Legislation authored by Scott Philen Sayers

Includes legislation with Scott Philen Sayers as the primary author for the 53rd through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

54th Regular Session
HB 33	Caption: Relating to making certain adjustments in the incorporation, organization, regulation, and operation of life, health or accident insurance companies subject to the provisions of the Insurance Code.
HB 180	Caption: Relating to regulating transportation of persons for hire or compensation over the public roads, highways, and bridges of this State whether as a common carrier, contract or charter carrier, or as a transportation agency or as a bureau, or as a broker for hire to obtain a co-traveler or co-travelers to share the expense of the trip proposed or otherwise, or to act as an intermediary in connection therewith, or as a broker for hire, agent or otherwise, unless the motor vehicle used in connection therewith is properly equipped with license plate issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas under the laws of the State of Texas.
HB 265	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Commission on Higher Education; providing for the appointment and organization of such Commission; authorizing said Commission to employ a Director and other necessary personnel; providing for advisors to said Commission; providing certain duties of said Commission; providing a repealing clause.
HB 293	Caption: Relating to providing for contingent fee contracts for attorneys and limiting the amounts thereof; and declaring that such contracts shall be void and unenforceable if obtained as the result of intervention of any lay person, organization or corporation, or in which such lay person, organization or corporation has an interest therein.
HB 294	Caption: Relating to civil procedure; limiting the venue of actions brought to recover damages for personal injuries or wrongful death, resulting from accidents occurring outside this State, to residents of the State at the time of the accrual of the cause of action.
HB 375	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of an Adult Probation and Parole Officer for Tarrant County if such an officer has not been assigned to a court and/or district in Tarrant County.
HB 413	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by changing the amounts to be allocated from the Clearance Fund to the Blind Assistance Fund, the Children's Assistance Fund, and the Old Age Assistance Fund and allowing certain credits from the first revenues collected to be deposited to these funds.
HB 450	Caption: Relating to future oil and gas leases covering University Lands.
HB 602	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act; relating to further clarifying such act and further regulating and controlling alcoholic beverages.
HB 628	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to clarify such Act and further regulate and control alcoholic beverages; providing a saving clause; repealing laws in conflict herewith.
HB 825	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relative to regulating the terms of insurance policies issued by county mutual insurance companies pertaining to insured property encumbered by a lien.
HR 6	Caption: Providing the salaries for officers of the House.
HR 313	Caption: Welcoming the students of St. Mary's School of Fort Worth to the State Capitol.
HR 444	Caption: Commending Miss L. Frances Smith for her contributions to the city of Fort Worth and the State.
53rd Regular Session
HB 129	Caption: Relating to applying to school districts located wholly or partially within counties of more than one hundred and sixty-five thousand (165,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census and repealing all laws or parts of laws which provide that territory or other property annexed by an incorporated city or town thereupon becomes or shall become a part of any such school district; providing that no board, agency, officer, city governing body or other authority shall have authority to add or annex any such territory or property to any such school district.
HB 757	Caption: Relating to creating a County Criminal Court for Tarrant County, Texas, prescribing the jurisdiction, powers, and terms thereof.
HJR 39	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the improved support of The University of Texas and The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas from a source other than tax revenue of the State of Texas by providing for the investment of the Permanent University Fund in corporation bonds, preferred and common stocks.
53rd 1st Called Session
HB 71	Caption: Relating to authorizing Investigators of the State Board of Medical Examiners to be paid a salary not to exceed Forty-eight Hundred Dollars ($4800) per year during the remainder of the biennium ending August 31, 1955; making a supplementary appropriation to the Board of Medical Examiners for travel expense during the remainder of the biennium ending August 31, 1955.
HB 81	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to provide that the stock of insurance companies shall be divided into shares of certain amounts.