Legislation authored by Raul L. Longoria
Includes legislation with Raul L. Longoria as the primary author for the 57th through 66th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 66th Regular Session | |
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| SB 216 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to venue for trial of marihuana offenses. |
| SB 217 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to aquisition and disposition of land by Pan American University. |
| SB 222 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, and financing of the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program. |
| SB 336 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources Caption: Relating to the bay shrimping seasons. |
| SB 401 |
Last Action: Withdrawn from calendar Caption: Relating to purchase, sale, and lease of land and facilities of certain navigation districts. |
| SB 402 |
Last Action: House conferees appointed Caption: Relating to refunding bonds, notes, and other indebtedness of navigation districts. |
| SB 403 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to creation of the 273rd Judicial District, composed of Hidalgo County. |
| SB 404 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to authority of the Texas Employment Commission to sell certain state-owned land to the City of McAllen and to use the proceeds to acquire other land and buildings. |
| SB 405 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to election of directors of certain irrigation districts. |
| SB 470 |
Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with substitute Caption: Relating to the membership expiration, staff, functions, and revenue of the Good Neighbor Commission of Texas. |
| SB 477 |
Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to weight and length requirements for vehicles transporting seed cotton modules. |
| SB 514 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to maintenance of the public beaches. |
| SB 539 |
Last Action: Governor submitted as emergency Caption: Relating to release pending trial of persons accused of criminal offenses. |
| SB 613 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the creation, jurisdiction, procedures, powers, and authority of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Hidalgo County; providing for the terms, judge, and personnel of the court. |
| SB 631 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to use of voting machines for absentee voting. |
| SB 658 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to a branch of Texas State Technical Institute in Hidalgo County. |
| SB 718 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the authority of certain municipalities regarding the acquisition, construction, operation, and financing of international toll bridges and related facilities. |
| SB 719 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to licensing of labor agents. |
| SB 764 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the penalty for a violation of Chapter 77, Parks and Wildlife Code, relating to the taking of shrimp. |
| SB 821 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably with substitute Caption: Relating to the selection of grand jurors. |
| SB 822 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to registration of motor vehicles. |
| SB 922 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to consent by a parent or a judicially designated managing conservator or guardian or a court order granting permission before an abortion can be performed upon a minor. |
| SB 923 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the manufacture of alcohol for fuel, industrial uses, and exportation from the state. |
| SB 924 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to certain citrus cooperative associations. |
| SB 1039 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the regulation of contracts for dance studio lessons; providing a penalty. |
| SB 1105 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Authorizing the Brownsville Navigation District, Cameron County, Texas, to establish, operate, and maintain a U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone at Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, and subzones thereof under the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone Act. |
| SB 1231 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the composition of Administrative Judicial Districts. |
| SB 1307 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to maintenance of unkept cemeteries by certain counties. |
| SB 1311 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the penalties for offenders who use a firearm during the commission of an offense. |
| SB 1312 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the penalty for the manufacture or sale of certain drugs in violation of the Texas Controlled Substances Act. |
| SB 1313 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the penalties for offenders who use a firearem during the commission of an offense. |
| SB 1314 |
Last Action: Failure to suspend the rules Caption: Relating to application of the statute of limitations to sums or property required to be reported and paid to the State Treasurer's Office under the es cheat statutes. |
| SB 1315 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to penalties for repeat and habitual offenders. |
| SCR 14 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Inviting President Jose Lopez Portillo, President of Mexico to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| SCR 24 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Granting C.K. Koelle permission to sue the state. |
| SCR 86 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Granting Dr. Arthur G. Enns, permission to sue the Board of Regents of The University of Texas, The M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, Texas, and the Rio Grande Radiation Treatment and Cancer Research Foundation, Incorporated. |
| SR 472 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Lena Guerrero. |
| SR 545 | Caption: Extending welcome to St. John's Episcopal Day School third grade class. |
| SR 552 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mian A. Ghani. |
| SR 564 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Casis Elementary School. |
| SR 575 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Valley Building Officials Association. |
| SR 640 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Rod Hinojosa. |
| SR 758 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Captain Pete Mendoza. |
| 65th Regular Session | |
