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LOCAL, CONSENT, AND RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
10:00 A.M.
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**********HOUSE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS**********
HCR 208 Gallego
Requesting congress to direct the National Park Service, U.S.
Department of the Interior, to acquire concurrent legislative
jurisdiction for Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande Wild and
Scenic River.
HCR 218 Chavez
Memorializing congress to urge the EPA to redesignate El Paso from
a nonattainment area to an attainment area.
HCR 256 Kuempel
Directing the White-tailed Deer Advisory Committee to address how
habitat relates to the ecological diversity of the state and to study the
role of the wildlife biologist in the development of management plans and
in the utilization of suitable management practices, including population
goals and control, yearly census data, supplemental feeding and food plots,
and genetic management.
HR 1079 Cook, Robby / et al.
Expressing support for a Texas pilot program to revise rice
commodity incentives under the federal farm program.
**********SENATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS**********
SB 5 Averitt
SP: Wohlgemuth
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
functions, operations, and financing of the Johnson County Special
Utility District; authorizing the imposition of taxes and the
issuance of bonds.
SB 6 Van de Putte
SP: Flores
Relating to clarifying the time to claim a lottery prize and
extending the time for certain military personnel.
SB 18 Jackson
SP: Davis, John
Relating to the creation and authority of the Baybrook Management
District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
SB 19 Ratliff
SP: Farabee
Relating to audit and other related functions of the State Auditor
and of certain other state entities.
SB 20 Armbrister
SP: Morrison
Relating to the issuance of certain permits for overweight
vehicles; providing a penalty.
SB 24 Armbrister
SP: Rose
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Ranch at Clear Fork Creek Municipal
Utility District No. 1; granting the authority to impose taxes and
issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
SB 25 Lucio
SP: Escobar
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kenedy County Groundwater
Conservation District.
SB 51 Zaffirini
SP: Goolsby
Relating to a sexual assault program referral provided by a law
enforcement agency to certain victims.
SB 88 Wentworth
SP: Kuempel
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 25th Judicial District.
SB 92 West
SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to a residential tenant's right to summon police or
emergency assistance; providing a civil penalty.
SB 103 Van de Putte
SP: Alonzo
Relating to the carrying of weapons by peace officers and by
special investigators.
SB 113 Van de Putte / et al.
SP: Seaman
Relating to premium discounts for certain residential property
insurance policies.
SB 115 Van de Putte / et al.
SP: Seaman
Relating to providing consumers with information regarding policy
forms for residential and farm and ranch property insurance
coverage.
SB 140 Ellis, Rodney
SP: Thompson / Keel
Relating to the regulation of certain visual images; providing a
criminal penalty.
SB 176 Nelson / et al.
SP: Naishtat / Swinford
Relating to the offense of interference with an emergency telephone
call.
SB 203 Janek / et al.
SP: Eiland
Relating to fees charged for certain transportation services to and
from cruise ship terminals.
SB 216 Zaffirini / et al.
SP: Hardcastle / Capelo / McReynolds / Naishtat
Relating to the disposal by a veterinarian of animal remains and
associated medical waste.
SB 245 Zaffirini
SP: Wohlgemuth
Relating to the provision of respiratory therapy services under the
medical assistance program.
SB 258 West
SP: Deshotel
Relating to the tuition charged by institutions of higher education
for high school students enrolled in college-level courses.
SB 292 Brimer
SP: Goolsby
Relating to the regulation of athlete agents.
SB 315 Hinojosa
SP: Luna
Relating to the annexation by certain junior college districts of
territory in a district's service area.
SB 322 Armbrister
SP: Morrison
Relating to persons who may administer oaths in Texas.
SB 325 Armbrister
SP: Wilson / Hughes
Relating to the implementation of a change in law imposing or
changing the amount of certain court costs and fees.
SB 356 Janek
SP: Capelo
Relating to forensic anthropologists and to an inquest when a body
part is found.
SB 373 Williams
SP: Woolley
Relating to notice of an increase in certain rates or charges for
certain group policies or contracts.
SB 392 Williams / et al.
SP: Gattis
Relating to a repeal of exemptions from certain truth-in-taxation
provisions for certain conservation and reclamation districts.
SB 439 Lindsay
SP: Hamric
Relating to an offense involving a motor vehicle with an altered or
obscured license plate.
SB 463 Janek / et al.
SP: Eiland
Relating to structures that constitute insurable property under the
Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
SB 467 Averitt
SP: Hochberg
Relating to the operation of the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool.
SB 480 Madla
SP: Mercer
Relating to excepting certain land from the additional tax imposed
on the change of use of land appraised for ad valorem tax purposes
as open-space land.
SB 485 Barrientos / et al.
SP: Krusee
Relating to the use of exclusive development agreements by an
intermunicipal commuter rail district.
SB 487 Ogden
SP: Krusee
Relating to the relocation of utilities required for the
improvement of the state highway system.
SB 494 Shapleigh
SP: Uresti
Relating to information provided by certain health benefit plans
through the Internet.
SB 581 Jackson / et al.
SP: Marchant
Relating to an optional discount in homeowners' insurance premiums
for the use of an insulating concrete form system.
SB 582 Williams
SP: Driver
Relating to the consolidation of certain offenses relating to the
driving of a motor vehicle while a driver's license or privilege to
operate a vehicle is invalid.
SB 599 West
SP: Corte
Relating to investigation and testing, technical assistance, and
certain other matters related to indoor air quality in state
buildings.
SB 613 Nelson
SP: Hupp
Relating to the automatic suspension of the driver's license of a
person younger than 21 on conviction of an offense involving an
abusable volatile chemical.
SB 637 Nelson
SP: Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to elimination of the state payment for certain national
insurance database fees.
SB 674 Estes
SP: Rose / Solis / Hegar / Garza
Relating to compensatory time off for certain persons who are
employed by the state as peace officers.
SB 681 Averitt
SP: Eiland
Relating to the standard nonforfeiture law for certain annuities.
SB 688 West
SP: Giddings
Relating to the boards of trustees of certain school districts.
SB 709 Jackson
SP: Taylor
Relating to the ability of certain counties to use lease-purchase
or licensing agreements.
SB 739 Ellis, Rodney
SP: Capelo / Naishtat
Relating to aggregate or statistical information about the
screening program for hearing loss in newborns.
SB 741 Van de Putte
SP: Griggs
Relating to certification in first aid and cardiopulmonary
resuscitation for certain school district employees.
SB 757 Brimer
SP: Denny
Relating to the application for a candidate to be placed on the
general primary election ballot.
SB 767 Jackson
SP: Davis, John
Relating to the creation of the Harris County Road Improvement
District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
bonds.
SB 769 Carona
SP: Capelo
Relating to the licensing and regulation of surgical assistants.
SB 791 West
SP: Alonzo
Relating to a program to monitor the collection and remittance of
certain court costs and fees.
SB 802 Janek
SP: Riddle
Relating to the use of alternate grand jurors.
SB 805 Zaffirini
SP: Hilderbran
Relating to donation of certain surplus school district property to
preserve the property.
SB 810 Harris
SP: Naishtat
Relating to the regulation of social workers; providing a criminal
penalty.
SB 815 Van de Putte
SP: Eissler
Relating to the development of essential knowledge and skills for
subjects in the enrichment curriculum.
SB 837 Williams
SP: Riddle
Relating to the offense of aggravated sexual assault against a
disabled or elderly individual.
SB 841 Whitmire
SP: Noriega
Relating to the regulation of certain extra job coordinators by the
Texas Commission on Private Security.
SB 879 Whitmire
SP: Van Arsdale
Relating to appeals of adverse determinations made by health
maintenance organizations.
SB 891 Duncan
SP: McCall
Relating to the operation of the joint underwriting association
under the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting
Association Act.
SB 895 Bivins
SP: Swinford
Relating to the conducting of a driver education course by certain
family members of the student.
SB 902 Staples
SP: Hopson
Relating to the term of a contract between an appraisal district
and the financial entity designated as the depository for the
district.
SB 905 Madla
SP: Hamric
Relating to reimbursement for land removed from emergency service
districts and dispute resolution relating to the amount of
reimbursement.
SB 921 Whitmire
SP: Haggerty / Allen
Relating to the operation of community supervision and corrections
departments and to the early release of a defendant from community
supervision.
SB 923 Zaffirini
SP: Miller
Relating to criminal history checks of certain employees and
applicants for employment in nursing homes and assisted living
facilities and to the period within which a nursing home or
assisted living facility must request certain criminal history
checks.
SB 968 Shapleigh
SP: Naishtat
Relating to a program to promote participation by public junior
college students in individual development account programs.
SB 972 Shapiro
SP: McCall
Relating to the addition of certain municipalities to the territory
of a regional transportation authority.
SB 1000 West
SP: Goodman
Relating to a statistical or demographic analysis conducted by the
Texas Legislative Council for a state agency and to information
collected by the council in the course of performing the analysis.
SB 1007 West
SP: Giddings / Wise
Relating to student eligibility for a TEXAS grant.
SB 1019 Duncan
SP: Hilderbran
Relating to the powers, duties, taxing authority, and dissolution
procedure of the Ballinger Memorial Hospital District.
SB 1038 Barrientos
SP: Hupp / Naishtat / Uresti
Relating to the transfer of the Communities In Schools program.
SB 1053 Duncan
SP: Geren
Relating to certain water pollution and conservation programs
administered by the Texas Water Development Board.
SB 1073 West / et al.
SP: Miller
Relating to convictions barring employment in certain facilities
serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.
SB 1082 Ogden
SP: Phillips
Relating to loans from the permanent school fund for the
acquisition of rights-of-way for the state highway system.
SB 1105 Fraser
SP: Goolsby
Relating to amendments to the Texas Timeshare Act.
SB 1107 Duncan
SP: Hartnett
Relating to the assignment and compensation of certain justices or
judges as visiting judges and to service credit in the judicial
retirement system for certain visiting judges.
SB 1109 Shapiro / et al.
SP: Van Arsdale
Relating to revocation of the certificate and termination of the
employment of public school educators convicted of certain
offenses.
SB 1114 Williams
SP: Garza
Relating to secondary employment by officers commissioned by the
Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas.
SB 1117 Williams
SP: Eissler
Relating to optional benefits under the Texas school employees
uniform group coverage program.
SB 1120 Williams / et al.
SP: Hope
Relating to the requirements of a petition to dissolve the
Montgomery County Hospital District.
SB 1127 Van de Putte
SP: Mercer
Relating to the creation of a coaching education program by the San
Antonio Life Sciences Institute.
SB 1128 Bivins / et al.
SP: Brown, Fred
Relating to the administration of the Joint Admission Medical
Program.
SB 1129 Bivins
SP: Riddle
Relating to the admissibility in a criminal proceeding of certain
laboratory analyses of physical evidence or statements as to the
chain of custody of physical evidence.
SB 1143 Madla
SP: Corte / Castro
Relating to designation of defense economic readjustment zones and
defense readjustment projects.
SB 1154 Shapleigh
SP: Hilderbran / Solomons
Relating to state publications maintained by the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission.
SB 1155 Shapleigh
SP: Dukes
Relating to the purchase of certain wireless communication devices
by state agencies.
SB 1159 Barrientos
SP: Krusee
Relating to the regulation of motor vehicle emissions in counties
participating in early action compacts.
SB 1161 Barrientos
SP: Lewis
Relating to authorizing counties and municipalities to provide
certain services through the Internet.
SB 1165 Barrientos
SP: Moreno, Joe E.
Relating to certain fees in Title IV-D cases.
SB 1180 West
SP: Hughes
Relating to an index of court costs and fees in civil proceedings,
court costs on conviction, and other court-related fees and costs.
SB 1192 Carona
SP: Seaman
Relating to the operation of the Texas Property and Casualty
Insurance Guaranty Association.
SB 1207 Duncan
SP: Hartnett
Relating to state liability for costs and attorney's fees in
certain actions seeking declaratory judgment.
SB 1215 Van de Putte
SP: Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to changing the deadlines and authority for ordering the
election and filing for candidacy in political subdivision
elections.
SB 1225 Nelson
SP: Capelo / Hughes / Mabry
Relating to the removal of a body part or tissue from a decedent
who died under circumstances requiring an inquest.
SB 1230 Wentworth
SP: Brown, Fred
Relating to authorizing an environmental service fee at Southwest
Texas State University.
SB 1245 Armbrister / et al.
SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to the governance of the Crime Victims' Institute.
SB 1252 Armbrister
SP: Driver
Relating to the regulation of certain activities associated with
providing private security.
SB 1262 Armbrister
SP: Hegar
Relating to the use of certain incentives by municipalities for
certain economic development.
SB 1273 Armbrister
SP: Flores
Relating to suspension and alternatives to suspension of alcoholic
beverage licenses and permits.
SB 1276 Armbrister
SP: Morrison
Relating to the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority, formerly known as
the Jackson County Flood Control District.
SB 1281 Fraser
SP: Keffer, Bill
Relating to the rulemaking authority of the commissioner of
insurance.
SB 1288 Gallegos / et al.
SP: Noriega
Relating to military leave and military leave time accounts for
certain municipal firefighters and police officers.
SB 1315 Van de Putte
SP: Capelo
Relating to the establishment of pharmacy license classifications
by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
SB 1318 Van de Putte
SP: Menendez
Relating to authorization of securities lending for governmental
entities.
SB 1343 Jackson
SP: Morrison
Relating to the regulation and operation of certain career schools
and colleges.
SB 1362 Staples
SP: Cook, Byron / Hopson
Relating to the development of a regional water supply reservoir
project at Lake Eastex reservoir site, the renaming of the site as
Lake Columbia, and the acquisition of the site and other property;
providing for the issuance of bonds.
SB 1367 Duncan
SP: Isett
Relating to student union fees at component institutions of the
Texas Tech University System.
SB 1382 Armbrister
SP: Heflin
Relating to the continuation of certain professional and
occupational licensing boards as self-directed and semi-independent
agencies and to certain required reports for such agencies.
SB 1387 Armbrister
SP: Homer / Flores
Relating to the regulation of racing.
SB 1388 Armbrister
SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to access to certain personal information under the public
information law.
SB 1419 Janek
SP: Eiland / Capelo
Relating to anatomical specimens and donees of anatomical gifts.
SB 1459 Lindsay
SP: Smith, Wayne
Relating to access to criminal history record information by a
county fire marshal.
SB 1460 Lindsay
SP: Smith, Wayne
Relating to county fire marshals and county fire protection;
providing penalties.
SB 1461 Lindsay
SP: Smith, Wayne
Relating to the sale of used fire-fighting equipment to certain
volunteer fire departments.
SB 1463 Lindsay
SP: Hamric
Relating to the conversion of a nontoll state highway to a toll
facility.
SB 1465 Lindsay
SP: Hamric
Relating to the establishment of criminal law magistrates in Harris
County.
SB 1470 West
SP: Grusendorf / Dutton
Relating to student eligibility to participate in a high school
equivalency program and to authorization of a school district or
open-enrollment charter school to operate a program.
SB 1472 West
SP: Goolsby
Relating to zoological operation and maintenance boards;
authorizing taxes and bonds.
SB 1481 Ratliff
SP: Hughes
Relating to the repeal of the Caddo Lake Compact.
SB 1484 Ogden
SP: West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the acceptance of organization reports and permit
applications and approval of certificates of compliance by the
Railroad Commission of Texas.
