Legislation authored by Claud Henry Gilmer

Includes legislation with Claud Henry Gilmer as the primary author for the 46th through 50th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

50th Regular Session
HB 2 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing judges, clerks, and commissioners of courts of record within this State to administer oaths, affidavits, and affirmations.
HB 115 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the allocation of funds from the "Clearance Fund" to the "Blind Assistance Fund", the "Children's Assistance Fund", and the "Old Age Assistance Fund"; providing a savings clause; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 221 Caption: Relating to permitting the adoption of adults in the same manner as is now provided for the adoption of minors.
HB 222 Caption: Relating to requiring, providing for form issuance and effective period of and fixing fees for, resident and nonresident hunting licenses; providing a suitable penalty for violation of any provisions of this Act; containing a severability clause; providing an effective date; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict.
HB 223 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 game animal in this State at anytime; providing penalties; repealing certain laws; providing an effective date; providing a saving clause.
HB 244 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Judiciary of the State of Texas for the biennium beginning September 1, 1947, and ending August 31, 1949; suspending all laws in conflict herewith; declaring the invalidity of any portion of this Act shall not affect any other portion.
HB 245 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support, maintenance and improvement of the Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions of the State of Texas.
HB 246 Caption: Relating to fixing and determining a method of per capita appropriations for educational institutions of higher learning, and declaring the policy thereof; containing a saving clause.
HB 247 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for support and maintenance of executive and administrative agencies of the State government, and for payment of other specified claims and items.
HB 268 Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the Attorney General for Court costs, supplies, clerical expense, and employment of additional assistants and stenographers for the purpose of preparing, investigating and prosecuting suits for recovery of delinquent corporation franchise taxes and forfeiture of charters.
HB 277 Caption: Relating to declaring a State policy with respect to the maintenance of water, gas and electric service by a utility.
HB 698 Caption: Relating to creating a "Texas Rural Development Commission".
HB 699 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to provide in case of refusal of any departmental head to remove an employee, the method and procedure of removal in the District Court of Travis County, Texas, by the Attorney General, and providing for the filing of a petition for removal for cause, with notice, and temporary removal within the discretion of the court, pending suit, and for trial by jury, and appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals.
HB 700 Caption: Relating to repealing House Bill No. 575, 42nd Legislature, Acts, 1931, in its entirety, relative to reports of the State Auditor on county tax matters.
HB 758 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by thereto adding the Counties of Crockett, Frio, Kinney, La Salle, Maverick, Medina, McMullen, Uvalde, Val Verde, and Zavala to make it therein lawful to capture, shoot or kill Collared Peccary or Javelina at any time; prescribing penalty for violation of any provision of this Act; repealing conflicting laws or parts thereof.
HB 877 Caption: Relating to providing for the apportionment of federal estate tax in those cases where the tax is measured in part by the interest of the surviving spouse in community property.
HB 889 Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 11, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, by providing for the classification of elementary schools.
HB 892 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Governor to appoint a committee to make a study of the Penal Code of Criminal Procedure in this State and of those portions of the Constitution of the State of Texas relating thereto and make recommendations for needed changes therein; making an appropriation to defray the expenses thereof.
HCR 2 Caption: Providing for a Joint Session to hear the address of Governor Stevenson.
HCR 11 Caption: To provide for Adjournment Sine Die.
HCR 48 Caption: Providing for a committee to study improvement within the public school system of Texas.
HCR 103 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 246 and H.B. No. 807.
HCR 163 Caption: Congratulating the Texas Centennial of Statehood Commission.
HR 36 Caption: In memory of Weaver H. Baker.
HR 116 Caption: Designating Preston Michael Smith and Jan Lauren Smith as Mascots of the House.
HR 253 Caption: Informing the Senate that the House does not request the return of H.C.R. No. 165.
49th Regular Session
HB 251 Caption: Relating to providing regulations for the taking, retention and disposition of fish from the public fresh waters of Mason, Menard, Schleicher, Crockett, Sutton, Kimble, Kerr, Bandera, Real and Edwards Counties, providing an open season; providing a penalty; repealing all conflicting laws, except those laws that apply to Medina Lake.
HB 252 Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts by providing a closed season on wild turkey and deer in Schleicher County.
