Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Number of Bills: 17
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:
Driver | King, Phil | Talton | Rose | Riddle
Coauthor:
Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | et al.
Last Action:
03/19/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption:
Relating to the use of force or deadly force in defense of a person.
Author:
Orr | Bonnen | Otto | Pena | Cook, Robby
Coauthor:
Aycock | Chisum | Cook, Byron | Darby | Frost | et al.
Last Action:
04/19/2007 S Referred to Finance
Caption:
Relating to the exemption of volunteer fire departments from certain motor fuel taxes.
Author:
Straus | Thompson | Keffer, Jim | Isett, Carl | King, Phil
Coauthor:
Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Bohac | Branch | et al.
Sponsor:
Williams
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption:
Relating to the discontinuation of the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund.
Author:
Smithee | Paxton | Bonnen
Coauthor:
Anderson | Berman | Brown, Fred | Christian | Coleman | et al.
Last Action:
04/03/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the total revenue exemption for the franchise tax.
Author:
Bonnen | Delisi | Flynn | Howard, Charlie | Keffer, Jim
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Bailey | Berman | Bohac | et al.
Sponsor:
Hegar
Last Action:
05/08/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to immunization against human papillomavirus.
Author:
Pitts | Branch | Goolsby | Anchia | Crownover
Coauthor:
Berman | Delisi | Geren | Hilderbran | King, Susan | et al.
Sponsor:
Carona
Last Action:
05/17/2007 S Left pending in committee
Caption:
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:
Flynn
Coauthor:
Hilderbran | King, Susan
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to possession of firearms and ammunition in certain foster homes.
Author:
Callegari | Flynn | Murphy | Crabb
Coauthor:
Aycock | Brown, Betty | Christian | Davis, John | Frost | et al.
Sponsor:
Nichols
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption:
Relating to a bill of rights for property owners whose property may be acquired by governmental or private entities through the use of eminent domain authority.
Author:
Howard, Charlie | Flynn
Coauthor:
Anderson | Berman | Brown, Betty | Callegari | Chisum | et al.
Last Action:
05/10/2007 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to prohibiting the transfer of an embryo except in an adoption proceeding; providing a penalty.
Author:
Chisum | Keffer, Jim | Flynn | Homer | Zerwas
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Brown, Fred | Christian | Cook, Robby | et al.
Last Action:
05/08/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption:
Relating to delivery of certain unclaimed money to a rural scholarship fund.
Author:
Truitt | Davis, John | Rose | Isett, Carl | McReynolds
Coauthor:
Burnam | Callegari | Farabee | Gonzales | Hilderbran | et al.
Sponsor:
Janek
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the functions of local mental health and mental retardation authorities.
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:
Darby | Homer | Swinford | Isett, Carl | Chavez
Coauthor:
Aycock | Bolton | Brown, Fred | England | Hardcastle | et al.
Sponsor:
Duncan
Last Action:
05/23/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the transfer of Angelo State University to the Texas Tech University System.
Author:
Leibowitz | Chisum | Swinford | Heflin | Hardcastle
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | et al.
Sponsor:
Seliger
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Signed by the Governor
Caption:
Urging Congress to provide further drought relief for Texas.
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:
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.