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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. 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Subsection (d) describes daily liability for failure or refusal to take affirmative compliance action: up to $1,000 per day after the second day through the seventh day, and up to $5,000 per day after the seventh day. Those liability days are not described as business days. The Attorney General may seek recovery. This is not an automatic penalty for every initial violation. Removal under (g) applies to repeated violations by specified appointed local officials, not elected officials; that exception is not an express exemption from civil liability. Complaints about the Secretary of State or elections-division personnel are directed to the Secretary of State under (j)–(j-2), with reporting and response duties. Those provisions are read as supplementing, not expressly displacing, the general penalty provisions. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. 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TPI’s scoped-provision criterion below is distinct from the unchanged official RPT quotation. All reviewed substantive changes align within this bill’s stated scope, with no conflicting change identified. Broader priority demands outside this bill are not required for full scoped credit. One applicable TPI criterion, weight 1, contributes 1: 1/1 × 100 = 100. Mere subject-matter relevance would not earn this score.", "criteria": [ { "id": "kids-whistleblower", "weight": 1, "requirement": "Extend enforceable whistleblower protection to covered public employees reporting legal violations by elected officers of their employing governmental entity.", "outcome": "satisfied", "locator": "Section 1, Government Code 554.002(a)", "excerpt": "or an elected officer of the employing governmental entity", "reason": "Adds elected officers of the employing governmental entity as subjects of protected reports. 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The department shall provide to the child's parent or legal guardian or, if represented by an attorney, the attorney of the parent or legal guardian the information used to resolve a case described by this subsection, including the names of the physicians, the physicians' opinions, the possible conflicting conditions, all assessments conducted on the child who is the subject of the case, and all medical records related to the child. (e-1) The department, a referring provider, including a hospital, and the network may not obstruct, prevent, or inhibit a child's parent or legal guardian or, if represented by an attorney, the attorney of the parent or legal guardian from obtaining all medical records and documentation necessary to request an alternative opinion, including access to the child for that purpose by a health care professional providing an alternative or second opinion or performing diagnostic testing.", "reason": "Expands disqualification to prior case reviewers; supplies medical records before referral and names, opinions, conflicting conditions and assessments in peer-review disputes. Protects records and child access for second opinions. Retains qualified Texas specialist criteria and blind review. Retained 261.3017(c-2) allows referral over parental objection after good-faith collaboration; this is access and independence, not a parental veto. 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The Department of Family and Protective Services, licensed child-placing agency, or other person placing a child for adoption shall inform the prospective adoptive parents of their right to examine the records and other information relating to the history of the child. The department, licensed child-placing agency, or other person placing the child for adoption shall : (1) redact each social security number from the records and information; and (2) edit the records and information to protect the identity of the biological parents , any biological siblings adopted by a different family, the adoptive parents of those biological siblings, any person who made a report of abuse or neglect to the department or a law enforcement agency, and any person whose identity is confidential under Section 262.308 . (a-2) A prospective adoptive parent must sign a nondisclosure agreement before the department, licensed child-placing agency, or other person placing the child for adoption may release confidential information under this section. (a-3) The department, licensed child-placing agency, or other person placing the child for adoption shall provide the information under this section not later than the 90th day after the date the information is requested.", "reason": "Requires available history report distribution and DFPS delivery within 45 days of the later permanency-goal change or termination order. Allows confidential history access except protected identities; redacts SSNs and protected birth/sibling/adoptive-family/reporter/safe-haven identities. Requires confidentiality NDA and 90-day response. Retained 162.0062(c) limits automatic further review after election to proceed but expressly requires case record on request. 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If any revenue is generated on private property involuntarily taken, then that revenue shall be returned proportionally to the affected landowners. ∙ End Civil Asset Forfeiture: Abolish civil asset forfeiture entirely; ensure private property can only be forfeited following a criminal conviction that is upheld on appeal. ∙ Protect Texas Agriculture: Prohibit foreign governments, adversaries, and their proxies from owning or controlling Texas farmland, farms, and ranches; promote strong biosecurity measures and rapid-response eradication of harmful parasites such as the invasive New World Screwworm, while fully respecting farmers’ and ranchers’ rights and minimizing regulatory burdens.", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI automated source-backed assessment; independent substantive and implementation review accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Trail eminent-domain prohibition through September 1, 2037", "scope_explanation": "Complete three-section review identifies an express property-acquisition protection. 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The Legislature must repeal Penal Code Sections 19.06, 22.12, and Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 71.003(c); pass strong criminal penalties and new enforcement tools to fight abortion and abortion pill trafficking; hold rogue officials accountable for failing to defend life; protect fetal life from destructive practices, such as IVF (in vitro fertilization) and commercial surrogacy; promote Natural Procreative Technologies (NaPro) to help women conceive children naturally; protect vulnerable patients at any stage of life from involuntary termination in medical settings.", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI automated source-backed assessment; independent substantive and implementation review accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Abortion-drug civil enforcement and liability for officials obstructing specified claims", "scored_requirement": "Add operative civil enforcement against abortion-drug trafficking, accounting for substantive exclusions within the new remedy. 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Exceptions: protected speech/conduct, constitutional/federal limits, pregnant patient, non-abortion uses, physician emergency treatment, possession for entrapment, and federally directed conduct when preemption/immunity applies.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.052", "assessment": "Restricts new-subchapter enforcement to specified civil/qui tam routes, forbids triggering unrelated enforcement solely from a violation, preserves independently prohibited conduct under other laws. 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Woman/federal/unaware common-carrier and sexual-assault-claimant exclusions; no class. Defenses and six-year limitation.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.154–.155", "assessment": "Injunction, at least$100,000 statutory damages and fees; no duplicate statutory-damages/fees award for same violation; defendant fee restriction; protected speech preserved.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.156–.157", "assessment": "Political-subdivision coordination barred but independent amicus allowed; constitutional jurisdiction/choice-law limits and anti-SLAPP/RFRA exceptions. Unlike injury route, this coordination clause is not worded as a general bar on this state.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.251–.254", "assessment": "Preserves personal/qualified-third-party constitutional defenses and extraterritorial limitations; venue and no-transfer rules. Not a guarantee of enforceability.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.255", "assessment": "Counteraction damages, fees and at least$100,000 statutory damages protect claimants against specified retaliatory actions/judgments.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "life-trafficking-enforcement" }, { "locator": "Section 2,171A.351–.352", "assessment": "AG parens patriae civil standing to enforce existing criminal abortion laws, excluding specified chapters. 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restrict mail-in ballots to voters with disabilities, active-duty military, and citizens absent from the state; limit elections to single-day, precinct-only voting with the discretion to consolidate precinct voting locations. • Paper Ballot Security and Counting: Use only hand-marked, sequentially numbered, anti counterfeiting paper ballots signed by election officials; conduct precinct-level counting with dumb (offline) scanners at each polling location immediately upon the close of polls; publish precinct-level results before submission to the county; and provide for cost effective precinct auditing. • Closed Primaries and Party Accountability: Restrict voting in party primaries to registered members only, require candidates on the ballot to be registered with that party, and mandate that local and municipal candidates declare a party affiliation. • Strengthen Administration and Finance Rules: Make the Secretary of State an elected office; remove existing waivers from Election Code; enact legislation that penalizes the unlawful altering of election procedures – including unauthorized waivers and advisories – by public and election officials; limit out-of-state donations; and prohibit foreign and terrorist-linked donations. • Standardize Elections and Oversight: Align all local, municipal, and school district bond elections with county and state general election dates (requiring two-thirds approval for bonds); school districts shall be prohibited from conducting, administering, or overseeing their own elections; and all elections must be conducted under one uniform statewide election administration system to ensure consistency, transparency, accountability, and election integrity across Texas.", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI automated source-backed assessment; independent substantive and implementation review accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Cedar Creek Hospital District dissolution election and uniform-date exception", "scored_requirement": "Avoid adding an express exception to the Election Code uniform election-date requirement.", "scope_explanation": "One applicable criterion has a conflicting contribution of−1. max(0,−1)/1×100=0. 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Financial administration not new extraction rights.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "1.07,15.504", "assessment": "Retains project-approval restriction with administrative/SWIFT exceptions; adds rehabilitation,grants,technical assistance; portion for substantially permitted projects,conservation andloss mitigation;2percent annual admin-transfer cap and up-to$2m TCEQ permit-review staffing through2027 with2028sunset. Substantially completed permits is not permission to operate without required final authorization.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "1.08;1.10", "assessment": "Permits transfers out but prohibits restoration; creates administrative fund and eligible administration expenses. These financial restrictions do not independently establish water quality.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "1.11", "assessment": "Wastewater-planning feasibility/statutory-change study dueDecember1,2026,expiresMay31,2027; not immediate integration or guaranteed construction.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "1.12,15.703", "assessment": "Expands water bank activity to acquire/hold/transfer imported water for Texas benefit and market/environment information. Retains voluntary conservation deposits and donations for instream/water-quality/fish/bay inflow purposes; retained provisions earn no new-achievement credit. 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These oversight changes are disclosed; no separate whole-priority accountability credit.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "2.03", "assessment": "Repeals15.506,15.540,16.451(1),16.456 advisory provisions while expanded15.009 supplies consolidated oversight. Official analysis types16.541(1); operative bill says16.451(1), which controls. No invented environmental repeal.