Legislation authored by J.C. 'Zeke' Zbranek
Includes legislation with J.C. 'Zeke' Zbranek as the primary author for the 54th through 56th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 56th Regular Session | |
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| HB 104 | Caption: Relating to the duration of filing and registration of chattel mortgages and other chattel security instruments as notice to third persons and destruction of expired chattel mortgages and other chattel security agreements and records. |
| HB 444 | Caption: Relating to providing for a universal jury wheel in each county regardless of population or number of district courts holding session therein. |
| HB 556 | Caption: Relating to defining "dangerous drugs"; regulating the possession, handling, sale, obtaining, and distribution of "dangerous drugs"; providing for injunction to prevent violations; providing penalties for violations. |
| HB 562 | Caption: Relating to securing identifying marks of ownership of dogs and to protect owners of dogs against their theft by defining the misdemeanor offense of theft of a dog which bears no reasonably discernible identifying tattoo or mark of ownership; providing that theft of a dog which bears a reasonably discernible identifying tattoo or mark of ownership which has been duly registered as provided by law, shall be a felony; providing that whoever shall remove, deface, obscure or obliterate any tattoo or identifying mark upon any dog or upon any collar or other thing worn by a dog shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor; providing a penalty. |
| HB 695 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide that the Tax Assessor-Collector shall be entitled to deduct amounts of homestead exemptions claimed, and refund same to claimants, if paid in error and reported in prior months of the current tax year, from the amounts due on such later monthly reports of tax collections due the State; providing that the State Comptroller shall honor such deductions so long as they are made prior to June 30 of the year when current taxpaying ends. |
| HB 702 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a county-wide independent school district for certain counties. |
| HB 706 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the School Land Board to grant and issue surface leases to an island in Chambers County in the waters of Galveston Bay. |
| HB 714 | Caption: Relating to establishing a juvenile board in Liberty County. |
| HB 794 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to the selection of jurors. |
| HB 977 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful except under the provisions of this Act for any person to hunt, take, kill or attempt to kill or possess, any game bird or game animal in Liberty County at any time; to take, kill or trap or attempt to take, kill or trap any fur-bearing animal in said County or to take, or attempt to take any fish or other aquatic life or marine animals from said County by any means or method; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 40 | Caption: Granting the City of Liberty permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 51 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 90 | Caption: Congratulating the Liberty High School football team for making the Class AA State Quarterfinals. |
| HR 91 | Caption: Commending the Liberty High School band for their performance in the Inaugural festivities. |
| HR 156 | Caption: Commending Fred Curry for his service as Porter of the House. |
| HR 253 | Caption: In memory of Willis Warren Jett of Liberty. |
| HR 282 | Caption: Declaring that any State Employee, regardless of branch or agency, is permitted to discuss legislation with any Member of the House or a Committee thereof. |
| HR 447 | Caption: In memory of Grover C. Chambliss, Sr. of Anahuac. |
| HR 470 | Caption: In memory of James Nixon Smith of Liberty. |
| HR 567 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Colbert High School to the State Capitol. |
| HR 600 | Caption: Welcoming the students from Barbers Hill School to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a county-wide independent school district for certain counties. |
| HB 73 | Caption: Relating to the taking, or catching of catfish from the waters of the Trinity River in Chambers County, Texas, excluding the waters of Trinity Bay. |
| HCR 11 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to submit an Article to the Called Session relating to certain amendments to the Penal Code. |
| HCR 50 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 45 and H. B. No. 73 at any time. |
| HR 64 | Caption: In memory of Eugene Wellington McLendon of Liberty. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relative to an occupation tax on sulfur producers. |
| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a countywide independent school district for certain counties. |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to the taking, or catching of catfish from the waters of the Trinity River in Chambers County, Texas, excluding the waters of Trinity Bay. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to an occupation tax on sulfur producers. |
| HR 71 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 100 | Caption: Requesting the Highway Commission to provide pay raises to State Highway Department employees comparable to other State Employees as provided in H. B. No. 4. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to the Lobbyist Registration Act regulating certain persons who undertake to promote or oppose the passage of legislation by the Legislature or its approval or veto by the Governor. |
| HB 284 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to increase the amount of tax that may be levied and collected in Trinity Bay Conservation District for the purpose of paying the costs of operating said District and maintaining its properties. |
| HB 312 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the district Judge of the 75th Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 614 | Caption: Relating to the taking of oysters from the waters of Chambers and Galveston Counties, Texas; providing a penalty. |
| HB 615 | Caption: Relating to closing the season for hunting wild deer in Chambers County for five (5) years; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 616 | Caption: Relating to closing the season for hunting alligators in Chambers County for five (5) years; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 724 | Caption: Relating to the duration of filing and registration of chattel mortgages and other chattel security instruments as notice to third persons and destruction of expired chattel mortgages and other chattel security agreements and records. |
| HJR 35 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas providing for the establishment of a State Scholarship Fund, from which grants, loans or scholarships may be made to needy students. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to the Representation Before the Legislature Act; providing for the registration of persons who undertake by direct communication, to promote or oppose the passage of any legislation by the Legislature or the approval or veto thereof by the Governor; providing penalties. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 101 | Caption: Extending best wishes to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland on their fundraising drive. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 196 | Caption: Relating to licensing of milk and cream testing. |
| HB 396 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 75th Judicial District of Texas to be composed of Liberty and Chambers Counties and prescribing the jurisdiction and fixing the terms thereof; relating to reorganizing the 88th Judicial District of Texas to be composed of Hardin and Tyler Counties and prescribing the jurisdiction and fixing the terms thereof. |
| HB 420 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by increasing the number of weeks of average weekly wages upon which compensation is based in case of death resulting from injury. |
| HB 839 | Caption: Relating to providing for a processing tax of one-fourth (1/4) cent per gallon on all combustible condensates, such as refined gasoline, naptha, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, drip gasoline, and all other combustible condensates of crude petroleum, natural gas, or any other product by any method of refining, manufacturing, processing, separating, extracting, compounding, blending, or storing, whether manufactured within or without this State; providing penalties for evasion of this Act; providing for production records to be kept and penalties for refusal or neglect in rendering reports; providing for penalties for failing to remit tax; providing for tax to be paid at point of production or storage. |
| HR 32 | Caption: Commemorating the birth of Robert Edward Lee. |
| HR 184 | Caption: Congratulating the East Chambers High School women's basketball team of Winne-Stowell for winning 3rd place in the Class B sate tournament. |