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88_R   HB 4012 Read Bill Kitzman, Stan (F) (R) Signed by Governor 2023.05.26 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the administration of the electronic state business daily.

Converts Comptroller's State Business Daily into the Electronic State Business Daily. Watch this one CLOSELY!

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.

88_R   HB 4484 https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB04484I.pdf#navpanes=0 Bonnen, Greg (R) Failed: Referred to Energy Resources 2023.03.21 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the ownership of the pore space underlying the surface of land and to the use of that space for the geologic storage of carbon dioxide.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

Companion SB 2107 by Nichols

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

88_R   HB 4611 Read Bill Price, Four (R) Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 4/1/2025 2023.06.12 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the nonsubstantive revision of the health and human services laws governing the Health and Human Services Commission, Medicaid, and other social services.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

88_R   HB 4700 Read Bill Clardy, Travis (R) Signed by Governor 2023.05.21 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Nacogdoches County Hospital District.

Includes new newspaper notice.

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. 

 

88_R   HB 4717 Read Bill Cortez, Philip (D) Failed: Referred to Ways & Means 2023.03.22 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities that provide child care.

This bill preserves newspaper notice to establish such a tax. The bill requires an election to conform to Section 775.018, which cross-references Elections Code 4.003, and that section requires newspaper notice. This bill would require more disclosure in the notice, but wouldn’t change the newspaper requirement

88_R   HB 4771 Read Bill Bhojani, Salman (F) (D) Failed: Passed House, died in Senate Local Government 2023.05.16 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the creation of tenant legal services offices by local governments to assist low-income residential tenants in eviction cases and in cases involving discrimination based on the tenants' disabilities.

Go See Author - He agreed to change "or" to "AND."

 

88_R   HB 4835 Read Bill Metcalf, Will (R) Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 2023.06.01 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the creation and operations of certain health care provider participation programs.

Creates newspaper notice for hearing

Committee sub retains newspaper notice

88_R   HB 4844 Read Bill Herrero, Abel (D) Passed: Filed without signature by Governor, effective 9/1/23 2023.06.18 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the use of a broker for the sale of real property by the Nueces County Hospital District.

Contains Newspaper Notice - Monitor
Committee sub retains newspaper notice.
Companion SB 2056

88_R   hb 4852 Read Bill Harrison, Brian (R) Failed: Referred to Ways & Means 2023.03.23 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the form of a notice of public hearing on a proposed ad valorem tax rate.

Monitor for possible malignant amendments. Reid: "This bill doesn’t appear to affect how notice is provided. The Tax Code already makes the notices newspaper-optional: (c)  The notice of a public hearing under this section may be delivered by mail to each property owner in the taxing unit, or may be published in a newspaper.  If the notice is published in a newspaper, it may not be in the part of the paper in which legal notices and classified advertisements appear.  If the taxing unit publishes the notice in a newspaper, the taxing unit must also post the notice prominently on the home page of the Internet website of the taxing unit from the date the notice is first published until the public hearing is concluded."

88_R   HB 4940 Read Bill Martinez Fischer, Trey (D) Failed: Referred to Ways & Means 2023.03.23 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.

Adds new notice

Companion SB 1419

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

88_R   HB 4991 Read Bill Oliverson, Tom (R) Failed: Referred to Land & Resource Management 2023.03.23 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the regulation of platting and subdivisions of land by a municipality or county.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

Same as SB 2037 by Bettencourt

88_R   HB 5134 Read Bill Bell, Cecil (R) Failed: Referred to House Ways and Means 2023.03.24 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

Same as HB 215, HJR 196

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.

88_R   HB 5266 Read Bill Zwiener, Erin (D) Failed: Referred to Public Education 2023.03.24 First Amendment Monitor 3 Relating to speech protections for student media publications in public schools.

Last session HB 422 was filed by Mary Gonzales. We marked it 1-support because there were publishers who wanted to testify in favor, but the bill never got a hearing. 

88_R   HJR 13 Read Bill Johnson, Jarvis (D) Filed 2022.11.14 Public Notice Monitor 3 Proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total market value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses.

Contains newspaper notice - Monitor

Same as SB 215, SB 5124, HJR 196

88_R   HJR 196 Read Bill Bell, Cecil (R) Referred to House Ways and Means 2023.03.24 Public Notice Monitor 3 Proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total market value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

Same as HB 215, HB 5134, HJR 13