The following bills were reported out of Committee today:
HB 1 (Bonnen) Relating to making appropriations for the legislature and legislative agencies.
- Reported favorably out of House Appropriations 7/9 (21-0)
HB 85 (Rogers) Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
- Reported favorably out of House Pensions, Investments & Financial Services 7/9 (6-0)
SB 7 (Huffman) Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- Reported favorably out of Senate Finance 7/9 (12-0)
The Committees below have posted for hearings tomorrow to take up the following bills:
House Constitutional Rights & Remedies, Select at 8 AM
HB 2 (Smith) Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bond
HB 3 (Murr) Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses
HJR 1 (Kacal) Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary and authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons
Senate Jurisprudence at 10 AM
SB 6 (Huffman) Relating to rules for setting the amount of bail, to the release of certain defendants on a monetary bond or personal bond, to related duties of certain officers taking bail bonds and of a magistrate in a criminal case, to charitable bail organizations, and to the reporting of information pertaining to bail bonds
SB 9 (West) Relating to requiring public schools to provide instruction and materials and adopt policies relating to the prevention of child abuse, family violence, and dating violence
SJR 3 (Huffman) Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail that may be necessary and authorizing the denial of bail under some circumstances to a person accused of a violent or sexual offense or of continuous trafficking of persons
Senate Local Government at 10 AM
SB 8 (Bettencourt | et al.) Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired
SB 12 (Bettencourt | et al.) Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district’s maximum compressed rate
SJR 4 (Bettencourt | et al.) Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead
Senate State Affairs at 11 AM
SB 1 (Hughes | et al.) Relating to election integrity and security, including by preventing fraud in the conduct of elections in this state; increasing criminal penalties; creating criminal offenses; providing civil penalties
SB 31 (Perry) Relating to the use of certain information regarding voter qualification