Legislation authored by Lamar Acker Zivley

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53rd Regular Session
HB 42	Caption: Relating to defining and prohibiting unfair competitive practices with a view to preventing the advertising, offering for sale or the selling of merchandise below cost for the purpose of injuring competitors, destroying, or substantially lessening competition; providing remedies for violation thereof; establishing a penalty therefor.
HB 123	Caption: Relating to prohibiting banks doing business in this State from charging or deducting any sum for the payment of, or the collection from itself of, or the remittance for, checks, or drafts drawn upon them by their depositors, except direct charges to their depositors and charges for collection services, defining offenses and prescribing penalties necessary and incident thereto.
HB 163	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts; appropriating all unexpended balances of funds and aid heretofore appropriated or granted to Soil Conservation Districts; providing methods for creation, dissolution and operation of such Districts and the election of delegates to District and State Conventions; recognizing and declaring the existence of a public calamity from drought, wind and water erosion of soil.
HB 164	Caption: Relating to amending the Firemen and Policemen Civil Service Act in regard to appeals from the Civil Service Commission by Firemen and Policemen to District Courts.
HB 179	Caption: Relating to repealing the Compulsory Vehicle Inspection Law of 1951; re-enacting a part of the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways and relating to the inspection of vehicles.
HB 194	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes concerning cotton salvage.
HB 195	Caption: Relating to repealing articles concerning the State Mining Board and Office of State Mining Inspector, abolishing said board and office and transferring their duties to the Commissioner of Labor Statistics.
HB 196	Caption: Relating to repealing the article making the Commissioner of Agriculture an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
HB 197	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles pertaining to the State Ranger Force.
HB 216	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles by providing a minimum salary schedule with increments for experience and college training; providing for the effective date of this Act.
HB 219	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code, creating a Mutual Assessment Company Rate Board.
HB 279	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts pertaining to the filing of statements of perpetual care fund of cemeteries; prescribing certain fees for cities of certain population.
HB 394	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of surveying in the State of Texas; defining as a misdemeanor certain acts committed after the first day of September 1953, prescribing the penalties for such violations and that each day of such violations shall be a separate offense.
HB 691	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes in regard to requirement of those licensed to practice the healing art.
HB 692	Caption: Relating to requiring every person, firm, or corporation using or furnishing trading stamps, coupons, or similar devices to be used in connection with the purchase of goods, wares, or merchandise from such person, firm, or corporation to obtain a license; prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
HB 693	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relative to fees for privilege of writing credit insurance, schedule of rates, statistics and information.
HB 694	Caption: Relating to levying and allocating certain Taxes to provide revenues for the payment of Old Age Assistance, aid to destitute children, and to the needy blind, obligations of the State under Teachers Retirement Act, revenues for the highway system of this State, and for the economical and efficient operation of the State Government by levying certain additional taxes.
HB 695	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for certain fees to be collected for certain licenses to be issued by the Game and Fish Commission.
HB 696	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by declaring certain days to be legal holidays; providing an effective date.
HB 697	Caption: Relating to amending statutes so as to provide that certain taxes imposed by this Act shall go to and be placed to the credit of the State Highway Fund.
HB 698	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the regulation of the practice of barbering.
HB 799	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure providing for recovery for any loss, expense or damage caused by the improvident or erroneous issuance of any temporary restraining order or temporary injunction.
HB 800	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code, regulating Fire and Marine Companies by providing for the regulation of re-insurance of insurance written by companies licensed to do business in the State of Texas writing Fire and allied lines of insurance, and the regulation of re-insurance written by foreign insurance companies imposing upon the Board of Insurance Commissioners certain duties relative to their insurance.
HB 888	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, kill, or attempt to kill wild deer in Bell and Coryell Counties for a period of five (5) years from and after the effective date of this Act; providing a penalty therefor.
HCR 56	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to take action on H. B. No. 216.
HCR 134	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate to make certain corrections of S. B. No. 15.
HJR 18	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the Legislature shall have the power to provide assistance to and provide for the payment of same to actual bona fide citizens of Texas who are needy aged persons over the age of sixty-five (65) years, needy blind persons over the age of twenty-one (21) years, and needy children under the age of sixteen (16) years; providing a maximum payment of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) per month from State funds for Old Age Assistance; providing for the acceptance of financial aid from the Government of the United States for such assistance; providing that the payments of such assistance from State funds shall never exceed the payments from Federal funds.
