SENATE FLOOR ACTION |
Monday March 9, 2015 |
Committee referral on the following: |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to permit professional sports team charitable foundations to conduct charitable raffles. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran who died before the law authorizing a residence homestead exemption for such a veteran took effect. Finance |
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Urging the United States Congress to provide Department of Homeland Security funds for the protection of the Texas electric grid. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Designating Quitaque as the official Bison Capital of Texas. Administration |
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Relating to state agency contracting. Finance |
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Relating to the efficiency and consolidation of powers and duties within the health and human services system. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the Department of State Health Services, the provision of health services in this state, and the regulation of certain health-related occupations and activities. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the functions and operations of the Department of Aging and Disability Services; increasing penalties. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the 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. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the abolishment of the Texas Council on Purchasing from People with Disabilities and the transfer of its functions to the comptroller of public accounts. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to restricting the use of administrative segregation by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for certain inmates. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the operations of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, including conditions of confinement of certain inmates and required training for correctional officers employed by the department. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to educator preparation programs and teacher certification examinations. Education |
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Relating to public school teacher performance appraisals, continuing education, professional development, career advancement, and compensation. Education |
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Relating to the state virtual school network. Education |
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Relating to state interventions and sanctions against public school campuses with unacceptable performance and the establishment of the Texas Opportunity School District. Education |
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Relating to the creation of the East Houston Management District; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, or taxes. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the verification of citizenship of an applicant for voter registration. State Affairs |
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Relating to charitable raffles conducted by certain professional sports team charitable foundations; providing penalties. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the regulation of money services businesses; affecting the prosecution of a criminal offense. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the operation of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and the renaming of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association as the Texas Coastal Insurance Association. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the amount of temporary income benefits to which an injured employee is entitled under the workers' compensation system. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the disclosure of certain public information by a public school district. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to procedures for the management, sale, or lease of certain state-owned real property and the management or collection of related funds, including disputed oil and gas royalties owed to the state. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to exempting emergency preparation supplies from the sales and use tax for a limited period. Finance |
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Relating to the appointment of a county auditor in certain populous counties. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to increasing the optional county fee for registering a motor vehicle. Transportation |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the board of regents of the Texas Tech University System and to workers' compensation coverage for employees of the system's components. Higher Education |
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Relating to establishment and functions of the Animal Welfare Commission. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to the county courts at law in Bexar County. State Affairs |
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Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of the total appraised value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a 100 percent or totally disabled veteran. Finance |
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Relating to the eligibility for grants for natural gas fueling stations under the Texas natural gas vehicle grant program. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to a volume-based exemption from reporting requirements for certain accidental discharges or spills from wastewater facilities. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to energy and water management planning and reporting requirements for state agencies and institutions of higher education. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to a council on long-term care facility surveys and informal dispute resolution. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to the textbook affordability pilot program and to certain studies and reports by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regarding achievable cost-saving measures and the use and availability of electronic, public domain, and open source textbooks at institutions of higher education Higher Education |
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Relating to the creation of a program to improve public education through partnerships between certain public school campuses and public universities. Education |
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Relating to the applicability of the Texas Mass Gatherings Act to certain horse and greyhound races. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the procedure for claiming an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the property of a veteran's organization. Finance |
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Relating to oil and gas wells that traverse multiple tracts. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the director of the Music, Film, Television, and Multimedia Office. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the creation and administration of a disaster recovery fund. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to authorizing the optional imposition of a county air quality fee at the time other emissions-related inspection fees are collected. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the prosecution of the offense of obstruction or retaliation; creating a criminal offense. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the guaranteed level of state and local funds for the instructional facilities allotment and the existing debt allotment under the public school finance system. Education |
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Relating to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide reading instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three. Education |
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Relating to the compelled production of certain customer records by a financial institution. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the classification of workers for purposes of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act; providing a penalty. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the abolition of the equine incentive program. Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs |
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Relating to building energy efficiency performance standards; establishing the Building Energy Efficiency Advisory Committee. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to procedures and eligibility for terminating participation in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas deferred retirement option plan. State Affairs |
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Relating to the goal for renewable energy and competitive renewable energy zones. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to retain assistance for federal proceedings affecting certain electric utilities and consumers. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the authority of the Public Utility Commission of Texas to review transmission interconnections that enable imports or exports from the ERCOT power grid. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to providing training academies for public school teachers who provide mathematics instruction to students in kindergarten through grade three. Education |
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Relating to the establishment of reading excellence teams. Education |
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Relating to the eligibility for supplemental nutrition assistance benefits for certain persons who owe delinquent child support. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to nontolled lanes on a highway that has been converted from a nontolled highway to a toll project. Transportation |
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Relating to the exercise of eminent domain by a toll project entity. Transportation |
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Relating to disclosure of financial studies and reports associated with a toll project. Transportation |
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Relating to the notification and reporting duties of a state governmental entity with public retirement system investment holdings in Sudan or Iran. State Affairs |
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Relating to the standard of review for a determination of standing in a contested case hearing conducted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to warrants or orders issued to obtain certain information through installation or use of global positioning system wireless device trackers, international mobile subscriber identity locators, or other devices or equipment, and to public access to law enforcement or prosecutor requests for certain related location or communication information; creating an offense. State Affairs |
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Relating to contempt of court committed by certain juvenile offenders and the detention of certain juvenile offenders. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the establishment of a task force to promote uniformity in the collection and reporting of information relating to family violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to funding under the public school finance system for a school district with a compressed tax rate below the state maximum compressed tax rate. Education |
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Relating to the creation of the Montgomery County Municipal Utility District No. 145; granting a limited power of eminent domain; providing authority to issue bonds; providing authority to impose assessments, fees, and taxes. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to a study and report by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board on the feasibility of providing off-campus employment positions through the Texas college work-study program. Higher Education |
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Relating to mediation as an alternative dispute resolution process. State Affairs |
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Relating to the release of certain child fatality and near fatality information for abused or neglected children. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to certain procedural measures in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship to protect a child against child neglect or physical or sexual abuse. State Affairs |
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Relating to allocation of oil and gas lease and royalty payments derived from land deeded to Texas counties for road purposes. Finance |
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Relating to parental notification of physical fitness assessment results and development of wellness plans for certain public school students. Education |
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Relating to an exemption for certain persons who sell signs from the requirement to be licensed as an electrician. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the establishment of school district policies regarding the marketing and commercial advertising of food products on school property. Education |
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Relating to permissible locations of open-enrollment charter schools created by institutions of higher education. Education |
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Relating to the delivery of personal automobile and residential property insurance policies; adding provisions that may be subject to a criminal penalty. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the regulation of crafted precious metal dealers. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the authority of the Texas Facilities Commission to manage a construction project at the site of the G. J. Sutton State Office Complex in Bexar County. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the collection of a complete set of fingerprints from certain applicants for driver's licenses. Transportation |
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Relating to the right of a dentist to contract for certain services. Health & Human Services |