Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Sen. Dan Patrick
82nd Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 4/20/2024

Number of Bills: 21

SB 1 Author: Ogden
Coauthor: Deuell | Duncan | Estes | Patrick
Last Action: 04/15/2011 S Meeting cancelled
Caption: General Appropriations Bill.

SB 18 Author: Estes | Duncan
Coauthor: Patrick | Nichols | Deuell | Eltife | Hegar | et al.
Sponsor: Geren | Oliveira | Kleinschmidt
Last Action: 05/19/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to the use of eminent domain authority.

SB 23 Author: Nelson
Coauthor: Wentworth | Patrick
Sponsor: Zerwas
Last Action: 05/29/2011 H 1 hr. notice-to suspend rules
Caption: Relating to the administration of and efficiency, cost-saving, fraud prevention, and funding measures for certain health and human services and health benefits programs, including the medical assistance and child health plan programs.

SB 146 Author: Hinojosa
Coauthor: Patrick
Last Action: 05/11/2011 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the offense of smuggling of persons and unlawful transport of an individual; providing penalties.

SB 187 Author: Nelson
Coauthor: Patrick
Sponsor: Zerwas
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to human body and anatomical specimen donation.

SB 257 Author: Carona
Coauthor: Nichols | Birdwell | Patrick | Nelson
Sponsor: Phillips | Schwertner | Chisum | Paxton
Last Action: 05/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to the issuance of "Choose Life" license plates and the creation of the Choose Life account in the general revenue fund.

SB 288 Author: Lucio
Coauthor: Uresti | Williams | Hinojosa | Davis | Harris | et al.
Sponsor: Pena | Miller, Sid
Last Action: 05/21/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to authorizing the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas to operate one or more southbound vehicle checkpoints near the international border of this state for the purpose of preventing certain criminal offenses.

SB 321 Author: Hegar | Birdwell
Coauthor: Eltife | Deuell | Watson | Wentworth | Carona | et al.
Sponsor: Kleinschmidt
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
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 404 Author: Hegar
Coauthor: Patrick
Last Action: 02/02/2011 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to health plan and health benefit plan coverage for abortions.

SB 468 Author: Shapiro
Coauthor: Patrick
Last Action: 03/08/2011 S No action taken in committee
Caption: Relating to the flexibility of the board of trustees of a school district in the management and operation of public schools in the district.

SB 887 Author: Carona
Coauthor: Huffman | Patrick
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.

SB 975 Author: Hinojosa
Coauthor: Lucio | Patrick | Seliger | Shapiro | West | et al.
Sponsor: Munoz, Jr. | Patrick, Diane
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the operation of dropout recovery programs by certain public junior colleges in partnership with school districts.

SB 1000 Author: Eltife | Hinojosa | Van de Putte | Williams
Coauthor: Carona | Estes | Patrick
Sponsor: Geren | Thompson | Hamilton | Darby | Otto
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to self-directed and semi-independent status of the Texas Real Estate Commission; making an appropriation.

SB 1002 Author: Van de Putte
Coauthor: Patrick | Gallegos | Wentworth | Rodriguez
Sponsor: Menendez
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the designation of program costs for providing bill payment assistance to certain military veterans as a necessary operating expense that is a first lien against revenue of certain electric and gas utilities' revenue securing certain public securities or obligations.

SB 1007 Author: Williams
Coauthor: Hegar | Whitmire | Jackson | Gallegos | Huffman | et al.
Last Action: 04/11/2011 H Referred to Transportation
Caption: Relating to certain comprehensive development agreements of the Texas Department of Transportation.

SB 1353 Author: Eltife | Deuell | Fraser | Huffman | Nichols | et al.
Coauthor: Carona | Patrick | Van de Putte
Sponsor: Solomons | Thompson | Phillips | Hartnett | Gonzales, Larry
Last Action: 05/28/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to certain claims against persons licensed as real estate brokers and salespersons.

SB 1360 Author: Harris
Coauthor: Hinojosa | Patrick
Sponsor: Hunter | Naishtat
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to continuing education for physicians and nurses regarding the treatment of tick-borne diseases.

SB 1416 Author: Hinojosa
Coauthor: Patrick | Williams
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.

SB 1652 Author: Watson
Coauthor: Patrick
Last Action: 05/16/2011 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the implementation of new processes for the purposes of budget transparency, fiscal responsibility, and open government.

SCR 1 Author: Hegar | Nelson
Coauthor: Nichols | Patrick
Last Action: 02/02/2011 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Claiming 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 United States Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, affirming that the right to keep and bear arms was reserved to the states, and providing that all compulsory federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.

SJR 1 Author: Ogden | Shapiro
Coauthor: Eltife | Patrick | Nichols | Fraser
Last Action: 03/08/2011 H Referred to State Sovereignty, Select
Caption: Urging the Congress of the United States to propose and submit to the states for ratification a federal balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States and, in the event that Congress does not submit such an amendment on or before December 31, 2011, applying to Congress to call a convention for the specific and exclusive purpose of proposing an amendment to that constitution to provide, in the absence of a national emergency and on a two-thirds vote of Congress, for a federal balanced budget and requesting that the legislatures of each of the several states that compose the United States apply to Congress to call a convention to propose such an amendment.

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