Legislation authored by Charles Alfred Murphy, Jr.
Includes legislation with Charles Alfred Murphy, Jr. as the primary author for the 50th through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 54th Regular Session | |
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| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University to request the Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force and/or the Secretary of Defense of the United States to establish and maintain courses of training at said institution, and authorizing the Board of Directors to enter into contracts for such purposes. |
| HB 90 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to include a student health clinic in the enumeration of buildings, structures, equipment, and facilities, that the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University may be authorized and empowered to acquire, equip, and finance. |
| HB 91 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University shall be Negro citizens of this State. |
| HB 92 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the State Highway Department to construct and maintain motor vehicle parking areas and ramps or ways for launching motor boats and hauling the same from the water; providing for the construction of access ways; authorizing the acquisition of land and easements in land; directing cooperation with the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; providing for type of construction; authorizing and directing the use of certain funds. |
| HB 93 | Caption: Relating to providing that any Justice of the Peace, Clerk or other Officer receiving fines or penalties imposed by any Court for violation of the Texas Liquor Control Act, or any other Act pertaining to alcoholic beverages, shall be remitted to the Texas Liquor Control Board; providing for the information to accompany such remittances; providing for deposit of such remittances in a separate fund in the State Treasury designated "Liquor Fine Fund"; making an appropriation of all such fund to the Liquor Control Board for the fiscal years beginning September 1, 1955, and September 1, 1956. |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes to provide for registration of automobiles of more than a certain age; providing for method of application for such registration; fixing amount of fee for such registration; providing for license plates; defining an offense and prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 103 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by adding a provision allowing Texas Local Recording Insurance Agents to divide commissions, within certain limits, with Licensed Non-Resident Insurance Agents; providing for cancellation of Non-Resident Insurance Agents license; providing for the licensing and supervision of such non-resident agents. |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to increase the excise tax levied and imposed upon motor fuels, liquefied gases, and other liquid fuels used or delivered into a fuel tank for use in propelling motor vehicles upon the public highways of Texas. |
| HB 198 | Caption: Relating to providing for the maintenance, care and education of persons under the age of eighteen (18) years who are totally deaf and blind. |
| HB 464 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the allocation of funds from the Clearance Fund to a Municipal Streets Fund of the State Highway Department; providing the purposes for which such fund shall be expended. |
| HB 661 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to prescribe the fees for the issuance of Certificates of Title, providing for the collection and disposition of such fees, providing for additional compensation of county tax assessor-collectors for their services in administering the Certificate of Title Act; making an appropriation of the fees allocated to the State Highway Department. |
| HB 685 | Caption: Relating to validating, upon certain terms and conditions, State Park Improvement Bonds heretofore authorized by the Texas State Parks Board and all covenants and agreements and all actions and proceedings in connection therewith; and providing the bonds to be incontestable. |
| HB 710 | Caption: Relating to granting to all tax payers who have paid taxes to the State of Texas who have not received a refund thereof, a credit on and a set-off against any tax liability imposed and owing to the State of Texas by reason of the provisions of previous legislation; providing for reporting to the Comptroller of the State of Texas the amount of such credit. |
| HB 922 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the purchase of anti-poliomyelitis (Salk) vaccine to be administered to wards of the State in special schools, hospitals, and similar institutions and to needy persons whose inoculation is in the interest of public health; prescribing a method for procuring and administering such vaccine. |
| HCR 10 | Caption: Authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University to grant certain easements to the City of Houston for the purpose of road construction. |
| HCR 25 | Caption: Granting the Tennessee Gas Commission Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 41 | Caption: Granting United Gas Pipe Line permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 66 | Caption: Granting Goldston Oil Corporation, et al. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 96 | Caption: Granting the Shell Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 8 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VIII of the Constitution of Texas by adding thereto a new section providing that all taxes levied after January 1, 1955, on motor fuels and lubricants used to propel motor vehicles over public roadways shall be devoted to roadway use only. |
| HJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an Amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by adopting a new Section to be known as Section 51-b, giving the Legislature the power to provide, under such limitations and restrictions as may be deemed by the Legislature expedient, for assistance to needy individuals, eighteen (18) years of age or older, who are permanently and totally disabled by reason of a mental or physical handicap, who are residents of the State of Texas, except that the individuals who are receiving aid for the permanently and totally disabled may not, during the same period of time, receive Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Needy Blind, or Aid to Dependent Children; providing that the Legislature shall have the authority to accept from the Government of the United States financial aid for the permanently and totally disabled individuals; providing that the amount paid to any individual may not exceed Twenty ($20) Dollars a month out of State funds; providing anticipatory legislation; providing for the necessary proclamation, publication and election; and providing an appropriation therefor. |
| HR 127 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Sheryl McKelvy and Dorothy Burgess. |
| HR 362 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of of the rules relating to the Local and Uncontested Bill Calendar. |
| HR 377 | Caption: Commending William H. Gardner for the publication of his work, "The Texas Citizen". |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 66 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University shall be Negro citizens of this State. |
| HB 104 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the State Highway Department to construct and maintain motor vehicle parking areas and ramps or ways for launching motor boats and hauling the same from the water. |
| HB 349 | Caption: Relating to cities of more than 160,000 inhabitants; amending certain Acts by eliminating all provisions relating to sewer systems and sewage disposal plants and systems, providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, notes or obligations on a parity with previously issued bonds, notes or obligations, and adding certain provisions relating to the approval of all bonds or notes by the Attorney General and the registration thereof by the State Comptroller and delivery thereof to purchasers; validating under certain conditions waterworks revenue bonds heretofore issued. |
