Legislation authored by Preston P. Mangum
Includes legislation with Preston P. Mangum as the primary author for the 48th through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 52nd Regular Session | |
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| HB 197 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from walking upon, along, or across, or from driving or riding upon any bicycle or animal-drawn or motor-driven vehicle upon, along, or across any railroad track, team track, bridge, viaduct or trestle, with certain exceptions; and prohibiting any person from entering upon private premises or property owned by a railroad or used for the carrying on of railroad operations, including rolling stock, switching yards, shops, locomotive and car repair yards, store yards and freight yards; and prohibiting any person from tampering with or damaging or destroying any railroad track or appurtenances of any bridge, viaduct, trestle or culvert structure supporting a railroad track or any signal system, telegraph line, telephone line, power line or signal system maintained as a railroad facility; providing that the provisions prohibiting the walking, driving or entering upon railroad tracks, team tracks, bridges, viaducts, trestles, structures and premises do not apply to employees of railroads or other persons whose proper and lawful duties make it necessary for them to go upon such tracks, structures or premises in order to perform their duties; providing penalties for violation of this act; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 216 | Caption: Relating to paying compensation to all judicial district judges in this State; providing that each county will contribute its proportionate share in payment of said judicial district judge. |
| HCR 110 | Caption: Granting Fleischmann Co., et al., permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 21 | Caption: Proposing an amendment so as to provide that the qualification of no person to serve as a juror on grand juries and on petit juries shall be denied or abridged on account of sex; providing that no person shall be exempt from service on grand juries and on petit juries on account of sex. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to establishing a limitation period for the collecting of delinquent personal property taxes. |
| HB 291 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that no more than two (2) "saddle mounts" shall be used in connection with any other drive vehicle; containing a saving clause; providing for repeal of all laws or parts of laws inconsistent or conflicting with these provisions. |
| HB 473 | Caption: Relating to provide for the deposit of securities, and the payment of taxes, fines, penalties, certificates of authority, valuation of policies, license fees, and the performance of any other special burden by any group of individuals, society, association or corporation of any other state or country; providing for the rule of construction. |
| HB 518 | Caption: Relating to amending section 17b of House Bill 28, Chapter 21, Acts of the 43rd Legislature, Second Called Session, removing conflicts in Boxing and Wrestling Law; empowering the Commissioner of Labor with authority to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Boxing and Wrestling Law. |
| HB 582 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the printing, sale of gift of forms of negotiable instruments, including bank checks, whether blank or otherwise, any portion of which is printed, unless the name of the printer appears thereon; fixing a penalty; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 706 | Caption: Relating to permitting the Commissioners Court in certain counties to establish an automobile car allowance for Grand Jury Bailiffs. |
| HB 858 | Caption: Relating to providing for a Voluntary Payroll War Savings Plan by officers and employees of the State of Texas or of any county or other political subdivision or municipal corporation therein; creating a War Bond Payroll Savings Account. |
| HCR 36 | Caption: Granting Raymond M. Adams permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 37 | Caption: Granting B L. Morris, J. L. Millican, W. M. Taylor, and J. H. Seaman permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 77 | