Legislation authored by Dexter Harold Buchanan

Includes legislation with Dexter Harold Buchanan as the primary author for the 52nd through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

53rd Regular Session
HB 39	Caption: Relating to providing for the compulsory inspection, adjustment, correction or repair of motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, pole trailers and mobile homes under the supervision of the Texas Department of Public Safety; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act.
HB 87	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by eliminating the requirement for separate and privy acknowledgment of conveyances by a married woman.
HB 183	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts concerning the management of the State Iron Industries near Rusk.
HB 184	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes concerning the establishment of the Texas Naval Board.
HB 185	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes concerning the Bureau of Child and Animal Protection.
HB 186	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts relating to eleemosynary institutions, concerning a soldiers' and sailors' home.
HB 187	Caption: Relating to Eleemosynary Institutions, concerning a soldiers' and sailors' home.
HB 188	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts concerning the Commission of the Volunteer Army of the War with Spain.
HB 204	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to reduce the ad valorem tax for pensions for Confederate soldiers and other militiamen, and their widows, to no (0) cents on the $100 valuation; providing the effective date of this Act.
HB 280	Caption: Relating to approving and adopting the Sabine River Compact.
HB 318	Caption: Relating to the exemption of any corporation organized as a terminal corporation not organized for profit and having no income from the business done by it from the franchise tax.
HB 319	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes concerning the keeping of registers of warrants issued.
HB 320	Caption: Relating to deleting reference to the specific Legislature which levied the tax rate on oil upon which the tax rate on liquid hydrocarbons recovered from gas is based.
HB 762	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by adding one (1) member to the Texas Library and Historical Commission.
HCR 31	Caption: Granting Edward and Irene Prudhomme permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 41	Caption: In memory of T. C. Denton.
HR 79	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 176	Caption: In memory of O. Thomas Welch of Longview.
53rd 1st Called Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to revising and arranging certain statutes of this State relating to taxation into a new title of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas to be known as "Title 122A, Taxation--General".
HR 89	Caption: In memory of Lou Della Crim of Kilgore.
HR 139	Caption: In memory of Reagan S. Wyche of Longview.
52nd Regular Session
HB 14	Caption: Relating to providing for compensation of counsel appointed pursuant to law to defend persons in criminal cases; providing for the payment of such compensation.
HB 136	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as no longer to require a married woman to acknowledge a conveyance privily and apart from her husband, and to longer require the separate acknowledgment of a married woman to the conveyance of the homestead; amending Statues relative to separate acknowledgments; prescribing the form of certificate of acknowledgment for a married woman.
HB 235	Caption: Relating to providing that whenever bonds are hereafter voted and issued by school districts for the purchase, construction, repair and equipment of public free school buildings within the limits of such districts and the purchase of necessary sites therefor, the bonds proceeds may be used to pay the cost of acquiring, laying, and installing pipes or lines to connect with the water, sewer, or gas lines of an incorporated city or town, so that the school district may afford its public free school buildings of the water, sewer, or gas services offered by such city, town, or other municipal corporation, or private utility company.
HB 436	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts concerning the State Board of School Safety Supervision and minimum standards for school buildings.
HB 437	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes concerning a Board of Visitors to attend the annual examinations at the University and its branches.
HB 438	Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts concerning the Texas Historical Board.
HB 439	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes concerning taking of samples by ginners, certificates with samples, certificates of guarantee, duties of Commissioner, and a Cotton Board relating to ginners' licenses.
HB 521	Caption: Relating to providing for and authorizing the appointment of an official shorthand reporter for the County court of Gregg County, Texas; fixing the compensation of the reporter; authorizing the County Judge of Gregg County to appoint such reporter.
HB 599	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide that the requirement of perpetual care cemeteries to file an annual statement with the office of the Secretary of State and pay a filing fee therewith, be changed so that such requirement hereinafter be made to the Banking Commissioner of Texas.
HB 767	Caption: Relating to providing for and authorizing the appointment of official shorthand reporters for the County Courts of Texas; fixing the compensation of the reporters; authorizing the County Judge of said Counties to appoint such reporter.
HR 1	Caption: Concerning privileges of the floor pending the election of the Speaker.
HR 12	Caption: In memory of Myron G. Blalock of Harrison County.
HR 40	Caption: In memory of Roy H. Laird of Kilgore.
HR 102	Caption: In memory of Edgar Clinton Johnston, Sr., of Austin.
HR 202	Caption: Requesting the Senate to furnish a duplicate copy of S. B. No. 300 for the House.
HR 207	Caption: In memory of James Arthur McCann, Sr., of Longview.