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| Session | Bill Number | Read Bill | Author | Bill Status | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority Sort descending | Caption | Body | |
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| 88_R | SB 498 | Read Bill | Johnson, Nathan (D) | Vetoed by Governor | 2023.05.29 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the operation of statewide technology centers. | The Department of Information Resources: (c) The department by rule shall specify the services a statewide technology center may provide. |
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| 88_R | SB 543 | Read Bill | Blanco, Cesar (D) | Filed without Governor’s Signature, effective date 5/24/23 | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the conveyance of property by a municipality for the public purpose of economic development. | Adds newspaper notice provision. Monitor for amendments. Same bill as HB 1492 |
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| 88_R | HB 1509 | Read Bill | Patterson, Jared (R) | Failed: Committee Action Pending House Higher Education | 2023.04.24 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to an annual report on financial support provided by public institutions of higher education to nonprofit media organizations. | See HB 845. This bill requires colleges/universities to report expenditures to non-profit media (Texas Tribune). |
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| 88_R | HB 1511 | Read Bill | Perez, Mary Ann (D) | Failed: Placed on House Calendar for 5/5 | 2023.05.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the disposition of real property interests by navigation districts and port authorities. | Allows port authorities/nav. districts to dispose of slivers of land from survey discrepancies without notice requirements. Perez friendly, don't endanger relationship. Probably not a bill to engage on due to its very limited scale, but definitely need to monitor. |
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| 88_R | SB 566 | Read Bill | Springer, Drew (R) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.02.17 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the purchase of periodicals by state agencies and certain state officers and to prohibiting state agencies from providing financial support to the news media. | Need to find out the purpose of this bill. It could be detrimental to newspaper. |
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| 88_R | HB 1566 | Read Bill | Allison, Steve (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the ad valorem taxation of residential real property. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page notice provision |
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| 88_R | hb 1741 | Read Bill | Leach, Jeff (R) | See companion SB 372 | 2023.05.09 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unauthorized disclosure of non-public judicial opinions and judicial work product. | Confidentiality of judicial work product See companion SB 372 (passed house and senate) |
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| 88_R | HB 1737 | Read Bill | Leach, Jeff (R) | Failed: Passed House, Committee Action pending in Senate State Affairs | 2023.05.18 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to automatic orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain misdemeanor defendants following successful completion of a period of deferred adjudication community supervision. | Nondisclosure of criminal history: The tsunami of drug convictions across all socioeconomic groups makes a law like this almost an eventuality. This bill is limited to nonviolent first offenders who keep their noses clean for a defined period afterward. I don’t want TPA to support it, but I don’t want TPA to oppose it either. Companion to SB 499 by Zaffirini |
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| 88_R | HB 1720 | Read Bill | Raymond, Richard (D) | Failed: Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety | 2023.03.07 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the dissemination of criminal history record information by the Department of Public Safety concerning certain intoxication offenses. | Nondisclosure intoxication record |
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| 88_R | HB 1719 | Read Bill | Raymond, Richard (D) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.07 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to local option elections to legalize or prohibit the operation of eight-liners. | Local elections to legalize 8-liners, requires newspaper notice |
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| 88_R | HB 1786 | Read Bill | Burns, DeWayne (R) | Failed: Passed House on local calendar, referred to Senate Business & Commerce | 2023.05.11 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to notice to property owners of the adoption or amendment of certain restrictive covenants. | Bill adds a newspaper notice for property owners association. Committee sub takes that notice away. |
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| 88_R | SB 690 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Education | 2023.02.17 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the appointment of an inspector general for education and the creation of a division of inspector general for education in the governor's office to investigate the administration of public education. | Need to visit with Middleton. This bill would establish an investigator general for education, but any document the I.G. investigates is not to be released under the PIA - so that would include a document that would otherwise be readily available to the public, such as a budget, a checkbook register, etc. 3/21: met with legislative director - explained error, he will get it fixed. |
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| 88_R | SB 746 | Read Bill | Hughes, Bryan (R) | Failed: Referred to Health and Human Services | 2023.03.01 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation and operation of pediatric long-term care access assurance program in certain counties. | Adds a public notice - watch for amendments Companion bill is HB 1185 |
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| 88_R | HB 1964 | Read Bill | Hernandez, Ana (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.01 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the release of a motor vehicle accident report to an employee or authorized representative of a vehicle storage facility. |
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| 88_R | HB 2221 | Read Bill | Harrison, Brian (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the vote required in an election to approve an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds a taxing unit's voter-approval tax rate. | Per Reid Pillifant: HB 2221 just changes the percentage required to approve a tax rate (from a majority to 60 percent). Suggests we monitor. |
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| 88_R | HB 2165 | Read Bill | Guerra, Bobby (D) | Failed: Committee Action Pending in Business & Industry | 2023.04.24 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to requirements for subscription service contracts. | Affects newspaper subscriptions that are on auto-renew. May want to oppose. |
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| 88_R | SB 818 | Read Bill | Alvarado, Carol (D) | Signed by Governor | 2023.05.19 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the disposition of real property interests by navigation districts and port authorities. | This eliminates notice requirements for sale or gift of small pieces of public property to Navigation Districts and Port Authorities for rights-of-way, etc. Not worth fighting over but let’s monitor. |
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| 88_R | HB 348 | Read Bill | Bucy, John (D) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page public notice |
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| 88_R | HB 2436 | Read Bill | Frazier, Frederick (F) (R) | Failed: House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the sale of bonds by certain special purpose districts. | Adds a newspaper notice. Monitor for amendments |
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| 88_R | HB 2457 | Read Bill | Lozano, Jose (R) | Failed: Referred to Urban Affairs | 2023.03.13 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to notice requirements for certain municipal fees and the process to adopt a municipal budget that includes the use of revenue from those fees. | Go see author and see if we can add Newspaper Notice to the bill. Note that he is calling for a website notice with email notification which our statewide site can provide. |