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87TH STATE LEGISLATURE Intergovernmental Relations Office – Brie L. Franco, Officer 87TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION: RECAP • 7,148 bills and joint resolutions filed and reviewed by IGRO • 15% of filed bills & joint resolutions ultimately passed • This is a reduced passage rate of 5% from previous sessions • 67% of passed bills filed by Republicans & 33% filed by Democrats • 21 vetoes by the governor. • IGRO tracked 2,254 bills and joint resolutions 1 87TH SPECIAL SESSIONS: STATISTICS 1st Called Session • July 8 – Aug. 6 • 405 bills & joint resolutions filed & reviewed IGRO • No bills passed 2nd Called Session • Aug. 7 – Sept. 2 • 380 bills & joint resolutions filed & reviewed IGRO • 15 bills & joint resolutions passed 3rd Called Session • Sept. 20 – Oct 19 • 249 bills & joint resolutions filed & reviewed IGRO • 11 bills & joint resolutions passed 2 87TH PASSED BILLS: NEGATIVE FOR CITY City Police Funding Camping Ban HB 1900 (Goldman) HB 1925 (Capriglione) Gas Preemption HB 17 (Deshotel) Effective Sept. 1, 2021 Effective Sept. 1, 2021 Effective May 18, 2021 No Contracts : Firearm Boycott SB 19 (Schwertner) Effective Sept. 1, 2021 Permitless Carry HB 1927 (Schaefer) Effective Sept. 1, 2021 3 87TH PASSED BILLS: POSITIVE FOR THE CITY APRS Pensions HB 4368 (Rodriguez) Cloud Computing SB 58 (Zaffirini) Effective Sept. 1, 2021 Effective June 3, 2021 Local Health Department Medicaid SB 73 (Miles) Effective Sept. 1, 2021 4 87TH BILLS FAILED TO PASS: POSITIVE FOR CITY Community Advocacy SB 10 (Hall) AE Rates Super Preemption SB 566 (Buckingham) HB 610 (Swanson) HB 2775 (Cain) HB 3909 (Harris) Lake Austin Disannexation SB 659 (Buckingham) HB 1653 (Craddick ) West Rim Disannexation HB 2776 (Deshotel) Lost Creek Disannexation SB 1499 (Buckingham) HB 3827 (Wilson) Noise Ordinance Preemption HB 3813 (Harris) Homeless Housing SB 646 & SB 796 (Schwertner) HB 1803 (Wilson) Employment Preemption SB 14 (Creighton) 5 87TH BILLS: EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL Rising Star Program & Pre-K Partnerships HB 2607 (Talarico) Child Care Workforce Strategic Plan HB 619 (Senfronia Thompson) PASSED Medicaid for Mothers HB 133 (Rose) FAILED Office of Early Childhood HB 51 (Talarico) Child Care Cost Study Office for Health Equity HB 1964 (Lopez) HB 4139 (Coleman) 6 88TH SESSION: CHANGES • Changes in Senate membership & leadership • Potentially 40 new members in House • Austin delegation changes and committee assignments 7 INTERIM CHARGES: EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL Child Abuse Prevention House Human Services Child Care Legislation Foster Care House International Relations & Economic Development Senate Health & Human Services House Human Services Full charge language can be found in the appendix on slides 11 and 12. 8 QUESTIONS? Brie L. Franco Intergovernmental Relations Officer Brie.Franco@austintexas.gov Agenda: https://www.austintexas.gov/edims/document. cfm?id=347683 9 87TH LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS: APPENDIX • 2022 Full Interim Charges • 87th Bills Impacting the Homeless • 87th Police Funding 10 87TH INTERIM CHARGES: EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL • Child Abuse Prevention: Evaluate current prevention and early intervention programs and make recommendations for improving the effectiveness of these programs in reducing child abuse and neglect. (House Committee on Human Services) • Child Care Legislation: Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee's jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 87th Legislature. Conduct active oversight of all associated rulemaking and other governmental actions taken to ensure the intended legislative outcome of all legislation, including the following: o HB 619, relating to developing a strategic plan to support the child-care workforce; o HB 1792, relating to the evaluation of child-care providers participating in the Texas Rising Star Program; o HB 2607, relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Workforce Commission and local workforce development boards regarding the provision of childcare and the subsidized childcare program; o SB 1555, relating to establishing reimbursement rates for certain child-care providers participating in the subsidized childcare program (House Committee on International Relations & Economic Development) 11 87TH INTERIM CHARGES: EARLY CHILDHOOD COUNCIL • Foster Care System: Foster Care: Evaluate state investments in the child welfare system. Examine reasons for delayed implementation of past legislative reforms and any deficient agency performance metrics. Identify ways to continue to improve the child welfare system in Texas and consider other state models to ensure the health and well-being for children in state care. (Senate Health and Human Services Committee) • Foster Care System: Evaluate further action needed to improve the safety and quality of the foster care system, including preventing children in foster care from being without a placement and increasing recruitment of foster families. Identify methods to strengthen Child Protective Services processes and services, focusing on efforts for family preservation and eliminating fatalities within the foster care system. This evaluation should: o Study the causes for children without placement; o Assess the safety concerns for children without placement, including the use of out-of-state and temporary emergency placement for children without placement; injuries while in the care of Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) employees; and exposure to child sex trafficking; and o Study how and why children without placement frequently enter the juvenile justice and adult criminal justice systems and the steps DFPS is taking to identify and prevent these instances. (House Committee on Human Services) 12 87TH BILLS IMPACTING THE HOMELESS Camping Ban HB 1925 (Capriglione) Effective September 1, 2021 • City must submit a plan for approval by TDHCA to designate a property for encampment. Designation of public parks is prohibited. • Offense is a Class C misdemeanor. Officers must make reasonable effort to connect persons to designated encampment and services. • Local entities cannot have policies that prohibit or discourage enforcement of the ban nor can they discourage peace officers or prosecuting attorneys from enforcing the ban. • Policies that encourage diversion or provision of services in lieu of citation or arrest are allowed. • HB 1925 Contingency Rider NOT included in the final appropriations act. • City submitted comments on TDHCA rules for encampment for public comment Purchase / Conversion: County Approval • SB 646 (Schwertner) • Vote failed in House Committee • HB 1803 (Wilson) • Procedurally Dead: House Calendar Deadline Purchase / Conversion: Notice • SB 796 (Schwertner) • Vote failed in House Committee 13 87TH POLICE FUNDING City Police Funding HB 1900 (Goldman) Effective September 1, 2021 • Applies only to municipalities over 250,000 • “Defunding municipality” reduces appropriation to police department compared to previous budget. [lower than the larger of previous two years’ budgets until 2023] • Determined by Office of Governor’s Criminal Justice Division (“CJD”). Some exceptions allowed at discretion of CJD • Penalties: • Dis-annexation elections and prohibition on annexations. • Must use lowest property tax rate (generally no-new-revenue rate) for upcoming year • Annual sales tax distribution decreased by amount determined by CJD that State spent to provide law enforcement services to City. • Increase contributions to APRS such that the combined City and member contributions are no less than the combined City and member contributions in FY2021. • AE & AWU rates capped at January 2021 levels unless utilities stop providing any funding to the City through transfers. County Funding SB 23 (Huffman) Applies only to counties over 1 million Effective January 1, 2022 9 other “defunding” bills did not pass 14 Thank you 15