Billmonitor 2023

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Session Bill Number Read Bill Author Bill Status Updated Bill Type Position Priority Caption Body
88_R   HB 4717 Read Bill Cortez, Philip (D) Failed: Referred to Ways & Means 2023.03.22 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities that provide child care.

This bill preserves newspaper notice to establish such a tax. The bill requires an election to conform to Section 775.018, which cross-references Elections Code 4.003, and that section requires newspaper notice. This bill would require more disclosure in the notice, but wouldn’t change the newspaper requirement
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.
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. 
88_R   hb 4852 Read Bill Harrison, Brian (R) Failed: Referred to Ways & Means 2023.03.23 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the form of a notice of public hearing on a proposed ad valorem tax rate.

Monitor for possible malignant amendments. Reid: "This bill doesn’t appear to affect how notice is provided. The Tax Code already makes the notices newspaper-optional: (c)  The notice of a public hearing under this section may be delivered by mail to each property owner in the taxing unit, or may be published in a newspaper.  If the notice is published in a newspaper, it may not be in the part of the paper in which legal notices and classified advertisements appear.  If the taxing unit publishes the notice in a newspaper, the taxing unit must also post the notice prominently on the home page of the Internet website of the taxing unit from the date the notice is first published until the public hearing is concluded."
88_R   HB 4844 Read Bill Herrero, Abel (D) Passed: Filed without signature by Governor, effective 9/1/23 2023.06.18 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the use of a broker for the sale of real property by the Nueces County Hospital District.

Contains Newspaper Notice - Monitor
Committee sub retains newspaper notice.
Companion SB 2056
88_R   SB 2056 Read Bill Hinojosa, Chuy (D) See companion HB 4844 sent to governor 2023.05.24 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the use of a broker for the sale of real property by the Nueces County Hospital District.

Contains newspaper notice - Monitor

Companion is HB 4844
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
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
88_R   SB 2370 Campbell, Donna (R) Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 2023.06.18 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the provision of emergency services in Comal County Water Improvement District No. 3.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor

Amendments add bracketing, but retain notice.
88_R   SB 2301 Read Bill West, Royce (D) Failed: Referred to Education 2023.03.22 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the use of average enrollment for purposes of the public school finance system.

Contains newspaper notice - monitor
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
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
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
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
88_R   HJR 13 Read Bill Johnson, Jarvis (D) Filed 2022.11.14 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 SB 215, SB 5124, HJR 196
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
88_R   SB 2053 Read Bill Hancock, Kelly (R) Failed: Passed Local Government, Set on Senate Calendar for 5/3 2023.05.02 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the disposition of burial spaces and abandoned plots in certain cemeteries in the possession and control of a municipality.

Good newspaper notice language introduced. We might consider moving to 2+ if the bill gets a hearing. 

Companion HB 2371
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
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
88_R   SB 1768 Read Bill Creighton, Brandon (R) Signed by Governor 2023.05.29 Public Notice Monitor 3 Relating to the correction or removal of certain obsolete provisions of the Property Code.

Contains newspaper notice - Monitor

Companion HB 3422