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ITEMS ELIGIBLE FOR CONSIDERATION
Friday, May 25, 2001
10:00 A.M.
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******** CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ********
The Senate request the appointment of a conference committee on:
SB 45 Zaffirini
SP: Naishtat
Relating to hardship exemptions from time limits under the
temporary assistance for needy families program.
Senate Conferees: Zaffirini, Ch./Bernsen/Carona/Moncrief/Nelson
SB 273 Armbrister / et al.
SP: Tillery / Bonnen / Turner, Bob / Geren / McClendon / et al.
Relating to systems and programs administered by the Teacher
Retirement System of Texas; providing a penalty.
Senate Conferees: Armbrister, Ch./Bivins/Cain/Fraser/Staples
SB 292 Armbrister
SP: Telford
Relating to programs and systems administered by the Employees
Retirement System of Texas.
Senate Conferees: Armbrister, Ch./Bivins/Cain/Fraser/Shapiro
SB 1573 Lindsay
SP: Hawley
Relating to the regulation of floating cabins; providing penalties.
Senate Conferees: Lindsay, Ch./Bernsen/Brown/Jackson/Truan
SB 1839 Moncrief / et al.
SP: Eiland / Naishtat / Gray / Smithee / Goodman
Relating to certain long-term care facilities.
Senate Conferees: Moncrief, Ch./Carona/Duncan/Ellis/Ogden
Conference committee reports:
HB 695 Reyna, Arthur
SP: Wentworth
Relating to the regulation of certain occupations by the Texas Real
Estate Commission; providing penalties.
HB 1641 Rangel
SP: Barrientos
Relating to providing certain students with an equal opportunity to
enroll in or receive a competitive scholarship for a graduate or
professional degree program.
SB 113 Moncrief / et al.
SP: Goolsby
Relating to vehicle passenger safety systems; providing criminal
penalties.
******** SENATE AMENDMENTS ********
HB 704 Delisi
SP: Shapiro
Relating to the Careers to Classrooms Program.
HB 792 Wolens / et al.
SP: West, Royce
Relating to certain procedures regarding state bar disciplinary
proceedings.
HB 920 Goodman
SP: West, Royce
Relating to the adoption of the Uniform Parentage Act; providing
penalties.
HB 981 King, Tracy
SP: Armbrister
Relating to oil and gas royalty reporting standards.
HB 1005 Naishtat / et al.
SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the creation of a state program of temporary assistance
and related support services for needy persons.
HB 1317 Farabee / Clark
SP: Haywood
Relating to financial security requirements for certain oil well
operators.
HB 1392 Keffer
SP: Staples
Relating to certain ad valorem tax exemptions.
HB 1449 Oliveira
SP: Sibley
Relating to the expiration of the Property Redevelopment and Tax
Abatement Act.
HB 1544 Uher / Hupp / Miller / Menendez
SP: Moncrief
Relating to the release of certain personal information from motor
vehicle records and information relating to motor vehicle accident
reports; providing penalties.
HB 1585 Gallego / Hinojosa / Haggerty / Menendez
SP: Staples
Relating to the completion of a sentence in a felony after
revocation of parole, mandatory supervision, or conditional pardon.
HB 1617 Allen
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the expansion of prison industries programs.
HB 1776 Green / Dutton / et al.
SP: Nelson
Relating to the establishment of Celebrate Freedom Week in public
schools.
HB 1806 Menendez / Moreno, Joe E. / Martinez Fischer / Haggerty /
Villarreal, Mike / et al.
SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the issuance of certain alcoholic beverage licenses and
permits.
HB 1886 Coleman
SP: Lindsay
Relating to municipal hotel occupancy taxes.
HB 1890 Lewis, Glenn
SP: Harris
Relating to control of contracts and funds of a commissary for the
county jail of certain counties.
HB 1981 Farabee
SP: Lindsay
Relating to competitive purchasing procedures applying to certain
purchases and contracts of governmental entities.
HB 2004 Maxey
SP: Carona
Relating to the medication a patient receives after being
furloughed or discharged from inpatient mental health services.
HB 2102 Eiland / Seaman
SP: Sibley
Relating to the determination of premium rates for certain lines of
insurance.
HB 2109 Farrar
SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to exempting certain higher education students from the
TASP test based on the student's high school grade point average in
college preparatory courses.
HB 2111 Gallego
SP: Duncan
Relating to the Office of Court Administration of the Texas
Judicial System, the Judicial Committee on Information Technology,
and the Texas Judicial Council.
