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April 20, 2001
LOCAL, CONSENT, AND RESOLUTIONS CALENDAR
Friday, April 20, 2001
10:00 A.M.
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House Bills And Resolutions
HB 65 Pitts
Relating to the assignment of the judge of the 378th District Court
as a visiting judge.
HB 66 Pitts
Relating to the regulation of certain water well drillers.
HB 100 Maxey
Relating to the regulation of certain health care activities using
the Internet.
HB 116 Najera / Uresti
Relating to registration with the Selective Service System of
certain applicants for a driver's license.
HB 139 Wise
Relating to the possession, use, and delivery of certain controlled
substances and volatile chemicals; providing penalties.
HB 166 Brown, Fred
Relating to the establishment or use of certain cemeteries.
HB 171 Lewis, Glenn / et al.
Relating to the prosecution of and the punishment for certain
offenses involving damage or destruction of property.
HB 200 Pitts
Relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
Ellis County and to the jurisdiction of the county courts at law in
that county.
HB 266 Ellis, Dan
Relating to the conveyance of certain state property from the Texas
Board of Criminal Justice to the Board of Regents of the Texas
State University System.
HB 402 Giddings
Relating to the abolishment of the medicinal and physician's
permits for buying or dispensing liquor.
HB 490 Heflin
Relating to the administration and collection of ad valorem taxes.
HB 495 Smith
Relating to the definition of an antique vehicle under the junked
vehicle public nuisance law.
HB 521 Gallego
Relating to the donation of certain property and equipment of the
Maverick County Hospital District.
HB 534 Thompson
Relating to the jurisdiction, powers, and duties of an assigned
statutory probate court judge.
HB 535 Thompson
Relating to recording information concerning appointment of certain
visiting judges.
HB 569 Gallego
Relating to administrative approval of state employee contributions
to the sick leave pool.
HB 663 Lewis, Ron / Wise
Relating to the regulation of tanning facilities.
HB 787 Gallego
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Brewster County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 805 Bonnen
Relating to the percentage of money received by a crime stoppers
organization that may be used for administrative costs.
HB 835 Kitchen / Hopson / Naishtat / Hawley / et al.
Relating to the study of a buy-in option for the state child health
plan.
HB 907 Bosse / Carter
Relating to the continuation of the Office for the Prevention of
Developmental Disabilities.
HB 935 Solis, Jim
Relating to the establishment of a flexibility rating system for
directives sent by the Texas Workforce Commission to local
workforce development boards.
HB 936 Solis, Jim
Relating to the application of certain laws to local workforce
development boards.
HB 940 Haggerty
Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for impersonating a
security officer regulated by the Texas Commission on Private
Security.
HB 952 Naishtat
Relating to interstate guardianships.
HB 1011 Swinford
Relating to the transfer of the Amarillo campus of the Texas State
Technical College System to Amarillo College.
HB 1015 Gallego
Relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
the district attorney for the 83rd Judicial District.
HB 1023 Brown, Fred
Relating to recreational sports fees charged at institutions in The
Texas A&M University System.
HB 1024 Brown, Fred
Relating to student center complex fees charged at institutions in
The Texas A&M University System.
HB 1073 Farabee
Relating to the hours of operation of certain courts for
proceedings under the Texas Mental Health Code.
HB 1091 Reyna, Elvira
Relating to the appointment of members to certain county civil
service commissions.
HB 1107 Hartnett
Relating to the use of money in the county law library fund.
HB 1112 Junell
Relating to the terms of court of the 32nd Judicial District.
HB 1114 Bailey
Relating to designating the last Tuesday in September as Voter
Registration Day.
HB 1161 Eiland
Relating to the administration of the Business Enterprises Program
trust fund.
HB 1175 Raymond / Naishtat
Relating to minimum training regarding family violence for certain
state employees and other persons administering the financial
assistance program and to identification of and services for
certain victims of family violence.
HB 1220 Hartnett
Relating to payments made to certain counties from the judicial
fund and to the creation and use of a contributions fund in each of
those counties.
HB 1232 Counts
Relating to the membership of the board of directors of the
Rolling Plains Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 1278 Coleman / Naishtat / Kitchen
Relating to an asbestos survey before issuance of a building permit
to renovate or demolish certain buildings.
HB 1285 Brimer
Relating to providing information to a municipality on sales and
use taxes paid to the municipality.
HB 1299 Kuempel
Relating to the pooling of sick leave by county employees.
HB 1307 Villarreal, Mike
Relating to the establishment of a child-care resource and referral
network.
