Author:
Crownover | McCall | Sheffield | Alvarado
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Anchia | Berman | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
05/08/2009 H Reported favorably as substituted
Caption:
Relating to the elimination of smoking in all workplaces and public places; providing penalties.
Author:
Eiland | Turner, Sylvester
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Alvarado | Anchia | Bohac | et al.
Last Action:
04/17/2009 H Considered in Calendars
Caption:
Relating to appropriations for damages and disruptions suffered by state agencies and institutions of higher education caused by natural disasters and to an appropriation for disaster relief generally.
Author:
Corte | Guillen | Maldonado | Flores | Gattis
Coauthor:
Aycock | Button | Edwards | Gonzalez Toureilles | Kent | et al.
Last Action:
04/07/2009 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption:
Relating to resident tuition rates at public institutions of higher education for certain veterans and their spouses and children.
Author:
Patrick | Eissler | Anchia | Pitts | Thompson
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Alvarado | Aycock | Berman | et al.
Sponsor:
Zaffirini
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Vetoed by the Governor
Caption:
Relating to an enhanced quality full-day prekindergarten program provided by public school districts in conjunction with community providers.
Author:
Naishtat | Moody
Coauthor:
Lucio III
Last Action:
05/05/2009 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption:
Relating to an oral statement regarding the impact of an offense in certain cases involving a violent crime.
Author:
Jackson, Jim | Harper-Brown | Kent | Anchia | Davis, John
Coauthor:
Allen | Alvarado | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | et al.
Last Action:
05/21/2009 S Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption:
Relating to the on-premises consumption of certain alcoholic beverages; providing a penalty.
Author:
Isett | Homer | Legler | Eiland | Harper-Brown
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bonnen | Button | et al.
Last Action:
05/05/2009 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption:
Relating to the requirement under certain circumstances that a license holder display the person's license to carry a concealed handgun.
Author:
McClendon | Thompson | Gallego | Hodge | Pierson
Coauthor:
Alvarado | Burnam | Chavez | Gutierrez | Kent | et al.
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of an advisory panel to assist with a study regarding the prevention of wrongful convictions.
Author:
Flores | Smith, Wayne | McReynolds | Corte | Smithee
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.
Last Action:
05/13/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homesteads of certain totally disabled veterans and to the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation to which a disabled veteran is entitled based on disability rating.
Author:
Gallego | Martinez, "Mando" | Coleman | Rodriguez | Smithee
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Burnam | Dukes | Farias | Farrar | et al.
Sponsor:
Zaffirini
Last Action:
05/13/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption:
Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain prosthetic devices, orthotic devices, and related services.
Author:
Taylor | Pena | Fletcher | Oliveira | Sheffield
Coauthor:
Allen | Bonnen | Button | Cook | Creighton | et al.
Last Action:
05/19/2009 S Referred to Finance
Caption:
Relating to the exemption from certain taxation of certain organizations.
Author:
Laubenberg | Rodriguez | Gutierrez | Leibowitz | Chavez
Coauthor:
Anderson | Lucio III | Woolley
Sponsor:
Uresti
Last Action:
05/30/2009 H Senate appoints conferees-reported
Caption:
Relating to inclusion of pets and other companion animals in protective orders; providing a penalty.
Author:
Dukes | Pitts | McCall | Cook | Homer
Coauthor:
Alvarado | Anchia | Anderson | Branch | Brown, Fred | et al.
Sponsor:
Deuell
Last Action:
04/23/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to incentives for the film, television, video, and digital interactive media production industries.
Author:
Frost
Coauthor:
Lucio III
Last Action:
05/08/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to conduct constituting the offense of dog fighting and to the criminal and civil consequences of committing that offense.
Author:
Brown, Fred | Quintanilla | Callegari | Deshotel | Darby
Coauthor:
Brown, Betty | Button | Chavez | Davis, John | Driver | et al.
Last Action:
02/26/2009 H Referred to Public Education
Caption:
Relating to curriculum requirements for the recommended and advanced public high school programs.
Author:
Christian
Coauthor:
Laubenberg | Lucio III | Rodriguez
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
05/30/2009 H Conf. Comm. Report printed and distributed: May 30 2009 11:55PM
Caption:
Relating to creating an offense for engaging in certain conduct relating to cockfighting and to the criminal and civil consequences of committing that offense.
