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78th Legislature: Work Accomplished as of April 9*

April 11, 2003, News

Number of Bills: 6

+SB 15: Spends $15 million from the Smart Jobs Fund for "business location incentives" for Toyota plant in San Antonio

+SB 310: Requires homeowners insurance companies to tell the Dept. of Insurance how they calculate their premium rates

SB 330: Revises state law governing privacy of medical information to accord with federal law

SB 469: Alters the composition of the Comal County Juvenile Board

SB 510: Removes property tax exemption previously granted to travel trailers (aka "the Snowbird Exemption") from permanent-dwelling mobile homes (i.e., houses of people too poor to own travel trailers)

SB 519: Exempts prisoners or probationers from the privacy protections of medical information of other citizens (see SB 330)

* Excludes hundreds of special honor resolutions, e.g.: Building Safety Week, Round Rock Daffodil Days, Emmitt Smith Day, Kidney Day, Newborn Babies Week, Realtor Appreciation Day, Prayer Day, Air Conditioning Contractors Assoc. Day...

+ Signed by the governor: It's the Law.

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