| SB 32 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to payment of fees, court costs, restitution, and reparations by adult probationers and defense in revocation hearing. |
| SB 205 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to secured transactions. |
| SB 248 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to the establishment of an upper-level educational center of Pan American University to be located at Brownsville. |
| SB 328 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to the validation of the acts and proceedings of school districts; and declaring an emergency. |
| SB 329 |
Last Action: Reported from committee favorably Caption: Relating to standard times; exempting all of Texas from the provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966. |
| SB 425 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to admission of children under the age of 18 years to the public schools; providing for determinations by the board of trustees respecting residency. |
| SB 426 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to the use of white-winged dove stamp revenue. |
| SB 477 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the establishment of Texas Woman's University Medical School. |
| SB 623 |
Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the creation, jurisdiction, administration, and procedures of the Texas Statewide Court; providing for appeal and making other provisions relative to this court. |
| SB 707 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to the qualifications and disqualifications of election judges, clerks, and watchers, and certain executive committee members. |
| SB 717 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to handicapped persons and rehabilitation districts. |
| SB 770 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Restoring to restoration of the voting rights of persons convicted of a felony. |
| SB 784 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to suit for the recovery of debts by a foreign executor or administrator. |
| SB 846 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to the authority of certain cities to undertake and finance certain improvments and providing procedures therefor. |
| SB 920 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Creating the County Court at Law No. 2 of Hidalgo County; providing for its terms, jurisdiction, and procedures; adjusting the jurisdiction between the various courts; providing for exchange of benches and for administration of cases and dockets between the courts; fixing the qualifications of the judge and providing for his election or appointment, his term, compensation, and his powers and duties; providing for the appointment or election of a special judge; providing for the necessary officers and employees and for juries. |
| SB 921 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Economic Development Caption: Relating to use of bonds of the Hidalgo County Drainage District Number One as security for certain public funds. |
| SB 922 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to terms of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County. |
| SB 993 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to the authority of counties and cities on the Mexican border with regard to toll bridges and financing of bridges, tolls charged, and use of proceeds of tolls. |
| SB 994 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to application forms for applying for an absentee ballot, to payment of postage by the state on applications for ballots to be voted by mail, and to procedures for conducting the absentee voting. |
| SB 1103 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Redefining the term "issuer"; providing for severability. |
| SB 1251 |
Last Action: Reported from committee favorably substituted Caption: Relating to regulation of dealers in vegetable and fruit grown in this state. |
| SB 1264 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Calendars Caption: Authorizing the Texas Employment Commission to sell and convey certain land located in the city of McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas; prescribing the procedures, terms, and conditions of sale and disposition of the proceeds. |
| SB 1291 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to buck deer in Brooks County. |
| SCR 17 |
Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Authorizing Terry Bishop to sue the State -- Pan American University. |
| SCR 59 |
Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Inviting the Honoralbe Enrique Cardenas Gonzalez, Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, to address a joint session of the House and Senate, March 29, 1977. |
| SCR 94 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Congratulating Servicio Informativo en Espanol for service to Mexican-American population of Texas and neighbor Rebulic of Mexico. |
| SR 322 | Caption: Authorizing the Special Committee on Trade and Tourism to continue its studies of undue hindrance of trade and tourism. |
| SR 499 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Mrs. Ruth Louise McDonald. |
| SR 706 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Connie Cantu. |
| SR 800 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Servicio Informativo en Espanol. |
| 65th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 29 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Constantino Zarate. |
| 65th 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 11 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Directing the Legislative Commission on Public School Finance to study and compile information prior to the 66th Regular Session regarding reductions in public school district ad valorem tax bases and ad valorem tax revenues as a result of the adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment. |
| SR 38 | Caption: Inviting Dr. Gian C. Sud, Director of the International Education Center at Western Michigan University, to address the Senate at 11:00 o'clock a.m. on Monday, July 24, 1978. |
| 64th Regular Session | |
| SB 57 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to county authority to regulate construction, land development, and subdivisions in unincorporated areas; providing penalties. |
| SB 166 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the use of funds received from the sale of white-winged dove stamps; changing references from the Parks and Wildlife Commission to the Parks and Wildlife Department. |
| SB 222 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the compensation of the judges of the 103rd, 107th, 138th, and 197th Judicial Districts. |
