STATUS OF BILLS IN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE |
Monday June 1, 2009 |
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Relating to promoting awareness and education about the purchase and availability of health coverage. |
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Relating to resident tuition rates and fees at public institutions of higher education for certain veterans and servicemembers and their spouses and children. |
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Relating to the term of a reinvestment zone and to the assessment and payment of tax increments under the Tax Increment Financing Act. |
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Relating to the duties of the Texas Fusion Center, including an annual report by the center regarding criminal street gangs. |
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Relating to jurisdiction, venue, and appeals in certain matters, including the jurisdiction of and appeals from certain courts and administrative decisions and the appointment of counsel in certain appeals. |
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Relating to notice required before and period to vacate after foreclosure sale of real property. |
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Relating to the emergency installation and use of a device to intercept wire, oral, or electronic communications. |
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Relating to energy efficiency goals and programs and demand reduction targets; creating an office of energy efficiency deployment in the state energy conservation office. |
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Relating to the imposition of the franchise tax and local sales and use taxes, including the authority of a county or other local governmental entity to receive local sales tax information. |
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Relating to the installation, maintenance, or operation of natural gas pipelines on state highways and highway and county road rights-of-way. |
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Relating to the creation of the Harrison County and Prairielands Groundwater Conservation Districts; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds and granting a limited power of eminent domain. |
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Relating to interactive water features and fountains. |
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Relating to the continuation and operation of the office of public insurance counsel. |
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Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Commission on Fire Protection. |
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Relating to the appointment of a receiver to remedy hazardous properties. |
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Relating to the taxation of motor fuels; providing penalties. |
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Relating to examinations by the consumer credit commissioner with regard to the regulation of property tax lenders and certain other lenders and debt management counselors. |
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Relating to the distribution of a prescription drug and a study of the feasibility of establishing separate reimbursement under the Medicaid vendor drug program for certain pharmacy care management services. |
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Relating to the regulation of the discharge of firearms and certain other weapons by certain municipalities. |
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Relating to the extended registration of a commercial fleet of motor vehicles. |
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Relating to county participation in the enterprise zone program. |
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Relating to certain election practices and procedures; providing penalties. |
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Relating to treating and reducing child abuse and neglect and improving child welfare, including providing assistance for adoptive parents and foster care providers. |
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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. |
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Relating to the adoption of rules by the Texas Water Development Board regarding supplemental funding resulting from federal economic recovery legislation. |
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Relating to the Bexar Metropolitan Water District. |
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Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of property owned by certain charitable organizations. |
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Proposing constitutional amendments limiting the public taking of private property, establishing the national research university fund to fund emerging research universities, and eliminating the higher education fund. |
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Relating to public school accountability, curriculum, and promotion requirements. |
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Relating to measures to enhance and maintain the quality of state universities, including funding and incentives to support emerging public research universities, to the abolition of the higher education fund, to the institutional groupings under the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's accountability system, to the independent status of Lamar Institute of Technology, to research conducted by public universities and other state entities, and to the authorization of revenue bonds for certain institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to health benefit plans for students at institutions of higher education and the operation of certain health benefit plans through student health centers at certain institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to consideration of mitigating factors in determining appropriate disciplinary action to be taken against a public school student. |
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Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Department of Transportation, including the transfer of certain functions to the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation; providing penalties. |
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Relating to design, construction, and renovation standards for state buildings and facilities. |
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Relating to the acquisition by state agencies of low-emissions vehicles and vehicles using alternative fuels. |
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Relating to county abatement and regulation of nuisances. |
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Relating to the establishment of incentives by this state for the implementation of certain projects to capture and sequester carbon dioxide that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere. |
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Relating to the establishment of an advisory panel to assist with a study regarding the prevention of wrongful convictions. |
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Relating to the authority of the Texas Education Agency to seek, accept, determine eligibility for, and distribute grants available for the benefit of public education and the establishment of professional development institutes and payment of grants to teachers who complete those institutes. |
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Relating to motor vehicle inspection stations that perform emissions inspections using only the onboard diagnostic system of inspected vehicles. |
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Relating to the making or acceptance of political contributions in certain office buildings owned by or leased to the state. |
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Relating to ad valorem tax relief for an owner of certain property, including a residence homestead that is rendered uninhabitable or unusable by a casualty or by wind or water damage, and to a restriction on the authority to bring an action to remove a house that is partially located on a public beach as a result of a meteorological event. |
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Relating to inclusion of pets and other companion animals in protective orders; providing a penalty. |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain applicants for occupational licenses. |
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Relating to competitive procurement requirements for local governments. |
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Relating to local regulation of distance requirements for the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages near certain establishments. |
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Relating to programs to exchange certain health information between the Health and Human Services Commission and certain health care entities and facilities. |
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Relating to creating an offense for engaging in certain conduct relating to cockfighting and to the criminal and civil consequences of committing that offense. |
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Relating to the establishment of an online resource for teachers of students with special health needs. |
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Relating to blind and disabled pedestrians and failure of the operator of a motor vehicle to yield the right-of-way. |
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Relating to newborn screening and the creation of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. |
