BILLS REFERRED TODAY

Tuesday

May 2, 2023

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to requiring medical clearance before admission to an inpatient mental health facility.

Health & Human Services

Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes and to except certain appropriations to pay for ad valorem tax relief from the constitutional limitation on the rate of growth of appropriations.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the contribution rate of the members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, authorizing the legislature to provide cost-of-living adjustments or other benefit enhancements to eligible annuitants of the system, and providing a one-time transfer of funds for benefit enhancements and for contributions and actuarially determined payments to eliminate the unfunded actuarial liabilities of the system.

Finance

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation tangible personal property consisting of animal feed held by the owner of the property for sale at retail.

Local Government

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

Jurisprudence

Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the broadband infrastructure fund to assist in the financing of broadband and telecommunications services projects in the state.

Business & Commerce

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the market value of a property that is the primary residence of an adult who has an intellectual or developmental disability and who must be related to the owner or trustee of the property within a certain degree by consanguinity.

Local Government

Proposing a constitutional amendment creating the state school safety fund to provide financial support for projects that enhance the safety of public schools in this state.

Education

Relating to providing property tax relief through the public school finance system and property tax appraisal and administration.

Local Government

Relating to the development of, implementation of, and funding for public school safety and security requirements.

Education

Relating to the designation of poisoning with a controlled substance included in Penalty Group 1-B for purposes of the death certificate and to the criminal penalties for certain controlled substance offenses; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the development and funding of broadband and telecommunications services; providing for transfers of money for funding.

Finance

Relating to the duration of services provided under Medicaid to women following a pregnancy.

Health & Human Services

Relating to training, preparedness, and funding for school safety and emergencies in public schools.

Education

Relating to official misconduct by and removal of prosecuting attorneys.

State Affairs

Relating to wholesale importation of prescription drugs in this state; authorizing a fee.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the peace officers authorized to operate an authorized emergency vehicle used to conduct a police escort.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the presidential electors of this state.

State Affairs

Relating to the compensation of public school educators and to the operation of public schools and the public school finance system, including enrollment-based funding for certain allotments under the Foundation School Program.

Education

Relating to the possession, use, or delivery of marihuana or e-cigarettes on or near public school property or at certain school events.

Education

Relating to minimum standards for prescribed burns.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to testing possible controlled substance evidence for a controlled substance included in Penalty Group 1-B.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a school security volunteer program in certain counties.

Education

Relating to the creation of a voluntary accreditation for recovery housing; authorizing fees.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the requirements to access the online tracker of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail.

State Affairs

Relating to remotely conducting depositions, hearings, and other proceedings in juvenile cases.

Criminal Justice

Relating to procedures for the alternative assessment or exemption from assessment of certain public school students who receive special education services and alternative accountability plans for certain campuses serving students who receive special education services.

Education

Relating to a pilot project to provide emergency telemedicine medical services and telehealth services in rural areas.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the salaries of sheriffs and to state assistance payments to offset the cost of sheriff's salaries in certain counties.

Finance

Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to the surviving spouse of a posthumous recipient of certain awards.

Transportation

Relating to issuance of specialty license plates to honor fallen law enforcement officers.

Transportation

Relating to the payment of permanency care assistance after a child's 18th birthday.

Health & Human Services

Relating to guardianships of the person of wards with profound intellectual disabilities who are minors or were minors when their guardianship proceedings commenced.

Jurisprudence

Relating to specialty license plates issued for recipients of the Commendation Medal.

Transportation

Relating to virtual and off-campus electronic instruction at a public school and the allotment for certain special-purpose school districts under the Foundation School Program.

Education

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

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the disposition by a public junior college library of certain library materials.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to a process adopted by a school district regarding complaints and hearings on complaints.

Education

Relating to the regulation of library materials sold to or included in public school libraries.

Education

Relating to the effect of certain reductions in a health benefit plan enrollee's out-of-pocket expenses for certain prescription drugs on enrollee cost-sharing requirements.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the membership of a public school concussion oversight team and the removal of a public school student from an interscholastic athletic activity on the basis of a suspected concussion.

Education

Relating to the detachment and annexation of school district territory by petition.

Education

Relating to the sale and purchase of certain fish.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to claims for reimbursement between marital estates.

Jurisprudence

Relating to tariff filing requirements for certain telecommunications providers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the age limit for a beginning position in a police department under municipal civil service.

Criminal Justice

Relating to certain requirements and procedures regarding the posting of a school district's employment policy.

Education

Relating to the applicability of certain laws to open-enrollment charter schools.

Education

Relating to certain records of a health professional providing a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the documentation required for the purchase of certain timber products; creating a criminal offense.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the application of nepotism prohibitions to a person appointed or employed by a school district as a bus driver.

Education

Relating to the establishment of an organized retail theft task force.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the skills test required for a commercial driver's license for certain commercial learner's permit holders.

Transportation

Relating to the major events reimbursement program, including event funding eligibility, site selection organizations, and single event and single year classifications.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

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

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of a peace officer commissioned by the comptroller to apply for an order authorizing the installation and use of a mobile tracking device.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the display of the national motto in public school and institution of higher education classrooms.

Education

Relating to mental health first aid training provided by local mental health authorities and local behavioral health authorities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to required informed consent before a dog or cat may be boarded at a kennel and left unattended; providing a civil penalty.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the jurisdiction of a court in a suit to divide certain property not divided or awarded on the dissolution of a marriage.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the continuation of spousal maintenance ordered under certain circumstances.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the designation of a portion of Business Interstate Highway 20-E in Ector County as the Mac Wilson and Rex Young Medal of Honor Highway.

