Legislation authored by William Thomas Oliver
Includes legislation with William Thomas Oliver as the primary author for the 55th through 57th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 57th Regular Session | |
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| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute establishing the extraterritorial jurisdiction of cities and towns, authorizing the exercise of certain powers by cities and towns in such extraterritorial jurisdiction, and regulating annexation by cities and towns both within and without such extraterritorial jurisdiction; providing for severability. |
| HB 133 | Caption: Relating to requiring certification of fire insurance damage claims by the Fire Chief, Fire Marshal or other designated fire official of the incorporated city or town wherein such fire damage is alleged to have occured. |
| HB 134 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act relative to providing benefits and providing for benefit eligibility conditions; providing an effective date for this Act. |
| HB 144 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the practice of barbering in this State; changing the existing provisions regarding the licensing and operation of barber schools and colleges, and providing penalties. |
| HB 485 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of an Act permitting a member of the Texas Retirement System of Texas to receive a standard service retirement benefit upon the completion of thirty-five (35) years of creditable service. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Game and Fish Commission power and authority to regulate, by proclamation, order, rule, or regulation, the taking of the wildlife resources of this State; prescribing offenses and penalties; fixing the effective date of the Act. |
| HB 548 | Caption: Relating to providing requirements for the holders of any office or public trust in this state, or employment in public schools, public junior colleges, and state colleges and universities: setting out administrative procedures for filing and inspection, making violation an offense and prescribing the penalty therefor. |
| HB 646 | Caption: Relating to liability insurance for the operation of motor vehicles owned, leased or rented by the State or a political subdivision thereof. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to making the collection of "breakage" or loss deposits discretionary with the respective governing boards of the State institutions of higher education; providing an effective date. |
| HCR 22 | Caption: Granting Lavon Lakey permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 54 | Caption: Inviting Reverend Theo S. Kyritsis to give the opening prayer on March 23, 1961 in honor of Greek Independence Day. Also directing the flag of Greece to be flown beneath the Texas flag over the Capitol on that same day. |
| HCR 69 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to produce a report about funds allocated to different agencies. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Directing the creation of a General Investigating Committee of the House. |
| HR 53 | Caption: Electing children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 316 | Caption: Proposing a solution to the State's fiscal problems. |
| HR 378 | Caption: Commending the Capitol Press Corps for their service. |
| HR 447 | Caption: Granting compensatory time to members of the typist and stenographers pools for their diligent work over the Easter holiday. |
| HR 486 | Caption: Commending Mrs. Thomson and her assistants for their work operating the telephone system of the House. |
| HR 511 | Caption: Congratulating Mrs. Edith Thompson, Chief Telephone Operator in the Capitol, and her twin sister on their Birthday. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to providing for the taking of bait shrimp manually with a seine in the Gulf waters of Jefferson County by any person or group of persons; providing that it shall be unlawful to use a boar or other mechanical apparatus in the seining operation under this statute. |
| HCR 22 | Caption: Granting Lavon Lakey permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 122 | Caption: Congratulating the Port Neches Babe Ruth All-Stars baseball team for reaching the state championship playoffs. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 29 | Caption: Commending the Nederland High School football team for their sportsmanship. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 47 | Caption: Relating to providing for an archery season on turkey, deer, bear and javelina; forbidding possession of a firearm or crossbow while hunting during said season; regulating the use of bow and arrows in hunting said wild game; restricting hunting in Jack, Wise and Parker counties to residents of said counties; providing for a penalty for violation. |
| HB 274 | Caption: Relating to the practice of barbering in this State; separating the practice of barbering on male persons from the provisions of the Hair Dressers' and Cosmetologists' Act. |
| HB 305 | Caption: Relating to certain drainage districts; authorizing and providing for the consolidation of such districts. |
| HB 323 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by making them applicable to the refunding or refinancing of State University and College revenue bonds and notes issued under other laws. |
| HB 493 | Caption: Relating to providing for a five per cent (5%) gross receipts tax on business done by any hotel, motel, rooming house or inn; providing for quarterly reports. |
| HB 494 | Caption: Relating to providing for a five per cent (5%) gross receipts tax on the business of transporting passengers for hire by air, whether scheduled or non-scheduled; providing for quarterly reports. |
| HB 519 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of Lamar State College of Technology to sell certain college land. |
| HB 520 | Caption: Relating to waiver of indictment upon a plea of guilty in Criminal prosecutions for any offense classified as a felony less than a capital offense and to prosecution for such offense by information; providing when Act shall become effective. |
| HB 521 | Caption: Relating to arrest without warrant of persons found in suspicious places and persons found under suspicious circumstances which reasonably show that they have committed or are about to commit a felony or breach of the peace. |
| HB 537 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the sale, distribution, use, consumption or handling of soft drink syrups and extracts used in compounding, blending, mixing or preparing soft drink syrups; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 570 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the business of servicing oil or gas wells by the use of bulk mud or cement chemicals. |
| HB 585 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the business of publication of newspapers, operation of television stations, operation of radio broadcasting stations and the business of outdoor advertising by billboards; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 627 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the sale or use of phonograph records; providing for rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Comptroller of Public Accounts; providing for reports and examination of books; providing for enforcement by the Attorney General; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 637 | Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, or to use fire or smoke in any manner in, on, or around, any den or hollow tree within any woods or forest, or upon any cutover land, brushland, rangeland, or grasslands for the purpose of driving or smoking out game animals or bird from such den or hollow tree; declaring violations of this Act to be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, and prescribing a penalty for the violation thereof. |
| HB 648 | Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season in Jefferson and Liberty Counties upon alligators; providing a penalty. |
| HB 678 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the business of parking or storing motor vehicles; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 786 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation or excise tax on the first sale or use of produced or manufactured goods. |
| HJR 52 | Caption: Proposing an amendment levying a 3% Sales Tax for the creation of a fund to be known as the Texas Education and Public Welfare Fund to be used and dispersed in the manner herein set forth, fixing and determining the rate of such tax and the method of its collection and its dispersement, and making an appropriation to pay the necessary expenses for advertising and submitting this amendment. |
| HR 76 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 538 | Caption: Designating May 5, 1959 as Speaker's Day in honor of the Speaker of the House. |
| HR 620 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to notify the Senate and the Governor that the House has Adjourned Sine Die. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 22 | Caption: Welcoming the students of St. Elizabeth's School to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation or excise tax on the first sale or ue of produced or manufactured goods. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Commending the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce and certain members of the National Guard for the construction of a new National Guard Armory. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Providing for Sine Die adjournment of the 56th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, on August 6, 1959. |
| HR 23 | Caption: In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Duckworth, Jr. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 309 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and validating an election heretofore held in an throughout Jefferson County, Texas, upon the question of authorizing the issuance of $10,400,000 road bonds of said County and levying a tax in payment thereof. |
| HB 340 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the compensation that may be paid justices of the peace and constables in counties having a population of at least one hundred ninety-five thousand inhabitants and less than six hundred thousand inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
| HB 621 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Game and Fish Commission regulatory authority over wildlife resources in Hardin, Freestone, Orange, and Jefferson Counties; repealing certain laws and fixing the effective date of the repeal. |
| HCR 81 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. 8 and H. B. 87. |
| HCR 110 | Caption: Authorizing the House and Senate to consider H. B. No. 907 at any time. |
| HR 498 | Caption: Providing for an interim Game and Fish Committee of the House of Representatives. |