HB 750 Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in the Kerrville Independent School district of Kerr County.
HR 84 Caption: Congratulating Lieutenant Reba Z. Whittle.
48th Regular Session
HB 125 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues by providing that certain oil leases shall not be valid until approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
HB 126 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by and with the consent and approval of the School Land Board, to enter into and approve pooling of public school lands and lands in which the public free school fund owns a mineral interest with privately owned lands for the purpose of oil and gas development; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HB 153 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for changing and prescribing terms and times for holding the courts in the counties composing the Thirty-eighth Judicial District of Texas.
HB 157 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for county and State registration of all livestock brands; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 173 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts and providing for the assignment, by the Presiding Judge of the several Administrative Districts of the State, or another Judge within the District to preside over a District Court in instances where the office of the regular District Judge is for any reason vacant.
HB 212 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to change the method of filing application for admission to State Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
HB 246 Caption: Relating to creating county highway departments; prescribing duties, powers and functions of county highway departments; defining county highways, etc.
HB 314 Caption: Relating to validating consolidation of certain common school districts, independent school districts and consolidated independent school districts and county line school districts, both independent and common and consolidation of such districts wherein one or more are divided, wherein a majority of the voters of each of the affected districts approve such a consolidation at an election held for such purpose.
HB 331 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission to sell one-tenth acre of land situated in Kerr County, Texas.
HB 355 Caption: Relating to providing for the apportionment of the cost of the salary of the official shorthand reporter in Judicial Districts of this State composed of more than one county, where the Court in either of such counties has successive terms without more than two (2) days intervening between any of such terms.
HB 463 Caption: Relating to prohibiting any State Board, Department, Commission or State Institution or any governing body of any political subdivision of the State from engaging in a business of a concededly private nature or commercial retail nature; prescribing a penalty for violations.
HB 465 Caption: Relating to define license and regulate the business of making loans or advancements in the amount or of the value of Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars or less, secured or unsecured.
HB 564 Caption: Relating to providing a special license for those who trap beaver or otter outside the county of their residence; making it unlawful to trap beaver or otter for a period of five (5) years except in that portion of the State west of the Pecos River and in Val Verde and Kimble Counties during the period January 1st to January 15th of each year; providing a penalty for violations of this Act.
HB 566 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to the selection of jury commissioners for the drawing of grand juries, and the selecting, summoning, and impaneling of grand juries.
HCR 7 Caption: Providing for the counting of votes cast for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
HCR 10 Caption: Providing for a broadcast of the inauguration of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
HCR 72 Caption: Inviting Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister of Great Britain, to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
HR 33 Caption: In memory of Faye Wright Stevenson, wife of the Governor.
47th Regular Session
HB 56 Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to extending the time for payment of all notes or obligations executed by purchasers of school land for the unpaid balance of principal due the State thereon until November 1, 1951.
HB 445 Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings prior to February 10, 1941, by the Boards of Trustees of independent school districts of the State of Texas authorizing the issuance of bonds of such districts in certain amounts for the purpose of constructing and equipping public free school stadia within such districts.
HB 460 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the "Upper Guadalupe River Authority"; designating who shall have authority to execute vouchers under the direction and with the consent of Directors of said District.
HB 461 Caption: Relating to granting the Commissioners Courts of Crockett, Sutton, Menard, Mason, Kimble, Kerr, Bandera, Real, Edwards, Schleicher, Tom Green, Irion, Medina, Webb, and Zapata Counties permission to pay out of the General Fund of said Counties bounties for the destruction of rattlesnakes and predatory animals.
HB 519 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes providing for county and State registration of all livestock brands; providing that the Department of Public Safety and County Clerks of the State shall be charged with the administration of this Act.
HB 717 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relative to Menard county; prohibiting the taking of Fish in Menard County with any device equipped with more than two (2) hooks; providing size limits and bag limits; providing a closed session during the months of March and April; providing for penalties.
HB 769 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that cities or counties acquiring land for the maintenance and conduct of an airport may lease such land to the county in which said city is located, or to any city in said county.
HB 808 Caption: Relating to making it lawful to hunt, take, and kill squirrels in Sutton County, Texas, at any time and declaring an open season for hunting squirrels in such county.
