SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Tuesday

April 23, 2013

The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:

Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation and use of funds in the state treasury to provide financial assistance for certain projects related to economic development and water infrastructure and for the transfer to the funds of money from the economic stabilization fund.

2 Floor Amendments

Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the sanctions that may be assessed against a judge or justice following a formal proceeding instituted by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds to fund capital projects at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the functions and operation of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Relating to electronic voter registration.

Relating to breakfast for certain public school students.

Relating to a notification requirement if a public school campus or open-enrollment charter school does not have a nurse assigned to the campus during all instructional hours.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the regulation of volunteer fire departments, volunteer firefighters, and members of industrial emergency response teams.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the regulation of low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities and radioactive substances.

6 Floor Amendments

Relating to the meeting of a governmental body held by videoconference call.

Relating to the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District; providing authority to impose a fee.

Relating to the unauthorized use of an alcoholic beverage permit or license; providing a criminal penalty.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to access to criminal history record information by a public defender's office and the office of capital writs and to an exemption for those offices from fees imposed for processing inquiries for that information.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to a study on the adequacy and appropriateness of additional compensation paid to certain county judges.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to assessment alternatives or accommodations for certain public school students in special education programs.

Relating to the computation of an electric utility's income taxes.

Relating to the standard valuation for life insurance, accident and health insurance, and annuities.

Relating to the nonforfeiture requirements of certain life insurance policies.

Relating to funding for juvenile case managers through certain court costs and to the establishment of the truancy prevention and diversion fund.

Relating to the power of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to authorize certain injection wells that transect or terminate in the Edwards Aquifer.

Relating to an optional county fee for transportation projects.

Relating to the institutions of higher education eligible to participate in the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge Scholarship program.

Relating to state agency procurement.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to funding and donations for county transportation projects, including projects of county energy transportation reinvestment zones.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 48; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 49; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the creation of the Brazoria County Municipal Utility District No. 50; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes.

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Public Utility Commission of Texas, to the transfer of certain functions from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to the Public Utility Commission of Texas, to the rates for water service, and to the functions of the Office of Public Utility Counsel; authorizing a fee.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read third time and finally passed:

Proposing a constitutional amendment appropriating money from the system benefit fund for the purpose of returning system benefit fund fees to retail electric customers.

Relating to water well drillers and pump installers; changing fees.

Relating to authorizing the Public Utility Commission of Texas to direct the comptroller to return the unappropriated balance of the system benefit fund to retail electric customers.

1 Floor Amendment

The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:

Relating to requiring certain notices to be posted on the premises of certain alcoholic beverage retailers.

2 Floor Amendments

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Recognizing the McDonald Observatory on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.

In memory of George Anton Belton.

Recognizing the AT&T Veterans organization.

In memory of Matthew Robert Clark.