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DAILY HOUSE CALENDAR
Monday, May 9, 2005
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******** MAJOR STATE CALENDAR ********
HOUSE BILLS
SECOND READING
HB 972 Solomons / Hamric / Truitt / Dunnam
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of
Chiropractic Examiners; providing a criminal penalty.
HB 1535 Truitt / Solomons / Hamric
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Midwifery
Board.
HB 2833 Cook, Robby / Cook, Byron
Relating to the protection of private real property from regulatory
takings.
******** CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CALENDAR **********
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
SECOND READING
HJR 89 Wong
Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature
to allow the governing body of a political subdivision to provide
an additional exemption from ad valorem taxation for property owned
by certain disabled veterans who have been awarded the Purple Heart
or their surviving spouses.
HJR 65 Otto
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
exempt from ad valorem taxation rent-to-own property not held by
the lessee primarily to produce income and to prescribe the method
to be used to depreciate taxable rent-to-own property for tax
appraisal purposes.
******** CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CALENDAR **********
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS
SECOND READING
SJR 21 Averitt
SP: Flynn
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
define rates of interest for commercial loans.
******** GENERAL STATE CALENDAR ********
HOUSE BILLS
SECOND READING
HB 2376 Elkins
Relating to the environmental regulation and remediation of dry
cleaning facilities; imposing a penalty.
HB 955 Solomons
Relating to the regulation of financial businesses and practices;
providing civil penalties.
HB 988 Chisum
Relating to the county in which a seller of a motor vehicle may
file an application for registration and certificate of title.
HB 1644 Callegari
Relating to the authority of a water control and improvement
district or a municipal utility district to enter into a contract
to convey property to another water district or water supply
corporation.
HB 1940 Ritter
Relating to alternative dispute resolution of certain contract
claims against the state.
HB 2145 Hupp / Seaman / Grusendorf
Relating to prohibiting changes in certain prescription drug orders
without the approval of the prescribing health care practitioner.
HB 3047 Veasey
Relating to emergency communication district participation in state
travel services contracts.
HB 2463 Villarreal / Menendez / Flores / et al.
Relating to the creation of health care funding districts in
certain counties and authorizing the districts to impose taxes on
certain institutional health care providers located in the
districts.
HB 2868 Frost / Rose / Martinez Fischer / Van Arsdale / et al.
Relating to civil liability for provision of alcohol to a minor.
HB 2525 Callegari
Relating to contracts by governmental entities for construction
projects and related professional services.
HB 260 Goodman
Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
HB 270 Farrar
Relating to court-ordered access to a child by the child's sibling.
HB 625 Olivo / Grusendorf
Relating to the discipline of public school students who
voluntarily surrender prohibited items.
HB 3149 Wong
Relating to inactive status for cosmetology certificate or license
holders.
HB 1068 Driver
Relating to the collection and analysis of evidence and testimony
based on forensic analysis, crime laboratory accreditation, DNA
testing, and the creation and maintenance of DNA records; providing
a penalty.
HB 1074 Brown, Betty
Relating to the punishment for the offense of obscenity.
HB 1317 Driver / Laubenberg / Raymond / et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain electricians.
HB 3297 Bohac
Relating to the inclusion of certain public school accountability
information in a student's grade report card and on a school
district's Internet website.
HB 1366 Allen, Ray
Relating to the enforcement of the regulation of nursing.
HB 1532 Rose
Relating to rates for professional liability insurance for
physicians and health care providers.
HB 2572 Truitt / Isett / McReynolds / Miller / Coleman / et al.
Relating to the functions of local mental health and mental
retardation authorities.
HB 1547 Pickett / Chavez / Guillen / Quintanilla
Relating to the form of the loan contract and related documents for
a consumer loan.
HB 1582 Chavez
Relating to a study of residential foreclosures in certain
counties.
HB 1821 Kolkhorst
Relating to the authority of a county to require waste haulers to
be licensed as a waste hauler.
HB 3465 Baxter
Relating to the liability of certain entities that enter agreements
with a metropolitan rapid transit authority.
HB 2187 Otto / et al.
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of rent-to-own
property not held by the lessee primarily to produce income and to
the method to be used to depreciate taxable rent-to-own property
for tax appraisal purposes.
HB 1120 Nixon
Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a
marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a
marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce
indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.
HB 2286 Taylor / Dawson / Bonnen
Relating to the use of individuals' driving records in writing
automobile insurance.
HB 2390 Harper-Brown
Relating to the establishment of an employee welfare benefit plan
by certain private educational institutions.
HB 2747 McClendon / Menendez
Relating to the administration of a retirement health care plan for
firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.
HB 3376 Taylor
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain criminal
offenses involving theft and fraud and to the provision of notice
of the commission of those offenses to certain licensing entities.
HB 2839 Allen, Ray
Relating to the participation of state inmates in the production of
certain goods and the provision of certain services.
HB 2905 Haggerty
Relating to the installation of water conservation systems in Texas
Department of Criminal Justice facilities.
HB 2932 Delisi / Rodriguez / Isett
Relating to requiring state agency purchasing personnel to disclose
certain family relationships with business entities receiving state
agency contracts.
HB 3093 Pena
Relating to ex parte petitions for the expunction of criminal
records and files.
HB 3125 Eiland
Relating to a retired employee's eligibility for participation in
the optional retirement system.
HB 3226 Swinford
Relating to the establishment of a statewide maintenance program
for boll weevil and pink bollworm eradication.
HB 1572 Taylor
Relating to the recovery of certain costs and payments relating to
losses covered by personal automobile insurance.
HB 1830 Wong
Relating to the notice provided for the establishment of municipal
management districts.
HB 2842 Chisum
Relating to the provision of false information to an independent
public accounting firm by a public interest entity; providing a
criminal penalty.
HB 85 Riddle
Relating to the release on bond of certain criminal defendants.
HB 1816 West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the transfer of powers and duties over railroads from
the Railroad Commission of Texas to the Texas Department of
Transportation.
HB 2801 Smith, Todd
Relating to audits of state agency expenditures to recover
overpayments and lost discounts.
******** RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR ********
HOUSE RESOLUTIONS
HCR 132 Luna
Granting the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation
permission to sue the state, the General Land Office, the School
Land Board, and Jerry Patterson.