Relating to making supplemental appropriations relating to border security and giving direction regarding those appropriations.

Relating to the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed by a school district on the residence homestead of an individual who is elderly or disabled to reflect any reduction from the preceding tax year in the district's maximum compressed rate and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in local revenue.

Relating to a one-time supplemental payment of benefits under the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Relating to the authority of a person who acquires a residence homestead to receive an ad valorem tax exemption for the homestead in the year in which the property is acquired and to the protection of school districts against the resulting loss in revenue.

Relating to a temporary reduction in the maximum compressed tax rate of a school district and the form of the ballot proposition to be used in an election to approve a tax rate adopted by a school district that exceeds the district's voter-approval tax rate; making an appropriation.

Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead.

Congratulating James M. Alsup for receiving the West Texan by Nature Award from the Sibley Nature Center.

Commemorating the 125th anniversary of the founding of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Midland.

Relating to the abolition of the Texas Bullion Depository.

Relating to providing for the review of the Texas Bullion Depository under the Texas Sunset Act.

Urging the federal government to immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and encouraging the Texas Military Department and all state resources to use authority under Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug cartel-facilitated invasion in the least lethal manner possible consistent with bringing this facilitated invasion to a conclusion at the earliest possible moment.

Proposing a constitutional amendment to remove the governor's line-item veto authority.

Recognizing Randall B. Prince on the occasion of his retirement.