Texas Legislature
Bills Coauthored
Sen. Jeff Wentworth
82nd Legislature Regular Session
Report Date: 4/18/2024

Number of Bills: 23

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 28 Author: Zaffirini
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Branch | Villarreal | Aycock | Howard, Donna | Hunter
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective on 9/1/11
Caption: Relating to eligibility for a TEXAS grant and to administration of the TEXAS grant program.

SB 200 Author: Zaffirini
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 05/11/2011 H Referred to Higher Education
Caption: Relating to reports, notices, and records required of institutions of higher education.

SB 238 Author: West
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Solomons
Last Action: 05/21/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the regulation by a property owners' association of the installation of solar energy devices on property.

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 325 Author: Van de Putte
Coauthor: Wentworth | Huffman | Zaffirini
Last Action: 02/02/2011 S Referred to Health & Human Services
Caption: Relating to the automatic enrollment of certain women in the demonstration project for women's health care services.

SB 341 Author: Uresti
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Menendez | Larson
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E See remarks for effective date
Caption: Relating to authorizing the dissolution of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District; providing a penalty.

SB 548 Author: Nichols | Davis | Watson
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Darby | Schwertner
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E See remarks for effective date
Caption: Relating to the environmental review process for transportation projects.

SB 615 Author: Rodriguez
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Quintanilla | Chisum | Smith, Wayne | Aliseda
Last Action: 05/24/2011 H Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to requiring a retail seller of motor vehicle tires to render certain tires unusable and to the regulation of scrap tires; providing civil penalties.

SB 629 Author: Hegar
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Isaac
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the Ranch at Clear Fork Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

SB 630 Author: Hegar
Coauthor: Wentworth
Sponsor: Isaac
Last Action: 05/09/2011 E Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the Ranch at Clear Fork Creek Municipal Utility District No. 2; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

SB 726 Author: Rodriguez
Coauthor: Wentworth | Hinojosa | Carona | Deuell | Ellis | et al.
Last Action: 05/17/2011 S Not again placed on intent calendar
Caption: Relating to the establishment of the judicial access and improvement account to provide funding for basic civil legal services, indigent defense, and judicial technical support through certain county service fees and court costs imposed to fund the account.

SB 806 Author: Hinojosa
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 03/01/2011 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to considering ownership interests of disabled veterans in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.

SB 831 Author: Rodriguez
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 03/01/2011 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Relating to considering ownership interests of certain disabled veterans in determining whether a business is a historically underutilized business for purposes of state contracting.

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 1442 Author: Shapiro
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 04/26/2011 H Referred to Land & Resource Management
Caption: Relating to the application requirements for a local project permit.

SB 1625 Author: Hegar
Coauthor: Uresti | Wentworth | Van de Putte
Sponsor: Miller, Doug
Last Action: 05/10/2011 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Caption: Relating to the administration, powers, duties, and operation of the Edwards Aquifer Authority.

SB 1718 Author: Duncan
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 04/04/2011 S Left pending in committee
Caption: Relating to filling vacancies in appellate judicial offices by appointment, partisan elections for all judicial offices, and nonpartisan elections for the retention or rejection for all judicial offices.

SB 1843 Author: Carona
Coauthor: Estes | Wentworth | Hegar | Hinojosa | Van de Putte | et al.
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.

SCR 16 Author: Nelson | Davis | Huffman | Shapiro | Van de Putte | et al.
Coauthor: Wentworth | Uresti
Sponsor: Scott
Last Action: 06/17/2011 E Signed by the Governor
Caption: Designating the month of March each year from 2011 through 2020 as Women Veterans Month in tribute to the immeasurable contributions that women in the military have made to this nation.

SCR 36 Author: Williams | Fraser | Hinojosa | Huffman | Lucio | et al.
Coauthor: Eltife | Carona | Wentworth | Shapiro | Nelson | et al.
Last Action: 05/02/2011 H Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Urging the members of the Texas congressional delegation to provide to the legislature a cost analysis of the exact funding necessary for full enforcement of all immigration laws in Texas and to immediately report back to the legislature as to the status of that funding and directing the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house to send a delegation of members from both chambers to meet with members of Congress and members of the executive branch to discuss the border security crisis.

SJR 17 Author: Carona
Coauthor: Wentworth
Last Action: 02/02/2011 S Referred to State Affairs
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the power of the legislature to mandate requirements upon certain local governments.

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