| Bill |
Author |
Summary |
April 22, 2019 |
| RETIREMENT |
| Retirement - Employee Class |
| HB 3522 |
Murphy |
Permits the assignment of ERS death benefits to funeral home directors. |
Sent to the Governor
5/28/19 |
| SB 1570 |
Flores |
Prevents certain corrections officers from receiving a pension if they are convicted of a felony. |
Sent to the Governor
5/26/19 |
| Retirement - JRS Plan 1 & Plan 2 |
| HB 2384 |
Leach |
Judicial pay raises. |
Referred to State
Affairs 2/14/19
Sent to the Governor
5/29/19 |
| Retirement - Law Enforcement and Custodial Officer Supplemental Retirement Fund (LECOSRF) |
| SB 346 |
Zaffirini |
Amends the collection of state criminal court costs, including the costs allocated to LECOSRF. |
Received in House 4/18/19 |
|
CHAPTER 615
(Survivor benefits for officers killed in the line of duty)
|
| HB 872 |
Hefner |
Adds jailers, county jailers, and guards to the officers eligible for certain Chapter 615 benefits and expands responsibility of employer to notify ERS of certain line of duty deaths. |
Sent to the Governor
5/29/19 |
| HB 3635 |
Turner |
Adjusts Chapter 615 benefit annually based on CPI-U |
Sent to the Governor
5/28/19 |
| INSURANCE |
| Insurance - Coverages |
| HB 170 |
Bernal |
Requires the GBP to cover diagnostic mammography in the same manner as screening mammography. |
Reported from Insurance 4/9/19 |
| Insurance - Pharmacy |
| HB 1584 |
Thompson |
Requires the GBP to cover certain prescription drugs for stage-four advanced, metastatic cancer. |
Sent to the Governor
5/29/19
Referred to Business
& Commerce 3/1/19 |
| Insurance - Other |
| HB 392 |
Blanco |
Amends Chapter 1552, Insurance Code, to allow ERS to provide long-term care insurance that is
not group insurance. |
Referred to Senate State Affairs 4/17/19 |
| HB 1742 |
Smithee |
Adds non-network laboratories to the list of medical facilities subject to mediation. |
Sent to the Governor
5/29/19
Filed 3/7/19 |
| SB 22 |
Campbell |
Provides for arbitration of certain out-of-network claims |
Effective 9/1/19 |
| HB 2894 |
Collier |
Amends Penal Code criminal offense of health care fraud. |
Effective 9/1/19
Referred to Criminal
Justice 3/14/19 |
| HB 3933 |
Hancock |
Provides for arbitration of certain out-of-network claims |
Sent to the Governor
5/25/19 |
| OPEN RECORDS |
| SB 943 |
Watson |
Requires retirement systems to select a firm to regularly assess the retirement system's investment
practices and performance. |
Sent to Calendars
4/17/19
Sent to the Governor
5/25/19 |
| INVESTMENTS |
| SB 322 |
Huffman |
Requires retirement systems to select a firm to regularly assess the retirement system's investment
practices and performance. |
Sent to the Governor
5/25/19
Pending in PIFS
3/26/19 |
| HB 793 |
King |
Exempts certain small business contracts from the requirement that the contractor certifies that it
does not boycott Israel |
Effective 5/7/19 |
| FUNDING |
| SB 500 |
Nelson |
Supplemental Appropriations bill. |
Effective 6/6/19 |
| SB2224 |
Huffman |
Requires public retirement systems, including ERS, to adopt a funding policy |
Effective 9/1/19 |