Legislation authored by Jack Vowell

Includes legislation with Jack Vowell as the primary author for the 67th through 73rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

73rd Regular Session
HB 968	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Relating to the placement of certain persons in nursing facilities and to the funding of those services.
HB 969	Last Action: Left pending in subcommittee Caption: Relating to corporal punishment in public schools.
HB 1392	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Human Services to assess monetary penalties against a home or community care provider.
HB 1509	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Relating to abuse and neglect investigations in certain state agencies.
HB 1510	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/93 Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission, the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the Texas Department of Health, the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and other health and human services agencies, to the statewide health coordinating council, and to the Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention Services; providing civil and criminal penalties.
HB 1591	Last Action: Referred to Higher Education Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of the Texas Higher Education Coordination Board concerning certain institutions of higher education.
HB 2000	Last Action: Companion considered in lieu of in committee Caption: Relating to the provision of long-term care services to certain persons with mental retardation.
HB 2001	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to the regulation of medical rehabilitation services.
HB 2002	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to the regulation of the provision of services to persons with certain disabilities; providing civil and criminal penalties.
HB 2003	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to illegal remuneration; providing criminal penalties; making an appropriation.
HB 2107	Last Action: Tagged in committee Caption: Relating to The University of Texas at El Paso.
HB 2108	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to the membership of the Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention Services.
HB 2109	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/93 Caption: Relating to the schedule of fees adopted by the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired to be paid to interpreters for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired.
HB 2557	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/93 Caption: Relating to certain prohibited activities in the food stamp program.
HB 2558	Last Action: Withdrawn from intent calendar Caption: Relating to the validation of certain acts and proceedings of certain corporations created under the Health Facilities Development Act and to the authority of corporations created under that act to refund outstanding bonds.
HB 2559	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the provision of nutrition for women, infants, children, and the indigent.
HB 2560	Last Action: Left pending in committee Caption: Relating to the summer food service program.
HB 2561	Last Action: Left pending in committee Caption: relating to entities that contract with certain programs for women, infants, and children.
HB 2704	Last Action: Referred to Natural Resources Caption: Relating to the regionalization of utility services in El Paso County, provisions for consolidation of certain water and wastewater service corporations and utility districts into a regional utility, and methods for planning, funding and operation of a regional Utility.
HB 2868	Last Action: Referred to Urban Affairs Caption: Relating to the establishment of fiscal years in certain municipalities.
HCR 128	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Directing all state agencies that are involved in the provision of health and human services to people with disabilities to develop and implement policies to improve access to state services by persons with disabilities and to monitor compliance with these policies by their contracted service providers.
72nd Regular Session
HB 287	Last Action: Governor submitted as emergency Caption: Relating to the distribution of the available school fund and to a state ad valorem tax for the support of the public schools.
HB 288	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Relating to an extension of the authorization of the Select Committee on Tax Equity and to the membership of that committee.
HB 382	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Relating to the repeal of state taxes.
HB 621	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the establishment of the comprehensive rehabilitation fund and the imposition of a fee on certain traffic convictions.
HB 970	Last Action: Referred to Appropriations Caption: Relating to emergency appropriations to the Texas Department of Human Services.
HB 1466	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the transfer of funds by certain hospital districts and state teaching hospitals to the medicaid disproportionate share fund.
HB 1641	Last Action: Referred to Labor & Employment Relations Caption: Relating to the payment of wages.
HB 1858	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/91 Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Board of Health to obtain rebates from producers or marketers of food for the WIC program.
HB 1859	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to appraisal of property exempt from taxation under Article VIII, Section 1-j of the Texas Constitution.
HB 1860	Last Action: Referred to Transportation Caption: Relating to contracts with adjoining states concerning certain public roads and highways.
HB 1861	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Relating to the transfer of funds by certain hospital districts and state teaching hospitals to the medicaid disproportionate share fund.
HB 1862	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to corporal punishment in public schools.
HB 2103	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to authorizing the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for Texas to negotiate with the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for New Mexico to determine an appropriate share of local support matching funds to be paid by the state for the study, development, and construction of flood control and sediment control dams and for the rehabilitation of the Rio Grande floodway above the Elephant Butte Reservoir.
HB 2104	Last Action: Laid on table subject to call in committee Caption: Relating to services and programs offered by the Texas Department of Human Services to a family after an adoption.
HB 2352	Last Action: Referred to Government Organization Caption: Relating to certain agencies subject to review under the Texas Sunset Act.
HB 2353	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/91 Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Texas Commission for the Deaf to the Texas Commission for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired.
HB 2354	Last Action: Withdrawn from schedule Caption: Relating to mental health services for persons who are deaf or hearing impaired.
HB 2561	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the zoning and other regulation of the El Paso Mission Trail Historical Area; providing a penalty.
HB 2839	Last Action: Withdrawn from schedule Caption: Relating to transferring the regulatory authority concerning convalescent and nursing homes and personal care facilities from the Texas Department of Health to the Texas Department of Human Services.
HB 2858	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to the boundaries of the El Paso County Water Control and Improvement District-Westway.
