Legislation authored by Fred R. Harris

Includes legislation with Fred R. Harris as the primary author for the 44th through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

51st Regular Session
SB 38	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to members of the State Banking Board.
SB 39	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to change the compensation of the Banking Commissioner.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that whenever any person shall procure the issuance of a policy of insurance or of an annuity contract on his or her life in any legal reserve life insurance company, the payment by the company of the proceeds of the policy or of the annuity contract becoming due on the death of the insured or of the annuitant in accordance with its terms prior to the receipt by such company from all liability under the policy or annuity contract.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to validating all subdivisions and detachments of territory from common school districts and common county line school districts and the annexation thereof to contiguous independent school districts, validating the enlarged independent school districts resulting therefrom and conferring upon such independent districts all the powers possessed in their original stats or by other independent school districts.
SB 124	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, striking out each of said sections and substituting in lieu thereof new sections, so as to provide for the examination and licensing of master and journeymen gas fitters and to provide for the issuance of licenses without examination to master plumbers, journeymen plumbers, plumbing inspectors, master-employing gas fitters and journeymen gas fitters who now hold licenses, from any city examining and supervising Board.
SB 125	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, renewing railroad corporations which have expired by lapse of time.
SB 126	Caption: Relating to creating the Southwestern Medical College of the University of Texas; fixing its location; authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to accept on behalf of the State of Texas certain real, personal and mixed property in the City of Dallas; providing a saving clause.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act dealing the practice of architecture so as to more accurately define the practice of Architecture, and to more accurately describe violations thereof and more equitably prescribe the penalties for violations thereof and more equitably prescribe the penalties for violations of any provision of said Act.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to appropriating money out of the State Highway funds to pay the judgment and costs in favor of Christine Mayes Wallace and husband, Morris Wallace, in Cause No. 88216-C, styled Christine Mayes Wallace, et vir, Morris vs. The State of Texas and the State Highway Department, in the 68th District Court of Dallas County, Texas.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to providing for retirement of Judges of this State; providing for repeal of laws in conflict; providing for validity of remaining portion of Act, if any part declared unconstitutional.
SB 208	Caption: Relating to providing for regulation of life insurance and health and accident insurance issued in connection with loan transactions; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act to the extent of such conflict; declaring the provisons of this Act to be severable.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Twelve Hundred Ninety-eight Dollars ($1298.00) to pay the salary of Ralph K. Gillen as Special Judge of the 101st District Court of Dallas County, Texas.
SB 247	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making it unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of a hairdresser or cosmetologist or to operate a cosmetological school without having first obtained a certificate of registration; providing penalties and punishments thereof; providing a repealing and a saving clause.
SB 288	Caption: Relating to providing that upon publication and posting of notice as therein prescribed by any person, firm, unincorporated association, group of persons, or corporation, engaged in mining and producing any mineral or minerals that the signer, or signers, of the notice is, or are mining and producing the mineral, or minerals, under claim of ownership as against all persons, excepting those, if any, who may be excepted by name in the notice.
SB 289	Caption: Relating to defining and determining the responsibility and liability of a co-tenant or co-owner to other co-tenants or co-owners when the former mines and produces any mineral which is solid in its natural state underground, but which is mined and production by converting same to a fluid state underground and bringing same to the surface in such state.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, concerning the amount of taxes on certain coin operated machines; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a savings clause.
SB 291	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing counties to pay their contributors to Retirement, Disability and Death Compensation Funds out of the fund from which each officer or employee is paid.
SB 292	Caption: Relating to donating and granting to the Dallas County Flood Control District all of the State ad valorem taxes that may be collected for general revenue purposes upon property located within said District and from persons therein, for a period of twenty years, commencing September 1, 1949, not to exceed, however, the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) per annum; providing that, if any part of of this Act shall be held unconstitutional, such decision will not affect the remaining part of the Act.
SB 293	Caption: Relating to relinquishing and granting unto adjacent land owners the title to beds and channels of all abandoned rivers, streams and other channels that have been or may hereafter be abandoned by reason of the relocation of the bed or channels of such rivers and streams by flood control districts, drainage districts, or levee improvements districts under an approved plan of reclamation; defining certain terms.
SB 294	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of official court reporters in and for the County Courts at Law and the County Criminal Courts in counties in which there now exits, Law and one or more County Criminal Courts at Law and one or more County Criminal Courts; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to amending previous Acts, providing for payment of an annual occupation tax and other maintenance fees, charges and tax and other maintenance fees, charges and taxes by Mexican Insurance Companies writing automobile accident and other insurance coverage in the State of Texas effective only in the Republic of Mexico, and providing for the making of annual adapted reports; repealing all laws and parts of laws to the extent of any conflict.
