Today an additional 22 bills were filed as of 5:30 p.m. bringing the total of bills filed for the first called Special Session to 105 bills and resolutions.
Today's Filed Bills
Education
- HB 98 (Bernal) Relating to a school district assigning a mentor teacher to a new classroom teacher.
- HB 100 (Springer) Relating to the small-sized district adjustment under the Foundation School Program.
- SB 30 (Menéndez) Relating to the salary paid to classroom teachers employed by public schools; making an appropriation.
- SB 31 (Menéndez) Relating to requiring the board of trustees of each school district to create a nonvoting parent trustee position on the board.
- SB 32 (Menéndez) Relating to the salary paid to classroom teachers employed by public schools.
Health Care
- HB 102 (Coleman) Relating to coverage for certain services relating to postpartum depression under the medical assistance and CHIP perinatal programs.
- HB 109 (Walle) Relating to the use of certain controlled substances by women who are pregnant or may become pregnant and the designation of neonatal abstinence syndrome from substance use as a reportable condition.
- HB 112 (Walle) Relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the Texas women's health program.
Taxes/Budget
- HB 97 (Springer) Relating to actions by a retailer that constitute engaging in business in this state for purposes of the use tax.
- HB 99 (Springer) Relating to testimony by an appraisal district employee as to the value of real property in certain ad valorem tax appeals.
- HB 108 (Murphy) Relating to the rate at which interest accrues in connection with the deferral or abatement of the collection of ad valorem taxes on certain residence homesteads.
- HB 114 (Tomas) Relating to the allocation of certain revenue from the cigarette tax to the foundation school fund and increasing the rate of that tax.
Debt Obligations/Bond Elections
- HB 110 (Murphy) Relating to the notice required before the issuance of certain debt obligations by political subdivisions.
- HB 111 (Murphy) Relating to general obligation bonds issued by political subdivisions.
Local Control
- HB 107 (Cyrier) Relating to the authority of a political subdivision to adopt or enforce a requirement that a builder or contractor obtain a license or other similar certification from the political subdivision.
Other
- HB 101 (Stephenson) Relating to authorizing public retirement systems to study the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of implementing certain pension revenue enhancement strategies.
- HB 103 (Stephenson) Relating to the disposal of pesticides.
- HB 104 (S. Thompson) Relating to unlawful employment practices regarding discrimination in payment of compensation.
- HB 105 (S. Thompson) Relating to the minimum wage.
- HB 106 (S. Thompson) Relating to the licensing and regulation of a journeyman lineman.
- HB 113 (Uresti) Relating to requiring a public institution of higher education to post on its Internet website a status report regarding certain disciplinary processes involving an incident of sexual assault or sexual harassment.
- SB 29 (Huffman) Relating to a reporting requirement for certain incidents of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking at certain public and private institutions of higher education; creating a criminal offense; authorizing administrative penalties.
