SENATE FLOOR ACTION |
Saturday May 23, 2009 |
The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass: |
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Relating to design, construction, and renovation standards for state buildings and facilities. 6 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to the regulation of dyslexia practitioners and therapists; providing penalties. |
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Relating to the transportation of children in motor vehicles; creating an offense. 2 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to appeals to the commissioner of education. |
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Relating to temporary orders and orders for modification in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. 2 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to health benefit plan coverage for certain tests for the early detection of cardiovascular disease. 2 Committee Amendments 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to leave for certain state employees who volunteer or participate in training for Court Appointed Special Advocates. |
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Relating to the punishment for the offense of criminal mischief. |
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Relating to disaster preparedness and emergency management and to certain vehicles used in emergencies; providing a penalty. 12 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to abolishing the Private Sector Prison Industries Oversight Authority and to the certification and operation of private sector prison industries programs. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the governmental entities subject to the sunset review process. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the creation of the offense of online harassment. 2 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to the holidays for members of fire and police departments in certain municipalities. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the issuance of a personal identification certificate to present or former inmates of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. 1 Committee Amendment 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the establishment of additional job incentive programs by the Texas Workforce Commission using the skills development fund. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the urban land bank demonstration program in certain municipalities. |
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Relating to the regulation of stipulated premium insurance companies. |
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Relating to the disclosure of certain ad valorem tax appraisal information and other confidential information. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to authorizing an increase in the student center fee at Texas Southern University. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the designation of certain fire marshals and related officers, inspectors, and investigators and certain railroad peace officers as peace officers. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the payment of temporary housing costs for certain individuals who are released or are eligible for release on parole or to mandatory supervision. |
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Relating to a disease surveillance program for elk; providing a penalty. |
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Relating to the establishment of the Texas Armed Services Scholarship. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the right to an expunction of records and files relating to a person's arrest. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the authority of the state to acquire, sell, or exchange certain land. 2 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to the establishment of a victim assistance program to provide services to domestic victims of trafficking. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to textbooks, electronic textbooks, instructional material, and technological equipment in public schools. 2 Floor Amendments |
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Relating to an intercollegiate athletics fee at Texas Southern University. |
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Relating to court reporter service fees in certain counties. |
The Senate adopted the following resolutions: |
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In memory of James Michael Grant of Gatesville. |
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Granting John Cook permission to sue the Benbrook Water Authority. |
The Senate refused to concur in House amendments and requested the appointment of a Conference Committee on the following: |
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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 operation of a motor vehicle in the vicinity of a vulnerable road user; providing penalties. |
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Relating to the installation, maintenance, or operation of natural gas pipelines on state highways and highway rights-of-way. |
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Relating to the continuation and operation of the office of public insurance counsel. |
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Relating to the open records steering committee, reports by the attorney general on costs of copies, and certain deadlines, costs, and suits filed under the public information law. |
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Relating to the early identification of criminal defendants who are or may be persons with mental illness or mental retardation. |
Committee referral on the following: |
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Relating to the powers and duties of the Castro County Hospital District. Natural Resources |
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Relating to the preservation of a record in a proceeding in a municipal court of record in Austin. Jurisprudence |
Committee re-referral on the following: |
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Relating to hunting of feral hogs by helicopter. Re-referred from Agriculture & Rural Affairs to Natural Resources |
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Relating to the closure of a school campus by the board of trustees of certain school districts. Re-referred from Education to Higher Education |
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Relating to the designation of Farm-to-Market Road 1015 in Hidalgo County as the Bill Summers International Boulevard. Re-referred from Administration to International Relations & Trade |
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