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Human Services Apr 29th, 2025

Human Services

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  • Earl Zuravik with Texas Health Care Association.
  • And I'm also on the board of the Texas Healthcare Association.
  • Our board met last week at the Texas Health Care Association.
  • From Dallas to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction.
  • KC Family Program, the Stephen Group, and the Texas Comptroller, and Texas Appleseed, and even DFPS appropriations
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Ways & Means Apr 28th, 2025

Ways & Means

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  • It will have a dramatic negative impact on the Texas horse industry.
  • These states have higher purses than we have in Texas.
  • Yes, I'm a Texas horseman and third-rate trainer.
  • If there's a business in the state of Texas and it's...
  • As mentioned, my name is David Bristol, and I'm the mayor of Prosper, Texas, a growing North Texas community
Committee: House Ways & Means
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S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Family & Fiduciary Relationships

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  • The Texas property.
  • It says here you're testifying on behalf of the Texas Silver Herald legislature and yourself for the
  • Taylor, you're with the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature.
  • And you're testifying for yourself and the Texas Silver-Haired Legislature for the bill. Correct?
  • I'm testifying on behalf of the Texas.
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State Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

State Affairs

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  • and remodelers across the state of Texas.
  • , sometimes called Texas Baptists, and we are the other Baptist state convention in the state of Texas
  • You have 2 minutes with Texas Right to Know for the bill.
  • We have two campuses, the University of Texas at El Paso and Texas Tech that we do that for, and that
  • hurt Texas.
Committee: House State Affairs
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State Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

State Affairs

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  • And thanks to this committee and legislature for the work last session to ensure Texas businesses benefit
  • I'm the president and CEO of the Texas Association of Businesses at the Texas State Chamber.
  • Johnson with the Texas Record.
  • House Bill 3809 is a good bill for Texas landowners; it's a good bill for Texas communities.
  • It's a win for Texas.
Committee: House State Affairs
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  • Senate Bill 2411 is the biennial update to the Texas Business Organizations Code that the legislature
  • I participate actively in industry associations, including Texas AGC, Texas Building Branch, AGC of Texas
  • Generally, the way the Texas legislature has tried to deal with that over the years is through regulations
  • electrical grid that threatens Texas resiliency or proposes to harm Texas.
  • Texas has recognized its...
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  • 76 co-ops operating across Texas.
  • with homeowners and... throughout Texas.
  • Houston, I'm here on behalf of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas, ABC Texas.
  • The Texas Public Employees Association for over 80 years has worked with the Texas Legislature. to promote
  • We are Texas-based. We have a...
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Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) Apr 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • with homeowners throughout Texas.
  • I'm here on behalf of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas, ABC Texas.
  • The Texas Public Employees Association has, for over 80 years, worked with the Texas Legislature to promote
  • One is that Texas is a right-to-work state.
  • We are Texas-based. We have accountability.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard Senate Bill 2021 by Senator Johnson, as substituted, on distributed energy resources (DERs). Johnson said the bill was intended to create a regulatory framework for DERs and virtual power plants, address interconnection and registration issues, and prevent regulatory capture as the industry grows. Testimony was split: Texas Electric Cooperatives asked for clarification so co-ops would not be unintentionally excluded from owning or operating DERs; AECT supported the bill as providing needed rules and customer protections; TABA, Texas Solar and Storage Association, Sierra Club, Texas Solar Energy Society, and several others opposed it or raised concerns that it was too utility-centric, imposed red tape, and could burden homeowners and small businesses with registration and interconnection requirements. Johnson repeatedly said the bill was not meant to stop rooftop solar or backup systems and that he was open to specific redlines and further changes. SB 2021 was left pending after testimony. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2330 by Senator Parker, which would end government payroll deduction for dues to certain public employee organizations, while exempting first responders under Chapters 143 and 147 and making other conforming changes in a committee substitute. Parker argued the bill was about government neutrality, transparency, and employee freedom from coercion, and said organizations can collect dues directly using modern payment methods. Supporters from Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Business Coalition, Freedom Foundation, ABC Texas, and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility said taxpayer-funded payroll systems should not be used to collect dues for private organizations, especially ones involved in political activity. Opponents, including ATPE, Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Texas Public Employees Association, and correctional employees, said payroll deduction is a convenient, secure service that helps professional associations and employee groups, and argued the bill would burden teachers and other public employees. Several witnesses and senators focused on the bill’s exemptions and whether it treated teachers differently from first responders. Senator Menendez questioned why some public employees were excluded while others were not, and a Houston police union representative said he moved from opposing to supporting the bill after being told the substitute would preserve meet-and-confer deductions under Chapters 143 and 147. Senator Parker closed by saying the bill was not meant to eliminate associations or payroll deduction entirely, only to remove the state as a middleman. SB 2330 was left pending, and the committee then recessed subject to call.
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Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • I participate actively in industry associations, including Texas AGC, Texas Building Branch, AGC of Texas
  • Thank you. including Texas, AGC, Texas Building Branch, agency of Texas, the Houston Contractors Association
  • Generally, the way the Texas Legislature has tried to deal with that over the years is through regulations
  • Generally, the way the Texas Legislature has tried to deal with that over the years is through regulations
  • Texas resiliency and are proposed to harm Texas.
Summary: The committee first took up pending business and favorably reported several bills without objection or by recorded vote, including SB 783, SB 1238, SB 1706, SB 1791, SB 458, SB 1644, and SB 1810, with some of them also sent to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then moved into hearings on additional bills. SB 1968, by Senator Schwertner, would update the Real Estate License Act by repealing subagency, requiring written buyer-agent agreements before showings, and clarifying when a formal buyer representation agreement must be signed. Texas Realtors testified in support, saying the bill modernizes agency rules and increases transparency, while a committee substitute corrected drafting issues. SB 2411, the annual update to the Texas Business Organizations Code, was also laid out and left pending after supportive testimony from the Texas Business Law Foundation and drafting committee representatives. The committee also heard SB 2321, which would codify ERCOT’s current practice of notifying TCEQ when backup generation needs enforcement discretion for grid reliability; Sierra Club and a chamber of commerce witness supported it with suggestions for clearer emissions reporting, and the bill was left pending. SB 2077 would broaden eligibility for the Texas Mutual Insurance Company board by narrowing conflict restrictions tied to insurance-related interests; Texas Mutual supported the change and the bill was left pending. SB 1405, a broadband bill, would align state law with FCC standards and streamline Broadband Development Office processes; it was left pending after supportive testimony. SB 1299, protecting nonprofit donor privacy, drew support from privacy advocates and concerns from one witness about transparency for publicly funded nonprofit operations; it was left pending. The committee then heard SB 776, which would bar government construction contracts from shifting delay damages to contractors when delays are caused solely by the public owner. Contractors, surety representatives, and water infrastructure advocates supported the bill, arguing it would improve fairness and reduce inflated bids, while water utilities and critical infrastructure entities opposed it, warning of more litigation and higher costs; the bill was left pending. Finally, SB 715, which would apply reliability requirements retroactively to all generation resources in ERCOT, drew opposition from renewable and storage groups and support from some critics of renewable subsidies, with witnesses split over whether it would improve reliability or raise costs; testimony was underway when the transcript ended.
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  • Currently, Texas has statutory citizenship requirements for voting in Texas elections.
  • So across the board... this bill would place a burden on Texas citizens, Texas voters.
  • Including in Texas.
  • In 2023, the Texas legislature put about $13 billion worth of spending on the on the constitutional ballot
  • By passing this bill, the Texas legislature will eliminate all doubt and send a very clear message.
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  • What would happen mechanically if the Texas Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reached
  • The Supreme Court of Texas can.
  • Texas Supreme Court, which violates the very fundamental principles of our Texas Constitution that have
  • In doing so, the Texas Constitution created The Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
  • Senate Bill 311 will amend section 22.002A of the Texas Government Code, and it will allow the Texas
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89th Legislative Session May 29th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible.
  • During his life, Tony received community art recognitions from the City of Austin and Arte Texas.
  • has rendered outstanding service to the Texas legislature during the 89th... ...legislative session.
  • Recognition.
  • and rural Texas alone.
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Economic Development May 21st, 2025