HJR 22	Last Action: Governor submitted as emergency Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to distribution of the available school fund and to ad valorem taxes authorized for the support of public schools.
72nd 1st Called Session
HB 7	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/91 Caption: Relating to health and human services, including the powers and duties of the Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Health, other state agencies and providers, and including the enforcement of child support obligations; creating offenses and providing penalties; authorizing the issuance of bonds.
HB 191	Last Action: Coauthor Authorized Caption: Relating to the levy of an assessment against certain hospitals and hospital districts and to the use of those funds; making an appropriation.
HB 211	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the transfer of funds by certain state teaching hospitals and hospital districts and to the use of those funds for the Medicaid disproportionate share program.
HR 250	Last Action: Reported enrolled Caption: Resolving to suspend House Rule 14, Section 9(a) to enable the conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on House Bill No. 7.
72nd 2nd Called Session
HB 64	Last Action: Effective on adoption of const. amendment Caption: Relating to the appropriation and allocation of bonding construction funds to the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and the Texas Youth Commission and to special provisions governing appropriations made by the General Appropriations Act to those agencies and the Texas Department of Health.
71st Regular Session
HB 266	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to licensure standards for certain chemical dependency treatment facilities.
HB 756	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to the approval and supervision of state employee health programs.
HB 757	Last Action: Referred to Government Organization Caption: Relating to the continuation, powers, and duties of the Commission on Human Rights.
HB 863	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/89 Caption: Relating to the continuation of the Texas Department of Labor and Standards under the new name, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, and to the administration and functions of that....
HB 984	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to higher education and the composition, continuation, and functions of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
HB 998	Last Action: Withdrawn from schedule Caption: Relating to the authority of a home-rule municipality to require that substandard buildings be vacated and that the occupants be relocated.
HB 1118	Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/28/89 Caption: Relating to the selection of a licensed psychologist by a recipient under the Medical Assistance Program.
HB 1320	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to corporal punishment in public schools.
HB 1321	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
HB 1426	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the continuation and operation of the State Property Tax Board.
HB 1501	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to investigation by the Central Education Agency of reports of abuse or neglect occurring in public schools.
HB 2116	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/89 Caption: Relating to the coordination and expansion of services to youth, including the establishment of the Commission on Children, Youth, and Family Services.
HB 2117	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/89 Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of home health care agencies and to permits to administer medication to patients of home health agencies; providing penalties.
HB 2118	Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal. Caption: Relating to the provision of services to runaways, truants, juveniles at risk of suffering abuse or neglect, and to abused children and the children's families.
HB 2435	Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/28/89 Caption: Relating to the criteria used by the Texas Department on Aging to provide funds to area agencies on aging.
HB 2436	Last Action: Withdrawn from schedule Caption: Relating to tuition at public institutions of higher education.
HB 2437	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/89 Caption: Relating to the review of certain state agencies under the Texas Sunset Act.
HB 2438	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the use and removal from state agencies and other entities of telecommunication devices for the deaf.
HB 2439	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to the resale of certain drugs dispensed under the medical assistance program.
HB 2475	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the reinstatement of the storage and use exclusion for property to be transported outside the state for use solely outside the state.
HB 2558	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to administration of, contributions to, and vesting in, the optional retirement program for faculty members of institutions of higher education.
HB 2574	Last Action: Companion considered in lieu in comm. Caption: Relating to the manner in which certain businesses may claim a sales and use tax exemption for exported items.
HB 2914	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to the establishment of a water pollution control and abatement program by certain cities.
HB 2915	Last Action: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the offenses of aggravated assault and deadly assault on certain probation personnel and to defining violations of certain conditions of probation as "escape" for the purposes of the Penal Code.
HB 2916	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the boundary of and the re-inclusion of certain land in the Franklin Mountains State Park.
HCR 16	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Requesting that educational curricula for judges and law enforcement officers include information about certain procedures and services regarding mentally ill persons.
HCR 153	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Requesting the Board of Human Services to create a special committee to review the department's drug code index used in Vendor Drug program.
HCR 158	Last Action: Received from House Caption: Encouraging medical, dental, nursing, allied health, social work, and mental health professional and provider associations to include information about HIV transmission and prevention, infection control....
HCR 210	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Directing the Texas Department of Human Services to establish a temporary task force to help implement the case manager pilot program for runaways.
HCR 229	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Recognizing National Mental Illness Awareness Week.
HJR 80	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the exemption from ad valorem taxation by taxing units in El Paso County of certain property temporarily in the state for commercial purposes.
71st 1st Called Session
HB 123	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/89 Caption: Relating to the transfer of funds by certain state teaching hospitals and hospital districts and the use of those funds for the Medicaid disproportionate share program; and making an appropriation.
71st 2nd Called Session
HB 109	Last Action: Referred to Human Services Caption: Relating to the Children's Trust Fund of Texas Council and to transferring appropriations relating to the children's trust fund.
71st 3rd Called Session
HB 111	Last Action: Referred to Appropriations Caption: Relating to the unemployment compensation special administration fund; making appropriations to the Texas Employment Commission from that fund.