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "3.01,6.116", "assessment": "Requires public updated tool for supply progress,funded projects,net new/conserved/reclaimed water,loss assistance,transfers,cost/needs and funding gap. Reporting does not prove realized ecological results.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "4.01(a)", "assessment": "General September1,2025 effectiveness,subject to separately described2027constitutional conditions.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Retained surface/wastewater/produced-water protection", "assessment": "WC11.121/.134 authorizations,availability,nonimpairment,environmental flows and conservation diligence apply to covered state-water use,with statutory exemptions.26.001(5),26.027 and26.121 protect groundwater/surface water against unauthorized discharges; permitted treatment construction/commission-approval and dredge-fill limits disclosed.26.131 assigns oil/gas waste roles toRRC/TCEQ and requires applicable discharge water-quality standards; current new land-application provisions are not attributed toSB7.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Retained groundwater/ASR protection", "assessment": "36.113 district permits consider existing resources,conservation,quality and drawdown,subject to district geography and36.117 exceptions. Historical84RHB655§3 established27.153ASR safe-drinking-water/well-effect/native-quality considerations;27.154technical/recovery limits and federal-quality ceiling;27.155monthlymeter reports and27.156annualqualitytesting. Current27.153 also includes laterSB863/SB2885 provisions,not credited toSB7. No universal recovery cap outside statutory district scope claimed.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Retained Water Code 18.002(c),18.003(a)–(g),18.004–18.005", "assessment": "Chapter 18 is an alternative authorization route. Section 18.003 requires permits for nearshore or low-salinity diversions; qualifying offshore high-salinity diversions are exempt. Section 18.003(c) requires monthly salinity data and at least one year of qualifying data before unpermitted construction; a facility whose construction began after that demonstration need not obtain a permit solely because salinity later falls below the threshold. Chapter 18 diversions remain subject to treatment, no bay/estuary intake, minimized impingement/entrainment and designated-zone rules. Section 18.004 requires authorization for bed-and-banks conveyance and a Section 18.005 discharge permit. Section 18.005 imposes receiving-water standards and applicable state/federal requirements, with route-specific discharge, location and procedural safeguards. Section 18.002(c) expressly preserves Chapter 11 diversion and Chapter 26 discharge alternatives, including bay/estuary authorizations. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. 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Section 37.015, Education Code, is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1), (c-1), (g), and (g-1) to read as follows: (a) The principal of a public or private primary or secondary school, or a person designated by the principal under Subsection (d), shall notify the chief administrative officer of the school and any school district police department and the police department of the municipality in which the school is located or, if the school is not in a municipality, the sheriff of the county in which the school is located if the principal has reasonable grounds to believe that any of the following activities occur in school, on school property, or at a school-sponsored or school-related activity on or off school property, whether or not the activity is investigated by school security officers: (1) conduct that may constitute an offense listed under Section 508.149, Government Code; (2) deadly conduct under Section 22.05, Penal Code; (3) a terroristic threat under Section 22.07, Penal Code; (4) the use, sale, or possession of a controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, or marihuana under Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code; (5) the possession of any of the weapons or devices listed under Sections 46.01(1)-(14) or Section 46.01(16), Penal Code; (6) conduct that may constitute a criminal offense under Section 71.02, Penal Code; [ [DELETED] or [/DELETED] ] (7) conduct that may constitute a criminal offense for which a student may be expelled under Section 37.007(a), (d), or (e) ; (8) conduct that may constitute a criminal offense under Section 20A.02, 20A.03, 21.02, 21.11, 21.12, 21.15, 21.16, 21.165, 21.18, 21.19, 22.011, 22.021, 43.23, 43.24, 43.25, 43.26, or 43.262, Penal Code; or (9) conduct that may constitute a felony of the first degree under Section 22.04, Penal Code . (a-1) The chief administrative officer of a public or private primary or secondary school shall notify the applicable law enforcement agency described by Subsection (a) regarding conduct described by that subsection immediately after becoming aware that the principal of the school or the principal's designee under Subsection (d) has failed to report the conduct as required by Subsection (a). (c-1) Immediately after becoming aware of conduct described by Subsection (a), the principal of a public or private primary or secondary school or the principal's designee under Subsection (d) shall provide the notice required by Subsection (a). (g) A principal who fails to report or ensure the principal's designee under Subsection (d) has reported conduct as required by Subsection (a) not later than 48 hours after becoming aware of the conduct or a chief administrative officer who fails to report conduct as required by Subsection (a-1) not later than 48 hours after becoming aware that the principal or the principal's designee did not report the conduct is liable to the state for a civil penalty in the amount of $1,000 for each day after the applicable 48-hour period that the principal, principal's designee, or chief administrative officer fails to report conduct in accordance with this section. The attorney general may sue to collect a civil penalty under this subsection. