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| Session | Bill Number | Read Bill | Author | Bill Status Sort descending | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority | Caption | Body | |
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| 88_R | HB 582 | Read Bill | Raymond, Richard (D) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation by certain taxing units of a portion of the appraised value of the residence homestead of the parent or guardian of a person who is disabled. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page public notice |
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| 88_R | HB 1609 | Read Bill | Shine, Hugh (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.07 | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the electronic delivery of certain communications required or permitted under the Property Tax Code. | Need to monitor. Companion is SB 1487 by Bettencourt Donnis: On its face, it appears to be simply a measure to give individual taxpayers a right to choose electronic communications with the tax office rather than written communication. I wonder, though, if the wording is loose enough to encourage a rogue tax official to maintain that it provides cover for using e-notices rather than public notices in a newspaper. Reid's response: I see your concern here, but I think it would be very difficult to argue that public notice falls under these provisions. The bill defines “communication” as something “required or permitted to be delivered” to a property owner. That “delivered” language appears several times throughout the bill. I suppose a rogue official could argue that a newspaper (containing public notices) gets delivered, but I think that would be a real stretch, since public notice is typically discussed in the context of publication, not delivery. And certainly not in the context of delivery to an individual, who could choose to receive that delivery electronically.
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| 88_R | HB 2043 | Read Bill | Bowers, Rhetta (D) | Failed: Bill Pronounced Dead by Procedural Action | 2023.05.10 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a criminal justice system pretrial and sentencing database established by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System. | Need more info. This sets up a public database, but “deidentifies suspects on the database. Companion is SB 875 by West 3/21 met with Natoya who suggests we set up meeting w/ Andre Treiber, chief of staff to get better understanding of bill. Need to set appointment soon.
3/23 Met with folks from the Bail Project and the Texas ACLU. They explained that this bill will be useful for investigative reporters who are doing statistical analyses of bail practices, and that the aggregated “deidentified” data doesn’t endanger public access to identities of suspects through the usual normal channels. We do not need to take a position |
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| 88_R | SB 2037 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Bill Pronounced Dead by Procedural Action | 2023.05.22 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the regulation of platting and subdivisions of land by a municipality or county. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion is HB 4991 by Oliverson |
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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 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 | HB 2805 | Read Bill | Leo-Wilson, Terri (F) (R) | Failed: Committee Action Pending in House Corrections | 2023.04.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Failed: Relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole. | Contains new newspaper notice language. Watch for amendments Companion is SB 1067 |
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| 88_R | SB 2557 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Filed | 03/10/2023 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to infrastructure planning and lot frontages in the unincorporated area of certain counties. | Contains Newspaper Notice - Monitor |
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| 88_R | HB 1185 | Read Bill | Dean, Jay (R) | Failed: Hearing 8:00 am, E2.030 House Human Services 03/28 | 2023.03.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation and operation of pediatric long-term care access assurance programs in certain counties. | Adds a public notice - watch for amendments Companion is SB 746 by Hughes |
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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 4032 | Read Bill | Bryant, John (D) | Failed: House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | Courts & Judiciary Bills | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the reporting of depositions by court reporters and the deposition transcripts. | "Secure digital original" means an original digital deposition transcript in a readable format that cannot be altered, printed, or saved. |
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| 88_R | HB 3422 | Read Bill | Bryant, John (D) | Failed: House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the correction or removal of certain obsolete provisions of the Property Code. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion SB 1768 by Creighton |
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| 88_R | HB 4498 | Read Bill | Cook, David (R) | Failed: House Passed as amended, referred to Senate Business & Commerce | 2023.05.16 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the transfer and statutory novation of policies from a transferring insurer to an assuming insurer by way of an insurance business transfer. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
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| 88_R | HB 2730 | Read Bill | Rosenthal, Jon (D) | Failed: House Passed, withdrawn from Senate Local Calendar | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the adoption and amendment of an annual budget by certain emergency services districts. | Retains current newspaper notice. Need to monitor |
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| 88_R | HB 3109 | Read Bill | Hernandez, Ana (D) | Failed: Licensing and Administrative Procedures | 2023.03.17 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to provision of notice by a vehicle storage facility through a Texas Department of Motor Vehicles electronic system. | Changes some notifications - monitor |
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| 88_R | HB 3570 | Read Bill | Schatzline, Nate (F) (R) | Failed: On House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | First Amendment | Monitor | 3 | Relating to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an Internet website. | Targets sexual materials materials to minors on the Internet. Current language excludes news gathering organizations. Identical bill to HB 3585 by Teri Leo-Wilson Companion is SB 2164 |
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| 88_R | HB 4943 | Read Bill | Kitzman, Stan (F) (R) | Failed: Passed House on Local Calendar | 2023.04.28 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the election of directors in certain special utility districts. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
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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 | HB 1765 | Read Bill | Burns, DeWayne (R) | Failed: Passed House on local calendar, referred to Senate Business and Commerce | 2023.05.05 | Open Records | Monitor | 0 | Relating to the redaction of certain information from a document posted on the Internet by a county clerk or district clerk on request of a person to whom the information relates. | Can a clerk just modify a record because someone asks? Reid: "I do think that's what it means. It would have to be someone who fits the definition in 552.114 and would have to be the kind of information that's described there. But if it fits the bill, the this bill would require the clerk to redact at their request. Might be worth having a conversation with the author. 3/15/23 We further reviewed the bill and concluded that the bill did no harm and removed it from our list. |
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| 88_R | HB 5277 | Read Bill | Bucy, John (D) | Failed: Passed House w/ 2 amendments 138-5, Referred to Senate Criminal Justice | 2023.05.10 | Law Enforcement Transparency | Monitor | 3 | Relating to public access to criminal proceedings. | Increases online public access to criminal proceedings. |