Senate State Affairs met on October 14 to discuss SB 51 relating to prohibited COVID-19 vaccine mandates and vaccination status discrimination and to exemptions from certain vaccine requirements. Sen. Hughes [...]
The House State Affairs Committee met on October 13th to discuss HB 155 (Oliverson) Relating to exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine requirements. HB 155 was left pending at the end of [...]
Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced he will send cities, counties, transit systems and special purpose taxing districts $906.6 million in local sales tax allocations for October, 20.6% more than in October [...]
The Governor’s Broadband Development Council has released their 2021 Report. Topics covered include broadband deployment across the state, the need for greater broadband speeds, and barriers and opportunities to deployment. [...]
On 9/28, the Railroad Commission proposed three new forms related to the recently proposed amendments to 16 TAC §3.65 and §3.107 regarding critical infrastructure designation pursuant to SB 3 (Schwertner) [...]
Senate Redistricting met on September 30 to hear invited and public testimony on SB 6 (Huffman) relating to the composition of the districts for the election of members of the United [...]
The Senate Committee on Business & Commerce met on September 28 to discuss implementation of legislation addressing Winter Storm Uri, possible market changes, and incentives for dispatchable generation. The committee [...]
The House Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee met on September 23 to hear invited testimony only on the following interim committee charge: “Monitor emergency operations and whether existing operations [...]
On September 17, TEA released revised Public Health Guidance regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. In the guidance document, TEA states the following is a restatement of pre-August 19th guidance: Per GA-38, [...]
Senate Jurisprudence met briefly on September 22nd to take up SJR 1 (Huffman) Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring a judge or magistrate to impose the least restrictive conditions of bail [...]