• House Bill 11 (Phelan | SP: Middleton) requires each department, commission, board, office, or agency of Texas that issues or renews an occupational license to “maximize occupational licensing reciprocity agreements to the extent allowed by law,” to “identify state laws that prevent the licensing authority from entering into a reciprocity agreement with a licensing authority in another state," and to establish a procedure to enter into and implement reciprocity agreements with licensing authorities in other states that have occupational licensing requirements substantially equivalent to Texas’s requirements.

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• Senate Bill 1818 (Hancock | SP: McQueeny) amends the process by which military service members, veterans, and military spouses can acquire an alternative occupational license. The bill requires the relevant state agency, upon receipt of a license application, to promptly issue a provisional license or a full license. The provisional license is valid until the earlier of the date the agency approves or denies the license application or the 180th day after the date the provisional license was issued.

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• House Bill 879 (Frank, et al. | SP: Hagenbuch) directs the Texas Medical Board and the Texas Board of Nursing to waive state occupational licensure requirements (including the taking of a jurisprudence exam) for physicians and nurses, respectively, who are licensed in another state and are in good standing; have served in the U.S. armed forces; have retired from military service within the last year; and, at the time of military retirement, were either serving on active duty in another state or were authorized to treat members of the armed forces.

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• House Bill 2844 (Landgraf, et al. | SP: Kolkhorst) enacts a state-level regulatory structure for mobile food vendors that preempts local authority to prohibit or regulate mobile food vending. It protects businesses from excessive local regulation by enacting a reasonable state-level framework.

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• House Bill 3214 (Richardson, et al. | SP: Paxton) lowers the requirement for an individual to become a master plumber from four years of work as a journeyman plumber to two.

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• House Bill 4215 (Hunter | SP: Schwertner) expands the provisions of the state-level framework for transportation network companies (e.g. Uber, Lyft, etc.), which preempted a patchwork of onerous local ordinances around the state, to include “delivery network companies,” which, instead of delivering people, deliver food and other products.