Legislation authored by Bob Leonard, Jr.

Includes legislation with Bob Leonard, Jr. as the primary author for the 66th through 70th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

70th Regular Session
HB 8 Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to the creation and operation of a sick leave pool to benefit certain state employees.
HB 342 Last Action: Reported from s/c fav. w/o amdt(s)
Caption: Relating to the information a county must receive to determine eligibility for indigent health care services.
HB 343 Last Action: Reported from s/c fav. w/o amdt(s)
Caption: Relating to the eligibility of persons receiving AFDC, SSI, or Medicaid benefits to receive indigent health care services under the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act.
HB 344 Last Action: Effective on 9/1/87
Caption: Relating to indigent health care.
HB 345 Last Action: Reported from s/c fav. w/o amdt(s)
Caption: Relating to a requirement that certain providers obtain approval before providing nonemergency indigent health care services.
HB 346 Last Action: Reported from s/c fav. w/o amdt(s)
Caption: Relating to the use of the state fiscal year in administering the Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act.
HB 737 Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/31/87
Caption: Relating to the purchase of badges from the state by peace officers commissioned by the director of the Parks and Wildlife Department or their survivors.
HB 820 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the civil jurisdiction of the justice court and to certain fees in justice court.
HB 821 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the authority of a county to credit expenditures for preventive health care services for indigents toward eligibility for state assistance.
HB 893 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for accumulated sick leave.
HB 956 Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
Caption: Relating to the financing of health care and treatment provided by political subdivisions to indigent persons.
HB 957 Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/31/87
Caption: Relating to the appointment and certification of private university adjunct police officers, their duties and powers, the scope of their employment liability for their acts and omissions.
HB 1004 Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
Caption: Relating to the authority of certain home-rule cities to abandon, sell, or exchange parks, golf courses, or golf course clubhouses.
HB 1267 Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call
Caption: Relating to the provision of health care to certain indigent individuals.
HB 1268 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the appropriations from the state highway fund.
HB 1316 Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the maximum property tax rate a rural fire prevention district may levy.
HB 1460 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to certain definitions under the workers' compensation laws.
HB 1461 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to certain fees to be awarded to an insurer who defends a groundless workers' compensation claim.
HB 1462 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to access to certain records regarding workers' compensation claims and to the investigation by the attorney general of claims suspected to be fraudulent.
HB 1463 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to entitlement to workers' compensation benefits in cases of total incapacity.
HB 1464 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to entitlement to workers' compensation benefits in cases based on total or partial loss of use of a part of the body.
HB 1596 Last Action: Effective in 90 days-8/31/87
Caption: Relating to the authority of the State Purchasing and General Services Commission to bill directly for services provided to other agencies.
HB 1597 Last Action: Pending in committee
Caption: Relating to exemption from disclosure of certain records of a nonprofit corporation organizationally connected with a religious institution.
HB 1943 Last Action: House passage reported
Caption: Relating to the application of strict liability or liability without negligence to the generation, transmission, distribution, sale or use of electric energy.
HB 1944 Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to the regulation of certain sellers of burglar alarms under the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act; providing for penalties; adding Section 3A to the Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act, as amended (Article 4413(29bb), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
HB 1945 Last Action: Record vote
Caption: Relating to hazardous duty and longevity pay for certain state law enforcement officers.
HB 2610 Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
Caption: Relating to the forfeiture of certain property related to the commission of a felony offense.
HJR 60 Last Action: Filed with the Secretary of State
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to raise the maximum property tax rate that may be adopted by rural fire prevention districts after an election.
70th 2nd Called Session
HB 52 Last Action: Laid on table subj. to call in comm.
Caption: Relating to the forfeiture of certain property related to the commission of a felony offense.
HB 53 Last Action: Eff. on adoption of const. amendment
Caption: Relating to the maximum propriety tax rate that may be adopted by certain rural fire prevention districts.
HR 9 Caption: Honoring James and Ruth Shear on their 50th wedding anniversary.
69th Regular Session
HB 970 Last Action: Referred to Finance
Caption: Relating to the disposition of certain fees collected for the inspection of manufactured housing units.
HB 1375 Last Action: Companion document considered in lieu
Caption: Relating to the prohibition of the municipal regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm supplies.
HB 1376 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to taking water from the Gulf of Mexico without a water rights permit.
HB 1385 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the disposition of the unused portion of the funds in the unemployment compensation special administrative fund.
HB 1430 Last Action: Referred to Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the certification of self-insurance programs for worker's compensation insurance.
HB 1785 Last Action: Referred to Insurance
Caption: Relating to permitting an employer to be a certified self-insurer of workers compensation benefits; amending Article 8309 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, to enlarge the definition of "association" to include a self-insurer and to enlarge the definition of "subscriber" to include a self-insurer; expressing the purpose of the legislation; providing that the State Board of Insurance and the Commissioner of Insurance shall administer the Act; providing a method for an employer to become a certified self-insurer; requiring a certified self-insurer to maintain a safety program for employees, requiring certified self-insurers to participate in the Texas Workers' Compensation Assigned Risk Pool; imposing a tax on certified self-insurers; creating a Texas Certified Self-Insurers Guaranty Association and providing for its operation; amending Title 130, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, by adding a new Article 8309j.
HB 1786 Last Action: Referred to Insurance
Caption: Relating to workers' compensation self-insurance and unfair or deceptive claims practices.
HB 1787 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to benefit wage credits under the unemployment compensation laws.
HB 1788 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the hours of labor under certain contracts made by the state or a political subdivision.
HB 1789 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Defining the term "gross negligence."
HB 1790 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Defining the term "wages."
