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TCJL Bill Tracking Report 5-22-25
TCJL Tracked Bill List 5.22.25 May 22, 2025 QUICK HIGHLIGHTS TCJL Priority and Major Supported Bills • Life of the Mother/Pregnancy Complications: SB 31 passed the House on 5-22 (second reading 12-6-10). SB 31 passed the Senate unanimously on 4-29 and passed House...
Tyler Court of Appeals Rules That Plaintiff Had No Standing to Bring Health Care Liability Claim
The Tyler Court of Appeals has affirmed an Anderson County district court order dismissing a health care liability claim for lack of standing. Margie Pearl Davis v. Palestine Principal Health Care Limited Partnership, Palestine-Principal G.P., Inc., Oluyemisi...
Stop Proxy Advisor Conflicts – Support SB 2337/HB 4079
Stop Conflicts of Interest by Proxy Advisors April 15, 2025 About 70-80 percent of the outstanding shares of U.S. publicly traded companies are owned by institutional investors, such as mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, and index funds. Individual investors...
AI Legislation Heads for Senate Floor (HB 149)
Legislation regulating the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry (not to mention anybody who deploys an AI system for use in the world) has advanced from the Senate Business & Commerce Committee and will presumably go to the Senate floor in short order....
Beaumont Court of Appeals Upholds Sanctions Order Against Prominent GOP Attorney
The Beaumont Court of Appeals has upheld a Montgomery County district court order sanctioning former Harris County GOP Chair and unsuccessful House candidate Jared Woodfill for failure to respond to discovery requests in suit against a hospital. Tom Reed and Jared...
SCOTX’s Recent Decision on UM/UIM Cases Bearing Fruit
In the first case we’ve seen since SCOTX decided In re State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. (No. 24-0172; April 25, 2025), the Dallas Court of Appeals has given a Dallas county court at law “an opportunity to revisit its rulings, including the order granting sanctions...
Dallas Court of Appeals Reverses $1.8 Million Judgment Against Oil Well-Servicing Company
The Dallas Court of Appeals has reversed a $1.8 judgment against a well-servicing company arising from injuries to another contractor’s employee during a test of the integrity of the well’s tubing. Well-Pro Services, L.P. v. Ramon Torres (No. 05-23-00773-CV; April...
SB 30 (Medical Damages) Advances from House JCJ
By a 7-4 margin, the House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee has advanced SB 30, which now deals solely with evidence of medical damages. During the discussion in committee this morning, Chairman Leach laid out a committee substitute. Once it was...
SCOTX Mandamuses Fort Worth Trial Court for Granting Death-Penalty Sanctions With No Basis in the Evidence
The Texas Supreme Court has granted a trucking company’s petition for writ of mandamus to order a Fort Worth trial court to vacate its death-penalty sanctions order in what appeared to be a relatively minor discovery dispute. Had the order been upheld, the company...
Life of the Mother Legislation Hits House Floor Tomorrow (SB 31)
Legislation clarifying current law to ensure that a physician may treat a pregnant woman for a life-threatening condition before the condition becomes acute will hit the House floor tomorrow. It appears that SB 31 as it came over from the Senate has broad support...
SCOTX Rules That if a Common Law Cause of Action for Negligent Hiring Even Exists, It’s Subject to the TCPA
The Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Houston [14th] Court of Appeals decision holding that the TCPA does not apply to a negligent hiring, training, and supervision claim. Walgreens v. Pamela McKenzie (No. 23-0955; May 16, 2025) arose from an incident at a Houston...
Hearing Alert! FOR HB 49 by Darby-Perry re Produced Water Recycling
Senate Natural Resources 9:00, Wednesday, May 21, 2025 E1.012 Hearing Notice Video Link Please attend the hearing or send a representative to register FOR HB 49 Produced Water Liability HB 49 by Darby (R-San Angelo) and Senator Perry (R-Lubbock) HB 49 by Rep....