Urging the United States Congress to revise Department of Homeland Security funding formulas for Targeted Infrastructure Capability grants to include a separate threat assessment for strategically located border communities, irrespective of population.
Directing the State Preservation Board to allow a variance from its rules pertaining to performances at the State Capitol in order to allow reenactments of the "Cry of Independence" at midnight on the evenings of September 15, 2013, and September 15, 2014.
Requesting the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house of representatives to create a joint interim committee to study the gaming industry in Texas.