SB 458	Caption: Relating to validating certain orders of Boards of Directors of Water Control and Improvement Districts which have installed and are operating water distribution systems and sewer collection and disposal plants and which have issued ad valorem bonds on such systems payable also out of revenues therefrom and which districts have been enlarged by such orders granting petitions of landowners filed with said districts that lands described in such petitions be added to said districts.
SB 465	Caption: Relating to requiring Cities and Towns, including Home Rule Cities, which heretofore have issued, or hereafter may issue, bonds payable from revenues of any City-owned utilities to file with the State Auditor an operating statement containing certain information in respect to the income and expenses of such Systems, so long as the net revenues are pledged to pay principal or interest of Revenue Bonds.
SB 480	Caption: Relating to creating one additional District Court for Dallas County, Texas.
SB 492	Caption: Relating to providing and making a transfer of the money now in the State Treasury in the Chiropractic Examiners Fund Account No. 140, the amount being a sum of Fourteen Thousand, Two Hundred Fourteen and 02/100 ($14,214.02) Dollars, to the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners created by the 51st Legislature and appropriating said Fourteen Thousand, Two Hundred Fourteen and 02/100 ($14,214.02) Dollars and all fees coming into the Chiropractic Examiners Fund, to be used by said Board in defraying its expenses and carrying out the provisions of House Bill No. 721, Acts of the 51st Legislature, 1949.
SCR 38	Caption: Directing the State Fire Insurance Commission to investigate possible fire hazards in State Institutions.
SCR 64	Caption: Amending the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
SCR 66	Caption: Recognizing the citizens of France for their dedication of a monument to the 36th "Texas" Division.
SCR 74	Caption: Directing all proposals to amend the State Constitution to be voted on Tuesday, November 8, 1949.
SJR 4	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, by amending Section 19 of Article 16, so as to provide that the qualification of no person to serve as a juror on grand juries and on petit juries in civil cases, shall be denied or abridged on account of sex, and providing that the Legislature may prescribe that only males are eligible on petit juries in criminal cases; providing for the submission of this amendment to a vote of the people of Texas; providing the time, means, and manner thereof, and making an appropriation for such purpose.
SR 3	Caption: Adopting the permanent rules of the Senate.
SR 9	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the Senate to the office of Sweetheart.
SR 29	Caption: Directing the creation of a Senate General Investigating Committee to study certain issues regarding the collection of revenue by State agencies.
SR 35	Caption: Inviting former State Senator W. C. Graves to address the Senate.
SR 98	Caption: Providing for calendars for local and uncontested bills.
SR 118	Caption: Welcoming Adele Ashley to the State Capitol.
SR 190	Caption: In memory of Clyde Arthur Jay.
51st 1st Called Session
SB 7	Caption: Relating to releasing penalties and interest on all State ad valorem taxes that were delinquent on or before the effective date of this Act, or which may become delinquent on or before February 1, 1951 provided same are voluntarily paid within the three year period immediately following the effective date of this Act; suspending all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act during the term of this Act, insofar as same are in conflict with he provisions hereof; providing a severability clause.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to making a supplemental appropriation for the Fire Insurance Division of the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
SR 43	Caption: Inviting R. W. Burnett and Charlie Grimm to address the Senate.
50th Regular Session
SB 19	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to venue of personal injury suits against railroads.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to work and vacation of firemen and policemen in certain cities; fixing the hours that shall constitute a legal day's work in fire and police departments; providing penalties.
SB 49	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; providing penalties.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a lien by written agreement between a factor and borrower, as defined therein, upon merchandise, as defined therein, in the custody or possession, or that may come into the custody or possession, of the borrower; providing that if any provision of this Act be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect any other provisions.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing that corporations may be formed for the protection and advancement of the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law, the advancement of justice and the science of jurisprudence, the encouragement of cordial intercourse among lawyers, and the improvement of the relations between the Bench and Bar and the public with power to provide and maintain suitable buildings for the conduct of their activities.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to authorizing, empowering and directing the State Board of Control to purchase site for and construct a State Cancer and Pellagra Hospital at Dallas, Texas; making an appropriation.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, restricting the amount of annual salaries, compensation, or emolument which may be paid to officers, directors, or trustees of domestic life insurance companies without prior approval of the Board of Directors.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to provide that the payment by a legal reserve life insurance company of the death proceeds of a policy or annuity contract to the person last designated by the insured or annuitant as the beneficiary shall discharge the insurance company from all liability under policy or annuity contract.
