Legislation authored by Ray Kirkpatrick

Includes legislation with Ray Kirkpatrick as the primary author for the 50th through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

52nd Regular Session
HCR 126 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules in order to consider S. B. No. 418 at any time.
HR 45 Caption: Naming Rebecca Jean Taylor Mascot of the House.
HR 50 Caption: Naming Laura Sue Osborn Mascot of the House.
HR 65 Caption: In memory of Wylie C. Morrow of Greenville.
HR 94 Caption: Naming William Stephen Miller Mascot of the House.
HR 95 Caption: Naming Daryl Marie Miller Mascot of the House.
HR 203 Caption: Congratulating Representative Anthony Fenoglio on his birthday.
51st Regular Session
HB 75 Caption: Relating to transferring to the Texas Highway Fund from the General Revenue Fund the sum of Twenty Million ($20,000,000.00) Dollars and authorizing the Texas Highway Commission to use such money for the purpose of continuing its program of constructing Farm-to-Market Roads as as to best serve the rural areas of this State; providing a repealing clause; providing a saving clause.
HB 319 Caption: Relating to fixing and determining a method of per capita appropriations for educational institutions of higher learning of the several State institutions of higher learning for the two (2) fiscal years, beginning September 1, 1949, and ending August 31, 1951, both dates inclusive; prescribing restrictions for expenditures; containing a saving clause.
HB 320 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, 1949, and ending August 31, 1951; prescribing rules and regulations regarding expenditure; suspending all laws in conflict; declaring the invalidity of any part of this Act shall not affect any other portion.
HB 321 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support, maintenance and improvement of the Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions of the State of Texas for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1949, and ending August 31, 1951; prescribing rules and regulations in regards to expenditure; providing a saving clause.
HB 322 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the executive and administrative departments and agencies of the State Government for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1949 and ending September 1, 1951, and for payment of other specified claims and items; providing limitations and regulations on expenditure; providing a saving clause.
HB 820 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for additional members and organization of the Texas Commission on Interstate Cooperation; making an appropriation for accomplishment of such purposes.
HCR 49 Caption: Inviting the federal Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
HCR 101 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 319.
HR 2 Caption: Directing the manner in which the election for Speaker is to be conducted.
HR 7 Caption: Adopting the temporary rules of the House.
HR 12 Caption: Providing the salaries for employees of the House.
HR 119 Caption: Congratulating Speaker Durwood Manford on his 32nd birthday.
HR 145 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 152 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 1 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support, maintenance, and improvement of the State Hospitals, Special Schools, and other institutions and the construction of certain buildings, included in said House Bill 321 for the fiscal year beginning September 1, 1950 and ending August 31, 1951; prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect to the expenditure of said appropriations; providing a savings clause.
HB 15 Caption: Relating to validating school districts formed by separation or divorcement from municipal control or assumption and subsequent changes made in or to such school districts.
HB 16 Caption: Relating to validating the establishment, organization, and/or creation of all school districts, validating the acts of county boards of school trustees, county judges, commissioners courts, boards of trustees of such school districts, and municipal governing bodies; providing a savings clause.
HCR 2 Caption: Providing the per diem salaries for Members of the Legislature.
HR 13 Caption: In memory of former State Representative Charly Carter Canon.
HR 60 Caption: In memory of T. D. Manford, Sr.
50th Regular Session
HB 485 Caption: Relating to amending to provide that certain exemptions from the payment of dues, fees and charges in State institutions of higher education shall apply to and include honorably discharged members of the Armed Forces of the United States who are eligible for certain benefits provided by the United States Government.
HB 572 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the State Board of Control to construct modern facilities at the Austin Farm Colony for the care, hospitalization, maintenance, and training of preferably non-ambulatory feeble-minded children between the ages of two (2) and six (6) years; providing a repealing clause; providing a saving clause.
HB 602 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Regular Session of the Fiftieth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Forty-ninth Legislature.
HB 760 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by fixing the salary of County Commissioners in counties having certain assessed valuations; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
HCR 72 Caption: Granting the wife of John Bates permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
HCR 82 Caption: Memorializing Congress to support the program of President Truman in the rehabilitation of the Greek economy through extending aid, etc.
HJR 18 Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the Legislature shall have the power to provide for assistance to needy physically and mentally handicapped individuals, who are not eligible for Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Needy Blind, or Aid to Dependent Children.
HR 69 Caption: Designating Truett Davis Clifton as a Mascot of the House.