Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Number of Bills: 31
Author:
Keffer, Jim | Rose | Delisi | Morrison | Thompson
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Aycock | Bailey | et al.
Sponsor:
Nelson
Last Action:
06/13/2007 E Effective on adoption of const. amendment
Caption:
Relating to reorganizing certain state institutions that provide financing for cancer research, including creating the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and information about certain cancer treatments; granting authority to issue bonds.
Author:
Turner | Davis, John | Dukes | England | Pena
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bailey | Bohac | et al.
Sponsor:
Averitt | Van de Putte
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to eligibility for and information regarding the child health plan program.
Author:
Olivo | Raymond | Veasey | Mowery | Dutton
Coauthor:
Burnam | Castro | Chavez | Chisum | Coleman | et al.
Last Action:
05/03/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the promotion of students to certain grade levels in public schools.
Author:
Olivo | Raymond | Veasey | Dutton
Coauthor:
Burnam | Castro | Chavez | Chisum | Coleman | et al.
Last Action:
01/30/2007 H Referred to Public Education
Caption:
Relating to the requirements for a high school diploma.
Author:
Gallego | Raymond
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Anchia | Burnam | Castro | Coleman | et al.
Last Action:
04/24/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain prosthetic devices, orthotic devices, and related services.
Author:
Herrero | Corte, Frank | Escobar | Hilderbran | Turner
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | et al.
Last Action:
05/02/2007 H Considered in Calendars
Caption:
Relating to a consumer debt owed by certain military personnel called to active duty.
Author:
Miller | Kolkhorst | Hughes | Anderson | Cook, Robby
Coauthor:
Aycock | Bailey | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.
Sponsor:
Estes
Last Action:
05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar
Caption:
Relating to participation in an animal identification system.
Author:
Turner | Bonnen | Giddings | Bohac | Homer
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Brown, Fred | et al.
Last Action:
05/01/2007 S Referred to Finance
Caption:
Relating to the system benefit fund and to eligibility for and enrollment for benefits provided under the system benefit fund programs.
Author:
Chavez
Coauthor:
Flores
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the residency requirements for tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their dependents.
Author:
Noriega, Rick | Escobar | Strama | Berman | Chavez
Coauthor:
Farabee | Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
04/12/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the residency requirements for tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their dependents.
Author:
McClendon | Gallego
Coauthor:
Eissler | Farabee | Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
04/12/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their dependents.
Author:
Madden | McClendon | Pena | Dutton | Van Arsdale
Coauthor:
Flores | Parker | Straus
Sponsor:
Hinojosa
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of an office of inspector general at the Texas Youth Commission.
Author:
Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty
Coauthor:
Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Jones, Delwin | Macias
Last Action:
04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
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
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.
Sponsor:
Williams
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on adoption of const. amendment
Caption:
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
Coauthor:
Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.
Sponsor:
Patrick, Dan
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the pledge of allegiance to the state flag.
Author:
McClendon | Truitt | Pena | Otto | Kolkhorst
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.
Last Action:
04/19/2007 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption:
Relating to the state contribution to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, including a one-time supplemental annuity payment.
Author:
Gallego
Coauthor:
Aycock | Eissler | Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for the spouses of certain military personnel.
Author:
Strama | Rose | Escobar | Vaught | Noriega, Rick
Coauthor:
Flores | Garcia | Howard, Donna | Hughes | Olivo | et al.
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to allowing certain military personnel to receive certain federal and state higher education benefits concurrently.
Author:
Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty
Coauthor:
Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Jones, Delwin | Macias | et al.
Last Action:
04/18/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the eligibility of a disabled veteran or surviving spouse to pay ad valorem taxes imposed on a residence homestead in installments.
Author:
Cook, Robby
Coauthor:
Eissler | Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to a tuition and fee exemption available to the dependents of certain military personnel.
Author:
Keffer, Jim | Deshotel | Hardcastle | Farabee | Branch
Coauthor:
Christian | Cook, Byron | Creighton | Flores | Hamilton | et al.
Sponsor:
Williams
Last Action:
03/28/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the acquisition or disclosure of the social security number of a living person by a governmental body, including by a district or county clerk.
Author:
Rodriguez
Coauthor:
Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their family members.
Author:
Woolley | Cook, Byron | Turner | Thompson | Hardcastle
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anchia | Aycock | Bailey | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
04/12/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the regulation of the use of human cells and tissue, including a ban on human cloning; providing penalties.
Author:
Kolkhorst | Chisum | Woolley | Harper-Brown | Coleman
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | et al.
Last Action:
03/14/2007 H Referred to Transportation
Caption:
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:
Delisi | Corte, Frank | Escobar | Garcia | Haggerty
Coauthor:
Flores | Olivo | Raymond
Last Action:
03/27/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for the spouses of certain military personnel.
Author:
Isett, Carl | Crabb | Haggerty
Coauthor:
Berman | Flores | Goolsby | Hughes | Jones, Delwin | et al.
Sponsor:
Shapleigh
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
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:
Morrison | Villarreal | McCall | Otto | Cook, Byron
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Aycock | Bailey | Bohac | et al.
Sponsor:
Shapiro
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the Texas tomorrow fund II prepaid tuition unit undergraduate education program.
Author:
Allen, Alma | Giddings | Bohac | Turner | Thompson
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | et al.
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar
Caption:
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
Coauthor:
Aycock | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | et al.
Last Action:
05/07/2007 H Failed of adoption
Caption:
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:
Hilderbran | Keffer, Jim | Otto | Martinez Fischer | Cook, Robby
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | et al.
Sponsor:
Williams
Last Action:
05/29/2007 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption:
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:
Keffer, Jim | Rose | Delisi | Morrison | Thompson
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Aycock | Bailey | et al.
Sponsor:
Nelson
Last Action:
05/29/2007 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption:
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the establishment of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the purpose of scientific research of all forms of human cancer.