Texas Legislature
Bills Sponsored / Joint Sponsored
Number of Bills: 51 Report Sections: Sponsored Bills | Joint Sponsored BillsSponsor (21):
Author:
Nelson
Sponsor:
Gallego | Hartnett | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the prosecution of the offense of stalking.
Author:
Uresti
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
04/21/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to limiting the liability of space flight entities.
Author:
Ellis
Sponsor:
Gallego | Hartnett | Davis, Yvonne | Zedler | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to postconviction forensic DNA analysis.
Author:
Watson
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
05/24/2011 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the definition of emergency services personnel for purposes of the enhanced penalty prescribed for an assault committed against a person providing emergency services.
Author:
Whitmire
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to criminal asset forfeiture, the disposition of proceeds and property from criminal asset forfeiture, and accountability for that disposition; providing civil penalties.
Author:
Hegar
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to certain appeals from judgments of municipal courts of record and to the recusal or disqualification of municipal judges.
Author:
Davis
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
05/28/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the minimum standards for the certifications of sexual assault training programs and sexual assault nurse examiners and for certification renewal by those entities.
Author:
Uresti
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
05/28/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the election of members of the board of directors of the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District.
Author:
Rodriguez
Sponsor:
Gallego | Lewis | Quintanilla
Last Action:
05/09/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the creation of an appellate judicial system for the Eighth Court of Appeals District.
Author:
Zaffirini
Sponsor:
Gallego | Chisum | Munoz, Jr. | Strama
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to telecommunications service discounts for educational institutions, libraries, hospitals, and telemedicine centers.
Author:
Hinojosa
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
05/19/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to a verification of the incarceration of an accused person in a criminal case for the purpose of discharging a surety's liability on a bail bond.
Author:
Patrick | Deuell | Hegar | Hinojosa | Seliger
Sponsor:
Gallego | Kleinschmidt
Last Action:
05/21/2011 H Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the application of certain concealed handgun license laws to statewide elected officials, certain current and former members of the legislature, and certain federal and state employees.
Author:
Watson
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to criminal offenses regarding the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages by a minor and providing alcoholic beverages to a minor.
Author:
Hinojosa
Sponsor:
Gallego | Pena | Fletcher
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the creation of the offense of possession, manufacture, transportation, repair, or sale of a tire deflation device and to the offense of attempting to evade arrest through the use of a vehicle or a tire deflation device; providing criminal penalties.
Author:
Uresti
Sponsor:
Gallego | Castro | Hartnett | Aliseda | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the distribution of money appropriated from a municipal court building security fund.
Author:
West
Sponsor:
Gallego | Anchia | Hartnett | Christian | Zedler
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the collection, storage, preservation, analysis, retrieval, and destruction of biological evidence.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Gallego | Aliseda | Carter | Davis, Yvonne | Hartnett
Last Action:
05/25/2011 H Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
Caption:
Relating to penalties for engaging in organized criminal activity.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Gallego | Hartnett | Aliseda | Zedler | Christian
Last Action:
05/18/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to a criminal asset forfeiture hearing in which substitute assets are forfeited under certain circumstances.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
05/25/2011 H Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of a task force to enhance the prosecution and tracking of money laundering in this state.
Author:
Uresti
Sponsor:
Gallego | Hartnett | Davis, Yvonne | Christian | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
05/21/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to confidentiality of certain Class C misdemeanor records related to the conviction of a child.
Author:
Uresti
Sponsor:
Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Signed by the Governor
Caption:
Urging Congress to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, Section 5056, and to appropriate sufficient funds so that efforts to solve the salt problem in the Amistad International Reservoir can continue.
Author:
West
Sponsor:
Thompson | Gallego | Davis, Yvonne | Aliseda
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E See remarks for effective date
Caption:
Relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a pardon.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Fletcher | Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to offenses involving the fraudulent or unlawful obtaining, delivering, dispensing, distributing, or diverting of a controlled substance; providing penalties.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Deshotel | Gallego | Hartnett | Coleman | Burkett
Last Action:
05/19/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the diversion of a controlled substance by certain persons who have access to the substance by virtue of the persons' profession or employment; providing penalties.
Author:
West
Sponsor:
Veasey | Gallego | Aliseda | Rodriguez, Eddie | Davis, Yvonne
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Vetoed by the Governor
Caption:
Relating to the automatic expunction of arrest records and files after an individual receives a pardon or a grant of certain other relief with respect to the offense for which the individual was arrested.
Author:
Zaffirini
Sponsor:
Anchia | Gallego | Hartnett
Last Action:
05/27/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to protective orders for stalking victims.
Author:
Shapiro | Estes | Fraser | Harris | Huffman | et al.
