Grants jurisdiction to a county court at law in Tarrant County on any civil appeal from a municipal court in the County.
Strengthens parental consent for abortions for minors.
Removes the Texas Health Services Authority from statute on September 1, 2021, allowing it to function as a private nonprofit corporation after that date
Reduces the franchise tax rate by 25%.
Creates a Class A misdemeanor offense for the intentional publication of intimate visual material which are explicit images that are disclosed by a former spouse or partner who is seeking revenge.
Creates new Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs and expands existing programs to address GME shortages.
Makes adjustments the schedule for agencies undergoing Sunset review.
Continues the Department of Family and Protective Services.
Requires medical examiners or justices of the peace to develop a written policy to request a waiver of the 24 hour waiting period for cremation.
Clarifies Health and Human Services statutes.
Transfers functions of the Texas Council on Purchasing from People with Disabilities to the Texas Workforce Commission.
Authorizes Denton County to inspect commercial vehicles.
Establishes the Texas Women Veterans Program.
Requires a state agency to establish rules for employee tuition reimbursement payments.
Creates a committee made up of six members to provide a biannual reports to the legislature that includes the amount of money expended from the deferred maintenance fund.
Requires courts appointing attorneys, guardians ad litem, and mediators to prepare a report regarding payments and work hours.
Protects child victims and the sensitive evidence collected in child abuse cases at Child Advocacy Centers.
Continues the HHSC Office of Inspector General.
Eliminates 16 professional taxes and reduces the reliance on dedicated accounts for budget certification.
Prohibits Pharmacy Benefit Managers from charging pharmacies transaction fees.
Provides property tax relief by increasing homestead exemption from $15,000 to $25,000.
Creates a grant program at the Health and Human Services Commission to support community programs for veterans mental health.
Allows a city to extend its crime control and prevention boundaries to areas in its extraterritorial jurisdiction through a referendum of voters.
Dedicates a portion of vehicle sales tax to the State Highway Fund.
Allows an individual with a CHL to immediately exit a TSA screening checkpoint, in an airport, upon realizing or being notified that they are carrying a handgun.
Protects personal information of drivers using toll facilities or public transportation.
Requires Lewisville approval before expanding Camelot Landfill.
Establishes a responsible budget for Texas.
Continues the Texas Workforce Commission and transfers to it Vocational Rehab programs.
Grants road building authority to Canyon Falls MUD 1 of Denton Co.
Gives Hickory Creek a seat on the Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority Board.
Increases transparency, accountability and oversight of state agency contracts.
Transfers contracting responsibility of The Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas and Court Appointed Child Advocates from the Office of Attorney General to the Health and Human Services Commission.
Increases a grant cap to better position military communities to fund the appropriate and necessary projects to avoid closure and provide economic security.
Makes supplemental appropriations.
Limits the liability of a railroad that enters into a contract with Denton County Transportation Authority to provide public passenger rail service, makes conforming changes to align with the Property Code, and clarifies contracting authority.
Adds freestanding emergency medical care facilities to the list of Safe Havens for abandoned infants.
Authorizes the Texas Division of Emergency Management to purchase food and beverages for its employees when they are providing services in response to a disaster.
Directs Secretary of State to develop an interstate voter crosscheck system to prevent duplicate voter registrations in multiple states.
Requires public institutions of higher education to post mental health resources available to students on its website.
Allows the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Board to post its meeting notices electronically at its administrative offices.
Ensures that the state is the payer of last resort for daycare services for kinship caregivers and foster parents.
Requires the Department of State Health Services to provide timely and clear guidance on state food regulations to individuals and businesses upon request.
Prevents fraud and better assists the Health and Human Services Commission in determining eligibility for its programs by cross-referencing information of program applicants with social security numbers from the Department of Public Safety.
Directs the Department of Family and Protective Services to seek an appropriate waiver to allow the agency to utilize federal funds for prevention and reunification projects.
Eliminates duplicative state regulation of dental laboratories in Texas.
Establishes School Health Advisory Council Subcommittees to make recommendations to school boards on how to increase physical activity and improve school fitness among students.
Removes administrative barriers to allow DFPS to create a mentoring program for parents in the CPS system.
Fixes typographical errors and clarify ambiguous references in law relating to crime victims so that these acts can be carried out as intended.
Gives peace officers and judges more authority to enforce communicable disease control measures.
Aligns meningitis vaccine requirements for college students with Centers for Disease Control recommendations and national best practices.
Allows small brewers to devote a small amount of their annual production limit for direct sales to consumers. Sales to consumers will be dedicated for responsible, on-premise consumption and could not exceed 5,000 barrels annually.
Allows filing of a protective order in the county where the domestic violence offense occurred.
Raises production limit for brewpubs to 10,000 Barrels up from 5,000. Allows Self-Distribution of 1,000 Barrels.
Requires the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services to evaluate family cost sharing provisions in the Early Childhood Intervention program and implement changes to increase the cost effectiveness family cost sharing.
Improves the coordination of Medicaid long-term services and supports with acute care services, redesigns the LTSS system to more efficiently serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and expands on quality-based payment initiatives to promote high-quality, efficient care throughout Medicaid.
Adds a drug-testing eligibility requirement for applicants to receive unemployment compensation benefits.
Designates the month of April as Water Safety Month.
