Legislation authored by Melchor Chavez
Includes legislation with Melchor Chavez as the primary author for the 64th through 66th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 66th Regular Session | |
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| HB 28 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to recovery of attorney's fees in delinquent tax suits of municipal utility districts. |
| HB 39 |
Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to statewide juvenile services and probation; providing the name, membership, administration, powers, and duties of the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission; providing state aid. |
| HB 40 |
Last Action: Read second time and passed to third reading Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of juvenile boards and the establishment of a juvenile board in counties where none exists and to standards for juvenile probation officers and personnel. |
| HB 486 |
Last Action: Posting rule suspended Caption: Relating to application of the workers' compensation law to farm and ranch laborers. |
| HB 700 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to jurisdiction of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship. |
| HB 1609 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the employment of alien and agricultural workers; providing a penalty. |
| HB 1611 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Conforming all criminal penalties to the punishment structure established by the Penal Code. |
| HB 1716 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Employment Practices Caption: Relating to the state minimum wage. |
| HB 1916 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Livestock Caption: Relating to citrus marketing association. |
| HCR 72 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Petitioning Congress to call a constitutional convention to propose an amendment prohibiting federal deficit spending. |
| HCR 78 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Memorializing Congress to change general election date to first Saturday in November. |
| HR 158 | Caption: In memory of Johnny Franz. |
| 65th Regular Session | |
| HB 113 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to payment of fees, court costs, restitution, and reparations by adult probationers. |
| HB 114 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to public access to information concerning workmen's compensation claims. |
| HB 189 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the application of the workmen's compensation law to farm and ranch laborers. |
| HB 836 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to limiting the operation of a motor vehicle to occupational, rehabilitation, or educational purposes. |
| HB 965 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to carrying firearms on or about one's person. |
| HB 1030 |
Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to unfair claims settlement practices by certain insurers. |
| HB 1060 |
Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to conduct of business or rendering of professional services under an assumed name by individuals, partners, unincorporated or incorporated businesses, professional or other associations, corporations, or legal entities. |
| HB 1346 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to restoration of the voting rights of persons convicted of a felony. |
| HB 1580 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Education Caption: Relating to rehabilitation districts; providing for accreditation. |
| HB 1668 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to grand juries with limited authority in multicounty areas; amending the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1965. |
| HB 1701 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to pretrial release and bail pending appearance at a criminal trial or other criminal proceedings; providing for the collection and disposition of certain fees; providing penalties for certain violations by persons released. |
| HB 1709 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the appointment of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to serve as a master in certain suits instituted by a commissioner court to partition certain tracts of land; making other provisions relative to the master and the findings and recommendations of the master; prescribing the authority of the court in such cases. |
| HB 1888 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the release pending trial of persons accused of criminal offenses. |
| HB 1889 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the misdemeanor cases in which probation is authorized. |
| HB 2193 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to traveling expenses and per diem payments to visiting court reporters. |
| HCR 43 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Granting National Seafoods, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas and the General Land Office. |
| HCR 117 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Granting Platoro Limited, Inc., permission to sue the state. |
| HR 144 | Caption: Congratulating Diane Boenker and Mickey Reichenbach. |
| HR 145 | Caption: Congratulating Frank E. Griffin, Jr. and Susan Lupton. |
| HR 146 | Caption: Congratulating Pam Davis and Jim Hacker. |
| 65th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 10 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the taxation or exemption from taxation of the receipts from the sale, production, distribution, lease or rental of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of gas and electricity for residential use under state and local sales and use taxes. |
| 64th Regular Session | |
| HB 177 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the licensing of bail bondsmen in counties with a population exceeding 140,000. |
| HB 668 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to rehabilitation districts for handicapped persons. |
| HB 669 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to assessment of the period of probation by the jury. |
| HB 670 |
Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to probation on a plea of guilty and deferred adjudication of guilt. |
| HB 861 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee 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. |
| HB 862 |
Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the change of name of a minor. |
| HB 949 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the compensation of judges of the 103rd, 107th, 138th, and 197th Judicial Districts. |
| HB 1100 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to rates that may be charged by certaingas companies in certain counties. |
| HB 1542 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to authorizing the legislature to appropriate funds for the acquisition or construction of facilities for rehabilitation districts. |
| HB 2141 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the abolition of the office of county school superintendent and the board of county school trustees in Cameron, Nueces, Tyler, Marion, and Cass Counties. |
| HCR 93 |
Last Action: Tabled Caption: Granting permission to Platoro Limited, Inc., to sue the state. |
| HR 232 | Caption: Commending Ruby Hernandez. |