BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Thursday

April 8, 2021

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to the authority of the Chambers County Improvement District No. 1 to issue bonds and impose certain taxes or assessments.

Local Government

Relating to the creation of the Austin County Municipal Utility District No. 1; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Local Government

Relating to the powers, duties, and bond authority of the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority; providing authority to impose a fee.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the computation of the replenishment ratio used to determine an employer's unemployment compensation contribution tax rate.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the governance of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, the Office of Public Utility Counsel, and an independent organization certified to manage a power region.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the preparedness for extreme weather emergencies of facilities that provide electricity service; providing an administrative penalty.

Jurisprudence

Relating to a study on a statewide disaster alert system and implementation of that system and to notice to elected officials of a widespread power, water, or natural gas outage or emergency.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Energy Disaster Reliability Council.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the sale of wholesale indexed products by retail electric providers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a restriction on the regulation of utility services and infrastructure based on the energy source to be used or delivered.

Business & Commerce

Relating to prohibiting organ transplant recipient discrimination on the basis of certain disabilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to requirements for human trafficking awareness and prevention in commercial lodging establishments; authorizing a civil penalty.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the procedures and grounds for terminating the parent-child relationship, for taking possession of a child, and for certain hearings in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship involving the Department of Family and Protective Services.

State Affairs

Relating to the rule against perpetuities.

Jurisprudence

Relating to notifying an alleged perpetrator of child abuse or neglect of the person's right to request an administrative review of the department's findings after an investigation by the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the eligibility of certain children who are or were in foster care for free prekindergarten programs in public schools.

Education

Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the issuance of a qualified domestic relations order for the payment of spousal maintenance and child support obligations.

State Affairs

Relating to the performance of pest control work by persons who hold a commercial or noncommercial applicator license issued by the Department of Agriculture.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the applicability of the sales and use tax to medical or dental billing services.

Finance

Committee re-referral on the following:

Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state civil court costs; increasing certain civil court costs.

Re-referred from State Affairs to Jurisprudence