Texas Bills and Legislation

Relating to the use of adaptive model data analytics software by the independent organization certified to manage the ERCOT power region.

Relating to the permitting of renewable energy generation facilities by the Public Utility Commission of Texas; authorizing fees.

Relating to the authority of certain entities and individuals to prevent individuals from accessing private property for the purpose of registering voters or communicating political messages.

Providing for the display of the Ten Commandments in the house chamber.

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the governor to call the legislature into special session on petition of at least two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature.

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Mental Health and Brain Research Institute of Texas and the Mental Health and Brain Institute Research Fund to provide funding for scientific research of mental health issues and human brain diseases and disorders.

Relating to leave for state employees for prenatal care.

Relating to open meetings and public information training for certain public officials and attorneys regarding the open meetings and public information laws.

Relating to limitations on the age of individuals allowed to enter the premises of a smoke shop; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to a limitation on increases in the appraised value of real property for ad valorem tax purposes.

Relating to requirements regarding certain behavior management for a student enrolled in a special education program of a public school.

Relating to a franchise tax credit for taxable entities that purchase certain theft deterrent and property loss prevention equipment.

Relating to the unauthorized entry, occupancy, sale, rental, lease, advertisement for sale, rental, or lease, or conveyance of real property, including the removal of certain unauthorized occupants of a dwelling; creating criminal offenses; increasing a criminal penalty; authorizing a fee.

Relating to a patient's access to health records and access to and exchange of certain health benefit plan information; authorizing a civil penalty; authorizing fees.

Relating to the contents of a trust accounting.

Relating to the registration of voters at a polling place and related procedures.

Relating to the regulation of certain facilities that store and distribute benzene or another volatile organic compound; creating a criminal offense.

Relating to the effect of certain reductions in a health benefit plan enrollee's out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs that are essential health benefits on the enrollee's cost-sharing requirements.

Relating to the terms and conditions of a standard possession order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.

Relating to sales and use tax exemptions and refunds for certain tangible personal property used to provide cable television services, Internet access services, or telecommunications services.

Relating to a defendant's eligibility for reduction or termination of community supervision.

Relating to the database of state expenditures maintained by the comptroller of public accounts.

Relating to the use of a high occupancy vehicle lane by an operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant.

Relating to requiring a national instant criminal background check in connection with private firearm transfers; creating a criminal offense.