Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Number of Bills: 70
Author:
Hilderbran | Keffer, Jim | Dukes | Cook, Byron
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | et al.
Last Action:
04/19/2007 H Considered in Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the allocation and use of the sporting goods sales tax revenue to fund state and local parks.
Author:
Swinford | Escobar | Christian | Woolley | Guillen
Coauthor:
Aycock | Crabb | Creighton | Flynn | Hughes | et al.
Sponsor:
Carona
Last Action:
05/25/2007 S Returned from the House for further action
Caption:
Relating to homeland security issues, including border security issues and law enforcement.
Author:
Paxton
Coauthor:
Crabb | Davis, John | Hughes | Laubenberg
Sponsor:
Hegar
Last Action:
05/18/2007 S Committee report printed and distributed: May 18 2007 5:40PM
Caption:
Relating to the electronic database of major state contracts.
Author:
Flynn | Branch | King, Phil | Pena | Davis, Yvonne
Coauthor:
Berman | Hughes | Orr
Sponsor:
Van de Putte
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the protection of customer telephone records; providing a penalty.
Author:
Branch | Dutton | Goolsby | Rose
Coauthor:
Cook, Robby | Darby | England | Farabee | Harless | et al.
Last Action:
05/10/2007 H Postponed
Caption:
Relating to requiring a record vote by each house of the legislature on final passage of a bill, resolution to propose or ratify a constitutional amendment, or other nonceremonial resolution and to public notice of the record vote.
Author:
Chisum | Berman | Flynn | Christian | Macias
Coauthor:
Brown, Betty | Callegari | Cook, Byron | Howard, Charlie | Hughes | et al.
Last Action:
04/18/2007 H Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
Caption:
Relating to the protection of life, including unborn life, from the point of fertilization; providing penalties.
Author:
Paxton | Olivo | Escobar | Chisum | Parker
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Brown, Betty | Brown, Fred | et al.
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to prohibiting the use of state money for certain biomedical research.
Author:
Ritter | Howard, Charlie | Merritt | Guillen | Farabee
Coauthor:
Chavez | Crabb | Gallego | Hopson | Hughes | et al.
Sponsor:
Estes
Last Action:
05/24/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to a waiver or reduction of concealed handgun license fees for certain members and veterans of the military.
Author:
Corte, Frank
Coauthor:
Berman | Brown, Betty | Cook, Robby | Herrero | Howard, Charlie | et al.
Last Action:
04/11/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption:
Relating to the confiscation of firearms and ammunition during a state of disaster or emergency.
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:
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:
Jackson, Jim | Harper-Brown | Bohac | Parker | Laubenberg
Coauthor:
Anderson | Berman | Brown, Betty | Crabb | Flynn | et al.
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to requiring governmental entities and contractors with governmental entities to participate in the federal work authorization program; providing a penalty.
Author:
Chisum | Flynn | Hancock | Crabb
Coauthor:
Brown, Betty | Brown, Fred | Christian | Hughes | Madden | et al.
Last Action:
01/31/2007 H Referred to Public Education
Caption:
Relating to parental approval of a student's participation in human sexuality instruction in public schools.
Author:
Kolkhorst | Rose | Bohac
Coauthor:
Bolton | Hughes | Leibowitz
Last Action:
02/21/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the use of direct recording electronic voting machines.
Author:
Phillips
Coauthor:
Hughes
Last Action:
03/08/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to supplemental payments of a retirement or death benefit by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; making an appropriation.
Author:
Goolsby | England | Alonzo
Coauthor:
Brown, Fred | Eissler | Hughes
Last Action:
05/15/2007 S Referred to Jurisprudence
Caption:
Relating to birth records of adopted children.
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:
Escobar | Bolton | Christian | Martinez, "Mando" | Ortiz, Jr.
Coauthor:
Herrero | Hughes
Last Action:
02/06/2007 H Referred to Appropriations
Caption:
Relating to the amounts to be appropriated for the state contribution to the teacher retirement program for fiscal years 2008 and 2009.
