SENATE BILLS RETURNED FROM HOUSE WITH AMENDMENTS
SJR 19 Williams SP: Eissler
Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit a current or retired
faculty member of a public college or university to receive
compensation for service on the governing body of a water district.
SJR 30 Lindsay SP: Callegari
Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the provision of
parks and recreational facilities by certain conservation and
reclamation districts.
SJR 42 Carona SP: Solomons
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a home equity line
of credit, providing for administrative interpretation of home
equity lending law, and otherwise relating to the making,
refinancing, repayment, and enforcement of home equity loans.
SJR 45 Madla SP: Lewis
Proposing a constitutional amendment to repeal the authority of the
legislature to provide for the creation of rural fire prevention
districts.
SB 14 Jackson/et al. SP: Smithee/et al.
Relating to the regulation of residential property and commercial
and personal automobile insurance; providing a criminal penalty.
SB 45 Zaffirini SP: Talton
Relating to the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated with
a child passenger in the vehicle; providing a penalty.
SB 117 Staples SP: Hope
Relating to the authority of certain retired peace officers to
carry certain weapons.
SB 127 Fraser/et al. SP: Seaman
Relating to the handling, settling, and use of certain claims in
the insurance business; providing penalties.
SB 144 Averitt SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to the requirement that certain information be provided to
health care practitioners regarding the use and abuse of certain
drugs.
SB 147 Barrientos SP: Elkins
Relating to the adoption by state agencies of risk management plans
and risk control strategies.
SB 155 Zaffirini/et al. SP: Puente/et al.
Relating to the protection of public freshwater areas; providing a
penalty.
SB 160 Nelson SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to education relating to human organ donation.
SB 161 Nelson SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to the regulation and enforcement of certain licensing
programs by the Texas Department of Health; providing
administrative, civil, and criminal penalties.
SB 162 Nelson SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to sanctions imposed against certain facilities by the
Texas Department of Health.
SB 193 Barrientos/et al. SP: Bonnen
Relating to vehicles passing certain stationary emergency vehicles
on a highway; providing a penalty.
SB 211 Carona SP: Laubenberg/et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of chiropractors.
SB 236 Fraser SP: Hupp
Relating to a landowner's taking of depredating feral hogs.
SB 253 Staples SP: Pitts
Relating to the applicability of the Texas Youth Camp Safety and
Health Act to facilities or programs operated by or on the campus
of an institution of higher education.
SB 264 Lucio SP: Callegari/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Department
of Housing and Community Affairs.
SB 275 (LC) Nelson SP: Solomons/et al.
Relating to the abolition of the Texas Department of Economic
Development and the transfer of certain of its functions and the
functions of the Texas Aerospace Commission to the Texas Economic
Development and Tourism Office; to the establishment, operation,
and funding of the Texas Economic Development Bank; and to the
administration and operation of certain economic development
programs.
SB 282 Jackson SP: Bailey/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State Board
of Plumbing Examiners; providing penalties.
SB 284 Lucio SP: Callegari/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State
Affordable Housing Corporation.
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.
SB 381 Armbrister SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to food manufacturer and food wholesaler licensing
requirements under the Texas Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
SB 473 Ellis, Rodney/et al. SP: Giddings
Relating to assisting consumers to prevent and detect identity
theft; providing penalties.
SB 482 Madla/et al. SP: Haggerty/et al.
Relating to certain benefits provided to the survivors of public
employees and chaplains killed in the line of duty.
SB 533 Carona SP: Elkins
Relating to certain practices of debt collectors and credit
bureaus.
SB 541 Williams/et al. SP: Taylor
Relating to authorizing insurers and health maintenance
organizations to issue plans that do not include state-mandated
health benefits.
SB 585 Duncan SP: Isett
Relating to providing money to pay for the remediation, cleanup,
and closure of unpermitted solid waste facilities.
SB 591 Duncan SP: Allen
Relating to the structure and functions of the Texas Council on
Offenders with Mental Impairments and to reassigning the duties of
the council to the Advisory Committee to the Texas Board of
Criminal Justice on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments
and the Texas Correctional Office on Offenders with Medical or
Mental Impairments.
SB 597 Duncan SP: Pitts/et al.
Relating to the regulation of certain companies that provide
for-profit legal service contracts; providing penalties.
SB 610 Nelson SP: Capelo/et al.
Relating to grants for federally qualified health centers.
SB 611 Nelson/et al. SP: McCall/et al.
Relating to printing a social security number on an identification
card or other identification device; providing a civil penalty.
