SENATE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

COMMITTEE:     Business & Commerce 

TIME & DATE:   8:00 AM, Tuesday, March 18, 2025 

PLACE:         E1.012 (Hearing Room) 
CHAIR:         Senator Charles Schwertner 

The Committee will meet to consider the following:

SB 264         Perry                  
Relating to discontinuing group self-insurance coverage and dissolving the Texas self-insurance group guaranty fund and trust fund under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.

SB 542         Schwertner             
Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction.

SB 924         Hancock                
Relating to entities that provide cable services or video services.

SB 1008        Middleton | et al.      
Relating to state and local authority to regulate the food service industry.

SB 1029        Nichols                
Relating to the advertising of certain used motor vehicles.

SB 1036        Zaffirini              
Relating to the regulation of residential solar retail transactions; requiring an occupational registration; authorizing fees; providing civil and administrative penalties.

SB 1057        Parker                 
Relating to shareholder proposals submitted to certain domestic corporations.

SB 1058        Parker                 
Relating to the exclusion of certain securities transaction payments from the total revenue of a taxable entity that is an exchange or a member of an exchange for purposes of the franchise tax.

SB 1185        Creighton              
Relating to an exemption from boiler registration and inspection requirements for certain boilers in medical equipment and autoclaves.

SB 1202        King                   
Relating to third-party review of property development documents and inspections of improvements related to those documents, including home backup power installations.

SB 1358        Parker                 
Relating to prohibited local regulations regarding certain late-night and overnight deliveries to food service establishments.

SB 1364        Nichols                
Relating to the repeal of wheelbase and horsepower restrictions for the state's passenger vehicle fleet.

SB 1376        Hughes                 
Relating to the supervision requirements of a code enforcement officer in training.

SB 1569        King                   
Relating to the availability of certain personal information of a member of the governing board of an institution of higher education, the chief executive officer of the institution, or the chief executive officer of a university system.

SB 1664        Schwertner             
Relating to public information regarding the rates of a transmission and distribution utility.

SB 1697        Zaffirini              
Relating to a customer guide to home solar energy devices.

SJR 50         Parker                 
Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the enactment of a law imposing an occupation tax on certain entities that enter into transactions conveying securities or imposing a tax on certain securities transactions.

Public testimony will be limited to 2 minutes. If submitting written testimony, please provide 25 copies to the committee clerk with your name and the bill number on each copy.

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