BILLS REFERRED TODAY
MAY 8, 2003
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
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