Author:
Van Arsdale | Flynn | Rose | Giddings | McClendon
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Aycock | Bailey | et al.
Last Action:
02/06/2007 H Referred to Pensions and Investments
Caption:
Relating to prohibiting the investment of state funds in certain private business entities doing business in Sudan.
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:
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:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes | Macias
Last Action:
04/23/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the disclosure of a prepayment penalty for a home loan.
Author:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes
Last Action:
04/23/2007 H Withdrawn from schedule
Caption:
Relating to a credit card company's liability for the fraudulent use of unsolicited credit card checks sent by the company.
Author:
Parker | Truitt | Zedler | Veasey | Laubenberg
Coauthor:
Creighton | Heflin | Hughes | Lucio III | Zerwas
Sponsor:
Nelson
Last Action:
05/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to an immunization awareness program in certain school districts.
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:
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:
Lucio III | Escobar | Rose | Pena
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Cohen | et al.
Last Action:
04/23/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to considering ownership interests of disabled veterans in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.
Author:
Kolkhorst | Parker
Coauthor:
Aycock | Berman | Bohac | Flynn | Harless | et al.
Sponsor:
Janek
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to restrictions on the use of certain public subsidies.
Author:
Chisum | Flynn | Zerwas | Berman | Eissler
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Bonnen | Branch | Brown, Betty | et al.
Sponsor:
Estes
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E See remarks for effective date
Caption:
Relating to public school elective courses providing academic study of the Bible.
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:
Rose | Brown, Fred | Lucio III | Patrick | Villarreal
Coauthor:
Anderson | Bohac | Farabee | Garcia | Hughes | et al.
Last Action:
03/12/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to exempting books purchased by university and college students from the sales tax for a limited period.
Author:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes | Macias
Last Action:
04/25/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to transfer of certain patients requesting life-sustaining treatment.
Author:
Lucio III | Escobar | Pena | Goolsby | O'Day
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anderson | Aycock | Christian | Cohen | et al.
Sponsor:
Hinojosa
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Vetoed by the Governor
Caption:
Relating to a person's eligibility for a license to carry a concealed handgun and to the prosecution of certain offenses involving the possession of a weapon.
Author:
Paxton | Bailey | Flynn | Eiland
Coauthor:
Christian | Hughes | King, Phil | Macias | Miller | et al.
Last Action:
05/08/2007 H Returned to committee
Caption:
Relating to the reporting of expenditures for lobbying and legislative communication by local governmental entities.
Author:
Paxton
Coauthor:
Hughes
Sponsor:
Harris
Last Action:
05/04/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to circumstances under which court reporting firms, shorthand reporting firms, and affiliate offices are considered to provide services in this state.
Author:
Goolsby | Laubenberg | Macias | Bonnen
Coauthor:
Flynn | Hughes | Isett, Carl | Parker | Paxton | et al.
Last Action:
04/17/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to participation in school district services and activities by home-schooled students.
Author:
Crownover | Naishtat | Villarreal | Delisi | Eissler
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | Brown, Fred | et al.
Sponsor:
Shapleigh
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the Communities In Schools program.
Author:
Dukes | Strama | Giddings | Isett, Carl | Hilderbran
Coauthor:
Anchia | Anderson | Bailey | Berman | Castro | et al.
Sponsor:
Deuell
Last Action:
06/08/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to incentives for the film, television, and multimedia production industries.
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:
Morrison | Swinford | Gattis | Brown, Betty | Flynn
Coauthor:
Anderson | Berman | Bonnen | Callegari | Christian | et al.
Last Action:
04/18/2007 H Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
Caption:
Relating to information related to the performance of an abortion; creating an offense.
Author:
Latham | Truitt | Woolley
Coauthor:
Aycock | Brown, Betty | Burnam | Christian | Delisi | et al.
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Considered in Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the punishment for the offense of burglary of a vehicle.
Author:
Bonnen
Coauthor:
Hughes | Macias
Sponsor:
Deuell
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the requirements for renewal of a license to carry a concealed handgun.
