Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Rep. Juan M Escobar
79th Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 3/29/2024

Number of Bills: 54

HB 52 Author: Hopson | Farabee | Hughes | Menendez
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Anchia | Bailey | Blake | Bonnen | et al.
Last Action: 01/27/2005 H Referred to Public Education
Caption: Relating to health coverage or compensation supplementation for certain education employees.

HB 101 Author: Seaman | Dawson | Thompson | Solis | Chavez
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Anchia | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | Burnam | et al.
Last Action: 01/31/2005 H Referred to Appropriations
Caption: Relating to funding for public school career and technology programs.

HB 169 Author: Deshotel
Coauthor: Escobar | Ritter
Last Action: 01/31/2005 H Referred to Culture, Recreation, and Tourism
Caption: Relating to exempting certain individuals from general fishing license fees.

HB 195 Author: Guillen
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 02/01/2005 H Referred to Transportation
Caption: Relating to motor vehicles equipped with recording devices.

HB 225 Author: Driver | Keel | Hupp | Rose | Hegar
Coauthor: Anderson | Bailey | Baxter | Berman | Blake | et al.
Sponsor: Deuell
Last Action: 06/18/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to the issuance and expiration of certain licenses to carry a concealed handgun.

HB 259 Author: Elkins | Bonnen | Hughes | Riddle | Keffer, Jim
Coauthor: Anderson | Bohac | Branch | Brown, Fred | Callegari | et al.
Sponsor: Jackson, Mike
Last Action: 05/12/2005 S Motion to suspend regular order fails
Caption: Relating to the powers of a county, municipality, or local entity with respect to the regulation of traffic on highways under its jurisdiction.

HB 264 Author: Chavez | Keel | Hupp
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 05/12/2005 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the wearing of protective headgear by certain motorcycle operators and passengers.

HB 342 Author: Deshotel | Pena | Guillen
Coauthor: Escobar | Farabee | Hamilton | Martinez, "Mando"
Last Action: 05/03/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to exempting certain individuals from general fishing license fees.

HB 354 Author: Pena | Martinez, "Mando"
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 02/03/2005 H Referred to Public Education
Caption: Relating to the salary paid to certain professional employees of public schools.

HB 355 Author: Pena | Guillen
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 02/03/2005 H Referred to Public Education
Caption: Relating to stipends for public school teachers assigned to campuses serving a high percentage of low-income students.

HB 391 Author: Smith, Todd | Baxter | Merritt | Brown, Betty | Oliveira
Coauthor: Anchia | Bailey | Berman | Brown, Fred | Burnam | et al.
Last Action: 05/12/2005 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to computer-assisted hunting from remote locations; providing penalties.

HB 502 Author: Guillen
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 05/17/2005 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to prohibiting a person from offering to deliver or delivering, or offering to purchase or purchasing, a substance or device with the intent to falsify a drug test.

HB 503 Author: Guillen | Chavez | Castro
Coauthor: Escobar | Gonzalez Toureilles
Sponsor: Fraser
Last Action: 05/20/2005 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and certain children of those personnel.

HB 548 Author: Delisi | Homer | Farabee | Corte, Frank | Seaman
Coauthor: Berman | Escobar | Herrero | Leibowitz | McClendon | et al.
Last Action: 04/04/2005 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption: Relating to a project of a development corporation in connection with a military base or facility.

HB 692 Author: Menendez | Riddle | Hupp | Dukes | Vo
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Allen, Ray | Alonzo | Anchia | Baxter | et al.
Last Action: 05/12/2005 S Referred to Criminal Justice
Caption: Relating to the punishment for and certain civil consequences of committing the offense of prostitution.

HB 790 Author: Crownover | Luna | Eissler | Zedler | Dukes
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bohac | Brown, Betty | et al.
Sponsor: Nelson
Last Action: 06/18/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to the conduct of newborn screening by the Department of State Health Services.

HB 864 Author: King, Phil | Hill | Hegar | Goolsby
Coauthor: Allen, Ray | Anderson | Berman | Blake | Bonnen | et al.
Last Action: 04/11/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to the regulation of the cloning of human beings; providing penalties.

HB 894 Author: Hodge | Branch | Chavez | Anchia | Pena
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Allen, Ray | Alonzo | Anderson | Bailey | et al.
Sponsor: West, Royce
Last Action: 05/27/2005 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to produce samples at municipally owned farmers' markets.

HB 899 Author: Alonzo
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 04/20/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to allowing certain early voting polling places to serve as election day polling places.