HB 1356 Berman
Relating to imposing a recreational facility fee at The University
of Texas at Tyler.
HB 1357 Berman
Relating to imposing an intercollegiate athletics fee at The
University of Texas at Tyler.
HB 1378 McReynolds
Relating to the application of vehicle and traffic law to certain
mobility assistance devices.
HB 1390 Najera / Pickett
Relating to the authority of certain municipalities to create an
industrial development district.
HB 1392 Keffer
Relating to applications for ad valorem tax exemptions for certain
community housing development organizations.
HB 1419 Jones, Jesse / Madden
Relating to requiring the secretary of state to study voting
systems, technologies, and strategies.
HB 1459 Williams
Relating to interment rights in a cemetery plot.
HB 1512 Counts
Relating to the powers and duties of Stonewall County Hospital
District.
HB 1516 Janek
Relating to the provision of catastrophic case management services
under the medical assistance program.
HB 1523 Wilson
Relating to the abolishment of market research packager's permits
for receiving alcoholic beverages.
HB 1532 Kuempel
Relating to the determination under the school finance system of
the amount of collected taxes for certain school districts.
HB 1562 Thompson
Relating to the control of health insurance fraud; providing
administrative penalties.
HB 1583 Gallego / Hinojosa / Haggerty
Relating to the qualifications required for employment as a parole
officer or parole officer supervisor.
HB 1584 Gallego / Hinojosa / Haggerty
Relating to procedures applicable to the release of an inmate on
mandatory supervision.
HB 1605 Chisum
Relating to authorizing members of the governing body of certain
municipalities to serve as volunteers.
HB 1628 Deshotel
Relating to the transfer of certain state property from the Texas
Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to Spindletop
MHMR Services.
HB 1638 Hamric / Pickett
Relating to the payment and use of a bid guaranty for a state
highway improvement contract.
HB 1639 Yarbrough
Relating to the form for an application for an early voting ballot
to be voted by mail.
HB 1671 Hochberg
Relating to the names of certain entities within The University of
Texas System.
HB 1700 Gutierrez / Raymond / Pickett / Gallego / Najera
Relating to short-term motor vehicle liability insurance policies
for motorists entering this state from Mexico.
HB 1703 Smithee
Relating to regulation of nonadmitted captive insurance companies.
HB 1714 Thompson
Relating to applications for disabled parking placards.
HB 1731 King, Tracy
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation for freeport
goods.
HB 1756 Gutierrez
Relating to the regulation of the practice of barbering.
HB 1758 Turner, Sylvester / Naishtat
Relating to access for females under 18 years of age to facilities,
services, and treatment available through health and human services
and juvenile corrections programs.
HB 1784 Cook / Kolkhorst / et al.
Relating to the ratification, creation, administration, powers,
duties, operation, and financing of groundwater conservation
districts for the management of groundwater resources in the
central Carrizo-Wilcox area.
HB 1791 Kuempel
Relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
Guadalupe County.
HB 1836 Denny / Crownover, Myra / Solomons
Relating to the directors of the Upper Trinity Regional Water
District and the powers and duties of the district; providing a
criminal penalty.
HB 1842 Callegari / et al.
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the West Harris County Regional Water
Authority; granting the power of eminent domain; granting the
authority to issue bonds or notes; providing a civil penalty.
HB 1886 Coleman
Relating to municipal hotel occupancy taxes.
HB 1909 Junell
Relating to the management of and certain actions and proceedings
regarding the Lipan-Kickapoo Water Conservation District.
HB 1924 Haggerty
Relating to the development of a United States air defense museum
at Fort Bliss.
HB 1944 Smithee
Relating to the Deaf Smith County Hospital District.
HB 1958 Naishtat
Relating to participation in and benefits and administration of
retirement systems for firefighters in certain municipalities.
HB 1990 Turner, Sylvester
Relating to the creation of the Near Northwest Management District;
providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
HB 2058 Moreno, Joe E.
Relating to the inspection of a commercial motor carrier's premises
by municipal police officers.
HB 2077 Reyna, Arthur
Relating to the authority of a child support master to hear certain
cases.
HB 2091 Miller / et al.
Relating to tuberculosis control in certain animals.
HB 2096 Goodman
Relating to the composition of the third and eighth administrative
judicial regions.
HB 2112 Dutton
Relating to rules of civil procedure adopted by the supreme court.
HB 2144 Gray
Relating to certain purchases by the General Land Office.