| SB 282 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee with no action taken Caption: Relating to assesment of the period of probation by the jury. |
| SB 298 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to including all cities, towns, and villages under the provisions of Chapter 63, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, as amended, authorizing the construction of city facilities, issuance of revenue bonds, and imposition of a local hotel occupancy tax. |
| SB 299 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources Caption: Relating to increasing the membership of the Parks and Wildlife Commission. |
| SB 333 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to increasing the membership of the Public Safety Commission. |
| SB 380 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee with no action taken Caption: Relating to the change of name of a minor. |
| SB 381 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee with no action taken Caption: Relating to the custody of and support for children on the divorce of the parents or during the marriage relationship of the parents; providing for the modification and enforcement of order of a court setting the custody of or support for a child; providing for remedies for persons entitled to the possession of children. |
| SB 382 |
Last Action: 90 day bill Caption: Relating to probation on a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere and deferred adjudication of guilt; allowing defendant to request final adjudication; providing procedures on violation of a condition of probation; providing effect of previously received probation for purposes of disqualification or disabilities as result of a conviction and in assessment of punishment after a conviction for a subsequent offense. |
| SB 398 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to licensing migrant labor camps; changing certain definitions; providing venue of hearings and judicial review; defining certain offenses and providing penalties. |
| SB 420 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to rates that may be charged by certain gas companies in certain counties. |
| SB 482 |
Last Action: Referred to Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs Caption: Relating to the gathering of statistical information concerning the performance of abortions in the state. |
| SB 483 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the establishment of a grant program for construction of migrant labor camps to be administered by the State Department of Health. |
| SB 509 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to licensing of labor agents as defined in the Act; relating to fees payable by applicant for license and by prospective employees; making requirements as to applications and bond; requiring notice by surety of cancellation of bonds; placing certain duties on a labor leader, and on the commissioner to carry out provisions of the Act. |
| SB 510 |
Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to appointment, term of position, and compensation of county road engineers; placing certain authority in the county judge. |
| SB 511 |
Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to the authority of the Court of Civil Appeals for the Thirteenth Supreme Judicial District to transact business at the county seat of the counties in the district. |
| SB 601 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to coloring citrus fruit. |
| SB 602 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the issuance of a dealers license to certain persons who sell citrus fruit from door to door or from temporary locations; relating to bonding requirements for dealers of citrus fruit; relating to inspection for proof of purchase of citrus fruit. |
| SB 626 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to establishment of a medical branch of The University of Texas System to be known as The University of Texas Medical School of the Rio Grande Valley. |
| SB 679 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Exempting certain members of governing boards of school districts from the state law prohibiting nepotism. |
| SB 680 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to admission of children to the public schools. |
| SB 681 |
Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to persons authorized to conduct marriage ceremonies. |
| SB 682 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to the development and implementation of ways to strengthen educational programs and effectiveness through improved planning, budgeting, evaluation, and management procedures in school districts, regional education service centers, and the Central Education Agency. |
| SB 683 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the compensation of the court reporter of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County. |
| SB 716 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the designation of the governor to represent the state in negotiating a compact among the states bordering the Republic of Mexico; setting forth the functions and duties of the Greater South Texas Cultural Basin Commission; calling for a biennial report by the governor; and providing for ratification of any compact by the legislature. |
| SB 734 |
Last Action: 90 day bill Caption: Relating to the authority, duties, and powers of municipalities to implement community development programs; declaring the objectives of certain activities undertaken to implement community development programs to be public purposes; providing procedures for implementation of such community development programs; relating to certain rights; specifying the scope and effect of this Act and its relationship to other laws, powers, obligations, or rights; validating and ratifying certain previous proceedings implementing community development programs. |
| SB 755 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the discharge and cancellation of judgment liens against bankrupts; providing for hearings after notice upon applications of bankrupts or other interested parties for an order of discharge of judgments, judgment liens, and abstracts of judgments; making special provision in regard to certain liens on real property; providing for recordation of certified copies of orders of discharge. |
| SB 958 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Clarifying the power of a city, town, or district to enter into certain contracts and for such district to issue bonds in accordance with the provisions of such act as amended. |
| SB 959 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Economic Development Caption: Relating to regulation of air carriers. |
