| SB 9 | Author: | Zaffirini |
| Coauthor: | Lucio | Hinojosa | Uresti | Gallegos | Carona | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 05/04/2009 H Referred to Higher Education | |
| Caption: | Relating to financial support and incentives for the development of national research universities and high-quality comprehensive regional universities and a review of the institutional groupings under the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's accountability system. |
| SB 11 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Shapleigh | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Miklos | Moody | Gallego | Christian | Fletcher | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the prevention, investigation, prosecution, and punishment for certain gang-related and other criminal offenses and to the consequences and costs of engaging in certain activities of a criminal street gang or certain other criminal activity; providing penalties. |
| SB 12 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Corte | Edwards | Rios Ybarra | |
| Last Action: | 05/23/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to disaster preparedness and emergency management and to certain vehicles used in emergencies; providing a penalty. |
| SB 18 | Author: | Estes |
| Coauthor: | Eltife | Hegar | Jackson, Mike | Patrick, Dan | Uresti | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Bonnen | Pitts | Kuempel | Geren | Homer | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Placed on Major State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the acquisition of property by entities with eminent domain authority. |
| SB 20 | Author: | Williams |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | Shapleigh | |
| Last Action: | 05/04/2009 H Referred to Ways & Means | |
| Caption: | Relating to ad valorem taxation. |
| SB 73 | Author: | Nelson |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 05/21/2009 H Referred to Public Health | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment of an adult stem cell research program and to certain reporting requirements with regard to research involving human stem cells or human cloning. |
| SB 170 | Author: | Ellis |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Ogden | Davis, Wendy | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 02/10/2009 S Referred to Criminal Justice | |
| Caption: | Relating to requiring the use of an ignition interlock device on conviction of certain intoxication offenses. |
| SB 175 | Author: | Shapiro |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | Nelson | Seliger | Wentworth | |
| Sponsor: | Branch | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/2009 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to the automatic admission of undergraduate students to certain general academic teaching institutions and to scholarship and other programs to facilitate enrollment at institutions of higher education. |
| SB 261 | Author: | Deuell |
| Coauthor: | Huffman | Whitmire | Patrick, Dan | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Gattis | Riddle | Miklos | Gallego | Pierson | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars | |
| Caption: | Relating to the taking of a specimen of the breath or blood of certain persons arrested for an intoxication offense. |
| SB 298 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Ellis | Patrick, Dan | West | |
| Last Action: | 05/06/2009 H Left pending in committee | |
| Caption: | Relating to the authority of the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas and certain local law enforcement agencies to establish a checkpoint on a highway or street to determine whether persons are driving while intoxicated. |
| SB 317 | Author: | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 S Not again placed on intent calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the elimination of straight-party voting. |
| SB 475 | Author: | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Fraser | Whitmire | Deuell | Jackson, Mike | Lucio | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Oliveira | Hilderbran | Hughes | Bohac | Taylor | |
| Last Action: | 05/21/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain organizations engaged primarily in performing charitable functions or in providing services to aid in economic development. |
| SB 564 | Author: | Jackson, Mike |
| Coauthor: | Harris | Patrick, Dan | Nelson | Deuell | Whitmire | |
| Last Action: | 02/23/2009 S Referred to Finance | |
| Caption: | Relating to exempting from ad valorem taxation property used by certain nonprofit community business organizations to provide services to aid in the economic development of local communities. |
| SB 572 | Author: | Shapiro |
| Coauthor: | Huffman | Nelson | Patrick, Dan | Shapleigh | Uresti | |
| Sponsor: | Branch | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09 | |
| Caption: | Relating to transportation safety training requirements for certain child-care providers. |
| SB 644 | Author: | Shapiro |
| Coauthor: | Jackson, Mike | Patrick, Dan | Hegar | |
| Sponsor: | Eiland | |
| Last Action: | 05/19/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars | |
| Caption: | Relating to modifications, adjustments, and reimbursements under the public school finance system and contract delegation authority for a school district located in a disaster area. |
| SB 730 | Author: | Hegar |
| Coauthor: | Eltife | Carona | Patrick, Dan | Estes | Shapiro | |
| Sponsor: | Frost | Farabee | Lucio III | McReynolds | Driver | |
