Video & Transcript Research : 'parole procedures'

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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Finance Aug 15th, 2025

Finance

Bills: SB2, SB3, SB5, SB9, SB10, SB14, SB16, SB34, SB18
Summary: The Senate Committee on Finance met in the second special session and considered a series of bills, mostly related to flood response, water infrastructure, taxation, school accountability, property fraud, and legislative procedure. Senator Zaffirini presented SB 18 on TCEQ permit exemptions for certain erosion, floodwater, and sediment control dams or reservoirs; Senator Perry presented SB 2 on flood relief preparedness, SB 14 on credit impact fees and water supply/conservation incentives, and SB 5 on Hill Country relief funding; Senator Bettencourt presented SB 3 on early warning flood sirens, SB 9 on replacing STAAR with three annual tests and strengthening A-F accountability, and SB 10 on lowering the rollback tax rate from 3.5% to 2.5%; Senator West presented SB 16 on property transaction ID requirements and new real property theft/fraud offenses; and Chair Huffman laid out SB 34, which changes legislative witness immunity rules from transactional immunity to testimonial immunity consistent with federal law. The committee also heard brief explanations that several bills were the same as versions previously passed by the Senate or committee, and there was limited public testimony, with no witnesses on most bills and only position cards on SB 16. Senator West raised a concern on SB 10 about a possible carve-out for police pay raises, but Senator Bettencourt said no change would be made at that time. For SB 34, Chair Huffman explained the bill would still allow compelled testimony before the legislature but would no longer provide blanket immunity, while preserving the right to counsel. The committee voted favorably on all bills considered. SB 18, SB 2, SB 14, SB 3, SB 16, SB 5, and SB 34 were reported out unanimously or near-unanimously, while SB 9 passed 10-1 and SB 10 passed 8-3. At the end of the meeting, Senator West requested to be shown voting nay on SB 9, and the chair granted unanimous consent. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 9th, 2025

Elections

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  • Note that this bill does not create new auditing procedures; it applies the existing procedures for..
  • So, I have a few questions about exactly how your procedure works.
  • Code regarding unlawful altering of election procedures.
  • Finding unlawful altering of election procedures.
  • It is a variation of procedure that's not authorized by the law.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections Apr 3rd, 2025

Elections

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  • I did a procedural error. I'm going to back up just for a second.
  • All the bill would do is put that same procedure in place for election TROs, where they would notify
  • bill doesn't deal with the causes of action or the remedies, all it does is create an additional procedure
  • that they're not a citizen when they get one of our new voter rolls through our voter maintenance procedures
  • counted unless they cure the ballot by verifying their citizenship following currently established procedures
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 2nd, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

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  • This bill clarifies that the civil enforcement process to reflect. new complaint procedures as discussed
  • This can prove much more costly and time-consuming than a simple grievance procedure.
  • I have a few questions and it really mine kind of relates to the auditing procedures.
  • So see, technically and procedurally, I should not be...
  • , and establishing and ensuring compliance with office policies and procedures.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 19th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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  • Article 19A.104 in the Code of Criminal Procedure already protects grand juries, personal information
  • , and similarly Article 35.29 with broader language. and the Code of Criminal Procedure protects criminal
  • Security Fund, which is specifically set up under Article 102.017 of the Code of Criminal . . . procedure
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight Apr 14th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Judiciary and Public Safety Oversight

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  • we're doing is giving the authority for deciding who would be eligible to go before the Pardon and Parole
  • The Department of Pardon and Parole Board, based on medical reasons, would move authority from the director
  • We're having some problems with the Pardon and Parole Board, multiple problems, but that's another story
  • , with getting coordination and collaboration back and forth with the parole hearings.
  • Senate Bill 1224 amends the notification process to victims by the Pardon and Parole Board.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 3rd, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

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  • Finally, per House procedural rules, witness testimony must be limited to the subject matter of the bill
  • offense or category of offenses, or change the eligibility of a person for community supervision, parole
  • created age gaps. between the existing and new offenses and to include this offense in the existing parole
  • I just want to make sure procedurally I understand where we are and what we're voting on.
TX
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  • developing informed consent notices that physicians provide to patients before medical treatments and procedures
  • patients will have better questions that they can ask about potential risks and complications of procedures
  • conversations between doctors and patients to be meaningful and to have information about the specific procedure
  • , the risks of that procedure, and research shows that sometimes that information is not fully communicated
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 14th, 2025

