Texas Bills and Legislation

Relating to unlawful employment practices with respect to compensation and wage history.

Relating to the creation of certain criminal offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows; authorizing a fee.

Relating to the creation of a temporary educator certificate for educators certified by other states.

Relating to procedures regarding hearings and meetings held by or involving the University Interscholastic League.

Relating to the requirements for the revision of a charter for an open-enrollment charter school.

Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.

Relating to the immunization data included in and excluded from the immunization registry.

Relating to the authority of a court to grant a commutation of punishment to certain individuals serving a term of imprisonment.

Relating to the recovery of exemplary damages based on a compensable death under the Texas Workers' Compensation Act.

Relating to the interconnection of the ERCOT power grid to grids outside the ERCOT power region.

Relating to the applicability of lobbyist registration requirements to a person who provides legal services to a political subdivision.

Relating to credit services organizations and extensions of consumer credit facilitated by credit services organizations; increasing a criminal penalty.

Relating to the definition of "eligible school district" for purposes of the study of school district property values conducted by the comptroller of public accounts.

Relating to designating certain substances as Schedule IV controlled substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.

Relating to the issuance of air quality permits for certain facilities located in a nonattainment area.

Relating to the application for funding for certain workforce development programs.

Relating to municipal and county ad valorem tax relief.

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

Relating to the repeal of provisions authorizing certain taxing units in the year following the year in which a disaster occurs to adopt an ad valorem tax rate that exceeds the voter-approval tax rate without holding an election to approve the adopted tax rate; making conforming changes.

Relating to the administration of the University Interscholastic League.

Relating to the requirement that an armed security officer be present at a school district campus.

Relating to an e-cigarette and tobacco use prevention and cessation program established by the Department of State Health Services.

Relating to the adoption of a certain plumbing code by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners.

Relating to requirements for subscription service contracts; providing a civil penalty.