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Relating to the development of carbon dioxide capture and sequestration in this state. |
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Relating to disaster preparedness and emergency management and to certain vehicles used in emergencies; providing a penalty. |
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Relating to the performance of pharmacy services in certain rural areas. |
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Relating to the establishment of certain programs to support adult and postsecondary education and workforce development in high-demand occupations and green jobs. |
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Relating to the governmental entities subject to the sunset review process. |
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Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain amino acid-based elemental formulas. |
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Relating to the creation of the offense of online harassment. |
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Relating to the criminal consequences of operating without a valid driver's license a motor vehicle for which financial responsibility is not established. |
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Relating to persons certified as peace officers. |
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Relating to the establishment, operation, and funding of victim-offender mediation programs. |
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Relating to a study regarding the provision of certain medications through the Medicaid vendor drug program to children younger than 16 years of age. |
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Relating to the establishment of additional job incentive programs by the Texas Workforce Commission using the skills development fund. |
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Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain peace officers enrolled in criminal justice or law enforcement course work and for certain educational aides. |
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Relating to financial assistance by the Texas Water Development Board for the connection of residences in economically distressed areas to public water supply and sanitary sewer systems. |
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Relating to a preference in state purchasing for certain media-related services offered by businesses based in Texas. |
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Relating to a reporting requirement regarding the Texas emerging technology fund. |
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Relating to the registration and operation of certain motor vehicles. |
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Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of certain property acquired to provide low-income housing or used for charitable purposes. |
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Relating to the authority of municipalities to alter speed limits. |
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Relating to independent audits of insurer financial statements and insurer internal controls. |
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Relating to self-directed and semi-independent status of state financial regulatory agencies and the licensing and regulation of certain persons involved in residential mortgage lending; making an appropriation; providing a penalty. |
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Relating to license plates created by the Texas Department of Transportation for professional firefighters. |
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Relating to financial assistance administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs. |
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Relating to the regulation of property tax lenders and the confidentiality of certain information obtained or compiled by the consumer credit commissioner on examination of property tax lenders and certain other license holders or registrants. |
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Relating to the regulation of land use and the creation of regional military sustainability commissions to ensure compatible development with military installations in certain areas. |
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Relating to a parenting and paternity awareness program used in the health curriculum for public schools. |
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Relating to the applicability of certain laws to open-enrollment charter schools. |
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Relating to required notification before automatic premium payments may be increased. |
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Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of arson. |
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Relating to the amendment of restrictions affecting real property in certain subdivisions. |
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Relating to the creation and powers of certain groundwater and surface water districts. |
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Relating to plan qualification provisions for and certain supplemental payments and health insurance deductions under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. |
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Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education; providing civil and administrative penalties. |
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Relating to the establishment of the Texas Armed Services Scholarship. |
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Relating to the determination of the value of property for ad valorem tax purposes, including appeals of appraisal review board orders determining protests of property value determinations, and the use of certain values by school districts in adopting tax rates. |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the School Land Board and the commissioner of the General Land Office. |
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Relating to filing of instruments conveying real property in certain counties and redemption of property after the foreclosure of certain assessment liens. |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Water Development Board and related entities, including the funding of projects by the board and the composition, duties, recommendations, and expenses of entities created to study and provide advice regarding environmental flows. |
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Relating to the creation of a pilot program that allows taxpayer appeals from certain appraisal review board determinations in certain counties to be heard by the State Office of Administrative Hearings. |
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Relating to certain charges included in a motor vehicle installment agreement. |
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Relating to public school finance and programs. |
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Relating to the use of restraints to control the movement of pregnant women and female children confined in certain correctional facilities in this state. |
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Relating to the Texas Economic Development Act. |
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Relating to the functions and continuation of the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and to the functions of the Office of Independent Ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission. |
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Relating to the delivery of regulated substances into underground storage tanks; providing a penalty. |
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Relating to the qualifications to be a veterans county service officer. |
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Relating to certain enforcement actions alleging the failure to pay child support. |
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Relating to the court-ordered administration of psychoactive medication to certain criminal defendants and to the release of those defendants from certain facilities. |
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Relating to the imposition of property taxes on the residential homesteads of low-income and moderate-income persons. |
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Relating to the provision of services to certain persons involved in, and the prosecution, punishment, and prevention of, offenses involving trafficking of persons or certain forced or sex-based labor or services, and to law enforcement training related to offenses involving that trafficking. |
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Relating to the disaster contingency fund and relief for school districts located in a disaster area. |
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Relating to certain competitive scholarship recipients at public institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to emergency preparation and management. |
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Relating to operations fees and child support service fees assessed by domestic relations offices. |
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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. |
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Relating to the creation of the Goodwater Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose taxes and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain. |
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Relating to the creation of district courts and statutory county courts and to the composition of juvenile boards in certain counties. |
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