SENATE FLOOR ACTION - 2

Wednesday

May 24, 2023

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

Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates for certain classroom teachers and retired classroom teachers; imposing fees.

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

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the punishment for certain criminal conduct involving the smuggling of persons or the operation of a stash house; increasing criminal penalties.

3 Floor Amendments

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

Relating to the review date for certain governmental entities subject to the sunset review process.

1 Floor Amendment

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

Relating to the terminology used to describe transportation-related accidents.

Relating to the powers, authorities, duties, and responsibilities of certain conservation and reclamation districts.

3 Floor Amendments

Relating to criminal responsibility for the conduct of a coconspirator.

Relating to the administration of a grant program for the establishment and expansion of community collaboratives.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to standards for and services provided by prescribed pediatric extended care centers, including Medicaid reimbursement for those services.

Relating to the election of the entire governing body of a municipality following each apportionment.

Relating to the pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome advisory council.

Relating to the operation and movement of motorcycles on a roadway laned for traffic.

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

Relating to the reporting and investigation of certain allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation, the making and investigation of complaints alleging violations of certain health facility licensing requirements, and the content of the employee misconduct registry.

Relating to the Texas Pharmaceutical Initiative; authorizing fees.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to use certain tax revenue for hotel and convention center projects and other qualified projects.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and the applicability of that tax in certain counties.

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

Relating to measures to address public safety threats in this state presented by transnational criminal activity, including by establishing a Texas Border Force, and to compensate persons affected by those threats; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses.

Relating to provider discrimination against a Medicaid recipient or child health plan program enrollee based on immunization status.

1 Floor Amendment

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

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

Relating to the public inspection of election records.

The Senate concurred in House amendments to the following:

Relating to the sunset review process and certain governmental entities subject to that process.

The following bills were passed on the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar:

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

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

Relating to the use of community health workers in Medicaid managed care.

Relating to the provision of notice of certain proposed rules by state agencies.

Relating to vehicle safety inspections of certain travel trailers.

Relating to a waiver of the requirement for the performance of an adoption evaluation in certain suits for adoption.

Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of unlawful disclosure of residence address or telephone number.

Relating to requirements to file a property owners' association assessment lien.

Relating to the creation of a workplace violence hotline and a requirement that employers post notice regarding the hotline.

Relating to the designation of the Aaron M. Hicks Memorial Interchange.

Relating to local regulation to enforce child custody orders; authorizing a civil penalty.

Relating to an exemption from the application of the Private Security Act for volunteer security services provided at certain places or events.

Relating to creating the criminal offense of boating while intoxicated with a child passenger; changing the eligibility for deferred adjudication community supervision.

Relating to changing the eligibility for community supervision of a person convicted of possession or promotion of child pornography.

Relating to procedures for the issuance of personal identification certificates to certain persons 65 years of age or older whose driver's licenses are surrendered.

Relating to Medicaid reimbursement for certain medication-assisted treatments for opioid or substance use disorder.

Relating to the repeal of the real estate inspection recovery fund.

Relating to the designation of a portion of Farm-to-Market Road 1960 in Harris County as the Deputy Constable Omar Ursin Memorial Highway.

Relating to the regulation of certain continuing education programs.

Relating to the statute of limitations for the offense of abandoning or endangering a child.

Relating to changing the eligibility for mandatory supervision of an inmate serving a sentence for or previously convicted of certain assaults.

Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Terry Memorial Hospital District.

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

Relating to tariff filing requirements for certain telecommunications providers.

Relating to local government and other political subdivision regulation of certain solid waste facilities.

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

Relating to the issuance of private activity bonds for qualified residential rental projects.

Relating to rules regarding the provision by a health professional of a telemedicine medical service, teledentistry dental service, or telehealth service.

Relating to capital stock requirements for certain insurance companies.

Relating to the creation of the artificial intelligence advisory council.

Relating to a merchant allowing a person suspected of committing or attempting to commit theft to complete a theft education program.

Relating to the criminal offense of abandoning or endangering a child, elderly individual, or disabled individual.

Relating to housing certain inmates in state jail felony facilities.

Relating to the sale and purchase of retail fireworks permits.

Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates commemorating the 100th anniversary of the writing of the state song.

Relating to noncharitable trusts without an ascertainable beneficiary.

Relating to the regulation of athletic trainers.

Relating to the availability on the Internet of certain reports of political contributions and expenditures.

Relating to a prohibition on following an individual and tracking or monitoring the individual's personal property or motor vehicle and to the criminal prosecution of that conduct.

Relating to the duties and composition of the Specialty Courts Advisory Council.

Relating to notice provided to purchasers of property and information filed with the county clerk by certain special districts.

Relating to a liquidity stress test for certain insurance companies.

Relating to discovery procedures for civil actions brought under the Family Code.

Relating to the operation in certain counties of mobile food service establishments in more than one municipality within the county.

Relating to the powers, duties, and use of funds of the Trinity Bay Conservation District.

Relating to powers and duties of the Texas Workforce Commission with respect to work and family policies.

Relating to the provision of certain medical treatment to a pregnant woman by a physician or health care provider.

Relating to the issuance of anticipation notes or other obligations by issuers located along the Gulf Coast in an emergency.

Relating to the use of an accessible absentee mail system by certain voters.

Relating to the elections and operations of certain hospital districts.

Relating to the composition of the agricultural advisory board of an appraisal district.

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.

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

Relating to the confidentiality of certain biosecurity and other sensitive information shared with the Texas Animal Health Commission.

Relating to employment activities of certain peace officers responding to an emergency call for purposes of the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.

Relating to the transportation of horse meat.

Relating to the eligibility and training requirements for commissioned security officers and personal protection officers.

Relating to authorizing certain counties to impose a hotel occupancy tax and the applicability and rates of that tax in certain counties.

Relating to the disposition of certain property by the former Bois D'Arc Island Levee Improvement District of Dallas and Kaufman Counties and the record of dissolution of that district.

Relating to a local area activation of the alert system for certain missing children.

Relating to the payment of restitution by a person released on parole or to mandatory supervision.

Relating to a memorandum of understanding between public or private primary or secondary schools authorizing a school marshal of one school to act as a school marshal at the other school during an event at which both schools participate.

Relating to the designation of portions of the state highway system as memorial highways for certain deceased peace officers.

Relating to the regulation of water well drillers and water well pump installers.

Relating to the administration of a local anesthetic agent by a dental hygienist.

Relating to dismissal of a complaint alleging a parent contributing to nonattendance on the parent's fulfillment of certain terms.

Relating to arbitration of certain controversies involving members of certain nonprofit entities.

Relating to the business leave time account for a firefighter employee organization in certain municipalities.

Relating to the designation of certain fire marshals and related officers, inspectors, and investigators as peace officers.

Relating to creating an audiovisual recording of an interview of a child by a child custody evaluator in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.

Relating to the procedure for resolving certain customer complaints before the Public Utility Commission of Texas.

Relating to access to and use of certain criminal history record information.

Relating to the determination and reporting of the number of residence homesteads of elderly or disabled persons that are subject to the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed on the properties by school districts.

Relating to the powers of certain public utility agencies; granting the power of eminent domain.

Relating to the right of the clerk of a court to deduct from the amount of the excess proceeds from an ad valorem tax sale of property the cost of postage for sending to the former owner of the property a notice of the owner's right to claim the proceeds.

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

Relating to the transfer of certain real property from the Health and Human Services Commission to the StarCare Specialty Health System.

Relating to the calculation of certain ad valorem tax rates of a school district.

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

Relating to the regulation of beekeeping; imposing fees and authorizing other fees; expanding the applicability of an occupational permit.

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

Relating to the jurisdiction of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality over certain recharge injection wells.

Relating to Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for non-opioid treatments.

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

Relating to educational programs for persons whose driver's license is suspended following conviction of certain drug offenses.

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 228; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the meeting requirements for the Galveston County Juvenile Board.

Relating to the powers and duties of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 147; providing authority to issue bonds and impose fees and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 219; 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 Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 235; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the administration, powers, territory, and financing of the Garfield Municipal Utility District No. 1.

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 229; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees and taxes.

Relating to the creation of Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 252; 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 Cypress Creek Drainage Improvement District.

Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 204; 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 North Grayson 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.

Relating to the creation of the Deer Creek Ranch Municipal Utility District No. 1 and the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 236; 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 Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 237; 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 Ranger Ridge Municipal Utility District of Palo Pinto County; 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 Deer Creek Ranch 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.

Relating to the composition of the juvenile board of Navarro County.

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

Relating to the creation of the Tabor Ranch Municipal Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Relating to the creation of the Fannin Farms Municipal Utility District of Fannin County; 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 Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 589; 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 Harris-Waller Counties Municipal Utility District No. 8; 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 Highland Park Municipal Utility District of Grayson County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the powers and duties of the Stanley Lake Municipal Utility District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees and taxes.

Relating to the conversion of the Legacy Water Control and Improvement District to the Legacy Municipal Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Blanton Creek Estates Municipal Utility District of Fannin County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the board of directors and powers and duties of the Twinwood Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the powers and duties of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 3.

Relating to the powers and duties of the Waller County Municipal Utility District No. 2.

Relating to the creation of the Mountain Springs Municipal Utility District of Cooke County; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose fees and taxes.

Relating to the powers, duties, operation, administration, and board of directors of the Karis Municipal Management District of Tarrant County; providing authority to impose assessments.

