Legislation authored by Ronald C. Bird

Includes legislation with Ronald C. Bird as the primary author for the 63rd through 66th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

66th Regular Session
HB 43	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to sexual contact with a person's breast.
HB 51	Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to a preference on court dockets to certain worker's compensation cases.
HB 52	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to exemptions from jury service.
HB 147	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources Caption: Relating to permits for interwatershed transfers of water.
HB 482	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to the sale of property of a minor in an estate by a parent without appointment as a guardian.
HB 483	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to the transfer of property of a decedent to the distributees of the estate after an independent executor closes an estate by affidavit.
HB 560	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to teacher contracts.
HB 561	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court at Law No. 2 of Bexar County.
HB 931	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the establishment, jurisdiction, and operation of municipal courts of record in the incorporated cities, towns, and villages in this state; prescribing the appeals from a municipal court of record; conforming the jurisdiction of other courts to the municipal court of record.
HB 1105	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Economic Development Caption: Relating to the state's use of historically, architecturally, or culturally significant structures.
HB 1182	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to compensation of the members of the Board of Law Examiners.
HB 1695	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to creation of the 294th, 295th, and 296th Judicial Districts composed of Bexar County.
HB 1932	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health Services Caption: Relating to continuing education requirement for physicians.
HB 1933	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health Services Caption: Relating to continuing education requirement for nurses.
HB 1960	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Creating intermediate courts of criminal appeals to be known as Circuit Courts of Criminal Appeals; providing for their jurisdiction, administration and procedure; conforming the jurisdiction of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
HB 2184	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the authority to create municipal courts of record in the city of San Antonio and prescribing appeals from the municipal courts of record; relating to the applicability of the misdemeanor probation law.
HB 2185	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the authority of a beer manufacturer to sell beer to its employees.
HB 2236	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the appointment of an administrative assistant or assistants by the judge of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Bexar County, Texas.
HB 2257	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the regulation therapist; providing penalties.
HR 35	Caption: Commending Bob Blase.
HR 43	Caption: In memory of Esther Little Coulon.
HR 157	Caption: Congratulating the San Antonio Spurs.
65th Regular Session
HB 46	Last Action: Referred to Subcommittee on Judicial Districts Caption: Relating to the creation of the 225th, 226th, 227th, and 228th Judicial Districts, each composed of Bexar County.
HB 47	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to the pay of election judges and clerks for conducting elections and for attending schools of instruction for election officers.
HB 84	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the competence of a defendant to stand trial in a criminal proceeding; providing for examination, hearing, disposition, and commitment of a defendant when there is evidence or a finding that the defendant is incompetent to stand trail.
HB 90	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to membership of the Texas Water Quality Board.
HB 203	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections Caption: Relating to administration of elections in certain counties; creating the separate appointive office of county elections administrators and providing for transfer of all county election duties to the administrator; enlarging the duties of the administrator in regard to designation of polling places and selection of election judges for county elections; authorizing the expenditure of public funds for conducting training programs for election judges and clerks; authorizing the administrator to contracts with other political subdivisions and with political parties to furnish services in the conduct of their elections; providing civil and criminal penalties and remedies.
HB 268	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the training for persons who take into protective custody mental patients who are absent without authority from mental hospitals; requiring specially trained personnel to be available for the duty.
HB 364	Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to advances for travel expenses of state officers and employees.
HB 496	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Energy Resources Caption: Relating to the regulation of natural gas and certain gas utilities.
HB 502	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the compensation of judges in certain counties.
HB 511	Last Action: Assigned to Local Calendar Caption: Relating to the establishment, jurisdiction, and operation of municipal courts of record in the City of San Antonio and providing for municipal judges and other personnel of the courts; prescribing the appeals from a municipal court of record; conforming the jurisdiction of other courts to the municipal court of record.
HB 591	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to county authority to construct and operate parking stations.
HB 903	Last Action: Posting rule suspended Caption: Relating to appointment of boards of equalization by county commissioners courts.
HB 951	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to competency of a defendant to stand trial in a criminal proceeding, to the insanity defense to criminal prosecution, and to the examination, transportation, and commitment of mentally ill or mentally retarded defendants.
HB 1088	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to probationary or continuing contracts of public school teachers.
HB 1130	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to accrual of penalty and interest when a person over 65 years of age defers collection of delinquent taxes on his homestead.
HB 1246	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the payment to registered scrap processors of a bounty for the destruction of motor vehicles; increasing the certificate of title fee to cover the costs of the bounty program with extra funds allocated for certain park acquisition and development.
HB 1288	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to setting rates on certain classifications of insureds for automobile insurance.
HB 1686	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to certain joint contractual and financing arrangements of certain public entities.
HB 1687	Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Amending the Parks and Wildlife Code to conform it to certain legislation enacted by the 64th Legislature.
HB 1788	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the procedure for accepting a voter at the polling place; permitting combination of the signature roster, the poll list, and other forms on the list of registered voters; eliminating the March 1 date for prparation of list of registered voters.
HB 2191	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Authorizing the city of San Antonio or a nonprofit corporation organized under Texas law and designated by the city of San Antonio to apply for and accept a grant to establish, operate, and maintain a foreign trade zone; and declaring an emergency.
HCR 104	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Creating a joint interim committee to study ground water resources and need for additional state regulation of acquifers, etc.
HCR 113	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Creating a joint interim committee to study recommendations of Metcalf-Eddy study and other acquifer studies.
