SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Tuesday

March 17, 2009

The Senate read second time and passed to engrossment:

Relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification.

2 Floor Amendments

The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass:

Relating to school district requirements regarding parental notification and documentation in connection with disciplinary alternative education programs.

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their dependents.

Relating to the extension of consumer credit to certain members of the Texas National Guard and armed forces of the United States and their dependents; providing a penalty.

The Senate suspended the regular order, read second time and passed to engrossment:

Relating to adoption of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

1 Floor Amendment

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Commending Dr. Joseph S. Galati.

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Texas Legislative Council.

Recognizing Arturo E. Guerra, Jr., for his contributions to the justice system in Texas.

Declaring March 10, 2009, Brazoria County Day at the State Capitol.

Committee referral on the following:

Relating to the exclusion of certain commercial lease revenue in determining a taxable entity's total revenue for purposes of the revised franchise tax.

Finance

Relating to certain powers of the Red River Redevelopment Authority.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, and operation of the Riverbend Water Resources District; providing authority to issue bonds and exercise the power of eminent domain.

Natural Resources

Relating to a waiver of the fee imposed for certain expunctions.

Criminal Justice

Relating to faculty temporary licenses to practice medicine.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the authority of certain counties to regulate the location of wind energy electric generating facilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the location of wind energy electric generating facilities.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the jurisdiction of the State Office of Administrative Hearings in contested case hearings involving certain contract claims against the state.

State Affairs

Relating to creating an advisory committee on child protective services in the region that includes Bexar County for the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the establishment of the Legislative Committee on Aging.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a requirement that a school district develop and adopt a site selection policy before selecting a site for construction of a new school; providing a penalty.

Education

Relating to increasing public awareness of the benefits of native plant species.

Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the use of certain money received by the Texas Department of Transportation from certain transportation projects or systems.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the allocation of the distribution of surplus revenue of a toll project or system.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the issuance and use of temporary tags on vehicles.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to admonishments given to a person charged with a misdemeanor.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of certain juvenile probation officers to carry firearms.

Criminal Justice

Relating to a study regarding the Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer.

Natural Resources

Relating to discount programs for certain veterans provided by toll project entities.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to the temporary occupational licensing of members of the military and their spouses.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to the creation of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 10; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Natural Resources

Relating to the area near a polling place within which electioneering and loitering are prohibited.

State Affairs

Relating to the regulation of heir finders by the Texas Private Security Board.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the regulation of investigations companies and the performance of investigative services.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of the business of private security.

Business & Commerce

Relating to fees for certain licenses issued by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

Natural Resources

Relating to the definition of eligible central municipality for purposes of the municipal hotel occupancy tax.

Economic Development

Relating to the reimbursement rate for certain ambulance services provided under the medical assistance program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of a pilot program to improve curricula alignment between junior colleges and general academic teaching institutions for engineering degree programs.

Higher Education

Relating to the administration of certain programs to assist certain foster children in obtaining postsecondary education and training.

Health & Human Services

Relating to information submitted to, maintained in, and released from the immunization registry.

Health & Human Services

Relating to improving application and eligibility determination processes and efficiencies for certain benefits programs.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the repeal of the power of certain districts and water supply corporations to allow the use of right-of-way easements for certain energy-related purposes.

Natural Resources

Relating to limits on the purpose and power of a fresh water supply district.

Natural Resources

Relating to additional guarantees for certain bonds issued by school districts.

Education

Relating to the prosecution of and punishment prescribed for engaging in organized criminal activity in a gang-free zone.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the regulation of certain market conduct activities of certain life, accident, and health insurers and health benefit plan issuers; providing civil liability and administrative and criminal penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to identification requirements for certain fire hydrants and flush valves.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the electronic storage of records by the clerks of the supreme court and the courts of appeals.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the abolishment of the Lower Concho River Water and Soil Conservation Authority.

Natural Resources

Relating to the ineligibility for employment by a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement of persons convicted of certain offenses.

Education

Relating to a documented member of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas hunting certain deer.

Natural Resources

Relating to certain mass transit entities.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the participation of certain transportation entities in the comptroller's travel services contracts.