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. When a marriage breaks down, family law proceedings should respect 50/50 equal parenting presumptions in the best interest of children. ∙ Protect Family Sovereignty and Privacy: In order to protect the rights of the family and end the collection of student data using harmful and deceptive practices, eliminate the funding and implementation of programs or materials that interfere with healthy family formation, family sovereignty, and student privacy – including Social Emotional Learning (SEL), harmful materials, school-based mental health surveys, health programming and clinics, online platforms, apps, other technology products, and the use of artificial intelligence. ∙ Sales and Display: Ban the sale or display of obscene devices in family-friendly stores and allow them only in sexually oriented businesses.", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI source-backed assessment; independent audit accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Parent-directed education options following specified public-school employee victimization", "scope_explanation": "All three sections and each new 38.551–.555 provision assessed. One parental-choice criterion satisfied: 1 / 1 × 100 = 100. The future educational-program regulation freeze is expressly disclosed and treated as neutral absent an identified contrary operative protection; no speculative future-law deduction. This is scoped TPI alignment, not whole-priority fulfillment.", "criteria": [ { "id": "kids-family-rights", "weight": 1, "requirement": "Give parents of eligible victimized public-school students an enforceable, parent-agreeable transfer option or specified private/home-education funding election.", "official_requirement": "promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools", "outcome": "satisfied", "locator": "Section 1, added Education Code 38.551, complete section", "excerpt": "Sec. 38.551. SCHOOL CHOICE. The parent of an eligible student may elect for the student to: (1) be transferred to another school district campus as provided by Section 38.553; or (2) receive funding for the cost of educating the student in a private school, including a home school, as provided by Section 38.554.", "reason": "Creates parent election and eligibility from specified conviction/deferred adjudication, report evidence or detailed intentional grooming; does not require conviction for every eligible student. Participation ends at graduation or loss of public-school eligibility. Requires requested transfer to another district campus or a neighboring district when only one campus serves the grade. Destination must be agreeable to parent; ordinary 25.034 transfer procedure does not apply. District need not provide transportation. Provides annual state amount tied to district Chapter 48 entitlement; use restricted to accredited private-school tuition/fees or commissioner-authorized homeschooling items. Excludes federal and available-school-fund money. Does not guarantee private-school admission. Selected private schools cannot be required to comply with state laws/rules governing their educational program not in effect January 1, 2025. Explicit TPI interpretation: neutral in this scoped assessment because no concrete contradictory operative priority protection is identified. Not a repeal of all existing private-school law or immunity from all criminal, health or reporting laws. Future application is not presumed harmless in every possible case. Commissioner implementation rules must address fraud/abuse. Neutral administration, not a separate scored criterion. Applies beginning 2025–26 school year. 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District need not provide transportation.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 38.554(a)–(c)", "assessment": "Provides annual state amount tied to district Chapter 48 entitlement; use restricted to accredited private-school tuition/fees or commissioner-authorized homeschooling items. Excludes federal and available-school-fund money. Does not guarantee private-school admission.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 38.554(d)", "assessment": "Selected private schools cannot be required to comply with state laws/rules governing their educational program not in effect January 1, 2025. Explicit TPI interpretation: neutral in this scoped assessment because no concrete contradictory operative priority protection is identified. Not a repeal of all existing private-school law or immunity from all criminal, health or reporting laws. Future application is not presumed harmless in every possible case.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 38.555", "assessment": "Commissioner implementation rules must address fraud/abuse. Neutral administration, not a separate scored criterion.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 2", "assessment": "Applies beginning 2025–26 school year.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 3", "assessment": "Conditional immediate effect or September 1, 2025 fallback; this is an engrossed version, not proof of enactment.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" } ] }, "context_sources": [ { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/HS/htm/HS.241.htm", "file": "HS.241.htm", "sha256": "98b63f177b6370e61b1ff94e0f81096acae7b228637bb6ec7ad59d1a1f5d78a8", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:22.548Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/HS.241.htm", "locator": "HS.241.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/FA/htm/FA.261.htm", "file": "FA.261.htm", "sha256": "25ea0002ce06c0fd321e9c8cd4fb4e35d51ddfa0283414e90ebaf9d70bbcbe99", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:23.331Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/FA.261.htm", "locator": "FA.261.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.22.htm", "file": "ED.22.htm", "sha256": "93aa84f9929adeca8b55adcd7f5eb5291f03972843c2ea85e118b0c56f80a9db", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:23.619Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.22.htm", "locator": "ED.22.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.38.htm", "file": "ED.38.htm", "sha256": "af5593d7f83d70ede010c2e6c9ccce580b8c1f4f82468af1740f5a3ee5db897d", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:24.238Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.38.htm", "locator": "ED.38.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.25.htm", "file": "ED.25.htm", "sha256": "51424447098f00079ee477bee708566ab30416bddd6709c7b79eda663ed982a1", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:24.738Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.25.htm", "locator": "ED.25.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/HS/htm/HS.181.htm", "file": "HS.181.htm", "sha256": "d2d391689e4c481e7a843d0c576d0d1da96daa246d40161803953937b7bcea69", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:59.444Z", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/HS.181.htm", "locator": "HS.181.htm" } ], "score_history": [ { "method": "tpi-scoped-provisions-v2", "value": null, "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "reason": "Section 1, 38.554(d), exempts a selected private school from later state educational-program laws/rules. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. When a marriage breaks down, family law proceedings should respect 50/50 equal parenting presumptions in the best interest of children. ∙ Protect Family Sovereignty and Privacy: In order to protect the rights of the family and end the collection of student data using harmful and deceptive practices, eliminate the funding and implementation of programs or materials that interfere with healthy family formation, family sovereignty, and student privacy – including Social Emotional Learning (SEL), harmful materials, school-based mental health surveys, health programming and clinics, online platforms, apps, other technology products, and the use of artificial intelligence. ∙ Sales and Display: Ban the sale or display of obscene devices in family-friendly stores and allow them only in sexually oriented businesses.", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI source-backed assessment; independent audit accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Hospital accountability for alternative-opinion information and abuse-related diagnostic coding", "scope_explanation": "All two bill sections and 241.451–.454 assessed. TPI interprets compelled monitoring of family-information practices and accountable diagnostic attribution as concrete procedural support for parental rights. One scoped accountability criterion satisfied: 1 / 1 × 100 = 100. It does not establish a new duty to give second-opinion notice, create a new second-opinion right or guarantee access. Confidentiality and cure limits remain disclosed.", "criteria": [ { "id": "kids-family-rights", "weight": 1, "requirement": "Require hospitals to report whether families were informed of alternative medical opinions and identify the physician basis for abuse-related diagnostic coding, backed by reporting enforcement.", "official_requirement": "promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools", "outcome": "satisfied", "locator": "Section 1, added Health and Safety Code 241.451(a)–(e), complete section", "excerpt": "Sec. 241.451. SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE, EXPLOITATION, OR NEGLECT REPORTS. (a) In this section, \"abuse,\" \"exploitation,\" and \"neglect\" have the meanings assigned by Section 261.001, Family Code. (b) Not later than the fifth day of each month, a hospital shall submit a report to the commission containing the following information: (1) the number of reports made during the preceding month by the hospital or an agent or employee of the hospital to the Department of Family and Protective Services under Chapter 261, Family Code, regarding alleged or suspected abuse, exploitation, or neglect of a child; (2) whether the hospital informed the parent, legal guardian, managing conservator, or possessory conservator of a child who is the subject of a report described by Subdivision (1) that the parent, legal guardian, managing conservator, or possessory conservator may obtain an alternative opinion regarding the appropriate course of medical treatment for the child; and (3) any code indicating alleged or suspected abuse, exploitation, or neglect that the hospital used for purposes of diagnosing or treating a child who is the subject of a report described by Subdivision (1), including, as applicable, the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code, the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) code, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code, or another common identifier. (c) A hospital shall attach to each report submitted under Subsection (b) a signed affidavit from each physician who during the period covered by the report assigned or caused to be assigned a code described by Subsection (b)(3) for purposes of diagnosing or treating a child who is a subject of the report. The affidavit must include the name of the physician who assigned the code or caused the code to be assigned and a statement establishing whether the physician assigned the code based on the physician's direct observation of the child or based on information provided to the physician by an agent or employee of the hospital. The information contained in an affidavit required under this subsection is confidential and not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code. (d) If the information required to be included in the report under Subsection (b)(3) is not available at the time a report is submitted, the hospital shall include that information in the next report required to be submitted by the hospital after the date the information required by that subdivision becomes available and attach to that next report any affidavit described by Subsection (c) related to that information. (e) A hospital shall submit the report required under Subsection (b) in the form and manner prescribed by commission rule.", "reason": "Defines abuse/exploitation/neglect by FA261.001; requires monthly hospital report by fifth day with report counts, whether parent/guardian/conservator was informed of alternative medical opinion, and abuse-related diagnostic codes. Concrete monitoring of family-information practices is the aligned mechanism. Reporting whether notice occurred is not a mandate to provide that notice. Requires named-physician affidavit stating direct observation versus hospital-supplied information; affidavit confidential. Unavailable code information/related affidavits go into next report after becoming available. Commission sets format. Accountable attribution supports scrutiny of reporting that can affect families; it does not prove any reported diagnosis is erroneous. Enforces reporting, not provision of second-opinion notice. Notice and 15-day cure precede daily liability starting day 16; revenue-tier daily caps $10/$100/$1,000, liability stops on correction, and previous violations/seriousness/good faith/justice factors apply. Penalty money goes to commission-administered account. No requirement for immediate or uncapped penalties is invented. Quarterly legislative summaries and implementing rules. No express requirement to publish child names. HS241.153(9) permits required government disclosures, so parent authorization is not claimed as prerequisite. HS181.001(b)(2)/181.006 protect governmental-covered-entity PHI from public disclosure. Physician-affidavit confidentiality is additional. No actual harmful disclosure or categorical harmful-program inference established. September 1, 2025 effective-date provision in engrossed text; not proof of enactment." } ], "excluded": [ { "requirement": "Separate school-screening, inspector-general, penalty-tier, educator NDA and whistleblower reforms; same-sex adoption ban; no-fault divorce; 50/50 parenting presumption; obscene-device sales", "reason": "No substantive amendment implements or repeals these separate requirements. General custody, adoption or confidential-family-record provisions are not automatically changes to the distinct demands. These exclusions are pending independent applicability review." }, { "requirement": "Eliminating harmful programs/materials and funding", "reason": "No separate credit or penalty from medical, counseling, religious, electronic-record or technology labels. No documented harmful program is categorically eliminated by this assessment; direct parent-control/information changes counted once." }, { "requirement": "Creation of a right to second-opinion notice or elimination of allegedly harmful health programs", "reason": "Neither is enacted by this bill. Score is for monitoring/accountability supporting parental rights, not presumed harm from medical care, coding or reporting. Retained confidentiality is not presented as a newly enacted SB128 protection." } ], "interpretation_note": "Provisional TPI-defined scoped interpretation, not official RPT grading or whole-priority completion. 