BILLS REFERRED TODAY
2005-05-13
HB 49 Smith, Todd
Relating to the punishment prescribed for certain repeat
intoxication offenders.
Criminal Justice
HB 85 Riddle
Relating to the release on bond of certain criminal defendants.
Criminal Justice
HB 209 Goodman
Relating to challenging an acknowledgment of paternity executed by
a minor.
Jurisprudence
HB 260 Goodman
Relating to suits affecting the parent-child relationship and
protective orders.
Jurisprudence
HB 270 Farrar/ Leibowitz
Relating to court-ordered access to a child by the child's sibling.
Jurisprudence
HB 401 Villarreal
Relating to the use of volunteer income tax assistance programs by
persons who owe delinquent child support.
Jurisprudence
HB 625 Olivo/ Grusendorf/ Leibowitz
Relating to the discipline of public school students who
voluntarily surrender prohibited items.
Education
HB 661 Branch/ Flynn/ Bonnen/ Kolkhorst/ Rodriguez/ et al.
Relating to allowing designated public school libraries to
participate in group purchasing agreements with the TexShare
Library Consortium.
Government Organization
HB 726 Berman
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property
owned by certain law enforcement officer associations.
Finance
HB 843 Truitt/ Riddle
Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate the
construction of certain communication facilities in certain
circumstances; providing a penalty.
Business & Commerce
HB 955 Solomons
Relating to the regulation of financial businesses and practices;
providing civil penalties.
Business & Commerce
HB 972 Solomons/ Hamric/ Truitt/ Dunnam
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Board of
Chiropractic Examiners; providing a criminal penalty.
Government Organization
HB 984 Reyna/ Guillen/ McReynolds/ Chavez/ Hochberg/
et al.
Relating to the care of elementary and secondary school students
with diabetes.
Health & Human Services
HB 988 Chisum
Relating to the county in which a seller of a motor vehicle may
file an application for registration and certificate of title.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 1047 Chisum
Relating to the offense of failing to certify compliance of an
underground storage tank before accepting delivery of the regulated
substance to be stored in the tank.
Natural Resources
HB 1068 Driver
Relating to the collection and analysis of evidence and testimony
based on forensic analysis, crime laboratory accreditation, DNA
testing, and the creation and maintenance of DNA records; providing
a penalty.
Criminal Justice
HB 1074 Brown, Betty
Relating to the punishment for the offense of obscenity.
Criminal Justice
HB 1120 Nixon
Relating to certain requirements relating to an application for a
marriage license and an affidavit of an absent applicant for a
marriage license and to the maintenance of marriage and divorce
indexes by the bureau of vital statistics; providing penalties.
Criminal Justice
HB 1132 Haggerty
Relating to the regulation of and rights of private security
personnel.
Business & Commerce
HB 1238 Paxton/ Hughes/ Laubenberg
Relating to distribution of certain child support payments by the
state disbursement unit.
Jurisprudence
HB 1268 Bohac
Relating to the information included on a voter registration
application.
State Affairs
HB 1317 Driver/ Laubenberg/ Raymond/ et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of certain electricians.
Business & Commerce
HB 1318 Dawson
Relating to the state providing grave markers for certain members
of the state military forces.
Veteran Affairs & Military Installations
HB 1366 Allen, Ray
Relating to the regulation of nursing.
Health & Human Services
HB 1379 Jones, Jesse
Relating to the admissibility in a civil action of certain
information relating to identify theft.
State Affairs
HB 1484 Talton
Relating to the penalty for failing to perform certain duties
following a vehicle accident.
Criminal Justice
HB 1532 Rose/ Leibowitz
Relating to rates for professional liability insurance for
physicians and health care providers.
State Affairs
HB 1535 Truitt/ Solomons/ Hamric
Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Midwifery
Board.
Government Organization
HB 1547 Pickett/ Chavez/ Guillen/ Quintanilla/ Menendez
Relating to the form of the loan contract and related documents for
a consumer loan.
Business & Commerce
HB 1582 Chavez/ Leibowitz
Relating to a study of residential foreclosures in certain
counties.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 1584 Casteel/ Solomons
Relating to requiring the operator of a vehicle storage facility to
accept certain forms of payment for the delivery or storage of a
vehicle.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 1644 Callegari
Relating to the authority of a water control and improvement
district or a municipal utility district to enter into a contract
to convey property to another water district or water supply
corporation and the authority of a conservation and reclamation
district to acquire a certificate of convenience and necessity or
to acquire a facility or a right to use a facility.
Natural Resources
HB 1767 Cook, Robby
Relating to the regulation of veterinary medicine.
S/C on Agriculture & Coastal Resources
HB 1816 West, George "Buddy"
Relating to the transfer of powers and duties over railroads from
the Railroad Commission of Texas to the Texas Department of
Transportation.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 1821 Kolkhorst
Relating to the authority of a county to require waste haulers to
be licensed as a waste hauler.
Natural Resources
HB 1830 Wong
Relating to the notice provided for the establishment of municipal
management districts.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 1921 Allen, Ray/ Zedler/ Otto
Relating to the civil commitment of sexually violent predators.
Criminal Justice
HB 1940 Ritter
Relating to alternative dispute resolution of certain contract
claims against the state.
State Affairs
HB 1952 Goodman/ et al.
Relating to prohibiting a governmental body from disclosing a
person's social security number to a member of the public in
certain circumstances without the person's written consent.
State Affairs
HB 2145 Hupp/ Seaman/ Grusendorf
Relating to prohibiting changes in certain prescription drug orders
without the approval of the prescribing health care practitioner.
Health & Human Services
HB 2187 Otto/ et al.
Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of rent-to-own
property not held by the lessee primarily to produce income and to
the method to be used to depreciate taxable rent-to-own property
for tax appraisal purposes.
Finance
HB 2215 Bailey/ Elkins/ Howard/ Bohac/ Hegar
Relating to the operation of property owners' associations.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 2218 McCall
Relating to the regulation of money services businesses; providing
a penalty.
Business & Commerce
HB 2239 Luna/ et al.
Relating to homeland security training and supplemental pay for
certain law enforcement officers.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 2303 Driver
Relating to the regulation of and rights of private security
personnel.
Business & Commerce
HB 2376 Elkins
Relating to the environmental regulation and remediation of dry
cleaning facilities; imposing a penalty.
Natural Resources
HB 2390 Harper-Brown
Relating to the establishment of an employee welfare benefit plan
by certain private educational institutions.
State Affairs
HB 2463 Villarreal/ Menendez/ Flores/ Corte/ et al.
Relating to the creation of a Medicaid health literacy pilot
program and health care funding districts in certain counties and
authorizing the districts to impose taxes on certain institutional
health care providers located in the districts.
International Relations & Trade
HB 2470 Delisi
Relating to the operations of and the funding mechanisms for
emergency medical services and trauma facility care in this state.
Health & Human Services
HB 2572 Truitt/ Isett/ McReynolds/ Miller/ Coleman/ et al.
Relating to the functions of local mental health and mental
retardation authorities.
Health & Human Services
HB 2668 Dutton
Relating to the performance by a private entity of the functions of
a local child support registry or a child support enforcement
agency and to the receipt, disbursement, and monitoring of child
support payments.
Jurisprudence
HB 2696 Anchia/ Hartnett/ Jackson, Jim/ Vo/ et al.
Relating to the licensing and regulation of massage therapy and
massage establishments and certain services related to massage;
providing penalties.
Health & Human Services
HB 2747 McClendon/ Menendez/ Leibowitz/ Chavez
Relating to the administration of a retirement health care plan for
firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 2751 Hartnett
Relating to providing notice of the anticipated fiscal impact of
municipal charter amendments.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 2801 Smith, Todd
Relating to audits of state agency expenditures to recover
overpayments and lost discounts.
Finance
HB 2819 Rose/ Leibowitz
Relating to access to state electronic and information resources by
individuals with disabilities.
Government Organization
HB 2833 Cook, Robby/ Cook, Byron/ et al.
Relating to the protection of private real property from regulatory
takings.
Natural Resources
HB 2837 Allen, Ray
Relating to the state's activities regarding education, vocational
training, and reintegration of offenders.
Criminal Justice
HB 2839 Allen, Ray
Relating to the participation of state inmates in the production of
certain goods and the provision of certain services.
Criminal Justice
HB 2868 Frost/ Rose/ Martinez Fischer/ Van Arsdale/ et al.
Relating to civil liability for provision of alcohol to a minor.
State Affairs
HB 2879 Keffer, Bill
Relating to requirements for certain amusement rides.
Business & Commerce
HB 2894 Phillips
Relating to the marketing and sale of certain license plates by a
private vendor.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 2905 Haggerty
Relating to the installation of water conservation systems in Texas
Department of Criminal Justice facilities.
Criminal Justice
HB 2932 Delisi/ Rodriguez/ Isett
Relating to requiring state agency purchasing personnel to disclose
certain family relationships with business entities receiving
certain state agency contracts.
Government Organization
HB 3029 Strama
Relating to eligibility of certain rural areas for certain state
assistance.
Natural Resources
HB 3057 Howard
Relating to the number of hours worked by a part-time fire
protection employee.
Intergovernmental Relations
HB 3093 Pena
Relating to ex parte petitions for the expunction of criminal
records and files.
Criminal Justice
HB 3125 Eiland
Relating to a retired employee's eligibility for participation in
the optional retirement program and the regulation of investment
advisors in that program.
State Affairs
HB 3149 Wong
Relating to inactive status for cosmetology certificate or license
holders.
Business & Commerce
HB 3181 Turner
Relating to the creation of the Central Harris County Regional
Water Authority; providing authority to issue bonds or notes;
granting the power of eminent domain; providing an administrative
penalty.
Natural Resources
HB 3253 Ritter
Relating to the use of certain electronically readable information
on a driver's license or identification certificate to comply with
certain alcohol and tobacco related laws; providing a penalty.
Transportation & Homeland Security
HB 3297 Bohac
Relating to the inclusion of certain public school accountability
information in a student's grade report card and on a school
district's Internet website.
Education
HB 3335 Hartnett
Relating to the report, delivery, and claims process concerning
certain unclaimed property.
State Affairs
HB 3376 Taylor
Relating to the prosecution and punishment of certain criminal
offenses involving theft and fraud and to the provision of notice
of the commission of those offenses to certain licensing entities.
Criminal Justice
HJR 32 Berman
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
permit the governing body of a political subdivision to exempt from
ad valorem taxation property owned by certain law enforcement
officer associations.
Finance
HJR 79 Krusee
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to
provide for a six-year term for a board member of a regional
mobility authority.
Transportation & Homeland Security