Legislation authored by Samuel Columbus Sellers
Includes legislation with Samuel Columbus Sellers as the primary author for the 49th through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 53rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to repealing the "Motor Vehicle Compulsory Inspection Act." |
| HB 257 | Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating working hours of firemen in cities having a population of ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants or more; providing certain penalties. |
| HB 314 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to include ambulances, and emergency vehicles of municipal departments and public service corporations designated by governing bodies of incorporated cities, within the definition of "Authorized Emergency Vehicle." |
| HB 609 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts; providing for the licensing, regulation and inspection of nursing homes and related institutions as defined herein; making an appropriation. |
| HB 923 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by further defining the authority of the State to accept gifts, grants, or loans for purposes of civil defense and disaster relief and to use, allocate, and distribute such gifts, grants, or loans directly or to political subdivisions of the State. |
| HR 290 | Caption: Extending sympathy to the victims of the tornados in Waco and San Angelo. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HR 87 | Caption: In memory of A. Joseph Armstrong of Waco. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 163 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to regulating petitions in suits for divorce, to require such petitions to state whether there are children, either born or adopted, under sixteen (16) years of age or an unborn child or children expected and if so, to give full information as to such minors, making it the duty of the Courts having jurisdiction of such suits to inquire into the status of such children, if divorce be granted; empowering such Courts to make orders and decrees for their support and maintenance until they reach sixteen (16) years of age. |
| HB 499 | Caption: Relating to providing for a processing tax of two cents (2ยข) 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, etc.; providing for certain penalties; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 732 | Caption: Relating to levying a tax upon the gross receipts of all insurance companies not organized under the Laws of this State; allocating such revenue to aid public school teacher's salaries; requiring a bond of all such companies. |
| HB 752 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making it a penal offense for any person to cause, encourage, or contribute to the delinquency of any female child under the age of 18 years, or any male child under the age of 17 years. |
| HCR 34 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from Thursday, February 20, 1947 until Monday, February 24, 1947. |
| HCR 44 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from March 5, 1947 until March 10, 1947. |
| HCR 62 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from March 20, 1947 until March 24, 1947. |
| HCR 78 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from April 10, 1947, until April 14, 1947. |
| HCR 114 | Caption: Granting the counties of Madison, Houston, Walker, Fort Bend, and Brazoria permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Completing the organization of the House, providing for proper facilities, supplies, and appointment of employees. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 237 | Caption: Relating to appropriating to the Department of Texas of the United Spanish War Veterans the balance of the fund now in the State Treasury, deposited by the United States in 1898 with the State of Texas to pay the enlisted men who entered the Volunteer Army of the War with Spain. |
| HB 354 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, or otherwise dealing in automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, or other motor vehicles, for profit, whether by wholesale or retail, in the State of Texas, without first having procured a license for each separate place of business in the State from the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas; prescribing penalties; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 550 | Caption: Relating to defining the terms "owner", operator", "coin-operated machine", "merchandise or music coin-operated machines", "skill or pleasure coin-operated machines"; levying a gross receipts tax upon the operations of such machines; providing a penalty. |
| HB 595 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 6931, Title 121 R.C.S., 1925 relating to stock law. |
| HR 228 | Caption: Providing for convening and adjourning each day. |