Resolutions--memorializing Congress

State (Texas)
Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to expand the Healthy Incentives Pilot for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to communities across the country. [HCR-87]
Urging Congress to expand the Healthy Incentives Pilot for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients to communities across the country.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Elliott Naishtat Statement(s) Of Vote Recorded In Journal on 05/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation to require that any subsequent law cite the constitutional section authorizing Congress to enact the law, state the extent and reasons for any preemption of state, local, or tribal law, include factual findings if the authority cited is the power to regulate interstate commerce, prohibit federal agency regulations from interfering with state or local powers without express statutory authority, and require the voluntary inclusion of states in federal rulemaking. [HCR-85]
Urging the United States Congress to enact legislation to require that any subsequent law cite the constitutional section authorizing Congress to enact the law, state the extent and reasons for any preemption of state, local, or tribal law, include factual findings if the authority cited is the power to regulate interstate commerce, prohibit federal agency regulations from interfering with state or local powers without express statutory authority, and require the voluntary inclusion of states in federal rulemaking.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lois Kolkhorst Considered In Calendars on 04/21/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing opposition to federal regulation of hazardous waste, water, and clean air and of the production, exploration, drilling, development, operation, transportation, and processing of oil, natural gas, petroleum, and petroleum products in the State of Texas. [HCR-81]
Expressing opposition to federal regulation of hazardous waste, water, and clean air and of the production, exploration, drilling, development, operation, transportation, and processing of oil, natural gas, petroleum, and petroleum products in the State of Texas.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Isaac Considered In Calendars on 05/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing strong opposition to unwarranted and unreasonable searches of air passengers by the Transportation Security Administration and urging the administration to cease such searches immediately. [HCR-80]
Expressing strong opposition to unwarranted and unreasonable searches of air passengers by the Transportation Security Administration and urging the administration to cease such searches immediately.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lois Kolkhorst Considered In Public Hearing on 04/27/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing opposition to federal regulation of intrastate water resources. [HCR-78]
Expressing opposition to federal regulation of intrastate water resources.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Creighton Considered In Calendars on 05/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging the United States Congress to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases for stationary sources. [HCR-66]
Urging the United States Congress to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases for stationary sources.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Anderson Received From The House on 05/20/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing opposition to federal interference in state management of Texas' water resources. [HCR-61]
Expressing opposition to federal interference in state management of Texas' water resources.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Perry Considered In Calendars on 05/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [HCR-60]
Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification the Parental Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Hughes Referred To State Affairs on 05/19/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging the United States Congress to reaffirm its commitment to the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, to abolish the Department of Education, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Labor, to reduce the federal income tax by an amount equal to the cost savings associated with the abolition of these agencies, to commit to never usurping the rights of the states in future legislation, and to refrain from exempting itself from any legislation it so passes. [HCR-54]
Urging the United States Congress to reaffirm its commitment to the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, to abolish the Department of Education, the Federal Highway Administration, the Department of Commerce, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Labor, to reduce the federal income tax by an amount equal to the cost savings associated with the abolition of these agencies, to commit to never usurping the rights of the states in future legislation, and to (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Workman Referred To State Sovereignty, Select on 02/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Affirming the pride of all Texans in both our one and indivisible national union and our one and indivisible state, claiming 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 from certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed. [HCR-50]
Affirming the pride of all Texans in both our one and indivisible national union and our one and indivisible state, claiming 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 from certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Rodney Anderson Not Again Placed On Intent Calendar on 05/25/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing support for the current FBI effort to reevaluate existing policies, standards, and protocols for forensic DNA testing laboratories and expressing support for any new policies, standards, and protocols that would hold public and private labs to the same standards, audits, and review process, urging Congress to pass any necessary federal legislation that ensures continued quality in forensic science while holding public and private lab DNA analysis to the same standards, and encouraging Texas law enforcement agencies to use forensic science review methods that will eliminate DNA testing backlogs. [HCR-42]
Expressing support for the current FBI effort to reevaluate existing policies, standards, and protocols for forensic DNA testing laboratories and expressing support for any new policies, standards, and protocols that would hold public and private labs to the same standards, audits, and review process, urging Congress to pass any necessary federal legislation that ensures continued quality in forensic science while holding public and private lab DNA analysis to the same standards, and encouraging Texas law enforcement agencies to use forensic science (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Yvonne Davis Signed By The Governor on 06/17/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging the United States Congress to revise the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 so that the State of Texas may exclude the assessment scores of recently arrived limited English proficiency students from adequate yearly progress determinations for a period of three years following the students' initial enrollment and so that the exclusion period for LEP students who enter Texas schools in grades 10 and higher concludes prior to the students' final year of schooling. [HCR-37]
Urging the United States Congress to revise the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 so that the State of Texas may exclude the assessment scores of recently arrived limited English proficiency students from adequate yearly progress determinations for a period of three years following the students' initial enrollment and so that the exclusion period for LEP students who enter Texas schools in grades 10 and higher concludes prior to the students' final year of schooling.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Guillen Scheduled For Public Hearing On . . . on 04/13/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging the United States Congress not to privatize the social security program. [HCR-34]
Urging the United States Congress not to privatize the social security program.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Raymond Referred To Appropriations on 02/18/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Expressing opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. [HCR-27]
Expressing opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Kenneth Paxton Considered In Calendars on 04/21/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to remove confidentiality mandates for minors from family planning services programs operating under Title X of the Public Health Service Act and Medicaid. [HCR-25]
Urging Congress to remove confidentiality mandates for minors from family planning services programs operating under Title X of the Public Health Service Act and Medicaid.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Todd Smith Referred To Public Health on 03/03/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Memorializing Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution to provide for a federal balanced budget. [HCR-23]
Memorializing Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution to provide for a federal balanced budget.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Raymond Referred To State Sovereignty, Select on 03/03/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, Section 5056, and to appropriate sufficient funds so that efforts to solve the salt problem in the Amistad International Reservoir can continue. [HCR-21]
Urging Congress to reauthorize the Water Resources Development Act of 2007, Section 5056, and to appropriate sufficient funds so that efforts to solve the salt problem in the Amistad International Reservoir can continue.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Pete Gallego Received From The House on 05/20/2011

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Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Memorializing the United States Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution providing that any provision of law or regulation of the United States can be repealed if two-thirds of the state legislatures approve resolutions for that purpose and requesting that the legislatures of the other states join this state in urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification a "Repeal Amendment." [HCR-19]
Memorializing the United States Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution providing that any provision of law or regulation of the United States can be repealed if two-thirds of the state legislatures approve resolutions for that purpose and requesting that the legislatures of the other states join this state in urging Congress to propose and submit to the states for ratification a "Repeal Amendment."

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Vicki Truitt Referred To State Sovereignty, Select on 02/18/2011

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State (Texas)
Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states an amendment to the United States Constitution providing for a federal balanced budget. [HCR-18]
Urging Congress to propose and submit to the states an amendment to the United States Constitution providing for a federal balanced budget.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Lois Kolkhorst Signed By The Governor on 06/17/2011

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State (Texas)
Texas 82nd Legislature Regular Session

Urging Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures. [HCR-17]
Urging Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Creighton Referred To State Sovereignty, Select on 02/18/2011

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