SENATE FLOOR ACTION |
Thursday February 7, 2019 |
Committee referral on the following: |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring legislative approval of the historical narrative for certain exhibits featured at the Alamo or a museum owned or operated by the state. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent authorized under federal constitutional law. Health & Human Services |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase the minimum amount that the state may contribute to the Employees Retirement System of Texas and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. State Affairs |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Sexual Harassment Oversight Commission. State Affairs |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis for medical use. Health & Human Services |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis. Criminal Justice |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the constitutional provision providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage. State Affairs |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the power of the legislature to mandate requirements on a municipality or county. Business & Commerce |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an increased minimum wage. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of an individual income tax. Finance |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the appropriation of the net revenue received from the imposition of state sales and use taxes on sporting goods. Finance |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment increasing the amount of time a person must have been a practicing lawyer or judge to be eligible to serve as a district court judge. State Affairs |
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Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to halt and reverse certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed. State Affairs |
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Urging Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act. State Affairs |
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Designating the second Saturday of September as Quanah Parker Day for a 10-year period beginning in 2019. Administration |
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Relating to the creation of the Texas Mental Health Care Consortium. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to use of an electric cooperative's easements or property for broadband service. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification. State Affairs |
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Relating to parental notification by a school district regarding high school graduation requirements. Education |
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Relating to the issuance of private activity bonds for qualified residential rental projects. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the right to vacate and avoid residential lease liability following the occurrence of family violence. State Affairs |
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Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to propose a fire control, prevention, and emergency medical services district. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the use of certain state property for community food gardens. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the criteria for review by the Sunset Advisory Commission of an agency that licenses an occupation. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to registration and safety requirements for flotation tank facilities; authorizing a fee. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the requirements for meetings of certain special districts. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the issuance of F-35 fighter jet specialty license plates. Transportation |
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Relating to certain required reports received or prepared by state agencies and other governmental entities. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the removal of an obsolete reference regarding open-enrollment charter schools and the State Board of Education. Education |
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Relating to the carrying or storage of a handgun by a school marshal. Education |
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Relating to the number of school marshals that may be appointed to serve on a public school campus or at a private school. Education |
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Relating to the authority of the office of capital and forensic writs to refuse to accept certain referrals for good cause. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the composition and duties of the capital and forensic writs committee. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to criminal asset forfeiture proceedings. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to investment training requirements for school district and municipal financial officers. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the automatic admission to general academic teaching institutions and eligibility for certain scholarships of a student who is the valedictorian of the student's high school graduating class. Higher Education |
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Relating to civil liability for removing certain animals from a motor vehicle. State Affairs |
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Relating to courses offered jointly by public junior colleges and independent school districts. Education |
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Relating to a cost-of-living adjustment applicable to certain benefits paid by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. State Affairs |
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Relating to expedited proceedings in cases involving dangerously damaged or deteriorated or substandard buildings or improvements in a municipality. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to court appointment of a receiver for a property that is in violation of certain municipal ordinances. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to minimum education requirements for child protective services caseworkers. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to a requirement that public institutions of higher education provide certain information regarding certain women's health programs to students. Higher Education |
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Relating to the authority to establish a customer assistance program for certain municipally owned utilities. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to anatomical gifts. State Affairs |
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Relating to the disposition and removal of a decedent's remains. State Affairs |
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Relating to access to a residence or former residence to retrieve personal property by persons who are parties to certain suits and decrees. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to written agreements incident to divorce or annulment. State Affairs |
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Relating to court-ordered support for a child with a disability. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the protection of certain information from disclosure in suits affecting the parent-child relationship and to service of process in those suits on a party whose information is protected from disclosure. State Affairs |
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Relating to the issuance of a protective order by default. State Affairs |
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Relating to temporary orders during the pendency of an appeal in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. State Affairs |
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Relating to notice regarding summer weekend possession of a child under a standard possession order in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. State Affairs |
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Relating to certain rights of the sole managing conservator of a child in relation to the child's passport. State Affairs |