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Unavailable code information/related affidavits go into next report after becoming available. Commission sets format. Accountable attribution supports scrutiny of reporting that can affect families; it does not prove any reported diagnosis is erroneous.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 241.452(a)–(h)", "assessment": "Enforces reporting, not provision of second-opinion notice. Notice and 15-day cure precede daily liability starting day 16; revenue-tier daily caps $10/$100/$1,000, liability stops on correction, and previous violations/seriousness/good faith/justice factors apply. Penalty money goes to commission-administered account. No requirement for immediate or uncapped penalties is invented.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 241.453–.454 and retained confidentiality context", "assessment": "Quarterly legislative summaries and implementing rules. No express requirement to publish child names. HS241.153(9) permits required government disclosures, so parent authorization is not claimed as prerequisite. HS181.001(b)(2)/181.006 protect governmental-covered-entity PHI from public disclosure. Physician-affidavit confidentiality is additional. No actual harmful disclosure or categorical harmful-program inference established.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" }, { "locator": "Section 2", "assessment": "September 1, 2025 effective-date provision in engrossed text; not proof of enactment.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "kids-family-rights" } ] }, "context_sources": [ { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/HS/htm/HS.241.htm", "file": "HS.241.htm", "sha256": "98b63f177b6370e61b1ff94e0f81096acae7b228637bb6ec7ad59d1a1f5d78a8", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:22.548Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/HS.241.htm", "locator": "HS.241.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/FA/htm/FA.261.htm", "file": "FA.261.htm", "sha256": "25ea0002ce06c0fd321e9c8cd4fb4e35d51ddfa0283414e90ebaf9d70bbcbe99", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:23.331Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/FA.261.htm", "locator": "FA.261.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.22.htm", "file": "ED.22.htm", "sha256": "93aa84f9929adeca8b55adcd7f5eb5291f03972843c2ea85e118b0c56f80a9db", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:23.619Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.22.htm", "locator": "ED.22.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.38.htm", "file": "ED.38.htm", "sha256": "af5593d7f83d70ede010c2e6c9ccce580b8c1f4f82468af1740f5a3ee5db897d", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:24.238Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.38.htm", "locator": "ED.38.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/ED/htm/ED.25.htm", "file": "ED.25.htm", "sha256": "51424447098f00079ee477bee708566ab30416bddd6709c7b79eda663ed982a1", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:24.738Z", "scope": "Current statutory context; prospective amendment must be analyzed from its exact engrossed text.", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/ED.25.htm", "locator": "ED.25.htm" }, { "url": "https://tcss.legis.texas.gov/resources/HS/htm/HS.181.htm", "file": "HS.181.htm", "sha256": "d2d391689e4c481e7a843d0c576d0d1da96daa246d40161803953937b7bcea69", "retrieved_at": "2026-11-02T02:34:59.444Z", "local_file": "scoring-cohorts-20261102/family_b/followup/HS.181.htm", "locator": "HS.181.htm" } ], "score_history": [ { "method": "tpi-scoped-provisions-v2", "value": null, "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "reason": "241.451(b)(2) reports whether parents were told about an alternative opinion; it does not require that notice. 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Reporting topic alone is insufficient.", "note": "Prior local provisional hold preserved; this history does not claim a numerical score was previously published." } ], "proposed_score": 100, "scored_requirement": "Require hospitals to report whether families were informed of alternative medical opinions and identify the physician basis for abuse-related diagnostic coding, backed by reporting enforcement." }, { "schema_version": 1, "method": "tpi-scoped-provisions-v2", "session": "89R", "bill": "SB 612", "priority": "sovereignty", "standard_set": "rpt-90th-2026", "version": "Enrolled", "source_url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/billtext/html/SB00612F.htm", "source_sha256": "794b7aea17ba3e495db7676b67930cd9881baefdaf00bd0fb3b6c343062ac2fa", "decision_source_sha256": "794b7aea17ba3e495db7676b67930cd9881baefdaf00bd0fb3b6c343062ac2fa", "source_representation": "Original official HTML bytes", "priority_text": "Electric Grid Protection: Protect the Texas grid from large-scale EMP (electromagnetic pulse) and foreign-adversary cyber threats by removing vulnerable control equipment; pause uneconomical 765 kV transmission projects; ensure fair electricity rates for families and small businesses; and recapture federal incentives to preserve grid independence through conventional generation. ∙ Water Security: Ban large-scale export or sale of groundwater and surface water to any single private entity; prohibit data centers and new large industrial users from consuming fresh groundwater and surface water by mandating nonpotable water such as oil and gas wastewater; ban fluoridation of public water supplies; and expedite permitting, funding, and construction of desalination, wastewater reuse, produced water treatment, reservoirs, and conveyance infrastructure while protecting rivers and streams. ∙ Texas Is Not for Sale: Expand prohibitions on foreign and adversary ownership or control of all critical infrastructure and adjacent land; require full beneficial-ownership disclosure to prevent shell company evasion; and strengthen oversight of local authorities through Texas Local Government Code Chapter 391 Regional Planning Commissions and related tools. ∙ Eminent Domain and Property Rights: Require proof of immediate public necessity