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SENATE BILLS
THIRD READING
SB 498 Taylor,
Larry / et al.
SP: Bonnen, Dennis
Relating
to building code requirements for residential property insured by the Texas
Windstorm Insurance Association.
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SB 481 Hancock
/ et al.
SP: Smithee
Relating
to consumer information concerning facility-based physicians and notice and
availability of mediation for balance billing by a facility-based
physician.
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SB 686 Seliger
/ et al.
SP: Clardy
Relating
to the Math and Science Scholars Loan Repayment Program.
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SB 652 Schwertner
SP: Farney / Simmons /
Oliveira / et al.
Relating
to excluding a franchisor as an employer of a franchisee or a franchisee's
employees.
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SB 746 Whitmire
/ et al.
SP: Turner, Sylvester
Relating
to the civil commitment of sexually violent predators; amending provisions
subject to criminal penalties.
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SB 2034 Lucio
/ et al.
SP: Lucio III
Relating
to the creation of the Cameron County Healthcare District; granting the
authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent
domain.
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SB 837 Watson
/ et al.
SP: Workman
Relating
to a common characteristic or use project in a public improvement district
in certain municipalities.
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SB 459 Lucio
/ et al.
SP: Alvarado
Relating
to the creation of the Advisory Council on Cultural Affairs in the office
of the governor.
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SB 653 Eltife
SP: Oliveira
Relating
to increasing the amount of burial benefits required to be paid by an
insurance carrier under the workers' compensation system.
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SB 1057 Hinojosa
SP: Herrero
Relating
to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.
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SB 934 Kolkhorst
/ et al.
SP: Farney
Relating
to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide
mathematics instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three.
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UNTIL 12:25 AM on Friday, May 15, 2015
SB 876 Eltife
SP: Frullo
Relating
to the licensing of insurance agents and adjusters; providing a penalty.
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UNTIL 4:59 AM on Friday, May 15, 2015
SB 455 Creighton
SP: Schofield
Relating
to special three-judge district courts convened to hear certain cases.
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UNTIL 6:00 AM on Friday, May 15, 2015
SB 1173 Nichols
SP: Phillips
Relating
to commercial driver's licenses and commercial learner's permits and the
operation of commercial motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense;
amending provisions subject to a criminal penalty; authorizing fees.
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UNTIL 1:10 PM on Friday, May 15, 2015
SB 206 Schwertner
/ et al.
SP: Burkett / Raymond
Relating
to the continuation and functions of the Department of Family and
Protective Services and procedures applicable to suits affecting the
parent-child relationship, investigations of child abuse and neglect, and
conservatorship of a child; affecting fee amounts and authorizing an
administrative penalty.
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UNTIL 6:00 AM
SB 268 Watson
/ et al.
SP: Anchia
Relating
to the duties of a magistrate to inform an arrested person of consequences
of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere.
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UNTIL 9:00 AM
SB 1697 Huffman
SP: Smithee / Elkins /
Fallon / Rinaldi
Relating
to the confidentiality of certain information regarding procedures and
substances used in the execution of a convict.
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UNTIL 10:00 AM
SB 20 Nelson
/ et al.
SP: Price / Cook /
Raymond / Kuempel
Relating
to state agency contracting; authorizing fees; creating an offense.
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UNTIL 12:00 PM
SB 1282 Eltife
SP: Parker
Relating
to the regulation of consumer credit transactions and the regulatory
authority of the Office of Consumer Credit Commissioner.
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SB 461 Perry
/ et al.
SP: Parker
Relating
to false or misleading packaging, labeling, or advertising of certain
abusable synthetic substances; providing civil penalties; creating a
criminal offense.
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SENATE BILLS
SECOND READING
SB 55 Nelson
/ et al.
SP: King, Susan
Relating
to the creation of a grant program to support community mental health
programs for veterans with mental illness.
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SB 339 Eltife
/ et al.
SP: Klick / Zerwas /
Zedler / Coleman / Sheffield / et al.
Relating
to the medical use of low-THC cannabis and the regulation of related
organizations and individuals; requiring a dispensing organization to
obtain a license to dispense low-THC cannabis and any employee of a
dispensing organization to obtain a registration; authorizing fees.
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SB 169 Uresti
/ et al.
SP: King, Susan
Relating
to ensuring that certain military members and their spouses and dependents
maintain their positions on interest lists or other waiting lists for
certain health and human services assistance programs.
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SB 912 Eltife
SP: Crownover
Relating
to a volume-based exemption from reporting requirements for certain
accidental discharges or spills from wastewater facilities.
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********** RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR **********
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
HCR 90 Hunter
/ Lozano / Herrero / Morrison / Fallon
Requesting
the speaker and lieutenant governor to create a joint interim committee to
study seawater desalination on the Texas coast.
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HCR 96 Hunter
Requesting
the speaker of the house of representatives and the lieutenant governor to
create a joint interim committee to study the issue of advertising public
notices.
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HCR 57 Anchia
/ Craddick / Nevárez / Crownover / Darby / et al.
Urging
the U.S. Congress to end the ban on crude oil exports.
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HCR 63 Wu /
Darby / Keffer / Anchia / Lozano / et al.
Urging
the U.S. Congress to expedite natural gas exports.
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HCR 26 Flynn
/ et al.
Urging
the United States Congress to repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and
Consumer Protection Act.
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HCR 74 Davis,
Yvonne
Directing
the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental
Quality to support the creation of a model water recycling project in an
appropriate location.
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HCR 107 Hunter
Requesting
the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives to
create a joint interim committee to study human trafficking in Texas.
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HCR 109 Paul
/ Miller, Rick / Bonnen, Greg
Urging
Congress to encourage the Department of Defense to relocate the United
States Africa Command to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston.
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HR 1508 King,
Tracy O. / Anderson, Charles "Doc"
Expressing
support for the use of sound science to study and regulate modern
agricultural technologies and opposition to legislative or regulatory action
that may result in unnecessary restrictions on the technologies.
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