SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Monday

May 1, 2023

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

Relating to a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation by a county or municipality of all or part of the appraised value of real property used to operate a child-care facility.

Relating to access to criminal history record information for certain employees, volunteers, and contractors, and for applicants for those positions, by the Health and Human Services Commission.

Relating to the application review process for certain delayed birth certificates.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the renewal and review of standard permits for certain concrete plants.

Relating to online notarizations.

Relating to the accreditation of certain postsecondary educational institutions in this state or of certain programs offered by those institutions.

Relating to the creation of the Liberty County Municipal Utility District No. 12; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Liberty County Management District No. 2; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

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

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to issue debt to purchase or lease tangible personal property.

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Health Insurance Mandate Advisory Collaborative; authorizing a fee.

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

Relating to local school health advisory councils and instruction regarding human sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity provided by public schools.

2 Floor Amendments

Relating to special education in public schools, including the special education allotment under the Foundation School Program, an education savings account program for certain children with disabilities, and a grant program to reimburse public schools for the cost of certain employer contributions for retirees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas employed to teach or provide services related to special education.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the authority of the secretary of state to order a new election in certain counties.

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Recognizing Joe R. Long and Teresa Lozano Long for their civic contributions.

Recognizing the Miller Outdoor Theatre on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.

In memory of Bruce Jacobson.

Urging Congress to amend federal law to allow states to provide for the consolidation of federally funded workforce development services with federally funded social safety net services.

The Senate concurred in House amendments to the following:

Relating to eligibility requirements for a certified public accountant certificate and to take the uniform CPA examination.

Relating to the regulation of massage therapy.

Relating to disclosure requirements for health care provider directories maintained by certain health benefit plan issuers.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to regulate an energy source or engine.

The Senate refused to concur in House amendments and requested the appointment of a Conference Committee on the following:

Relating to paid leave by certain state employees for the birth or adoption of a child.

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the Texas energy fund and the authorization of other funding mechanisms to support the construction, maintenance, and modernization of electric generating facilities.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the Texas energy fund and the authorization of other funding mechanisms to support the construction, maintenance, and modernization of electric generating facilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the creation of the Briar Branch Estates Municipal Utility District of Hunt County; 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 creation of the Elm Fork Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Cooke County; 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 regulation of the collection, use, processing, and treatment of consumers' personal data by certain business entities; imposing a civil penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the administration, coordination, and support of public higher education, including the public junior college state finance program and a Financial Aid for Swift Transfer (FAST) program to enable certain students to enroll at no cost to the student in dual credit courses offered by certain public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the rights and certification of public school educators, including financial and other assistance and waivers provided to public schools by the Texas Education Agency related to public school educators, methods of instruction provided in public schools, and certain allotments under the Foundation School Program.

Education

Relating to the punishment for the criminal offense of indecent assault; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to Medicaid and child health plan program coverage and reimbursement for childhood cranial remolding orthosis.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the procedure by which a taxing unit is required to provide public notice of certain ad valorem tax-related information.

Local Government

Relating to the licensing and regulation of genetic counselors; requiring an occupational license; authorizing a fee.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of migrant labor housing facilities; changing the amount of a civil penalty.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the terminology used to refer to certain disabilities and to an individualized education team for purposes of determining a student's eligibility for special education services and providing those services in public schools.

Education

Relating to the regulation by a municipality or property owners' association of food production on single-family residential lots.

Local Government

Relating to hiring and licensing certain veterans as peace officers.

State Affairs

Relating to the date of runoff elections.

State Affairs

Relating to health benefit plan coverage of hearing aids and cochlear implants for certain individuals.

Health & Human Services

Relating to suicide prevention in municipal jails.

Criminal Justice

Relating to exemption of certain civil actions from being subject to a motion to dismiss on the basis of involving the exercise of certain constitutional rights.

State Affairs

Relating to donations to certain local charities or veterans county service offices ordered to be paid as a condition of community supervision.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the confidentiality of certain information received or maintained by the Veterans' Land Board.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to a study by the Texas Division of Emergency Management of the potential effects of droughts and wildfires in this state.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to continuing education instruction for district clerks on impaneling petit and grand juries.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the confidentiality and reporting of certain maternal mortality information to the Department of State Health Services and to a work group establishing a maternal mortality and morbidity data registry.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the enrollment period for newborns under certain employer health benefit plans.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a report by the Windham School District on dyslexia and illiteracy among certain students enrolled in the district.

Education

Relating to the confidentiality of juvenile justice information.

