SENATE FLOOR ACTION
Thursday
May 29, 2003
THE SENATE ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS:
SR 969 Whitmire
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B.
No. 880.
HCR 2 Deshotel SP: Williams
Recognizing the 10th anniversary of Southeast Texas Community
Development Corporation, Inc.
HCR 24 Talton SP: Jackson
In memory of John Ray Harrison, Sr., of Pasadena.
HCR 58 Delisi SP: Nelson
Urging congress to enact legislation to pass federal funds on to states
via block grants for public welfare and Medicaid purposes.
HCR 101 Capelo SP: Van de Putte
Requesting that Congress enact a Medicare prescription drug
benefit.
HCR 250 Branch SP: Carona
Congratulating Brent and Kindra Franklin of Arlington on the birth
of their daughter, Brenna Kathryn Franklin.
HCR 252 Corte SP: Van de Putte
Calling a joint session of the legislature to honor all Texans
killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
HCR 262 Smith, Todd/et al. SP: Brimer
Honoring Bob and Betty Stewart of Bedford on their 50th wedding
anniversary.
HCR 264 Naishtat SP: Barrientos
Designating the Texas Music Museum the official music museum of the
State of Texas.
HCR 265 Hupp
Honoring John Arthur Martinez of Marble Falls for his successful
musical career.
HCR 271 Eissler SP: Williams
Honoring Second Lieutenant Cory Steele of The Woodlands for his
service in Iraq.
HCR 273 Keel SP: Van de Putte
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house to make corrections to
H.B. No. 2192.
HCR 272 Brown, Betty SP: Staples
Recalling H.B. No. 2533.
HCR 276 Garza/ Craddick/ Laney SP: Lucio
Proclaiming Tieman H. Dippel, Jr., the Texas Prophet on Conscience.
THE SENATE CONCURRED IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO THE FOLLOWING:
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 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 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 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 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 467 Averitt SP: Hochberg
Relating to the operation of the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool.
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 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 669 Ogden SP: Woolley
Relating to the investigation of certain reports of child abuse or
neglect.
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 895 Bivins SP: Swinford
Relating to the conducting of a driver education course by certain
family members of the student.
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 1074 West/et al. SP: Naishtat
Relating to reports and investigations of abuse and neglect in
nursing facilities.
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 1295 Van de Putte/et al. SP: Corte
Relating to providing financial assistance to defense communities.
SB 1394 Shapiro SP: Griggs
Relating to employment contract requirements for certain public
school principals.
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.
THE SENATE REFUSED TO CONCUR IN HOUSE AMENDMENTS AND REQUESTED
THE APPOINTMENT OF A CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON THE FOLLOWING:
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.
THE SENATE GRANTED THE REQUEST FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE ON THE FOLLOWING:
HB 9 Flores/ Corte/ Isett/ Allen/ Puente/et al.
SP: Shapiro
Relating to homeland security.
HB 11 Keel/ Gallego/ Jones, Elizabeth/ Berman/ Chavez/
et al. SP: Shapiro
Relating to the offense of terroristic threat and to the punishment
as a capital offense of murder occurring during the commission or
attempted commission of terroristic threat.
HB 1454 Eiland SP: Janek
Relating to powers of a property owners' association relating to
restrictive covenants in certain subdivisions.
HB 2415 Hopson SP: Averitt
Relating to the postjudgment interest rate.