REGULAR ORDER OF BUSINESS |
Monday March 20, 2017 |
SENATE BILLS (Calendar Order) |
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS (Second Reading) |
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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. |
SENATE BILLS (Third Reading) |
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Relating to a prohibition on the performance of dismemberment abortions; providing penalties; creating a criminal offense. |
SENATE BILLS (Second Reading) |
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Relating to the creation, purpose, implementation, and funding of the County Park Beautification and Improvement Program. |
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Relating to the persons authorized to conduct an inquest in certain counties. |
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Relating to payroll deductions for state and local government employee organizations. |
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Relating to eliminating provisions requiring public institutions of higher education to set aside portions of designated tuition for student financial assistance. |
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Relating to the governing board of the Trinity Valley Community College District. |
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Relating to the statewide preceptorship program in family medicine. |
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Relating to the temporary approval of a private or independent college or university to continue to participate in the tuition equalization grant program. |
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Relating to the sale or assignment of tax credits for the certified rehabilitation of certified historic structures. |
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Relating to the requirement to obtain certification for attorneys representing persons in guardianship proceedings. |
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Relating to a landowner's liability for injuries incurred during certain recreational activities. |
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Relating to the qualifications for a person conducting an adoption evaluation. |
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Relating to certain procedural measures in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship to protect a child against child neglect or physical or sexual abuse. |
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Relating to eliminating the wrongful birth cause of action. |
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Relating to certain procedural matters in courts exercising probate jurisdiction. |
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Relating to information collected about and purchases of information technology by governmental entities. |
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Relating to the decrease of the rates of the franchise tax under certain circumstances and the expiration of that tax. |
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Relating to leave policy and procedures for state employees. |
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Relating to the savings incentive program for state agencies. |
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Relating to the submission of a report by certain entities identifying spending reduction measures. |
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Relating to procedures of a county tax assessor-collector for collection of dishonored checks and invoices; authorizing a fee. |
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Relating to the procedure for the approval of rules adopted by the comptroller relating to the appraisal of qualified open-space land and qualified timber land for ad valorem tax purposes. |
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Relating to the disposition of embryonic and fetal tissue remains; imposing a civil penalty. |
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Relating to the purchase of food and beverages by the Texas Division of Emergency Management for certain persons. |
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Relating to requiring the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to collect and study data on the participation of persons with intellectual disabilities in workforce education programs. |
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Relating to the designation of United States Highway 287 in Armstrong and Donley Counties as the Colonel Charles Goodnight Memorial Highway. |
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Relating to the designation of a portion of Alternate United States Highway 90 in Lavaca County as the Sheriff Ronnie Dodds Memorial Highway. |
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Relating to the designation of a portion of State Highway 95 in Lavaca County as the Sergeant David M. Furrh Memorial Highway. |
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Relating to the designation of a portion of Interstate Highway 10 in Guadalupe County as the Texas Game Warden Teyran "Ty" Patterson Memorial Highway. |
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Relating to notice provided to persons with disabilities regarding the eligibility of persons with disabilities to use certain public transportation services. |
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Relating to the licensing and regulation of hospitals in this state; increasing the amount of administrative penalties assessed or imposed against certain hospitals; authorizing the imposition of a fee. |
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Relating to the creation of an office of data analytics in the Department of Family and Protective Services. |
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Relating to general officers within the state military department. |
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Relating to a ribbon for certain members of the military forces who served in support of operations to secure the Texas border. |
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Relating to the confidentiality of certain information of and the abolishment date of the military base realignment and closure task force. |
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Relating to the submission of an affordability and access report by public institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to a requirement that certain participating institutions under the student loan program administered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board provide loan debt information to certain students. |
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Relating to the eligibility of certain property for certain ad valorem tax incentives relating to wind-powered energy devices. |
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Relating to an expedited licensing process for certain physicians specializing in psychiatry; authorizing a fee. |
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Relating to the duration of certain protective orders against family violence. |
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Relating to the use of a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle; creating a criminal offense; modifying existing criminal penalties. |
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Relating to the requirement for parental consent for a minor to join a labor union. |
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Relating to treatment and care provided by licensed medical professionals to animals in certain facilities. |
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Relating to a groundwater conservation district's use of electronic fund transfers. |
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Relating to administrative completeness requirements for permit and permit amendment applications for groundwater conservation districts. |
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Relating to the powers and election dates of the Hemphill County Underground Water Conservation District. |
