BILLS REFERRED TODAY |
Monday March 20, 2017 |
Committee referral on the following: |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for exceptions to the requirement that open-space land be devoted to certain purposes for ad valorem taxation based on the land's productive capacity. Finance |
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Relating to the calculation and dissemination of certain ad valorem tax rates. Finance |
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Relating to providing information regarding perinatal hospice care and prohibiting discriminatory abortions; creating an administrative penalty, a civil remedy, and criminal offenses. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the provision of mental health telemedicine medical services. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the creation and operations of health care provider participation programs in certain counties. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to desalinated seawater and a requirement that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality provide expedited consideration of certain applications to amend water rights. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to escrow payments for a loan secured by a new dwelling. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of sport lagoons and granting rulemaking authority. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to requiring registration as a sex offender of certain defendants convicted of the offense of continuous trafficking of persons. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to compensation of county auditors and assistant auditors. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the removal from office of a county auditor. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the punishment for the offense of injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual and creating the offense of continuous injury to a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to payment for the use of a highway toll project. Transportation |
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Relating to the applicability of certain unfunded mandates on political subdivisions. Finance |
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Relating to air conditioning and refrigeration contracting and the education and certification of air conditioning and refrigeration technicians. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the attendance by a quorum of a governmental body at certain candidate events under the open meetings law. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the right of certain appellants to supersede a judgment or order on appeal. State Affairs |
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Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in certain municipalities. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to electronic benefits transfer cards used for recipients of benefits under certain assistance programs. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to de novo hearings in child protection cases. State Affairs |
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Relating to methods of payment of rent and security deposits to residential landlords and authorizing associated service charges. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to contested cases conducted under the Administrative Procedures Act. State Affairs |
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Relating to the liability of a sport shooting range. State Affairs |
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Relating to restricting employers from prohibiting certain employees from carrying, transporting, storing, or using handguns or ammunition. State Affairs |
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Relating to an insurer's compliance with National Association of Insurance Commissioners requirements. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of insurance with respect to certain agreements and the effect of those agreements on this state's authority to regulate insurance. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the designation of a water conservation coordinator by a retail public water utility to implement a water conservation plan. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the application of the open meetings law to district judges performing certain management or administrative functions. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the definition of regular eligible student used in determining the transportation allotment under the school finance system for a municipal school district. Education |
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Relating to the study and approval of lethal pesticides for feral hog control. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the establishment of a rural resident physician grant program. Higher Education |
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Relating to the building code standards for new residential construction in the unincorporated area of certain counties; creating a criminal offense and affecting the prosecution of a criminal offense. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to a report by the Texas Workforce Commission regarding the transition from military service to employment. Veteran Affairs & Border Security |
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Relating to a prior authorization requirement for certain prescription eye drops and related medications. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to incentives to encourage landowners to destroy, remove, or treat citrus trees located in a pest management zone. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the issuance of childhood cancer awareness license plates. Transportation |
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Relating to the punishment for certain possession offenses under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; changing eligibility for community supervision. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to local health care provider participation programs in certain counties and municipalities. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to settlement of claims and actions against a governmental unit. State Affairs |
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Relating to the creation of the offense of possession or promotion of obscene visual material depicting a child. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the authority of certain ex officio members of the board of directors of a tax increment financing reinvestment zone to elect not to serve on the board. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to maximum liability limits for windstorm and hail insurance coverage provided through the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the Texas college work-study program and to establishing a program for the off-campus employment of certain students at public or private institutions of higher education. Higher Education |
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Relating to a franchise tax credit for entities that employ certain students in certain paid internship or similar programs. Finance |
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Relating to an election for the removal of a director serving on the board of directors of certain water districts. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the Department of Information Resources regarding cybersecurity. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the establishment of the emergency medical services assistance program. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to granting to the board of trustees of certain municipally owned utilities the authority to set the compensation of employees necessary to provide service and protect against interruption. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance program for certain municipally owned utilities. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the prosecution of the offense of impersonating a public servant. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to windstorm and hail insurance coverage issued by the FAIR Plan Association in catastrophe areas. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to eligibility for support from the universal service fund. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to ransomware; creating a criminal offense. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the designation of January 9 as Law Enforcement Appreciation Day. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Panola County Groundwater Conservation District. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the guarantee of charter district bonds by the permanent school fund. Education |
