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ITEMS ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
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******** CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ********
Conference Committee Reports:
Eligible at 10:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
SB 418 Nelson / et al.
SP: Smithee / Eiland / Bonnen / Lewis / Swinford / et al.
Relating to the regulation and prompt payment of health care
providers; providing penalties.
The Senate request the appointment of a conference committee on:
SB 14 Jackson / et al.
SP: Smithee / Seaman / Eiland / Bonnen / Gallego / et al.
Relating to the regulation of residential property and commercial
and personal automobile insurance; providing a criminal penalty.
(Senate Conferees: Jackson, Ch./Armbrister/Averitt/Fraser/Van de Putte)
******** SENATE AMENDMENTS ********
Eligible at 4:30 p.m. - May 27, 2003:
HB 2185 Geren / Zedler
Relating to the issuance of a certificate of death by catastrophe.
HB 2529 Madden
Relating to providing a grace period for enforcement actions
against a small water supply, sewer, wastewater treatment, or solid
waste disposal service being integrated into a regional service.
HB 2622 Allen
Relating to certain governmental agency and private entity access
to and use of criminal history record information maintained by the
Department of Public Safety.
Eligible at 5:30 p.m. - May 27, 2003:
HB 54 Wolens / Denny / Madden / et al.
Relating to certain early voting by mail procedures and to the
prevention of voting fraud generally; providing criminal penalties.
Eligible at 8:30 p.m. - May 27, 2003:
HB 803 Geren
Relating to the authority of political subdivisions to exercise the
power of eminent domain to acquire rights to water and the
assessment of damages in condemnation proceedings initiated for
that purpose.
HB 1518 Dutton
Relating to accountability for public school dropouts and students
at risk of dropping out of school and to the evaluation of school
campuses.
HB 1670 Allen
Relating to medically recommended intensive supervision of certain
inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and to the
release pending deportation of certain inmates of the department.
HB 1882 Deshotel / et al.
Relating to incentives for certain high schools and high school
students to participate in the Early High School Graduation
Scholarship program.
HB 2071 Pitts
Relating to variances granted by the Commission on Jail Standards.
HB 2320 Flores
Relating to administration by the Texas Department of Agriculture
of quarantined articles.
HB 2540 Menendez
Relating to granting a defense base development authority the power
of eminent domain.
HB 3175 Pitts
Relating to the authority of the comptroller of public accounts to
manage cash flow by transferring available cash between funds in
the custody or under the management of the comptroller; making an
appropriation.
HB 3304 Guillen
Relating to the appointment and duties of an associate judge in the
229th Judicial District.
Eligible at 9:30 p.m. - May 27, 2003:
HB 212 Keel / Baxter / Stick / Naishtat / Dukes / et al.
Relating to the regulation of political signs by a municipality.
HB 329 Naishtat / Seaman / Raymond / Madden / Menendez / et al.
Relating to the regulation of mold assessors and remediators, civil
liability for mold remediation, and insurance coverage on mold
claims; providing civil and administrative penalties.
HB 335 Hamric / et al.
Relating to the public sale of certain real property; providing
penalties.
HB 567 Berman
Relating to the expulsion of a public school student who commits
certain criminal acts against another student.
HB 1020 Villarreal
Relating to the promotion of dependent care benefits for employees.
HB 2377 Hill
Relating to the transfer of property under the jurisdiction of the
Texas Department of Transportation.
HB 2703 Bailey / Paxton / Dutton / Keel / Flynn
Relating to the testing of certain physical evidence, crime
laboratory accreditation, and the admissibility of evidence
examined or tested by a crime laboratory.
HJR 68 Hupp / Hunter / Miller / Delisi / Berman
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Veterans' Land
Board to make certain payments on revenue bonds and to use assets
in certain funds to provide for veterans homes.
Eligible at 3:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 425 Christian / Miller / Eissler / Bonnen / Ellis / et al.
Relating to the procedures under which a state agency considers
legislative intent during the process of implementing certain
legislative enactments.
HB 673 Madden
Relating to parental notification of public school teacher
qualifications.
HB 1549 Denny / Howard / Uresti / Jones, Jesse / Heflin
Relating to changes required in election laws to implement the
federal Help America Vote Act of 2002.