Economic Development

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  • Texas and Taiwan have shared a sister-state relationship since 1988.
  • House Concurrent Resolution 118 demonstrates support from Texas, support from the Texas legislature to
  • expand the warship manufacturing industry in Texas.
  • House concurrent resolution 118 demonstrates support from Texas, support from the Texas legislature to
  • Texas support from the Texas legislature to expand the warship manufacturing industry in Texas.
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee heard and laid out several measures focused on school safety, Texas-Taiwan relations, defense manufacturing, business formation, hotel tax policy, and NASA relocation. HB 1851 would allow surplus DPS vehicles and law enforcement equipment to be transferred to school districts in economically disadvantaged areas for use by school police and security personnel, with a two-year resale restriction. HCR 127 expressed support for the Texas-Taiwan relationship and trade ties, HCR 118 supported expanding warship manufacturing in Texas, HCR 141 urged Congress to move NASA headquarters to Houston, HB 346 (with a committee substitute) revised business filing and fee authority while making permanent a franchise tax exemption for new veteran-owned businesses, HB 2974 was an omnibus hotel occupancy tax and qualified hotel project bill, and HB 5596 addressed accountability for municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues in coastal communities. Witnesses generally supported the measures, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association on HB 2974 and resource witnesses from the Texas Veterans Commission and Secretary of State on HB 346; no opposition testimony was registered on the laid-out bills. After public testimony, the committee took up pending business and adopted committee substitutes where applicable. HB 1851, HB 346, HB 2974, and HB 5596 were each reported favorably to the full Senate, with HB 346 and HB 2974 also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. HCR 127 and HCR 118 were reported favorably as well, and HCR 127 and HCR 141 were likewise recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also reported HB 4320 favorably, though the transcript repeats that motion several times. The meeting ended with the committee standing in recess until 7:00 a.m. subject to the call of the chair.
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  • That's done through the Texas Facilities Commission.
  • Texas and Taiwan have shared a sister state relationship since 1988.
  • House Concurrent Resolution 118 demonstrates support from the Texas legislature to expand the warship
  • manufacturing industry. ...in Texas.
  • ... ...of Texas has received more money from hotel development than the state of Texas rebated to the
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Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 5th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

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  • Uh, I lead the water program for Environmental Defense Fund here in Texas.
  • Texas has changed dramatically.
  • We thank you for considering this bill, and for standing with Texas ranchers.
  • We thank you for considering this bill, uh, more so standing with Texas ranchers.
  • You know, Texas loses approximately 1,000 acres of ag land every day.
Bills: HB2018 , HB1633 , HB1689 , SB612 , SB3058
Summary: The Senate Water, Agriculture, Rural Affairs Committee heard several bills focused on groundwater management, water infrastructure, and agricultural land conservation. SB 612 would limit certain water districts in Hidalgo, Cameron, and Willacy counties from charging developers pipeline construction fees above actual, documented costs; the committee substitute removed a developer challenge mechanism to preserve district discretion over construction standards. HB 1633 would require groundwater conservation districts to consider registered exempt wells when reviewing or amending permits, and testimony from landowners, district representatives, and advocacy groups largely supported the bill as a way to protect domestic and livestock wells from drawdown caused by large export projects. HB 1689 would clarify that export fee revenues may be used for well operability, alternative water supplies, and aquifer monitoring, including through interlocal cooperation, and HB 3058 would give the Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District authority to use export fees for county road improvements and environmental programs tied to well inspection and groundwater management. HB 2018 would clarify that the Texas Farm and Ranchland Conservation Program is intended to purchase conservation easements only on working agricultural lands, with support from cattle raisers and Farm Bureau representatives. The committee also considered HB 29, which would require large water systems to validate water loss audits and submit mitigation plans; a committee substitute removed the water-loss threshold and adjusted the timeline for more detailed validation. Public testimony on the bills was generally supportive, with several witnesses describing declining well levels, road damage from export projects, and the need to preserve agricultural land and local water supplies. The committee adopted committee substitutes and voted favorably on HB 29, HB 1689, HB 2018, SB 612, and SB 3058, recommending several of them for the local and uncontested calendar; HB 1633 was left pending awaiting a committee substitute.
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Elections Apr 17th, 2025

Elections

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  • This language came to me by the Texas Association of Counties in collaboration with the Texas Association
  • Secure Texas Elections? That's correct, yes.
  • Done before Texas left ERIC?
  • So I Googled Texas sample jury duty summons, and the first link went to a document on Texas court. dot
  • The state of Texas, unfortunately, we have a tendency to sentence different kinds of people here in Texas
Committee: House Elections
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S/C on County & Regional Government Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

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  • Members, let's keep Texas safe.
  • We have to be here to represent all of Texas.
  • I urge you to support this bill and se- save lives in Texas.
  • If you're selling fentanyl, we don't want you in Texas.
  • So you would advocate that we spend Texas taxpayer dollars?
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S/C on County and Regional Government Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on County & Regional Government

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  • At the Texas Civil Rights Project...
  • It's not the Texas way. I urge you to vote against HB5580. This is not who Texas is.
  • This has never been who Texas is, and this should not be what Texas becomes.
  • The Texas AFL-CIO represents 240,000 affiliated working people across Texas.
  • Well, what is it in Texas right now in Austin, Texas? All right.