SENATE FLOOR ACTION
Thursday
May 8, 2003
THE SENATE SUSPENDED ALL NECESSARY RULES TO CONSIDER AND FINALLY PASS:
SB 4 (CS) Zaffirini/et al.
Relating to the establishment and operation of the Texas B-On-time
student loan program; authorizing the issuance of bonds.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
SB 166 (CS)(LC) Shapiro
Relating to sex offender registration requirements imposed on
certain higher education workers or students, to immunity for
release of public information obtained as a result of those
requirements, and to reports of status changes.
SB 596 (CS) Lindsay
Relating to discipline of public school students.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
SB 865 (CS) Van de Putte
Relating to pricing standards used under the Medicaid vendor drug
program.
SB 999 (CS)(LC) West
Relating to the establishment of reserve accounts to fund necessary
repairs for certain multifamily rental housing developments
assisted by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
3 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
SB 1207 (CS)(LC) Duncan
Relating to state liability for costs and attorney's fees in
certain actions seeking declaratory judgment.
SB 1303 (A) Madla
Relating to certain appointment and employment matters affecting a
county auditor, assistant auditor, or court reporter.
1 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
SB 1315 (CS) Van de Putte
Relating to the establishment of pharmacy license classifications
by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
SB 1382 (CS) Armbrister
Relating to the continuation of certain professional and
occupational licensing boards as self-directed and semi-independent
agencies.
3 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
SB 1410 (CS)(LC) Deuell
Relating to the appointment of the Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services to serve as a temporary or permanent guardian
for a ward.
2 FLOOR AMENDMENTS
SB 1572 (CS)(LC) Carona
Relating to workers' compensation treatment guidelines and
protocols.
SB 1573 (CS)(LC) Carona
Relating to the applicability of certain policies and guidelines
adopted by the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission to medical
dispute resolution under the workers' compensation system.
SB 1574 (CS)(LC) Carona
Relating to the exchange of information between the Texas Workers'
Compensation Commission and certain licensing agencies.
SB 1614 Ellis, Rodney/et al.
Relating to imposing a civil penalty for violation of certain
restrictions relating to genetic information.
SB 1826 (CS) Van de Putte
Relating to certain violations under the Texas Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act; providing penalties.
SB 1905 Barrientos/et al.
Relating to the creation, administration, and operation of and the
property tax rate imposed by certain countywide hospital districts.
HB 1564 Truitt SP: Nelson
Relating to the use of municipal funds for the acquisition of land
or acquisition, construction, expansion, or renovation of
facilities for an open-enrollment charter school.
THE SENATE SUSPENDED THE REGULAR ORDER, READ THIRD TIME, AND PASSED:
SB 1295 (CS) Van de Putte/et al.
Relating to providing financial assistance to defense communities.
1 FLOOR AMENDMENT
SB 1631 Wentworth
Relating to the authority of a county to regulate land development
after a local option election.
THE SENATE SUSPENDED THE REGULAR ORDER, READ SECOND TIME, AND PASSED
TO ENGROSSMENT:
SB 1014 (LC) Wentworth
Relating to the regulation of the subdivision of land under the
jurisdiction of counties.
THE SENATE CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE FOLLOWING:
SB 409 Lucio/et al. SP: Chavez
Relating to the membership of the Texas Transportation Commission.
SB 1111 West/et al. SP: Hill
Relating to the rate of hotel occupancy and motor vehicle rental
taxes used to finance venue projects in certain counties.
THE FOLLOWING BILLS WERE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE INDICATED:
HB 136 Brown, Fred/ Brown, Betty/ Gattis/ McClendon/
Chavez /et al.
Relating to limiting the amount of county, municipal, or junior
college district ad valorem taxes that may be imposed on the
residence homesteads of the disabled and of the elderly and their
surviving spouses.
FINANCE
HB 208 Puente
Relating to persons who may obtain a mechanic's lien on real
property.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
HB 215 Hamric/ Crabb
Relating to the regulation of fireworks by certain counties;
providing a criminal penalty.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 390 Pitts
Relating to the effect of tax increment financing by certain taxing
units in the calculation of ad valorem tax rates for those taxing
units.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 396 Mowery/ Woolley/ Solomons/ Bohac/et al.
Relating to appeals to small claims courts of certain ad valorem
tax determinations.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 425 Christian/ Miller/ Eissler/ Bonnen/ Ellis/et al.
Relating to procedures to help ensure that certain state agency
actions are consistent with the meaning and intent of applicable
legislative enactments.
ADMINISTRATION
HB 644 Wohlgemuth
Relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of Johnson
County.
JURISPRUDENCE
HB 649 Keffer, Jim/ Christian
Relating to creating an interagency work group on rural issues.
STATE AFFAIRS
HB 769 Solis/et al.
Relating to compensatory time off for certain communications
service employees of the Department of Public Safety.
