ASAN (KXAN) – Texas lawmakers have been presented about about 50 projects or after KXAN’s investigations into a wide range of important issues from schools and health care to criminal justice and constitutional law. Many of those who have advanced in the legislative process advanced, while a handful of the ruler’s office is likely to become a law.
SB 1437 / SB 571: Fears of misconduct
Two draft laws related to “do not employ” records in the state that reached the ruler. It has already happened Senate Bill 1437 In the law, allow the Ministry of Justice to events in Texas to appoint employees or former volunteers who are permanently unqualified to obtain a certificate if they participate in a behavior that threatens the safety of events. The other expected to be signed Senate Bill 571,, Which expands the authority of the Texas Agency for Education in the investigation of volunteers and contractors in the third part who work in school universities and accused of misconduct. These bills were presented after KXan revealed that the juvenile corrections officer managed to obtain a job job on the ISD campus while investigating sexual misconduct by a government agency.
SB 1 Referee: Crime victim payments
Part Senate Bill 1The budget bill sent to the ruler includes a change in the state’s crime compensation fund, which pays victims and their loved ones to recovery costs and other elements such as funeral expenses. It requires the Prosecutor’s Office in Texas, which runs the fund, to provide a more accurate picture of how quickly the victims are pushing and the success of the program. This comes after KXAN discovered that the defective data formula was showing a long -short waiting time than the actual average for eight months to receive a first batch. The new law aims to happen in less than 90 days.
SB 1403: Payments for the child’s support
Another draft law signed by the ruler will affect the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which is the Senate Bill 1403, and deals with the child’s support department. The public lawyer is allowed to accelerate the procedures to reduce unnecessary delay in providing payment payments. The agency will now be able to obtain information directly to families in the courts and on its website. This procedure comes after KXAN has highlighted fears of parents owed to billions of dollars in supporting the child.
SB 378: Botox bill
There is a procedure that pushes the safety and transparency of Botox on its way until they become a law, as the legislators sent it to the ruler late. Senate Bill 378 Pupils, cosmetologists and cosmetic specialists prevent giving botox and other injections unless they are licensed or authorized to give the footage. It also gives the Ministry of Licensing and Organization in Texas more disciplinary authority over these professionals. Many cosmetic and injection specialists in Texas have registered their opposition to the draft law this session. KXan reports revealed that anyone in Texas can become approved to do injections, including Botox, and highlighted the lack of control over medical experts.
Near the errors, the effect remains
Another scale, Senate Bill 660With regard to patient safety and its operation by achieving KXAN, did not make it on the legislative finish line. The hospital security scale has cleared the Senate, but stopped in the House of Representatives Committee. In its original form, hospitals could have security barriers at their entrances at the state level. The draft law was presented after KXAN’s fatal crash in the emergency room in Austin last year, which led to a local decree that requires these devices in all new hospitals in the city.
However, state legislation has achieved severe resistance from the Texas Hospital Association, to a large extent at the costs, even when lawmakers used KXAN data to clarify the frequency of these types of accidents in medical centers. The data group is now included more than 580 over the past decade in the country – many of those in Texas. The author of the draft law, Senator Royce West, de Dallas, said he is planning to reconnect the next session.
Another draft law related to medicine was to submit after KXan reports would expand the use of medical examinations for death investigations in more provinces throughout Texas. This came after we revealed that most of the provinces do not have medical examinations – doctors who have been trained for this purpose – and instead depend on the elected peace judges who lack experience in this field.
Senate Bill 1370 He died along with many other bills at midnight at home in the last week of the session, just one step from the ruler’s office. But her sponsor, Representative Rafael Annia, de Dallas, tells KXAN that he is planning to invite temporary fees to study how to attract more doctors with this experience to fill the increasing need in Texas before the next session.
Also, we look forward to the next session, author of the book ” House Law 1738Representative Venton Jones, Dallas, said that he is planning to re -conduct his legislation, which aims to cancel the state’s unconstitutional embargo on “gay behavior.” The KXAN analysis shows, since the 1980s, that there are at least 60 attempts to do so – most of these since the US Supreme Court of the year 2003, that it is not implemented.
HB 1978, which was presented after KXAN, made it more in the legislative process than any of the previous bills. Critics say that leaving the old law in books allows police and policy makers to misuse.
In front of the governor until June 22 to sign, veto or allow bills to become a law without signing it. Many of this session – including others in the open government family and government hospitals – started with Tips of KXAN viewers. If you have something you think we should investigate, contact our investigation team.
The following KXAN journalists contributed to this report: Corresponding Data Corporate Christopher Adams, chief investigator David Barrir, journalist photography, investigation, Richi Bawz, investigative correspondent, Arizo Dost, investigative correspondent Matt Grant, investigation producer, digital manager, and investigation chief.