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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 |
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88_R | HB 4771 | Read Bill | Bhojani, Salman (F) (D) | Failed: Passed House, died in Senate Local Government | 2023.05.16 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation of tenant legal services offices by local governments to assist low-income residential tenants in eviction cases and in cases involving discrimination based on the tenants' disabilities. | Go See Author - He agreed to change "or" to "AND."
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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 |
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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 |
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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 | SB 767 | Read Bill | Parker, Tan (F) (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, Dead by Procedural Action in House | 2023.05.23 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to notice requirements for certain municipal fees and the process to adopt a municipal budget that includes the use of revenue from those fees. | Reid’s comments: “There does not appear to be any requirement for public notice of a municipal fee, so SB 767 would not directly displace any existing notice requirements. There are, of course, newspaper notice requirements for a municipal budget hearing. The bill does not affect those, and actually uses that deadline as the statutory deadline for when email notice must be provided. See proposed Sec. 110.002(d)(3)(A). As Donnis pointed out, the real threat here is that the bill is amended to displace public notice, or that these email notices become commonplace and eventually replace public notice. It’s definitely worth keeping an eye on this one. It might be worth reaching out to Senator Parker too, if you all have an existing relationship with him or think that would be productive.” Committee sub replaces the 18 point type requirement with simply boldface or underline. |
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88_R | SB 1658 | Read Bill | Hinojosa, Chuy (D) | Failed: Passed Senate, House Calendar 5/23 | 2023.05.21 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the collection and disclosure of certain public information. | This bill would increase access to public information by eliminating some of the privileges that currently allow for withholding. The “basic information” piece would make clear that basic information about an incident (which the press has a right to) is not limited to just arrests and crimes, but would apply to incidents that don’t necessarily result in an arrest. The last section regarding “video” would ensure that audio recordings aren’t subject to the stricter standards for releasing body cams. Companion is HB 3334 by Canales. |
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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 | 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 | SB 1419 | Read Bill | Birdwell, Brian (R) | Failed: Passed Senate, referred to House Ways and Means | 2023.05.04 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to limitations on the use of public money under certain economic development agreements or programs adopted by certain political subdivisions. | Creates new notice Companion is HB 4940 |
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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. |
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88_R | SB 1714 | Read Bill | Perry, Charles (R) | Failed: Referred to Business & Commerce | 2023.03.16 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the consequences of a criminal conviction on a person's eligibility for an occupational license. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor |
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88_R | SB 1067 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Criminal Justice | 2023.03.03 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the consideration of certain information by a parole panel in determining whether to release an inmate on parole. | Contains new newspaper notice language. Watch for amendments Companion is HB 2805 |
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88_R | SB 461 | Read Bill | Parker, Tan (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Criminal Justice | 2023.02.17 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the confidentiality of home address information for victims of child abduction. | Home address confidentiality - child abduction |
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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 | SB 690 | Read Bill | Middleton, Mayes (F) (R) | Failed: Referred to Education | 2023.02.17 | Open Records | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the appointment of an inspector general for education and the creation of a division of inspector general for education in the governor's office to investigate the administration of public education. | Need to visit with Middleton. This bill would establish an investigator general for education, but any document the I.G. investigates is not to be released under the PIA - so that would include a document that would otherwise be readily available to the public, such as a budget, a checkbook register, etc. 3/21: met with legislative director - explained error, he will get it fixed. |
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88_R | HB 4484 | https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/pdf/HB04484I.pdf#navpanes=0 | Bonnen, Greg (R) | Failed: Referred to Energy Resources | 2023.03.21 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the ownership of the pore space underlying the surface of land and to the use of that space for the geologic storage of carbon dioxide. | Contains newspaper notice - monitor Companion SB 2107 by Nichols |
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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."
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88_R | SB 746 | Read Bill | Hughes, Bryan (R) | Failed: Referred to Health and Human Services | 2023.03.01 | Public Notice | Monitor | 3 | Relating to the creation and operation of pediatric long-term care access assurance program in certain counties. | Adds a public notice - watch for amendments Companion bill is HB 1185 |