SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Tuesday

May 18, 2021

The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:

Relating to emergency medical services subscription programs and reciprocity agreements between certain air ambulance companies operating a subscription program.

Relating to the adoption and repeal of an additional ad valorem road tax for the maintenance of county roads.

Relating to criminal history record information checks for applicants for employment and employees of group homes; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the creation of a joint interim committee to study colonias and colonia initiatives in this state.

Relating to the definition of exploitation for purposes of investigating reports of exploitation against certain elderly persons and persons with disabilities.

Relating to the availability of certain information regarding early voting.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the use of individual graduation committees and other alternative methods to satisfy certain public high school graduation requirements.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the prevention, identification, investigation, and enforcement of payment card fraud; providing a civil penalty.

Relating to covers or barriers on the windows and doors of and other obstructions of the view of certain alcoholic beverage retailers.

Relating to complaints filed with the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to certain rates charged by and programs offered by municipally owned utilities.

Relating to the exemption from sales and use taxes for items sold by a nonprofit organization at a county fair.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read third time and finally passed:

Relating to siting requirements for the construction of a wind turbine.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the provision of and professional liability insurance coverage for gender transitioning or gender reassignment medical procedures and treatments for certain children.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read the second time, and passed to third reading:

Relating to the carrying and possession of a handgun by a public junior college school marshal.

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Congratulating the 2021 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.

Congratulating the 2022 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.

The Senate concurred in House amendments to the following:

Establishing an America 250 state commission.

Relating to special open season hunting of certain migratory game birds by veterans and members of the United States armed forces on active duty.

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to common and public nuisances.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the period of continuous eligibility and a periodic eligibility review for a child for Medicaid.

Health & Human Services

Relating to small business recovery funds and insurance tax credits for certain investments in those funds; imposing a monetary penalty; authorizing fees.

Finance

Relating to the inclusion of suicide prevention information on certain student identification cards issued by a public school or public institution of higher education.

Education

Relating to authorizing school districts to provide funding using money received under the Foundation School Program to community-based organizations for purposes of reimbursing private employers for paid internships provided to certain students in career and technology education programs in the district.

Education

Relating to the limitation period for filing a complaint and requesting a special education impartial due process hearing.

Education

Relating to ethnic studies instruction in public schools.

Education

Relating to an optional county fee on vehicle registration in certain counties to be used for transportation projects.

Transportation

Relating to water research conducted by The University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to a requirement for and the contents of a declarations page required for certain standard insurance policy forms for personal automobile insurance.

Business & Commerce

Relating to an educational and vocational training pilot program for certain state jail felony defendants and certain inmates released on parole; changing parole eligibility.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the methods by which students may be admitted to public schools or transfer within a school district and the disclosure of information regarding public school admission methods.

Education

Relating to an appraisal procedure for disputed losses under personal automobile insurance policies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the acquisition of real property by an entity with eminent domain authority and the regulation of easement or right-of-way agents.

Jurisprudence

Relating to annulment of a marriage on the grounds of concealed divorce.

State Affairs

Relating to a voluntary quality standards certification process for certain private residential psychiatric treatment facilities that provide treatments and services to youth; imposing fees; authorizing civil and administrative penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a certificate of merit in certain actions against certain licensed or registered professionals.

State Affairs

Relating to coverage of additional living expenses under a residential property insurance policy.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the state purchasing preference for recycled, remanufactured, or environmentally sensitive products.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the designation of liaison officers to assist certain students at public institutions of higher education who are parents.

Higher Education

Relating to the definition of "indigent defense compensation expenditures" for purposes of the adjustment of a county's no-new-revenue maintenance and operations rate to reflect increases in those expenditures.

Local Government

Relating to the control of diseases of swine.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the establishment of a committee to study the formation of a Texas Bicentennial Commission.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the authority of the Barrett Management District to impose an assessment.

Local Government