HB 1848 Last Action: 1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
Caption: Relating to payments made by a reimbursing employer under Article 5221b-5a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes.
HCR 12 Last Action: Filed w/o the Governor's signature
Caption: Granting Lawrence D. White Associates, Inc., permission to sue the state of Texas and the Texas Board of Corrections.
HCR 120 Last Action: Referred to Public Education
Caption: Instructing the Central Education Agency to instruct public school districts to not proceed with prosecuting any parents solely for educating their children at home until after final resolution of pending lawsuit.
HCR 131 Last Action: Filed w/o the Governor's signature
Caption: Granting heirs, legal representatives and estates of Linda Jo Smith and Mary Lynn Shuler Hart and others permission to sue the state.
HCR 210 Last Action: No action taken in committee
Caption: Directing the TEC not to spend certain funds.
69th 3rd Called Session
HR 83 Caption: Commemorating the inauguration of Carswell Memorial Park on October 17, 1986.
68th Regular Session
HB 78 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Business & Commerce
Caption: Relating to the frequency with which employers must pay wages.
HB 79 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to the frequency with which employers must pay wages.
HB 80 Last Action: Subcommittee laid on table subject to call
Caption: Relating to a repeal of the law requiring that certain employees be paid twice a month.
HB 81 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Law Enforcement
Caption: Relating to public disclosure of the name and address of a crime victim.
HB 82 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to waiver of defects in indictments and informations.
HB 83 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to making it capital murder to murder two or more persons in certain circumstances.
HB 335 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the manufacture with intent to deliver and the delivery of a simulated controlled substance.
HB 449 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to the financial transactions of a corporation.
HB 529 Last Action: Read second time
Caption: Relating to the prohibition of a city's regulation of firearms, ammunition, and firearm supplies.
HB 1175 Last Action: See remarks
Caption: Relating to the certification of self-insurance programs for workers' compensation insurance.
HB 1176 Last Action: Placed on daily Major State Calendar
Caption: Relating to refunds for examination fees by occupational licensing agencies.
HB 1260 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to unemployment compensation benefit eligibility for a person employed in the performing arts under a contract for a specified term of less than one year.
HB 1713 Last Action: Reported from subcommittee with substitute
Caption: Relating to waiver of defects in indictments and informations and description and definitions therein.
HB 1795 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance
Caption: Relating to membership on the Governing Committee of the Texas Workers' Compensation Assigned Risk Pool.
HB 2355 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Finance
Caption: Relating to calculation of an ad valorem tax rate when an error in the preceding year caused the loss of a substantial amount of tax revenue.
HCR 228 Last Action: Referred to Committee on House Administration
Caption: Providing for Sine Die at 12:00 midnight, May 30, 1983.
HCR 263 Last Action: Comm. report printed & sent to Comm. on Local & Consent Cal.
Caption: Granting DiscoverAir permission to sue the State of Texas and the Department of Agriculture.
HCR 277 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Directing licensing agencies to make prompt refunds fees to applicants who do not take examinations.
HJR 95 Last Action: No action taken
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the definition of indictments and informations, their use and requisites, and the investing of jurisdiction in the courts.
HR 74 Caption: Congratulating Alonzo Newton Gibson.
HR 279 Caption: Honoring El Club Sertoma Monterrey.
HR 574 Caption: Sine Die Resolution.
68th 2nd Called Session
HR 56 Caption: Congratulating the Paschal High School Whiz Quiz Team.
67th Regular Session
HB 595 Last Action: Coauthor authorized
Caption: Relating to notice and public hearing requirements for public housing projects.
HB 1214 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to the spending limit on campaigns for positions on the State Board of Education.
HB 1267 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to waiver of defects in indictments and informations.
HB 1385 Last Action: No action taken
Caption: Relating to the requirement of informed consent as a prerequisite to an abortion.
HB 1386 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to fees received by county tax assessors-collectors for vehicle registrations.
HB 1511 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health Services
Caption: Relating to regulation of manufacturers and wholesale distributors of food, drugs, health devices, and cosmetics.
HB 1784 Last Action: No action taken
Caption: Relating to a reduction in workers' compensation benefits to an employee of a political subdivision to offset benefits received under a voluntary salary supplemental plan.
HB 1907 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to contributions to certain municipal retirement, disability and death benefit systems.
HB 2111 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to regulation of wholesale distributors of drugs. pref. no. 149.
HB 2112 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Business and Industry
Caption: Relating to refund of security deposits by certain residential landlords.
HR 80 Caption: In memory of Henry A. Meadows.
66th Regular Session
HB 1081 Last Action: Comm. report printed and sent to Committee on Calendars
Caption: Relating to credits on and reductions of certain homeowners and renters insurance premiums.
HB 1185 Last Action: Placed on daily General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to making it capital murder to murder two or more persons in certain circumstances.
HB 1287 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to liens and performance and payment bonds in connection with public contracts.
HB 1534 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to refund of security deposits by certain residential landlords.
HB 1535 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Employment Practices
Caption: Relating to interest to be paid on certain workers' compensation awards.
HB 1536 Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement
Caption: Relating to the employer's notice of injuries filed with the Industrial Accident Board.
HB 1607 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the regulation of workers' compensation insurance rates and certain persons and organizations establishing those rates; providing a penalty.
HB 1649 Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement
Caption: Relating to disqualification for unemployment compensation benefits.
HB 2250 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the consideration of write-in votes for the purpose of determining whether a candidate for an office of a political subdivision has received a majority vote.
HR 96 Caption: Requiring House members who are not reelected to vacate office space by January 1.