Author:
Thompson | Ritter | Allen | Edwards
Coauthor:
Farrar | Fletcher | Hernandez | Howard, Charlie | Lucio III | et al.
Last Action:
04/06/2009 H Laid on the table subject to call
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.
Author:
Hancock | Eiland
Coauthor:
Lucio III
Last Action:
03/24/2009 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to the operation of certain managed care plans regarding out-of-network health care providers.
Author:
Patrick | McReynolds | Swinford | Bonnen | Oliveira
Coauthor:
Berman | Brown, Betty | Christian | Crabb | Farabee | et al.
Last Action:
04/14/2009 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to public school finance.
Author:
Dukes
Coauthor:
Lucio III
Last Action:
05/08/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to admonishments given to a person charged with a misdemeanor.
Author:
Isett
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Callegari | Cohen | Fletcher | et al.
Last Action:
05/14/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the regulation of pharmacy benefit managers and to payment of claims to pharmacies and pharmacists.
Author:
Gonzalez Toureilles | Homer | Keffer | McReynolds | Swinford
Coauthor:
Aycock | Brown, Betty | Chavez | Chisum | Farabee | et al.
Last Action:
04/17/2009 H Considered in Calendars
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of the Texas Rural Development Fund and to the establishment, operation, and funding of certain programs for rural economic development.
Author:
Maldonado | Olivo | Martinez, "Mando" | Farias | Alvarado
Coauthor:
Bonnen | Cohen | Deshotel | Gattis | Jones | et al.
Sponsor:
Ogden
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the use of municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue to enhance and upgrade sports facilities, coliseums, and multiuse facilities in certain municipalities.
Author:
Solomons | Maldonado | Hartnett
Coauthor:
Cook | Lucio III
Sponsor:
Fraser
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption:
Relating to the use of certain terms by certificated telecommunications utilities, retail electric providers, and electric utilities in retail bills, and to notice of expiration or price change for certain retail electric products.
Author:
Davis, Yvonne | Martinez Fischer | Deshotel | Hodge | Gonzales
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Bolton | Burnam | Chavez | et al.
Last Action:
04/01/2009 H Left pending in subcommittee
Caption:
Relating to the provision of commercial mobile service to customers.
Author:
Chisum | Raymond | Davis, John | Gonzales | Hopson
Coauthor:
Allen | Berman | Brown, Betty | Brown, Fred | Chavez | et al.
Last Action:
04/17/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to creating the health care access fund to recruit health care providers in health professional shortage areas and to support federally-qualified health centers and to using for those purposes revenue from a tax imposed on certain tobacco products.
Author:
Driver | McReynolds | Kolkhorst | Ortiz, Jr. | Merritt
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Berman | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | et al.
Last Action:
05/11/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the carrying of concealed handguns on the campuses of institutions of higher education.
Author:
Rios Ybarra | Anderson | Gonzales | Hunter | Martinez, "Mando"
Coauthor:
Allen | Alvarado | Anchia | Aycock | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
05/08/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to a public health extension service pilot program.
Author:
Gallego | Moody | Bolton
Coauthor:
Leibowitz | Lucio III | Vaught
Sponsor:
Nelson
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption:
Relating to enhancing penalties for assaulting a family member by strangulation or suffocation.
Author:
Cohen | Anchia | Dukes | Pitts | Hartnett
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Berman | Bohac | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
05/13/2009 H Postponed
Caption:
Relating to the fee based on admissions to certain sexually oriented businesses.
Author:
Olivo | Gonzales | Naishtat | Turner, Sylvester | Corte
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Alvarado | Anchia | Burnam | et al.
Sponsor:
Van de Putte
Last Action:
05/21/2009 S Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
Caption:
Relating to the designation of May 9 as Willie Velasquez Day.
Author:
Keffer | Rose | Deshotel | Ritter | Kolkhorst
Coauthor:
Bonnen | Button | Chisum | Cook | Darby | et al.
Last Action:
04/07/2009 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to career and technical education in the public schools and high school graduation requirements.
Author:
Chisum | Gallego | Merritt | Gonzales | Corte
Coauthor:
Alvarado | Berman | Guillen | Leibowitz | Lucio III
Sponsor:
Hinojosa
Last Action:
05/25/2009 S No action taken in committee
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of an interoperable statewide emergency radio infrastructure and the establishment of an emergency radio infrastructure account.
