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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 | HB 1609 | Read Bill | Shine, Hugh (R) | Failed: Referred to Ways & Means | 2023.03.07 | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the electronic delivery of certain communications required or permitted under the Property Tax Code. | Need to monitor. Companion is SB 1487 by Bettencourt Donnis: On its face, it appears to be simply a measure to give individual taxpayers a right to choose electronic communications with the tax office rather than written communication. I wonder, though, if the wording is loose enough to encourage a rogue tax official to maintain that it provides cover for using e-notices rather than public notices in a newspaper. Reid's response: I see your concern here, but I think it would be very difficult to argue that public notice falls under these provisions. The bill defines “communication” as something “required or permitted to be delivered” to a property owner. That “delivered” language appears several times throughout the bill. I suppose a rogue official could argue that a newspaper (containing public notices) gets delivered, but I think that would be a real stretch, since public notice is typically discussed in the context of publication, not delivery. And certainly not in the context of delivery to an individual, who could choose to receive that delivery electronically.
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| 88_R | HB 2165 | Read Bill | Guerra, Bobby (D) | Failed: Committee Action Pending in Business & Industry | 2023.04.24 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to requirements for subscription service contracts. | Affects newspaper subscriptions that are on auto-renew. May want to oppose. |
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| 88_R | HB 843 | Read Bill | Patterson, Jared (R) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.01 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a prohibition on the purchase of periodicals by a state agency. | Prohibits state agencies from purchasing periodicals. Bad public policy. Similar to Springer's bill. |
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| 88_R | HB 18 | Read Bill | Slawson, Shelby (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor 6/13/23 | 2023.05.30 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the protection of minors from harmful, deceptive, or unfair trade practices in connection with the use of certain digital services. |
Committee sub reported favorably from committee |
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| 88_R | SB 1397 | Read Bill | Schwertner, Charles (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. | Senate version of Sunset bill for TCEQ. Monitor. Companion is HB 1505 by Keith Bell |
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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 | SB 566 | Read Bill | Springer, Drew (R) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.02.17 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the purchase of periodicals by state agencies and certain state officers and to prohibiting state agencies from providing financial support to the news media. | Need to find out the purpose of this bill. It could be detrimental to newspaper. |
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| 88_R | HB 1509 | Read Bill | Patterson, Jared (R) | Failed: Committee Action Pending House Higher Education | 2023.04.24 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to an annual report on financial support provided by public institutions of higher education to nonprofit media organizations. | See HB 845. This bill requires colleges/universities to report expenditures to non-profit media (Texas Tribune). |
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| 88_R | HB 845 | Read Bill | Patterson, Jared (R) | Failed: Referred to Higher Education | 2023.03.01 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to prohibiting a public institution of higher education from providing financial support to nonprofit media organizations. | Texas Tribune Bill - would limit colleges from donating to non-profit media (Tx Tribune, Texas Newspaper Foundation, Denton Record Chroncile) |
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| 88_R | SB 498 | Read Bill | Johnson, Nathan (D) | Vetoed by Governor | 2023.05.29 | Business | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the operation of statewide technology centers. | The Department of Information Resources: (c) The department by rule shall specify the services a statewide technology center may provide. |
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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 | SB 1044 | Read Bill | Johnson, Nathan (D) | Failed: Passed Senate on local calendar, referred to House Elections | 2023.04.28 | Ethics, Lobbying | Monitor | 3 | Relating to criminal offenses for the creation or distribution of certain misleading images and videos. | Increases penalty for images/video distributed with intent to alter an election outcome |
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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 | SB 2164 | Read Bill | Hughes, Bryan (R) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.22 | 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. Companion to HB 3570 by Schatzline and HB 3570 by Leo-Wilson
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| 88_R | HB 5266 | Read Bill | Zwiener, Erin (D) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.03.24 | First Amendment | Monitor | 3 | Relating to speech protections for student media publications in public schools. | Last session HB 422 was filed by Mary Gonzales. We marked it 1-support because there were publishers who wanted to testify in favor, but the bill never got a hearing. |
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| 88_R | SB 2021 | Read Bill | Paxton, Angela (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, House Calendar 5/23 | 2023.05.21 | First Amendment | Monitor | 3 | Relating to requirements for certain Internet websites containing sexual material harmful to minors. | Targets sexual materials materials to minors on the Internet. Current language excludes news gathering organizations. Similar to HB 3570 and HB 3585. Substitute retains exception for news gathering organizations
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| 88_R | HB 3570 | Read Bill | Schatzline, Nate (F) (R) | Failed: On House Calendar for 5/11 | 2023.05.09 | 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 3585 by Teri Leo-Wilson Companion is SB 2164 |
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| 88_R | HB 5277 | Read Bill | Bucy, John (D) | Failed: Passed House w/ 2 amendments 138-5, Referred to Senate Criminal Justice | 2023.05.10 | Law Enforcement Transparency | Monitor | 3 | Relating to public access to criminal proceedings. | Increases online public access to criminal proceedings. |
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| 88_R | HB 1383 | Read Bill | Rose, Toni (D) | Failed: Passed House, referred to Senate Criminal Justice | 2023.05.05 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to procedures in a criminal case after a defendant is found competent to stand trial and to consequences arising from certain violations of those procedures. | Monitor. If bill gets hearing, file a card of support |