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Relating to the qualifications for an impartial third party in certain civil disputes. |
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Relating to involuntary termination of parental rights based on sexual assault of the child's other parent and the child support obligations of the parent whose rights were terminated. |
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Relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification; providing a criminal penalty. |
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Relating to certain substances listed in Penalty Group 2 of the Texas Controlled Substances Act. |
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Relating to the authority of a court to return certain fees to a person whose criminal record has been expunged. |
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Relating to the requirements for a change of name for a person with a final felony conviction or a person required to register as a sex offender. |
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Relating to access to a residence or former residence to retrieve personal property, including access based on danger of family violence. |
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Relating to the administrative attachment of the Texas Forensic Science Commission to the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System. |
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Relating to meeting the graduate medical education needs of new medical degree programs offered by public institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to limitations on courses that may be offered for dual credit by school districts and public institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to authorization for the conveyance of certain real property from Texas Tech University to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. |
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Relating to the authority of chiropractors to form certain business entities with certain other professions. |
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Relating to the production of public information available on a publicly accessible website. |
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Relating to state contracts with and investments in companies that boycott Israel. |
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Relating to registration of a motor vehicle alleged to have been involved in a violation detected by a photographic traffic signal enforcement system. |
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Relating to the creation of an offense for failing to secure certain children in a rear-facing child passenger safety seat system. |
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Relating to the continuation and functions of the Texas Department of Transportation; authorizing an increase in rates charged for the use of state aircraft to provide for the acquisition of replacement aircraft. |
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Relating to deadlines for performing various functions in connection with the ad valorem tax system. |
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Relating to the authority of the chief appraiser of an appraisal district to correct an ad valorem tax appraisal roll. |
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Relating to the scheduling by an appraisal review board of a hearing on a protest. |
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Relating to the appeal through binding arbitration of certain appraisal review board orders. |
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Relating to the exemption from ad valorem taxation of income-producing tangible personal property having a value of less than a certain amount. |
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Relating to liability for interest if land appraised for ad valorem tax purposes as agricultural or open-space land is sold or diverted to a different use. |
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Relating to the procedure for canceling a deferral or abatement of collection of ad valorem taxes on the residence homestead of an elderly person. |
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Relating to the qualification of land for appraisal for ad valorem tax purposes as qualified open-space land. |
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Relating to ad valorem taxation. |
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Relating to a study and report regarding best practices in the transfer of course credit between public institutions of higher education. |
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Relating to the use of photographic traffic signal enforcement systems. |
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Relating to health plan and health benefit plan coverage for abortions. |
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Relating to the Texas Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Program. |
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Relating to step therapy protocols required by a health benefit plan in connection with prescription drug coverage. |
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Relating to the application of the miscellaneous gross receipts tax on utility companies. |
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Relating to mediation of the settlement of certain out-of-network health benefit claims involving balance billing. |
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Relating to the prosecution of the offense of improper sexual activity with a person under the supervision of a community supervision and corrections department. |
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Relating to the procedure for expunction of arrest records and files for certain persons who are tried for an offense and subsequently acquitted. |
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Relating to the system for protesting or appealing certain ad valorem tax determinations; authorizing a fee. |
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Relating to the reappraisal for ad valorem tax purposes of property damaged in a disaster. |
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Relating to the reappraisal for ad valorem taxation purposes of real property on which a building completely destroyed by a casualty is located. |
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Relating to certain required reports prepared by state agencies and other governmental entities. |
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Relating to requiring state contractors to participate in the federal electronic verification of employment authorization program, or E-verify. |
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Relating to the Internet broadcast of certain open meetings. |
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Relating to the exception from disclosure under the public information law for information related to competition or bidding. |
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Relating to the definition of a governmental body for the purposes of the public information law. |
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Relating to the confidentiality of certain home address information in ad valorem tax appraisal records. |
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Relating to liability of certain electric utilities that allow certain uses of land that the electric utility owns, occupies, or leases. |
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Relating to prohibiting health care practitioners from providing alcoholic beverages to certain persons; imposing an administrative penalty. |
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Relating to the applicability of open meetings and public information laws to regional water planning groups and their committees. |
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Relating to the establishment of a Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program and to the repeal of the tech-prep program. |
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