SB 1488 Ogden
SP: Grusendorf
Relating to the misconduct of a person who is employed by or is
seeking employment by a school district, regional education service
center, or shared services arrangement.
SB 1494 Madla
SP: Puente
Relating to the powers of Bexar Metropolitan Water District.
SB 1521 Zaffirini
SP: Morrison
Relating to tuition charged by a public institution of higher
education for certain graduate programs.
SB 1546 Janek
SP: Nixon
Relating to laboratory and certain other related fees for public
junior colleges.
SB 1551 Duncan
SP: Hartnett
Relating to the creation of additional judicial districts, to
filing fees in the district courts in Collin County, and to the
jurisdiction of the county courts at law in Cameron County.
SB 1559 Madla
SP: Lewis
Relating to the confidentiality of and access to certain personal
information contained in instruments recorded with a county clerk.
SB 1570 Madla
SP: Puente
Relating to certain public water supply wells in the Trinity Glen
Rose Groundwater Conservation District.
SB 1571 Carona
SP: Capelo
Relating to the regulation of dental laboratories and dental
technicians.
SB 1582 Wentworth
SP: Keel
Relating to authorizing political subdivisions and property owners'
associations to trap and transport white-tailed deer.
SB 1614 Ellis, Rodney / et al.
SP: Homer
Relating to imposing a civil penalty for violation of certain
restrictions relating to genetic information.
SB 1633 Wentworth
SP: Puente
Relating to the installation and use of a water softener or reverse
osmosis system by an owner of an on-site sewage disposal system.
SB 1642 Staples / et al.
SP: Merritt / Berman / Hughes / Hopson / McReynolds / et al.
Relating to the establishment of a geriatric education and care
research center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Tyler.
SB 1643 Staples
SP: Denny
Relating to the appointment of election officers for a central
counting station for certain elections.
SB 1659 Madla
SP: Mercer
Relating to certain ad valorem tax exemptions, payments, and
refunds.
SB 1665 Averitt
SP: Moreno, Joe E.
Relating to the care of a child taken into possession by a
governmental entity without a court order.
SB 1670 Averitt
SP: Taylor
Relating to the ability of a health maintenance organization to
provide accessible and affordable benefit plans.
SB 1700 Wentworth
SP: Swinford
Relating to the administration of the weather modification and
control grant program.
SB 1705 Wentworth
SP: Martinez Fischer
Relating to the authority of certain taxing entities to repeal the
local sales and use tax exemption for telecommunications services.
SB 1708 Wentworth
SP: Baxter
Relating to the repurchase of real property acquired by a
governmental entity through eminent domain.
SB 1725 Lindsay
SP: Hamric
Relating to the North Harris County Regional Water Authority.
SB 1729 Lindsay
SP: Van Arsdale
Relating to certain contracts by water districts that are related
to complying with state or federal construction stormwater
requirements.
SB 1748 Lucio
SP: Oliveira
Relating to the continuation of the law authorizing the issuance of
oversize or overweight vehicle permits by certain port authorities.
SB 1765 Deuell
SP: Phillips
Relating to the zoning authority of a county in areas surrounding
Lake Ralph Hall.
SB 1782 Lindsay
SP: Hamric
Relating to the precedence of highway access rules and ordinances
of certain counties and municipalities over highway access
management orders of the Texas Transportation Commission.
SB 1784 Lucio
SP: Goolsby
Relating to the imposition and allocation of municipal hotel
occupancy taxes in certain general-law coastal municipalities.
SB 1794 Barrientos
SP: Stick
Relating to the criminal law magistrates in Travis County.
SB 1803 Duncan / et al.
SP: Truitt / Capelo
Relating to certain licensing requirements and violations under the
Texas Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; providing penalties.
SB 1804 Harris
SP: Zedler
Relating to certain health care treatment plans and pharmaceutical
services.
SB 1805 Harris
SP: Dutton
Relating to the enforcement of child support obligations, including
interstate enforcement.
SB 1807 Harris
SP: Dutton
Relating to the establishment and adjudication of certain
parent-child relationships.