SB 79	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of Chiropractic; creating the Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners; to repeal all laws in conflict; to provide that if any part is held unconstitutional it shall not invalidate any other part.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, regulating the maximum height of vehicles unladen or with load.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to enlarge the definition of the term "motor carrier" to include the transportation of motor vehicles on their own power of by the tow bar, saddle mount, or other similar method.
SB 82	Caption: Relating to amending the statutes of the State of Texas relating to the computation of the reserves on policies and contracts issued by life insurance companies.
SB 83	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to what a policy of life insurance shall contain; and providing that this Act shall take effect January 1, 1948.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making it the duty of the Board of Control or such agency as at any time may have the responsibility to prescribe rules for correctional discipline at Gatesville State School for Boys, Gatesville State School for Girls and all other such institutions; prescribing penalties; enacting other provisions relating to the subject.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that members of the Fire Department, Police Department and the Fire Alarm Operating Department of a city or town coming under the provisions of this Act, and who have been in the armed service of the United States during World War II, shall be entitled upon complying with the requirements of this Act, to share the benefits of the Firemen and Policemen's Funds and all other benefits provided by the Policemen and Firemen's Pension Fund; providing a saving clause.
SB 172	Caption: Relating to regulating traffic or travel upon the highways of the State of Texas; prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act; containing a saving clause.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to credit unions, loan and investments in corporations, conditions of loans and dividends.
SB 205	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Dallas County; prescribing penalties; making this Act cumulative with other laws on the subject; providing a saving and a repealing clause.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for clearance and redevelopment of blighted areas in accordance with redevelopment plan; providing that, if any provisions of this Act is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby; providing that insofar as the provisions of this Act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other, this Act shall control.
SB 238	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to properly number the sections and subsections of said Act and to remove conflicts with other laws and conflicts within the Act.
SB 292	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for exchange of teachers by designated proper authorities in the State of Texas.
SB 303	Caption: Relating to providing that the Commissioners Court in certain counties shall fix the compensation for the deputies, assistants and employees in all county and district offices except the District Attorney.
SB 309	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing that corporations may be formed for the purpose of dealing in agricultural commodities, poultry, dairy products, livestock.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the employment and compensation of assistants and employees by the District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney in counties having a population of 325,00 to 500,000 inhabitants; declaring the provisions hereof to be severable.
SB 348	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to deposit of securities; providing a saving clause.
SB 364	Caption: Relating to authorizing the separation or divorcement of public schools from municipal control in certain extended municipal school districts pursuant to an election to be held for that purpose; providing that if any section or part of this Act is held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Act; providing that this Act shall not repeal any existing law.
SB 392	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by fixing the standard of weight for bread to be sold by the loaf made by bakers engaged in the business of wholesaling and retailing bread.
SB 443	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, donating and granting to the Dallas County Flood Control District all of the net amounts of annual current State ad valorem taxes that may be collected from the property and from the persons within the boundaries of said district.
SCR 16	Caption: Granting Robert B. Kelley permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 22	Caption: Authorizing the appointment of a member of member of each House to attend the Marine Fisheries' Conference sponsored by the Council of State Governments.
SCR 25	Caption: Providing for a joint session for the purpose of unveiling portraits of three distinguished Texas-born Americans.
SCR 34	Caption: Providing for a Commission to investigate the Gatesville School for Boys and Gainesville School for Girls.
SCR 37	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 364 from the Governor for correction.
SCR 40	Caption: Inviting Joseph T. O'Callahan to address a joint session of the Legislature.
SCR 46	Caption: Providing for a delinquent tax code committee.
47th Regular Session
HB 9	Caption: Relating to providing processing tax of one cent ($0.01) per gallon on gasoline and all combustible condensates, and providing certain penalties.
HB 89	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of real estate by virtue of any power of sale contained in any mortgage, trust deed, or other conveyance in the nature of a mortgage, and providing that such conveyances shall only be foreclosed by an action in court and that no real estate shall be sold to satisfy any such conveyance except pursuant to a judgment of a district court.
HB 301	Caption: Relating to providing that officers, agents, or employees of certain depository banks shall be disqualified from holding or exercising the office of school trustee.
HB 323	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation to sell or offer for sale within the State of Texas any goods, wares, or merchandise manufactured wholly or in part by convicts or prisoners in penal and reformatory institutions, except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation; providing exemptions and penalties.
HB 324	Caption: Relating to the regulation of the practice of naturopathy; creating a Naturopathic Examining Board; providing certain penalties.
HB 695	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act prohibiting the extension of credit terms and further regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages in Texas.
HB 733	Caption: Relating to creating the position of Assignment Clerk in certain counties.
