Legislation authored by A. C. 'Tony' Garcia

Includes legislation with A. C. 'Tony' Garcia as the primary author for the 64th through 69th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

69th Regular Session
HB 880	Last Action: Withdrawn by author Caption: Relating to the authority of a commissioners court of a county to enact certain ordinances; providing a penalty.
HB 882	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to county regulation of land development in unincorporated areas.
HB 898	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for certain service as an employee of a judicial district.
HB 928	Last Action: Placed on General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the use of certain tools by agricultural laborers in commercial farming operations.
HB 959	Last Action: Referred to Higher Education Caption: Relating to a requirement that teacher education programs include training in recognizing and responding to signs of child abuse in students.
HB 960	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to authorizing child advocates in public schools to assist students who are victims of abuse or neglect.
HB 977	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the authority of counties to enact ordinances on a local option basis; providing a penalty.
HB 1014	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Relating to the confidentiality of child abuse reports made by school district employees.
HB 2100	Last Action: Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to eliminating the availability of deferred adjudication, community-service probation, and expunction of the criminal record for certain offenses committed against a child.
HB 2101	Last Action: No action taken in committee Caption: Relating to the day on which a special election may be held.
HB 2495	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to authority to establish a foreign trade zone in Weslaco.
HCR 118	Last Action: Referred to Public Education Caption: Direct the Commission on Standards for the Teaching Profession and the State Board of Education to require, for teacher certification, training in recognizing and responding to signs of child abuse.
HR 19	Caption: Requesting Veterans Administration to study the feasibility of a medical field facility in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
68th Regular Session
HB 394	Last Action: Placed on daily General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the value of prizes awarded at a bingo game.
HB 395	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the civil jurisdiction of county courts at law, county courts, and other statutory courts exercising civil jurisdiction.
HB 812	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for certain service as an employee of a judicial district.
HB 958	Last Action: Placed on daily General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the licensing of the business of trading in foreign exchange; requiring certain reports; and providing penalties.
HB 1484	Last Action: No action taken Caption: Relating to regulation of land development in unincorporated areas of a county.
HB 2130	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to a disannexation and municipal incorporation procedure for residents of certain areas annexed by a home-rule city.
HB 2433	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the civil jurisdiction of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County and the County Court at Law No.2 of Hidalgo County.
HR 166	Caption: Congratulating Representative Al Edwards on his birthday.
HR 203	Caption: Honoring Judge Ramiro M. Guerra.
68th 2nd Called Session
HCR 11	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Inviting former vice-president Walter F. Mondale to address the 2nd Called Session.
67th Regular Session
HB 266	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to coverage of agricultural employees and employment under the Texas unemployment Compensation Act.
HB 487	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to agricultural laborers' use of hoes that have short handles.
HB 1456	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the effect of a conviction for driving while intoxicated.
HB 1924	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the day of the week on which an emergency special election for state senator or state representative may be held.
HB 1981	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the compensation of a court-appointed counsel in a criminal case.
HB 1982	Last Action: Referred to Subcommittee on Pensions Caption: Relating to credit in the Employees Retirement System of Texas for certain service as an employee of an appellate court.
HCR 24	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Memorializing Congress to provide financial assistance to school districts adversely affected by enrollment of children of undocumented workers.
HJR 22	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Constitutional amendment to limit the number of terms an individual may serve as speaker.
67th 1st Called Session
HB 158	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the apportionment of the state into representative districts.
66th Regular Session
HB 228	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: An act defining the term "eligible city" as any city or town in this state, including home rule cities, whose corporate limits are within a distance of fifteen (15) miles from a river between the state of Texas and the republic of Mexico, authorizing each eligible city to acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, operate, and maintain any toll bridge or bridges or parts thereof, buildings, structures, activities, operations, or other facilities, for any public purpose; authorizing each eligible city to issue revenue bonds for public purposes; providing the terms, condition, payment, and security of said revenue bonds, and liens, pledges, and encumbrances in connection therewith; providing for refunding bonds; enacting other provisions relating to the subject; prescribing a severability provision.
65th Regular Session
HB 429	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to the validation of the acts and proceedings of school districts; and declaring an emergency.
HB 668	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to assessment of punishment when the jury cannot agree.
HB 823	Last Action: Assigned to General State Calendar Caption: Relating to use of white-wing dove stamp revenue.
HB 869	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Validating certain unenforceable tax levels and junior college district boundary changes; providing for valid annual levies hereafter; providing for cases of tax levels made but not properly recorded and to declare that assessment and collection of taxes for any year constitute notice of a tax levy made, theses provisions to be cumulative of and in addition to existing rights and remedies now available; defining tax unit or unit; specifying inapplicability of this Act; providing for severability.
HB 894	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to damages that certain beneficiaries may recover in an action for wrongful death; providing for the institution of suit; relating to the substantive and procedural law applicable in deaths occurring in foreign states and countries.
HB 895	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to a general charge to the jury by a district court, county court, or county court at law and evidence to support certain judgements; repealing laws in conflict.
HB 1349	Last Action: Assigned to General State Calendar Caption: Relating to secured transactions.
HB 1549	Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Relating to the authority of certain cities to undertake and finance certain improvements.
HB 2028	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of municipalities with respect to tax increment financing.
HB 2185	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to legal representation for county officials and employees in certain suits.
HCR 48	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Authorizing Terry Bishop to sue the state.
HJR 85	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Proposing an amendment of the Texas Constitution relating to elections to issue road district bonds.
HR 41	Caption: Relating to creating a special interim committee to investigate plight of migrant farm workers in Texas.
64th Regular Session
HB 997	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to assessment of punishment when the jury cannot agree.
HB 1557	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to licensing of labor agents.
HB 1558	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to increasing the membership of the Public Safety Commission.
HB 1559	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the establishment of a grant program for construction of migrant labor camps to be administered by the State Department of Health.
HB 1909	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the creation of the position of the State Apiarist in the Department of Agriculture and transferring the powers and duties of the state entomologist and that pertain to honey bees to the Department of Agriculture.
HB 2218	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Relating to the compensation of the shorthand reporter of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County.
HR 79	Caption: Congratulating the Pan American University Broncs.