Author:
Kolkhorst | Lucio III | O'Day | Anchia | Herrero
Coauthor:
Bonnen | Cook, Byron | Eissler | Heflin | Hopson | et al.
Last Action:
05/01/2007 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to career and technology programs and certain articulation agreements in public schools.
Author:
Farabee
Coauthor:
Hughes
Sponsor:
Averitt
Last Action:
05/04/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the regulation as common carriers of certain owners, operators, or managers of pipelines for the transportation of feedstock for carbon gasification, the products of carbon gasification, or the derivative products of carbon gasification.
Author:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes
Last Action:
03/06/2007 H Referred to Public Health
Caption:
Relating to health benefit plan coverage for home defibrillators.
Author:
Hancock
Coauthor:
Aycock | Bohac | Brown, Fred | Christian | Cook, Byron | et al.
Last Action:
05/01/2007 S Referred to Education
Caption:
Relating to public disclosure of student referrals for services made by counselors in public schools.
Author:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes
Last Action:
04/10/2007 H Subcommittee members named
Caption:
Relating to transferring to the property tax relief fund one-half of any unencumbered balance of general revenue at the end of a state fiscal biennium.
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:
Paxton | Lucio III
Coauthor:
Escobar | Hughes
Sponsor:
Hegar
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the carrying of weapons by certain judges and justices and district and county attorneys.
Author:
Chisum | Flynn | Zedler | Davis, John | Brown, Betty
Coauthor:
Callegari | Christian | Cook, Byron | Crownover | Eissler | et al.
Sponsor:
Estes
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption:
Relating to certain requirements for issuance of a marriage license, including an optional premarital education course.
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:
Rose | Keffer, Jim | Deshotel | McCall | Gonzales
Coauthor:
Bonnen | Branch | Hughes | O'Day
Sponsor:
Eltife
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the promotion by the governor's office of economic development of Texas manufactured products; providing civil and administrative penalties.
Author:
Isett, Carl | Gattis | Rose | Taylor
Coauthor:
Hughes
Last Action:
03/21/2007 H Referred to Public Health
Caption:
Relating to consumer access to health care information and consumer protection for services provided by or through health benefit plans, hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and birthing centers; providing penalties.
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:
Howard, Charlie | Chisum
Coauthor:
Anderson | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Branch | et al.
Sponsor:
Williams
Last Action:
06/08/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to voluntary student expression of religious viewpoints in public schools.
Author:
Straus | Anchia | Crabb | King, Phil | Oliveira
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Bohac | Branch | Burnam | et al.
Sponsor:
Fraser
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to energy demand, energy load, energy efficiency incentives, energy programs, and energy performance measures.
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:
Merritt
Coauthor:
Berman | Chavez | Frost | Gallego | Hughes | et al.
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
Caption:
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:
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:
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:
Swinford | Berman | Jackson, Jim | Creighton
Coauthor:
Aycock | Driver | Harless | Hartnett | Hughes | et al.
Last Action:
05/15/2007 S Referred to Transportation & Homeland Sec.
Caption:
Expressing support for ongoing state-led border security operations to control the Texas-Mexico border and ensure the safety of the people of Texas.
Author:
Berman | McReynolds | Flynn | Goolsby | Naishtat
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bohac | Burnam | et al.
Last Action:
02/19/2007 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption:
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:
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:
Elkins | Bailey | Bonnen | Leibowitz | Callegari
Coauthor:
Anchia | Berman | Bohac | Brown, Fred | Burnam | et al.
Sponsor:
Wentworth
Last Action:
04/30/2007 S Left pending in committee
Caption:
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a legislative session.
Author:
Parker
Coauthor:
Hughes | Murphy | Zerwas
Last Action:
05/10/2007 H Returned to committee
Caption:
Proposing a constitutional amendment to require a two-thirds vote of the legislature to enact and submit to the voters a law imposing an income tax or increasing that tax.