Government Organization

Relating to obtaining an exemption from the motor vehicle sales tax for motor vehicles driven by persons who have orthopedic handicaps.

Finance

Relating to erecting an off-premise sign adjacent to and visible from certain roads.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to transfer of certain probate matters and guardianship matters.

Jurisprudence

Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of the residence homesteads of certain totally disabled veterans and to continuing the exemption on the same property for the surviving spouse of such a veteran, and to the amount of the exemption from ad valorem taxation to which a disabled veteran is entitled based on disability rating.

Finance

Relating to setting aside for TEXAS grant funding tuition paid by students at campuses maintained by public institutions of higher education outside the United States.

Higher Education

Relating to the online availability of state agency reports required by law.

Government Organization

Relating to the requirement that an orthotist or a prosthetist be licensed as a device manufacturer if fabricating or assembling without an order from certain health care professionals.

Health & Human Services

Relating to ad valorem and sales and use tax exemptions for high-speed passenger rail facilities.

Finance

Relating to the prosecution of and punishment for the theft of certain electronic equipment and interference with certain radio frequencies.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the summoning of jurors to justice of the peace courts in certain counties.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the first day of instruction for a school year in certain school districts.

Education

Relating to the regulation of service of process; providing criminal and administrative penalties.

Jurisprudence

Relating to birth records of adopted children.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the authority of a judge to suspend the imposition of a sentence and place a defendant on community supervision.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the deadline for providing absentee ballots for the general election for state and county officers; making conforming changes.

State Affairs

Relating to the establishment of a program to provide a ballot by electronic mail to military personnel serving overseas.

State Affairs

Relating to the fraudulent obtaining of a controlled substance from a practitioner; providing a penalty.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the powers of certain freight rail districts.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the supervision by the Texas Department of Transportation of money appropriated by the federal government for the construction and maintenance of rail facilities.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to home loans and foreclosures on residential real property.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the interest and fees that may be charged for certain consumer loans; providing a criminal penalty.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the continuity of care for juveniles with mental impairments in the juvenile justice system.

Criminal Justice

Relating to certain health-related reports, records, and information.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the floodplain management account.

Finance

Relating to the fee based on admissions to certain sexually oriented businesses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to authorization for school districts to provide mentors for teachers assigned to a new subject or grade level.

Education

Relating to access to certain licensed mental health practitioners.

State Affairs

Relating to the calculation of current market value of certain water rights by the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority.

Natural Resources

Relating to the duty of the General Land Office to clean, maintain, and clear debris from a public beach affected by a declared disaster.

Natural Resources

Relating to the deadline for reallocating local sales and use taxes.

Finance

Relating to the creation of the Aliana Management District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the certification of a county jailer as a special officer for offenders with mental impairments.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the imposition of consecutive fines in sentencing a defendant for offenses arising out of the same criminal episode.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authority of an animal control officer to carry a bite prevention stick in the performance of official duties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the regulation of stormwater management by certain counties.

S/C on Flooding & Evacuations

Relating to the duty of the comptroller to provide sales and use tax information to an emergency services district.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the accessibility of services for certain students with autism or autism spectrum disorder.

Education

Relating to the accessibility of services for certain students with autism or autism spectrum disorder.

Education

Relating to the requirement that certain state and local governmental entities designate a firearms proficiency officer and require weapons proficiency.

Criminal Justice

Relating to eliminating the set-aside of a portion of designated tuition for student financial assistance at public institutions of higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to insurance premium payment assistance for certain persons who have hemophilia and are unable to pay the entire cost of treatment.

State Affairs

Relating to the punishment for the offense of employment harmful to children.

Criminal Justice

Relating to activities that constitute common nuisance.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the on-premises consumption of certain alcoholic beverages; providing a penalty.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of commercial fertilizer.

Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to a program allowing for countywide voting locations in certain elections.

State Affairs

Relating to the authority of the commissioners court of a county to enter into an ad valorem tax abatement agreement with certain property owners.

Economic Development

Relating to programs and funding to support adult and postsecondary education and workforce development at public junior colleges and public technical institutes.