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Relating to the instructional materials and technology allotment, open education resource instructional materials, and the State Board of Education long-range technology plan. Education |
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Relating to the creation of a committee to recommend a framework to incorporate digital teaching and learning in public schools. Education |
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Relating to the creation of the Technology Lending Program to provide grants to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools. Education |
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Relating to the creation of an instructional materials web portal by the commissioner of education. Education |
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Relating to payment standards for preferred provider benefit plans to reduce balance billing of insureds for out-of-network health care services. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to payment standards for preferred provider benefit plans to reduce balance billing of insureds for out-of-network health care services. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to preventing racial profiling and video and audio equipment and recordings of certain law enforcement motor vehicle stops; creating an offense. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to nonsubstantive additions to, revisions of, and corrections in enacted codes, to the nonsubstantive codification or disposition of various laws omitted from enacted codes, and to conforming codifications enacted by the 84th Legislature to other Acts of that legislature. Administration |
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Relating to the Gulf Coast Waste Disposal Authority. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the premium surcharge certain automobile insurers are required to assess against an insured convicted of certain offenses. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to domestic surplus lines insurers; authorizing and imposing a tax. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to rules adopted by the commissioner of insurance to stabilize long-term care premium rates. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to changing statutory references to hearing officer and hearings officer to administrative law judge under the workers' compensation system. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to preauthorization and concurrent review of certain health care services under the workers' compensation system. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to access by the division of workers' compensation to certain designated doctor contracts under the workers' compensation system. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to certain workers' compensation reporting requirements. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the eligibility requirements for employment as an ombudsman of the Office of Injured Employee Counsel under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of temporary common worker employers. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of for-profit legal service contract companies. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to certain vehicle protection products. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of motor vehicle towing, booting, and storage and to the elimination of required state licensing for vehicle booting companies and operators. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of barbering and cosmetology. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to abolishing shampoo apprentice permits and shampoo specialty certificates. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain victims of trafficking of persons for an order of nondisclosure. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the application of and allocation of revenue from certain taxes imposed on certain tobacco products. Finance |
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Relating to mechanic's, contractor's, or materialman's liens; authorizing a fee; changing the eligibility for community supervision. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the authorization by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of the discharge, diversion, and transfer or other reuse of return flows derived from treated brackish groundwater. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to filing fees imposed in civil cases in Hidalgo County, Cameron County, and Willacy County. State Affairs |
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Relating to eligibility requirements for the repayment of certain mental health professional education loans. Higher Education |
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Relating to rates charged by certain transmission and distribution utilities to certain places of worship. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the state and regional water planning process and the funding of projects included in the state water plan. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to replacement cost coverage in policies issued by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to continuing education requirements for noncertified surgical technologists. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the eligibility of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land if the land is used for certain oil and gas operations. Finance |
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Relating to the authority to install a small wireless facility in a public right-of-way. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the registration and regulation of appraisal management companies; authorizing fees; expanding the applicability of an occupational registration. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to partnerships, limited liability companies, and other domestic and foreign entities and to series of limited liability companies and foreign entities. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to corporations, associations, real estate investment trusts, and related entities. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the promotion, sponsorship or advertising of an entertainment event or alcoholic beverage brand or product and a facility owned by a convention center development corporation Business & Commerce |
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Relating to certain duties of physicians regarding patient records. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to recording certain criminal proceedings. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the composition of the aviation advisory committee. Transportation |
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Relating to the creation of the state safety oversight program for rail fixed guideway public transportation systems. Transportation |
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Relating to the movement of certain vehicles transporting an intermodal shipping container; authorizing a fee; creating an offense. Transportation |
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Relating to a study by the Texas Water Development Board of water needs and availability in this state. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |