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ITEMS ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION
Friday, May 30, 2003
10:00 A.M.
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******** CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ********
Conference Committee Reports:
Eligible at 10:30 a.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.
Eligible at 1:00 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 1165 Solomons / Elkins / Giddings / Kolkhorst / Zedler
Relating to corporations.
Eligible at 5:00 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 1702 Taylor
Relating to the sale and subsequent lease of property by certain
counties.
SB 827 Whitmire
SP: Keel
Relating to creating offenses for abandoning or endangering an
elderly individual or disabled individual and for failing to
provide certain care for a child, elderly individual, or disabled
individual.
The Senate request the appointment of a conference committee on:
SB 117 Staples
SP: Hope
Relating to the authority of certain retired peace officers to
carry certain weapons.
(Senate Conferees: Staples, Ch./Gallegos, Jr./Janek/Whitmire/Williams)
SB 361 Shapiro / et al.
SP: Hill
Relating to the precedence of certain municipal highway access
rules and ordinances over highway access management orders of the
Texas Transportation Commission.
(Senate Conferees: Shapiro, Ch./Armbrister/Lindsay/Ratliff/Wentworth)
******** SENATE AMENDMENTS ********
Eligible at 6:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
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.
Eligible at 8:30 p.m. - May 28, 2003:
HB 2458 Krusee / Oliveira / Swinford / et al.
Relating to the collection of the motor fuel taxes; providing
penalties.
Eligible at 10:30 p.m. - May 29, 2003:
HB 1146 Dutton
Relating to a limitation on audits of an open-enrollment charter
school.
HB 1202 Dutton
Relating to recovery of certain funds received by an
open-enrollment charter school.
HB 1247 Ritter / Menendez / Mercer / Capelo / Chavez
Relating to the creation, funding, and operation of a fire fighter
and police officer home loan program.
HB 1287 Chisum
Relating to the location and operation of certain portable
facilities.
HB 1660 Flores
Relating to a report to the legislature regarding the installation
and operation of video camera surveillance systems in county jails.
HB 1858 Wise / Swinford / Hardcastle / Uresti / Chisum
Relating to the promotion and marketing of Texas products.
HB 1869 Baxter / et al.
Relating to the admission of certain video testimony into evidence
in a proceeding regarding the abuse or neglect of a child.
Eligible at 11:00 p.m. - May 29, 2003:
HB 1614 Truitt / Capelo / Zedler / et al.
Relating to the reporting of medical errors and the establishment
of a patient safety program in hospitals, ambulatory surgical
centers, and mental hospitals; providing an administrative penalty.
HB 1696 Denny
Relating to the hours of service of a poll watcher on election day.
HB 1650 Mercer / et al.
Relating to student fees charged at The University of Texas at San
Antonio.
HB 1661 Haggerty
Relating to the carrying of certain weapons by a person who holds a
security officer commission issued by the Texas Commission on
Private Security.
HB 1940 Luna / Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to longevity pay for assistant prosecutors.
HB 3303 Gutierrez
Relating to the validation of certain acts and proceedings of the
City of McAllen.
HB 3325 Keffer, Jim / Christian / Seaman
Relating to the creation and administration of the community
telecommunications alliance program.
HB 3563 Hegar
Relating to the creation of the Waller County Road Improvement
District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue
bonds.
HB 3577 Smithee
Relating to the County Court at Law of Randall County.
Eligible at 11:30 p.m. - May 29, 2003:
HB 1621 Flores
Relating to authorizing a public junior college to waive a portion
of the tuition and fees for a student enrolled in a course for
joint high school-junior college credit.
HB 2718 Smith, Wayne
Relating to the allocation and use of municipal hotel occupancy
taxes in certain municipalities bordering bays.
Eligible at 12:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 1575 Ritter
Relating to cost-based transportation rates for natural gas.
Eligible at 12:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 999 Madden / et al.
Relating to electronic reporting of political contributions and
expenditures.
HB 1232 Geren
Relating to the expiration of alcoholic beverage permits and
licenses.
HB 1268 Seaman
Relating to outpatient drug benefit coverage in certain health
insurance policies and discount drug programs.
HB 1743 Delisi / et al.
Relating to prevention of fraud and abuse under the medical
assistance program; creating an offense.
HB 1971 Uresti
Relating to convictions barring employment in certain facilities
serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.
HB 2343 Kolkhorst
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
HB 3011 Capelo
Relating to certain reports, information, or records related to
certain health care facilities.
HB 3061 Flores
Relating to regulation of the disposal of animal remains.
Eligible at 1:00 a.m.- May 30, 2003:
HB 1053 Rodriguez / Hupp / Miller / Davis, Yvonne
Relating to the confidentiality of social security numbers in
certain circumstances.
HB 1097 Capelo
Relating to the birth defects monitoring program.
HB 1517 Jones, Jesse
Relating to publicizing a list of voters' rights.
HB 1534 Cook, Robby
Relating to certain powers of groundwater conservation districts.
HB 1590 Paxton
Relating to multiple-party accounts.
HB 1733 Hamric
Relating to certain records kept by persons who weigh cargo
transported by commercial motor vehicles.
HB 2400 Noriega
Relating to military leave and military leave time accounts for
certain municipal fire fighters and police officers.
HB 2525 Ellis
Relating to the punishment of certain assaults committed against
persons who contract with government and employees of those
persons.
HB 2795 Riddle
Relating to the release on bond of certain persons arrested without
a warrant.
HB 3141 Wilson
Relating to stamping of cigarettes in interstate commerce.
Eligible at 1:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 249 Goolsby / Wohlgemuth
Relating to the returned check fee collected by a county clerk.
HB 948 Crownover
Relating to the composition of the Texas Racing Commission.
HB 1895 Hope
Relating to the compensation provided to an immediate family member
or a household member of a deceased victim for funeral attendance
and bereavement leave or certain other crime victims' services.
HB 2866 Swinford
Relating to coordinated inspection of certain child-care facilities
for compliance with fire safety and sanitation standards.
HB 3324 Keffer, Jim
Relating to the issuance of certain obligations and the imposition
of assessments for the unemployment compensation system.
HB 3565 Keel
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Lazy Nine Municipal Utility
District.
Eligible at 2:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 236 West, George "Buddy" / Allen / Crabb / Casteel / Wise /
et al.
Relating to the punishment for the offense of obscenity and to
certain consequences related to convictions for certain sex
offenses.
HB 1440 Eissler
Relating to the frequency of public school teacher appraisals.
HB 1483 Allen / Capelo / Wohlgemuth
Relating to the regulation of the practice of nursing by the Board
of Nurse Examiners and to the abolition of the Board of Vocational
Nurse Examiners and the transfer of the functions of that agency to
the Board of Nurse Examiners.
HB 1634 Hilderbran / Denny
Relating to the ability of a court to maintain jurisdiction over a
person placed on community supervision who absconds and to defenses
to revocation of community supervision.
HB 1773 Smith, Wayne
Relating to regulation of junked vehicles.
HB 1833 Goodman
Relating to certain fees that may be assessed and collected by a
domestic relations office.
HB 2036 Swinford
Relating to allowing certain political subdivisions to enter
agreements with other political subdivisions for the collection of
past due amounts for certain utility or waste disposal services.
HB 2308 Jones, Jesse
Relating to the low income housing tax credit program.
HB 2379 Hill
Relating to the recreational facility fee charged at The University
of Texas at Dallas.
HB 2453 Kolkhorst
Relating to the definition of a hospital district management
contractor.
HB 3034 Ellis
Relating to the rates of certain retail public utilities.
HB 3109 Keffer, Bill
Relating to physician and health care provider panels of
independent review organizations.
HB 3503 Hartnett
Relating to exculpatory clauses in trusts.
HB 3526 Hamric / Heflin / Thompson / Moreno, Joe E. / Woolley /
et al.
Relating to the establishment of the research development fund to
promote research at certain institutions of higher education and to
the abolition of the Texas excellence fund and the university
research fund.
Eligible at 3:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 897 Woolley / Giddings / et al.
Relating to the operation of certain employer coalitions and
cooperatives established for the provision of health benefits
coverage.