| SB 960 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Economic Development Caption: Relating to regulation of air carriers. |
| SB 961 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to making Pan American University a component of The University of Texas System and changing the name of the institution to The University of Texas-Pan American. |
| SB 962 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Economic Development Caption: Relating to notification procedures to be followed by insurance companies; providing for foreitures. |
| SB 963 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Administration Caption: Providing for the sale and return to Cameron County of 920 feet of causeway and certain submerged lands upon which same is located, as well as the lands, roads system and swing bridge comprising the most southerly approach to the Queen Isabella causeway system heretofore operated by Cameron County and conveyed to, and accepted by, the Highway Department of the State of Texas, by Highway Department Minute Order No. 59893, dated August 31, 1967, and prescribing the terms and conditions of such sale and declaring an emergency. |
| SB 998 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the creation of the 247th Judicial District, composed of Hidalgo County. |
| SB 1046 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the effetive implementation of the voting rights of all qualified citizens of the state, and relating to the conduct of elections and procedures and matters incidental to the holding of elections in this state; defining certain conduct as offenses and prescribing criminal penalties; relating to the responsibilities of the chief elections officer of the state and inspectors appointed by him; relating to opening and closing times of the polls and procedures incidental thereto; relating to duties and privileges of watchers and making certain interference with a watcher a crime; relating to qualifications and residence requirements for voting and procedures for insuring that qualified voters be allowed to vote; forbidding discrimination in deputizing persons to register voters; relating to an election officer or any assistant divulging the vote of any voter; relating to illegal voting; relating to instigating illegal voting. |
| SB 1079 |
Last Action: Point of order sustained Caption: Relating to the authority of the Commissioners Court of Hidalgo County to regulate construction, land development, and subdivisions development in unincorporated areas; requiring the filing of subdivision plats and performance bonds approved by the commissioners court; providing procedures for adopting orders; authorizing fees; defining the territory covered by the Act; making transitional provisions. |
| SB 1087 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the compensation of the Criminal District Attorney of Hidalgo County. |
| SCR 20 |
Last Action: Defeat by House reported Caption: Respectfully memorializing the Congress of the United States to declare a moratorium on the enforcement of wasteful environmental standards until the current energy crisis has subsided; providing for copies of this resolution to be prepared and forwarded to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members of the Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be entered officially in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States. |
| SCR 42 |
Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Granting permission to the parties, as that term is hereinafter defined, to sue the State of Texas to establish any and all claims which they ahve or assert to lands within the three tracts of land hereinafter described; providing that the term "parties" means the following named persons, firms, or corporations, their respective heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assigns, together with any and all other persons, firms, or corporations who are which any court of competent jurisdiction may determine are necessary or proper parties to the litigation here authorized, whether such joinder is effected by intervention or joinder as involuntary plaintiffs or as defendants, and who as defendants would ahve a permissive or compulsory counterclaim or cross-claim which might be asserted against the State of Texas; providing that the tracts with regard to which suit may be brought, either separately or concurrently, are as follows; providing that the venue of the suit or suits be in any district court in any county in which any one of the tracts is located, and that in the event the suit is filed, service of citation and other required process be made on the attorney general and on the commissioner of the general land office; providing that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an admission by the State of Texas, or any of its agents, employees, departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, of liability or of the truth of any allegations asserted by the claimant but the alleged cause of action must be proved under the laws of this state as in other civil cases; providing that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as a waiver of any defense of fact or law available to the State of Texas or any of its agents, employees, departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, but every defense is specifically reserved. |
| SCR 88 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Memorializing the Congress of the United States to provide financial aid to school districts along the border with Mexico where a large proportion of non-citizen students are enrolled in the school systems as compensation for the increased costs of educating these alien children; providing that copies of this resolution be prepared and forwarded to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members of the Texas delegation to the congress with the request that this resolution be entered officially in the Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United States. |
| SJR 41 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Texas Constitution Caption: Amending Constitution to permit state to provide grants for construction of migrant labor camps. |
| SR 349 | Caption: Memorial resolution for The Honorable H. A. Garcia. |
| SR 478 | Caption: Directing Senate Administration Committee to Commission a painting of Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez to be displayed in an appropriate place in the Senate. |
| 63rd Regular Session | |
| SB 31 |
Last Action: Laid on table subject to call Caption: Relating to the boundaries of a county seat. |