Criminal Justice

Relating to certain judicial statistics and related information gathered by the Texas Judicial Council.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the provision of information regarding mental health and suicide prevention services to entering students at public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.

State Affairs

Relating to a requirement that employers post notice of certain information regarding reporting instances of workplace violence or suspicious activity.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the composition of districts for the election of members of the Texas House of Representatives.

Redistricting, Special

Relating to suspending the employment of certain persons who provide care to individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability and who are alleged to have engaged in reportable conduct; providing an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and the use of revenue from that tax.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the authority of a Type A or Type B general-law municipality to change to a Type C general-law municipality.

Local Government

Relating to advanced clean energy projects and certain other projects that reduce or eliminate emissions of carbon dioxide or other pollutants.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to judicial statistics and other pertinent information, including landlord and tenant dispute information, gathered by or reported to the Texas Judicial Council and certain populous counties.

Jurisprudence

Relating to access to criminal history record information for use in certain research or statistical projects.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the definition of and certain determinations regarding emergency care for purposes of certain health benefit plan coverage.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the penalty for the offense of illegal voting; increasing a criminal penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the confiscation or misappropriation by a nursing facility of certain federal payments to a Medicaid recipient; increasing an administrative penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to inspections and examinations by the Railroad Commission of Texas of certain sites and facilities conducted using unmanned aircraft.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to an optional service retirement annuity that provides an increasing annuity under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

Finance

Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to accelerated instruction provided to public school students who fail to achieve satisfactory performance on certain assessment instruments.

Education

Relating to required findings for the issuance of a protective order.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the staggering of terms of aldermen of the governing body of a Type A general-law municipality.

Local Government

Relating to the establishment of a grant program to support the elimination of illegally disposed of scrap tires.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the relationship between dentists and certain employee benefit plans and health insurers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the San Antonio River Authority, following recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; altering the terms of office of the members of the board of directors of the authority.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to disclosure of a beneficiary to a funeral director under a life insurance policy.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, following the recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; altering terms of the board of directors; specifying grounds for the removal of a member of the board of directors.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the confinement in a county jail of a person pending a transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to the compensation for certain costs of confinement.

Finance

Relating to the use by insurance companies of separate accounts in connection with life insurance and annuities and certain other benefits.

Business & Commerce

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain family violence assaults.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the application of balance billing prohibitions and out-of-network dispute resolution procedures to certain self-insured or self-funded employee welfare benefit plans.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a public school student's transition from an alternative education program to a regular educational environment, including parental rights related to that transition, and the admission of certain students with a criminal or disciplinary history.

Education

Relating to health benefit plan coverage of clinician-administered drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to training requirements for staff members of certain assisted living facilities that provide care to persons with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the issuance of a certified birth record, driver's license, or personal identification certificate to a homeless individual.

State Affairs

Relating to the use of county hotel occupancy tax revenue for an electronic tax administration system and the reimbursement of tax collection expenses.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the temperature at which a facility operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is maintained.

Finance

Relating to the creation of the Lone Star Workforce of the Future Fund.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to ticket sales for charitable raffles conducted by the charitable foundations of certain professional sports teams.

State Affairs

Relating to allowing school districts to make available certain school safety training courses to employees of certain private schools, child-care facilities, or organizations providing out-of-school-time care.

Education

Relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in ad valorem tax appraisal records.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the confidentiality of certain information on a marriage license, an application for a marriage license, and a declaration of informal marriage.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, and removal of dams by the Lower Brushy Creek Water Control and Improvement District.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to establishing the Rural Pathway Excellence Partnership (R-PEP) program and creating an allotment and outcomes bonus under the Foundation School Program to support the program.

Education

Relating to the sale and purchase of retail fireworks permits.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a report on recidivism rates.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the provision of certain intensive outpatient services and partial hospitalization services under Medicaid.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the use of hotel occupancy tax revenue by certain municipalities.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations by the Texas Department of Insurance and the office of public insurance counsel for employee training or education.

Business & Commerce

Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for functional family therapy services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to improvements to the Texas Information and Referral Network.

Health & Human Services

Relating to postage for early voting ballots voted by mail.

Local Government

Relating to the voter registration powers of volunteer deputy registrars.

Local Government

Relating to the formation of a municipal housing authority asset commission by certain municipal housing authorities.

Local Government

Relating to the availability on the Internet of reports of political contributions or expenditures filed in connection with certain offices.

Local Government

Relating to the adjudication and disposition of cases involving delinquent conduct, certain juvenile court proceedings, and planning and funding for services for children in the juvenile justice system.

Business & Commerce