| HCR140 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging governmental entities to cease displaying the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and to instead fly the Freedom and Heritage Flag.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-06-01
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HR3579 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the Rio Fest BBQ Showdown.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-31
Filed |
| HCR148 | Intro
Sine Die | Instructing the enrolling clerk of the house to make corrections in H.B. No. 928.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-31
Filed |
| HR3529 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging all Texans to consider adoption when deciding to expand their families and congratulating Steve and Amy Bruno on the adoption of their son, Alexander Peter Theodore Bruno.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-31
Filed |
| HR3425 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3123.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-31
Reason for vote recorded in Journal |
| HR3413 | Intro
Sine Die | Expressing support for La Entrada al Pacifico international trade corridor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-29
Filed |
| HR3421 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting that the president of the United States grant a posthumous full pardon to World Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-29
Filed |
| HCR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the lieutenant governor and the speaker to create a joint interim committee to study compatible land use and regulatory standards for renewable energy development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-29
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HR3024 | Intro
Sine Die | In memory of Nelson Reyes Salinas, governmental affairs manager for the Texas Association of Business and former legislative staff member.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-27
To House Rules & Resolutions Committee |
| HR2927 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Dr. David E. Daniel on his service as president of The University of Texas at Dallas and congratulating him on his appointment as deputy chancellor and chief operating officer of The University of Texas System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-27
To House Rules & Resolutions Committee |
| SCR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Abilene as the official Storybook Capital of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-27
Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. |
| HR3311 | Intro
Sine Die | Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, H.B. No. 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-26
Filed |
| HCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-26
Received from the House |
| HR3239 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the speaker of the house to create a select interim committee to examine the Hazlewood Act program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-25
Filed |
| HCR111 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Hidalgo County to reduce its tax rate upon establishment of the Hidalgo County Healthcare District.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-25
Committee report printed and distributed |
| HCR133 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting that the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives create a joint interim committee to study oyster resource management in Texas waterways.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-24
Filed |
| HCR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Preservation Board, subject to state law and rules of the board, to approve and permit the relocation of the Texas Game Warden Memorial to a site at the State Capitol, south of the Sam Houston Building, just outside of the histo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-24
To Senate Administration Committee |
| HR3164 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging Texas communities to adopt zero waste goals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-23
Filed |
| HCR120 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, Section 5056, and to appropriate sufficient funds so that efforts to solve the salt problem in the Amistad International Reservoir can continue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-23
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HCR61 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to reimburse the State of Texas for bearing the financial burden of the federal government's responsibility to secure the Texas-Mexico international border.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-23
Laid on the table subject to call |
| HCR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting creation of a joint interim committee to study a nonsubstantive reorganization of the Texas Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-23
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HCR131 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to extend and expand its certificate of location program for oyster harvesting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-22
Filed |
| HCR109 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to encourage the Department of Defense to relocate the United States Africa Command to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-22
Laid on the table subject to call |
| HR3025 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring Llano as the Deer Capital of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-21
To House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee |
| HCR74 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to support the creation of a model water recycling project in an appropriate location.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-21
To Senate Agriculture, Water, & Rural Affairs Committee |
| SCR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Authorizing the State Preservation Board to approve and permit the construction of a monument at the state Capitol Complex, at a site outside the historic Capitol grounds, honoring Texans who served during the Global War on Terror as part of the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-21
Comm. report sent to Local & Consent Calendar |
| HCR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the United States Congress to repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-21
To Senate Business & Commerce Committee |
| HCR107 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives to create a joint interim committee to study human trafficking in Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-20
To Senate Administration Committee |
| HCR90 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the speaker and lieutenant governor to create a joint interim committee to study seawater desalination on the Texas coast.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-20
To Senate Administration Committee |
| HCR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Hico as the official Steak Capital of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-20
Considered in Local & Consent Calendars |
| SJR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the issuance of additional obligations to provide financial assistance to counties for roadways to serve border colonias.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-19
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| HCR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the U.S. Congress to expedite natural gas exports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-19
Laid on the table subject to call |
| HCR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the U.S. Congress to end the ban on crude oil exports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-19
Laid on the table subject to call |
| HCR124 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to conduct a study to examine the jobs that college graduates are able to attain in their degree field within two years of graduation and how effective it may be to use this information to reapp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-15
To House Higher Education Committee |
| HCR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the president to abandon the budget proposal redirecting offshore drilling revenue due to Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi under the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-15
Considered in Calendars |
| HR704 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the federal government to return title to all federal public lands within the western states to the states where the land is located.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-15
Considered in Calendars |
| HR2811 | Intro
Sine Die | In memory of Albert Edward Baade Jr. of Tyler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-14
Filed |
| HR2817 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring Young Conservatives of Texas on the 35th anniversary of its founding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-14
Filed |
| HCR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring Israel a major strategic ally of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-14
To Senate State Affairs Committee |
| HJR26 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing an increased minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-14
Statement(s) of vote recorded in Journal |
| HCR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the lieutenant governor and speaker to provide for a joint interim study regarding economic development in the Texas coastal region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-13
To Senate Natural Resources & Economic Development Committee |
| HCR113 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the United States Congress to direct the Bureau of Land Management to affirm the provisions of the Red River Boundary Compact and acknowledge that the vegetation line on the south bank of the Red River forms the boundary between Oklahoma and T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HCR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to direct the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise existing policies that promote the waste of water after an irrigated crop has been declared a failure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| SCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Hico as the official Steak Capital of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
No action taken in committee |
| SJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring certain tax bills to be approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Co-author authorized |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of a residence homestead for ad valorem tax purposes to 105 percent or less of the appraised value of the property for the preceding tax year and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-12
Co-author authorized |
| HJR89 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a local option exemption from ad valorem taxation by a county of a portion of the value of the residence homestead of a physician who provides health care services for which the physician agrees not to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-11
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HJR87 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a portion of the assessed value of certain real property used to provide housing to certain persons with disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-11
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HJR67 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation a percentage of the assessed value of property owned by certain disabled veterans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-11
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| SCR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to halt and reverse certain mand...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-05-11
Committee report sent to Calendars |
