Texas Bills and Legislation

Relating to certain disqualifications from operating a commercial motor vehicle.

Relating to county and municipal regulation of automated external defibrillators.

Relating to the use of certain compensation arrangements in contracts between certain health benefit plan issuers for the provision of health care services to insureds and enrollees.

Relating to an exemption from abortion restrictions for unemancipated minors and the repeal of provisions regarding notice and consent to those abortions.

Relating to the definition of child neglect and to the appointment of the Department of Family and Protective Services and a child's parent or legal guardian as joint managing conservators of the child.

Relating to abnormal skin growth education for certain occupational license holders and to the liability of those license holders and their employers for certain medical referrals.

Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid to certain individuals under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Relating to the persons entitled to request a public hearing from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality related to the construction of a concrete plant.

Relating to the use by a political subdivision of public funds to pay bail bonds.

Relating to requiring state contractors, political subdivisions of this state, and private employers to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify; creating civil penalties.

Relating to the date of an automatic election to approve the tax rate of a school district.

Relating to the permitting and inspection of mobile food units.

Relating to the unlawful acquisition, purchase, and transfer of certain weapons; creating a criminal offense; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to acceptable forms of identification for voting.

Relating to the purchase of or acquisition of title to real property by foreign organizations.

Relating to prohibitions on lobbyists making certain expenditures and gifts to public servants.

Relating to a suit for possession of or access to a child by a grandparent.

Relating to the authority of a property owners' association to assess a fine for discolored vegetation or turf during a period of residential watering restriction.

Relating to the provision of counseling services by certain providers under Medicaid and reimbursement for those services.

Relating to the name and governance of the Railroad Commission of Texas.

Relating to the authority of certain counties to restrict sex offenders from child safety zones in certain portions of the unincorporated area of the county; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the prohibited performance of certain procedures affecting cat claw functioning; providing a civil penalty.

Relating to the protection of free speech rights at institutions of higher education, including the prosecution of the offenses of trespass, damage, and defacement at certain institutions of higher education, and criminal trespass.

Relating to equalizing compensation for certain wrongfully imprisoned persons.