Ellen's Legislation: 80th & 81st Legislative Session

Education • Fiscal Responsibility • Health Care • Public Safety
Local Issues • Elections/Ethics • Personal Life Decisions
Environment/Natural Disaster Relief • General Legislation

Education

HB 3 Relating to public school accountability, curriculum, and promotion requirements.
HB 51 Relating to measures to enhance and maintain the quality of state universities, including funding and incentives to support emerging public research universities, to the abolition of the higher education fund, to the institutional groupings under the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s accountability system, to the independent status of Lamar Institute of Technology, to research conducted by public universities and other state entities, and to the authorization of revenue bonds for certain institutions of higher education.
HB 52 Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions.
HJR 100 Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation real property leased to certain schools organized and operated primarily for the purpose of engaging in educational functions.
HB 130 Relating to an enhanced quality full-day prekindergarten program provided by public school districts in conjunction with community providers.
HB 420 Relating to the nonpartisan election of members to the State Board of Education.
HB 710 Relating to placing the State Board of Education under periodic review by the Sunset Advisory Commission.
HB 741 Relating to health education curriculum and instruction in public schools.
HB 861 Relating to the authority of certain university systems to provide benefits to certain qualified individuals.
HB 1323 Relating to bullying and harassment in public schools.
HB 2542 Relating to excused absences in public schools for students visiting institutions of higher education.
HB 2637 Relating to a limitation on the total amount of tuition and mandatory fees that a public institution of higher education may charge.
HB 3456 Relating to the education and preparation of resident physicians.
HB 4476 Relating to eligibility requirements for the tuition equalization grant program.
SJR 35 Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the national research university fund to enable emerging research universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research universities and transferring the balance of the higher education fund to the national research university fund.
SB 1764 Relating to the dissemination of information regarding the cost of attending public and private institutions of higher education and regarding the availability of financial aid to assist in paying that cost.
SB 1798 Relating to certifying the eligibility of certain educational aides to receive an exemption from tuition and fees charged by public institutions of higher education.

Fiscal Responsibility

HB 46 Relating to a local option election in a county to set a limit on the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes of less than 110 percent but not less than 103 percent of the appraised value of the property for the preceding tax year.
HB 720 Relating to the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax.
HB 873 Relating to incentives for the film, television, video, and digital interactive media production industries.
HB 1299 Relating to the fund for veterans’ assistance and the creation of a lottery game to benefit the fund.
HB 1789 Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue to enhance and upgrade sports facilities, coliseums, and multiuse facilities in certain municipalities.
HB 2083 Relating to determination of state contributions for participation by certain junior college employees in the state employees group benefits program.
HB 2942 Relating to accountability and transparency in government operations, including disclosure, oversight, and enforcement measures; providing penalties.
HB 3248 Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of real property leased to and used by certain schools.
HB 4476 Relating to eligibility requirements for the tuition equalization grant program.
HB 4765 Relating to the computation of the franchise tax.

Health Care

HB 5 Relating to the elimination of smoking in all workplaces and public places; providing penalties.
HB 353 Relating to certain health care rights of domestic partners.
HB 390 Relating to health benefit plan coverage for routine patient care costs for enrollees participating in certain clinical trials.
HB 787 Relating to eligibility for the child health plan.
HB 1329 Relating to the child health plan program.
HB 1696 Relating to the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers and to payment of claims to pharmacies and pharmacists.
HB 1948 Relating to a public health extension service pilot program.
HB 2098 Relating to faculty temporary licenses to practice medicine.
HB 2962 Relating to the administration and funding of and eligibility for the child health plan, medical assistance, and other programs.
SB 841 Relating to the child health plan program.
SB 1877 Relating to the creation of the Texas Medical Child Abuse Resources and Education System grant program.

Public Safety

HB 124 Relating to the punishment for the offense of employment harmful to children.
HB 206 Relating to the on-premises consumption of certain alcoholic beverages; providing a penalty.
HB 528 Relating to the offense of failing to secure a child passenger in a motor vehicle and to fines for the offense.
HB 827 Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle in the vicinity of a vulnerable road user; providing penalties.
HB 964 Relating to the definition of electric bicycle for purposes of regulating the use, registration, and licensing of electric bicycles.
HB 1506 Relating to the imposition of conditions on certain defendants charged with an offense involving family violence.
HB 1687 Relating to the definition of an electric bicycle for purposes related to the use, registration, and licensing of electric bicycles.
HB 2070 Relating to the fee based on admissions to certain sexually oriented businesses.
HB 4009 Relating to the provision of services to certain persons involved in, and the prosecution, punishment, and prevention of, offenses involving trafficking of persons or certain forced or sex-based labor or services, and to law enforcement training related to offenses involving that trafficking.
HB 4834 Relating to the issuance of specialty license plates to fund programs supporting victims of sexual assault.

Local Issues

HB 123 Relating to activity that constitutes maintaining a common nuisance.
HB 3087 Relating to the regulation of the towing and storage of certain motor vehicles.
HB 4722 Relating to the creation of the Harris County Improvement District No. 11; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.

Elections/Ethics

HJR 39 Post-ratifying Amendment XXIV to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the denial or abridgment of the right to vote for failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
HB 512 Relating to the hours during which the polls are open for early voting by personal appearance.
SB 2468 Relating to the postemployment activities of certain local government officers in certain counties; providing a penalty.

Personal Life Decisions

HB 538 Relating to the prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.
HB 2968 Relating to voluntary and informed consent for an abortion.

Environment/Natural Disaster Relief

HB 6 Relating to appropriations for damages and disruptions suffered by state agencies and institutions of higher education caused by natural disasters and to an appropriation for disaster relief generally.
HB 469 Relating to the establishment of incentives by this state for the implementation of certain projects to capture and sequester carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere.
HB 4261 Relating to establishing a no-interest loan program to promote the use of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technology in certain residential dwellings, commercial buildings, and places of worship.

General Legislation

HB 670 Relating to a qualified privilege of a journalist not to testify.
HB 795 Relating to the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
HB 2925 Relating to protections provided by the Department of Agriculture for certain consumers; providing penalties.
SB 482 Relating to the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.