| SB 35 | Author: | West, Royce | Lucio | Shapiro | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Truan | Ellis | Haywood | Carona | Patterson, Jerry | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Place | Brimer | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to operating a vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol by a minor and other actions of a minor concerning the acquisition, possession, and use of alcohol; providing penalties. |
| SB 79 | Author: | Ellis |
| Coauthor: | Patterson, Jerry | Cain | West, Royce | Madla | Sibley | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | McClendon | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to certain insurance covering church property; providing a penalty. |
| SB 97 | Author: | Moncrief |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Truan | Madla | Armbrister | Barrientos | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | McCall | Danburg | Greenberg | Naishtat | Goodman | |
| Last Action: | 01/28/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to the prosecution, punishment, and sentencing of a defendant charged with the offense of stalking. |
| SB 180 | Author: | Ellis |
| Coauthor: | Barrientos | Lucio | West, Royce | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 04/15/1997 S Left pending in subcommittee | |
| Caption: | Relating to providing tuition and fee scholarships funded from state lottery revenue and other sources to students at institutions of higher education who meet certain academic, citizenship, and other requirements. |
| SB 211 | Author: | Ellis | West, Royce |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Moncrief | Haywood | Duncan | Ratliff | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Naishtat | Coleman | Maxey | Greenberg | Dukes | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Vetoed by the Governor | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment and operation of the Texas child care fund and to the development of a statewide guide on child care. |
| SB 212 | Author: | Ellis | West, Royce |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Moncrief | Haywood | Duncan | |
| Last Action: | 01/16/1997 S Referred to Finance | |
| Caption: | Relating to a state program of loan guarantees to promote child care services. |
| SB 213 | Author: | Ellis | West, Royce |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Moncrief | Duncan | |
| Sponsor: | Coleman | Naishtat | Cuellar | Alvarado | Dukes | |
| Last Action: | 06/17/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment of child-care training center pilot programs for certain recipients of public assistance. |
| SB 226 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Luna, Gregory | Patterson, Jerry | Duncan | Ratliff | Zaffirini | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Jones, Delwin | |
| Last Action: | 05/19/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to defense economic readjustment zones; authorizing the issuance of bonds. |
| SB 227 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Luna, Gregory | Patterson, Jerry | Duncan | Ratliff | Zaffirini | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Jones, Delwin | |
| Last Action: | 06/18/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to a grant for a local area adversely affected by a reduction in defense-related activity. |
| SB 253 | Author: | Barrientos |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Patterson, Jerry | Gallegos | Harris | West, Royce | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Danburg | Driver | Jones, Jesse | Rhodes | Kubiak | |
| Last Action: | 06/18/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the selection of telecommunications utilities by customers. |
| SB 258 | Author: | Ellis |
| Coauthor: | Madla | Shapiro | Zaffirini | Nelson | |
| Sponsor: | McCall | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to coverage under certain health benefit plans of tests for the detection of prostate cancer. |
| SB 384 | Author: | Nelson | Sibley | Harris | Madla | Cain |
| Coauthor: | Moncrief | Brown | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Smithee | Van de Putte | Berlanga | Naishtat | Janek | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to utilization review under health benefit plans and health insurance policies. |
| SB 394 | Author: | Ellis | Sibley |
| Coauthor: | Gallegos | Carona | Armbrister | Zaffirini | Lindsay | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Naishtat | |
| Last Action: | 05/28/1997 E Effective in 90 days -- 9/01/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the application process for state loan and loan guaranty programs. |
| SB 425 | Author: | Barrientos |
| Coauthor: | Gallegos | Lucio | Zaffirini | Luna, Gregory | |
| Last Action: | 02/06/1997 S Referred to Education | |
| Caption: | Relating to intensive reading instruction for certain public school students. |
| SB 443 | Author: | Moncrief |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Naishtat | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to a right to petition a court for an order to seal or destroy records related to certain admissions to a mental health facility; providing a criminal penalty. |
