Legislation authored by John Trimmier Morrison Cox

Includes legislation with John Trimmier Morrison Cox as the primary author for the 54th through 56th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

56th Regular Session
HB 301	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide additional compensation to the Assistant District Attorney and stenographer of the 27th Judicial District, and providing for payment thereof.
HB 321	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relative to the regulation of rates for certain casualty insurance including fidelity, surety and guaranty bonds for all forms of motor vehicle insurance.
HB 383	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by enumerating reasons for challenge for cause, and providing for a challenge because of conscientious scruples in regard to infliction of the punishment of death for a crime.
HB 384	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure for the purpose of permitting a defendant who is charged with a felony to waive a jury regardless of whether the plea is guilty, not guilty or nolo contendere.
HB 416	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying and confirming the organization of Bell County Water Control and Improvement District No. 5, in Bell County, Texas and of certain acts of its Board of Directors.
HB 487	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code in regard to exempted preparations; relating to records to be kept and to purchases without prescriptions of drugs.
HB 488	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes the regulation and practice of pharmacy.
HB 500	Caption: Relating to the hospitalization, commitment, care, observation and treatment of the mentally ill, including persons of unsound mind, and their status.
HB 595	Caption: Relating to defining eminent domain powers of Bell County Water Control and Improvement District No. 5.
HB 618	Caption: Relating to authorizing Bell County to supplement the salary of the District Attorney of the 27th Judicial District.
HB 634	Caption: Relating to the sale of thallium compounds; requiring the keeping of certain records including the signatures of purchasers of thallium compounds containing less than one per cent (1%) of thallium sulfate.
HB 724	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Bell County Improvement District."
HR 32	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
56th 1st Called Session
HR 99	Caption: Congratulating State Representative C. W. Pearcy, Jr. on his birthday.
55th Regular Session
HB 193	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to the seizure and forfeiture of vehicles used in connection with violations of the narcotics laws, providing for the disposition of such vehicles and the funds obtained from the sale thereof; authorizing the Department of Public Safety to retain for the use of the Narcotics Division those vehicles upon which no lien or mortgage existed.
HB 215	Caption: Relating to authorizing the employment of special investigators for grand juries.
HB 271	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that a certificate of stillbirth shall be signed by the physician or midwife in attendance at the stillbirth.
HB 272	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by increasing the fees for certified copies of vital records furnished by county clerks and the State Registrar of Vital Statistics and for searching the records of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics, by authorizing deposit of fees in the Vital Statistics Fund oftener than at the close of each month, and by providing for a refund of fees where the Bureau cannot render the service for which the fee was paid.
HB 273	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that the State Registrar, county clerk, or local registrar shall not issue a certified copy disclosing illegitimacy or otherwise disclose illegitimacy unless the issuance of the certified copy or the disclosure is authorized by order of the county court of the county in which the birth, death, or fetal death occurred.
HB 394	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment by the State for hospital care of tuberculous patients in public hospitals of this State in case of financial inability of such persons to provide such care; placing administration of the Act in the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools.
HB 434	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Department of Health to arrange planning assistance for municipalities of twenty-five thousand (25,000) population or less, and to accept grants therefor under the provisions of the Federal Housing Act of 1954 or from other sources.
HB 439	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the regulation of the practice of pharmacy; prescribing the powers and duties of the State Board of Pharmacy.
HB 735	Caption: Relating to creating an additional District Court in Bell County, Texas, to be known as the District Court of the 130th Judicial District.
HB 913	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts establishing the qualifications for the office of the Commissioner of Health of the State of Texas.
HR 278	Caption: In memory of H. B. Mason of Temple.
55th 1st Called Session
HB 24	Caption: Relating to creating the Darr's Creek Watershed Authority as a conservation and reclamation district in Bell County.
HB 25	Caption: Relating to creating the Donahoe Creek Watershed Authority as a conservation and reclamation district in Bell, Milam and Williamson Counties.
55th 2nd Called Session
HB 38	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the regulation of the practice of pharmacy, prescribing certain powers and duties of the State Board of Pharmacy, making certain provisions relating to permits issued by the State Board of Pharmacy for the operation of a retail pharmacy, drug store, dispensary, or apothecary shop, prescribing fees relating thereto.
54th Regular Session
HB 427	Caption: Relating to compensation of members of the State Board of Health; limiting to $1,000 a year the amount a member may receive for per diem and expenses.
HB 888	Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation District comprising certain territory contained within Bell County, Texas, and such District is empowered to acquire, develop or purchase water, underground water or other sources of water, and to acquire, construct or purchase all works, plants, and other facilities and equipment necessary or useful for the purpose of storing, processing such water and transporting and distributing it for municipal, domestic, farm and industrial purposes, and to improve, enlarge, extend, maintain and repair its water system, and to make or enter into agreements or contracts for the acquisition or purchase of water and other matters, and to acquire or purchase all necessary lands, easements or right of ways for any and all the foregoing purposes.
HB 928	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Bell County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4"; conferring upon the district the powers of the general laws governing water control and improvement districts where not in conflict with this Act; providing for the governing body of the district; providing for the issuance of bonds and refunding bonds; adopting the ad valorem plan of taxation for said District; making bonds of the District eligible for investments and exempting the property and the bonds of the District from taxation; providing certain matters pertaining to eminent domain; authorizing contracts for purchase of water or water supply; finding a benefit; providing a severability clause.
HCR 190	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 888 to the House for certain corrections.
HCR 191	Caption: Instructing the House Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 888.
HR 154	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.