SENATE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE: Natural Resources
TIME & DATE: 1:35PM Or upon adjournment
Thursday, May 19, 2005
PLACE: E1.012
CHAIR: Senator Kenneth Armbrister
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CONSIDERATION OF THE FOLLOWING:
HB 505 Hilderbran / et al. SP: Madla
Relating to the discharge of a firearm across a property line;
providing a penalty.
HB 506 Hilderbran SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to hunting on or over certain submerged land; providing a
penalty.
HB 580 Smith, Wayne SP: Gallegos
Relating to the authority of a county to provide hazardous
materials services.
HB 632 Smith, Wayne SP: Gallegos
Relating to the historical advisory board of the San Jacinto
Battleground.
HB 1053 Hope SP: Staples
Relating to the location of certain municipal solid waste
landfills.
HB 1207 Haggerty SP: Lindsay
Relating to the deadline for filing a petition to exclude land from
a water district with outstanding bonds for failure to provide
sufficient services.
HB 1462 Flores SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the referral by the Texas Water Development Board of
certain persons to another state agency, office, or division for
investigation or enforcement action.
HB 1636 Allen, Ray SP: Armbrister
Relating to residency in relation to a license or permit or certain
hunting and catching restrictions of the Parks and Wildlife
Department; providing a penalty.
HB 1733 Swinford SP: Armbrister
Relating to prohibiting disclosure of certain records or reports by
the Texas Feed and Fertilizer Control Service.
HB 1740 Seaman SP: Armbrister
Relating to authorizing the City of Aransas Pass to acquire certain
state property.
HB 1767 Cook, Robby SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation of veterinary medicine.
HB 2026 Hilderbran SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to the recovery of certain enforcement-related costs, the
operation of certain accounts in the Parks and Wildlife Department,
the penalties for certain criminal offenses involving certain
animals, and the taking and possession of certain wildlife or eggs,
including requirements related to taxidermy and tanning and to
harmful aquatic plants; imposing penalties.
HB 2201 Hughes SP: Estes
Relating to implementing a clean coal project in this state.
HB 2301 Turner SP: Ellis
Relating to proceedings involving the change of rates of a water
and sewer utility.
HB 2370 McReynolds SP: Staples
Relating to the regulation of poultry facilities.
HB 2376 Elkins SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to the environmental regulation and remediation of dry
cleaning facilities; imposing a penalty.
HB 2639 Geren SP: Brimer
Relating to the powers and duties of the Tarrant Regional Water
District.
HB 2793 Bonnen SP: Jackson, Mike
Relating to the removal and collection of convenience switches from
motor vehicles; providing penalties.
HB 2901 Hilderbran SP: Armbrister
Relating to a deer breeder's permit.
HB 2984 West, George "Buddy" SP: Armbrister
Relating to the composition of and use of money in the oil-field
cleanup fund.
HB 3024 Cook, Byron SP: Brimer
Relating to the sale of fish collected from certain private
property.
HB 3029 Strama SP: Barrientos
Relating to eligibility of certain rural areas for certain state
assistance.
HB 3181 Turner SP: Lindsay
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.
HB 3386 Talton SP: Armbrister
Relating to the possession or shooting of a handgun on the land of
the Lower Colorado River Authority by a person licensed to carry a
concealed handgun.
HB 3469 Hochberg SP: Barrientos
Relating to the establishment of a program to provide grants to be
used to reduce emissions of diesel exhaust from school buses and to
the use of the Texas emissions reduction plan to fund the program.
HB 3478 Corte SP: Wentworth
Relating to the exemption of certain municipalities, utilities, and
consumers from fees or taxes imposed by the Trinity Glen Rose
Groundwater Conservation District.
HB 3513 Luna SP: Hinojosa
Relating to the creation of the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and
Recovery Conservation District.
HB 3527 Haggerty SP: Shapleigh
Relating to the ability of certain water supply or sewer service
corporations to dissolve and transfer assets to a municipality.
HCR 132 Luna SP: Hinojosa
Granting the John G. and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation
permission to sue the state, the General Land Office, the School
Land Board, and Jerry Patterson.
PENDING BUSINESS:
HB 2161 West, George "Buddy" SP: Seliger
Relating to the power of the Railroad Commission of Texas to adopt
and enforce safety standards and practices applicable to the
transportation by pipeline of certain substances and to certain
pipeline facilities; imposing an administrative penalty.
HB 2440 West, George "Buddy" SP: Armbrister
Relating to the regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas of
activities associated with multiple accumulations of hydrocarbons
from which production by commingling of hydrocarbons is authorized.
HB 2622 Phillips SP: Estes
Relating to boating safety.
HB 2876 Callegari SP: Armbrister
Relating to certificates of public convenience and necessity for
water service and sewer service.
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