Texas Bills and Legislation

Relating to the authority of sheriffs and constables to enter into contracts to provide law enforcement services in certain counties and county financial authority in relation to sheriffs and constables in certain counties.

Relating to procedures regarding certain persons who are or may be persons with a mental illness or intellectual or developmental disability.

Relating to elevator inspection requirements in buildings with four stories or less.

Relating to the selection, prioritization, construction, and funding of transportation projects.

Relating to the required notice regarding the possession of a firearm on the premises of certain businesses; providing an administrative penalty.

Relating to purchase or other acquisition of personal property by a political subdivision.

Relating to prohibitions in connection with certain sales of clothing on an Internet website or software application; providing a civil penalty.

Relating to the continued reimbursement under Medicaid for nursing facilities after a change in ownership.

Relating to academic distinction designations under the public school accountability system and the career and technology allotment under the Foundation School Program.

Relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 79 in Freestone and Leon Counties as the Cecil and Dorothy Bell Memorial Highway.

Relating to the office of inspector general of certain municipalities.

Relating to the exemption of certain municipalities and counties from requirements regarding the use of lifeguards on public beaches.

Relating to the repeal of a provision governing the operation of jail commissaries in certain counties.

Relating to the route designation for the issuance of a permit for the movement of oversize and overweight vehicles in certain counties.

Relating to approved court-ordered alcohol awareness programs.

Relating to the collection of information on available beds at inpatient mental health facilities providing acute psychiatric treatment.

Relating to the transition of the nurse aide certification program from the Health and Human Services Commission to the Texas Board of Nursing and to the creation of a workgroup on nursing career pathways and a panel on nursing program standards.

Relating to an affirmative finding of family violence entered in the trial of certain offenses.

Relating to a policy prohibiting public school employees from assisting a student with social transitioning; authorizing a civil penalty; authorizing injunctive relief.

Relating to an annual report on the financial impact on hospitals for providing certain uncompensated care.

Relating to municipal annexation of an area adjacent to contiguous or connecting railroad rights-of-way.

Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue and certain tax revenue derived from a hotel and convention center project by certain municipalities.

Relating to the transfer of public school students who are children of certain public servants.

Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to issue certain public securities to purchase or lease tangible personal property or purchase, improve, or construct an improvement to real property.