Texas Legislature

Author:

Hilderbran | Keffer, Jim | Dukes | Cook, Byron

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | et al.

04/19/2007 H Considered in Calendars

Relating to the allocation and use of the sporting goods sales tax revenue to fund state and local parks.

Author:

Crownover | King, Phil | Woolley | Hamilton | Escobar

Allen, Alma | Anchia | Aycock | Berman | Bolton | et al.

Ellis

05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar

Relating to the elimination of smoking in certain workplaces and public places; providing penalties.

Author:

Hilderbran | Guillen | Chisum | Turner | Cook, Byron

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | et al.

Estes

06/15/2007 E See remarks for effective date

Relating to parks, wildlife, hunting, and historic sites; the funding, powers, and duties of the Parks and Wildlife Department, the Parks and Wildlife Commission, and the Texas Historical Commission; and standards for certain state law enforcement officers; providing a criminal penalty.

Author:

Flynn | Branch | King, Phil | Pena | Davis, Yvonne

Berman | Hughes | Orr

Van de Putte

06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07

Relating to the protection of customer telephone records; providing a penalty.

Author:

King, Phil | Farabee | Driver | Guillen | Ritter

Berman | Christian | Cook, Byron | Crabb | Herrero | et al.

04/26/2007 H Considered in Calendars

Relating to the rights and liabilities of an employer with respect to the carrying of a concealed handgun.

Author:

Paxton | Olivo | Escobar | Chisum | Parker

Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Brown, Betty | Brown, Fred | et al.

04/16/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars

Relating to prohibiting the use of state money for certain biomedical research.

Author:

Corte, Frank

Berman | Brown, Betty | Cook, Robby | Herrero | Howard, Charlie | et al.

04/11/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Relating to the confiscation of firearms and ammunition during a state of disaster or emergency.

Author:

Driver | King, Phil | Talton | Rose | Riddle

Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | et al.

03/19/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.

Author:

Herrero | Corte, Frank | Escobar | Hilderbran | Turner

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | et al.

05/02/2007 H Considered in Calendars

Relating to a consumer debt owed by certain military personnel called to active duty.

Author:

Jackson, Jim | Harper-Brown | Bohac | Parker | Laubenberg

Anderson | Berman | Brown, Betty | Crabb | Flynn | et al.

04/16/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to requiring governmental entities and contractors with governmental entities to participate in the federal work authorization program; providing a penalty.

Author:

Miller | Kolkhorst | Hughes | Anderson | Cook, Robby

Aycock | Bailey | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.

Estes

05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar

Relating to participation in an animal identification system.

Author:

Farabee | Ritter

Berman | Macias | Swinford

02/26/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to the rights and liabilities of an employer with respect to the carrying of a concealed handgun.

Author:

Van Arsdale | Flynn | Rose | Giddings | McClendon

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Aycock | Bailey | et al.

02/06/2007 H Referred to Pensions and Investments

Relating to prohibiting the investment of state funds in certain private business entities doing business in Sudan.

Author:

Smithee | Paxton | Bonnen

Anderson | Berman | Brown, Fred | Christian | Coleman | et al.

04/03/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty

Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Jones, Delwin | Macias

04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to an award of additional periods of possession of or access to a child for certain conservators who have returned from active military deployment.

Author:

Hilderbran | Keffer, Jim | Otto | Martinez Fischer | Cook, Robby

Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.

Williams

06/15/2007 E Effective on adoption of const. amendment

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of a motor vehicle owned by an individual and used in the course of the owner's occupation or profession and also for personal activities of the owner and to the rendition of such vehicles.

Author:

Hughes | Rodriguez | Smithee | Laubenberg

Anderson | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | et al.

04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to advance directives or health care or treatment decisions made by or on behalf of patients.

Author:

Bonnen | Delisi | Flynn | Howard, Charlie | Keffer, Jim

Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | Bohac | et al.

Hegar

05/08/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to immunization against human papillomavirus.

Author:

McClendon | Truitt | Pena | Otto | Kolkhorst

Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.

04/19/2007 S Referred to State Affairs

Relating to the state contribution to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, including a one-time supplemental annuity payment.

Author:

Lucio III | Escobar | Rose | Pena

Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Cohen | et al.

04/23/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars

Relating to considering ownership interests of disabled veterans in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.

Author:

Macias

Berman | Parker

04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to the waiting period for issuing a decree in a suit for dissolution of a marriage.

Author:

Kolkhorst | Parker

Aycock | Berman | Bohac | Flynn | Harless | et al.

Janek

06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07

Relating to restrictions on the use of certain public subsidies.

Author:

Pitts | Branch | Goolsby | Anchia | Crownover

Berman | Delisi | Geren | Hilderbran | King, Susan | et al.

Carona

05/17/2007 S Left pending in committee

Relating to mutual assistance agreements entered into by certain municipalities and private institutions of higher education for the purpose of enforcing state law and to additional powers, privileges, and immunities of peace officers employed by private institutions of higher education.

Author:

Dukes | Strama | Giddings | Isett, Carl | Hilderbran

Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Berman | Castro | et al.

Deuell

06/08/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to incentives for the film, television, and multimedia production industries.

Author:

Howard, Charlie | Flynn

Anderson | Berman | Brown, Betty | Callegari | Chisum | et al.

05/10/2007 H Placed on General State Calendar

Relating to prohibiting the transfer of an embryo except in an adoption proceeding; providing a penalty.

Author:

Morrison | Swinford | Gattis | Brown, Betty | Flynn

Anderson | Berman | Bonnen | Callegari | Christian | et al.

04/18/2007 H Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.

Relating to information related to the performance of an abortion; creating an offense.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Hopson | Macias | Anderson

Berman | Brown, Betty | Cook, Robby | Davis, John | Frost | et al.

Hinojosa

06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07

Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses that involve carrying weapons on a person's property or in a person's vehicle.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty

Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Jones, Delwin | Macias | et al.

04/18/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to the eligibility of a disabled veteran or surviving spouse to pay ad valorem taxes imposed on a residence homestead in installments.

Author:

Taylor | Bonnen | Flynn | Gattis | England

Anderson | Berman | Cook, Robby | Darby | Driver | et al.

04/26/2007 S Referred to Finance

Relating to exempting from ad valorem taxation property used by certain nonprofit community business organizations to provide services to aid in the economic development of local communities.

Author:

Bailey

Berman

02/27/2007 H Referred to Law Enforcement

Relating to the establishment of a peace officer employment opportunity Internet website by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.

Author:

Kolkhorst | Chisum | Woolley | Harper-Brown | Coleman

Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | et al.

03/14/2007 H Referred to Transportation

Relating to a moratorium on the inclusion of certain provisions in a comprehensive development agreement or the sale of a toll project and to the creation and duties of a study committee.

Author:

Paxton | Hughes | Eissler | Keffer, Jim | Bonnen

Berman | Bohac | Christian | Crabb | Davis, John | et al.

05/15/2007 S Referred to Finance

Relating to school district property tax rate reductions.

Author:

Delisi | Eissler | Zerwas | Homer | McClendon

Aycock | Berman | Callegari | Castro | Cook, Byron | et al.

04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to advance directives.

Author:

Isett, Carl

Berman | Brown, Betty | Macias | Van Arsdale

04/18/2007 H Left pending in subcommittee

Relating to the limit on the rate of growth in appropriations and to the authority of the comptroller to reduce the state sales tax rate for designated periods.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Bohac

Berman | Brown, Betty | Van Arsdale

04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to certain limitations on the ad valorem tax rates of certain taxing units.

Author:

Howard, Charlie | Chisum

Anderson | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Branch | et al.

Williams

06/08/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to voluntary student expression of religious viewpoints in public schools.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty

Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Hughes | Jones, Delwin | et al.

Shapleigh

06/15/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to a probate fee exemption for estates of members of the armed forces of the United States who died while serving in a combat zone.

Author:

Merritt

Berman | Chavez | Frost | Gallego | Hughes | et al.

04/16/2007 H Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar

Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operations, and financing of a border region high-speed rail authority for the Texas-Louisiana and the Texas-Mexico border regions; granting the power to issue bonds; imposing a tax.

Author:

Keffer, Jim | Ritter | Otto | Paxton | Pitts

Berman | Branch | Creighton

Ogden

06/15/2007 E See remarks for effective date

Relating to technical changes to the revised franchise tax.

Author:

Leibowitz | Chisum | Swinford | Heflin | Hardcastle

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | et al.

Seliger

06/15/2007 E Signed by the Governor

Urging Congress to provide further drought relief for Texas.

Author:

Isett, Carl | Callegari

Berman | Brown, Betty | Crabb | Davis, John

04/18/2007 H Left pending in subcommittee

Proposing a constitutional amendment to limit the rate of growth of appropriations from all sources of revenue except the federal government; to establish a disaster fund, managed by the governor, for use to prepare for or respond to a natural disaster or emergency; to fund the property tax relief fund; to require a gubernatorial declaration before money may be appropriated from the economic stabilization fund; and to authorize the legislature to appropriate money for tax rebates; making a constitutional appropriation.

Author:

Allen, Alma | Giddings | Bohac | Turner | Thompson

Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | et al.

Ellis

05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar

Post-ratifying Amendment XXIV to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the denial or abridgment of the right to vote for failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Author:

Branch | Paxton | Anderson | Raymond | Cook, Robby

Aycock | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | et al.

05/07/2007 H Failed of adoption

Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring any increase in a franchise tax rate to be approved by three-fourths of all the members elected to each house of the legislature.

Author:

Paxton | Hughes | Taylor | Harper-Brown | Van Arsdale

Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Callegari | Christian | et al.

04/18/2007 H Left pending in subcommittee

Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding limitations on taxation and expenditures by the state government and local governments.

Author:

Hilderbran | Keffer, Jim | Otto | Martinez Fischer | Cook, Robby

Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.

Williams

05/29/2007 E Filed with the Secretary of State

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation one motor vehicle owned by an individual and used in the course of the owner's occupation or profession and also for personal activities of the owner.

Author:

Elkins | Bailey | Bonnen | Leibowitz | Callegari

Anchia | Berman | Bohac | Brown, Fred | Burnam | et al.

Wentworth

04/30/2007 S Left pending in committee

Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a legislative session.

Author:

Raymond

Berman

11/21/2006 H Filed

Amending the Housekeeping Resolution to provide for display of the motto "In God We Trust" in the House chamber.