Sponsor:
Madden | Gallego | Bonnen | Coleman | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
05/28/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to designating certain synthetic cannabinoids as controlled substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; providing penalties and establishing certain criminal consequences or procedures.
Author:
Huffman | Patrick
Sponsor:
Riddle | Gallego | Burkett | Hartnett | Carter
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the murder of a child as a capital offense.
Author:
Watson
Sponsor:
Craddick | Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the creation of the offense of electronic transmission of certain visual material depicting a minor and to certain educational programs concerning the prevention and awareness of that offense.
Author:
West
Sponsor:
Veasey | Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest.
Author:
Fraser
Sponsor:
Hilderbran | Gallego | Fletcher | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the punishment for the offense of evading arrest or detention.
Author:
Hegar
Sponsor:
Hartnett | Gallego | Christian | Davis, Yvonne | Zedler
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the period during which a motion for a new trial in a criminal proceeding in a justice or municipal court must be made.
Author:
Fraser
Sponsor:
Hartnett | Gallego | Christian | Rodriguez, Eddie | Carter
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the testimony of children in criminal cases.
Author:
Rodriguez
Sponsor:
Gonzalez, Naomi | Gallego | Quintanilla | Pickett | Marquez
Last Action:
05/28/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the execution of lawful process by county jailers.
Author:
Whitmire
Sponsor:
Aliseda | Gallego
Last Action:
05/25/2011 H Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm.
Caption:
Relating to the disqualification of a district or county attorney who is the subject of a criminal investigation.
Author:
Nichols
Sponsor:
Creighton | Gallego | Carter | Burkett | Coleman
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the investigation, prosecution, and punishment of criminal Medicaid fraud and certain other offenses related to Medicaid fraud; providing penalties.
Author:
Patrick
Sponsor:
Martinez Fischer | Gallego | Carter | Zedler | Christian
Last Action:
05/20/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the penalty for driving while intoxicated.
Author:
Patrick
Sponsor:
Miller, Sid | Hernandez Luna | Gallego
Last Action:
05/25/2011 S House passage as amended reported
Caption:
Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the offense of breach of computer security.
Author:
Patrick
Sponsor:
Hunter | Gallego | Christian | Rodriguez, Eddie | Zedler
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the offense of escape from custody by a person lawfully detained.
Author:
Carona
Sponsor:
Riddle | Gallego | Taylor, Van | Carter
Last Action:
05/21/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the penalty for theft of an automated teller machine or the contents or components of an automated teller machine.
Author:
Carona
Sponsor:
Anchia | Gallego | Coleman
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the regulation of distributed renewable generation of electricity.
Author:
Huffman
Sponsor:
Workman | Lucio III | Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to providing a victim, guardian of a victim, or close relative of a deceased victim with notice of a plea bargain agreement in certain criminal cases.
Author:
Huffman
Sponsor:
Jackson, Jim | Gallego | Christian | Zedler | Rodriguez, Eddie
Last Action:
05/23/2011 H Returned to Calendars Committee
Caption:
Relating to certain offenses involving unauthorized recordings.
Author:
Williams
Sponsor:
Hamilton | Gallego | Coleman | Hartnett | Christian
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the lawful manufacture, distribution, and possession of and prescriptions for controlled substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act.
Author:
Seliger
Sponsor:
McClendon | Gallego | Rodriguez, Eddie | Hartnett | Zedler
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the standards for attorneys representing indigent defendants in capital cases.
Author:
Hinojosa
Sponsor:
Madden | Gallego | Carter | Burkett | Aliseda
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the entering of a plea in a criminal case by a defendant confined in a penal institution.
Author:
Rodriguez
Sponsor:
Raymond | Gallego
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to children who are missing or who are victims of offenses; providing a criminal penalty.
Author:
Ellis
Sponsor:
Thompson | Gallego | Alonzo
Last Action:
06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption:
Relating to the appointment of counsel and the rights of an accused and other requirements for the purposes of appellate proceedings or community supervision revocation proceedings.
Author:
Ellis
Sponsor:
Alonzo | Gallego | Hartnett | Aliseda
Last Action:
05/21/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the creation of managed assigned counsel programs.
Author:
Carona
Sponsor:
Frullo | Gallego | Hartnett | Christian | Davis, Yvonne
Last Action:
05/25/2011 H Postponed
Caption:
Relating to investigations of certain offenses involving the Internet-based sexual exploitation of a minor; creating the Internet crimes against children account to support those activities.
Author:
West
Sponsor:
Thompson | Gallego
Last Action:
05/27/2011 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption:
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governor to grant a pardon to a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision.