings into apartments or residential mixed-use buildings.
Official caption: Relating to certain municipal regulation of conversion of certain office buildings to mixed-use and multifamily residential occupancy.
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SB2480 broadens Texas Medical Board health-program access and national disciplinary-data monitoring across the occupations it regulates, and expands …
Official caption: Relating to the Texas Physician Health Program and the regulation of certain occupations by the Texas Medical Board; expanding the applicability of surcharges.
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SB2514 creates a Department of Public Safety unit addressing foreign-adversary operations, adds gift and contact-reporting rules for covered public e…
Official caption: Relating to establishing the hostile foreign adversaries unit at the Department of Public Safety and training, prohibitions, and reporting requirements designed to combat foreign influence and foreign adversary operations; creating a criminal offense.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2515 adds the name Fire Marshal Jimmy W.
Official caption: Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 64 in Smith County as the Fire Marshal Jimmy W. Seaton Memorial Highway.
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SB2520 specifies a lower-of-two calculation for the school-property-tax ceiling in the year after someone first qualifies a homestead for the age-65-…
Official caption: Relating to the calculation of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2543 removes the seven-location limit and the $7 million annual spending cap in the specified state veterans-cemetery provisions, while tying the r…
Official caption: Relating to the amount of certain revenue that may be used for and the location of state veterans cemeteries.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2544 sets a 180-day request deadline for mandatory mediation of eligible out-of-network health-benefit payment disputes, measured from the provider…
Official caption: Relating to eligibility for mediation of certain out-of-network health benefit claims.
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SB2550 exempts transfers of groundwater or surface-water rights from five specified real-property disclosure requirements.
Official caption: Relating to an exemption of the transfer of certain rights in water from certain disclosure requirements applicable to the transfer of certain interests in real property.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2569 replaces the requirement that covered law-enforcement agencies send drone-use reports to state leaders and lawmakers with a public-availabilit…
Official caption: Relating to the reporting requirement for certain law enforcement agencies regarding the agencies' use or operation of an unmanned aircraft.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2570 adds a specific legal justification for qualifying peace officers and correctional-facility guards using a “less-lethal force weapon” while ca…
Official caption: Relating to a legal justification for the use of force with a less-lethal force weapon by a correctional facility guard or a peace officer.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2580 lets sheriffs’ departments in counties with at least 500,000 residents qualify as designated agencies under Texas’s Chapter 18B investigative-…
Official caption: Relating to the definition of a designated law enforcement office or agency for purposes of certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2581 repeals a special county-jail commissary oversight rule, leaving affected counties under the general sheriff-controlled commissary law.
Official caption: Relating to the repeal of a provision governing the operation of jail commissaries in certain counties.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2587 revises who may receive criminal-history records, whose records may be checked, and what identifying information is required across several Te…
Official caption: Relating to the access to and use of certain criminal history record information, to the procedure for obtaining that information, and to the correct terminology for certain licenses the issuance of which requires a criminal history background check.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2589 lets a narrowly defined border county avoid the usual transfer of a closed county road to adjoining owners when that transfer would create a p…
Official caption: Relating to procedures for a commissioners court to close, abandon, or vacate certain county roads.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2601 expands Texas’s landowner compensation program to agricultural lessees and damage to livestock, timber and crops, including qualifying cleanup…
Official caption: Relating to the landowner compensation program.
Regular session · Source-checked explanation published
SB2610 gives qualifying businesses with fewer than 250 employees protection from punitive damages after a data breach if they can prove they had a co…
Official caption: Relating to a limitation on civil liability of business entities in connection with a breach of system security.