HB 1959 Smithee
Relating to facilities and other property of the Dallam-Hartley
Counties Hospital District.
HB 2250 Flores
Relating to the powers and duties of the Rio Grande watermaster and
the delivery of water down the banks and bed of the Rio Grande.
HB 3552 Gallego / Moreno, Paul / Luna / Solis / Chavez / et al.
Relating to naming the school of pharmacy at Texas A&M
University--Kingsville and its physical facility after Irma Rangel.
HCR 59 Chavez / Reyna / Luna / Thompson / Olivo / et al.
Requesting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation be directly
involved in assisting the Mexican law enforcement authorities in
their investigation of the brutal murders of women in Juarez,
Mexico.
Eligible at 4:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 752 Woolley / et al.
Relating to the administration of public retirement systems for
police officers in certain municipalities.
Eligible at 6:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 111 Chavez / Wohlgemuth
Relating to responsibility for payment for transport by ambulance
of a recipient of medical assistance in certain circumstances.
HB 217 Hamric / Wohlgemuth / Menendez / Bohac / et al.
Relating to limiting the amount of school district ad valorem taxes
that may be imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled
person.
HB 826 Davis, Yvonne
Relating to the disposition of certain unclaimed wage payments.
HB 833 Hochberg / et al.
Relating to certain pharmaceutical services for an injured employee
receiving workers' compensation medical benefits.
HB 1218 Chisum / Gallego / Solomons / Dunnam / Martinez Fischer
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board
of Public Accountancy; providing penalties.
HB 1296 Noriega
Relating to small business development programs of navigation
districts and port authorities.
HB 1457 Eiland / et al.
Relating to the applicability and enforcement of the law governing
access to public beaches.
HB 2081 McReynolds
Relating to an exemption from The Texas Engineering Practice Act
for certain public works.
HJR 51 Flores
Proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a two-year period
for the redemption of a mineral interest sold for unpaid ad valorem
taxes at a tax sale.
Eligible at 7:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 1887 Morrison / Chavez / Mercer
Relating to funds received by institutions of higher education to
cover overhead expenses of conducting research.
HB 1931 Capelo / West, George "Buddy" / Jones, Elizabeth / Canales /
Chisum
Relating to pipeline safety emergency response plans and the
requirements governing notification of pipeline construction and
operation.
HB 2004 Marchant / et al.
Relating to allowing a commissioners court to deliberate in a
closed meeting regarding business and financial considerations of a
contract being negotiated.
HJR 16 Brown, Fred / Brown, Betty / Gattis / Chavez / Baxter /
et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize a county, a city
or town, or a junior college district to establish an ad valorem
tax freeze on residence homesteads of the disabled and of the
elderly and their spouses.
HJR 21 Hamric / Wohlgemuth / Menendez
Proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit an increase in the
total amount of school district ad valorem taxes that may be
imposed on the residence homestead of a disabled person.
HJR 85 Homer / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow wineries in this
state to manufacture, sell, and dispense certain wine.
Eligible at 8:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 2261 West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the Eighth, Ninth, and Eleventh courts of appeals
districts.
HB 2458 Krusee / Oliveira / Swinford / et al.
Relating to the collection of the motor fuel taxes; providing
penalties.
HB 3330 Crownover
Relating to regulation of certain information logo signs along
certain major highways.
HB 3374 Rangel / Puente / Guillen / Canales
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kenedy County Groundwater
Conservation District.
Eligible at 9:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 867 Jones, Jesse / Naishtat
Relating to minimum standards applicable to certain facilities.
HB 730 Ritter / Edwards / King / Woolley / Seaman / et al.
Relating to residential construction, including certain warranties,
building and performance standards, and dispute resolution;
providing an administrative penalty.
HB 2877 Bonnen / Homer / Chisum / Stick
Relating to certain permitting procedures of the Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality.
Eligible at 10:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 1541 Callegari
Relating to the general powers and authority of water districts.
HB 1839 Solomons / Lewis / et al.
Relating to property in the custody of a pawnbroker; providing
criminal penalties.
HB 2044 McReynolds
Relating to the powers and duties of the General Land Office and
the accounting and disposition of state-owned real property.