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 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.
SB 10 Averitt/et al. SP: Smithee
Relating to the creation of employer health benefit plan groups.
SB 16 Staples/et al. SP: Woolley
Relating to mentoring services programs for at-risk students in
public schools.
SB 19 Ratliff SP: Farabee
Relating to audit and other related functions of the State Auditor
and of certain other state entities.
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 103 Van de Putte SP: Alonzo
Relating to the carrying of weapons by peace officers and by
special investigators.
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 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 245 Zaffirini SP: Wohlgemuth
Relating to the provision of respiratory therapy services under the
medical assistance program.
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 284 Lucio SP: Callegari/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State
Affordable Housing Corporation.
SB 286 Shapleigh SP: Morrison/et al.
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
SB 315 Hinojosa SP: Luna
Relating to the annexation by certain junior college districts of
territory in a district's service area.
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 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 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 473 Ellis, Rodney/et al. SP: Giddings
Relating to assisting consumers to prevent and detect identity
theft; providing penalties.
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 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 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 688 West SP: Giddings
Relating to the boards of trustees of certain school districts.
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 876 Duncan SP: Hill
Relating to commissions on certain negotiated bond sales.
SB 895 Bivins SP: Swinford
Relating to the conducting of a driver education course by certain
family members of the student.
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 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 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 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/et al.
Relating to student eligibility for a TEXAS grant.
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 1047 Ellis, Rodney SP: Goodman
Relating to protecting state and local officers from certain
consequences based on their legislative actions.
SB 1053 Duncan SP: Geren
Relating to certain water pollution and conservation programs
administered by the Texas Water Development Board.
SB 1059 Ellis, Rodney/et al. SP: Marchant
Relating to corporate and business ethics and integrity.
SB 1073 West/et al. SP: Miller
Relating to convictions barring employment in certain facilities
serving the elderly or persons with disabilities.
SB 1074 West/et al. SP: Naishtat
Relating to reports and investigations of abuse and neglect in
nursing facilities.
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 1154 Shapleigh SP: Hilderbran/et al.
Relating to state publications maintained by the Texas State
Library and Archives Commission.
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 1182 Deuell/et al. SP: Farabee
Relating to local area service planning by local mental health or
mental retardation authorities.
SB 1192 Carona SP: Seaman
Relating to the operation of the Texas Property and Casualty
Insurance Guaranty Association.
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 1252 Armbrister SP: Driver
Relating to the regulation of certain activities associated with
providing private security.
SB 1261 Armbrister SP: Campbell
Relating to notice of proposed construction and the marking and
location of certain wireless communication facilities.
SB 1262 Armbrister SP: Hegar
Relating to the use of certain incentives by municipalities for
certain economic development.
SB 1272 Armbrister SP: Flores
Relating to the permitting process for the construction of certain
concrete plants.
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 1295 Van de Putte/et al. SP: Corte
Relating to providing financial assistance to defense communities.
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 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/et al.
Relating to the regulation of racing.
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 1460 Lindsay SP: Smith, Wayne
Relating to county fire marshals and county fire protection;
providing penalties.
SB 1463 Lindsay SP: Hamric
Relating to the conversion of a nontoll state highway to a toll
facility.
SB 1464 Lindsay SP: Hamric
Relating to enforcement of the collection of certain tolls;
providing a penalty.
SB 1465 Lindsay SP: Hamric
Relating to the establishment of criminal law magistrates in Harris
County.
SB 1470 West SP: Grusendorf/et al.
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 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 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 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 1552 Duncan SP: Hartnett
Relating to the creation and composition of certain county courts
at law.
SB 1567 Madla/et al. SP: Hamric
Relating to the Texas Peace Officers' Memorial in the Capitol
Complex.
SB 1570 Madla SP: Puente
Relating to certain public water supply wells in the Trinity Glen
Rose Groundwater Conservation District.
SB 1582 Wentworth SP: Keel
Relating to authorizing political subdivisions and property owners'
associations to trap and transport white-tailed deer.
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 1639 Staples SP: Hope
Relating to regulation of spacing and production of groundwater
from aquifers by a groundwater conservation district.
SB 1659 Madla SP: Mercer
Relating to certain ad valorem tax exemptions, payments, and
refunds.
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 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 1803 Duncan/et al. SP: Truitt/et al.
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 1820 Van de Putte SP: Grusendorf/et al.
Relating to criteria for rating the performance of school
districts.
SB 1888 Staples SP: Christian
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Southeast Texas Groundwater
Conservation District.
SB 1902 Lucio/et al. SP: Flores/et al.
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 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 1923 Ogden SP: McReynolds
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 258th Judicial 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 1936 Ellis, Rodney SP: Coleman
Relating to the creation of the Buffalo Bayou Management District;
providing the authority to impose taxes and issue bonds.