Session | Bill Number | Read Bill | Author | Bill Status Sort descending | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority | Caption | Body | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 3585 | Read Bill | Leo-Wilson, Terri (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Youth Health & Safety | 2023.03.16 | 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 3570 by Schatzline Companion is SB 2164 |
|
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 3881 | Read Bill | Bell, Cecil (R) | Failed: Reported from committee as substituted | 2023.03.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to board of directors meeting locations of certain rural area water districts. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
|
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 | 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 |
|
88_R | SB 1056 | Read Bill | Hinojosa, Chuy (D) | Passed: Filed without signature by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the directors and administration of the Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No. 3; creating a criminal offense. | Contains new newspaper notice language. Watch for amendments |
|
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 |
|
88_R | HB 18 | Read Bill | Slawson, Shelby (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor 6/13/23 | 2023.05.30 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services. |
Committee sub reported favorably from committee |
|
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 785 | Read Bill | Swanson, Valoree (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the delivery of certain notices or other communications in connection with guardianship proceedings. | Retains current newspaper notice provisions. |
|
88_R | SB 372 | Read Bill | Huffman, Joan (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unauthorized disclosure of non-public judicial opinions and judicial work product. | We need to monitor this one. It would make leaking a court document a misdemeanor. Companion is HB 1741 by Leach |
|
88_R | HB 1382 | Read Bill | Hernandez, Ana (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the public sale of real property taken in execution of a judgment | Meet with author to amend. Reid's review: There is a notice requirement for these sales in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 647: The time and place of sale of real estate ... shall be ... published ... three consecutive weeks ...in newspaper. This bill gives commissioners courts authority to set rules for online auctions and might pose a threat to public notice. Have author add a provision that this bill does not trump the requirements of Rule 647. Companion is SB 2067 by Bettencourt Met with Hernadez Chief of Staff. Bill does not affect public notice. |
|
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. |
|
|
88_R | HB 2371 | Read Bill | Turner, Chris (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Support | 2 | 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. TPA registered card of support for bill on 3/2823 |
|
88_R | SB 1397 | Read Bill | Schwertner, Charles (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. | Senate version of Sunset bill for TCEQ. Monitor. Companion is HB 1505 by Keith Bell |
|
88_R | HB 3273 | Read Bill | Thierry, Shawn (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to public notice of the availability on the Internet of property-tax-related information. | Contains public notice language. Amended committee sub retains public notice language. |
|
88_R | SB 1457 | Read Bill | Zaffirini, Judith (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to guardianships and the delivery of certain notices or other communications in connection with guardianship proceedings. | Contains Newspaper Notice language Companion is HB 3184 by Senfronia Thompson |
|
88_R | HB 3699 | Read Bill | Wilson, Terry (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Public Notice | Monitor | 0 | Relating to municipal regulation of subdivisions and approval of subdivision plans or plats. | 3/15/23 Reviewed HB 3699 again. We concluded that the bill does not remove any current newspaper notice, but rather increases transparency in municipal approval of subdivision plans by putting certain documentation online. We removed bill from our list. |
|
88_R | SB 1670 | Read Bill | Lamantia, Morgan (F) (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Open Records | Support | 2 | Relating to required boating incident reports. | Bill increases transparency and allows newspapers access to boating incident reports. Signed card of support |