Legislation authored by Jesse Floyd Ward

Includes legislation with Jesse Floyd Ward as the primary author for the 49th through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

54th Regular Session
HB 151 Caption: Relating to amending statutes relative to fishing and taking minnows in Waller County.
HB 171 Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to make it unlawful to use dogs to hunt deer, but lawful to use dogs to trail wounded deer, in Fort Bend County.
HB 227 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to give the Commissioners Court authority to require than an annual or biennial independent audit be made of all county books, records and accounts of district, county, and precinct officers, agents, or employees, including regular auditors of the counties and all governmental units of the county, hospitals, farms and other institutions of the county and all matters pertaining to the fiscal affairs of the county.
HB 438 Caption: Relating to amending legislation which requires the services of registered professional engineers in connection with certain public works, so as to exempt a county commissioners' court from the requirements of that section in certain specified types of work.
HB 812 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful except under the provisions of this Act, for any person to hunt, take, kill, or possess any game bird or animal in Brazoria, Ft. Bend and Wharton Counties.
HB 971 Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Fort Bend County Water Supply District"; prescribing its powers and duties and providing for a governing body thereof; making the District subject to the statutes relating to water control and improvement districts except as otherwise provided; enacting other provisions relating to the subject.
HCR 36 Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 151 to the House in order to make certain corrections.
HCR 69 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 151.
HR 257 Caption: In memory of Albert P. George of Richmond.
53rd Regular Session
HB 853 Caption: Relating to preserving and protecting wild and tame pheasants in Waller County for a period of five (5) years; prescribing the penalty for violation of this Act.
HR 127 Caption: In memory of former State Representative James B. Pattison.
50th Regular Session
HB 38 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to cover the payment of taxes on State Prison Farm lands located in Fort Bend, Brazoria, Walker, Houston, and Madison Counties.
HB 164 Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of a County-wide Equalization Fund in certain Counties.
HB 315 Caption: Relating to requiring all section, bridge and building, and maintenance of way motor cars operated by any railroad in this State to be equipped with electric head lamps and rear lamps; providing a penalty; providing if any section, sentence or clause shall be declared invalid, other sections of parts of the Act shall not be affected thereby.
HB 605 Caption: Relating to providing for the election of trustees in rural high school districts and consolidated independent school districts, composed of the territory formerly comprising twelve (12) original school districts, two (2) of which shall have been independent school districts containing more than two hundred and fifty (250) scholastic population.
HB 641 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the purpose of completing the purchase of a Steam-Turbine Driven Electric Generator with auxiliaries at Prairie View University.
HB 642 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Prairie View University for scholarship aid to qualified negro students for graduate and professional study outside of Texas; providing regulations therefor.
HR 183 Caption: Relating to the expense accounts of Members.
HR 235 Caption: Relative to the expense accounts of Members.
49th Regular Session
HB 704 Caption: Relating to making a certain emergency appropriation for the Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College, Prairie View, Texas, for the remainder of the current fiscal year ending August 31, 1945.
HB 719 Caption: Relating to conveying the title of the State of Texas to Lot No. Four (4) in Block No. Fifty (50) in the town of Rosenberg, according to the map and plat of the original town, shown of record in Volume P, Page 146, of the Deed Records of Fort Bend County, Texas, acquired by the State under a tax sale, to Gussie Flam, a widow, her heirs and assigns.
HB 729 Caption: Relating to amending certain law, relating to elections providing for free range for hogs for certain period.
HB 730 Caption: Relating to amending certain law relating to stock law elections, etc.
HCR 93 Caption: Recalling H.B. Nos. 729 and 730 from the Governor's office.
HCR 95 Caption: Authorizing H.B. No. 729 and H.B. No. 730 to take effect immediately.
HR 274 Caption: Providing for committee to make investigation of State Welfare Department.