Higher Education

Relating to the quality and accessibility of public school career and technical education programs.

Education

Relating to the regulation of the practice of acupuncture.

Economic Development

Relating to the computation of taxable margin for purposes of the franchise tax by a taxable entity principally engaged in Internet hosting.

Finance

Relating to the appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of certain open-space land devoted principally to ecological research.

Finance

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

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to erecting an off-premise sign adjacent to and visible from certain roads.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the prohibition of signs along certain roads.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to notice by a governmental entity regarding certain geospatial data products.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to discharging or releasing inmates from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice at or near certain department facilities.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the exchange of information among certain governmental entities concerning at-risk youth.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the amount of a surcharge assessed on conviction of certain intoxicated driver offenses on the driver's license of certain persons who complete a drug court program.

Criminal Justice

Relating to enhancing penalties for assaulting a family member by strangulation or suffocation.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the creation of a mental health intervention program for military veterans.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to the functions of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council; providing civil penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the disposition of surplus data processing equipment of a university system or an institution or agency of higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to a study on the feasibility of providing vaccines to first responders deployed to a disaster area.

Health & Human Services

Relating to control of food-borne illnesses and microorganisms that cause food-borne illnesses or are otherwise injurious to health.

Health & Human Services

Relating to mutual aid agreements for newborn screening laboratory services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the creation of the Texas Physician Health Program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the placement of certain children who are in the managing conservatorship of the state.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the purchase and sale of certain alcoholic beverages by the holder of a winery permit.

Business & Commerce

Relating to continuation of the intercollegiate athletics fee for students at Prairie View A&M University.

Higher Education

Relating to notice of acceptance or rejection of an insurance claim.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the tax imposed on certain tobacco products.

Finance

Relating to the creation of the Van Alstyne Municipal Utility District No. 1 of Grayson County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the rights of certain county law enforcement officers.

Criminal Justice

Relating to authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for the University of Houston Multi-Cultural Studies and Classroom Complex.

Finance

Relating to the holidays for members of fire and police departments in certain municipalities.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to work performed in sports and community venue districts in certain municipalities.

Economic Development

Relating to authorization for an exemption from tuition and fees charged by a junior college district for employees of the district and for state reimbursement of the district's revenue loss from the exemption.

Higher Education

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

Higher Education

Relating to an alcohol awareness component of the health curriculum used in public schools.

Education

Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain orally administered anticancer medications.

State Affairs

Relating to the imposition of the sales and use tax on taxable items sold or provided under certain contracts.

Finance

Relating to health benefit plan coverage for acquired brain injuries.

State Affairs

Relating to eligibility for public school prekindergarten classes of children residing with a grandparent.

Education

Relating to the creation, administration, financing, and use of a Texas Transportation Revolving Fund; granting the authority to issue bonds.

Finance

Relating to the terms of the members of the Texas Transportation Commission.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the authority of certain counties to construct, acquire, improve, operate, or maintain causeways, bridges, tunnels, turnpikes, ferries, and highways.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to contract provisions in comprehensive development agreements.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the licensing and regulation of plumbers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of an ad valorem tax collector to waive penalties for failing to file certain statements.

Finance

Relating to a fee associated with the assignment of a vehicle identification number by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to a joint statement relating to the transfer of a motor vehicle as the result of a gift.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to optional annuity increases for certain retirees and beneficiaries of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.

State Affairs

Relating to forfeiture of remedy for nonpayment of ad valorem taxes.

Finance

Relating to the deadlines for commencement and completion of the Lake Columbia reservoir project.

Natural Resources

Relating to certificates of public convenience and necessity for water or sewer services.

Natural Resources

Relating to a Texas Youth Commission comprehensive plan to improve student reading skills and behavior.

Education

Relating to clarification of the essential knowledge and skills of the public school curriculum and the evaluation of conforming curriculum management systems.

Education

Relating to minimum public school attendance for class credit or a grade.

Education

Relating to development regulations in certain flood-prone counties; providing civil and criminal penalties.