SB 1811 Whitmire
SP: Smith, Wayne
Relating to service of process and to the ability to sue and be
sued of a sports and community venue district.
SB 1820 Van de Putte
SP: Grusendorf / Madden
Relating to criteria for rating the performance of school
districts.
SB 1826 Van de Putte
SP: Reyna / Capelo / Naishtat / Truitt
Relating to certain violations under the Texas Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act; providing penalties.
SB 1876 Ratliff
SP: Coleman
Relating to the conditional grant program administered by the Texas
Department of Transportation.
SB 1885 Janek
SP: Howard
Relating to the creation of the Sienna Plantation Management
District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
SB 1888 Staples
SP: Christian
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Southeast Texas Groundwater
Conservation District.
SB 1897 Whitmire
SP: Thompson
Relating to the creation of the Fall Creek Management District;
providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
SB 1899 Staples
SP: Christian
Relating to permit requirements for groundwater transfers out of
Pineywoods Groundwater Conservation District.
SB 1902 Lucio / et al.
SP: Flores / Wise
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority
and to the powers and duties of the Rio Grande watermaster and the
delivery of water down the banks and bed of the Rio Grande;
authorizing the issuance of bonds.
SB 1903 Fraser
SP: Hill
Relating to the creation and authority of municipal development
districts.
SB 1904 Barrientos
SP: Keel
Relating to driver's licenses, the operation of certain motor
vehicles, including commercial motor vehicles, in this state, and
to the disposition of certain Class C misdemeanors.
SB 1912 Jackson
SP: Eiland
Relating to the creation of the Harborside Management District;
providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
SB 1915 Armbrister
SP: Hegar
Relating to the terms of court of the 9th Judicial District.
SB 1923 Ogden
SP: McReynolds
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 258th Judicial District.
SB 1925 Estes
SP: Hardcastle
Relating to the powers, financing, and fees of office for the
Rolling Plains Groundwater Conservation District.
SB 1928 Staples
SP: Brown, Betty
Relating to the boundaries of the Athens Municipal Water Authority.
SB 1930 Staples
SP: Hope / Ellis
Relating to the board of directors and the powers of the Lone Star
Groundwater Conservation District; validating certain actions and
proceedings of the district.
SB 1932 Ogden
SP: McReynolds
Relating to the performance of the duties of a district attorney by
the prison prosecution unit in Trinity County.
SB 1933 Staples
SP: McReynolds
Relating to the exclusion of property from Waterwood Municipal
Utility District No. 1.
SB 1935 Fraser
SP: Cook, Robby
Relating to the law governing the Brazos River Authority and the
law governing the Lower Colorado River Authority.
SB 1936 Ellis, Rodney
SP: Coleman
Relating to the creation of the Buffalo Bayou Management District;
providing the authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
SB 1940 Armbrister
SP: Seaman
Relating to the County Court at Law of Aransas County.
SB 1941 Averitt
SP: Jones, Delwin
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Lake Alan Henry Water District;
granting the power of eminent domain; authorizing the issuance of
bonds and the imposition of taxes.
SB 1944 Fraser
SP: Delisi
Relating to the creation of the Temple Health and Bioscience
Economic Development District; providing authority to impose a tax
and issue bonds.
SB 1948 Whitmire / et al.
SP: Keel / Denny / Ellis / Hodge / Talton / et al.
Relating to the release on bond of certain applicants for a writ of
habeas corpus.
SB 1955 Ratliff
SP: Telford
Relating to the Red River Redevelopment Authority; providing the
power of eminent domain and the power to issue bonds.
SCR 20 Shapleigh
SP: Chavez
Memorializing Congress to fund one-stop border vehicle inspection
facilities.
SCR 49 Lucio
SP: Capelo
Requesting the lieutenant governor and the speaker to create a
joint interim committee to study issues related to nutrition among
Texas public school children.
SCR 51 Lucio
SP: Hilderbran / Escobar
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the King Ranch.