for all eminent domain actions with transparent hearings and prohibit the use of eminent domain for speculative private projects or by non-elected entities. If any revenue is generated on private property involuntarily taken, then that revenue shall be returned proportionally to the affected landowners. ∙ End Civil Asset Forfeiture: Abolish civil asset forfeiture entirely; ensure private property can only be forfeited following a criminal conviction that is upheld on appeal. ∙ Protect Texas Agriculture: Prohibit foreign governments, adversaries, and their proxies from owning or controlling Texas farmland, farms, and ranches; promote strong biosecurity measures and rapid-response eradication of harmful parasites such as the invasive New World Screwworm, while fully respecting farmers’ and ranchers’ rights and minimizing regulatory burdens.", "priority_source_url": "https://texasgop.org/priorities/", "priority_source_sha256": "e3f119280ceb4f46ed4eb03f7c37787d86ed06e14777b99d7d297c1f51c703ce", "assessed_at": "2026-11-02", "review_type": "TPI source-backed assessment; independent audit accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Cost-based developer fees for water and sewer pipeline infrastructure", "scope_explanation": "Both bill sections, historical geographic limits and specified retained pollution/construction safeguards assessed. One combined scoped TPI criterion: cost-based conveyance construction fees with applicable resource protection. Proposed1/1×100=100; independent reassessment pending. This neither predicts construction speed nor awards new-legislation credit for retained safeguards.", "criteria": [ { "id": "water-scoped-infrastructure", "weight": 1, "requirement": "Reduce the specified financing or fee barrier for water infrastructure while retaining applicable protection of affected water resources.", "official_requirement": "expedite permitting, funding, and construction of desalination, wastewater reuse, produced water treatment, reservoirs, and conveyance infrastructure while protecting rivers and streams", "outcome": "satisfied", "locator": "Section1,49.2127(a),(e); retained Water Code26.001(5),26.121,26.027(c)–(d);30TAC290.44", "excerpt": "actual, reasonable, and documented costs", "reason": "Section49.2127(e) removes fees above actual reasonable documented pipeline/subdivision costs, retaining cost recovery for review, engineering, inspection and repair. Actual retained protection is separately identified: Water Code26.121 prohibits unauthorized sewage/waste and pollutant discharges and violations of permit conditions;26.001 includes groundwater and surface waters. Wastewater treatment construction generally requires authorization under26.027(c), with commission-approval and dredge/fill limitations disclosed. Public drinking-water distribution is additionally subject to290.44 separation from wastewater facilities, protected stream crossings, leakage testing and disinfection. These constraints apply according to facility/activity jurisdiction, not because the fee cap itself is protective. Private/non-public facilities are not assumed subject to every public-system rule. Geographic limits remain; developers do not gain the separate retail-utility construction-restriction protection." } ], "excluded": [ { "requirement": "Separate mandates for groundwater/surface-water export, industrial nonpotable use and fluoridation", "reason": "Neither section changes these separate programs. No credit is awarded for them." }, { "requirement": "Electric grid, foreign ownership, eminent domain, civil forfeiture and agriculture", "reason": "Outside these fee provisions; excluded rather than considered satisfied." } ], "provision_review": { "complete": true, "parts": [ { "locator": "Section 1, 49.2127(a)", "assessment": "Defines the covered developer by subdivision or connection request; renumbers retained retail-public-utility definition.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-scoped-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Section 1, 49.2127(e)", "assessment": "Caps developer infrastructure fees at actual reasonable documented costs while preserving cost recovery for review, engineering, inspection and related work; no environmental approval is waived.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "water-scoped-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Section 2", "assessment": "Immediate-effect vote condition or September 1, 2025 fallback; separate from alignment.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-scoped-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Retained Water Code26.001(5),26.121(a)–(e),26.027(c)–(d)", "assessment": "Context only: pollution controls reach affected groundwater/surface water. Sewage/municipal/industrial discharges and point-source pollution require authorization; other-waste plan and specified other-agency activity exceptions are disclosed. Treatment construction permits have commission-approval exception; Chapter26 does not itself require dredge/fill permits. No assertion that every pipeline needs the same permit or that water allocation is governed by these sections.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-scoped-infrastructure" }, { "locator": "Retained30TAC290.44; TCEQ February2019 distribution construction notes", "assessment": "Context for covered public drinking-water distribution: water/wastewater separation, watertight stream-crossing encasement with isolation/testing, leakage limits and disinfection/sample requirements. These protect the supplied water and affected crossings; applicability is not extended to every private pipeline.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "water-scoped-infrastructure" } ] }, "interpretive_audit": { "status": "INDEPENDENT_AUDIT_ACCEPTED", "human_reviewed": false }, "interpretation_note": "TPI custom water scope includes groundwater, aquifers, water tables, watersheds and other affected resources. Exact RPT quote remains unchanged. 