HB 2173 Krusee
Relating to the authority of certain local entities to create a
presumption in a prosecution for an offense involving the parking,
standing, or stopping of a motor vehicle.
HB 2185 Goolsby
Relating to fees collected by a county tax assessor-collector for
processing certain payments by credit card.
HB 2217 Hawley
Relating to the issuance of a certificate of title for certain farm
semitrailers.
HB 2221 Hamric
Relating to county authority to regulate vehicular or pedestrian
gates to and to require building numbers for certain multi-unit
housing projects; providing a penalty.
HB 2238 Moreno, Joe E.
Relating to the closing of streets or alleys by institutions of
higher education in certain counties.
HB 2247 Ellis, Dan
Relating to establishing an exit interview process for employees of
the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice.
HB 2278 Carter
Relating to the consolidation and functions of the energy
management center and the state energy conservation office and to
the transfer of the powers and duties of the center and the office
to the comptroller's office.
HB 2279 Naishtat / Kitchen
Relating to the exemption from the payment of higher education
tuition and fees for certain recipients of Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families benefits.
HB 2286 Averitt
Relating to the operation of and coverage under small employer
health benefit plans.
HB 2295 Woolley / Danburg / Nixon, Joe
Relating to the powers of Harris County Improvement District No. 1.
HB 2307 Clark
Relating to the creation of a county court at law in Cooke County,
to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Cooke County, and to an
exemption from certain judicial training and instruction for the
judge of the county court.
HB 2316 McClendon
Relating to the sale of certain state property from the General
Services Commission to Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
HB 2345 Naishtat
Relating to the specialized telecommunications assistance program.
HB 2347 Raymond
Relating to a court fee to be used for courthouse security in Webb
County.
HB 2349 Hilderbran
Relating to the service areas of certain junior college districts.
HB 2362 Hope / Williams
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Lone Star Groundwater Conservation
District.
HB 2366 Williams / Lewis, Glenn / Thompson / Coleman
Relating to the mission of Prairie View A&M University.
HB 2397 Chavez
Relating to a study and report concerning the compensation received
by part-time and full-time faculty members at public institutions
of higher education.
HB 2401 Lewis, Ron
Relating to programs and funding methods that promote water
conservation among certain state and local entities.
HB 2432 Cook
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 2437 Davis, Yvonne
Relating to continuing education requirements for code enforcement
officers.
HB 2440 Krusee / Keel / Maxey / Naishtat / Dukes
Relating to a referendum for a rail plan in certain metropolitan
rapid transit authorities.
HB 2484 Wilson
Relating to the regulation of pari-mutuel racing.
HB 2488 Chisum
Relating to the powers and duties of the Donley County Hospital
District.
HB 2491 Bosse
Relating to the validation of certain actions and of the legal
description of Harris County Water Control and Improvement District
No. 84.
HB 2525 Junell
Relating to the operation of the Mitchell County Hospital District.
HB 2529 Junell
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, taxing authority, and
financing of the Lone Wolf Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 2559 Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to the jurisdiction of a municipal court.
HB 2567 Hinojosa
Relating to the creation of the offense of extortion.
HB 2571 McReynolds
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Angelina County Water Control and
Improvement District No. 4; authorizing the imposition of taxes and
the issuance of bonds and granting the power of eminent domain;
providing a civil penalty.
HB 2572 McReynolds / Christian
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operations, and financing of the Pineywoods Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 2579 Lewis, Ron
Relating to annexation and incorporation procedures relating to
certain unincorporated communities in certain counties.
HB 2585 Chavez / Lewis, Glenn / Bonnen / Pitts
Relating to motorcycle operator and passenger safety.
HB 2587 Counts
Relating to zoning in Kent County around Lake Alan Henry.
HB 2589 Hochberg
Relating to the required posting of information on a state agency's
Internet site and to the confidentiality of certain information.
HB 2601 Coleman
Relating to the ad valorem taxation of certain possessory interests
in certain municipal property open to the public.
HB 2603 Coleman
Relating to the tuition charged to certain foreign students
enrolled in a graduate public health course in a border county.
HB 2628 Wolens
Relating to the powers and rights of a cultural educational
facilities finance corporation.
HB 2658 Counts
Relating to the authority of Knox County Hospital District to enter
into a loan agreement.
HB 2663 Grusendorf
Relating to a license or permit for certain sex offenders to
operate a motor vehicle or commercial motor vehicle.
HB 2690 Walker
Relating to enforcement measures available to groundwater
conservation districts.
HB 2750 Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to the authority of a law enforcement agency to remove
property from a roadway.