ADMINISTRATION
HB 814 Gutierrez/ Davis, John/ Thompson/ Taylor/
Keffer, Bill /et al.
Relating to motor vehicle financial responsibility; providing
penalties.
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY
HB 830 Hughes/ Pena
Relating to the number of jurors required for certain district
court criminal trials.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
HB 867 Jones, Jesse/ Naishtat
Relating to air conditioning systems in certain facilities.
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
HB 1008 Woolley
Relating to notice of certain applications for alcoholic beverage
permits and licenses.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
HB 1050 Olivo
Relating to school attendance of a child placed in substitute care.
EDUCATION
HB 1053 Rodriguez/ Hupp/ Miller/ Davis, Yvonne
Relating to the confidentiality of social security numbers in
certain circumstances.
STATE AFFAIRS
HB 1318 Swinford
Relating to workforce planning requirements for state agencies and
the compensation, accountability, and employment of certain state
employees.
GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION
HB 1487 Driver/et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain electricians;
providing penalties.
STATE AFFAIRS
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.
EDUCATION
HB 1692 Driver/et al.
Relating to the regulation of interior designers; providing
penalties.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
HB 1806 Hill
Relating to issuance of obligations for certain highway and
mobility projects.
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY
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.
EDUCATION
HB 1912 Wolens/ Branch/ Marchant/ Giddings/ Hill
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for The
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas to
finance biomedical research facilities and exempting the facilities
financed by the bonds from prior approval by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board.
EDUCATION
HB 2006 Jones, Elizabeth/ McReynolds
Relating to the construction and maintenance of utility, common
carrier, and energy transporter facilities along, over, under, or
across a railroad right-of-way.
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY
HB 2013 Quintanilla
Relating to admission and enrollment of certain children attending
public schools.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND TRADE
HB 2058 Villarreal
Relating to a study regarding goals, outcome standards, and
objectives in certain contracts with the Department of Protective
and Regulatory Services.
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
HB 2159 Garza/et al.
Relating to a documented member of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe
of Texas hunting certain deer.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 2183 Bohac/ Woolley/ Crabb
Relating to the election date of proposed charter amendments in a
home-rule municipality.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 2249 Howard
Relating to sale and lease of public school land.
NATURAL RESOURCES
HB 2251 Flores
Relating to allowing supplemental pay for members of the Texas
National Guard who are called to active duty when active duty
service imposes an economic hardship.
VETERAN AFFAIRS & MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
HB 2301 Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to the collection of oil-field cleanup regulatory fees.
NATURAL RESOURCES
HB 2341 Kolkhorst
Relating to the duties of the district attorney in Washington and
Burleson counties.
JURISPRUDENCE
HB 2343 Kolkhorst
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice to Walker County.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
HB 2388 Cook, Robby
Relating to the late payment of certain submetered or allocated
water bills and the use of certain submetering equipment.
NATURAL RESOURCES
HB 2561 Rose/ Quintanilla
Relating to the application of changes in benefits received by
members and retirees of retirement systems for paid, partly paid,
and volunteer fire fighters and their beneficiaries.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 2759 Wong/ Edwards/et al.
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for certain
component institutions of The University of Texas System.
FINANCE
HB 2877 Bonnen/ Homer/ Chisum/ Stick
Relating to the permitting procedures of the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
NATURAL RESOURCES
HB 2914 Baxter/et al.
Relating to certain procedures involving the use of ballots for
early voting by mail.
STATE AFFAIRS
HB 2922 Marchant
Relating to a nonsubstantive revision of statutes relating to the
Texas Department of Insurance, the business of insurance, and
certain related businesses, including conforming amendments,
repeals, and penalties.
ADMINISTRATION
HB 2975 Chavez/ Castro/ Quintanilla
Relating to the establishment of a pilot program by the Texas
Workforce Commission in the Texas-Mexico border region for
technology training of certain persons.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND TRADE
HB 3021 Woolley
Relating to the disclosure of certain business or financial
relationships of certain local governmental officers; imposing a
criminal penalty.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 3075 West, George "Buddy"
Relating to local agreements to allow certain development
corporations and taxing units to invest in and receive tax revenues
from certain regional economic development projects.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
HB 3126 Truitt/ Capelo/ McReynolds/ Zedler/ Christian/
et al.
Relating to educating health professionals, the composition and
authority of the statewide health coordinating council, and certain
health planning data collected by the department of health.
ADMINISTRATION
HB 3350 Davis, John/ Coleman/ Wong
Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for the
University of Houston System.
FINANCE
HB 3397 Crabb
Relating to disposal of an exhibit in a capital case.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
HCR 4 Solis
Directing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to reflect
certain factors in its basic formula funding recommendations.
SUBCOMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION
HCR 27 Ellis/ Kolkhorst
Conferring the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor on Colonel M. B.
Etheredge.