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Relating to the prescriptive authority of certain psychologists; authorizing a fee. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the prosecution of the offense of fraudulent use or possession of identifying information. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the practice of certain advanced practice registered nurses who are military veterans; authorizing a fee. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to authority for certain state employees to work flexible hours and to work from home or other authorized alternative work sites. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to certain disclosures of electronic toll collection customer account information by a toll project entity. Transportation |
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Relating to the operation and movement of motorcycles on certain highways during periods of traffic congestion. Transportation |
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Relating to the driver responsibility program; reducing the amounts of surcharges. Transportation |
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Relating to the appointment of the chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education or university system. Higher Education |
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Relating to the registration of voters at a polling place and related procedures. State Affairs |
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Relating to the use of direct recording electronic voting machines. State Affairs |
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Relating to prohibiting making, or encouraging or inducing another to make, silent or abusive calls to a 9-1-1 service or public safety answering point; creating a criminal offense. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to completion and submission of a financial aid application for costs of higher education as a condition of high school graduation for public school students. Education |
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Relating to powers and duties of the board of trustees of an independent school district. Education |
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Relating to the use of respectful terminology in provisions of Texas statutes relating to the deaf community. Administration |
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Relating to the allocation of money associated with delays of transportation projects. Transportation |
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Relating to the applicability of the law governing the provision of state aid to certain local governments disproportionately affected by the granting of ad valorem tax relief to disabled veterans. Finance |
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Relating to disciplinary proceedings applicable to a licensed forensic analyst. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to information and outreach regarding hurricane preparedness and mitigation. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the power of certain counties to enact park use rules. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the availability of free prekindergarten programs in public schools. Education |
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Relating to the authority of a county assistance district to impose a sales and use tax. Finance |
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Relating to natural disaster housing recovery. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to mosquito control districts established for an urgent public health purpose. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the establishment of a human trafficking unit within the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to expansion of a pilot program under the foundation school program for funding prekindergarten programs provided by certain school districts with early high school graduation programs. Education |
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Relating to improving training and staff development for primary and secondary educators to enable them to more effectively serve all students. Education |
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Relating to abolishing the death penalty. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the unlawful restraint of a dog; creating a criminal offense. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the abolition of student loan default or breach of a student loan repayment or scholarship contract as a ground for nonrenewal or other disciplinary action in relation to a professional or occupational license and to certain duties of state agencies and political subdivisions in relation to delinquent or defaulted student loans. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the disposition of fines for traffic violations collected by certain municipalities. Transportation |
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Relating to the dissemination of information about historically underutilized businesses and the expansion of the small business development center network. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to a notification requirement if a public school, including an open-enrollment charter school, does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional hours. Education |
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Relating to indefinite quantity contracts for the provision of certain services to declared disaster areas following a natural disaster. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to limits on the size of prekindergarten classes in public schools. Education |
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Relating to a sales tax exemption for certain items sold during a limited period. Finance |
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Relating to providing free access to telephone services for persons confined in county jail pending trial. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to reporting and disseminating information regarding public school disciplinary actions. Education |
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Relating to a defense to prosecution for certain offenses involving possession of small amounts of controlled substances and other prohibited drugs, substances, or paraphernalia for defendants seeking assistance for a suspected overdose. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the release by a peace officer of certain individuals suspected of the offense of public intoxication. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women for behavioral health services after a pregnancy. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the Medicaid eligibility of certain women after a pregnancy. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the fiduciary status of a directed trust advisor. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the authority granted under and form of a medical power of attorney. State Affairs |
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Relating to the frequency and location of certain meetings required by a prescriptive authority agreement. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the sale of ale and beer by certain brewers and manufacturers to ultimate consumers for consumption off the brewers' or manufacturers' premises. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the amount of wine certain wineries may sell directly to consumers. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the requirement and study of insurance coverage for serious emotional disturbance of a child. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the prosecution of organized criminal activity involving the interception, use, or disclosure of certain communications. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the attorney general's duty to defend public school teachers. Education |
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Relating to the taking of feral hogs without a hunting license. Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to credits to certain accounts of the Parks and Wildlife Department resulting from the allocation of the proceeds from taxes imposed on the sale, storage, or use of sporting goods. Finance |