Authorizing the State Preservation Board, subject to state law and rules of the board, to approve the construction of a monument honoring victims of communism at the State Capitol Complex, at a site outside of the historic Capitol grounds.

The following bills were removed from the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar:

Relating to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel.

Relating to the evaluation of applications for certain financial assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

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

Relating to solicitation of patients and other prohibited marketing practices and the establishment of the task force on patient solicitation; increasing criminal penalties.

Relating to the date of runoff elections.

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

Relating to the period for which a person is required to register as a sex offender based on the offense of compelling prostitution.

Relating to the licensing of marriage and family therapists, marriage and family therapist associates, professional counselors, professional counselor associates, and social workers, including certain out-of-state applicants.

Relating to access to criminal history record information by county offices providing pretrial release services.

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

Relating to the use of water withdrawn from the Edwards Aquifer.

Relating to policies and procedures regarding children placed by the Department of Family and Protective Services in a residential treatment center or program.

Relating to creating a criminal offense for interfering with a motor fuel metering device or motor fuel unattended payment terminal and the prosecution of organized criminal activity involving that conduct.

Relating to the financial crimes intelligence center.

Relating to the reimbursement of expenses to certain counsel appointed to represent a defendant in a criminal proceeding.

Relating to required training and continuing education requirements for persons who provide medical care or other support to survivors of sexual assault.

Relating to the composition of the Sexual Assault Survivors' Task Force and to compensation for task force members and certain other task force participants.

Relating to the adoption and amendment of an annual budget by certain emergency services districts.

Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Texas Agricultural Finance Authority and grant amounts under the young farmer grant program administered by the authority.

Relating to the assignment of certain retired and former justices and judges.

Relating to a strategic plan for improving maternal health, including the consolidation and repeal of certain planning and reporting requirements.

Relating to the confidentiality of identifying information of victims of certain offenses.

Relating to the omission of a deceased candidate from the ballot in certain elections.

Relating to measures to prevent and respond to opioid-related drug overdoses, including policies and training regarding the use of opioid antagonists, at student residences on campuses of public institutions of higher education; providing immunity.

Relating to certain void marriages.

Relating to the establishment of an advisory committee to study suicide prevention and peer support programs in fire departments in this state.

Relating to the cleaning of a structure used to grow oysters for cultivated oyster mariculture.

Relating to notice requirements for a leased dwelling located in a floodplain.

Relating to residency requirements for driver's licenses and personal identification certificates.

Relating to the automatic expunction of arrest records and files after certain controlled substance offense charges are dismissed.

Relating to the regulation of combative sports by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and to immunity for ringside physicians assigned to combative sports events.

Relating to combating human trafficking by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.

Relating to the eligibility of certain retired firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical services providers to purchase continued health benefits coverage.

Relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of credit card or debit card information.

Relating to the titling and registration of motor vehicles by motor vehicle dealers.

Relating to health benefit plan coverage of telemedicine, teledentistry, and telehealth appointments with an originating site or distant site located outside this state.

Relating to authorizing the sale by the State of Texas of certain real property located in Austin, Texas.

Relating to a study on the potential for utilization of the uranium deposits in this state.

Relating to procedural requirements for uranium mining production area authorizations.

Relating to the right of a purchaser to terminate a contract of purchase and sale of real property for failure to provide notice that the property is located in a public improvement district.

Relating to the procedure by which a regional water planning group is required to make the regional water plan prepared by the group available for public inspection.

Relating to conducting certain medical examinations using telemedicine under the workers' compensation system.

Relating to the compensation of a distributed renewable generation owner in certain areas outside of ERCOT.

Relating to the payment of employment compensation by certain state agencies.

Relating to a study by the Texas A&M Forest Service of the potential effects of wildfires in this state.

Relating to the authority to cancel certain elections on a measure.

Relating to an alert system for dangerous plant and wildlife pests and diseases administered by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.

Relating to a study of the financing of regional facilities that convert groundwater to surface water.

Relating to the eligibility requirements for grants under programs of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Relating to the design and issuance of specialty license plates to honor members of the military and for recipients of certain military awards.

Relating to the boundaries of the single-member districts for and vacancies on the board of directors of the Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.

Relating to the organization and operation of the legislative branch of state government.

Relating to access to certain cemeteries.

Relating to the adoption and use of certain performance indicators to measure and evaluate career school or college programs.

Relating to the control of white-tailed deer in certain areas by lethal means.

Relating to the creation of the Honey Creek Improvement District No. 1; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments and fees.

Relating to the creation of the Jarrell Estates 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.

Relating to the name, powers, and duties of the 3 B&J Municipal Utility District.

Relating to the creation of the Williamson County Municipal Utility District No. 49; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.