VETERAN AFFAIRS & MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
HCR 161 Isett
Urging congress to change veterans' mortgage bonds to cover all
veterans who have served on active duty.
VETERAN AFFAIRS & MILITARY INSTALLATIONS
SB 1947 Lucio
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Heritage Groundwater Conservation
District.
NATURAL RESOURCES
SB 1948 Whitmire
Relating to the release on bond of certain applicants for a writ of habeas
corpus.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
SCR 48 Van de Putte/et al.
Directing the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission to complete a study
of prescription drug costs provided under the system, promulgate
regulations defining payment methodology, and streamline procedures for
claims.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE
SCR 50 Armbrister
Authorizing the burial of Michael Moore Fricke and his wife, Anita
Gonzales Fricke, in the State Cemetery.
STATE AFFAIRS
THE FOLLOWING BILLS WERE REREFERRED:
HB 178 Ellis
Relating to immunity for certain governmental employees for an act
or omission committed while supervising an inmate or offender
program or activity.
REREFERRED FROM STATE AFFAIRS TO ADMINISTRATION
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.
REREFERRED FROM SUBCOMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION TO FINANCE
THE FOLLOWING BILLS WERE PASSED ON THE LOCAL AND UNCONTESTED BILLS
CALENDAR:
HB 89 McClendon/ Menendez/ Naishtat/ Jones, Elizabeth/
Crownover /et al. SP: Barrientos
Relating to a leave of absence for certain state employees who are
donating an organ, bone marrow, or blood.
HB 338 Cook, Byron SP: Averitt
Relating to the abolition of the County Court at Law of Navarro
County.
HB 808 Seaman SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the use of municipal hotel tax revenue collected by
certain coastal municipalities.
HB 1322 Naishtat SP: Shapleigh
Relating to the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
HB 1331 Solomons/ Chisum/ Gallego/ Dunnam
SP: Lucio
Relating to the continuation of notice and consent procedures
regarding the location of certain correctional or rehabilitation
facilities.
HB 1370 Luna SP: Lucio
Relating to the study and implementation of seawater desalination.
HB 2001 Dutton SP: Harris
Relating to notice to an employer of a court order requiring an
employee to provide medical support for the employee's child;
providing penalties.
HB 2133 Campbell SP: Estes
Relating to agriculture and the powers and duties of the Department
of Agriculture.
HB 2234 McReynolds SP: Staples
Relating to the appointment of a bailiff for the 411th District
Court.
HB 2382 Hegar SP: Averitt
Relating to the frequency of inspection and testing of weights and
measures.
HB 2383 Hegar SP: Janek
Relating to the eligibility for exemption from ad valorem taxation
of public property used for certain religious purposes.
SB 480 Madla
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 581 Jackson/et al.
Relating to an optional discount in homeowners' insurance premiums
for the use of an insulating concrete form system.
SB 708 Jackson
Relating to regulation of wild animals by counties and certain
other authorities.
SB 923 Zaffirini
Relating to criminal history checks of certain employees and
applicants for employment in nursing homes and to the period within
which a nursing home must request certain criminal history checks.
SB 977 Staples
Relating to custody of the assets of certain public retirement
systems.
SB 1159 Barrientos
Relating to the regulation of motor vehicle emissions in counties
participating in early action compacts.
SB 1278 Armbrister
Relating to security officers for electric cooperatives.
SB 1302 Madla
Relating to adding land that is in the extraterritorial
jurisdiction of a municipality to the territory of certain special
purpose districts.
SB 1320 Nelson
Relating to certain advance directives for medical treatment and
medical treatment decisions.
SB 1357 Nelson
Relating to local school health advisory councils, health education
instruction, and coordinated health programs for elementary school
students.
SB 1429 Averitt
Relating to certain agreements offered in connection with a loan.
SB 1451 Carona
Relating to the regulation of milk and milk products.
SB 1481 Ratliff
Relating to the repeal of the Caddo Lake Compact.
SB 1498 Madla
Relating to the licensing and regulation of home and community
support services agencies.
SB 1517 Armbrister
Relating to authority of security personnel at commercial nuclear
power plants.
SB 1566 Madla/et al.
Relating to certain mass gatherings.
SB 1686 Gallegos
Relating to the training required for a person appointed as a
county jailer.
SB 1704 Wentworth
Relating to the registration of vehicles and the issuance of
specially designed license plates by the Texas Department of
Transportation.
SB 1745 Zaffirini
Relating to the right of certain sexual assault victims to a
forensic medical examination.
SB 1776 Gallegos
Relating to creating a recognition day in honor of Texas
firefighters.
SB 1804 Harris
Relating to the resolution of certain medical disputes and certain
other procedures in connection with workers' compensation benefits.
SB 1833 Staples
Relating to the use of electronic means for certain interactions
between taxpayers and appraisal districts, taxing units, or other
tax officials.
SB 1879 Van de Putte
Relating to certain practices to improve energy conservation in
state buildings.