Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Number of Bills: 38
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:
Crownover | King, Phil | Woolley | Hamilton | Escobar
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anchia | Aycock | Berman | Bolton | et al.
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
05/23/2007 S Placed on intent calendar
Caption:
Relating to the elimination of smoking in certain workplaces and public places; providing penalties.
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:
Strama | Naishtat
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
05/02/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the reapportionment of state legislative, congressional, and judicial districts and the creation, function, and duties of the Texas Redistricting Commission.
Author:
Hochberg | Anchia | Menendez | Bohac
Coauthor:
Miles | Miller | Quintanilla | Villarreal
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
05/17/2007 S Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to discipline in public schools, including gang-related activity in and around public schools; providing a criminal penalty.
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:
Anchia | Leibowitz
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
02/15/2007 H Referred directly to subcommittee by chair
Caption:
Relating to energy efficiency incentive programs administered by electric utilities.
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:
Madden
Coauthor:
Garcia | Villarreal
Sponsor:
Hinojosa
Last Action:
05/19/2007 S Committee report printed and distributed: May 19 2007 12:51AM
Caption:
Relating to the monitoring of certain high-risk sex offenders and to information concerning certain sex offenders.
Author:
Farrar
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
03/20/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to environmental review of toll projects.
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:
Dutton | Hodge | Escobar | Turner | Brown, Fred
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
05/09/2007 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to permitting certain persons placed on deferred adjudication to seek an expunction of arrest records and files.
Author:
Dukes | Isett, Carl | Madden | McClendon
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
04/16/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to state financial assistance to school districts that make contributions for social security coverage.
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:
Flores
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
02/12/2007 H Referred to Financial Institutions
Caption:
Relating to the prohibition on participating in the lending of credit by a credit services organization that assists a borrower in obtaining the credit.
Author:
Hochberg
Coauthor:
Anchia | Davis, John | Farrar | Naishtat | Villarreal
Last Action:
04/10/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the clean school bus program.
Author:
Naishtat
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
04/12/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of the stem cell research program.
Author:
Isett, Carl | Hopson | Macias | Anderson
Coauthor:
Berman | Brown, Betty | Cook, Robby | Davis, John | Frost | et al.
Sponsor:
Hinojosa
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the prosecution of certain offenses that involve carrying weapons on a person's property or in a person's vehicle.
Author:
Strama | Turner | Anchia | Gonzales | Dukes
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Burnam | Cohen | Coleman | Eiland | et al.
Last Action:
05/08/2007 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the provision of certain services and information related to unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Author:
Deshotel | Eissler | Escobar | Flynn | Delisi
Coauthor:
Chavez | Cook, Byron | Villarreal
Sponsor:
West, Royce
Last Action:
05/26/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to a parenting and paternity awareness component of the high school health curriculum.
Author:
Coleman | Farrar
Coauthor:
Bolton | Hernandez | Rodriguez | Villarreal | Vo
Last Action:
04/18/2007 H Left pending in subcommittee
Caption:
Relating to the creation of a Tex Sun solar energy system rebate program.
Author:
Strama
Coauthor:
Branch | Howard, Donna | Straus | Villarreal
Last Action:
04/04/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to eligibility of voters to sign ballot access petitions.
Author:
Delisi | Davis, John | Hopson | Gattis | Dukes
Coauthor:
Jackson, Jim | Macias | Villarreal
Last Action:
04/19/2007 H No action taken in committee
Caption:
Relating to the operation and financing of the medical assistance program and other programs to provide health care benefits and services to persons in this state.
Author:
Truitt | Cook, Byron | McClendon | Kolkhorst | Flynn
Coauthor:
King, Susan | Pena | Villarreal
Sponsor:
Deuell
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective on 9/1/07
Caption:
Relating to the regulation of the practice of nursing and the renaming of the Board of Nurse Examiners as the Texas Board of Nursing.
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:
Eissler | Oliveira | Guillen
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Sponsor:
Van de Putte
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to a pilot project in certain school districts for dual language education in English and another language.
Author:
Gallego | Dunnam | Naishtat | Coleman | Thompson
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Anchia | Bolton | Burnam | Castro | et al.
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
06/15/2007 E Signed by the Governor
Caption:
In memory of the Honorable Ann Richards, 45th governor of Texas.
Author:
Gallego | Puente | Martinez Fischer | Menendez | Castro
Coauthor:
Anchia | Bolton | Chisum | Craddick | Dukes | et al.
Sponsor:
Lucio
Last Action:
05/04/2007 E Signed by the Governor
Caption:
In memory of the Honorable Frank Madla of San Antonio.
Author:
Davis, Yvonne
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
02/12/2007 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption:
Expressing support for a bill of rights for the poor.
Author:
Anderson | Hodge
Coauthor:
Anchia | Burnam | Cohen | Crabb | Eiland | et al.
Last Action:
04/03/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Urging the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to impose a 180-day moratorium on applications for pulverized coal-fired power plant permits.
Author:
Rodriguez | Anchia
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Bolton | Burnam | Castro | Escobar | et al.
Last Action:
02/12/2007 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption:
Requesting that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reconsider all alternatives to the detention of immigrant and asylum-seeking families.
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:
Gonzalez Toureilles | Alonzo | Escobar
Coauthor:
Allen, Alma | Burnam | Castro | Cohen | Farrar | et al.
Last Action:
05/26/2007 H Filed
Caption:
Requesting that Congress and the Texas Legislature adopt the terms "undocumented worker, person, or immigrant" as replacements to the term "illegal alien" in official discourse.
Author:
Strama | Naishtat
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
05/02/2007 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing the Texas Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts and revising constitutional redistricting procedures.
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.
Author:
Flynn
Coauthor:
Villarreal
Last Action:
03/13/2007 H Reported enrolled: Mar 13 2007 9:33AM
Caption:
Recognizing March 13, 2007, as Van Zandt County Day at the State Capitol.