SENATE FLOOR ACTION

Wednesday

March 30, 2011

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

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

Relating to the diversion of a controlled substance by certain persons who have access to the substance by virtue of the persons' profession or employment; providing penalties.

Relating to toll collection services provided by a regional tollway authority.

Relating to including a personal financial literacy component in public school mathematics instruction.

Relating to designating certain synthetic cannabinoids as controlled substances under the Texas Controlled Substances Act; providing penalties and establishing certain criminal consequences or procedures.

Relating to the vested ownership interest in groundwater beneath the surface of land, the right to produce that groundwater, and the management of groundwater in this state.

Relating to the murder of a child as a capital offense.

Relating to adverse possession of real property by a cotenant heir against other cotenant heirs.

1 Floor Amendment

Relating to unlawful acts against and criminal offenses involving the Medicaid program.

Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Forest Service.

Relating to the management of groundwater production by groundwater conservation districts.

The Senate adopted the following resolutions:

Recognizing March 30, 2011, as Montgomery County Day at the State Capitol.

Recognizing March 30, 2011, as Pachyderm Day at the State Capitol.

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