Bills Vetoed by Governor Perry, 80th Legislature

HB No. 1: Line Item Vetos
HB No. 15: Line Item Vetos

Bill Number	Author	Sponsor	Summary
HB No. 44	Hodge	Uresti	Relating to the restoration of good conduct time forfeited during a term of imprisonment. Veto Message for HB No. 44
HB No. 47	Hodge	Hinojosa	Relating to the provision of educational services to certain inmates imprisoned in the institutional division of the Department of Criminal Justice. Veto Message for HB No. 47
HB No. 48	Chavez	Zaffirini	Relating to distributions from the employment and training investment holding fund. Veto Message for HB No. 48
HB No. 317	Miller	Fraser	Relating to the student enrollment required for the issuance of certain revenue bonds for facilities at Texas A&M University-Central Texas. Veto Message for HB No. 317
HB No. 447	Callegari	Jackson	Relating to contracts by governmental entities for construction projects and related professional services and to public works performance and payment bonds. Veto Message for HB No. 447
HB No. 541	Martinez, Fischer	Wentworth	Relating to procedures for certain persons charged with an administrative violation of a condition of release from the Department of Criminal Justice on parole or mandatory supervision. Veto Message for HB No. 541
HB No. 544	Strama	Watson	Relating to reduced tuition and fees for certain junior college district students who reside outside of the district. Veto Message for HB No. 544
HB No. 589	Aycock	Fraser	Relating to the student enrollment required for Texas A&M University--Central Texas to operate as a general academic teaching institution. Veto Message for HB No. 589
HB No. 738	Bonnen	Jackson	Relating to an exemption from Texas Commission on Fire Protection training requirements for certain aircraft fire fighting and rescue fire protection personnel. Veto Message for HB No. 738
HB No. 770	Dutton	Lucio	Relating to requiring the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to provide notice to certain persons of the right to vote. Veto Message for HB No. 770
HB No. 971	King, T	Uresti	Relating to a documented member of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas hunting certain deer. Veto Message for HB No. 971
HB No. 1023	Berman	Watson	Relating to grants made by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Veto Message for HB No. 1023
HB No. 1092	Hilderbran	Wentworth	Relating to the prosecution of an offense of criminal trespass. Veto Message for HB No. 1092
HB No. 1129	Macias	Wentworth	Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of criminal trespass. Veto Message for HB No. 1129
HB No. 1179	Flores	Nelson	Relating to procurements by the Texas Lottery Commission. Veto Message for HB No. 1179
HB No. 1205	Keffer	Eltife	Relating to the prohibition of certain employment discrimination regarding an employee who is a volunteer emergency responder. Veto Message for HB No. 1205
HB No. 1427	Alonzo	Zaffirini	Relating to an optometry career program at the University of Houston. Veto Message for HB No. 1427
HB No. 1503	Lucio	Hinojosa	Relating to allowing certain assistant district and county attorneys to carry weapons. Veto Message for HB No. 1503
HB No. 1519	Smith	Carona	Relating to including within the offense of barratry and solicitation of professional employment certain solicitations made during certain periods. Veto Message for HB No. 1519
HB No. 1667	Geren	Brimer	Relating to the amount of the fee for issuing certain alcoholic beverage permits. Veto Message for HB No. 1667
HB No. 1687	Farias	Ellis	Relating to the information that must be included on the face of an appeal bond. Veto Message for HB No. 1687
HB No. 1892	Smith, Wayne	Williams	Relating to the authority of certain counties and other entities with respect to certain transportation projects; providing penalties. Veto Message for HB No. 1892
HB No. 2006	Woolley	Janek	Relating to the use of eminent domain authority. Veto Message for HB No. 2006
HB No. 2087	Hill	Wentworth	Relating to a restriction on the frequency with which a county, municipality, or junior college district may hold a petition-initiated election on whether to establish a limitation on ad valorem taxes imposed by the county ... Veto Message for HB No. 2087
HB No. 2103	Kolkhorst	Ogden	Relating to a pilot program to award scholarships to certain correctional officers enrolled at Sam Houston State University. Veto Message for HB No. 2103