HB 2127 Craddick
SP: Bivins
Relating to unfair discrimination by the issuer of a health benefit
plan; providing penalties.
HB 2159 Thompson / Moreno, Joe E. / et al.
SP: Carona
Relating to premium rates and minimum reserves for credit life and
accident and health insurance.
HB 2191 Averitt
SP: Fraser
Relating to availability of health benefit plan coverage under the
Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool.
HB 2204 Gutierrez / Maxey / Kitchen / Villarreal, Mike
SP: Moncrief
Relating to the construction of facilities and trails for bicycles,
electric bicycles, and pedestrians and to the safe operation of
bicycles and electric bicycles.
HB 2218 Rangel
SP: Staples
Relating to the amount of the international education fee charged
at certain institutions of higher education.
HB 2243 Bosse
SP: Gallegos
Relating to the Vehicle Storage Facility Act.
HB 2250 Smith / Homer / Hill / Dunnam / Kitchen / et al.
SP: Moncrief
Relating to certain criminal consequences of certain previous
intoxication convictions.
HB 2262 Danburg / et al.
SP: Madla
Relating to the requirements for membership on the Texas Optometry
Board.
HB 2277 Carter
SP: Fraser
Relating to contracts by certain educational institutions, state
agencies, and local governments for energy conservation measures.
HB 2295 Woolley / Danburg / Nixon, Joe
SP: Gallegos
Relating to the powers of Harris County Improvement District No. 1;
authorizing the imposition of taxes.
HB 2310 Chisum / Swinford / Walker / Bosse / Cook
SP: Zaffirini
Relating to the continuation and functions of the State Soil and
Water Conservation Board and to the election of directors of local
soil and water conservation districts.
HB 2313 Bosse
SP: Gallegos
Relating to the disposing of abandoned motor vehicles.
HB 2323 Gallego
SP: Shapleigh
Relating to repayment assistance for certain law school loans of
persons providing legal services to the indigent.
HB 2337 Goolsby
SP: Shapiro
Relating to the practice of landscape architecture.
HB 2351 Hinojosa / Thompson
SP: Van de Putte
Relating to requiring the corroboration of certain testimony in a
criminal case involving controlled substances.
HB 2368 George
SP: Shapiro
Relating to the fees assessed by a district court in Dallas County
for certain services rendered in juvenile or family law cases.
HB 2378 Kuempel
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the cigarette tax and providing a penalty.
HB 2379 Junell
SP: Duncan
Relating to the authority of certain development corporations to
undertake water supply or conservation projects.
HB 2383 Allen
SP: Madla
Relating to certain grounds for the denial of an application for,
the refusal to renew, and the suspension of a license as a licensed
chemical dependency counselor and for the restriction of a
counselor intern.
HB 2397 Chavez
SP: Zaffirini
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 2403 Lewis, Ron
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to reporting requirements regarding certain
clothes-washing machines.
HB 2421 Hawley / et al.
SP: Madla
Relating to establishing a program to recruit rural medical
students for service in rural communities.
HB 2436 Merritt
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to a requirement that the Bureau of Economic Geology of
The University of Texas at Austin conduct a study of the East Texas
Oil Field.
HB 2439 Goolsby
SP: Cain
Relating to uses of balances in the inaugural fund.
HB 2453 Berman
SP: Shapleigh
Relating to conditions for issuance of certain revenue bonds by the
Veterans' Land Board.
HB 2484 Wilson
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation of racing.
HB 2498 Haggerty / Oliveira / Gallego / Solis, Jim / Raymond / et al.
SP: Lucio
Relating to certain cross-border health care plans offered by
health maintenance organizations.
HB 2509 Danburg
SP: Shapiro
Relating to certain election processes and procedures.
HB 2510 Chavez / Jones, Delwin / Moreno, Paul / Haggerty / Najera /
et al.
SP: Duncan
Relating to the establishment of diabetes research and screening
programs at certain institutions of higher education.
HB 2522 Wilson
SP: Armbrister
Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Transportation to
establish and maintain a state airport in Central Texas.
HB 2531 Junell / Coleman
SP: Bivins
Relating to tuition and fees charged at public institutions of
higher education.
HB 2544 Naishtat
SP: Barrientos
Relating to the acquisition and disposition of land or another real
property interest by a political subdivision.
HB 2557 Jones, Elizabeth
SP: Wentworth
Relating to the payment of certain judgments.
HB 2571 McReynolds
SP: Staples
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 2575 Goolsby
SP: Shapiro
Relating to the total amount of student services fees that may be
charged at certain institutions of higher education.
HB 2585 Chavez / Lewis, Glenn / Bonnen / Pitts
SP: Shapleigh
Relating to motorcycle operator and passenger safety.
HB 2600 Brimer / Junell / Janek / Eiland / Dukes / et al.
SP: Duncan
Relating to the provision of workers' compensation benefits and to
the operation of the workers' compensation insurance system;
providing penalties.
HB 2601 Coleman
SP: Gallegos
Relating to the ad valorem taxation of certain possessory interests
in certain municipal property open to the public.
HB 2602 Coleman
SP: Moncrief
Relating to indigent health care.
HB 2676 Truitt
SP: Madla
Relating to the establishment of a domestic violence fatality
review team in certain counties.
HB 2691 Madden / Danburg
SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to procedures for the electronic transfer of voter
registration applications by certain voter registration agencies.
HB 2700 Chavez / Puente / Wohlgemuth / Solis, Jim / Chisum / et al.
SP: Duncan
Relating to certain services provided through telemedicine.
HB 2729 Gray / Homer / et al.
SP: Moncrief
Relating to allowing the donation of certain unused prescription
drugs to charitable medical clinics.
HB 2766 Delisi
SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to repayment assistance for certain education loans owed
by certain state attorneys.
HB 2778 Farabee
SP: Madla
Relating to the membership of the interagency work group on
unfunded mandates on political subdivisions.
HB 2787 Geren
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to requiring students of institutions of higher education
to obtain a vehicle emissions inspection for certain vehicles and
to notifying certain students of state vehicle registration and
inspection requirements.
HB 2794 Eiland
SP: Jackson
Relating to the placement of dredged material on beaches adjacent
to navigation inlets and channels.
HB 2804 Kolkhorst
SP: Ogden
Relating to certain instruments recorded to create liens on
property or to show satisfaction of a judgment.
HB 2810 Wolens
SP: Cain
Relating to the application of statutes that classify political
subdivisions according to population.
HB 2845 Danburg
SP: Cain
Relating to the creation of an initiative to promote the
commercialization of fuel cell technologies, including tax
exemptions and reductions for certain corporations.
HB 2847 Averitt
SP: Sibley
Relating to the authority of the Brazos River Authority to
discover, develop, produce, and use groundwater in the Brazos River
Basin and environs.
HB 2855 Kuempel
SP: Wentworth
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, taxing authority, and
financing of the Southeast Trinity Groundwater Conservation
District.
HB 2870 Ramsay
SP: Staples
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 2877 Goolsby
SP: Cain
Relating to the operations, powers, and duties of the State
Preservation Board.
HB 2932 Lewis, Glenn
SP: Carona
Relating to a discount on the premium surcharge for a motor vehicle
equipped with a breath alcohol detection device.
HB 3006 Uresti
SP: Madla
Relating to composition of the board of directors of a tax
increment reinvestment zone.
HB 3016 Haggerty
SP: Shapiro
Relating to the use of certain electronically readable information
to comply with certain provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Code.
HB 3037 Walker
SP: Staples
Relating to the regulation of spacing and production of wells by a
groundwater conservation district.
HB 3068 Chisum
SP: Bivins
Relating to the appointment of a county auditor in certain
counties.
HB 3069 Chisum
SP: Duncan
Relating to the maintenance of certain cemeteries.
HB 3076 Smithee
SP: Bivins
Relating to the designation of certain state highways.
HB 3088 Turner, Sylvester
SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the creation and re-creation of funds and accounts in
the state treasury, the dedication and rededication of revenue,
and the exemption of unappropriated money from use for general
governmental purposes.
HB 3136 Hilbert
SP: Jackson
Relating to the statute of limitations for persons seeking damages
from injury or loss caused by an error in a survey.
HB 3152 Capelo
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to due process for physicians, dentists, and podiatrists
in hospitals.
HB 3172 Thompson / Menendez
SP: Van de Putte
Relating to the authority of a county to establish public
improvement districts.
HB 3181 Danburg / Madden
SP: Shapiro
Relating to information concerning registered voters.
HB 3194 Howard
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Levee Improvement
District Number 16 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.
HB 3195 Howard
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Fort Bend County Municipal Utility
District Number 134 and to the authorization of bonds and the levy
of taxes; providing civil penalties.
HB 3209 Uher
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to a provisional commercial gulf shrimp boat license.
HB 3243 Gallego
SP: Madla
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 3244 Gallego
SP: Duncan
Relating to authorizing the Texas Department of Health to
temporarily transfer money appropriated for the purpose of a
tobacco endowment program administered by the department to use for
another tobacco endowment program administered by the department.
HB 3305 Martinez Fischer
SP: Van de Putte
Relating to changing the deadlines and authority for ordering the
election and filing for candidacy in political subdivision
elections.
HB 3312 Dunnam
SP: Moncrief
Relating to establishing a pilot program for state emergency
medical dispatch resource centers.
HB 3315 Ramsay
SP: Bernsen
Relating to county regulation of outdoor burning.
HB 3323 Solomons / Denny / Crownover, Myra
SP: Nelson
Relating to the creation, organization, and powers of a coordinated
county transportation authority; authorizing the imposition of a
tax, the issuance of bonds and notes, and the exercise of the power
of eminent domain.
HB 3329 Averitt
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to tax-exempt private activity bonds.
HB 3348 Counts
SP: Haywood
Relating to the Texas Energy Resource Council; authorizing the
imposition of an assessment on producers of oil, gas, and
condensate.
HB 3383 Davis, Yvonne
SP: Lucio
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation for certain
community housing development organizations.
HB 3404 King, Tracy
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the classification of the use of water for purposes of
fees and regulations imposed by the Edwards Aquifer Authority.
HB 3441 Gallego
SP: Madla
Relating to special license plates for certain government
officials.
HB 3451 Gallego / Carter / Martinez Fischer / McCall / Ehrhardt
SP: Lucio
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas State
Affordable Housing Corporation.
HB 3458 Brimer
SP: Duncan
Relating to the operation of the Texas Workers' Compensation
Insurance Fund as a domestic mutual insurance company and to the
continuation of that entity as the Texas Mutual Insurance Company.
HB 3544 Hilderbran
SP: Wentworth
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 3578 Villarreal, Mike
SP: Shapleigh
Relating to the use of certain child care development funds for
quality child care programs.
HB 3586 Hartnett
SP: West, Royce
Relating to an additional fee for filing civil cases in certain
Dallas County courts.
HB 3587 Walker
SP: Barrientos
Relating to the exemption from permitting requirements for certain
wells in a groundwater conservation district.
HB 3591 Hunter
SP: Bivins
Relating to including certain libraries of nonprofit corporations
in the TexShare consortium and authorizing grants from the
telecommunications infrastructure fund to those libraries.
HB 3600 Capelo
SP: Cain
Relating to the confidentiality of records regarding the compliance
monitoring of physicians by the Texas State Board of Medical
Examiners.
HB 3639 Danburg / Woolley
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the expansion of the boundaries and the number of
members of the board of the Upper Kirby Management District.
HB 3647 Glaze
SP: Cain
Relating to the creation of the Smith County Economic Development
District; providing the authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
HB 3651 Morrison
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Goliad County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3652 Morrison
SP: Armbrister
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Lavaca County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3655 Kolkhorst / Williams / Ellis, Dan
SP: Ogden
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Bluebonnet Groundwater Conservation
District.
HB 3665 Miller
SP: Sibley
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Middle Trinity Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3673 Swinford / Miller
SP: Bivins
Relating to feeding certain garbage to swine; providing a criminal
penalty.
HB 3675 Bonnen
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Brazoria County Groundwater
Conservation District.
HB 3692 Coleman
SP: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to the creation of the Greater Southeast Management
District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
HB 3696 Hinojosa
SP: Lucio
Relating to the creation of the County Court at Law No. 5 of
Hidalgo County and the County Criminal Court at Law of Hidalgo
County, to redesignating the County Court at Law No. 3 of Hidalgo
County as the Probate Court of Hidalgo County, and to the
jurisdiction of the statutory county courts in Hidalgo County.
HB 3699 Ritter / Deshotel
SP: Bernsen
Relating to the allocation of certain funds for institutions within
the Texas State University System.
HJR 5 Solomons
SP: Shapleigh
Proposing a constitutional amendment prescribing requirements for
imposing a lien for work and material used in the construction,
repair, or renovation of improvements on residential homestead
property and including the conversion and refinance of a personal
property lien secured by a manufactured home to a lien on real
property as a debt on homestead property protected from a forced
sale.
HJR 81 Counts
SP: Brown, J. E. "Buster"
Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the issuance of
additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development
Board.
HJR 82 Counts / et al.
SP: Truan
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Veterans' Land
Board to issue additional general obligation bonds and to use
certain assets in certain funds to provide for veterans cemeteries.
HJR 85 Bosse
SP: Lindsay
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow current and retired
public school teachers and retired public school administrators to
receive compensation for serving on the governing bodies of school
districts, cities, towns, or other local government districts.