SENATE FLOOR ACTION |
Monday February 13, 2017 |
The Senate suspended the necessary rules to consider and finally pass: |
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Relating to the content of detailed reports filed by lobbyists and to monetary limits on expenditures by lobbyists. 1 Floor Amendment |
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Relating to the prohibition on lobbying by certain elected officers. |
Committee referral on the following: |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for legislative review or approval of state agency rules. Business & Commerce |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting private schools and home schools from state and local regulation. Education |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the service of certain officeholders after the expiration of the person's term of office. State Affairs |
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Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the issuance of certain debt and the use of certain revenue for toll roads. Transportation |
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Designating Big Spring as the Lighted Poinsettia Capital of Texas. Administration |
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Relating to the approval of a sufficient balance of the constitutional economic stabilization fund by the 85th Legislature. Finance |
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Relating to authorizing an exemption for open-enrollment charter schools from certain municipal drainage requirements. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the establishment of a restructuring commission to evaluate each state supported living center. Health & Human Services |
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Relating to a limitation on the amount of school property tax revenue that is subject to recapture under the public school finance system. Education |
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Relating to the determination of wealth per student for school districts with cost-effective spending and measurable student academic progress. Education |
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Relating to procedures for the review and selection of certain instructional materials by public school districts and open-enrollment charter schools. Education |
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Relating to the authority of a school district of innovation to administer alternative assessment instruments to district students. Education |
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Relating to transportation of students entitled to a public education grant. Education |
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Relating to public school class size limits in certain grades. Education |
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Relating to elimination of the use of continuing contracts by school districts in employing teachers and other professionals. Education |
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Relating to the state virtual school network. Education |
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Relating to appointments by certain state officials to a legislative agency or an advisory committee. State Affairs |
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Relating to complaints filed with the Texas Ethics Commission. State Affairs |
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Relating to services provided by the Health and Human Services Commission to sexually violent offenders who are incompetent to attend sex offender treatment. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to excused absences from public school for the purpose of visiting a military recruitment center. Veteran Affairs & Border Security |
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Relating to requirements regarding assessment instruments required for public high school graduation and the use of individual graduation committees to satisfy certain public high school graduation requirements. Education |
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Relating to requirements for a ballot proposition for a proposed municipal charter amendment. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to trusts. State Affairs |
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Relating to the liability of certain property owners who allow handguns to be carried on certain property. State Affairs |
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Relating to county and municipal cooperation with state and federal immigration law enforcement and efforts to enhance international border security. State Affairs |
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Relating to a student's eligibility to enroll in courses provided through the state virtual school network. Education |
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Relating to the liability of employees of certain real property owners for certain claims arising from construction activities. State Affairs |
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Relating to itemizing certain public notice expenditures in political subdivision budgets. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the establishment of a public information Internet website. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the rate of interest on certain tax refunds. Finance |
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Relating to public access to financial and tax rate information of certain special purpose districts. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to the acquisition of certain real property in conjunction with the acquisition of real property for a public use through eminent domain procedures. State Affairs |
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Relating to notice of a property owner's rights relating to the examination or survey of property by an entity with eminent domain authority. State Affairs |
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Relating to establishing actual progress for the purposes of determining the right to repurchase real property from a condemning entity. State Affairs |
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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. Finance |
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Relating to documentation regarding an arrest of a person without a warrant. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to venue for the disposition of stolen property. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to the repeal of certain state procurement advisory and approval procedures. Business & Commerce |
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Relating to the release on personal bond of a person arrested for an out-of-county offense under certain circumstances. Criminal Justice |
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Relating to reporting requirements for certain skills development fund workforce training program providers. Natural Resources & Economic Development |
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Relating to the award of court costs and attorney's fees in certain actions challenging an order, ordinance, or similar measure of a political subdivision or the failure of an officer of a political subdivision to perform certain actions. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to procedures for certain municipalities to adopt or amend a national model building code. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to state audits of a regional mobility authority that receives a grant or loan from the Texas Department of Transportation. Transportation |
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Relating to restrictions on legislative lobbying by a regional mobility authority or an employee of a regional mobility authority. State Affairs |
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Relating to the use of money in the state highway fund for toll projects. Transportation |
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Relating to equal opportunity for access by home-schooled students to University Interscholastic League sponsored activities; authorizing a fee. Education |
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Relating to periodic zero-based budgeting for certain political subdivisions. Finance |
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Relating to required disclosures in and to the length of ballot proposition language authorizing political subdivisions to issue bonds or impose or change a tax. Intergovernmental Relations |
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Relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification. State Affairs |
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Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs. Higher Education |
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Relating to authorization by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for certain public junior colleges to offer baccalaureate degree programs. Higher Education |
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Relating to the elimination of the taxing authority of certain county boards of education and boards of county school trustees. Education |
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Relating to a transportation allotment credit for school districts required to take action to reduce wealth per student and inclusion of the cost of education adjustment in the computation of weighted average daily attendance. Education |
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Relating to the small-sized district adjustment under the Foundation School Program. Education |
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Relating to the basic allotment under the foundation school program and the extension of additional state aid for tax reduction provided to certain school districts. Education |
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Relating to tax increment financing. Natural Resources & Economic Development |