Texas Legislature

Author:

Berman | McReynolds | Flynn | Goolsby | Naishtat

Bohac | Cook, Robby | Crabb | Creighton | Delisi | et al.

Deuell

05/04/2007 E Effective on adoption of const. amendment

Relating to providing for a reduction of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction in the school district's tax rate and protecting a school district against any resulting loss in local revenue.

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:

Riddle | Berman | Pena | Vaught | Escobar

Anchia | Anderson | Bohac | Christian | Cook, Byron | et al.

Deuell

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

Relating to the prosecution, punishment, and supervision of certain sex offenders and to certain crimes involving sex offenders.

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:

Swinford | Escobar | Christian | Woolley | Guillen

Aycock | Crabb | Creighton | Flynn | Hughes | et al.

Carona

05/25/2007 S Returned from the House for further action

Relating to homeland security issues, including border security issues and law enforcement.

Author:

Paxton

Crabb | Davis, John | Hughes | Laubenberg

Hegar

05/18/2007 S Committee report printed and distributed: May 18 2007 5:40PM

Relating to the electronic database of major state contracts.

Author:

Delisi | Corte, Frank | Escobar | Garcia | Haggerty

Aycock | Crabb | Farabee | Gonzalez Toureilles | Guillen | et al.

Van de Putte

06/15/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for the children of certain military personnel.

Author:

Pickett | Driver | Giddings | Solomons | Guillen

Crabb | Farias | Gonzales | Herrero | Howard, Charlie | et al.

04/30/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Relating to a silver alert for missing senior citizens.

Author:

Otto | Keffer, Jim | Rose | Howard, Donna | Miller

Anchia | Aycock | Bohac | Branch | Crabb | et al.

Patrick, Dan

05/18/2007 S Left pending in committee

Relating to the margin of error the comptroller of public accounts must use to determine whether the local value for a school district is valid after conducting the annual property value study.

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:

Ritter | Howard, Charlie | Merritt | Guillen | Farabee

Chavez | Crabb | Gallego | Hopson | Hughes | et al.

Estes

05/24/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07

Relating to a waiver or reduction of concealed handgun license fees for certain members and veterans of the military.

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:

Madden | Dukes | Hartnett | Delisi | Naishtat

Anchia | Aycock | Bolton | Brown, Betty | Cohen | et al.

05/09/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Relating to a competitive grant program to fund nurse-family partnership programs in certain communities in this state.

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:

Turner | Bonnen | Giddings | Bohac | Homer

Allen, Alma | Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Brown, Fred | et al.

05/01/2007 S Referred to Finance

Relating to the system benefit fund and to eligibility for and enrollment for benefits provided under the system benefit fund programs.

Author:

McCall | Strama | Gonzalez Toureilles | Berman | Bohac

Crabb | Crownover | Miller | Straus

Duncan

05/18/2007 S Left pending in committee

Relating to the making of political contributions to and acceptance of political contributions by statewide officers and members of the legislature before and during a special session of the legislature; providing a criminal penalty.

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:

Straus | Thompson | Keffer, Jim | Isett, Carl | King, Phil

Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bohac | Branch | et al.

Williams

06/15/2007 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relating to the discontinuation of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund.

Author:

Bonnen

Aycock | Crabb

04/03/2007 S Referred to Criminal Justice

Relating to prohibiting or otherwise restricting certain sex offenders from residing or working within or otherwise entering certain school premises.

Author:

Isett, Carl

Christian | Crabb | Davis, John | Paxton

04/04/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to an exemption from the sales and use tax for certain assessments and fees related to telecommunications services.

Author:

Rose | Gattis

Cook, Robby | Crabb | Isett, Carl

04/24/2007 H Considered in Calendars

Relating to certain rights and liabilities of an employer regarding an employee's access to a concealed handgun.

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:

Riddle | Berman | Flynn | Hilderbran | Branch

Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.

Patrick, Dan

06/15/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to the pledge of allegiance to the state flag.

