REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS

Monday

March 21, 2011

SENATE BILLS

(Calendar Order)

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS

(Second Reading)

Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to appropriations for the preservation and perpetuation of certain items of historical value; allowing the legislature and state agencies to accept on behalf of the state gifts of items of historical value and contributions to purchase such items.

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the governor to grant a pardon to a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision.

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

(Second Reading)

Designating February 21 through 27 of each year from 2011 through 2020 as Barbara Jordan Freedom Week.

Designating May 22 of each year from 2011 through 2020 as William Elmo Merrem Day in honor of the first Eagle Scout from Texas.

Designating the month of March each year from 2011 through 2020 as Women Veterans Month in tribute to the immeasurable contributions that women in the military have made to this nation.

Designating a portion of the city of Gonzales as the official Texas History Museum District.

SENATE BILLS

(Second Reading)

Relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program.

Relating to the detention and transportation of a person with a mental illness.

Relating to the Department of Family and Protective Services, including protective services and investigations of alleged abuse, neglect, or exploitation for certain adults who are elderly or disabled; providing a criminal penalty.

Relating to examination requirements for certain applicants for a license to practice medicine.

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

Relating to coverage for certain towing and storage expenses under a motor vehicle insurance policy.

Relating to the designation of certain areas as banking development districts to encourage the establishment of financial institution branches in those areas.

Relating to criminal background checks on users of online dating services and to disclosures of online dating safety measures; providing a civil penalty.

Relating to the nondisciplinary resolution of certain complaints filed against physicians.

Relating to certain providers of subsidized child care.

Relating to the maximum capacity of a container of wine sold to a retail dealer.

Relating to the definition of "first sale" for purposes of the taxes imposed on certain liquor.

Relating to assignment of rents to holders of certain security interests in real property.

Relating to certain promotional activities for certain alcoholic beverage permit holders.

Relating to the approval of designs, plans, and specifications of industrialized housing and buildings.

Relating to the transfer of an ad valorem tax lien; providing for the imposition of an administrative penalty.

Relating to a prohibition against use of school district resources for a hotel.

Relating to election procedures and qualifications of members of boards of directors for water supply or sewer service corporations.

Relating to the composition and use of money in the rural water assistance fund.

Relating to the enforcement of a self-service storage facility lien; providing a penalty.

Relating to registration with the Selective Service System of certain applicants for a driver's license or personal identification certificate.

Relating to the appointment of associate judges in child protective services cases.

Relating to attorney's fees and other amounts taxed as costs in guardianship proceedings.

Relating to the removal of a guardian of an incapacitated person ordered by a court.

Relating to proper venue for certain criminal prosecutions of mortgage fraud.

Relating to a probate fee exemption for estates of certain law enforcement officers, firefighters, and others killed in the line of duty.

Relating to determinations of paternity; creating an offense.

Relating to service of process on certain domestic and foreign entities for the collection of delinquent property taxes.

Relating to the execution docket and other records of certain court clerks.

Relating to the events eligible to receive funding through a major events trust fund.

Relating to an exclusion from unemployment compensation chargebacks for certain employers of uniformed service members.

Relating to initial claims under the unemployment compensation system.

Relating to information regarding job matching services provided by the Texas Workforce Commission; providing a criminal penalty.

Relating to protective orders for stalking victims.

Relating to inclusion of pets and other companion animals in protective orders; providing a penalty.

Relating to protective orders against dating violence.

Relating to the reorganization of powers and duties among agencies in this state that provide representation to indigent defendants in criminal cases and to the reorganization of funding sources for indigent defense.

Relating to the regulation of law enforcement officers by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.

Relating to the duration of the interagency task force on ensuring appropriate care settings for persons with disabilities.

Relating to public health laboratories administered by the Department of State Health Services.

Relating to reporting requirements for institutions of higher education conducting human stem cell research.

Relating to requiring a private autopsy facility to post a notice for filing a complaint against a physician; providing a penalty.

Relating to an exemption from regulation as health spas for certain governmental hospitals and clinics.

Relating to certain procedures applicable to electronic prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances.

Relating to the amounts of administrative penalties assessed or imposed against certain health facilities.

Relating to the board of hospital managers of the Lubbock County Hospital District.

Relating to the Hamilton County Hospital District.

Relating to the authority of certain local governmental entities to borrow money for a public hospital.

Relating to the Swisher Memorial Hospital District.

Relating to the Rankin County Hospital District.

Relating to the regulation of nonjudicial foreclosure on residences owned by certain members of the military, including foreclosure by a property owners' association.

Relating to juvenile case managers.

Relating to the employment of physicians by certain hospitals associated with nonprofit fraternal organizations.

Relating to streamlining of and utilization management in Medicaid long-term care waiver programs.

Relating to certain requirements for certain sponsoring organizations and other institutions participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program.

Relating to the regulation of the practice of nursing.

Relating to health and mental health services for children in foster care and kinship care.

Relating to access to certain long-term care services and supports under the medical assistance program.

Relating to the educational scope of Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi.

Relating to eliminating certain reporting, planning, student developmental, and other requirements imposed on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board or public institutions of higher education.

Relating to formula funding for certain semester credit hours earned for dual course credit.

Relating to a uniform deadline for student financial assistance for public institutions of higher education other than public junior colleges.

Relating to employment records for law enforcement officers, including procedures to correct employment termination reports; providing an administrative penalty.

Relating to the computation of a surplus credit for certain successor employing units.

Relating to the periodic review of the child support guidelines.

