Texas State Representative
Charlie Geren 2009 - 81st Regular - Authored & Sponsored Legislation (Page 4)
Legislative Session
Primary Author of Legislation
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB477
Filed
Out of House Committee
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Governor Action
Bill Becomes Law
Relating to the use of political contributions to pay a civil penalty imposed by the Texas Ethics Commission.
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Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB503
Filed
Out of House Committee
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Governor Action
Bill Becomes Law
Relating to adoption of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR16
Introduced
1/7/09
Refer
2/18/09
Report Pass
4/7/09
Refer
5/8/09
Report Pass
5/19/09
Enrolled
5/28/09
Passed
6/19/09
Designating Paluxysaurus jonesi as the official Lone Star State Dinosaur, replacing Brachiosaur Sauropod, Pleurocoelus.
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Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR57
Introduced
2/19/09
Refer
2/23/09
Report Pass
4/8/09
Refer
5/1/09
Report Pass
5/12/09
Enrolled
5/24/09
Passed
6/19/09
Authorizing the lieutenant governor and speaker to appoint interim joint committees.
Co-Author of Legislation
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB6
Filed
Out of House Committee
3/27/09
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Governor Action
Bill Becomes Law
Relating to appropriations for damages and disruptions suffered by state agencies and institutions of higher education caused by natural disasters and to an appropriation for disaster relief generally.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB670
Filed
Out of House Committee
3/26/09
Voted on by House
4/3/09
Out of Senate Committee
4/20/09
Voted on by Senate
4/28/09
Governor Action
5/13/09
Bill Becomes Law
Report Pass
4/20/09
Enrolled
5/4/09
Passed
5/13/09
Relating to a qualified privilege of a journalist not to testify.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB994
Filed
Out of House Committee
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Governor Action
Bill Becomes Law
Relating to the limitation on the rate of growth in appropriations from state tax revenues.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR252
Introduced
5/20/09
Refer
5/20/09
Report Pass
5/21/09
Enrolled
6/1/09
Vetoed
6/19/09
Requesting the governor to appoint a Governor's Task Force on Horse and Greyhound Racing.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR258
Introduced
5/21/09
Refer
5/21/09
Enrolled
6/1/09
Passed
6/19/09
Urging the University of Houston and other institutions of higher education to cease displaying the flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and to replace it with the Freedom and Heritage Flag.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR50
Introduced
2/17/09
Refer
2/23/09
Report Pass
4/23/09
Report Pass
5/20/09
Engrossed
5/30/09
Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.
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Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HJR29
Filed
11/24/08
Out of House Committee
3/26/09
Voted on by House
4/1/09
Out of Senate Committee
5/14/09
Voted on by Senate
Sent toSOS
Proposed Const. Amend.
Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to override a veto of the governor following a legislative session.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HJR30
Filed
Out of House Committee
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Sent toSOS
Proposed Const. Amend.
Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring any increase in a rate of the franchise tax be approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house of the legislature.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HJR38
Filed
Out of House Committee
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Sent toSOS
Proposed Const. Amend.
Proposing a constitutional amendment regarding the rainy day fund and dedicating certain surplus revenues to property tax reduction.
Joint Author of Legislation
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HB995
Filed
Out of House Committee
4/14/09
Voted on by House
Out of Senate Committee
Voted on by Senate
Governor Action
Bill Becomes Law
Relating to notice of expiration and price change in certain retail electric service contracts.
TX
Texas 2009 - 81st Regular
Texas House Bill HCR12
Introduced
11/14/08
Refer
2/18/09
Enrolled
3/5/09
Passed
3/12/09
In memory of Texas game warden Teyran "Ty" Patterson of Seguin.