S/C on Flooding & Evacuations

Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain serious mental illnesses and mental disorders.

State Affairs

Relating to parking placard applications by persons with a mobility problem caused by an impairment of vision.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the creation of a county ethics commission in certain counties; providing civil and criminal penalties.

International Relations & Trade

Relating to the appointment of attorneys ad litem.

Jurisprudence

Relating to authorizing certain counties and municipalities to regulate land development; providing a penalty.

International Relations & Trade

Relating to the colonia self-help program.

International Relations & Trade

Relating to withdrawal and restriction plans for certain insurers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the operation and continuation of the law authorizing the issuance of oversize or overweight vehicle permits by certain port authorities.

International Relations & Trade

Relating to community-based programs for juveniles in certain counties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the establishment of the Texas savvy homeowner program.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the care and protection of foster children committed to or released under supervision by the Texas Youth Commission.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the administration of the compensation to victims of crime fund and the compensation to victims of crime auxiliary fund.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the plugging of inactive oil or gas wells.

Natural Resources

Relating to the establishment, funding, and operation of the Texas natural disaster catastrophe fund and the disaster preparedness and mitigation grant council.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the right of certain child crime victims to a speedy trial and to be considered with respect to a defendant's motion for continuance.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the conditions of bond for a defendant charged with committing certain offenses against a child and to the denial of bail pending trial with respect to certain defendants who violate those conditions.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the coordination of the planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of a statewide passenger rail system by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the creation and administration of the Texas Local Participation Transportation Program.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to permissive interlocutory appeals in civil actions.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the calculation of the rollback tax rate of a school district.

Finance

Relating to priority groundwater management areas.

Natural Resources

Relating to the injection and geologic storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide.

Natural Resources

Relating to process server certification and the establishment of a certification division within the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the penalty for the offense of reckless driving.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the regulation of fireworks during a declared local state of disaster.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of criminal trespass.

Criminal Justice

Relating to toll collection and enforcement.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the conditions for release on bond of a defendant charged with certain intoxication offenses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to notification of an applicant for admission to a general academic teaching institution regarding the availability of degree programs in the applicant's preferred major field of study offered by other institutions.

Higher Education

Relating to the use of person first respectful language in reference to individuals with disabilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to required procedures regarding the ranking of physicians by health benefit plan issuers.

State Affairs

Relating to establishing the equivalency of competency-based nursing education programs in other states that meet standards of quality equivalent to nursing education programs approved by the Texas Board of Nursing.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the requirement by a municipality of a license or permit to occupy or lease a residence.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to delinquent payment of an alcoholic beverage retailer's account for liquor.

Business & Commerce

Relating to excused absences from public schools for voting in certain elections.

Education

Relating to taking or attempting to take a weapon from an employee or official of a correctional facility that is operated by a county or municipality.

Criminal Justice

Relating to requiring certain political subdivisions to enter a contract with the county elections administrator to perform election services.

State Affairs

Relating to changing the Texas Health Insurance Risk Pool to the Texas Health Insurance Pool, and to the operation of that pool.

State Affairs

Relating to the powers and duties of the Employees Retirement System of Texas.

State Affairs

Relating to the establishment of an advisory committee to assist the Texas Water Development Board in incorporating the potential effects of climate variability into the state water plan.

Natural Resources

Relating to the consideration of the effects of climate variability on water supplies in regional and state water plans.

Natural Resources

Relating to the creation of the State Developmental Center Evaluation Authority and the residential placement of individuals with mental retardation.

Health & Human Services

Relating to compensation and employment benefits for members of the Texas State Guard called to state active duty.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to the definition of first responder for purposes of the immunization registry.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the licensing and regulation of plumbers.

Business & Commerce

Relating to financial assistance programs in connection with certain children in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to scholarships for fifth-year accounting students.

Higher Education

Relating to the punishment for tampering with certain governmental records concerning forensic analyses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the regulation of certain aggregate production operations by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; providing penalties.

Natural Resources

Relating to the creation of a pilot program on deferred disciplinary action.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, The Texas A&M University System, or The University of Texas System.