HB No. 2265	Haggerty	Averitt	Relating to the prizes awarded in a progressive bingo game. Veto Message for HB No. 2265
HB No. 2622	Ortiz	Hinojosa	Relating to eligibility of board members of certain rapid transit authorities to receive insurance benefits. Veto Message for HB No. 2622
HB No. 2646	Rose	Watson	Relating to the award of stipends to nationally certified classroom teachers under the educator excellence awards program. Veto Message for HB No. 2646
HB No. 2713	Bonnen	Averitt	Relating to an interim study concerning the state's demand for electric generation capacity, the development of a long-term energy plan, and the effects on the environment of electric generating facilities. Veto Message for HB No. 2713
HB No. 2990	Madden	Seliger	Relating to use of certain electronic monitoring technology in certain correctional facilities by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Veto Message for HB No. 2990
HB No. 3084	Phillips	Deuell	Relating to the municipal street maintenance sales tax. Veto Message for HB No. 3084
HB No. 3200	Madden	Whitmire	Relating to the computation of certain funding for community supervision and corrections departments. Veto Message for HB No. 3200
HB No. 3281	King, P	Duncan	Relating to the recovery of medical or health care expenses in civil actions. Veto Message for HB No. 3281
HB No. 3352	Woolley	Whitmire	Relating to municipal civil service for firefighters and police officers in certain municipalities. Veto Message for HB No. 3352
HB No. 3457	Hochberg	Zaffirini	Relating to a school bus idling near a public school or school event. Veto Message for HB No. 3457
HB No. 3609	Talton	Ellis	Relating to membership and service credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for certain retired employees. Veto Message for HB No. 3609
HB No. 3619	Raymond	Zaffirini	Relating to the authority of a political subdivision other than a county to change the date of its general election. Veto Message for HB No. 3619
HB No. 3647	Kolkhorst	Lucio	Relating to a study by the attorney general of the effects on state law and authority of certain international and other agreements and bodies. Veto Message for HB No. 3647
HB No. 3934	McClendon	Van de Putte	Relating to the establishment of a student outcomes pilot program at Alamo Community College. Veto Message for HB No. 3934
HB No. 4065	Otto	Watson	Relating to the establishment by the Workforce Commission of a pilot program to provide grants for the construction of certain facilities for job training and employment services. Veto Message for HB No. 4065
HB No. 4091	Coleman	Ellis	Relating to the Harris County Improvement District No. 6. Veto Message for HB No. 4091
HB No. 4113	Cohen	Ellis	Relating to the Buffalo Bayou Management District. Veto Message for HB No. 4113
HB No. 4123	Miles	Ellis	Relating to the territory included in, and the validation of acts of, the Greater Southeast Management District. Veto Message for HB No. 4123
HCR No. 230	Smith, Wayne		Instructing the enrolling clerk to make changes to HB 1892. Veto Message for HCR No. 230
SB No. 182	Wentworth	Hilderbran	Relating to the prosecution of the offense of criminal trespass. Veto Message for SB No. 182
SB No. 711	Shapleigh	Solomons	Relating to the use of TexasOnline by businesses to apply and pay for certain permits. Veto Message for SB No. 711
SB No. 718	Ogden	Gattis	Relating to the route selection for the Trans-Texas Corridor. Veto Message for SB No. 718
SB No. 960	Shapleigh	Haggerty	Relating to the administration of exit-level state assessment instruments to transfer students who are dependents of military personnel. Veto Message for SB No. 960
SB No. 1097	Whitmire	Noriega	Relating to the penalties for the offense of criminal trespass. Veto Message for SB No. 1097
SB No. 1053	Zaffirini	Aycock	Relating to assessing the quality and effectiveness of academic advising services offered by public institutions of higher education. Veto Message for SB No. 1053
SB No. 1234	Zaffirini	Rose	Relating to the five-year master plan for higher education in this state. Veto Message for SB No. 1234
SB No. 1735	Shapiro	Jackson	Relating to the effect of a charter provision relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages off-premise consumption on a subsequent local option election. Veto Message for SB No. 1735