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Codify an Independent Inspector General with broad authority, including subpoena power, criminal investigative referral, and the ability to apply Do Not Hire enforcement retroactively. Give the Education Code teeth: implement a tiered system of penalties and fines as enforcement; prohibit NDAs (non disclosure agreements) and other attempts to hide educator misconduct through separation agreements and employment settlements; and provide clear whistleblower protections for reporters of misconduct. Promote Marriage and Strong Families: As marriage and strong families are the best protection for children, promote and respect marriage, family unity, parenting, and parental rights across all state agencies, including CPS (child protective services) and schools. Ban same-sex adoption. End no-fault divorce. When a marriage breaks down, family law proceedings should respect 50/50 equal parenting presumptions in the best interest of children. ∙ Protect Family Sovereignty and Privacy: In order to protect the rights of the family and end the collection of student data using harmful and deceptive practices, eliminate the funding and implementation of programs or materials that interfere with healthy family formation, family sovereignty, and student privacy – including Social Emotional Learning (SEL), harmful materials, school-based mental health surveys, health programming and clinics, online platforms, apps, other technology products, and the use of artificial intelligence. ∙ Sales and Display: Ban the sale or display of obscene devices in family-friendly stores and allow them only in sexually oriented businesses.", "priority_source_url": "https://texasgop.org/priorities/", "priority_source_sha256": "e3f119280ceb4f46ed4eb03f7c37787d86ed06e14777b99d7d297c1f51c703ce", "assessed_at": "2026-11-08", "review_type": "Newly reconstructed TPI source-backed assessment; independent implementation and interpretive review accepted; not human reviewed", "complete": true, "scope": "Criminal protection against coercive suppression of covered official information, including by school administrators", "scope_explanation": "All substantive provisions of this exact version reviewed. One equally weighted TPI directional criterion is satisfied: 1 / 1 × 100 = 100. This is alignment within the stated narrow scope, not fulfillment of the entire priority, an official RPT grade, or a prediction of outcomes. 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Section 39.06(f), Penal Code, is repealed.", "reason": "Repealing the Class C misdemeanor exception makes the existing coercive-suppression offense subject to the third-degree felony default; specified net pecuniary gains can produce higher felony tiers. The retained offense expressly includes school administrators, but applies only when a public servant relies on nonpublic information accessed through office or employment and coerces another to suppress or fail to report it to law enforcement. Retained subsection (d) further defines the covered information by public access and Chapter 552 disclosure restrictions. TPI treats strengthening this existing criminal protection as directional support for misconduct reporting within the stated school-administrator scope. 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One equally weighted TPI directional criterion is satisfied: 1 / 1 × 100 = 100. This is alignment within the stated narrow scope, not fulfillment of the entire priority, an official RPT grade, or a prediction of outcomes. Neutral implementation and retained law earn no additional points.", "scored_requirement": "Require paper ballots used in hand-count counties to be capable of being scanned and processed by an optical scanner.", "criteria": [ { "id": "elections-scannable-paper-ballots", "requirement": "Require paper ballots used in hand-count counties to be capable of being scanned and processed by an optical scanner.", "official_requirement": "conduct precinct-level counting with dumb (offline) scanners at each polling location immediately upon the close of polls", "weight": 1, "outcome": "satisfied", "locator": "Section 1, proposed Election Code 52.076", "excerpt": "For an election in a county that conducts a hand count of voted paper ballots, the ballot must be capable of being scanned and processed by an optical scanner.", "reason": "The engrossed version expressly requires optical-scanner capability for paper ballots in counties that conduct a hand count. TPI treats that design requirement as narrow directional support for the official scanner-counting clause because it makes the specified ballots capable of scanner processing. This is an explicit TPI interpretation. The bill requires no scanner purchase, actual scanner use, offline operation, precinct-level processing, immediate counting, or particular audit procedure; it does not prohibit hand counting. Those unaddressed requirements are excluded rather than claimed as satisfied." } ], "excluded": [ { "requirement": "Scanner use, offline operation, precinct location, immediate counting, publication, and audits", "reason": "The bill mandates only ballot capability. It does not require scanners to be obtained or used, specify network connectivity or counting location or timing, require results publication, or establish an auditing procedure." }, { "requirement": "Other ballot-design requirements", "reason": "No new hand-marking, sequential numbering, anti-counterfeiting, or election-official signature rules are enacted by these two sections. Existing requirements are not scored as new achievements." }, { "requirement": "Other election-priority requirements", "reason": "No new citizenship, registration, English-language, voter-roll, photo-ID, mail-voting, precinct-voting, primary-membership, candidate-affiliation, administration, donation, or election-date rules. No other priority is directly changed by this ballot-capability measure." } ], "provision_review": { "complete": true, "parts": [ { "locator": "Section 1, proposed Election Code 52.076", "assessment": "Adds one rule: in a county conducting a hand count of voted paper ballots, ballots must be capable of being scanned and processed by an optical scanner. It neither mandates actual scanning nor abolishes hand counting. No offline, precinct, immediate-count, or audit mandate is present.", "outcome": "aligned", "criterion_id": "elections-scannable-paper-ballots" }, { "locator": "Section 2", "assessment": "States a September 1, 2025 effective date. This is the engrossed bill’s proposed effective-date clause, not a finding that the bill became law. Enactment status is separate from scoring.", "outcome": "neutral", "criterion_id": "elections-scannable-paper-ballots" } ] }, "context_sources": [ { "url": "https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/analysis/html/HB03113E.htm", "sha256": "db4ea0b957a8bddc5de63994befc5719972322f0584ef06f73ea4c19d1cc6b18", "locator": "Section 1 and stated intent", "role": "Official Senate Research Center analysis corroborates the engrossed optical-scanner-capability rule. Stated audit benefits are not treated as enacted audit duties." } ], "interpretive_audit": { "status": "INDEPENDENT_IMPLEMENTATION_AND_INTERPRETIVE_REVIEW_ACCEPTED", "human_reviewed": false, "assessed_at": "2026-11-08" }, "interpretation_note": "TPI-defined scoped criterion is separate from the unchanged official RPT wording. A satisfied narrow requirement yields 100 under the approved method; it does not mean the whole priority is fulfilled. No specific adverse provision was established within this reviewed priority scope. 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