HB 1099 Author: Chavez | Castro | Solis
Coauthor: Escobar
Sponsor: Lucio
Last Action: 05/17/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to migrant labor housing facilities.

HB 1130 Author: Cook, Byron | Hupp | Pena | Chisum | Giddings
Coauthor: Anchia | Anderson | Blake | Bohac | Bonnen | et al.
Sponsor: Ellis
Last Action: 05/27/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to the adoption of a privacy policy by a person who requires the disclosure of an individual's social security number; providing a civil penalty.

HB 1170 Author: Miller | Delisi | Hupp | Pickett | Hunter
Coauthor: Anderson | Escobar | Guillen | Hopson | Merritt | et al.
Sponsor: Shapleigh
Last Action: 06/17/2005 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the award of higher education course credit for the completion of certain military training and to readmission to a public institution of higher education of students who withdraw to perform active military service.

HB 1181 Author: Dutton
Coauthor: Escobar
Sponsor: Wentworth
Last Action: 06/18/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to access to criminal history record information by a domestic relations office.

HB 1348 Author: Eiland | Smith, Todd | Anchia
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Bailey | Baxter | Bonnen | et al.
Last Action: 05/02/2005 H Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm.
Caption: Relating to political contributions and expenditures; providing civil and criminal penalties.

HB 1364 Author: Mowery | Hupp | Hardcastle | McReynolds | Geren
Coauthor: Anderson | Berman | Brown, Betty | Callegari | Cook, Byron | et al.
Last Action: 04/20/2005 H Laid on the table subject to call
Caption: Relating to municipal regulation of the discharge of firearms and certain other weapons.

HB 1416 Author: Martinez, "Mando" | Gonzales | Solis | Pena | Rodriguez
Coauthor: Escobar | Gonzalez Toureilles
Last Action: 04/21/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to health insurance benefits provided to certain public school retirees and their dependents.

HB 1612 Author: Olivo
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bailey | Casteel | et al.
Last Action: 05/03/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to promotion of students to certain grade levels in public school.

HB 1613 Author: Olivo
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bailey | Bohac | et al.
Last Action: 05/03/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to the requirements for a high school diploma.

HB 1624 Author: Goolsby | Giddings | Driver | Harper-Brown | Jackson, Jim
Coauthor: Allen, Ray | Anchia | Blake | Branch | Crownover | et al.
Last Action: 04/12/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to the establishment of a law school in the city of Dallas by the University of North Texas System.

HB 1771 Author: Delisi | Hill | McReynolds | Coleman | Truitt
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Allen, Ray | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | et al.
Sponsor: Nelson
Last Action: 06/18/2005 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the Medicaid managed care delivery system.

HB 1968 Author: Rose | Naishtat | Morrison | Harper-Brown | Gallego
Coauthor: Brown, Fred | Dawson | Escobar | Giddings | Goolsby | et al.
Last Action: 05/12/2005 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to student representation on the board of regents of each state university or state university system.

HB 2061 Author: Laubenberg | Riddle | Corte, Frank | Anderson
Coauthor: Allen, Ray | Berman | Bonnen | Brown, Betty | Brown, Fred | et al.
Last Action: 03/14/2005 H Referred to Public Health
Caption: Relating to the right of health care facilities, health insurers, and health care providers to object to providing or participating in the provision of certain procedures.

HB 2248 Author: Isett, Carl
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 03/14/2005 H Referred to Appropriations
Caption: Relating to salary increases, equity adjustments, and merit payments for certain state employees.

HB 2304 Author: Driver
Coauthor: Escobar
Sponsor: Armbrister
Last Action: 05/22/2005 S Committee report printed and distributed: May 22 2005 7:00PM
Caption: Relating to the regulation of alarm systems and alarm systems companies; providing penalties.

HB 2413 Author: Allen, Alma
Coauthor: Anchia | Chavez | Escobar | Farrar | Gonzales | et al.
Last Action: 05/03/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to corporal punishment in public schools.

HB 2483 Author: Geren
Coauthor: Escobar | Farabee | Noriega, Melissa
Last Action: 04/21/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homesteads of certain totally disabled veterans.

HB 2487 Author: Gonzalez Toureilles | Rose
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Anchia | Bailey | Castro | Dunnam | et al.
Last Action: 04/27/2005 H Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to the award of attorney's fees in an election contest.

HB 2578 Author: Rodriguez | Thompson
Coauthor: Anchia | Escobar | Farrar | Gonzales | Herrero | et al.
Last Action: 05/10/2005 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to providing the national free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch program to a greater number of public school students.