| Last Action: | 05/23/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to an employee's transportation and storage of certain firearms or ammunition while on certain property owned or controlled by the employee's employer. |
| SB 769 | Author: | Williams | Whitmire |
| Coauthor: | Huffman | Hinojosa | Patrick, Dan | Ellis | Nelson | |
| Sponsor: | Thompson | |
| Last Action: | 04/16/2009 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to methods for the recovery of system restoration costs incurred by electric utilities following hurricanes, tropical storms, ice or snow storms, floods, and other weather-related events and natural disasters. |
| SB 859 | Author: | Seliger |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Christian | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to initial claims under the unemployment compensation system. |
| SB 872 | Author: | Lucio |
| Coauthor: | Hegar | Carona | Deuell | Jackson, Mike | Patrick, Dan | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Menendez | |
| Last Action: | 05/19/2009 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to continued health insurance coverage and financial assistance for eligible survivors of certain public servants killed in the line of duty. |
| SB 955 | Author: | Shapiro |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | West | |
| Sponsor: | Madden | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the state virtual school network. |
| SB 1098 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Huffman | Nelson | Nichols | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 05/07/2009 H Referred to Transportation | |
| Caption: | Relating to the issuance of "Choose Life" license plates and the creation of the Choose Life account in the general revenue fund. |
| SB 1443 | Author: | Zaffirini |
| Coauthor: | Lucio | Carona | Eltife | Gallegos | Nichols | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Branch | |
| Last Action: | 05/23/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars | |
| Caption: | Relating to the academic costs charged to resident undergraduate students by general academic teaching institutions and to certain reports regarding certain costs of those institutions. |
| SB 1695 | Author: | Ogden |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | Nelson | |
| Last Action: | 03/20/2009 S Referred to Finance | |
| Caption: | Relating to prohibiting the use of state money or facilities for research involving the destruction of human embryos. |
| SB 1784 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Nelson | Nichols | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 05/01/2009 S Not again placed on intent calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the requirement of citizenship or lawful presence in the United States for issuance of a driver's license, personal identification certificate, commercial driver's license, or commercial driver learner's permit. |
| SB 1785 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Wentworth | Hegar | Nichols | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Merritt | |
| Last Action: | 05/27/2009 H Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. | |
| Caption: | Relating to the regulation of driver's licenses and personal identification certificates by the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas, including enforcement measures against fictitious or fraudulently obtained licenses or certificates; providing a criminal penalty. |
| SB 2033 | Author: | Nelson |
| Coauthor: | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Eissler | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/2009 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to adoption of a school district grading policy. |
| SB 2080 | Author: | Uresti |
| Coauthor: | Nelson | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | McClendon | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/2009 E See remarks for effective date | |
| Caption: | Relating to treating and reducing child abuse and neglect and improving child welfare, including providing assistance for adoptive parents and foster care providers. |
| SB 2468 | Author: | Gallegos |
| Coauthor: | Ellis | Jackson, Mike | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Coleman | Davis, John | Cohen | Walle | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/2009 E Vetoed by the Governor | |
| Caption: | Relating to the postemployment activities of certain local government officers in certain counties; providing a penalty. |
| SJR 9 | Author: | Carona |
| Coauthor: | Shapiro | Wentworth | Huffman | Patrick, Dan | |
| Sponsor: | Pickett | |
| Last Action: | 05/22/2009 H Placed on Constitutional Amendments Calendar | |
| Caption: | Proposing a constitutional amendment prescribing the purposes for which revenue from motor vehicle registration fees and taxes on motor fuels and lubricants and certain revenues received from the federal government may be used. |
| SJR 48 | Author: | Williams |
| Coauthor: | West | Patrick, Dan | |
| Last Action: | 05/01/2009 H Referred to Ways & Means | |
| Caption: | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the ad valorem taxation of a residence homestead solely on the basis of the property's value as a residence homestead; and authorizing the legislature to authorize a single board of equalization for two or more adjoining appraisal entities that elect to provide for consolidated equalizations. |
| SR 131 | Author: | Zaffirini |
| Coauthor: | Duncan | Patrick, Dan | West, Royce | Averitt | |
| Last Action: | 02/04/2009 S Reported enrolled | |
| Caption: | Recognizing February 4, 2009, as Community College Student Day at the Capitol. |