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Relating to the authority of the Lubbock County Hospital District of Lubbock County, Texas, to employ and commission peace officers. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue in certain municipalities. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the temperature at which a facility operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is maintained. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the evaluation and reporting of investment practices and performance of certain public retirement systems. State Affairs |
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Relating to the review of ballot proposition language for certain political subdivision elections. State Affairs |
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Relating to the disposition of a firearm seized from certain persons with mental illness. State Affairs |
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Relating to establishing a protective order registry and the duties of courts in regard to the registry. State Affairs |
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Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools. Education |
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Relating to the expansion of eligibility for Medicaid in certain counties under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the information required to be included in or with a school district ad valorem tax bill. Property Tax |
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Relating to requirements for and the transparency of epidemiological reports and certain immunization exemption information and reports. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the award of a grant under the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant Program to certain students enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program. Higher Education |
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Relating to measures to assist students enrolled at public institutions of higher education who are homeless or who were formerly in foster care. Higher Education |
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Relating to preventing racial profiling and to video and audio equipment and recordings of certain law enforcement motor vehicle stops; creating an offense. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the appointment of an attorney ad litem for a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to law enforcement agency policies regarding the placement of a child taken into possession by a peace officer during the arrest of a person. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to community land trusts. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to credit toward payment of a fine and costs for certain misdemeanants confined in jail or prison before sentencing. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to regulate construction and renovation of structures owned by certain counties. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to a seller's disclosure notice for residential property regarding floodplains, flood pools, or reservoirs. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the creation of a grant program to assist law enforcement agencies with the purchase of opioid antagonists. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the appointment of an attorney pro tem for certain criminal proceedings. State Affairs |
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Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure of intimate visual material. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the information required to be included in or with a school district ad valorem tax bill. Property Tax |
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Relating to the participation of campus-based mental health professionals in certain health benefit plans. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the use of land in the William Goodrich Jones State Forest. Higher Education |
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Relating to the consolidation and allocation of state criminal court costs; increasing the amounts of certain court costs and reducing the amounts of certain other court costs. State Affairs |
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Relating to eligibility for service on the board of directors of an appraisal district. Property Tax |
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Relating to the use of certain weapons in or on the beds or banks of certain rivers and streams in particular counties. Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the regulation of the sale of dextromethorphan to minors; providing civil penalties. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the expiration of the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to indicators of achievement under the public school accountability system. Education |
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Relating to the use of the skills development fund by certain entities. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the assistant prosecutor supplement fund. Finance |
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Relating to authority of certain officers of certain counties to disburse or direct payment of county funds for salaries or expenses. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to developing a strategic plan to ensure the provision of prevention and early intervention services complies with federal law. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the enforcement of commercial motor vehicle safety standards in certain municipalities. Transportation |
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Relating to the height of outdoor advertising signs regulated by the Texas Department of Transportation. Transportation |
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Relating to the Nursing Faculty Loan Repayment Assistance Program. Higher Education |
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Relating to straight-party voting. State Affairs |
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Relating to a study on migrant labor housing facilities. Agriculture |
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Relating to certain contracts for the transfer of a pet. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to court-ordered mental health services. State Affairs |
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Relating to access to certain controlled substance prescription information. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to policies on the recess period in public schools. Education |
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Relating to bonds issued by certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities. Transportation |
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Relating to the content of detailed reports filed by lobbyists and to monetary limits on expenditures by lobbyists. State Affairs |
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Relating to the prohibition on lobbying by certain elected officers. State Affairs |
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Relating to lobbying by former members of the legislature; creating a criminal offense. State Affairs |
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Relating to the availability on the Internet of certain registrations and reports filed by lobbyists. State Affairs |
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Relating to employment protections for jury service. State Affairs |
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Relating to increasing the criminal penalty for certain assaults committed against employees of primary and secondary schools. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the authority of an open-enrollment charter school to employ security personnel, commission peace officers, and have school resource officers. Education |
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Relating to Internet access to meetings of the board of directors of a regional mobility authority. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the cessation of tolls by toll project entities in certain circumstances. Transportation |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain applicants for state bar examination. State Affairs |