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88_R | HB 2730 | Read Bill | Rosenthal, Jon (D) | Failed: House Passed, withdrawn from Senate Local Calendar | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the adoption and amendment of an annual budget by certain emergency services districts. | Retains current newspaper notice. Need to monitor |
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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 | 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 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 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 | HB 3191 | Read Bill | Spiller, David (R) | Signed by Governor | 2023.06.13 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the elections and operations of certain hospital districts. | Contains newspaper notice - Monitor for Amendments |
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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 3492 | Read Bill | Stucky, Lynn (R) | Sent to Governor | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 0 | Relating to county and municipal authority to impose certain value-based fees and require disclosure of certain information related to subdivision construction. | 3/15/23: Reviewed HB 3492 again. The bill requires counties and municipalities to disclose information related to subdivision construction online. If no website, then publish it in the newspaper. The requirement is new, no newspaper notice is removed in the bill. The bill actually increases transparency. We removed the bill from our list.
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88_R | HB 785 | Read Bill | Swanson, Valoree (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the delivery of certain notices or other communications in connection with guardianship proceedings. | Retains current newspaper notice provisions. |
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88_R | HB 3273 | Read Bill | Thierry, Shawn (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to public notice of the availability on the Internet of property-tax-related information. | Contains public notice language. Amended committee sub retains public notice language. |
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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 3184 | Read Bill | Thompson, Senfronia (D) | See companion SB 1457 (passed into law) | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to guardianships and the delivery of certain notices or other communications in connection with guardianship proceedings. | Contains newspaper notice language, Companion is SB 1457 by Zaffirini
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88_R | HB 2371 | Read Bill | Turner, Chris (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Support | 2 | 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. TPA registered card of support for bill on 3/2823 |
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88_R | SB 875 | Read Bill | West, Royce (D) | Failed: Referred to Criminal Justice | 2023.03.01 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to a criminal justice system pretrial and sentencing database established by the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System. | This sets up a public database, but “deidentifies suspects on the database. Companion is HB 2043 by Bowers. 3/23 Met with folks from the Bail Project and the Texas ACLU. They explained that this bill will be useful for investigative reporters who are doing statistical analyses of bail practices, and that the aggregated “deidentified” data doesn’t endanger public access to identities of suspects through the usual normal channels. We do not need to take a position |
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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 |
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88_R | HB 3699 | Read Bill | Wilson, Terry (R) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.06.18 | Public Notice | Monitor | 0 | Relating to municipal regulation of subdivisions and approval of subdivision plans or plats. | 3/15/23 Reviewed HB 3699 again. We concluded that the bill does not remove any current newspaper notice, but rather increases transparency in municipal approval of subdivision plans by putting certain documentation online. We removed bill from our list. |
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88_R | SB 1457 | Read Bill | Zaffirini, Judith (D) | Passed: Signed by Governor, effective 9/1/23 | 2023.05.24 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to guardianships and the delivery of certain notices or other communications in connection with guardianship proceedings. | Contains Newspaper Notice language Companion is HB 3184 by Senfronia Thompson |
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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. |