SB 624 Lindsay SP: Callegari
Relating to the provision of parks and recreational facilities by
certain conservation and reclamation districts; authorizing the
issuance of bonds on voter approval.
SB 631 Harris SP: Talton
Relating to the suspension of sentence and the deferral of
adjudication in cases involving certain misdemeanor traffic
offenses.
SB 669 Ogden SP: Woolley
Relating to the investigation of certain reports of child abuse or
neglect.
SB 721 Lucio SP: Solis
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, financing, and annexation authority of the
Cameron-Hidalgo-Willacy Regional Water Authority; authorizing the
issuance of bonds; providing the power of eminent domain.
SB 759 Brimer SP: Geren
Relating to certain pesticide application by persons engaged in
pest control work for a political subdivision.
SB 826 Whitmire SP: Keel
Relating to reporting the deaths of certain individuals; providing
a criminal penalty.
SB 833 Williams SP: Nixon
Relating to the application of the Charitable Immunity and
Liability Act of 1987 to alumni associations and on-campus
organizations.
SB 840 Whitmire SP: Gattis
Relating to the authority of peace officers to make certain arrests
outside of their jurisdictions.
SB 861 Janek SP: Marchant
Relating to access to birth records under the public information
law.
SB 876 Duncan SP: Hill
Relating to commissions on certain negotiated bond sales.
SB 900 Shapiro SP: Eissler
Relating to computation and reporting of the ratios of a school
district's expenditures and personnel relating to direct student
instruction.
SB 930 Shapiro SP: Hope
Relating to the liability of school employees.
SB 976 Shapiro SP: Morrison
Relating to high school completion and the creation of a middle
college education pilot program.
SB 1015 Wentworth SP: Elkins
Relating to the confidentiality of certain information submitted
for purposes of a crime victim impact statement.
SB 1017 Wentworth SP: Nixon
Relating to the ability of a county to sue and be sued.
SB 1022 Madla SP: Lewis
Relating to emergency services districts.
SB 1047 Ellis, Rodney SP: Goodman
Relating to protecting state and local officers from certain
consequences based on their legislative actions.
SB 1059 Ellis, Rodney/et al. SP: Marchant
Relating to corporate and business ethics and integrity.
SB 1074 West/et al. SP: Naishtat
Relating to reports and investigations of abuse and neglect in
nursing facilities.
SB 1182 Deuell/et al. SP: Farabee
Relating to local area service planning by local mental health or
mental retardation authorities.
SB 1211 Van de Putte SP: Haggerty
Relating to collateral protection insurance.
SB 1212 Van de Putte SP: Kolkhorst
Relating to participation by the attorney general's consumer
protection division and the award of civil penalties in an action
under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.
SB 1261 Armbrister SP: Campbell
Relating to notice of proposed construction and the marking and
location of certain wireless communication facilities.
SB 1272 Armbrister SP: Flores
Relating to the permitting process for the construction of certain
concrete plants.
SB 1295 Van de Putte/et al. SP: Corte
Relating to providing financial assistance to defense communities.
SB 1326 Carona SP: Jones, Jesse/et al.
Relating to the municipal regulation of single-family and duplex
industrialized housing.
SB 1389 Duncan SP: Hardcastle
Relating to livestock branding and identification.
SB 1394 Shapiro SP: Griggs
Relating to employment contract requirements for certain public
school principals.
SB 1413 Deuell SP: Hardcastle
Relating to certain powers and duties of the Department of
Agriculture and other entities engaged in agricultural activities.
SB 1439 Shapleigh SP: Corte
Relating to federal matching funds for certain projects at military
facilities in this state.
SB 1464 Lindsay SP: Hamric
Relating to enforcement of the collection of certain tolls;
providing a penalty.
SB 1504 Harris SP: Krusee
Relating to the regulation of motor vehicle sales and the powers
and duties of the Motor Vehicle Board of the Texas Department of
Transportation.
SB 1552 Duncan SP: Hartnett
Relating to the creation and composition of certain county courts
at law.
SB 1565 Madla SP: Uresti
Relating to allowing a municipality to create a defense adjustment
management authority; authorizing taxes and bonds.
SB 1567 Madla/et al. SP: Hamric
Relating to the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial in the Capitol
Complex.
SB 1574 Carona SP: Giddings
Relating to the administration and regulation of the state's
workers' compensation insurance system.
SB 1581 Wentworth SP: Keffer, Bill
Relating to excepting an audit working paper of a county auditor or
a municipal auditor from required disclosure under the public
information law.
SB 1639 Staples SP: Hope
Relating to regulation of spacing and production of groundwater
from aquifers by a groundwater conservation district.