HR 48	Caption: Providing salaries for certain officers of the House.
HR 190	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 132.
53rd 1st Called Session
HB 46	Caption: Relating to declaring that all cigarette taxes paid in pursuance of the general and special laws of this State shall be conclusively presumed to be a direct tax on the retail consumer precollected for the purpose of convenience and facility only.
HB 56	Caption: Relating to increasing the annual renewal fee for licensed vocational nurses and changing the basis for transfer of excess funds in the Vocational Nurse Examiners Fund to the General Revenue Fund.
HB 78	Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act by changing and redefining the terms "licensed physician" and "narcotic drugs".
HB 94	Caption: Relating to providing revenue by imposing a tax upon the sale, use, consumption, handling or distribution of all bottled soft drinks; providing penalties.
HR 59	Caption: In memory of W. A. Messer, Jr. of Jefferson.
HR 121	Caption: In memory of John C. Sparks of Houston.
52nd Regular Session
HB 47	Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of licenses to Auxiliary Nurses in this State by a Board of Auxiliary Nurse Examiners; defining terms; allowing certain exceptions; creating a Board of Auxiliary Nurse examiners and providing terms of office and qualifications for same; prescribing minimum standards of teaching for Vocational Nurses; providing for the issuance of licenses to presently practicing Nurses; providing for license by reciprocity.
HB 102	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to practice chiropody without a valid license duly registered in the District Clerk's Office; providing for the keeping of a "Chiropody Register" by every District Clerk; defining those regarded as practicing chiropody; providing for examination by the Board of Chiropody Examiners of applicants for license to practice chiropody in Texas, naming the subjects in which applicants are to be examined, the method of holding examinations and qualifications for eligibility to take such examinations.
HB 125	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to increase the total maximum reserve of Title Insurance Companies for protection of policy holders from $100,000.00 to $500,000.00; requiring such reserve fund to be kept on deposit with the State Treasury or other depository approved by the Board of Insurance Commissioners; providing for the substitution of securities; providing for disposition of such reserve funds; impressing reserve fund with a trust; authorizing application of deposits on current title policy losses.
HB 126	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to increase the maximum amount of cash or other securities deposited by Title Insurance corporations with the State Treasury or other approved depository from $100,000.00 to $500,000.00; providing for substitution of securities; restricting use of deposits for protection of title insurance policy holders; providing for disposition of funds deposited; providing that a holding of unconstitutionality of any part of this Act shall not affect the remainder.
HB 134	Caption: Relating to providing for compulsory treatment of narcotic addicts; defining certain terms; making the use of narcotic drugs unlawful and providing an exception; providing penalties.
HB 135	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to perpetual care cemeteries.
HB 338	Caption: Relating to forbidding persons, firms, associations, or corporations to charge a fee or require the payment of a fee by individuals for a medical examination, fingerprints, or furnishing reports as a condition of employment; providing a penalty; establishing venue of suits for violations; providing attorney's fees; designating Commissioner of Labor Statistics as enforcement agency.
HB 500	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture, Division of Weights and Measures for the purpose of enforcing the Texas Antifreeze Act.
HB 523	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing reasonable medical aid, hospital services, medicines, and allowing free choice of physician or surgeon.
HB 660	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts requiring a certificate of proficiency in the basic sciences as a pre-requisite to examination for a license to practice the healing arts; fixing fees payable by applicants; providing for examinations to determine knowledge, ability and skill in the basic sciences; prescribing requirements for a certificate to practice the healing arts; providing for waiver of the examination; providing for severability.
HB 676	Caption: Relating to validating city home rule charters voted under certain conditions, the proceedings relating to the adoption thereof, and the election of and assumption of office by new members of the governing body of the city under such charter; providing that such charter shall constitute the charter of the city.
HB 804	Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of an Assistant District Attorney and stenographer and providing salaries therefor for the 27th Judicial District.
HJR 7	Caption: Proposing an Amendment providing for assistance to citizens of the United States who are residents of the State of Texas and who are needy aged persons over the age of sixty-five (65) years, needy blind persons over the age of sixteen (16) years, and on behalf of needy children under the age of sixteen (16) years; limiting the maximum payment of Old Age Assistance to a needy individual to Twenty-Five ($25) Dollars per month form State Funds; providing for the acceptance of financial aid from the Government of the United States for such assistance.
HR 68	Caption: In memory of Walton Harris Walker of Belton.
HR 139	Caption: Naming Donald Ray Manning and Mike Floyd Manning Mascots of the House.
