BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Wednesday

March 1, 2023

Committee referral on the following:

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to legalize wagering in this state on certain sporting events.

State Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the mandatory age of retirement for state justices and judges.

Jurisprudence

Proposing a constitutional amendment lowering the maximum allowable amount of money in the economic stabilization fund and dedicating certain general revenue to reducing school district maintenance and operations ad valorem taxes.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a political subdivision other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the political subdivision may impose on the residence homesteads of persons who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the water for Texas fund to assist in financing water projects in this state.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the electric generating facility fund to finance construction and maintenance of electric generating and transmission facilities.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a person's inventory.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to set a lower limit on the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of commercial real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Relating to a highway toll exemption for public school buses.

Transportation

Relating to the sourcing, marketing, and sale of certain license plates.

Transportation

Relating to restitution payments for the support of a child whose parent or guardian is a victim of intoxication manslaughter.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the capture and use of an individual's biometric identifiers, specimen, or genetic information by a governmental body or peace officer or by a person for commercial purposes; authorizing civil penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to request a hearing from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality related to the construction of a concrete plant.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the continuation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Harris County Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to the adoption and implementation of a surgical smoke evacuation system policy at certain health care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain credentials of value offered by general academic teaching institutions as part of a baccalaureate degree program.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to school marshals, including eligibility for appointment as a school marshal, licensure and training requirements, and school marshal uniforms or badges.

Education

Relating to the making and acceptance of political contributions during a special legislative session; creating a criminal offense.

State Affairs

Relating to renaming the Texas Natural Resources Information System as the Texas Geographic Information Office and the duties of certain officers of that entity.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the use of competitive bidding for certain purchases by the Texas Education Agency.

Education

Relating to civil liability of a business in connection with prohibiting concealed handguns on the business premises.

State Affairs

Relating to the regulation of sports wagering; requiring occupational permits; authorizing fees; imposing a tax; decriminalizing wagering on certain sports events; creating criminal offenses; providing administrative penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to the definition of post-traumatic stress disorder under the workers' compensation system.

Business & Commerce

Relating to public school cybersecurity controls and requirements and technical assistance and cybersecurity risk assessments for public schools provided by the Department of Information Resources.

Education

Relating to additional periods of possession of or access to a child to compensate for denial of court-ordered possession or access.

State Affairs

Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by a charitable organization that provides services related to the placement of a child in a foster or adoptive home.

Local Government

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to receive certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project and to pledge certain tax revenue for the payment of obligations related to the project.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the adoption of uniform rules for hours of work for certain county employees.

Local Government

Relating to the prosecution of the offenses of trafficking of persons and compelling prostitution and to certain consequences of compelling prostitution.

Criminal Justice

Relating to retired members of the Texas State Guard.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the reimbursement and payment of claims by certain health benefit plan issuers for telemedicine medical services, teledentistry dental services, and telehealth services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to procedures for identifying defendants suspected of having a mental illness or intellectual disability.

Criminal Justice

Relating to enhancing the criminal penalty for the offense of intoxication manslaughter in certain circumstances.

Criminal Justice

Relating to allowing certain inmates to apply for supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits to be provided at the time of discharge or release.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the cash balance benefit under the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

Finance

Relating to the granting of privileges at hospitals for podiatrists.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the proof required to impose payment holds in certain cases of alleged fraud by Medicaid providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to an exception to the application of the offense of misuse of official information for journalists.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the definition of qualified employee for purposes of the enterprise zone program.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the consequences of a criminal conviction on a person's eligibility for an occupational license.

Business & Commerce

Relating to memoranda of understanding between the Texas Water Development Board and other state agencies.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to mandatory arbitration for certain municipal fire departments and employee bargaining agents.

Local Government

Relating to the creation of the Texas School Patrol.

Education

Relating to law enforcement radio interoperability and training.

State Affairs

Relating to designating October 10 as Supportive Palliative Care Awareness Day.

Administration

Relating to an election to approve a reduction or reallocation of funding or resources for certain county prosecutors' offices.

Finance

Relating to the provision of property owners' association insurance by the FAIR Plan Association in certain areas.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a requirement for certain entities to enter into a contract for election services.

State Affairs

Relating to the hours of work of county employees.

Local Government

Relating to clarifying that a statutory county court judge is authorized to issue a search warrant for access to a cellular telephone or other wireless communications device.

Criminal Justice

Relating to fraud prevention under certain health care programs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation and operation of pediatric long-term care access assurance programs in certain counties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the withdrawal of a candidate in a runoff primary election.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of state aid to certain local governments to offset the cost of the exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homestead of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran.

Finance

Relating to the administration of a medication and the ordering and administration of an immunization or vaccination by a pharmacist.

Health & Human Services

Relating to eligibility for service on the board of directors of an appraisal district.

Local Government

Relating to elimination of limitations periods for suits for personal injury arising from certain offenses against a child.

State Affairs

Relating to the delivery and direct shipment of certain alcoholic beverages to ultimate consumers; creating criminal offenses.

State Affairs

Relating to the powers and duties of the office of the attorney general with respect to certain laws governing the installation and use of tracking equipment and access to certain communications.

Criminal Justice

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for causing bodily injury while resisting arrest, search, or transportation.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the reimbursement of state employees for groceries consumed while traveling on official state business.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the reporting of electronic political contributions accepted by certain political committees.

State Affairs

Relating to an annual permit for certain equipment used to apply paint to roadways; authorizing a fee.

Transportation

Relating to food system security and resiliency planning.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to the establishment of the office of food system security and resiliency in the Department of Agriculture.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to taking a blood specimen from the body of a deceased person during an inquest.

Criminal Justice

Relating to photo identification for certain debit or credit card transactions.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the reimbursement of state employees for groceries consumed while traveling on official state business.

Business & Commerce

Relating to allowing school districts to employ chaplains to perform the duties of school counselors.

Education

Relating to the establishment of a statewide Imagination Library program by the State Board of Education.

Education

Relating to the licensing and regulation of child swim instruction operators; requiring an occupational license; imposing penalties, including administrative penalties; authorizing fees.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the required preservation of certain records by a money services business.

Business & Commerce

Relating to notice requirements for certain municipal fees and the process to adopt a municipal budget that includes the use of revenue from those fees.

Local Government

Relating to the process for notifying the attorney general of a breach of security of computerized data by persons doing business in this state.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the examination of appraisal services for an appraisal management company.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the commingling of funds by digital asset service providers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the designation of transmission operators by certain municipally owned electric utilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to lighting equipment requirements for motor vehicles.

Transportation

Relating to access to certain investigational drugs, biological products, and devices used in clinical trials by patients with severe chronic diseases.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the provision of services by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to offenders with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the exemption of certain personal property from garnishment, attachment, execution, or other seizure by creditors.

State Affairs

Relating to the required period of retention of video surveillance recordings of special education settings.

Education

Relating to the issuance of state parklands passports to and a waiver of certain state park fees for veterans, active duty armed forces members, and certain family members of a person who died while serving in the United States armed forces.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the reimbursement by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department of the costs incurred by counties for housing certain children.

Finance

Relating to the use of scholarship money awarded by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy to certain fifth-year accounting students.

Business & Commerce

Relating to emergency possession of certain abandoned children by designated emergency infant care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of certain counties to enact certain park use rules.

Local Government

Relating to the employment of a chief privacy officer in the Department of Information Resources.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of a municipality or county to regulate the use of an appliance, system, or component that is fueled by natural gas or propane.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in this state and the express preemption of local regulation of those emissions.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the ownership by a landowner of the geothermal energy and associated resources below the surface of the landowner's land.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas of closed-loop geothermal injection wells.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment for certain felony offenses in which a firearm is used or exhibited.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the creation of the Office of Environmental Justice within the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to indicators of achievement, assignment of campus performance ratings, and academic distinction designations under the public school accountability system.

Education

Relating to systems of county road administration in certain counties.

Transportation

Relating to the right of members of the Texas military forces to demand trial by court-martial for minor offenses.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to a conveyance or bequest to a trust.

State Affairs

Relating to criminal asset forfeiture proceedings and the seizure and forfeiture of certain property.

Criminal Justice

Relating to persons authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony.

State Affairs

Relating to the transfer of the University Interscholastic League from The University of Texas at Austin to the Texas Education Agency.

Education

Relating to arbitration provisions in surplus lines insurance contracts.

Business & Commerce

Relating to disclosure of certain relationships with local government officers and vendors.

State Affairs

Relating to the certification requirements for a public school counselor.

Education

Relating to benefits for certain first responders and other employees related to illness and injury.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the ability of a local authority to designate school crossing zones and school crosswalks at high school campuses located in certain municipalities.

Transportation

Relating to an instrument that names a trust as a party.

State Affairs

Relating to the annual base salary of a district judge.

Finance

Relating to the award of compensatory damages caused by certain delays under governmental construction contracts.

Business & Commerce

Relating to eligibility requirements for student loan repayment assistance for certain mental health professionals.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the taxation of a leasehold or other possessory interest in a public facility granted by a public facility corporation.

Local Government

Relating to the duties of peace officers regarding interactions with victims of sexual assault.

Criminal Justice

Relating to health benefit plan coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the use of public schools as polling place locations.

State Affairs

Relating to the sale of unplatted lots in certain subdivisions of land.

Local Government

Relating to requirements for certain licenses and permits issued by the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to disclosure of certain information by the Parks and Wildlife Department or the Texas Animal Health Commission.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to food allergen awareness in food service establishments, food manager certifications, and food service programs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to providing notice to a state representative and senator of certain administrative actions of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to state preemption of certain municipal and county regulation.

Business & Commerce

Relating to limitation of certain liability of owners, lessees, and occupants of land in connection with livestock and agricultural land.

State Affairs

Relating to a motion to overturn an executive director decision on an authorization to use a standard permit for certain concrete plants.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the deadline to request a contested case hearing on an authorization to use a standard permit for a concrete plant.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the disposition of real property interests by navigation districts and port authorities.

Transportation

Relating to the enforcement of the rights of crime victims.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the registration of vision support organizations; imposing a fee; requiring an occupational registration; providing a civil penalty.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the review by the Sunset Advisory Commission of the sale of personal data by state agencies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the establishment of a grant program for school districts or open-enrollment charter school campuses that are designated as full-service community schools.

Education

Relating to the suspension of a county elections administrator.

State Affairs

Relating to the use of public schools as polling place locations.

State Affairs

Relating to the deadline for submitting certain recount petitions.

State Affairs

Relating to notice regarding a parent's access to the health records of certain children.

Health & Human Services

Relating to entities authorized to issue and renew commercial driver's licenses.

Transportation

Relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of sale, distribution, or display of harmful material to a minor.

Criminal Justice

Relating to cottage food production operations.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of a taxing unit other than a school district to establish a limitation on the amount of ad valorem taxes that the taxing unit may impose on the residence homesteads of individuals who are disabled or elderly and their surviving spouses.

Local Government

Relating to inservice training on identifying abuse, neglect, and illegal, unprofessional, and unethical conduct in certain health care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to appeals to justice courts of certain appraisal review board orders.

Local Government

Relating to consideration by insurers of certain criteria for ratemaking.

Business & Commerce

Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain royalty interests owned by a charitable organization.

Local Government

Relating to the availability of financial information of nonprofit corporations for public inspection.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the collection of consumer debt incurred as a result of identity theft.

Business & Commerce

Relating to financial assistance provided and programs administered by the Texas Water Development Board.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools providing panic alert devices in classrooms.

Education

Relating to the creation of a witness protection unit of the Texas Rangers.

Criminal Justice

Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for assault of certain hospital personnel.

Criminal Justice

Relating to funding of excess losses and operating expenses of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; authorizing an assessment, a surcharge, and an infrastructure grant.

Business & Commerce

Relating to health benefit coverage for bariatric surgery under the state employees group benefits program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a trust beneficiary's approval of a trustee's accounting.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality of certain information in a language other than English.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to an affirmative defense to a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality enforcement action for unauthorized emission events.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to authorizing the insurance of revenue bonds for certain capital projects at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for certain capital projects at The University of Texas at El Paso.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the development and operation by a regional mobility authority of an urban green space or aesthetic enhancement located above, adjacent to, or connected to an interstate highway.

Transportation

Relating to the continuation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the El Paso County Hospital District.

Local Government

Relating to the composition of the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium.