HB 1326 Martinez Fischer / Driver / Keel / Hope / Castro
Relating to the civil and criminal consequences of racing a motor
vehicle on a public highway or street and of being a spectator at
an illegal motor vehicle racing event; providing penalties.
HB 1406 Brown, Betty / Hupp / Grusendorf / et al.
Relating to a recommendation by a school district employee
concerning a use of a psychotropic drug by a student or suggestion
of a particular diagnosis and to refusal by a parent or certain
other person to consent to administration of a psychotropic drug to
a student or to psychiatric evaluation or examination of a student.
HB 1420 Hardcastle / Christian
Relating to the use of a portion of medical school tuition for
student loan repayment assistance for physicians.
HB 1538 Chisum / Gallego / Solomons / Dunnam / McClendon / et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Funeral
Service Commission, including certain functions transferred to the
commission from the Texas Department of Health, and the powers and
duties of the Texas Finance Commission and the banking commissioner
of Texas regarding cemeteries; providing administrative and civil
penalties.
HB 1649 Mercer / et al.
Relating to student fees charged at The University of Texas at San
Antonio.
HB 1979 Puente
Relating to preventing the discharge of untreated wastewater into
waters of the state.
HB 1997 Gutierrez / West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the regulation of electric personal assistive mobility
devices.
HB 2053 Smith, Wayne
Relating to group health and related benefits provided by counties.
HB 2189 Rodriguez
Relating to temporary guardianship procedures.
HB 2212 Mowery
Relating to the continuation of legal land use in newly
incorporated areas.
HB 2457 Rangel / Canales / Garza / Luna / Mercer
Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas A&M
University--Kingsville.
HB 2881 Driver / Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to prohibiting an attack on an assistance animal; creating
an offense.
HB 3318 Luna
Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts in
the state treasury, the allocation of revenue, the dedication and
rededication of revenue, and the exemption of unappropriated money
from use for general governmental purposes.
HB 3378 Hope
Relating to granting statutory authority to certain governmental
entities to reduce certain expenditures and to the operation of
certain funds.
HB 3592 West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the creation of the Downtown Midland Management
District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.
Eligible at 3:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 705 Solomons / Allen
Relating to liability of in-home service companies and residential
delivery companies for negligent hiring.
HB 716 Delisi / Homer / Pena
Relating to the punishment for assaults committed against certain
sports participants.
HB 944 King / Mercer / Paxton / Phillips / Hughes / et al.
Relating to the admission to public institutions of higher
education of students with nontraditional secondary educations.
HB 1378 Geren
Relating to certain duties and information regarding water planning
and development matters in the state.
HB 2073 Hilderbran
Relating to the ad valorem tax rate of a hospital district created
under general or special law.
HB 2188 Rodriguez / Pena
Relating to alternate methods of responding to a jury summons.
HB 2350 Dawson
Relating to the amount charged by the Texas Department of Health
for a youth camp license.
HB 2964 Howard
Relating to the operation of municipal school districts and the
levy of municipal school district taxes.
Eligible at 4:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 479 Hunter / et al.
Relating to registration with the Selective Service System of
certain applicants for a driver's license or personal
identification certificate.
HB 2019 Griggs / Isett / Gutierrez / Crabb / Marchant / et al.
Relating to the creation of a state advisory council with authority
to promote research, education, treatment, and support activities
related to persons with traumatic brain injuries.
HB 2153 Denny
Relating to filing a voting system equipment contract with the
secretary of state.
HB 2249 Howard
Relating to sale and lease of public school land.
HB 2485 Hochberg
Relating to internal auditing of state agencies.
HB 2947 Casteel
Relating to state agency decentralization of services.
Eligible at 4:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 341 Uresti
Relating to parenting and postpartum counseling information to be
provided to a pregnant woman.
HB 820 Grusendorf
Relating to the eligibility of certain appellate judges to retire
with full benefits.
HB 849 Talton
Relating to the regulation of tow trucks, to the authority of a
political subdivision of this state to regulate tow trucks, and to
insurance for commercial motor vehicles; providing penalties.
HB 942 Chisum / Rose
Relating to certain bond requirements for persons engaged in
certain activities under the jurisdiction of the Railroad
Commission of Texas other than the ownership or operation of wells.
HB 1363 Crownover
Relating to funding for the Texas Academy of Mathematics and
Science.