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:

Pierson | Pena | Truitt | Veasey

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

Harris

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

Relating to the penalties for intoxication assault and intoxication manslaughter and to the sentencing of defendants convicted of those offenses.

Author:

Jackson, Jim | Harper-Brown

Bohac | Crabb | Miller | Zedler

04/24/2007 H Returned to committee

Relating to the requirement of speaking and reading the English language as a condition for the issuance of a commercial driver's license.

Author:

Creighton | Callegari | Phillips | Taylor | Van Arsdale

Christian | Crabb | Davis, John | Flynn | Hancock | et al.

04/03/2007 H Left pending in committee

Relating to the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax.

Author:

Chisum | Flynn | Zerwas | Berman | Eissler

Anderson | Aycock | Bonnen | Branch | Brown, Betty | et al.

Estes

06/15/2007 E See remarks for effective date

Relating to public school elective courses providing academic study of the Bible.

Author:

Gattis

Crabb

05/08/2007 H Placed on General State Calendar

Relating to the circumstances under which consent to the taking of a specimen of the breath or blood of a person arrested for certain intoxication offenses is implied.

Author:

Smith, Wayne | Dutton | Hartnett | Creighton | Howard, Charlie

Allen, Alma | Callegari | Cohen | Coleman | Crabb | et al.

Williams

05/18/2007 E Vetoed by the Governor

Relating to the authority of certain counties and other entities with respect to certain transportation projects; providing penalties.

Author:

Kolkhorst | Heflin | Menendez | Aycock | Darby

Crabb | Parker

Shapiro

05/25/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07

Relating to eligibility of school districts for state assistance with payment of existing debt.

Author:

Woolley | Corte, Frank | Callegari | Cook, Robby | Orr

Aycock | Brown, Betty | Christian | Crabb | England | et al.

Janek

06/15/2007 E Vetoed by the Governor

Relating to the use of eminent domain authority.

Author:

Hancock

Aycock | Bohac | Brown, Fred | Christian | Cook, Byron | et al.

05/01/2007 S Referred to Education

Relating to public disclosure of student referrals for services made by counselors in public schools.

Author:

Chisum | Keffer, Jim | Flynn | Homer | Zerwas

Anderson | Aycock | Brown, Fred | Christian | Cook, Robby | et al.

05/08/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Relating to delivery of certain unclaimed money to a rural scholarship fund.

Author:

Flynn

Christian | Crabb | Macias | Paxton

03/12/2007 H Referred to State Affairs

Relating to the use of public funds to print certain public documents in a language other than English and other bilingual requirements.

Author:

Zedler | Creighton | Kolkhorst | Van Arsdale

Crabb

Wentworth

05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar

Relating to the availability of certain school district financial information on districts' Internet websites.

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:

Strama | Hughes | Van Arsdale | Garcia | Paxton

Anderson | Bailey | Bohac | Branch | Crabb | et al.

Hegar

06/15/2007 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Relating to the availability of information about state expenditures and rules, including the creation of a state database containing information on state expenditures, and to certain comptroller reports, and to certain amounts received by institutions of higher education.

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:

Morrison | Villarreal | McCall | Otto | Cook, Byron

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

Shapiro

06/15/2007 E Effective immediately

Relating to the Texas tomorrow fund II prepaid tuition unit undergraduate education program.

Author:

Anderson | Hodge

Anchia | Burnam | Cohen | Crabb | Eiland | et al.

04/03/2007 H Left pending in committee

Urging the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to impose a 180-day moratorium on applications for pulverized coal-fired power plant permits.

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:

Noriega, Rick

Allen, Alma | Bailey | Bohac | Crabb | Davis, John | et al.

Ellis

05/10/2007 E Signed by the Governor

Honoring Art Briles, head coach of the University of Houston football team, for his achievements.

Author:

Berman | McReynolds | Flynn | Goolsby | Naishtat

Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bohac | Burnam | et al.

02/19/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for a reduction of the limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for public school purposes on the residence homesteads of the elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction in the rate of those taxes.

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.