| SB 565 | Author: | Truan |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 04/21/1997 S Left pending in subcommittee | |
| Caption: | Relating to exempting members of the Texas National Guard from tuition charged by an institution of higher education. |
| SB 585 | Author: | Nelson |
| Coauthor: | Madla | Sibley | Moncrief | Brown | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Van de Putte | |
| Last Action: | 05/26/1997 H Point of order sustained | |
| Caption: | Relating to requirements for certain health insurance benefits. |
| SB 606 | Author: | Lucio |
| Coauthor: | Moncrief | Truan | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Hinojosa | |
| Last Action: | 06/16/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment and operation of a regional academic health center by The University of Texas System. |
| SB 657 | Author: | Barrientos | Wentworth | Luna, Gregory | Madla | Armbrister |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Siebert | |
| Last Action: | 05/28/1997 E Effective in 90 days -- 9/01/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the creation of intermunicipal commuter rail districts; authorizing a tax; granting authority to issue bonds and power of eminent domain. |
| SB 827 | Author: | Ellis | Sibley |
| Coauthor: | Armbrister | Carona | Madla | West, Royce | Zaffirini | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 04/07/1997 S Withdrawn from intent calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the review of certain state agency requirements imposed on individuals and businesses. |
| SB 872 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Luna, Gregory | Wentworth | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Puente | |
| Last Action: | 05/05/1997 E Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | |
| Caption: | Relating to the retirement system for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities. |
| SB 951 | Author: | Ellis | Harris |
| Coauthor: | Truan | Madla | Zaffirini | Luna, Gregory | Moncrief | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Hodge | |
| Last Action: | 05/27/1997 H Placed on General State Calendar | |
| Caption: | Relating to the coordination of tenant services programs. |
| SB 987 | Author: | Moncrief | Luna, Gregory | Whitmire | Shapleigh | Haywood |
| Coauthor: | Sibley | Barrientos | Cain | Zaffirini | Lucio | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Gallego | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to alternative uses for money in the compensation to victims of crime fund. |
| SB 1055 | Author: | Haywood |
| Coauthor: | Harris | Nelson | Nixon, Drew | Zaffirini | Madla | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Van de Putte | Junell | |
| Last Action: | 05/26/1997 H Point of order sustained | |
| Caption: | Relating to the operation and oversight of a regional planning commission, council of government, or other similar regional planning agency. |
| SB 1060 | Author: | Patterson, Jerry |
| Coauthor: | Luna, Gregory | Brown | Zaffirini | Lucio | Fraser | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Counts | |
| Last Action: | 05/09/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to the management of certain funds by the Veterans' Land Board, to the creation of veterans homes, and to the Veterans' Land Board's entering into bond enhancement agreements for certain bonds. |
| SB 1070 | Author: | Sibley | Wentworth | Nelson | Patterson, Jerry | Armbrister |
| Coauthor: | Harris | Duncan | Ratliff | Cain | Zaffirini | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 03/12/1997 S Referred to Health & Human Services | |
| Caption: | Relating to faith-based chemical dependency treatment programs and counselors. |
| SB 1071 | Author: | Sibley | Brown | Wentworth | Nelson | Ratliff |
| Coauthor: | Patterson, Jerry | Armbrister | Cain | Zaffirini | Harris | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 03/12/1997 S Referred to Health & Human Services | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment of an accreditation program for child-care facilities and child-placing agencies as an alternative to state licensure; providing a criminal penalty. |
| SB 1129 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Lucio | Ellis | |
| Last Action: | 04/22/1997 S Left pending in committee | |
| Caption: | Relating to review of the termination of contracts with certain insurance agents; providing an administrative penalty. |
| SB 1246 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Berlanga | Glaze | Hightower | Place | McReynolds | |
| Last Action: | 06/18/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the establishment of a statewide rural health care system. |
| SB 1351 | Author: | Shapleigh | Truan | Lucio |
| Coauthor: | Madla | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Oliveira | |
| Last Action: | 05/26/1997 H Point of order sustained | |
| Caption: | Relating to the regulation of foreign involvement in commercial motor transportation. |