Health & Human Services

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  • developing informed consent notices that physicians provide to patients before medical treatments and procedures
  • patients will have better questions that they can ask about potential risks and complications of procedures
  • conversations between doctors and patients to be meaningful and to have information about the specific procedure
  • , the risks of that procedure, and research shows that sometimes that information is not clearly understood
Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of health and human services bills and left each one pending after public testimony. HB 4655 would expand financial literacy instruction for youth aging out of foster care to include credit scores, predatory lending, scams, banking, budgeting, and related consumer topics; the sponsor and Buckner International described the need to protect foster youth from financial pitfalls. HB 923 would add three public members and one physician to the Texas Medical Disclosure Panel; supporters said it would improve informed consent and patient voice, while a witness raised concerns about a House amendment requiring a physician majority for decisions and senators questioned scope-of-practice limits. HHSC said the panel is an independent body and the bill expressly bars it from changing scope of practice.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Elections May 8th, 2025

Elections

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  • SB 108 would ensure a sharing of the political power by creating a procedure where both the judge and
  • We'll strengthen those requirements by refining the procedures for public testing, standardizing testing
  • Parker's efforts to strengthen our election testing procedures, I must speak frankly about the serious
  • The current testing procedures are woefully inadequate.
  • The third point would be on page nine, item c, where it lines out all the procedures for testing.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals Apr 3rd, 2025

S/C on Property Tax Appraisals

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  • too high, which then leaves them with the current recourse to be able to go through the protest procedure
  • This will line up with the filing for the offices with the procedures for all the other county offices
  • House Bill 1745 directly addresses these issues by streamlining protest procedures, requiring timely
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • The purpose of this committee is to develop best practices or policies and procedures that ensure accuracy
  • us that we get this right and this is to have a body that comes in with the best practices and procedures
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Aug 15th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • That's the first time I'm seeing that from the Senate, and it speaks volumes to the sort of procedural
  • If you cannot speak with any moral authority, you don't get to choose who and when people get procedures
  • with any moral authority, you don't get to choose who and what or who and what time people get procedures
Bills: SB6, SB7, SB8, SB11, SB12, SB13, SB15, SB17
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 8, the Texas Women's Privacy Act, and heard extensive public testimony both for and against the measure. Supporters, including representatives of Texas Values and Texas Values Action, argued the bill was needed to protect women’s privacy and safety in restrooms, locker rooms, showers, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and other government-controlled spaces, and said it would provide clear, sex-based rules. Opponents, including many transgender Texans, civil rights advocates, clergy, business and public safety voices, and others, argued the bill would invite harassment, gender policing, lawsuits, and invasive inspections, while harming trans, intersex, and gender-nonconforming people as well as cisgender women who do not fit stereotypes. Several witnesses said the bill would conflict with federal law or prison standards, worsen safety in shelters and prisons, and hurt Texas’s reputation and economy. The chair repeatedly noted the compressed special-session schedule and said flood relief remained the session’s top priority. Public testimony on SB 8 was eventually closed, and the bill was left pending. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 6, dealing with consumable hemp product restrictions. Testimony on SB 6 focused on whether the bill went too far in restricting hemp-derived THC products. Opponents argued hemp and THC have medical and economic value, that the bill would criminalize conduct and burden courts, and that regulation—not prohibition—was the better approach. Some witnesses supported tighter rules such as testing, child-resistant packaging, and limits on marketing to children, but still opposed the bill’s broad THC ban, higher fees, and age restrictions. Several speakers emphasized benefits for veterans, chronic pain patients, and small businesses, and warned that prohibition would push consumers toward the illicit market. The committee heard the testimony and then continued with additional witnesses, with no final vote or disposition reported in the excerpt.
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  • getting into too much detail, the offending statute was passed back when the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure
  • were first adopted, around the time the Federal Rule... ...rules of civil procedure were adopted.
  • Procedurally, you may recall that House Bill 20 was challenged and went all the way to the U.S.
  • involvement in elections and empowering individuals and parties to determine their own rules and procedures
  • That is the procedure and mechanism that has been used.