HB 1470 Hartnett
Relating to guardianships and the jurisdiction of certain courts;
providing a criminal penalty.
HB 2032 Hochberg
Relating to the confidentiality of e-mail addresses under the
public information law.
HB 2072 Grusendorf
Relating to payment by teachers for missing textbooks in public
schools.
HB 2931 Lewis
Relating to the administration and finances of counties and certain
other entities.
HB 3419 Davis, John
Relating to procedural and technical corrections and clarification
of the Property Tax Code, procedures for the seizure and sale of
property, and distribution of ad valorem tax sale proceeds.
HB 3441 Pickett
Relating to a reduction in expenditures of certain state
governmental entities, including changes affecting the Commission
on Human Rights, attorney general's office, management of certain
accounts and funds, and certain election-related forms.
HJR 44 Hughes / Pena
Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit a six-person jury in
a district court misdemeanor trial.
HJR 84 Uresti / Goolsby / Luna / McReynolds
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the filling of a
temporary vacancy in a public office created by the activation for
military service of a public officer.
Eligible at 6:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 59 Wise / Riddle / West, George "Buddy" / Morrison /
Van Arsdale / et al.
Relating to the offense of aggravated kidnapping, the punishment
for the offense of kidnapping, and the definition of and punishment
for the offense of trafficking in persons.
HB 1282 McCall / Menendez / Casteel / West, George "Buddy" / Rose /
et al.
Relating to commercial electronic mail; providing penalties.
HB 1297 Allen
Relating to limits on indemnification of state employees and
officials.
HB 2240 Paxton
Relating to the management of certain trusts and the adoption of
the Uniform Prudent Investor Act.
HB 2424 McCall
Relating to technical changes to taxes and fees administered by the
comptroller; providing penalties.
HB 2519 Flores / Raymond
Relating to the regulation of bingo.
HB 2522 Krusee / Rose / Stick / Gattis
Relating to financing authority for certain institutions of higher
education for facilities.
HB 3384 Hartnett
Relating to associate judges appointed by certain district courts
in Dallas County.
HB 3534 Laubenberg / Paxton / Hegar / Homer
Relating to the place of business of a retailer for purposes of the
collection of the municipal sales and use tax.
HB 3562 Eissler
Relating to the creation of the Southwest Montgomery County
Improvement District; providing authority to impose taxes and issue
bonds.
HCR 103 Eiland / Solis / Deshotel / Seaman / Bonnen / et al.
Memorializing the United States government to improve the enforcement of
food import restrictions on seafood imports.
Eligible at 6:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 151 Farabee / et al.
Relating to offenses involving dogs or coyotes that are a danger to
livestock and other animals.
HB 325 McCall
Relating to the punishment for the offense of failure to identify.
HB 645 Puente
Relating to prohibiting the creation or enforcement of certain
restrictive covenants that undermine water conservation.
HB 727 Delisi / Capelo / et al.
Relating to disease management programs for certain Medicaid
recipients.
HB 1844 Grusendorf / Bohac / Christian / Stick / Madden / et al.
Relating to a program under which classroom teachers are reimbursed
for personal funds expended on classroom supplies.
HB 2500 Harper-Brown
Relating to the enforcement of fares imposed for the use of certain
public transportation systems; providing penalties.
HB 2895 Allen
Relating to the operations of the Texas Youth Commission.
HB 3578 Wong
Relating to powers, duties, and name of the Upper Kirby Management
District.
Eligible at 9:00 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 109 Chavez / Wilson / Gutierrez / Flores / Raymond
Relating to customs brokers.
HB 599 Chisum / Gallego / Solomons / Dunnam / Wise / et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the State Bar of
Texas and to conflicts of interest with respect to certain persons
engaged in the practice of law.
HB 1108 Lewis
Relating to emergency services districts.
HB 1941 Woolley / Hochberg / Wong / Edwards
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds to finance
certain facilities and projects at certain public institutions of
higher education and exempting the facilities and projects financed
by the bonds from prior approval by the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board.
HB 2006 Jones, Elizabeth / McReynolds
Relating to the construction and maintenance of utility, common
carrier, cable operator, and energy transporter facilities along,
over, under, or across a railroad right-of-way.
