Protects the rights of an infant who survives an abortion.
Creates an offense for anyone who knowingly misrepresents another person as a family member to a peace officer or federal special investigator at a port of entry.
Reduces any "land use" tax and interest imposed on agricultural or timber land.
Expands the Compassionate Use Act to make patients with additional forms of epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and spasticity eligible for a low-THC cannabis prescription.
Allow STAAR exams to be administered in multiple parts over more than one day.
Reduces property tax growth in Texas by lowering the election rollback tax rate trigger from 8.0 percent to 2.5 percent.
Creates the Texas Infrastructure Resiliency Fund to provide resources for long-term disaster recovery and protection from future events.
Creates a statewide Flood Plan at the Texas Water Development Board.
Makes the TRS fund actuarially sound and will provide a 13th check to retired teachers.
Allows electric cooperatives to use existing electricity easements to erect infrastructure for broadband.
Ensures the lawful expression of free speech at Texas Institutions of Higher Education.
Provides significant recommendations of the Texas Human Trafficking Prevention Task Force.
Raises the legal age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.
Prohibits political subdivisions from providing funding to an abortion provider or affiliate.
Ensures that ballot language is plainly written for each single issue that may be voted on.
Expands the Guardianship Fraud, Abuse, and Exploitation Deterrence Program at the Office of Court Administration.
Provides significant Texas Ethics Commission reforms.
Raises the child victim age from 10 to 15 for an individual to be charged with capital murder.
Closes certain loopholes in the Public Information Act to ensure greater transparency in state government.
Authorizes a teacher to document any conduct by a student that does not conform to the student code of conduct and submit that documentation to the principal.
Prohibits a governmental entity from taking any adverse action against any person based on their membership in, affiliation with, or contribution, donation, or other support provided to a religious organization.
Authorizes counties and cities to transfer a retired law enforcement dog, horse, or other animal to the animal's handler or caretaker.
Constitutionally dedicates the total amount of sporting goods sales tax available to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department each legislative session.
Appropriates $217 billion for the state budget.
Makes changes to emergency leave policies for state employees.
Clarifies and streamlines credentialing requirements for providers seeking to offer targeted case management and rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families.
Adds "sexual assault of the other parent" to the list of convictions that can be considered as grounds for terminating parental rights. Allows judges to require parents whose rights to a child have been terminated due to sexual assault of the other parent to be ordered to financially support the child.
Allows Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Texas to receive surplus or salvage computers and equipment from the state.
Streamlines access to public information by allowing state agencies to respond to information requests with an internet address where requested information may already exist.
Requires the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) board members to file financial disclosure forms extends CPRIT until 2023. Also allows CPRIT board members to serve as non-paid board of directors of grant receiving companies. Removes political donation disclosure requirement for board members.
Prohibits TxDOT from temporarily closing a highway or exit ramp on a state highway if the Department receives notice from a city within 180 days of an event.
Strengthens state law concerning female genital mutilation to include penalties for those who transport or facilitate the transport of a person for FGM and clarifies that consent or custom cannot be used as a defense to prosecution.
Makes changes to cybersecurity protocols and cloud information services for state agencies, including requiring the Texas Department of Information Resources to conduct a risk assessment on agencies information technology.
Further reforms state contracting procedures.
Allows the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), a division within DPS, to use already appropriated funds to purchase food and beverages for personnel when they are responding to an emergency and unable to leave because of the emergency.
Corrects a drafting error, modifies reporting requirements for the Health and Human Services Commission and Transition Legislative Oversight Committee, and continues past efforts to streamline the process for public input through advisory committees.
Protects personal data collected by the airport when it launches its new automated parking system.
Allows all security vehicles at DFW Airport to use universally recognized emergency lighting.
Makes changes to the Denton County Transportation Authority's purchasing and contracting practices.
Exempts county assessor-collectors and local government officials from personal liability when exercising duties authorized under the Property Assessed Clean Energy Act.
Requires DPS to provide the opportunity for a person applying for an original or renewal driver license, commercial driver's license, or personal identification certificate, both in the office and online to voluntarily contribute $1 or more to the evidence testing grant program.
Ensures that military members who are deployed do not lose the agricultural use exemption if the land has a change of use while they are gone, as long as they notify the appraisal office within 30 days of deployment and intend to use the land for the agricultural use within 180 days of returning from deployment.