Author:
Naishtat | Kent | Rios Ybarra | Leibowitz
Coauthor:
Bolton | Lucio III
Sponsor:
Zaffirini
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the forensic medical examination of a sexual assault victim who has not reported the assault to a law enforcement agency.
Author:
Coleman | Dukes | Zerwas | Davis, John | Naishtat
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Alvarado | Anchia | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
05/19/2009 S Referred to Finance
Caption:
Relating to the administration and funding of and eligibility for the child health plan, medical assistance, and other programs.
Author:
King, Susan | Eissler
Coauthor:
Gutierrez | Jackson, Jim | Lucio III
Last Action:
04/07/2009 H Left pending in committee
Caption:
Relating to public school career and technology education program curriculum and funding and to development of a list of high-demand occupations for career and technology education students.
Author:
Brown, Fred | Fletcher | Callegari | Howard, Charlie | Elkins
Coauthor:
Berman | Bohac | Bonnen | Chisum | Crabb | et al.
Last Action:
05/13/2009 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption:
Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Medical Board.
Author:
Weber | Anchia | Thompson | Naishtat | Alvarado
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Anderson | Aycock | Berman | et al.
Sponsor:
Van de Putte
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective on 9/1/09
Caption:
Relating to the provision of services to certain persons involved in, and the prosecution, punishment, and prevention of, offenses involving trafficking of persons or certain forced or sex-based labor or services, and to law enforcement training related to offenses involving that trafficking.
Author:
Rodriguez | Gallego | Harless | Taylor | Keffer
Coauthor:
Anchia | Burnam | Button | Cohen | Deshotel | et al.
Last Action:
05/05/2009 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption:
Relating to establishing a no-interest loan program to promote the use of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technology in certain residential dwellings, commercial buildings, and places of worship.
Author:
Strama
Coauthor:
Alvarado | Leibowitz | Lucio III
Sponsor:
Uresti
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Effective immediately
Caption:
Relating to the establishment of the Interagency Literacy Council for the study, promotion, and enhancement of literacy in this state.
Author:
Creighton | Hughes | Berman | Gattis | Guillen
Coauthor:
Anderson | Aycock | Bohac | Bonnen | Branch | et al.
Last Action:
05/31/2009 S Received from the House
Caption:
Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.
Author:
Flores | Gonzalez Toureilles | Martinez, "Mando" | Leibowitz
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Anchia | Burnam | Castro | Chavez | et al.
Last Action:
05/21/2009 S Referred to Administration
Caption:
Directing the State Preservation Board to amend its rules to allow the statue in honor of Tejanos to be placed on the south lawn of the Capitol.
Author:
Thompson | Hilderbran | England | Guillen | Hunter
Coauthor:
Castro | Cook | Dunnam | Flores | Geren | et al.
Sponsor:
Averitt
Last Action:
06/19/2009 E Vetoed by the Governor
Caption:
Requesting the governor to appoint a Governor's Task Force on Horse and Greyhound Racing.
Author:
Allen | Turner, Sylvester | Giddings | Bohac | Thompson
Coauthor:
Alonzo | Alvarado | Anchia | Anderson | Aycock | et al.
Sponsor:
Ellis
Last Action:
05/26/2009 E Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption:
Post-ratifying Amendment XXIV to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the denial or abridgment of the right to vote for failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.
Author:
Anderson
Coauthor:
Hughes | Keffer | King, Susan | Lucio III | Rios Ybarra
Last Action:
03/26/2009 H Reported enrolled: Mar 26 2009 7:53AM
Caption:
Recognizing March 24, 2009, as Texas State Technical College Day at the State Capitol.
Author:
Dunnam | Coleman | Moody
Coauthor:
Allen | Alonzo | Alvarado | Anchia | Bolton | et al.
Last Action:
04/24/2009 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption:
Reaffirming the pride of all Texans in our one and indivisible National Union and State.
Author:
Maldonado | Geren | McClendon | Dunnam | Taylor
Coauthor:
Allen | Bolton | Davis, Yvonne | Gattis | Gonzalez Toureilles | et al.
Last Action:
06/04/2009 H Reported enrolled: Jun 4 2009 2:00PM
Caption:
Honoring the staff of the housekeeping/grounds and maintenance divisions of the State Preservation Board for their role in preserving the Texas State Capitol.