Health & Human Services

Relating to subdivision plat requirements for certain counties located near the international border.

Local Government

Relating to the content of certain biennial legislative reports on immunizations issued by the Department of State Health Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to electricity service provided by certain municipally owned utilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of the commissioners court of a county to adopt an exemption from ad valorem taxation by the county of a portion, expressed as a dollar amount, of the appraised value of an individual's residence homestead.

Local Government

Relating to continuing judicial training regarding family violence victims.

Criminal Justice

Relating to an entity's election to participate in or discontinue participation in the uniform group coverage program for active school employees.

Education

Relating to the use of the electric generating facility fund to finance construction and maintenance of electric generating and transmission facilities in the ERCOT power region; authorizing an assessment.

Business & Commerce

Relating to safety standards for private passenger van services that transport students to and from public primary and secondary schools.

Transportation

Relating to the use of certain lighting equipment on motorcycles and mopeds.

Transportation

Relating to the relationship between managed care plans and optometrists, therapeutic optometrists, and ophthalmologists.

Health & Human Services

Relating to coordination of vision and eye care benefits under certain insurance policies and vision plans.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the audit of claims and recovery of overpayments by Medicaid recovery audit contractors.

Health & Human Services

Relating to electronic verification of health benefits by health benefit plan issuers for certain physicians and health care providers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain seller's disclosures for the sale of residential real property.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System located in Williamson County.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to a requirement that school districts and open-enrollment charter schools provide emergency response mapping data to local law enforcement agencies.

Education

Relating to the recipients of opioid antagonists under the opioid antagonist program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the use, possession, delivery, or manufacture of testing equipment that identifies the presence of fentanyl, or any other adulterant.

Criminal Justice

Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship, including the payment and enforcement of support ordered in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Jurisprudence

Relating to certain Title IV-D cases and other cases with respect to child support or Title IV-D agency services and to practices and procedures for the operation of the Title IV-D agency.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the exemption of inventory from ad valorem taxation.

Local Government

Relating to the authorization for certain land applications and disposal of dairy waste.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to residential construction liability.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the eligibility of the certain cricket events for funding under the Major Events Reimbursement Program.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to a criminal justice system pretrial and sentencing database established by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the licensing and regulation of dog and cat breeders; expanding the applicability of an occupational license.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the consideration of ownership interests of certain persons in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the prohibition of housing discrimination on the basis of hair texture or protective hairstyle associated with race.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a limitation on increases in the appraised value of commercial real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Relating to the determination of the market value of property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Local Government

Relating to the limitation on increases in the appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem taxation.

Local Government

Relating to the selection and administration of an appraisal review board in certain counties; authorizing a fee.

Local Government

Relating to the selection of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district in certain counties; authorizing a fee.

Local Government

Relating to suicide awareness and prevention training for certain employees of the Texas Veterans Commission.

Veteran Affairs

Relating to the grounds for terminating the parent-child relationship.

State Affairs

Relating to the exclusion of students not lawfully present in the United States from consideration for purposes of the indicators of achievement under the public school accountability system.

Education

Relating to the creation of the Maxwell 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 fire escape exemptions for certain courthouses.

Local Government

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

Business & Commerce

Relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the bed or bank of a navigable river or stream in certain counties.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to excused absences from public school for a student's mental or behavioral health.

Education

Relating to the employment of certain peace officers as private security officers.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the correction of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for providing water or sewer utility service.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to an exemption to the cancellation of a water right for nonuse.

Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs

Relating to modernizing the regulation of money services businesses.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the automatic stay of proceedings pending an interlocutory appeal of a denial of a motion to dismiss in an action involving the exercise of certain constitutional rights.

State Affairs

Relating to liens on aircraft for certain charges.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the relocation, adjustment, and ownership of commercial and outdoor signs.

Transportation

Relating to the circumstances under which an appraisal review board is required to postpone a protest hearing.

Local Government

Relating to the reimbursement of certain expenses of appellate court justices and judges.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the release of defendants on bail, the duties of a magistrate in certain criminal proceedings, and the appointment of certain criminal law hearing officers; creating a criminal offense.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the reporting of certain overdose information and the mapping of overdoses for public safety purposes.

Criminal Justice