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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 4943 | Read Bill | Kitzman, Stan (F) (R) | Failed: Passed House on Local Calendar | 2023.04.28 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the election of directors in certain special utility districts. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
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| 88_R | SB 1032 | Read Bill | Kolkhorst, Lois (R) | Signed by Governor | 2023.05.16 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to oyster certificates of location and the closure of oyster beds. | Kolkhorst is carrying Todd Hunter's oyster bed bill, except that it ELIMINATES a newspaper notice in favor of a government website. We met with Hunter to correct the notice problem. Senate and House bills will have committee substitutes with corrected language. Hunter's bill is HB 2475. 3/22/23: Senate passed the corrected bill (restoring public notice in newspaper).
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| 88_R | SB 1670 | Read Bill | Lamantia, Morgan (F) (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Open Records | Support | 2 | Relating to required boating incident reports. | Bill increases transparency and allows newspapers access to boating incident reports. Signed card of support |
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| 88_R | hb 1741 | Read Bill | Leach, Jeff (R) | See companion SB 372 | 2023.05.09 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to creating a criminal offense for the unauthorized disclosure of non-public judicial opinions and judicial work product. | Confidentiality of judicial work product See companion SB 372 (passed house and senate) |
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| 88_R | HB 1737 | Read Bill | Leach, Jeff (R) | Failed: Passed House, Committee Action pending in Senate State Affairs | 2023.05.18 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to automatic orders of nondisclosure of criminal history record information for certain misdemeanor defendants following successful completion of a period of deferred adjudication community supervision. | Nondisclosure of criminal history: The tsunami of drug convictions across all socioeconomic groups makes a law like this almost an eventuality. This bill is limited to nonviolent first offenders who keep their noses clean for a defined period afterward. I don’t want TPA to support it, but I don’t want TPA to oppose it either. Companion to SB 499 by Zaffirini |
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| 88_R | HB 2805 | Read Bill | Leo-Wilson, Terri (F) (R) | Failed: Committee Action Pending in House Corrections | 2023.04.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Failed: Relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole. | Contains new newspaper notice language. Watch for amendments Companion is SB 1067 |
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| 88_R | HB 3585 | Read Bill | Leo-Wilson, Terri (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Youth Health & Safety | 2023.03.16 | First Amendment | Monitor | 3 | Relating to restricting access to sexual material harmful to minors on an Internet website. | Targets sexual materials materials to minors on the Internet. Current language excludes news gathering organizations. Identical bill to HB 3570 by Schatzline Companion is SB 2164 |
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| 88_R | HB 2863 | Read Bill | Leo-Wilson, Terri (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.14 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to publication of certain notices on the Internet website of a newspaper. | 3/5/23 We met with Saul Mendoza in Leo-Wilson’s office. Reminded him of our previous meeting regarding HB 2863 and that he was supposed to encourage Leo-Wilson to visit with Hunter about the statewide notice bill (HB 2178). |
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| 88_R | HB 1376 | Read Bill | Lozano, Jose (R) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system. | Retains current language - 1/4 page legal notice Same as HB 31, HB 2841 and SB 263 |
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| 88_R | HB 2457 | Read Bill | Lozano, Jose (R) | Failed: Referred to Urban Affairs | 2023.03.13 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to notice requirements for certain municipal fees and the process to adopt a municipal budget that includes the use of revenue from those fees. | Go see author and see if we can add Newspaper Notice to the bill. Note that he is calling for a website notice with email notification which our statewide site can provide. |
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| 88_R | HB 4940 | Read Bill | Martinez Fischer, Trey (D) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.23 | 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. | Adds new notice Companion SB 1419 |
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| 88_R | hb 2911 | Read Bill | Metcalf, Will (R) | Failed: Referred to Natural Resources | 2023.03.14 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to approval by voters prior to the issuance of revenue bonds by the San Jacinto River Authority. | Refiled from last session (HB 4576). Adds a newspaper notice. |
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| 88_R | HB 4835 | Read Bill | Metcalf, Will (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.01 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation and operations of certain health care provider participation programs. | Creates newspaper notice for hearing Committee sub retains newspaper notice |
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| 88_R | SB 690 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Education | 2023.02.17 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the appointment of an inspector general for education and the creation of a division of inspector general for education in the governor's office to investigate the administration of public education. | Need to visit with Middleton. This bill would establish an investigator general for education, but any document the I.G. investigates is not to be released under the PIA - so that would include a document that would otherwise be readily available to the public, such as a budget, a checkbook register, etc. 3/21: met with legislative director - explained error, he will get it fixed. |
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| 88_R | SB 1067 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Criminal Justice | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole. | Contains new newspaper notice language. Watch for amendments Companion is HB 2805 |
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| 88_R | SB 2557 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Filed | 03/10/2023 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to infrastructure planning and lot frontages in the unincorporated area of certain counties. | Contains Newspaper Notice - Monitor |
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| 88_R | SB 1761 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Local Government | 2023.03.20 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to infrastructure planning and lot frontages in the unincorporated are of certain counties. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Identical to his SB 2557 |
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| 88_R | HB 1360 | Read Bill | Morales Shaw, Penny (D) | Failed: Referred to Environmental Regulation | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a required online posting of certain environmental and water use permit applications. | Reid's comments: "The bill doesn’t outright harm any of the existing public notice requirements in the Water Code. Those are all left intact. The internet posting looks like it’s designed to supplement the public notice, with a requirement that the newspaper notice include a link to the online materials. That said, it’s obviously a move in the direction of online posting (on a governmental site), which could endanger newspaper notice in the future. The bill could also be amended, relatively easily, to dispense with newspaper notice and replace it with online posting. So I think it’s worth keeping an eye on."
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| 88_R | HB 3117 | Read Bill | Morales, Eddie (D) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.14 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the type of newspaper required for the publication of notices by governmental entities or representatives in certain counties. | Trying to get notices into the Eagle Pass newspaper. Amends Gov't Code 2051.0441, counties with no newspaper. Allows local government to name newspaper of record. Same bill was filed last session, but didn’t get a hearing. 3/15/23: Discussed HB 3117, a bill to fix the problem with Eagle Pass and Maverick County notices having to run in San Antonio Express-News, 140 miles away. The bill could present unintended consequences. We suggested they amend the bill to the language that Fannin County used to carve out an exception. Aaron will contact Leg. Council to see about amending. Yvonne will be our contact 512-463-2910. 3/21 Follow up with Yvonne, She is waiting on Leg. Council for committee substitute. Chief of Staff Aaron Gibson requested a carve out like Fannin County has. |
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| 88_R | HB 38 | Read Bill | Murr, Andrew (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.02.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the elimination of certain property taxes for school district maintenance and operations and the provision of public education funding by increasing the rates of certain state taxes. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page notice provisions |