HR 275	Caption: Expressing appreciation to Walter E. Long and the staff of the Texas Legislative Service for their service.
51st Regular Session
HB 109	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in all Judicial Districts in this state; providing such compensation shall include the Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars per year now allowed by the constitution; providing that District Attorneys shall not be deprived of their expense allowance; providing that in certain counties the District Attorney shall receive a salary of Six Thousand Five Hundred ($6,500.00) Dollars per years which salary shall include the Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars per year provided by the Constitution.
HB 163	Caption: Relating to providing a sanitary and healthful method of wrapping and packaging of straws, tubes, or other similar devices for use of customers in public places; providing a penalty; providing a severance clause.
HB 194	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, prescribing hours of labor, compensation and vacations of city firemen and policemen; prescribing penalties for violations.
HB 195	Caption: Relating to forbidding employers to charge fee or require the payment of a fee by individuals for a medical examination or report as a condition of employment subject to certain restrictions, defining the term "employer" and "employee"; providing a penalty; providing a savings clause.
HB 196	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a division within the State Department of Public Welfare to be known as the "Commodity Distribution Division"; providing for an emergency appropriation for administrative purposes for the period from May 1, 1949 to August 31, 1949; providing for an appropriation for the biennium beginning September 1, 1949 and ending August 31, 1951 for the purpose of setting up facilities for the distribution of commodities for the biennium in accordance with the provisions of this Act; and providing a repealing clause and a saving clause.
HB 471	Caption: Relating to reenacting a previous Act, defining insurance companies organized under the laws of this State who are transacting business under the laws of the State; repealing certain laws; providing for the rule of construction.
HB 482	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a Medical Branch of the University of Texas in Temple or Bell County, Texas; appropriating for the remodeling of buildings acquired under provisions of this Act, a sum of fifty-thousand (50,000) dollars for the financial year ending August 31, 1951, from the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas; appropriating for equipment, operation and maintenance of said Medical Branch, a sum of two hundred thousand (200,000) dollars for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1950, and a like sum for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1951, from the General Revenue Fund of t he State of Texas; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act to the extent of such conflict only.
HB 524	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the contest of wills to be filed within six (6) months after probate thereof; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HB 529	Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay deficiency appropriations granted to the State Soil Conservation Board, to pay the supervisors of soil conservation districts in Texas.
HB 659	Caption: Relating to declaring that the purposes of the Texas Liquor Control Act can best be carried out and such law best enforced by providing minimum process for retail sales; providing for the filing of prices on certain alcoholic beverages by Wholesalers.
HB 875	Caption: Relating to authorize the issuance of licenses to Vocational Nurses in this State by a Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HCR 35	Caption: Directing the creation of an Insurance Code Committee.
HCR 102	Caption: Authorizing the legislature to adjourn from Thursday, May 12 to Monday, May 16, 1949.
HJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that the Legislature shall have the power to provide assistance and to provide for the payment of same to needy aged persons over the age of sixty-five (65) years, who are citizens of the United States and are residents of the State of Texas; providing for the proclamation and publication thereof; and prescribing the form of ballot.
HR 37	Caption: Urging the citizens of Texas to prepare for Ground Hog Day.
HR 118	Caption: Suspending the House Rules to allow for the introduction of bills past a certain deadline.
HR 141	Caption: Proposing certain rules regarding the introduction of Mascot resolutions.
HR 252	Caption: Granting Boys State permission to use the House Chamber for a day, provided that the House is not in Session.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 31	Caption: Relating to authorize the issuance of licenses to Technical Nurses in this State by a Board of Technical Nurse Examiners; defining terms; allowing certain exceptions; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HCR 24	Caption: Declaring Legislative Intent regarding the Foundation School Program Act.
HR 48	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
50th Regular Session
HB 102	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Highway Department to cancel liens that have been of record for a period of six (6) years or more.
HB 276	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles, relative to compensation, vacations, etc., of firemen and policemen in certain cities.
HB 314	Caption: Relating to amending Article 925, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as heretofore amended, relative to cemetery perpetual care funds.
HB 746	Caption: Relating to the construction of a memorial shrine building at Temple, Texas, honoring the 36th Division of the United States Army.
HR 128	Caption: Designating John Pat Hydrick as a Mascot of the House.
HR 129	Caption: Designating Bobby Jack Hydrick as a Mascot of the House.
HR 130	Caption: Designating Billy Jo Hydrick as a Mascot of the House.