Click column title to sort by Bill Number, Status, Author, Date Updated, Type, Position or Priority.
| Session | Bill Number | Sort descending | Read Bill | Author | Bill Status | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority | Caption | Body |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88_R | HB 1093 | Read Bill | Cunningham, Charles (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Natural Resources | 2023.03.02 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to planning and financial responsibility requirements for certain aggregate production operations. | Bill contains new public notice language. Watch for amendments. |
|
| 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) |
|
| 88_R | HB 1185 | Read Bill | Dean, Jay (R) | Failed: Hearing 8:00 am, E2.030 House Human Services 03/28 | 2023.03.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation and operation of pediatric long-term care access assurance programs in certain counties. | Adds a public notice - watch for amendments Companion is SB 746 by Hughes |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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."
|
|
| 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 |
|
| 88_R | HB 1382 | Read Bill | Hernandez, Ana (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | 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 SB 2067 by Bettencourt Met with Hernadez Chief of Staff. Bill does not affect public notice. |
|
| 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 |
|
| 88_R | HB 1492 | Read Bill | Ordaz Perez, Claudia (F) (D) | See companion SB 543 (signed by governor) | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the conveyance of property by a municipality for the public purpose of economic development. | Includes a new newspaper notice provision. Watch for amendments. Same Bill as SB 543 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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). |
|
| 88_R | HB 1511 | Read Bill | Perez, Mary Ann (D) | Failed: Placed on House Calendar for 5/5 | 2023.05.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the disposition of real property interests by navigation districts and port authorities. | Allows port authorities/nav. districts to dispose of slivers of land from survey discrepancies without notice requirements. Perez friendly, don't endanger relationship. Probably not a bill to engage on due to its very limited scale, but definitely need to monitor. |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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.
|
||
| 88_R | HB 1719 | Read Bill | Raymond, Richard (D) | Failed: Referred to State Affairs | 2023.03.07 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to local option elections to legalize or prohibit the operation of eight-liners. | Local elections to legalize 8-liners, requires newspaper notice |
|
| 88_R | HB 1720 | Read Bill | Raymond, Richard (D) | Failed: Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety | 2023.03.07 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the dissemination of criminal history record information by the Department of Public Safety concerning certain intoxication offenses. | Nondisclosure intoxication record |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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) |
|
| 88_R | HB 1765 | Read Bill | Burns, DeWayne (R) | Failed: Passed House on local calendar, referred to Senate Business and Commerce | 2023.05.05 | Open Records | Monitor | 0 | Relating to the redaction of certain information from a document posted on the Internet by a county clerk or district clerk on request of a person to whom the information relates. | Can a clerk just modify a record because someone asks? Reid: "I do think that's what it means. It would have to be someone who fits the definition in 552.114 and would have to be the kind of information that's described there. But if it fits the bill, the this bill would require the clerk to redact at their request. Might be worth having a conversation with the author. 3/15/23 We further reviewed the bill and concluded that the bill did no harm and removed it from our list. |
|
| 88_R | HB 1786 | Read Bill | Burns, DeWayne (R) | Failed: Passed House on local calendar, referred to Senate Business & Commerce | 2023.05.11 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to notice to property owners of the adoption or amendment of certain restrictive covenants. | Bill adds a newspaper notice for property owners association. Committee sub takes that notice away. |