HB 961	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Dallas County, Texas, for the maintenance of the public roads and highways other than duly designated State highways of Dallas County.
HCR 116	Caption: Granting N.D Lenamond permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission in Dallas County.
HCR 117	Caption: Granting William Trakas permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 144	Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Thursday, May 15, 1941, and ending on Monday, May 19, 1941.
HR 11	Caption: In memory of O. B. Colquitt of Dallas.
HR 163	Caption: Inviting the St. Louis Browns baseball team to visit the House of Representatives.
HR 262	Caption: Congratulating W. O. Reed on the occasion of his birthday.
47th 1st Called Session
HB 8	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the biennium beginning September 1, 1941, and ending August 31, 1943, of monies coming into the County and Road District Highway Fund.
HCR 19	Caption: Pledging support to movements meant to establishing cotton hosiery manufacturing plants in Texas.
HR 36	Caption: In memory of Edwin John Kiest.
45th Regular Session
HB 16	Caption: Relating to the examination of applicants for operators or chauffeur's license; providing for certain exemptions; providing for the issuance of restricted license.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to requiring a certain mortuary fund and regulating the expending thereof.
HB 329	Caption: Relating to the payment of wages; defining certain words as used in this Act; providing that all employees shall be paid twice each month; providing a penalty for failure to pay.
HB 330	Caption: Relating to the fees that may be charged applicants by private employment agents in Texas, authorizing the Commissioner of Labor to prescribe the form of receipts.
HB 331	Caption: Relating to the fees to be charged by private employment agents in Texas.
HB 880	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the issuance and manufacturing of the license number plates so as to provide for the issuing of a late license number plate, seal, sticker, or device, as the State Highway Commission may direct, for attaching same.
HB 908	Caption: Relating to regulating and advocating the promoting, conducting and maintaining of fistic combat or wrestling matches, boxing or sparring contests or exhibitions for money remuneration, purses or prize equivalent to be received by the participants or contestants.
HB 1139	Caption: Relating to creating Dallas County Levee Improvement District Number Fourteen, of Dallas County, Texas, embracing lands in the County of Dallas, Texas, and lying within the boundaries of Dallas County Levee District Number Two, as a conservation and reclamation district and body politic and corporate, and defining its boundaries.
HCR 65	Caption: Granting John Haney permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 125	Caption: Recalling H. B. No. 1139 from the Senate in order for the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections.
HR 57	Caption: In memory of Martha J. Reed of Dallas.
HR 91	Caption: Extending gratitude to the Salesmanship Club of Houston for their hosting of the Gridiron Dinner.
HR 159	Caption: In memory of Lemuel Letcher Byrd of Rinehardt.
45th 1st Called Session
HR 11	Caption: Directing the performance of a Memorial Day service within the House Chamber.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 115	Caption: Relating to providing that in all counties having a population according to the last preceding Federal Census of more than three hundred and twenty-five thousand (325,000) and less than three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000), and having two or more Criminal District Courts, the Deputy District Clerks serving in each of the said Criminal District Courts shall be appointed by the regularly elected Judge of said Court.
44th Regular Session
HB 136	Caption: Relating to the licensing of motor vehicle operators and chauffeurs, and fixing the fee for operator's and chauffeur's license and providing for the disposition thereof, and relating to liability of certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways, and to make uniform the law relating thereto, and for the creation of the office of Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for the State of Texas.
HB 206	Caption: Relating to providing that agreements between merchants, to reduce the sales price of merchandise, shall not be unlawful.
HB 485	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; providing that inquests in certain counties shall be held when a person dies and there has been no doctor in attendance available to sign a death certificate, making it unlawful for any person to remove the body of any person found dead under such circumstances as to lead to suspicion that such deceased came to his death by unlawful means, fixing the fees of Justices of the Peace holding inquests and providing that such fees shall not be an accountable fee of office.
HB 705	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; making adequate provision for compensation of Court Reporter to be appointed by the Criminal District Attorney in any county having a population in excess of one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) and less than excess of three hundred and fifty-five thousand (355,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census, and which alone constitutes two or more judicial districts.
HB 726	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of grand jury bailiffs in certain counties.
HB 801	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that the Commissioners' Court in counties having a population of three hundred thousand or more may expend not to exceed four hundred dollars per month for furnishing a public restroom for women and may expend not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month for a salary of a matron thereof.
HCR 149	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 23, 24, and 32 for final disposition of H.B. No. 485.
HR 24	Caption: Congratulating President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the occasion of his 53rd birthday.
HR 123	Caption: Inviting Reno S. Harp, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, to address the House.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 73	Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of all motor vehicle operators; defining offenses against this Act and prescribing penalties therefor.