Codifies the recommendations of the Texas human trafficking task force, including enhanced penalties for traffickers, providing prosecutors with additional tools for prosecution, improving victim protections, and addressing training needs.
Creates ASATR hardship grants, facilities funding for districts and charters, and increases the small district adjustment.
Clarifies what is considered a "production" cost that qualifies for a deduction when calculating businesses' franchise tax liability.
Provides that funds, accounts, and dedications established by bills passed by the 85th Legislature become part of the General Revenue Fund unless they are exempted in this bill.
Removes requirement that the president of UNTHSC be a doctor of osteopathy and allows UNTHSC to offer an allopathic medical degree.
Creates a grant program at the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), to award grants to nonurban health care facilities to connect the facilities with pediatric specialists and subspecialists who provide telemedicine medical services.
Allows public community colleges to invest oil and gas royalties from land it owns according to the investment standard in the Texas Trust Code.
Authorizes the Texas Department of Public Safety to display in a publicly accessible area materials related to driving with autism.
Requires a criminal court to provide three day notice prior to a hearing to the prosecutor and defendant.
Provides explicit authority for a captive insurance company (i.e. Kubota) to insure "credit life insurance and credit disability insurance offered as a part of, or directly relating to, the operational risks of an affiliate".
Permits the Lantana Education Foundation to provide charitable donations to Guyer High School.
Delays payments to ERS to pay for school finance reform in HB 21. Does not take effect if HB 21 passes.
Sets forth certain requirements all state agencies would be required to follow relating to cyber security.
Appropriates $2.6 billion in funding for the budget deficit for FY 16-17.
Requires the Department of Family and Protective Services to refer certain cases to a children's advocacy center for a multidisciplinary approach to joint investigations.
Allows counties to establish an email ballot program for members of the armed forces currently overseas.
Allows a judge to consider felony-level family violence convictions when choosing to issue a protective order in excess of 2 years.
Prohibits public officials convicted of a felony abuse of power from receiving a public pension while serving prison time. Also requires the immediate expulsion from office of a legislator convicted of a felony.
Protects the confidentiality of home addresses for victims of family violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, or stalking by redacting their home addresses from public records.
Reduces the fee for a concealed handgun license.
Creates a grant program administered through the Office of the Governor for police departments to apply for bullet protective vests.
Enhances statutory language concerning inappropriate student teacher relationships, including enhancing penalties.
Ends forced annexation by municipalities in certain sized counties, requiring consent of the majority of property owners registered to vote. Makes other changes to the annexation process.
Prohibits local entities from adopting policies that prohibit or discourage the enforcement of state and federal immigration laws.
Makes changes to the Denton County Transportation Authority's purchasing and contracting practices.
Allows all security vehicles at DFW Airport to use universally recognized emergency lighting.
Protects personal data collected by the airport when it launches its new automated parking system.
Corrects a drafting error, modifies reporting requirements for the Health and Human Services Commission and Transition Legislative Oversight Committee, and continues past efforts to streamline the process for public input through advisory committees.
Allows the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM), a division within DPS, to use already appropriated funds to purchase food and beverages for personnel when they are responding to an emergency and unable to leave because of the emergency.
Further reforms state contracting procedures.
Makes changes to cybersecurity protocols and cloud information services for state agencies, including requiring the Texas Department of Information Resources to conduct a risk assessment on agencies information technology.
Strengthens state law concerning female genital mutilation to include penalties for those who transport or facilitate the transport of a person for FGM and clarifies that consent or custom cannot be used as a defense to prosecution.
Prohibits TxDOT from temporarily closing a highway or exit ramp on a state highway if the Department receives notice from a city within 180 days of an event.
Requires the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) board members to file financial disclosure forms extends CPRIT until 2023. Also allows CPRIT board members to serve as non-paid board of directors of grant receiving companies. Removes political donation disclosure requirement for board members.
Streamlines access to public information by allowing state agencies to respond to information requests with an internet address where requested information may already exist.
Allows Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Texas to receive surplus or salvage computers and equipment from the state.
Adds "sexual assault of the other parent" to the list of convictions that can be considered as grounds for terminating parental rights. Allows judges to require parents whose rights to a child have been terminated due to sexual assault of the other parent to be ordered to financially support the child.
Clarifies and streamlines credentialing requirements for providers seeking to offer targeted case management and rehabilitative services to children, adolescents, and their families.
Makes changes to emergency leave policies for state employees.
Appropriates $217 billion for the state budget.
