Legislation authored by Ronald D. 'Ronnie' Earle

Includes legislation with Ronald D. 'Ronnie' Earle as the primary author for the 63rd through 64th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

64th Regular Session
HB 150	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Appropriations Caption: Providing for increases in salaries, travel expense reimbursement, and state participation in group insurance premiums for certain state officers and employees; prescribing sources of funds, conditions and limitations; making appropriations; authorizing the comptroller to promulgate rules, regulations, and procedures.
HB 223	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Making an emergency appropriation for the construction of additional levels of parking on facilities located adjacent to the site of the State Law Center in Austin, Travis County, Texas; accepting gift to state of Texas of one level of underground parking and memorial plaza; authorizing the State Building Commission to contract for the construction of additional level of parking at that location; making other provisions relating thereto.
HB 534	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to definition of "lawn crypts," and to the increase of filing and examination fees and of the capital, trust, and guarantee fund requirements of perpetual care cemeteries.
HB 708	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Creating the Texas Judicial Council for the continuous study of and report upon the judicial system of the state, for gathering judicial statistics and other data, and for devising methods for the improvement of judicial administration and procedure; prescribing the membership of such council and terms of office; prescribing it duties and powers; providing for the payment of the necessary expenses of the council and its employees and members, including certain clerical expenses of the council, its officers and committees; providing for hearings and judicial remedies to compel attendance of witnesses and production of evidence; providing duties on the part of judges, judicial officers and personnel to furnish requested information and for enforcement of such duties.
HB 709	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Providing for a more efficient system of court administration; defining terms; providing for the promulgation of rules by the Supreme Court; creating an Office of Court Administration and providing for its direction and duties; providing for the division of the state into Administrative Judicial Districts; providing for the appointment, qualifications, term, powers, and duties of administrative judges; providing for the duties of court administrators; providing for annual meetings of judges and duties of the judges at such meetings; authorizing assignment of judges and additional compensation of judges; relating to counties in which there are certain courts; authorizing transfer of cases and exchange of benches, rule-making for the assignment, docketing and hearing of cases; providing for the selection, qualifications, term, powers, and duties of chief judges.
HB 741	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the requirement that meetings of Boards of Trustees of Community Centers for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services be open to the public.
HB 820	Last Action: Motion to suspend rules lost Caption: Relating to creation of a state personnel system and a state personnel board having powers, duties, and functions regarding employment policies and practices of certain state agencies; prescribing unlawful employment practices and providing penalties and other remedies; repealing the Position Classification Act of 1961.
HB 911	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to corporations.
HB 983	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Creating the Texas Adult Probation Board and providing for its powers and duties; relating to the establishment of probation officers, to the qualifications of probation officers, and to probation service fees.
HB 1113	Last Action: Ordered not printed after committee report Caption: Relating to legislative approval of construction and maintenance on certain state property.
HB 1114	Last Action: Rules suspended Caption: Relating to the control and management of state-owned buildings, grounds, and property maintained by the State Board of Control.
HB 1115	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the contents of State Board of Control annual reports made under The Interagency Cooperation Act.
HB 1128	Last Action: Considered by committee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to the transfer and sale of surplus and salvage equipment and material by the Board of Control.
HB 1202	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the definition of peace officer for certain purposes.
HB 1203	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the establishment of certain reporting requirements by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
HB 1204	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee unfavorably Caption: Relating to commissioning employees of the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education as peace officers.
HB 1205	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the revocation of certification of certain peace officers.
HB 1314	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Authorizing community centers for mental health and mental retardation services to acquire real and personal property.
HB 1315	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the establishment of a state-local cooperative purchasing service through the State Board of Control for local governments of the state.
HB 1316	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to deposits of revenue from mineral leases on park lands.
HB 1317	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the dissemination of information by the Parks and Wildlife Department about the operation of the department, the disposition of money received from the sale of publications, and limitations on the sale of Parks and Wildlife Department publications.
HB 1329	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the procedures to be followed by the Board of Control in obtaining rental space for state agencies.
HB 1347	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to pretrial release and bail for persons accused of criminal offenses; providing for pretrial release offices and pretrial release officers; providing for release or detention after conviction; providing for the collection and disposition of certain fees; providing penalties for certain violations by persons released.
HB 1621	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Energy Resources Caption: Relating to the conservation, storage and ownership of natural gas, and granting the right of eminent domain in underground reservoirs for the injection and storage of natural gas therein and the withdrawal of natural gas therefrom by any natural gas public utility or natural gas pipeline engaged in either or both the transportation or distribution of natural gas; providing for the procedure therefor; providing a non-litigation clause; providing for the reversion of the underground reservoir to the owners of the land and mineral and royalty interests; providing for the payment of royalty interest on oil produced and saved from lands covered by underground gas storage operations; providing for the ownership of gas storage operations; providing for the ownership of gas injected in storage; exempting common reservoirs producing both sweet and sour gas; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith.
HB 1622	Last Action: Rules suspended Caption: To provide for coordination of the efforts of those agencies with responsibility for the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of information relating to criminal justice matters; to establish a Criminal Justice Information Commission with rulemaking powers; to provide for its membership, duties, and powers; to provide for study of security and privacy matters in connection with the collection, maintenance, and dissemination of information relating to criminal justice matters; to insure the accuracy of information relating to criminal justice matters; to regulate access to information relating to criminal justice matters.
HB 1703	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to payment of expenses to the annual judicial conference for certain retired judges.
HB 1951	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Appropriations Caption: Relating to a salary increase for commissioned peace officers of the state.
HB 1952	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: To authorize municipalities to implement community development programs; declaring the objectives of certain activites undertaken to implement community development programs to be public purposes; providing severability.
HB 2106	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Liquor Regulation Caption: Relating to hours of sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in certain counties.
HB 2107	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the composition of state representative districts in Travis County.
HB 2108	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to provide services of typewriter and business machine repair, central mail delivery and messenger service, and a central supply store when the services can be utilized to provide economy and efficiency in state government; authorizing the establishment of revolving accounts to provide for payment and reimbursement for supplies, materials, and equipment utilized in providing the services; authorizing the transfer of agency of funds to reimburse the revolving accounts used for the services established by this Act; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 2109	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Labor Caption: Amending the Texas Mobile Home Standards Act, Chapter 656, Acts of the 61st Legislature, Regular Session, 1969, as amended (Article 5221f, of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
HB 2110	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to the District Attorney of the 53rd Judicial District, his duties and powers, and the duties of the County Attorney of Travis County, Texas.
HB 2111	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to political activity of officers and employees of the State Department of Public Welfare.
HB 2126	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to sale and purchase of excess acreage of a titled or patented survey of public land.
HB 2127	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to forfeiture of rights and payment of royalties, penalties, and interest under certain leases and permits on state land.
HB 2128	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to certain insurance policies covering the care and treatment of persons afflicted with chronic end-stage kidney disease; providing for severability; providing a repealing clause.
HB 2129	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to county development standards and the use of land in unincorporated areas in Travis County; providing penalties.
HB 2130	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Department to construct and maintain bikeways.
HB 2131	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to bicycle racing.
HB 2132	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to payroll deductions from wages and salaries of County employees in Counties have 20,000 or more population.
HCR 61	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to granting permission to Donald Smith and William Dossett to sue the state.
HCR 81	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Granting permission to John Stokes to sue the state.
HCR 150	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Designating Block 124 of City of Austin as Bicentennial Square.
HCR 154	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Congratulating the State Bar of Texas on the new Texas Law Center.
HCR 156	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Granting permission to the USAA Life Insurance Company to sue the state.
HCR 162	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Relating to correction of HCR 81.
HR 95	Caption: Relating to establishing a special interim committee to study the salary structure of the personnel of the Department of Public Safety.
HR 185	Caption: In memory of Jay H. Brown.