HB 2758 Ritter / Deshotel / Lewis, Ron
Relating to the authority of certain counties to impose a hotel
occupancy tax and to the rate of the tax.
HB 2780 Villarreal, Mike
Relating to the effect of a recount on qualifying for an office
involved in the recount.
HB 2788 Solomons / Crownover, Myra / Denny
Relating to the transfer of certain cases from a district court of
a judicial district to a newly created district court of that
judicial district.
HB 2796 Goolsby
Relating to a trust fund for the purpose of maintaining and
preserving the Capitol, the General Land Office Building, their
contents, and their grounds.
HB 2816 Brown, Fred
Relating to the creation of nonprofit corporations to refund
certain outstanding student loan bonds.
HB 2847 Averitt
Relating to the authority of the Brazos River Authority to
discover, develop, produce, and use groundwater in the Brazos River
Basin and environs.
HB 2869 Ramsay
Relating to county financial reporting procedures and to the
creation of the Texas County Financial Data Advisory Committee.
HB 2870 Ramsay
Relating to the authority of a commissioners court of a county to
develop and administer an economic development program for making
loans or grants of public money.
HB 2873 Uher
Relating to fees charged by district and county clerks for copies
of records.
HB 2874 Uher
Relating to the withdrawal of time by a county employee from the
county sick leave pool.
HB 2875 Uher
Relating to the authority of Matagorda County Hospital District to
lease property and enter into a loan agreement.
HB 2882 Naishtat
Relating to the jurisdiction of the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis
County.
HB 2922 Jones, Jesse / Hodge / Madden
Relating to requiring the secretary of state to establish a
toll-free telephone number for reporting abuses of voting rights.
HB 2923 Jones, Jesse / Hodge / Madden
Relating to the implementation of new voting system technology in
certain elections.
HB 2947 Davis, John
Relating to the posting of notice for water discharge permits.
HB 2959 Williams
Relating to the board of supervisors and the powers of the
Brookshire-Katy Drainage District; providing a civil penalty.
HB 2994 Lewis, Ron
Relating to the authority of districts to enter into contracts to
pay taxes.
HB 3028 Dunnam
Relating to a state science and engineering fair conducted by the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
HB 3034 Najera
Relating to certain fees imposed by the Lower Valley Water
District.
HB 3037 Walker
Relating to the regulation of spacing and production of wells by a
groundwater conservation district.
HB 3055 Dukes
Relating to authorizing a county to pay the costs of an
owner-controlled insurance program with the proceeds of certain
securities issued by the county.
HB 3069 Chisum
Relating to the maintenance of certain cemeteries.
HB 3096 Counts
Relating to the development of a water supply reservoir project at
a site known as the Post Reservoir site in Garza County, Texas.
HB 3132 King, Phil
Relating to the dissolution of the Gainesville Hospital District
and the Muenster Hospital District and the creation of the Cooke
County Hospital District.
HB 3134 Chavez / Garcia
Relating to certain conduct of notaries public; providing a
penalty.
HB 3150 Allen
Relating to authorizing county officers and employees to receive
reduced travel agent fees for travel arrangements for official
county business.
HB 3159 Bonnen
Relating to the compensation and per diem of the commissioners of
Brazoria Drainage District Number 4.
HB 3161 Bonnen
Relating to the expiration of certain subdivision plats.
HB 3172 Thompson / Menendez
Relating to the authority of a county to establish public
improvement districts.
HB 3174 Solis, Jim
Relating to the operation of the Court of Appeals for the
Thirteenth Court of Appeals District and the creation of an
appellate judicial system for the district.
HB 3181 Danburg / Madden
Relating to procedures for maintaining information on lists of
registered voters.
HB 3191 Puente
Relating to the consent of certain municipalities to the inclusion
of their extraterritorial jurisdiction in emergency services
districts.
HB 3197 Jones, Elizabeth
Relating to the financing of certain housing and nonhousing
facilities by a housing finance corporation.
HB 3229 Craddick
Relating to a declaration for write-in candidacy for director of
the Midland County Hospital District.
HB 3243 Gallego
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kinney County Groundwater
Conservation District; granting the power of eminent domain and
conditionally granting authority to levy property taxes.
HB 3286 Lewis, Ron
Relating to water conservation measures by state agencies and local
governments.
HB 3298 Bonnen
Relating to the contracting authority of and authorized uses for
corporate revenue by certain industrial development corporations.
HB 3315 Ramsay
Relating to county regulation of outdoor burning.
HB 3356 McReynolds
Relating to the appointment of bailiffs by the judges of the
district courts and county courts at law in Angelina County.
