Senate Floor Action for 3/25/2009

SENATE FLOOR ACTION



Wednesday

March 25, 2009




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


SB 300 (CS)Patrick, Dan

Relating to eliminating or modifying certain mandates on school districts.

3 Floor Amendments


SB 381 (CS) (LC)Van de Putte

Relating to the authority of physicians to delegate to certain pharmacists the implementation and modification of a patient's drug therapy.


SB 424 (CS) (LC)Van de Putte

Relating to the establishment and implementation of school-based influenza vaccination programs.


SB 470 (CS)Carona

Relating to training and continuing education for licensed electrical apprentices.


SB 476 (CS)Nelson/ et al.

Relating to staffing, overtime, and other employment protections for nurses.


SB 506 Carona

Relating to the operation and movement of motorcycles during periods of traffic congestion.


SB 531 (CS) (LC)Patrick, Dan/ et al.

Relating to the billing coordination system for claims submitted for payment from the Medicaid program.


SB 572 (LC)Shapiro/ et al.

Relating to transportation safety training requirements for certain child-care providers.


SB 730 (CS)Hegar/ et al.

Relating to an employee's transportation and storage of certain firearms or ammunition while on certain property owned or controlled by the employee's employer.

1 Floor Amendment


SB 731 (LC)Jackson, Mike

Relating to the sale of certain alcoholic beverages to private club registration permit holders.


SB 769 (CS)Williams/ Whitmire/ et al.

Relating to methods for the recovery of system restoration costs incurred by electric utilities following hurricanes, tropical storms, ice or snow storms, floods, and other weather-related events and natural disasters.


SB 820 (CS) (LC)Duncan

Relating to the adoption and amendment of model building codes by certain municipalities.


The Senate suspended the regular order, read third time and finally passed:


SB 175 Shapiro/ et al.

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


The Senate adopted the following resolutions:


SR 483 Shapleigh

Recognizing Communities in Schools of Texas on its achievements in keeping young people in school.


SR 493 Shapiro

Recognizing the Glazer's Family of Companies on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.


SR 508 Fraser

Recognizing the Alpha Chi Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.


SR 510 Fraser

Congratulating Lieutenant Governor David H. Dewhurst on his induction into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame.


SR 514 Uresti/ Van de Putte/ Wentworth

Recognizing the Northside Independent School District on the occasion of its 60th anniversary.


HCR 83 Homer SP: Deuell

In memory of Horace Arnold Durham of Pecan Gap.


HCR 84 Homer SP: Deuell

Congratulating the Sulphur Springs Wildcats football team on winning the 2008 UIL 4A Division 2 state championship.


HCR 133 Berman SP: Eltife

Honoring Calvin Nelson Clyde, Jr., of Tyler on his 88th birthday.


The Senate confirmed all nominees as reported by the Committee on Nominations.


Committee re-referral on the following:


SB 1466 Davis, Wendy

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

Re-referred from Natural Resources to Transportation & Homeland Security


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