SENATE BILLS RETURNED FROM HOUSE WITH AMENDMENTS

Friday

May 29, 2009

Relating to the eligibility of certain employees, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to participate in health benefit programs at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the participation of students in funding awarded under the advanced research program.

Relating to limitations on the automatic admission of undergraduate students to general academic teaching institutions.

Relating to a prohibition against certain activities by a person employed in the financial aid office of a public institution of higher education or of a career school or college.

Relating to the requirement that licensed physicians provide emergency contact information to the Texas Medical Board.

Relating to eliminating or modifying certain mandates on school districts.

Relating to the term of a reinvestment zone and to the assessment and payment of tax increments under the Tax Increment Financing Act.

Relating to the requirement that certain water service providers ensure emergency operations during an extended power outage.

Relating to an annual report by the Texas Fusion Center regarding criminal street gangs and gang-related crime.

Relating to the authority of a county or other local governmental entity to receive local sales tax information.

Relating to the recusal or disqualification of a statutory probate court judge and subsequent assignment of another judge.

Relating to disclosure of the prices charged to state agencies in connection with pharmacy benefit manager services.

Relating to the determination of the value of property for ad valorem tax purposes, including appeals through binding arbitration of appraisal review board orders determining protests of property value determinations.

Relating to the duties of the interagency obesity council and the Department of Agriculture relating to health, wellness, and prevention of obesity.

Relating to a memorandum of understanding between the Texas Education Agency and the Department of Family and Protective Services addressing exchange of information regarding students in foster care.

Relating to an exemption from the sales and use tax for machinery and equipment used in an agricultural aircraft operation.

Relating to the creation and financing of public improvement districts.

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Office of State-Federal Relations and the administrative attachment of that agency to the office of the governor.

Relating to requirements regarding employer liability for certain group health benefit plan premiums.

Relating to protocol for folding the state flag.

Relating to refunds of and credits for certain sales and use taxes paid by certain exempt organizations.

Relating to the imposition of the municipal hotel occupancy tax by certain eligible central municipalities.

Relating to certain mass transit entities.

Relating to notice to students of a public institution of higher education of the required use of a portion of a student's tuition payments to provide student financial aid.

Relating to education and examination requirements for the issuance of a driver's license to certain persons.

Relating to the formula funding for public institutions of higher education for certain credit hours that do not count toward a degree.

Relating to the appointment of attorneys ad litem.

Relating to orders and judgments rendered by associate judges in child support and child protection cases.

Relating to the appointment of a receiver to remedy hazardous properties.

Relating to the authority of the governing body of a municipality or the commissioners court of a county to enter into an ad valorem tax abatement agreement.

Relating to the delay of retail electric competition in the areas of the state covered by the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council and to the recovery of certain transmission costs by electric utilities in those areas and to the provision of power during a natural disaster or declared emergency.

Relating to the fees for certain license plates.

Relating to the persons exempted from the required prepayment of the personnel costs incurred by a governmental body in responding to requests from a requestor under the public information law that require large amounts of personnel time.

Relating to a study of the feasibility of establishing separate reimbursement under the Medicaid vendor drug program for certain pharmacy care management services.

Relating to the organization, duties, and functions of the Texas Veterans Commission.

Relating to the regulation of poultry facilities and poultry litter.

Relating to the employment and commissioning of law enforcement personnel to provide security services to certain educational institutions.

Relating to the dissemination of information regarding the cost of attending public and private institutions of higher education and regarding the availability of financial aid to assist in paying that cost.

Relating to county participation in the enterprise zone program.

Relating to revenue received from the provision of pay telephone service to inmates confined in facilities operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Relating to the grievance procedure for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities.

Relating to a study regarding a supervised reentry program for certain inmates nearing their date of discharge from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Relating to certain election practices and procedures; providing penalties.

Relating to adoption of a school district grading policy.

Relating to the interception or the collection of information from certain communications in an investigation of criminal conduct.

Relating to the issuance of state and local government securities, including the powers and duties of the Bond Review Board and the issuance of private activity bonds.

Relating to the establishment of a strategy for reducing child abuse and neglect and improving child welfare.

Relating to the creation of and the powers of a comprehensive multimodal urban transportation authority, including the power to impose taxes, issue bonds, and exercise limited eminent domain authority.

Relating to the authority of certain municipalities and counties to regulate platting requirements near an international border.

Relating to the authority of a school district to impose ad valorem taxes.

Relating to the classification of certain types of marital property in regards to claims for payment of a criminal restitution judgment.

Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain charitable organizations.

Relating to the East Montgomery County Improvement District.

Relating to the enforcement of rules by the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District and the Fort Bend Subsidence District; providing penalties.

Relating to jurisdiction of the county courts at law in Hunt County and the composition and operation of the Hunt County Juvenile Board.