| SB 1362 | Author: | Barrientos | Shapleigh | Whitmire | Lucio | Gallegos |
| Coauthor: | Madla | Truan | Ellis | Cain | Moncrief | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 03/18/1997 S Referred to Finance | |
| Caption: | Relating to the implementation of certain policies and procedures to prohibit employment discrimination by certain entities. |
| SB 1419 | Author: | West, Royce | Barrientos | Bivins |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Gallegos | |
| Sponsor: | Rangel | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to restrictions on the admission of certain persons promised or granted an athletic scholarship or similar financial assistance at a general academic teaching institution. |
| SB 1437 | Author: | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Barrientos | |
| Sponsor: | Greenberg | Naishtat | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective immediately | |
| Caption: | Relating to the exemption from and limitations on ad valorem taxes on the residence homestead of an elderly individual and the individual's surviving spouse and to the termination of that exemption if that homestead ceases to be the homestead of that elderly individual or surviving spouse. |
| SB 1512 | Author: | Truan |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Lucio | Shapleigh | |
| Sponsor: | Rangel | |
| Last Action: | 06/19/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the provision of utility service in economically distressed areas. |
| SB 1564 | Author: | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Armbrister | Bivins | Carona | Madla | Patterson, Jerry | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 05/12/1997 S Referred to subcommittee | |
| Caption: | Relating to the reapportionment of state legislative, congressional, and judicial districts and the creation, function, and duties of the Texas Redistricting Commission. |
| SB 1595 | Author: | Ellis | Barrientos | Lucio | Brown |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 04/17/1997 S No action taken in committee | |
| Caption: | Relating to the creation of the small business environmental compliance funding program. |
| SB 1810 | Author: | Barrientos |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | Lucio | Brown | Ellis | |
| Sponsor: | Dukes | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Effective on 9/1/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the creation, operation, and funding of the Texas Youthworks Program. |
| SB 1849 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Longoria | |
| Last Action: | 05/31/1997 E Effective in 90 days -- 9/01/97 | |
| Caption: | Relating to the designation of a portion of United States Highway 281 in Bexar County as the Congressman Frank M. Tejeda Memorial Highway. |
| SB 1877 | Author: | Wentworth | West, Royce | Barrientos |
| Coauthor: | Lucio | Ellis | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Greenberg | Coleman | Giddings | Siebert | Delisi | |
| Last Action: | 06/20/1997 E Vetoed by the Governor | |
| Caption: | Relating to creating a Texas community investment program to assist certain businesses in distressed areas of the state. |
| SCR 8 | Author: | Ellis |
| Coauthor: | Brown | Shapiro | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 03/25/1997 S Left pending in committee | |
| Caption: | Encouraging the State Preservation Board to provide for the permanent placement of a monument on the Capitol grounds honoring Girl Scouts in Texas. |
| SCR 12 | Author: | Madla | Armbrister | Barrientos | Bivins | Brown |
| Coauthor: | Bullock | Cain | Carona | Duncan | Ellis | et al. | |
| Sponsor: | Rodriguez | |
| Last Action: | 04/15/1997 E Signed by the Governor | |
| Caption: | In memory of the Honorable Frank Tejeda. |
| SCR 63 | Author: | Madla |
| Coauthor: | Luna, Gregory | Wentworth | Zaffirini | |
| Sponsor: | Van de Putte | |
| Last Action: | 05/07/1997 E Signed by the Governor | |
| Caption: | Honoring George Gervin. |
| SJR 41 | Author: | Wentworth |
| Coauthor: | Armbrister | Bivins | Carona | Madla | Patterson, Jerry | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 05/12/1997 S Referred to subcommittee | |
| Caption: | Proposing a constitutional amendment to create the Texas Redistricting Commission to establish legislative and congressional districts and to revise the constitutional redistricting provisions. |
| SR 2 | Author: | Moncrief |
| Coauthor: | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 01/15/1997 S Reported enrolled | |
| Caption: | Granting permission to Partners in Policymaking for the use of the Senate Chamber on January 25 and February 8, 1997, and January 17 and February 7, 1998. |
| SR 8 | Author: | Truan |
| Coauthor: | Armbrister | Barrientos | Bivins | Brown | Cain | et al. | |
| Last Action: | 01/15/1997 S Reported enrolled | |
| Caption: | Honoring Betty King as Secretary of the Senate. |
| SR 428 | Author: | Moncrief |
| Coauthor: | Barrientos | Zaffirini | |
| Last Action: | 04/02/1997 S Reported enrolled | |
| Caption: | Recognizing April 2, 1997, as Texas Prevention Day at the State Capitol. |