HB 2241 Paxton
Relating to adoption of the Uniform Principal and Income Act.
HB 2455 Chisum / Gallego / Solomons / Dunnam
Relating to the governmental entities subject to, and the
confidentiality of records under, the sunset review process.
HB 2912 Homer / Laubenberg / Hegar
Relating to industrial development corporations; providing a civil
penalty.
HB 3017 Solomons
Relating to the organization, administration, and validation of the
creation and certain action of a coordinated county transportation
authority.
HB 3486 Delisi / Madden
Relating to a health care facility's return of certain unused drugs
to a pharmacy and to reimbursement or credit under the state's
medical assistance program for returned drugs.
HJR 54 King / Pena / Jones, Elizabeth / Capelo / Swinford / et al.
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that certain
benefits in certain public retirement systems may not be reduced or
impaired.
Eligible at 10:30 a.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 1487 Driver / et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain electricians;
providing penalties.
HB 3042 Cook, Robby
Relating to the administration and functions of the Texas Building
and Procurement Commission and related matters.
HB 3442 Pickett
Relating to certain expenditures and charges of certain
governmental entities.
Eligible at 12:00 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 2095 Cook, Robby
Relating to provision of workers' compensation insurance coverage
through a certified self-insurance group; providing penalties.
HB 2319 Dutton / Goodman / Hodge / Pena / et al.
Relating to juvenile delinquency; providing a criminal penalty.
Eligible at 5:00 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 3035 Cook, Robby
Relating to the power of groundwater conservation districts to
regulate the spacing of water wells and the production of
groundwater.
HB 3588 Krusee / Delisi / Capelo / Turner / Phillips
Relating to the construction, acquisition, financing, maintenance,
management, operation, ownership, and control of transportation
facilities and the progress, improvement, policing, and safety of
transportation in the state; imposing criminal penalties.
Eligible at 5:30 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 76 Wise / Guillen
Relating to procedures adopted by a state entity to ensure an
employment preference for veterans.
HB 532 Giddings
Relating to creating the offense of improper sexual relations
between employees of a public or private primary or secondary
school and certain students.
HB 651 Pitts / Campbell / Branch / et al.
Relating to the creation of a savings incentive program for state
agencies.
HB 736 Denny / Grusendorf
Relating to use of the internal mail system of a governmental
agency to deliver political advertising; providing a criminal
penalty.
HB 3232 Smith, Todd
Relating to the collection of costs incurred by a municipality in
remedying substandard conditions on a property.
Eligible at 6:30 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 1082 Talton
Relating to the appraisal of property by appraisal districts.
HB 1691 Phillips
Relating to use of the compensatory education allotment to fund
certain programs for students who have dyslexia or a related
disorder.
HB 2292 Wohlgemuth / Heflin
Relating to the provision of health and human services in this
state, including the powers and duties of the Health and Human
Services Commission and other state agencies; providing penalties.
HB 3168 Giddings
Relating to the determination of workers' compensation benefits and
the resolution of disputes regarding those benefits.
HB 3209 Heflin / Hunter / Puente / Giddings / Wise
Relating to the amount of financial assistance a student may
receive under the TEXAS grant and tuition equalization grant
programs.
HB 3587 Callegari
Relating to powers, duties, and name of the Energy Corridor
Management District.
Eligible at 7:30 p.m. - May 30, 2003:
HB 518 Menendez
Relating to the service of citation by publication in a suit
affecting the parent-child relationship.
HB 1204 Baxter
Relating to the authority of municipalities and counties to
regulate subdivisions and certain development in a municipality's
extraterritorial jurisdiction.
HB 1314 Pitts
Relating to placement of certain students in alternative education
programs.
HB 2933 Flores
Relating to the abolition of the Commission on Human Rights and the
transfer of its functions to the Texas Workforce Commission.
HB 2971 Harper-Brown
Relating to certain license plates issued by the Texas Department
of Transportation.
HB 3305 Berman
Relating to certain surcharges assessed and collected by the Texas
Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
HB 3629 Bohac
Relating to the creation of the Spring Branch Area Community
Improvement District; providing the authority to issue bonds.