| HR1633 | Intro
Sine Die | Honoring former state representative Jim Keffer for his service in the Texas Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
To House Rules & Resolutions Committee |
| HR1621 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the grandchildren of house members as honorary mascots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
To House Rules & Resolutions Committee |
| SJR61 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the issuance of additional general obligation bonds by the Texas Water Development Board to provide financial assistance for the development of certain projects in economically distressed areas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging Congress to pass legislation allowing the State of Texas to manage the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery out to 200 nautical miles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
To Senate Agriculture, Water, & Rural Affairs Committee |
| HCR91 | Intro
Sine Die | Granting Barbara Stegall permission to sue the Texas Municipal League, TML MultiState Intergovernmental Employee Benefits Pool, Inc., and UMR, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HCR87 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to direct the Department of Defense to relocate the United States Africa Command to Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-05-01
Received from the House |
| HCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the U.S. Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification a federal balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-28
Considered in Calendars |
| HCR43 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-27
To House Natural Resources Committee |
| HR1625 | Intro
Sine Die | In memory of former Texas Supreme Court chief justice Jack Pope.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Filed |
| SCR42 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing the Texas Department of Transportation to adopt a Vision Zero strategy to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
Not again placed on intent calendar |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a first responder who is killed or fatally ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
To House Ways & Means Committee |
| HJR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the legislature to limit the maximum appraised value of property for ad valorem tax purposes in a tax year if in the preceding tax year the owner of the property disputed the appraisal of the property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-26
To House Ways & Means Committee |
| HJR34 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation real property leased to certain schools organized and operated primarily for the purpose of engaging in educational functions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-25
Committee report sent to Calendars |
| HCR98 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress and the president to reject the imposition of an import tax or border adjustment tax on trade with Mexico.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-24
To House International Trade & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HJR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation by one or more political subdivisions of this state property located near a public school that is owned for the purpose of building low-income or mode...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-20
To House Ways & Means Committee |
| HCR127 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging the United States Congress to conduct a cost-benefit analysis regarding the risks of climate change and appropriate measures to address them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-19
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
| HCR128 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to bar investments in Russia until investigations into Russian interference with U.S. elections have been completed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-19
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
| HJR89 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the right to own, hold, and use any mutually agreed upon medium of exchange.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
To House Investments & Financial Services Committee |
| HR273 | Intro
Sine Die | Congratulating John Nechman and Ricardo Ruiz of Houston on their marriage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
To House Rules & Resolutions Committee |
| HCR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to consider the removal of trade, financial, and travel restrictions relating to Cuba.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-18
To House International Trade & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| HCR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Fredericksburg as the official Wine Capital of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-17
To House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee |
| HCR119 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-17
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
| HJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment protecting private schools and home schools from state and local regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-17
To House Public Education Committee |
| HJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing local option elections to legalize or prohibit the operation of eight-liners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-17
To House Licensing & Administrative Procedures Committee |
| HCR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to identify federal regulatory programs that harm the Texas oil and gas industry and delegate relevant regulatory responsibilities to state agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
| HJR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Applying to the Congress of the United States to call a convention under Article V of the United States Constitution for the limited purpose of proposing one or more amendments to the constitution to impose fiscal restraints on the federal government...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-13
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
| HJR115 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to exempt from ad valorem taxation all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of a peace officer who resides in a high crime area.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-12
To House Ways & Means Committee |
| HCR78 | Intro
Sine Die | Requesting the creation of a joint interim committee to study the development of a cruise industry on the South Texas coast.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-12
To House Texas Ports, Innovation & Infrastructure, Select Committee |
| HJR103 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment repealing county authority to provide for manual labor poor houses and farms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
To House County Affairs Committee |
| HCR93 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing members of the AEIC Power Delivery Committee for their dedication to electric reliability research and best practices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-10
Received from the House |
| HJR11 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment changing the eligibility requirements for appellate judicial offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee |
| HJR117 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment changing the terms of office of certain judicial offices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee |
| HJR109 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment allowing the voters to remove elected officials finally convicted of a felony from office by means of a recall election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House State Affairs Committee |
| SJR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of pretrial release of a person accused of a noncapital offense if necessary to ensure the person's appearance in court and the safety of the community and the victim of the alleged offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
No action taken in committee |
| HCR94 | Intro
Sine Die | Declaring opposition to the enactment or enforcement of a law requiring the revocation or suspension of the driver's license of any individual convicted of a drug offense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-04
To House Transportation Committee |
| SJR52 | 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] | 2017-04-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SJR41 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for foregoing the transfer of oil and gas production tax revenue to the economic stabilization fund if the ending fund balance for the preceding fiscal year is greater than $5 billion and for reducing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
To Senate Finance Committee |
| SCR21 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing Texas as a Purple Heart State.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
To Senate Veteran Affairs & Border Security Committee |
| HJR47 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment to change the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas to the Texas Energy Commission and to mandate that there be such an agency.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-04-03
To House Energy Resources Committee |
| HCR118 | Intro
Sine Die | Finding that the diversion of sales tax funds from general revenue to the state highway fund was approved by Texas voters in 2015 and is required under Section 7-c, Article VIII, of the Texas Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HCR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and its activities to spread anti-Semitism in Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House State Affairs Committee |
| HJR121 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent possible and to be known as the "Life at Conception provision of the Texas Constitution's Bill of Rights".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House State Affairs Committee |
| HCR110 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating tacos as the official state food of Texas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee |
| HJR122 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the extent authorized under federal constitutional law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House State Affairs Committee |
| HJR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to life of unborn children and prohibiting abortion to the fullest extent possible.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House State Affairs Committee |
| HJR124 | Intro
Sine Die | Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for the use and dedication of certain money transferred to the general revenue fund account for emergency medical services and trauma care systems.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HCR109 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating the third week of September as Towing Industry Awareness Week for a 10-year period beginning in 2017.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Culture, Recreation & Tourism Committee |
| HCR108 | Intro
Sine Die | Directing the comptroller of public accounts to reduce the amounts of certain revenue that would otherwise be deposited to the state highway fund for the 2018 and 2019 state fiscal years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HCR107 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging appropriate state agencies to support the establishment of a veterans memorial in Conroe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House Defense & Veterans' Affairs Committee |
| HCR104 | Intro
Sine Die | Urging Congress to require the Bureau of Land Management to commission a gradient boundary survey of the south bank of the Red River.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-03-31
To House State & Federal Power & Responsibility, Select Committee |