Transportation

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

Education

Relating to the sale of charitable raffle tickets by certain nonprofit wildlife conservation associations.

State Affairs

Relating to the amendment of restrictive covenants applicable to certain subdivisions.

Local Government

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for firefighters enrolled in certain courses at public institutions of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to wrong, fictitious, altered, or obscured license plates; increasing a criminal penalty.

Transportation

Relating to trusts.

State Affairs

Relating to the qualifications for a person to provide services as a mental health and substance use resource for school districts.

Education

Relating to the authority of a water or sewer utility to consolidate more than one system under a single tariff.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

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

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to optional annuity increases for certain retirees and beneficiaries of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.

Finance

Relating to required lease terms for public property leased to a nongovernmental entity; creating a criminal offense.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the reporting of direct campaign expenditures by certain persons and political committees.

State Affairs

Relating to the provision of home telemonitoring services under Medicaid.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the minimum instruction requirement for the boater education program and the disposition and use of money received by the Parks and Wildlife Department from the boater education program.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the treatment of income tax expenses in rate proceedings for water and sewer utilities.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to use of the name, image, or likeness of a student athlete participating in an intercollegiate athletic program at an institution of higher education.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the transfer of certain public school students who are children of certain military servicemembers.

Education

Relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities.

Transportation

Relating to exempting certain contracts from procurement notice requirements.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of recycling and recycled products.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the taking of wildlife by an employee of the Parks and Wildlife Department or by a person or agent of the person on the person's property.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the operation of an unmanned aircraft over a correctional facility or detention facility; creating a criminal offense.

Criminal Justice

Relating to designating October as Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Month.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the designation of fentanyl poisoning for purposes of the death certificate.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the suspension of an enforcement action against a regional water supply, sewer, or wastewater treatment service for a violation committed by a retail public utility being integrated into the regional service.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the joint planning of desired future conditions in groundwater management areas.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the amount of the fee imposed on certain sexually oriented businesses that is allocated to the sexual assault program fund and the allocation of certain other revenue to that fund; increasing the amount of a fee.

Finance

Relating to the authority to approve change orders for certain contracts for the construction, repair, and renovation of water district facilities.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to contracts for the construction, repair, and renovation of certain conservation and reclamation district facilities.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the issuance of title to a salvage pool operator for certain motor vehicles.

Transportation

Relating to the composition and use of money in the flood infrastructure fund.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to motor fuel taxes.

Finance

Relating to a defense to prosecution for the offense of cruelty to nonlivestock animals under certain circumstances.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the designation of advanced clean energy projects.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Relating to the adoption of a policy on the preclusion of private design professionals from contracting with the Texas Department of Transportation.

Transportation

Relating to the establishment of the Texas Competency-Based Education Grant Program for certain students enrolled in competency-based baccalaureate degree programs and to formula funding and dropped and repeated course restrictions for students enrolled in those degree programs at public institutions of higher education.

Education

Relating to the disposition of certain fees collected for the rail safety program.

Finance

Relating to the use of Parks and Wildlife Department land for carbon sequestration or similar ecosystem services projects.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the matters that may be the subject of limited binding arbitration to compel compliance with procedural requirements related to protests before appraisal review boards.

Local Government

Relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the packaging requirements for certain donated prescription drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a waiver of the waiting period for a marriage ceremony.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the establishment of a grant program to plug leaking water wells in certain counties; making an appropriation.

Finance

Relating to expedited credentialing of certain physician assistants and advanced practice nurses by managed care plan issuers.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the donors of certain unused prescription drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the redistribution of donated prepackaged prescription drugs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the provision of sewer service without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the consideration of modeled sustained groundwater pumping in the adoption of desired future conditions in groundwater conservation districts.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to inquests a justice of the peace conducts by videoconference in certain circumstances.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the taxing authority of Jackson County County-Wide Drainage District.

Local Government

Relating to the election of directors in certain special utility districts.

Local Government

Relating to a campus of the Texas State Technical College System located in Comal County and Guadalupe County.

Subcommittee on Higher Education

Relating to the criteria considered by groundwater conservation districts before granting or denying a permit.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the services provided to certain children detained in a juvenile detention facility.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the review of the duties of a groundwater conservation district by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Water, Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Designating Mineral Wells as the official Wellness Capital of Texas for a 10-year period beginning in 2023.

Administration

Redesignating Bridgeport as the official Stagecoach Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Expressing support for geothermal energy production.

Natural Resources & Economic Development

Designating May 31 as Texas Foster Youth Empowerment Day for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Redesignating the City of Mansfield as the official Pickle Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Designating Port Arthur as the official Cajun Capital of Texas for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Designating Llano as the official Deer Capital of the Texas Hill Country for a 10-year period ending in 2033.

Administration

Expressing support for the strengthening of our partnership with Taiwan and for the expansion of Taiwan's role on the global stage.

State Affairs

Committee re-referral on the following:

Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute certain criminal offenses.

Re-referred from State Affairs to Jurisprudence

Relating to the creation and operation of a development zone by and the tax revenue received by The Woodlands Township; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and taxes.

Re-referred from Local Government to Natural Resources & Economic Development