Closes the final loophole in child-care background checks and allows Child Care Licensing (CCL) to focus on high-risk providers.
Requires that data submitted by healthcare facilities to the Department of State Health Services regarding Healthcare Associated Infections specify whether an infection resulted in the death of a patient while hospitalized and requires the Department to make this information available to the public.
Requires the Department of State Health Services to educate low-income individuals applying for health services about the availability of coverage and subsidies through the Health Insurance Exchange and requires individuals who are applying to receive services through the Department to certify that they do not have access to private insurance that covers those services.
Allows for CPS to create an alternate track for low-risk cases to promote collaboration with families and to ensure child safety.
Ensures that the CPS caseworker consult with the CASA, guardian ad litem, and attorney ad litem prior to changing a child's CPS placement, except in cases of emergency.
Allows minors who are pregnant or already have children to consent to their own immunizations.
Allows students and school district staff to offer traditional greetings regarding winter celebrations, including "Merry Christmas," "Happy Hanukkah," and "happy holidays."
Expands protections for patients at our state hospitals by increasing oversight, employee training, and strengthening abuse and neglect reporting requirements.
Directs that records of a nonprofit foundation supporting CPRIT is subject to the Open Records Act.
Prohibits a public or private institution of higher education from adopting or enforcing any rule, regulation or other provision prohibiting individuals with a valid concealed handgun license attending the institution from storing a legal handgun in their locked vehicle while parked on campus.
Allows active and retired military physicians to provide charitable care to uninsured Texans through a "military limited volunteer license" issued by the Texas Medical Board.
Directs the Department of Family and Protective Services and the Department of State Health Services to conduct a study on certain children who test positive for alcohol and controlled substances.
Requires that CPS managers, whether newly hired or promoted, complete CPS manager training before beginning this position. The training must assist managers develop skills to manage employee workloads, manage a mobile workforce, and implement operational policies.
Protects individuals receiving services through programs administered by DADS from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Prohibits the use of public-private partnerships in the Capitol complex.
Allows the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) to obtain background checks for blind individuals enrolled in Vocational Rehabilitation.
Requires funding formulas for regional and local health departments to be based on local needs, and requires an evaluation of how to best utilize public health funding.
Requires HHSC to make recommendations to the Legislature to address mental health workforce shortages in this state.
Establishes neonatal and maternal level of care designations for hospitals.
Clarifies that there is not a conflict of interest when a prosecutor assists a domestic violence victim in obtaining protective orders, even if that victim may be involved in a CPS case in which the prosecutor's office is representing DFPS and the victim is a defendant.
Prohibits psychiatric care facilities from hiring psychological nursing assistants, commonly known as psych techs, who have committed serious crimes and requires the Department of State Health Services to maintain an employee misconduct registry for psych techs.
Creates a uniform and consistent donation policy for the Department of Aging and Disability Services.
Strengthens the prescription program to deter abuse and addiction.
Authorizes Fort Worth to create a project financing zone to improve the Coliseum and Convention Center.
Enhances the state's ability to detect and prevent fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid and across the health and human services system.
Gives SBOE oversight over any service or product by an educational service center (ESC) that is curriculum-related, including instructional materials and curriculum management materials, including CSCOPE.
Requires all newborns to receive a test for congenital heart disease prior to the newborn's release from the hospital unless the parents opt-out.
Requires the Health and Human Services Commission to work with community-based organizations to encourage individuals receiving benefits through Medicaid, TANF, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to access existing online resources that provide nutrition and wellness education and promote healthy lifestyles.
Defines a term of two years for the Office of the Ombudsman for the State Supported Living Centers.
Allows a judge to order that juveniles in the juvenile justice system be screened for chemical dependency.
Strengthens licensure requirements for emergency medical services (EMS) providers.
Expands the list of victims who are eligible for early lease termination to include individuals who are being stalked; victims of attempted assault or abuse; and victims of indecency with a child and sexual performance with a child.
Expands data collection from universities in Texas to include information about what type of human stem cell research is being conducted and how it is funded.
Requires judges, before approving the dismissal of a CPS suit, to consider whether any preexisting child support, visitation, or other issues impacting the welfare of children would continue or new orders would be issued.
Creates a felony criminal offense for continuous violation of a protective order.
Gives counties and municipalities the authority to treat stagnant water located on abandoned or foreclosed properties with a mosquito larvicide in order to prevent the spread of West Nile Virus.
Makes clarifying changes and updates to the Board of Nursing’s regulation of nurses to improve the practice of nursing and patient safety.
This bill creates a new specialty license plate specific to the Afghanistan theater of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Sets a new annual beer/ale production limit of 125,000 barrels and extends the rights afforded to in-state brewers permit holders to their out-of-state counterparts. Limits the amount of ale that a manufacturer can self-distribute to no more than 40,000 barrels annually.
Ensures that nursing facility licensure fees reflect the cost of regulation, aligns Alzheimer's certification with the three-year licensure cycle, and increases accountability in the Medicaid bed allocation process.
Protects children's credit scores by requiring credit reporting agencies, at the request of a parent, to create a credit file for a child under the age of 16.
Clarifies that a "license holder" under the Medical Practice Act includes a person holding a license, permit, or certificate to practice medicine in Texas for purposes of protecting physician's private information.