| SB 32 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Providing for driver's license examinations in Spanish language for persons unable to take the examination in English. |
| SB 33 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Exempting certain receipts from private clubs operated by veterans' on fraternal organizations from the gross receipts tax on the sale or service of alcoholic beverages. |
| SB 129 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Relating to capital improvements for Pan American University and the issuance of revenue bonds; providing for approval of bonds and pledges of tuition by the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System. |
| SB 132 |
Last Action: Committee substitute Caption: Relating to the liability of persons supplying certain areas for recreational purposes without charge. |
| SB 136 |
Last Action: Committee substitute Caption: Relating to the penalties for offenses involving marijuana. |
| SB 185 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to temporary permits for certain commercial motor vehicle, trailers, and semitrailers; making special provisions as to permits for importation of citrus fruit; increasing fee for such permits; providing a severability clause. |
| SB 205 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Defining the term "issuer" to mean any city in the State of Texas which owns the water, sewer and electric utility systems serving such city and which had a population not exceeding 60,000 according to the last preceding census;...prescribing a severability provision. |
| SB 276 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to the creation and organization of the University of South Texas System; providing for the appointment, powers, and duties of the board of regents of the system in regard to the operation of the named member universities; authorizing the establishment of the University of South Texas Extension Center at Brownsville, to e a part of the system; providing for appointment of a chancellor of the system and prescribing his duties and responsibilities; providing procedures for the selection of the chief administrative officer of each member university; providing the level of work or type of programs offered by each member university; prescribing the relationship of this Act to existing laws governing the various member institutions; appropriating certain funds heretofore appropriated to component units or institutions to the system; making certain provisions as to use of appropriations to such institutions for the fiscal year 1973-74; retaining the Texas A&I University central administrative structure headed by a chancellor with change of name to the University of South Texas System with broadened responsibility to include other institutions in the system, and other related powers. |
| SB 418 |
Last Action: Reported favorably Caption: Relating to the period of probation and the term of imprisonment after revocation of probation. |
| SB 475 |
Last Action: Reported favorably Caption: Relating to the issuance and conditions of a citation issued for an alleged violation of the game fish, and park laws of this state; providing a penalty. |
| SB 507 |
Last Action: Sent to subcommittee Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting of certain game from any motor vehicle; increasing the minimum penalty for a violation of Article 901, Penal Code of Texas, 1925, as amended. |
| SB 508 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the issuance of licenses by the Texas Cosmetology Commission. |
| SB 509 |
Last Action: Sent to subcommittee Caption: Relating to possession of deer carcasses before final processing. |
| SB 532 |
Last Action: Reported favorably Caption: Relating to cumulative voting in the election of directors of state banks. |
| SB 638 |
Last Action: 90 Day Bill Caption: Authorizing the governor to designate several cultural basins in the State of Texas; authorizing the governor to appoint a commission for each cultural basin designated; providing that each of three major metropolitan districts should be in separate commissions; setting forth the functions of the several cultural basin commissions; setting forth specific duties of commission members; establishing staff support for the several cultural basin commissions in the governor's office; authorizing the legislature to appropriate funds for the support of the several cultural basin commissions; authorizing the cultural basin commissions to accept and expend funds; establishing the Greater South Texas Cultural Basin as the pilot cultural basin; calling for an annual report by each cultural basin commission; providing a severability clause. |
| SB 690 |
Last Action: Reported favorably Caption: Relating to the creation of the 254th Judicial District, composed of Hidalgo County. |
| SB 890 |
Last Action: House passage as amended reported Caption: Relating to the compensation of the criminal district attorney and judge of the county court at law in Hidalgo County; amending Subsection (b), Section 2, Chapter 89, Acts of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, 1959, as amended; amending Subsection (a), Section 11, Chapter 25, Acts of the 52nd Legislature, 1951, as amended (Article 1970-341, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency. |
| SB 962 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to compensation of members of the Hidalgo County Juvenile Board. |
| SB 978 |
Last Action: Sent to Calendar Committee Caption: Creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district known as "San Simon Municipal Utility District of Cameron County, Texas," declaring district a governmental agency, body politic and corporate; finding the field notes and boundaries form a closure, and related matters; finding benefit to all property within the district; defining the boundaries; conferring on district the rights, powers, privileges, authority and functions of the general laws of Texas including without limitation those conferred on municipal utility districts, and adopting same by reference; naming the first directors of the district ; providing for the filling of vacancies; providing for terms and appointment or election of directors, and related matters; enacting other provisions relating to the above-mentioned subjects; providing a severability clause. |
| SCR 86 |
Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Allowing certain companies to sue the State. |
| SCR 141 |
Last Action: Received from the Senate Caption: Commending the Service Employment Redevelopment organization on celebration of 7th Anniversary. |
| SCR 146 |
Last Action: Received from the Senate Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to take up H.B. No. 1282. |
