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| Session | Bill Number | Read Bill | Author | Bill Status Sort descending | Updated | Bill Type | Position | Priority | Caption | Body | |
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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 | 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 |
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| 88_R | HB 2519 | Read Bill | Thompson, Senfronia (D) | Failed: Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety | 2023.03.13 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to law enforcement misconduct and law enforcement interactions with certain detained or arrested individuals and other members of the public, to public entity liability. | Pro-transparency section, but for the most part this will be seen as an anti-law enforcement bill. We shouldn't be associated with it. Let's 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 | HB 4991 | Read Bill | Oliverson, Tom (R) | Failed: Referred to Land & Resource Management | 2023.03.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the regulation of platting and subdivisions of land by a municipality or county. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Same as SB 2037 by Bettencourt |
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| 88_R | SB 1116 | Read Bill | Perry, Charles (R) | Failed: Referred to Local Government | 2023.03.09 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the election of the board of directors of the Terry Memorial Hospital District. | Current language retains existing newspaper notice provisions |
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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 2206 | Read Bill | Parker, Tan (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Local Government | 2023.03.22 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the sale of bonds by certain special purpose districts. | Contains Newspaper Notice - monitor Companion HB 2436 |
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| 88_R | SB 1848 | Read Bill | Hinojosa, Chuy (D) | Failed: Referred to Local Government | 2023.03.20 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the dissolution by election of certain urban area water control and improvement districts. | 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 | SB 985 | Read Bill | Paxton, Angela (R) | Failed: Referred to Local Government Committee | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the method of providing notice for certain municipal zoning changes. | Reid’s input: It looks like SB 985 does eliminate some newspaper notice regarding zoning changes. As Mike pointed out, this notice is currently required when a zoning change occurs within 200 feet of annexed property that doesn’t appear on a municipality’s tax roll. Instead of newspaper notice, a municipality could just send written notice to the most recent address on the tax roll. I’m not sure how often that comes into play. This bill does not change the underlying newspaper notice requirement for zoning regulations and district boundaries in Sec. 211.006(a): Sec. 211.006. PROCEDURES GOVERNING ADOPTION OF ZONING REGULATIONS AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. (a) The governing body of a municipality wishing to exercise the authority relating to zoning regulations and zoning district boundaries shall establish procedures for adopting and enforcing the regulations and boundaries. A regulation or boundary is not effective until after a public hearing on the matter at which parties in interest and citizens have an opportunity to be heard. Before the 15th day before the date of the hearing, notice of the time and place of the hearing must be published in an official newspaper or a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. There is already some leeway given to municipalities in Sec. 211.007, regarding the manner of public notice when a zoning commission is involved: (d) The governing body of a home-rule municipality may, by a two-thirds vote, prescribe the type of notice to be given of the time and place of a public hearing held jointly by the governing body and the zoning commission. If notice requirements are prescribed under this subsection, the notice requirements prescribed by Subsections (b) and (c) and by Section 211.006(a) do not apply. |
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| 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. |
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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 31 | Read Bill | Hinojosa, Gina (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. | Retains current language - 1/4 page legal notice Same as HB 1376, 2841 and SB 263
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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 | 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 |
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| 88_R | HB 962 | Read Bill | Jetton, Jacey (R) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.03.02 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the inclusion of certain information about classroom and student expenditures in the notice of the budget and proposed tax rate meeting of the board of trustees of a school district. | Current language retains existing 1/4-page notice provisions |
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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 2841 | Read Bill | Rogers, Glenn (R) | Failed: Referred to Public Education | 2023.03.14 | 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 1376, and SB 263 |
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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. |