HJR 20	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VIII, Section 18, of the Texas Constitution, to provide authority for the appointment of a board of equalization by the county commissioners court.
HR 31	Caption: Relating to requesting interim study on groundwater resources.
HR 168	Caption: Commending the entire staff of the Texas Legislative Council.
64th Regular Session
HB 104	Last Action: Reported from committee unfavorably Caption: Prohibiting the act of relabeling retail goods at a higher price; providing a penalty; establishing a defense.
HB 158	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to placing warning signs or signals at places where volunteer fire equipment enters a street or highway from a driveway or building where it is maintained.
HB 159	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the exclusion of a person with defective vision from a jury solely because of defective vision.
HB 320	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources Caption: Relating to staggered terms for member of the governing boards of fresh water supply districts, water improvement districts, drainage districts, and levee improvement districts.
HB 321	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the audit of certain water districts; providing a penalty.
HB 322	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to posting notive of existence of districts in certain districts created under Article III, Section 52, and Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution.
HB 323	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to submission of a feasibility report for creation of a municipal utility district.
HB 324	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to furnishing copies of petitions, reports, plans, and other information concerning the creation of certain special districts.
HB 325	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to matters to be considered in granting petitions for creation of municipal utility districts.
HB 326	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the authority of counties over certain municipal utility districts created within the counties but outside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of any city.
HB 327	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to disqualification of members of governing boards of certain districts created under Article III, Section 52, and Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution; providing a penalty.
HB 328	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to filing audits by of certain special districts.
HB 329	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the election date for directors of certain special districts.
HB 330	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the disqualification of members of the governing board of a municipal utility district.
HB 331	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the consent of a city for the creation of a municipal utility district.
HB 337	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Authorizing a physician, staff member, or employee of a hospital to refrain on moral or religious grounds from participating in an abortion without penalty; prohibiting discrimination in hiring on grounds of objection to abortion.
HB 338	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to the gathering of statistical information concerning the performance of abortions in the state.
HB 339	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Regulating who may perform an abortion and where an abortion may be performed; prohibiting the performance of a criminal abortion; penalizing the unauthorized practice of medicine; providing penalties.
HB 466	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the payment of certain costs for the creation of certain municipal utility districts.
HB 467	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to affidavits filed by members of governing boards of certain special districts.
HB 511	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to requiring that an alleged alcoholic be represented by an attorney in a commitment proceeding.
HB 705	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to notice of hearings and elections in certain districts authorized by special act of the legislature which are proposing to provide or are actually providing water and sewer services or either of these services to household users as the principal function of the district.
HB 706	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the disqualification of members of the governing board of a fresh water supply district.
HB 810	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the escheat of dormant deposits and inactive accounts in certain depositories.
HB 956	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to cost of living adjustments for firemen and policemen's pensions in certain cities.
HB 957	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to certain lump sum payments for firemen and policemen on termination of service.
HB 1058	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the payment in advance of travel expenses incurred by state employees and officers in the exercise of their official duties; establishing a revolving petty cash fund.
HB 1208	Last Action: Reported from committee with substitute Caption: Relating to the salaries of the judges of the county courts at law in Bexar County.
HB 1364	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to yielding right-of-way at certain intersections.
HB 1366	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to certain turns on steady red signal after yielding right-of-way.
HB 1597	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the transfer of certain described land to the City of San Antonio for park purposes.
HB 1684	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the transfer of certain described land to the City of San Antonio for park purposes.
HB 1913	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Providing for identification of city and county-owned vehicles and heavy equipment; exempting certain cities and counties.
HCR 15	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Commending Senator Tower and Bexar County officials on obtaining on obtaining the bell of U.S.S. San Jacinto.
HCR 166	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Suspending the joint rules to permit either house to consider HB 1058 at any time.
HR 23	Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Frank Madla.
HR 24	Caption: Welcoming the East and West All-Stars of the American Basketball Association to Texas.
HR 166	Caption: Requesting Sub-committee on State Parks, Environmental Affairs Committee, to make an interim study of urban, parkland acquisition and bicycle facilities.
63rd Regular Session
HB 613	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Program of Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded and its operation; and declaring an emergency.
HB 614	Last Action: Considered in public hearing Caption: To regulate the reclamation of lands disturbed by surface mining operations; providing penalties; specifying the applicability of the Act and the cumulative effect of the provisions of the Act on existing laws of the State; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
HB 744	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the sale of bass, crappie and catfish taken from public fresh waters of this state; amending to include catfish and establish set maximum penalty at $200.00.
HB 939	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance Caption: Relating to the creation, establishment, and operation of the Texas Health Insurance Assigned Risk Pool Association.
HB 1152	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judiciary Caption: Making various amendments to the Texas Mental Health Code.
HB 1154	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Relating to the regulation of certain persons who engage in the practice of influencing legislation; providing penalties.
HB 1498	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Relating to a performance bond to be filed by a contractor, sub-contractor, or builder engaged in the construction or repair of any house, building or improvement.
HB 1604	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Appropriations Caption: Making an appropriation to the State Building Commission to purchase the Arciniega Site in San Antonio; and declaring an emergency.
HR 27	Caption: Welcoming prisoners of war and those formerly missing in action in Southeast Asia.
HR 126	Caption: Creating an interim committee to study public school transportation needs.
HR 127	Caption: Creating a special interim committee to study the state park program.