| SR 762 | Caption: Commending Company B, 2nd Battalion, 141st Infantry Brigade, Army National Guard, on selection as recipient of the Eisenhower Trophy. |
| SR 766 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Mrs. Gertrude A. Petrie on the 100th anniversary of her birth. |
| SR 832 | Caption: Requesting the Alcoholic Beverage Commission to diligently collect all taxes due the state. |
| 62nd Regular Session | |
| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of Pan American College to Pan American University. |
| HB 301 | Caption: Relating to establishing, allocating funds for, and providing for the administration of a program to aid and enhance instruction in secular subjects in certain nonpublic schools through payment of salaries to teachers in such schools under individual service contracts entered into between such teachers and local public school districts. |
| HB 386 | Caption: Relating to the salary of the criminal district attorney of Hidalgo County. |
| HB 549 | Caption: Relating to the possession of cannabis. |
| HB 1225 | Caption: Relating to credit for judicial retirement for judges who have served in the armed forces. |
| HB 1325 | Caption: Relating to permitting a peace officer to take bail in misdemeanor cases. |
| HB 1704 | Caption: Relating to the issuance of interest-bearing time warrants by certain independent school districts. |
| HR 185 | Caption: Commending the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. |
| 62nd 3rd Called Session | |
| HCR 33 | Caption: Urging the Texas Industrial Commission to establish a Texas Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE). |
| HR 123 | Caption: Commending the Texas Agricultural Extension Service of Texas A&M University. |
| 61st Regular Session | |
| HB 156 | Caption: Relating to the establishment and operation of a minimum wage; providing a penalty. |
| HB 161 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes to provide for the operation of non-English speaking children programs for a period of time; providing an effective date. |
| HB 298 | Caption: Relating to and fixing the maximum salaries of the official shorthand reporters for the 92nd, 93rd, and 139th Judicial Districts of Texas. |
| HB 420 | Caption: Relating to the minimum teacher salary schedule for teachers of exceptional children. |
| HB 657 | Caption: Relating to deductions from state officers' and employees' salaries and wages to pay credit union loans. |
| HB 965 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Savings and Loan Act by permitting a new association to submit and prove the qualifications of its proposed managing officer before, during, or after other determinations are made by the savings and loan commissioner. |
| HB 1356 | Caption: Relating to the compensation of the court reporter of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County. |
| HCR 97 | Caption: Inviting former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey to address a Joint Session. |
| HR 28 | Caption: In memory of Carlos Villegas of Pharr, Texas. |
| 60th Regular Session | |
| HB 780 | Caption: Relating to proceedings against children for certain offenses; giving the juvenile court exclusive jurisdiction in certain cases. |
| HB 841 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of Texas Technological College and Pan American College to construct, acquire, extend, improve and equip a utility plant. |
| HB 901 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relating to the designation of trustee to receive proceeds of life insurance policies; providing for an effective date. |
| HB 954 | Caption: Relating to fixing mechanics' liens on homesteads; requiring that a performance bond be filed with the contract. |
| HB 1137 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the operation of non-English speaking children programs for a period of time not to exceed four and one-half months. |
| HCR 161 | Caption: Instructing the Comptroller to return H. B. No. 1137 to the House for corrections. |
| HR 56 | Caption: In memory of Tom W. Bates of Edinburg. |
| HR 145 | Caption: Congratulating Jay Lynn McDonald on her High School graduation. |
| HR 399 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study employment and wage issues in regards to small business and agriculture. |
| 59th Regular Session | |
| HB 404 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas College of Arts and Industries to convey certain state-owned land located in Hidalgo and Kleberg Counties and to purchase certain land in Hidalgo County. |
| HB 775 | Caption: Relating to the compensation of the Judges of the 92nd, 93rd, and 139th Judicial Districts. |
| HB 943 | Caption: Relating to providing that liens on real property created by virtue of paving assessments shall be enforced by suit only in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such property is located, or by sale of such property in the same manner as provided for sale of property for ad valorem city taxes. |
| HB 1028 | Caption: Relating to compensation of special judges in certain counties. |
| HB 1095 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing board of Texas College of Arts and Industries to purchase certain farming equipment and lands, crops and horticultural and agricultural products. |
| HR 524 | Caption: In memory of Tom M. Brookshire of Kingsville. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 740 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Road District Number 12 of Hidalgo County, Texas. |
| HB 862 | Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code of Texas relating to party affiliation as a requirement to participate in party conventions, primaries, and activities. |
| HB 867 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas permitting a trial judge, at his discretion to allow separation of juries except in the trial of capital cases. |
| HJR 64 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the Commissioners Court in each county may levy whatever sums may be necessary for two (2) constitutional purposes; first a constitutional fund called a general fund which shall include funds for all purposes, save and except those for road and bridge purposes; and a second fund for road and bridge purposes. |
| HR 393 | Caption: Commending the Edinburg High School A Capella Choir for their performance in the Capitol Rotunda. |
| HR 522 | Caption: Welcoming Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to the Capitol. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 205 | Caption: Authorizing the Textbook Investigating Committee to receive all necessary operational funds. |