HB 884 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes authorizing the mortgaging of stocks of wool or mohair.
HB 924 Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season on wild deer and wild turkey in Schleicher County for a period of five (5) years; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act.
HB 973 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of any county in this State to call an election for the purpose of issuing bonds or warrants for the purpose of acquiring tracts of land and constructing buildings and improvements thereon for an agricultural experiment station.
HB 1001 Caption: Relating to authorizing independent school districts in certain counties to levy and collect additional maintenance taxes; providing for elections to authorize such tax levies.
HB 1030 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by making the provisions thereof applicable to suits, proceedings and causes of action arising within or without the State of Texas.
HB 1077 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes providing for the transfer by the Supreme Court of cases from one Court of Civil Appeals to another.
HCR 31 Caption: Authorizing the loan of certain highway equipment to the City of Rocksprings.
HCR 197 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections to H.J.R. No. 1.
HCR 257 Caption: Authorizing the loan of discarded highway equipment to the city of Sonora.
HR 147 Caption: Commending Homer Leonard on his award as "Most Valuable Citizen" within the City of McAllen, Texas.
HR 158 Caption: In memory of Claud B. Hudspeth of Bandera.
HR 237 Caption: Relating to Local and Uncontested Bill Calendar.
47th 1st Called Session
HB 2 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act declaring the policy of the State with reference to building, maintaining and financing State designated roads; creating the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and creating a County and Road District Highway Fund.
HB 33 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by providing for changing and prescribing terms and times for holding the Courts in the counties composing the Thirty-eighth Judicial District of Texas.
46th Regular Session
HB 316 Caption: Relating to validating the organization of Water Control and Improvement Districts created by authority of Chapter 25, Acts of the Thirty-ninth Legislature, and amendments thereto in any certain counties in the State of Texas.
HB 690 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article making violation of false weights and measures statute a felony; prescribing penalty.
HB 726 Caption: Relating to requiring a Resident Hunting License and Resident Fishing License of any resident citizen of this State hunting and fishing in certain counties with certain exemptions; providing suitable penalties for violation.
HB 731 Caption: Relating to declaring cockleburrs, hoarhound and bitter weeds to be injurious, obnoxious and poisonous plants, providing for the removal and destruction of same by the State Highway Commission; providing a penalty.
HB 784 Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation and Reclamation District composed of Kerr County, to be known as the Upper Guadalupe River Authority.
HB 898 Caption: Relating to providing the appropriation of $3,600.00 payable out of any funds in the State Treasury for the maintenance and operation of the Kerrville State Park in Kerr County, Texas, etc.
HB 996 Caption: Relating to the County of Kimble, State of Texas, providing the method for taking fish from the public waters of Kimble County, Texas; making sale of fish unlawful; providing a closed season in said County; providing penalties.
HB 997 Caption: Relating to applicability to the County of Kerr, State of Texas, providing the season for taking or attempting to take fish from the fresh public waters of said County, or the tributaries of said waters; and providing suitable penalty for violating any provisions of this Act.
HB 1000 Caption: Relating to the Counties of Mason, Menard, Kerr, Schleicher, Crockett, Sutton, Kimble, Real, Edwards, Blanco, Llano, Kendall, Gillespie, El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Terrell, Medina, and Brewster, State of Texas; requiring a resident hunting license of any resident citizen of this State hunting in said counties, with certain exemptions; requiring a resident fishing license of any resident citizen of this State fishing in said counties, with certain exemptions; providing suitable penalties for violation of any provision of this Act.
HB 1081 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the "Upper Guadalupe River Authority."
HB 1114 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of fish in Kimble, Kerr, Edwards, Real, Sutton, Bandera, Mason, Menard, Blanco, Llano, Kendall, or Gillespie Counties with any device equipped with more than two (2) hooks, prohibiting the use of floats except in certain cases, except artificial bait used with a rod and reel and excepting a twenty (20) foot minnow seine for the purpose of taking minnows for bait; providing a penalty for any violation of this Act.
HCR 122 Caption: Granting O.L. Neyland permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 141 Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the wording of HB 997.
HR 18 Caption: In memory of Joseph Sidney Wheeless of Galveston County.