| HB 653 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for registration of automobiles of more than a certain age; defining an offense and prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 865 | Caption: Relating to providing that any Justice of the Peace, Clerk or other Officer receiving fines or penalties imposed by any Court for violation of the Texas Liquor Control Act, or any other Act pertaining to alcoholic beverages, shall be remitted to the Texas Liquor Control Board; making an appropriation. |
| HB 905 | Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation and Reclamation District to be known as "Harris County Sanitation Authority"; prescribing its powers, authorities, duties and limitations. |
| HCR 39 | Caption: Directing the creation of a Joint Committee on Congressional Redistricting. |
| HCR 46 | Caption: Granting J. W. Luttes and/or the Shell Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 73 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. J. R. No. 24. |
| HJR 3 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment relating to compensation of Members of the Legislature. |
| HJR 24 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that all taxes levied after January 1, 1953, on motor fuels and lubricants used to propel motor vehicles over public roadways shall be devoted to roadway use only. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to providing an additional allowance for supplementing salaries for certain professional positions in the public schools under certain conditions; providing for a percentage participation by school districts in the financing of the Minimum Foundation Program; for certain credits to be extended to school districts against local fund assignments under certain conditions. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties composing the same, and providing for the election of a member of the congress of the United States form each district. |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of "The Texas State University for Negroes," to "Texas Southern University"; providing that all laws and appropriations heretofore or hereafter enacted by the Legislature applicable or relating to "The Texas State University for Negroes" shall be applicable and relate to Texas Southern University; ratifying, confirming and validating all contracts, bonds, notes or other debentures heretofore or hereafter issued under the provisions of any laws enacted by the Legislature on behalf of Texas Southern University. |
| HB 88 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing for notice of injury and claim for compensation in cases arising under the Workmen's Compensation Law. |
| HB 89 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes fixing the rate of discount for present payment of compensation of the employee or beneficiary under the Workmen's Compensation Act. |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the State Highway Department to construct and maintain motor vehicle parking areas and ramps or ways for launching motor boats and hauling the same from the water; providing for the construction of access ways; authorizing the acquisition of land and easements in land; directing cooperation with other agencies; directing cooperation with the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; providing for type of construction; authorizing and directing the use of certain funds. |
| HB 112 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relative to payment of franchise taxes by mutual investment companies. |
| HB 200 | Caption: Relating to providing that the motor fuel taxes paid by each public transportation company and taxicab company in each city, operating under franchise or permit therefrom, shall be paid over by the State Comptroller each year to each such city, allowing a deduction; providing penalties on each such company for failure to report, providing that the funds so received shall be used for the Constitutional purposes and no other, making an appropriation for a period of two years in furtherance hereof. |
| HB 203 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing that when a suit is brought to set aside a compromise settlement agreement, the issues with respect to the amount of compensation due under the Workmen's Compensation Law for incapacity or death, may be tried or determined in the same proceeding as the suit to set aside such compromise settlement agreement without the filing of a claim before the Industrial Accident Board. |
| HB 214 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that no motor fuel used by a municipal corporation for any municipal purpose within its corporate limits shall be subject to the motor fuel tax; providing for refund of any tax actually paid. |
| HB 221 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes requiring the Railroad Commission to see that railroads maintain certain schedules. |
| HB 294 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing for a more efficient law prohibiting hunting, fishing or camping on the enclosed land of another without the consent of the owner; providing for penalties for the violation thereof; providing for the deposit of certain fines collected into the Special Game Fund of the State of Texas; providing for the arrest of such persons. |
| HB 312 | Caption: Relating to fixing the term of office of School Trustees of Independent School Districts, having one hundred thousand (100,000) or more scholastics according to the last official scholastic census and wherein there may be situated a city having a population of five hundred and seventy-five thousand (575,000), and having a board of seven (7) Trustees. |
| HB 392 | Caption: Relating to creating two additional District Courts in Harris County, Texas, to be known as the 125th and 131st District Courts; adjusting the business of the existing district courts to the business thereof; providing for the election of district judges therefor; amending so much of Article 199, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as relates to the District Courts of Harris County Texas. |
| HB 671 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by authorizing the State Youth Development Council to regulate and control the business of operating, maintaining and conducting what is commonly known as summer camps for children; making certain exceptions and providing a penalty for the violation. |
| HB 702 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that the majority of the members of the Board of Directors of Texas State University for Negroes shall be Negro citizens of this State. |
| HR 197 | Caption: Providing for reproductions of certain pictures of Members of the Legislature. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to increasing pay of injured employees in Workmen's Compensation cases. |
| HB 110 | Caption: Relating to amending relative to fix the rate of discount for present payment of compensation of the employee or beneficiary under the Workmen's Compensation Act. |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for notice of injury and claim for compensation in cases arising under the Workmen's Compensation Law. |
| HB 285 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, in regard to amount of bond of guardian of an estate. |
| HB 437 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment, support, maintenance and direction of a University of the first class for the instruction and training of the colored people of this State to be known as "The Texas State University for Negroes" and to be located at Houston, Harris County; and providing for an Agricultural and Mechanical College for colored students to be known as "The Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College" as same is now located at Prairie View, Waller County; providing for establishment of equivalent courses during the interim by the Agricultural and Mechanical College and Texas University governing boards; making appropriations therefor; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict. |
| HB 456 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to the penalty for refusal to allow consultation with counsel or other persons to a prisoner. |
| HB 874 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article by providing for the appointment of County Traffic Officers. |
| HB 882 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the appointment of a President, teachers and other officers of Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. |
| HCR 16 | Caption: Commending the Young Democratic Clubs of Texas on their return to assembly in Dallas, Texas. |
| HCR 129 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Delinquent Tax Code Committee. |