HB 3357 Kuempel
Relating to the power of a river authority engaged in the
distribution and sale of electric energy to provide credit support
for an affiliated nonprofit corporation.
HB 3365 Maxey
Relating to medical case management services provided by a social
worker under the Medicaid program.
HB 3403 King, Tracy
Relating to the establishment of visitation centers and visitation
exchange facilities in certain counties.
HB 3415 McClendon
Relating to the development and use of landfill gas for state
energy and environmental purposes.
HB 3484 Solomons
Relating to forwarding process served upon the secretary of state.
HB 3487 Coleman
Relating to a memorandum of understanding for services for persons
needing multiagency services.
HB 3544 Hilderbran
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the Cow
Creek Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 3556 Maxey
Relating to the life safety code standards for assisted living
facilities for supervision of medication and general welfare.
HB 3589 Hunter
Relating to the Texas Film Industry Development Loan Guarantee
Program.
HB 3591 Hunter
Relating to including certain libraries of nonprofit corporations
in the TexShare consortium and authorizing grants from the
telecommunications infrastructure fund to those libraries.
HB 3626 Hardcastle
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Tri-County Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 3635 Cook
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Wharton County Drainage District.
HB 3636 Geren
Relating to the validation of certain actions and proceedings and
to the administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of
the Tarrant Regional Water District, a Water Control and
Improvement District; providing a civil penalty; creating a
criminal offense.
HCR 5 Haggerty
Memorializing congress to authorize an additional 16 federal judges
and commensurate staff to handle the current and anticipated
caseloads along the Texas-Mexico border and to fully reimburse
local governments for the costs incurred in prosecuting and
incarcerating federal defendants.
HCR 8 Marchant
Memorializing congress to increase funding for research of Duchenne
muscular dystrophy.
HCR 38 Flores / et al.
Directing the State Preservation Board to erect a statue, monument,
or exhibit on the Capitol grounds honoring contributions of Tejanos.
HCR 74 Brown, Betty
Declaring West Tawakoni the Catfish Capital of Texas.
HCR 98 Christian / McReynolds / Ramsay / et al.
Memorializing Congress to extend the U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber
Agreement.
HCR 104 Jones, Jesse
Memorializing congress to pass legislation relating to giving a tax
credit for jury service.
HCR 176 Ellis, Dan
Conferring on Colonel M. B. Etheredge of Huntsville the Texas
Legislative Medal of Honor.
HCR 181 Hardcastle
Designating the Santa Rosa Palomino Club as the official
"Ambassadors on Horseback" of the State of Texas.
HCR 186 Berman / Christian / Tillery / Gutierrez / Salinas / et al.
Memorializing congress to repeal the Government Pension Offset
enacted in 1977.
HCR 192 Goolsby
Authorizing the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of
representatives to appoint interim joint
committees.
HCR 197 Miller
Designating Gatesville as the Spur Capital of Texas.
HCR 210 Haggerty
Urging congress to enact the Railroad Retirement and Survivors'
Improvement Act of 2001.
HR 132 West, George "Buddy"
Recognizing Odessa as the Jackrabbit-Roping Capital of Texas.
HR 359 Christian / Swinford / Lewis, Ron / Hawley / et al.
Encouraging natural gas and energy suppliers to negotiate with
agricultural producers to prevent disruption of utility services.
HR 457 Berman
Recognizing July 16, 2001, as Atomic Veteran Day of Remembrance in
Texas.
Senate Bills And Resolutions
SB 399 Duncan
SP: Davis, Yvonne
Relating to the operation of a vehicle with a child in an open bed
of the vehicle or in the open bed of a trailer being towed by the
vehicle.
SB 404 Fraser
SP: Hupp
Relating to the election of directors of the Clearwater Underground
Water Conservation District.
SB 479 West, Royce
SP: Naishtat
Relating to the entry of protective order information in the
statewide law enforcement information system.
SB 481 Duncan
SP: Kitchen
Relating to electronic filing of reports with state agencies.
SB 627 Staples / et al.
SP: Berman
Relating to imposing an intercollegiate athletics fee at The
University of Texas at Tyler.
SB 640 Duncan
SP: McCall
Relating to electronic filing of certain tax reports and payments.
SB 797 Wentworth / et al.
SP: Kuempel
Relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
Guadalupe County.
SCR 20 West, Royce
SP: Reyna, Elvira
Urging judges who hear family law cases to increase use of alternative
dispute resolution and mediation in solving child custody disputes.