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Special Messages
Special Messages to the 80th Texas Legislature
- Relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations.
- Relating to the prosecution, punishment, and supervision of certain sex offenders and to certain crimes involving sex offenders.
- Making appropriations to the Texas Education Agency for the purpose of school district property tax rate reductions.
- Relating to appropriations for the 2008-2009 biennium.
- Relating to the allocation and use of the sporting goods sales tax revenue to fund state and local parks.
- Relating to the management of the water resources of the state, including the protection of instream flows and freshwater inflows.
Special Messages to the 79th Texas Legislature
Third Special Session
- Relating to Tuition Revenue Bonds
- Relating to Hurricane Reconstruction Costs for Utilities
- Relating to Hurricane Reconstruction Costs for Lamar University
- Legislation preserving the dignity and respect of funeral services by prohibiting certain disruptive behavior.
- Legislation transferring the administration of the Irma Rangel School of Pharmacy from Texas A&M University––Kingsville to The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center.
- Legislation permitting the railroad commission to acquire title to carbon dioxide captured by a clean coal project that meets the FutureGen project profile including the transfer costs, liability issues, and sale of carbon dioxide for beneficial use.
Special Messages to the 78th Texas Legislature
Regular Session
First Special Session
- Relating to the abolition of Aircraft Pooling Board.
- Relating to a reconstitution of the membership of the Texas Building and Procurement Commission.
- Realting to the organizational pattern of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
- Relating to Section 67.003 of the Texas Election Code.
- Relating to a transfer in the oversight of Regional Planning Commissions to the State Auditor's Office.
- Relating to the procedures followed in condemnation proceeding in a county civil court at law in Harris County.
- Relating to the organization and operation of each university system office.
- Relating to the abandonment of proceeds on demutualization.
- Relating to school bus safety standards.
- Relating to the environmental permitting and regulation process in Texas.
- Relating to the Governor's budget authority.
- Relating to legislative and executive branch working papers on the budget.
- Relating to the designation of presiding officers for executive branch agencies.
- Relating to a modification in the qualifications for the Commissioner of Insurance.
- Relating to Sections 86.007(d)(3) and 87.125(a) of the Texas Election Code.
- Relating to Legislative Budget Board meetings.
- Relating to the reorganization of legislative support agencies and offices.
- Relating to a modification in the qualifications for membership on the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.
- Relating to the creation of a study on private prisons.
- Relating to the abolition of the Texas Commission on Private Security.
- Relating to the State Office of Risk Management.
- Relating to Section 41.007(b) of the Texas Election Code.
- Relating to the state administration of ad valorem taxation.
- Relating to abolishing the Office of State-Federal Relations.
- Relating to corrections to House Bill No. 3588.
- Relating to fees established by legislation from the Seventy-Eighth Regular Session.
- Relating to Section 41.001(a) of the Texas Election Code.
- Relating to a modification in the qualifications for membership on the Texas Veterans Commission.
Second Special Session
- Relating to the financing, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of toll facilities.
- Relating to state fiscal management, including adjustments to certain school district fiscal matters.
- Relating to the dates of certain elections, the procedures for canvassing the ballots for an election, and the counting of certain ballots voted by mail.
- Relating to the reorganization of, efficiency in, and other reform measures applying to state government.