State Affairs

Relating to transportation planning and the creation and membership of planning organizations and funding allocations for transportation projects.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the issuance of AMBER alert system specialty license plates.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to this state's goal for renewable energy.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the sale of electric energy produced by distributed renewable generation owners.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the adoption of modernizations to unemployment compensation benefit eligibility.

Economic Development

Relating to the eligibility of certain persons to receive a sentence of community supervision, including deferred adjudication community supervision.

Criminal Justice

Relating to goals for renewable energy capacity derived from renewable energy sources other than sources using wind energy.

Business & Commerce

Relating to a person's eligibility to possess or carry a concealed handgun or other firearm.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the creation of alternative fuel programs to be funded by the Texas Emissions Reduction Plan Fund.

Natural Resources

Relating to the installation, operation, and maintenance of automatic license plate identification cameras on a highway.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the regulation of staff leasing services.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the power of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation to issue emergency orders and temporary and emergency licenses.

Business & Commerce

Relating to tax credits for business development in low-income communities.

Economic Development

Relating to election through secret ballot of a labor union as the exclusive bargaining representative.

State Affairs

Relating to the licensing and regulation of towing companies and vehicle storage facilities; providing penalties.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the investigation, prosecution, and punishment of criminal Medicaid fraud and certain other offenses related to Medicaid fraud; providing penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the delivery of prescription drugs for certain state health plans by mail order; providing an administrative penalty.

State Affairs

Relating to the administration of and eligibility for the child health plan program.

Finance

Relating to family violence and protective orders.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the appeal of a censure issued by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the powers of an associate judge in a Title IV-D case.

Jurisprudence

Relating to compliance requirements for candidates for judicial office.

State Affairs

Relating to the travel, board, and lodging expenses of a person appointed to assist the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.

Jurisprudence

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

Jurisprudence

Relating to the terms of the members of the Court Reporters Certification Board.

Jurisprudence

Relating to business entities and associations.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the academic costs charged to resident undergraduate students by general academic teaching institutions and certain reports regarding the operational costs of those institutions.

Higher Education

Relating to exempting the sale of certain property used for research and development from the sales tax.

Finance

Relating to the transfer of a student from the school district of the student's residence to another district.

Education

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.

Education

Relating to civil remedy of violations of certain municipal health and safety ordinances.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the enforcement of municipal building and safety ordinances by tenants of buildings; providing civil penalties.

Intergovernmental Relations

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

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the right of certain municipalities to maintain local control over wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to limiting use of money in the Texas Enterprise Fund to recipients that provide health benefit plans.

Economic Development

Relating to a residential property insurance premium discount for certain dwellings.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the eligibility of certain individuals with a terminally ill parent for unemployment compensation.

Economic Development

Relating to the right to an expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the operation of prison diversion progressive sanctions programs.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the time for bringing an action on a consumer debt.

State Affairs

Relating to a waiver of sovereign or governmental immunity by governmental entities that fail to make a timely payment under the Prompt Payment Act.

State Affairs

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

Economic Development

Relating to education initiatives for students of limited English proficiency and students at risk of dropping out of school.

Education

Relating to professional development academies designed for public school teachers who provide instruction to certain students of limited English proficiency.

Education

Relating to the registration of diagnostic imaging equipment, the accreditation of diagnostic imaging facilities, and the regulation of diagnostic imaging providers; providing penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the use of public facilities as emergency shelters during disasters.

S/C on Flooding & Evacuations

Relating to the provision of information regarding health care and other benefits for veterans.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 525; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to refund of excess unearned premiums by insurance premium finance companies.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the purchase of cement by the Texas Department of Transportation.

Natural Resources

Relating to governmental agency contracts that involve the production of cement.

Government Organization

Relating to notice of expiration and price change in retail electric service contracts.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the redemption of real property sold at an ad valorem tax sale.

Finance

Relating to the creation of a separate local workforce development board for certain counties.

Economic Development

Relating to the composition of certain regional planning commissions.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to public meetings for permit applications under the Texas Clean Air Act.

Natural Resources

Relating to employment services programs for certain residents receiving services from public hospitals or hospital districts.