Relating to the termination of the parent-child relationship and the duty to pay child support in circumstances involving mistaken paternity.

Relating to the appointment of a conservator for and authorizing the dissolution of the Bexar Metropolitan Water District; providing a penalty.

Relating to the privacy of protected health information and personal information; providing civil and criminal penalties.

Relating to the elimination of smoking in certain workplaces and public places; providing penalties.

Relating to the Texas Life, Accident, Health, and Hospital Service Insurance Guaranty Association.

Relating to the duties of the secretary of state.

Relating to small and large employer health group cooperatives.

Relating to the creation, administration, powers, and duties of a county assistance district.

Relating to judicial review in district court of certain workers' compensation disputes.

Relating to expedited credentialing of certain physicians by managed care plans.

Relating to the entities eligible to make purchases using the cooperative purchasing program administered by the comptroller.

Relating to the continuation and operation of the office of public insurance counsel.

Relating to the amount of wine certain wineries may sell directly to consumers.

Relating to immunity for reporting insurance fraud.

Relating to the creation of an advisory committee to make recommendations to the commissioner of insurance regarding certain automobile insurance claims.

Relating to the elimination of certain requirements for certain customer-specific communications contracts.

Relating to electronic notification of certain state officials and agencies of certain rules and rulemaking filings.

Relating to written notice to a groundwater conservation district of groundwater contamination.

Relating to the composition of the board of directors of the Gulf Coast Water Authority.

Relating to voter eligibility and registration in El Paso County Water Improvement District No. 1.

Relating to the authority of the seawall commission in Matagorda County to build and maintain recreational facilities near the seawall.

Relating to the term of office and qualifications for a director of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District.

Relating to the election of members of the board of directors of the Middle Pecos Groundwater Conservation District.

Relating to the protection of water quality in certain bodies of water.

Relating to the idling of motor vehicles.

Relating to the rates charged by certain conservation and reclamation districts for potable water or wastewater service to recreational vehicle parks.

Relating to reports filed with the comptroller regarding certain alcoholic beverage sales; providing a penalty.

Relating to the issuance of certain permits for the movement of oversize or overweight vehicles.

Relating to municipal contracts for enforcement of outstanding traffic violation arrest warrants.

Relating to allowing municipally owned utility systems in certain cities to fund a program to aid low-income residents in paying their bills.

Relating to the name and powers of the Red River Redevelopment Authority.

Relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 524; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Relating to the Ranch at Clear Fork Creek Municipal Utility District No. 1; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Relating to the creation of the Harris County Municipal Utility District No. 528; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting a limited power of eminent domain.

Relating to the design and issuance of license plates for United States paratroopers.

Relating to allowing the Aransas County Commissioners Court to charge interest on assessments for certain county road improvements.

Relating to certification of a person as eligible for disabled parking privileges.

Relating to the transfer of the assets of and the dissolution of the Fort Bend County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1.

Relating to priority groundwater management areas.

Relating to methods for increasing student success and degree completion at public institutions of higher education.

Relating to the inclusion of certain private postsecondary educational institutions and career schools and colleges in the higher education accountability system of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.

Relating to the use of money from the permanent fund for health-related programs to provide grants to nursing education programs.

Relating to re-creating the scholarship trust fund for fifth-year accounting students as a trust fund outside the state treasury.

Relating to authorizing a public junior college to award an associate degree to a student enrolled in a four-year public institution of higher education who previously attended the junior college.

Relating to the regulation by a property owners'association of the installation of solar energy devices on property.

Relating to the Dallam-Hartley Counties Hospital District.

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

Relating to the sale and consumption in this state of raw oysters harvested from Texas waters.

Relating to the continuing issuance of freshwater fishing stamps by the Parks and Wildlife Department.

Relating to the protection of stray bison.

Relating to limiting the liability of certain persons for farm animal activities.

Relating to the regulation of public grain warehouse operators.

Relating to the liability of a sport shooting range and the regulation of firearms, ammunition, firearm supplies, and sport shooting ranges.

Relating to the calculation and reporting of water usage by municipalities and water utilities for state water planning and other purposes.

Relating to the sale, recovery, and recycling of certain television equipment; providing administrative penalties.

Relating to the authority of the board of directors of the Ochiltree County Hospital District to employ health care providers.

Relating to the prosecution, punishment, and certain criminal and civil consequences of offenses involving or related to the trafficking of persons and to certain protections for victims of those offenses.

Relating to allowing a person who successfully completes a term of deferred adjudication community supervision to be eligible for a pardon.

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

Relating to the sex offender civil commitment program and to the creation of a state agency to perform the functions relating to the sex offender civil commitment program that are currently performed by the Council on Sex Offender Treatment.

Relating to the disqualification of a district or county attorney who is the subject of a criminal investigation.

Relating to creating the offense of continuous trafficking of persons; providing a penalty and other civil consequences.

Relating to the development, financing, construction, and operation of toll projects.

Relating to the designation of segments of State Highways 359, 16, and 285 as the Veterans of the Korean War Memorial Highway.

Relating to awards for certain members of the state military forces inducted into federal service in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, and Enduring Freedom.

Relating to the use of fraudulent or fictitious military records; creating an offense.

Relating to the hotel occupancy tax rate in certain municipalities.

Relating to persons authorized to control the disposition of the remains of certain members of the United States armed forces.

Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain military personnel, veterans, and dependents residing in this state.

Relating to high school diplomas for certain military veterans.

Relating to the advisory committee on Medicaid and child health plan program rate and expenditure disparities between the Texas-Mexico border region and other areas of the state.