** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:    State Affairs 

TIME & DATE:  8:00 AM, Monday, April 14, 2025 

PLACE:       JHR 120 
CHAIR:       Rep. Ken King 

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Public Testimony may be limited to two (2) minutes.

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HB 45          Hull                                                  
Relating to the duty of the attorney general to prosecute human trafficking criminal offenses.

HB 755         Spiller                                               
Relating to certain requirements applicable to certain public entities that engage in lobbying.

HB 1232        Turner                                                
Relating to the reporting of violations of law under the whistleblower protection laws.

HB 1555        Shaheen                                               
Relating to the creation of a select interim committee to review and make recommendations for substantive changes to ethics laws.

HB 2460        Leach                                                 
Relating to the attorney general's defense of a district or county attorney against certain lawsuits in federal court.

HB 2702        Raymond                                               
Relating to prohibiting certain limitations on the operation of certain organizations that benefit veterans during a declared state of disaster.

HB 2973        Morales, Eddie                                         
Relating to the designation of spaceports as critical infrastructure facilities for purposes of criminal and civil liability.

HB 3120        Kitzman | et al.                                       
Relating to certain duties of the owner or operator of a residential child detention facility.

HB 3225        Alders | et al.                                        
Relating to the prohibition of access by minors to sexually explicit materials in municipal public library collections; providing a civil penalty.

HB 3314        Harris | et al.                                        
Relating to certain energy efficiency performance standards for residential construction.

HB 3356        Patterson                                             
Relating to the applicability of certain generation reliability requirements.

HB 3371        Metcalf | et al.                                       
Relating to the recovery of certain state border security expenditures from the federal government.

HB 3634        Metcalf                                               
Relating to renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

HB 3638        Troxclair                                             
Relating to a preference against state resources being used to compete against private commercial sources.

HB 4247        Metcalf                                               
Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for destruction of a flag.

HB 4283        LaHood                                                
Relating to the penalties imposed on municipalities for violating state law and the state constitution.

HB 4290        Darby                                                 
Relating to a qualifying cogenerator that serves a large load and a colocated desalination facility.

HB 4302        Metcalf                                               
Relating to the recovery of vegetation management costs by electric utilities.

HB 4503        Bonnen                                                
Relating to electronic health record requirements.

HB 4511        Smithee                                               
Relating to wind energy rights and wind energy development agreements.

HB 4565        Curry                                                 
Relating to access to certain law enforcement, corrections, prosecutorial, and civil enforcement records under the public information law.

HB 4581        Guillen                                               
Relating to temporary emergency energy facilities.

HB 4627        McQueeney                                             
Relating to electric service quality and reliability.

HB 4660        Lopez, Janie | et al.                                  
Relating to space flight activities.

HB 4668        King                                                  
Relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to retain assistance for regional proceedings affecting certain electric utilities and consumers.

HB 4960        Phelan                                                
Relating to political advertising distributed or broadcast as part of a mass text message campaign and civil penalties for required disclosures on certain political advertising.

HB 5042        Hayes                                                 
Relating to state preemption of and the effect of certain state health and safety laws on certain municipal and county regulations, including a law providing that an elephant is a dangerous wild animal.

Texas residents who wish to electronically submit comments related to

agenda items on this notice without testifying in person can do so until

the hearing is adjourned by visiting:

https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c450

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Bills deleted after last posting:

HB 4632

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