Health & Human Services

Relating to compensation for certain emergency services personnel.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the notice required by certain mortgage servicers before foreclosing a contract lien on certain real property; providing civil penalties.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the authority of a community health center to contract with or employ an optometrist or therapeutic optometrist.

Health & Human Services

Relating to certain judicial findings required before a court may order a person to receive extended outpatient mental health services.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the authority of hospital districts to lease undeveloped real property.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to exemptions from certain mandated benefit requirements in supplemental or limited coverage health benefit plans.

State Affairs

Relating to regulation of electric generation capacity ownership in the electric power market.

Business & Commerce

Relating to energy aggregation by political subdivisions.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the development and implementation of a wholesale market structure for ERCOT.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the creation of the Galveston County Municipal Utility District No. 76; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to delivery of certain services through consumer direction to elderly persons and persons with disabilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the sale of used, surplus, or salvage property and firefighting equipment by an emergency services district.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the qualifications of special education personnel in public schools.

Education

Relating to the statewide plan for delivery of services to public school students with disabilities and resources for teachers of public school students with special health needs.

Education

Relating to a grant available to school districts to provide services to students with disabilities.

Education

Relating to optional dispute resolution methods for school districts and parents of students seeking or receiving special education services.

Education

Relating to requirements for the conduct of Texas Education Agency special education due process hearings.

Education

Relating to the definition of supplemental environmental projects.

Natural Resources

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.

Business & Commerce

Relating to certain amounts payable by the Texas Life, Accident, Health, and Hospital Service Insurance Guaranty Association.

State Affairs

Relating to the disclosure of certain ad valorem tax appraisal information and other confidential information.

Finance

Relating to the taxation of motor fuels.

Finance

Relating to the revocation and reinstatement of an end user number for purposes of purchasing dyed diesel fuel.

Finance

Relating to binding arbitration of certain appraisal review board orders.

Finance

Relating to veteran's employment preferences.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to eligibility of certain children for public school prekindergarten classes.

Education

Relating to the employment of physicians by certain hospitals.

State Affairs

Relating to the eligibility of nonprofit organizations that partner with certain schools to receive grants for agricultural projects.

Agriculture & Rural Affairs

Relating to the authority of the Martin County Hospital District to employ physicians and other health care providers.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the authority of the board of directors of the Dallam-Hartley Counties Hospital District to employ health care providers.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the concurrent jurisdiction of certain municipal courts in certain criminal cases punishable by fine only.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the arrest and release on bail or other form of bond of certain criminal defendants with a mental illness or with mental retardation.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the payment of the costs associated with certain conditions of bond.

Criminal Justice

Relating to motor vehicles; providing penalties.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the authority of certain transportation and transit authorities to enforce compliance with high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions by an automated enforcement system; providing for the imposition of penalties.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the Correctional Facility Capacity Commission.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the authorization to designate and the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 20 in Dallas County as the President Barack Obama Freeway.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to participation in, contributions to, and the benefits and administration of retirement systems for police officers in certain municipalities.

State Affairs

Relating to participation in and benefits and administration of retirement systems for firefighters in certain municipalities.

State Affairs

Relating to long-term care consumer information made available through the Internet.

Health & Human Services

Relating to child support arrearages and a counterclaim or offset based on certain disability payments.

Jurisprudence

Relating to a major events trust fund and an events trust fund for sporting and non-sporting events.

Economic Development

Relating to certain costs and fees in a Title IV-D case.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the right to an expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the regulation of tax refund anticipation loans.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the regulation of debt collection agencies; imposing criminal penalties.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the protection and care of individuals with mental retardation residing in certain residential care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the regulation of certain boarding houses and assisted living facilities; providing penalties.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the exemption of certain school districts from the drainage charge imposed by a municipal drainage utility system.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to requiring satisfactory completion of a course in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System as a requisite for a degree in architecture at certain public institutions of higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to a report regarding research funds received by public institutions of higher education or employees of those institutions from pharmaceutical companies.

Higher Education

Relating to physical education and physical activity requirements in public schools.