HB 2696 Author: Anchia | Hartnett | Jackson, Jim | Vo
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Branch | Burnam | Campbell | et al.
Sponsor: West, Royce
Last Action: 06/18/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of massage therapy and massage establishments and certain services related to massage; providing penalties.

HB 2868 Author: Frost | Rose | Martinez Fischer | Van Arsdale
Coauthor: Alonzo | Anchia | Berman | Blake | Branch | et al.
Sponsor: Hinojosa
Last Action: 06/17/2005 E Effective on 9/1/05
Caption: Relating to civil liability for provision of alcohol to a minor.

HB 2969 Author: Menendez
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Burnam | Campbell | Coleman | et al.
Last Action: 04/27/2005 H No action taken in committee
Caption: Relating to the disclosure of certain information from an early voting roster.

HB 2997 Author: Morrison | Truitt | Olivo | Brown, Betty | Casteel
Coauthor: Allen, Ray | Anderson | Berman | Blake | Bohac | et al.
Last Action: 05/04/2005 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the reporting of abortion; creating an offense.

HB 3017 Author: Orr | Hegar | Anderson
Coauthor: Baxter | Blake | Campbell | Cook, Robby | Escobar | et al.
Last Action: 04/25/2005 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the procedure for initiating and the award of certain costs in eminent domain proceedings.

HCR 7 Author: Cook, Robby | Chisum | McReynolds | Hardcastle | Casteel
Coauthor: Alonzo | Berman | Eissler | Escobar | Flynn | et al.
Last Action: 05/26/2005 S Received from the House
Caption: Memorializing Congress to preserve the community development block grant program and its funding at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HCR 13 Author: Chavez | Oliveira | Turner | Luna | Castro
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Davis, Yvonne | Dukes | et al.
Sponsor: Lucio
Last Action: 05/27/2005 E Signed by the Governor
Caption: Memorializing Congress to allow Mexican visitors the same six-month length of stay afforded to Canadian travelers.

HCR 22 Author: Merritt | Branch | Luna | Hilderbran | Rose
Coauthor: Allen, Ray | Alonzo | Anchia | Bailey | Baxter | et al.
Last Action: 01/13/2005 S Received from the House
Caption: Directing the legislative staff responsible for maintaining the Internet website for the Texas Legislature to provide improved public access to information on votes taken on legislation.

HCR 54 Author: Raymond
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Alonzo | Anchia | Bailey | Burnam | et al.
Last Action: 02/17/2005 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Memorializing the United States Congress not to privatize the social security program.

HCR 63 Author: Noriega, Melissa | Herrero
Coauthor: Anchia | Burnam | Cook, Byron | Cook, Robby | Davis, John | et al.
Last Action: 04/21/2005 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Memorializing Congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset provision and the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Act.

HCR 208 Author: Coleman
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Allen, Ray | Alonzo | Anchia | Anderson | et al.
Last Action: 05/25/2005 S Received from the House
Caption: Encouraging the board of regents of Texas Southern University to name a building, an outdoor plaza, or an interior space of honor on the campus after the Honorable Joe E. Moreno.

HJR 30 Author: Guillen
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 02/08/2005 H Referred to Public Education
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring the state to provide for equitable funding for each student under the public school system.

HR 141 Author: Coleman
Coauthor: Allen, Alma | Escobar | Hamric | McClendon | Thompson | et al.
Last Action: 02/03/2005 H Reported enrolled: Feb 3 2005 8:14AM
Caption: Recognizing February 2, 2005, as Texas Southern University Day at the Capitol.

HR 516 Author: Raymond
Coauthor: Blake | Branch | Brown, Betty | Callegari | Campbell | et al.
Last Action: 03/30/2005 H Referred to House Administration
Caption: Amending the Housekeeping Resolution to provide for display of the motto "In God We Trust" in the House chamber.

HR 1048 Author: Solis
Coauthor: Escobar
Last Action: 04/26/2005 H Reported enrolled: Apr 26 2005 8:55AM
Caption: Recognizing April 7, 2005, as World Health Day 2005.

HR 1569 Author: Dunnam | Coleman | Anchia | Gallego
Coauthor: Alonzo | Davis, Yvonne | Escobar | Frost | Geren | et al.
Last Action: 05/09/2005 H Reported enrolled: May 9 2005 5:25PM
Caption: Convening the Texas House of Representatives in a memorial session honoring Representative Joseph E. Moreno on May 11, 2005.

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