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| 88_R | HB 4710 | Read Bill | Kacal, Kyle (R) | Failed: Removed from hearing | 2023.03.31 | Open Records | Opposed | 1 | Relating to allowing a governmental body to combine multiple requests submitted by separate individuals on behalf of an organization for purposes of computing charges under the public information law. | Bill allows government to lump different people's requests and treat them as one. It is not the government's privilege to declare that a person is part of a particular group, nor to know why people are seeking information. Each individual has a right to request. Donnis talked to Kacal by phone to get more info about the bill. 3/24 Donnis and Kelley Shannon meeting with Bryan (city of) folks about the bill. They are having a problem with vexatious requestors. Our opponents must have convinced Kacal that existing law cannot protect them and this bill must be set for hearing.
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| 88_R | SB 2431 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Referred to Senate Local Government | 2023.04.05 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the Harris County Flood Control District. | Contains newspaper notice - Monitor |
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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 1487 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, referred to House Ways & Means | 2023.04.25 | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the electronic delivery of certain communications required or permitted under the Property Tax Code. | Need to monitor, includes a committee substitute Companion is HB 1609 by Hugh Shine |
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| 88_R | SB 1044 | Read Bill | Johnson, Nathan (D) | Failed: Passed Senate on local calendar, referred to House Elections | 2023.04.28 | Ethics, Lobbying | Monitor | 3 | Relating to criminal offenses for the creation or distribution of certain misleading images and videos. | Increases penalty for images/video distributed with intent to alter an election outcome |
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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 | SB 2053 | Read Bill | Hancock, Kelly (R) | Failed: Passed Local Government, Set on Senate Calendar for 5/3 | 2023.05.02 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the disposition of burial spaces and abandoned plots in certain cemeteries in the possession and control of a municipality. | Good newspaper notice language introduced. We might consider moving to 2+ if the bill gets a hearing. Companion HB 2371 |
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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 1419 | Read Bill | Birdwell, Brian (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, referred to House Ways and Means | 2023.05.04 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to limitations on the use of public money under certain economic development agreements or programs adopted by certain political subdivisions. | Creates new notice Companion is HB 4940 |
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| 88_R | HB 1383 | Read Bill | Rose, Toni (D) | Failed: Passed House, referred to Senate Criminal Justice | 2023.05.05 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to procedures in a criminal case after a defendant is found competent to stand trial and to consequences arising from certain violations of those procedures. | Monitor. If bill gets hearing, file a card of support |
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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 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 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 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 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 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 | 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. |