Education

Relating to financial and status reporting requirements for the Border Health Institute.

International Relations & Trade

Relating to the creation of an electronic medical record for certain individuals enrolled in the Medicaid or child health plan program.

Health & Human Services

Relating to advertising to promote good health by certain persons who advertise food or beverages in public schools.

Education

Relating to criminal asset forfeiture, the disposition of proceeds and property from criminal asset forfeiture, and accountability for that disposition; providing civil penalties.

Criminal Justice

Relating to including playgrounds in the designation of certain places as drug-free zones for purposes of the criminal penalties that apply to certain drug-related offenses.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the definition of a playground for purposes of certain places protected from certain criminal activities.

Criminal Justice

Relating to certain construction liens under the Texas Residential Construction Commission Act.

Business & Commerce

Relating to persons subject to liability for residential construction defects or regulation as a builder of residential construction.

Business & Commerce

Relating to county assistance districts.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to nonpayment of hospitals under the state Medicaid program for certain preventable adverse events and to the reporting of occurrences of those events at certain health care facilities.

Health & Human Services

Relating to preferred drug lists, including confidentiality, supplemental rebate, prior authorization, and publication requirements.

Health & Human Services

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain military personnel and the spouses of certain deceased and missing military personnel.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to establishing veterans resource centers at certain institutions of higher education.

Veteran Affairs & Military Installations

Relating to in-casket identification of a deceased person.

Health & Human Services

Relating to a nonsubstantive revision of statutes relating to railroads; including conforming amendments.

Administration

Relating to measuring, monitoring, and reporting emissions.

Natural Resources

Relating to the conduct of investigations, prepayment reviews, and payment holds in cases of suspected fraud, waste, or abuse in the provision of health and human services.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the establishment of the Interagency Literacy Council for the study, promotion, and enhancement of literacy in this state.

Economic Development

Relating to the creation of the Prairielands Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to issue bonds and granting the power of eminent domain.

Natural Resources

Relating to health benefit coverage for children and grandchildren.

State Affairs

Relating to the creation and administration of a community-based at-risk youth program.

Education

Relating to claims or actions against the state for which legislative consent to a settlement or compromise may be required.

Finance

Relating to the calculation by a school district of a high school student's grade point average.

Education

Relating to the regulation of certain life settlement contracts; providing penalties.

State Affairs

Relating to the operation and regulation of certain consolidated insurance programs.

State Affairs

Relating to unenforceable restrictive covenants affecting residential homes.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the creation of district courts in certain counties.

Jurisprudence

Relating to the authority of officers in certain counties to designate a person to receive fees, commissions, or costs.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the conditions of employment for firefighters employed by certain airport districts; providing penalties.

Intergovernmental Relations

Relating to the promotion and marketing of alcoholic beverages.

Business & Commerce

Relating to the early identification of criminal defendants who are or may be persons with mental illness or mental retardation.

Criminal Justice

Relating to including in the computerized criminal history system certain forensic DNA test results that indicate the person committed another offense.

Criminal Justice

Relating to the public awareness campaign promoting higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to developing a developmental education plan for students entering public institutions of higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to contracts entered into for the employment of the chief executive officer of a public institution of higher education.

Higher Education

Relating to the liability of a public utility that allows recreational use of land that the public utility owns, occupies, or leases.

State Affairs

Relating to Tier One Challenge funding to support the development and enhancement of national research universities in this state.

Higher Education

Relating to the administration of immunizations and vaccinations by therapeutic optometrists.

Health & Human Services

Relating to the acquisition, dissemination, and use of certain geographic information system data.

Natural Resources

Relating to creating a pilot project to reduce the need for developmental education required for certain students entering higher education.

Education

Relating to lapsed teacher certification due to a delay in agency processing.

Education

Relating to unemployment compensation modernization.

Economic Development

Relating to the facilitation, analysis, and implementation of high-speed passenger rail in this state.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to the issuance of certain permits for overweight vehicles.

Transportation & Homeland Security

Relating to land reclamation projects using tires.

Natural Resources

Relating to the governing body of the Agua Special Utility District.

Intergovernmental Relations