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| Session | Bill Number | Read Bill | Author Sort descending | Bill Status | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority | Caption | Body | |
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| 88_R | HB 1566 | Read Bill | Allison, Steve (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the ad valorem taxation of residential real property. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page notice provision |
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| 88_R | SB 818 | Read Bill | Alvarado, Carol (D) | Signed by Governor | 2023.05.19 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the disposition of real property interests by navigation districts and port authorities. | This eliminates notice requirements for sale or gift of small pieces of public property to Navigation Districts and Port Authorities for rights-of-way, etc. Not worth fighting over but let’s monitor. |
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| 88_R | HB 3881 | Read Bill | Bell, Cecil (R) | Failed: Reported from committee as substituted | 2023.03.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to board of directors meeting locations of certain rural area water districts. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
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| 88_R | HB 5134 | Read Bill | Bell, Cecil (R) | Failed: Referred to House Ways and Means | 2023.03.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Same as HB 215, HJR 196 |
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| 88_R | HJR 196 | Read Bill | Bell, Cecil (R) | Referred to House Ways and Means | 2023.03.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from ad valorem taxation the total market value of the residence homesteads of certain elderly persons and their surviving spouses. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Same as HB 215, HB 5134, HJR 13 |
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| 88_R | HB 1505 | Read Bill | Bell, Keith (R) | See SB 1397 | 2023.03.23 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. | Sunset Bill for TCEQ Companion is SB 1397 by Schwertner |
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| 88_R | HB 117 | Read Bill | Bernal, Diego (D) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that a school district may impose on certain residence homesteads following a substantial school tax increase. | Current Language retains existing 1/4-page public notice (Refile of HB 183 from last session) |
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| 88_R | HB 135 | Read Bill | Bernal, Diego (D) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page public notice |
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| 88_R | SB 1487 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, referred to House Ways & Means | 2023.04.25 | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the electronic delivery of certain communications required or permitted under the Property Tax Code. | Need to monitor, includes a committee substitute Companion is HB 1609 by Hugh Shine |
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| 88_R | SB 2067 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Referred to Local Government | 2023.03.21 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the public sale of real property taken in execution of a judgment. | Meet with author to amend. Reid's review: There is a notice requirement for these sales in Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 647: The time and place of sale of real estate ... shall be ... published ... three consecutive weeks ...in newspaper. This bill gives commissioners courts authority to set rules for online auctions and might pose a threat to public notice. Have author add a provision that this bill does not trump the requirements of Rule 647. Companion is HB 1382 by Ana Hernandez. 3/21 met with Hernandez chief of staff - bill does not affect public notice.
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| 88_R | SB 2431 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Referred to Senate Local Government | 2023.04.05 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the Harris County Flood Control District. | Contains newspaper notice - Monitor |
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| 88_R | SB 2037 | Read Bill | Bettencourt, Paul (R) | Failed: Bill Pronounced Dead by Procedural Action | 2023.05.22 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the regulation of platting and subdivisions of land by a municipality or county. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion is HB 4991 by Oliverson |
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| 88_R | HB 4771 | Read Bill | Bhojani, Salman (F) (D) | Failed: Passed House, died in Senate Local Government | 2023.05.16 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation of tenant legal services offices by local governments to assist low-income residential tenants in eviction cases and in cases involving discrimination based on the tenants' disabilities. | Go See Author - He agreed to change "or" to "AND."
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| 88_R | SB 1419 | Read Bill | Birdwell, Brian (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, referred to House Ways and Means | 2023.05.04 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to limitations on the use of public money under certain economic development agreements or programs adopted by certain political subdivisions. | Creates new notice Companion is HB 4940 |
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| 88_R | SB 543 | Read Bill | Blanco, Cesar (D) | Filed without Governor’s Signature, effective date 5/24/23 | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the conveyance of property by a municipality for the public purpose of economic development. | Adds newspaper notice provision. Monitor for amendments. Same bill as HB 1492 |
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| 88_R | HB 4484 | https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB04484I.pdf#navpanes=0 | Bonnen, Greg (R) | Failed: Referred to Energy Resources | 2023.03.21 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the ownership of the pore space underlying the surface of land and to the use of that space for the geologic storage of carbon dioxide. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion SB 2107 by Nichols |
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| 88_R | HB 2043 | Read Bill | Bowers, Rhetta (D) | Failed: Bill Pronounced Dead by Procedural Action | 2023.05.10 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a criminal justice system pretrial and sentencing database established by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System. | Need more info. This sets up a public database, but “deidentifies suspects on the database. Companion is SB 875 by West 3/21 met with Natoya who suggests we set up meeting w/ Andre Treiber, chief of staff to get better understanding of bill. Need to set appointment soon.
3/23 Met with folks from the Bail Project and the Texas ACLU. They explained that this bill will be useful for investigative reporters who are doing statistical analyses of bail practices, and that the aggregated “deidentified” data doesn’t endanger public access to identities of suspects through the usual normal channels. We do not need to take a position |
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| 88_R | HB 3422 | Read Bill | Bryant, John (D) | Failed: House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the correction or removal of certain obsolete provisions of the Property Code. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion SB 1768 by Creighton |
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| 88_R | HB 4032 | Read Bill | Bryant, John (D) | Failed: House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | Courts & Judiciary Bills | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the reporting of depositions by court reporters and the deposition transcripts. | "Secure digital original" means an original digital deposition transcript in a readable format that cannot be altered, printed, or saved. |
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| 88_R | HB 348 | Read Bill | Bucy, John (D) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page public notice |