71st 4th Called Session
HB 157	Last Action: Referred to Appropriations Caption: Relating to appropriations to the Texas Department of Human Services for the biennium August 31, 1991.
71st 5th Called Session
HB 97	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to appropriations to the Texas Department of Human Services for the biennium ending August 31, 1991.
HB 98	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to appropriations to the Texas Department of Human Services for the biennium ending August 31, 1991.
71st 6th Called Session
HCR 26	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Recognizing the Texas Human Investment System.
HCR 27	Last Action: Received from House Caption: Recognizing the Benefits of the Texas Human Investment System.
70th Regular Session
HB 550	Last Action: Effective on 9/1/87 Caption: Relating to the continuation, composition, powers, and duties of the Texas Commission for the Deaf and to the evaluation of interpreters for the deaf.
HB 584	Last Action: Pending in subcommittee Caption: Relating to the continuation, composition, powers, and duties of the Texas Department of Human Services and to the administration of programs for children, the disabled, and the elderly; providing penalties.
HB 629	Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/31/87 Caption: Relating to the establishment of a student union fee at The University of Texas at El Paso.
HB 630	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the continuation, composition, powers, and duties of the Texas Diabetes Council and to the powers and duties of agencies represented on that council.
HB 793	Last Action: Referred to Public Health Caption: Relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and community centers to obtain criminal conviction data relating to persons employed by a provider who contracts with the department or center.
HB 1309	Last Action: Pending in committee Caption: Relating to a career ladder program for classroom teachers.
HB 1692	Last Action: Referred to Transportation Caption: Relating to recovery against a surety bond executed by a motor vehicle dealer.
HB 1693	Last Action: Posting rule suspended Caption: Relating to public school finance.
HB 1998	Last Action: Comm. laid on table subj. to call Caption: Relating to the use of state-owned buildings for child day care.
HB 1999	Last Action: Transferred to Calendars Committee Caption: Relating to authorization for the Texas Employment Commission to provide information and technical assistance regarding child day care for public and private employees.
HB 2273	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to regulation of distributors who transport donated USDA commodities under contract with a state agency.
HJR 78	Last Action: Referred to Ways & Means Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a state property tax for the support of public schools.
70th 2nd Called Session
HCR 48	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Recognizing October 4-10, 1987 as National Mental Illness Awareness Week.
HR 70	Caption: Commending Herbert Morton Given.
69th Regular Session
HB 1328	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to community centers for mental health and mental retardation services, their administration, planning, and fees, and to contracts for community-based services; amending the Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act, as amended (Article 5547-201 et seg., Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), by amending Sections 2.10, 2.12, 3.05, 3.07, 3.14, the title to Article 4, and Sections 4.01 through 4.04, and by adding Sections 2.09 and 2.12B.
HB 2093	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to public school finance.
HB 2196	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to terminology used in connection with mentally disabled persons.
HB 2511	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties, operations, financing, and organization of the Mowad Water District.
HCR 93	Last Action: Companion considered in lieu of Caption: Appointing the Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health and Mental Retardation to help develop incentives for community residential services.
HCR 94	Last Action: Companion considered in lieu of Caption: Recognizing that alcoholism has been declared to be a physical disease rather than a mental disorder.
HCR 95	Last Action: Companion considered in lieu in comm. Caption: Requesting the cooperation of the TDMHMR and the State Board of Insurance to augment existing sources of funds for persons with mental disabilities.
HJR 80	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a state property tax for the support of public schools.
69th 3rd Called Session
HR 92	Caption: Honoring Representative J. Kelly Godwin.
68th Regular Session
HB 447	Last Action: Withdrawn by Author Caption: Relating to the civil jurisdiction of the justice courts in certain counties.
HB 689	Last Action: Committee laid on table subject to call Caption: Relating to the probation of a child-care facility or child-placing agency license suspension.
HB 2341	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to municipal courts of record in El Paso and creation of the El Paso Municipal Court of Appeals.
HCR 12	Last Action: Companion document considered in lieu of Caption: Granting Borsberry Construction Co., Inc. permission to sue the state and the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation.
68th 2nd Called Session
HB 33	Last Action: See remarks Caption: Relating to public school finance.
HCR 30	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Recognizing General Bernardo de Galvez and his prominent role in American history and requesting that the State Board of Education and TEA seek proper recognition in history textbooks.
HJR 5	Last Action: See remarks Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to a state property tax for the support of public schools.
67th Regular Session
HB 1554	Last Action: Recommendations filed with the Speaker Caption: Creating the Haciendas Del Norte Water Improvement District.
HB 1680	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to increases in the property tax exemptions for disabled veterans or their surviving spouses or children.
HB 1681	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the creation of the Crime Stoppers Commission.
HB 2389	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to certain proceedings in the municipal courts of record of El Paso.
HCR 214	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Granting Borsberry Construction Co., Inc. permission to sue the state.
HJR 86	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to increase property tax exemptions for disabled veterans or their surviving spouses or children.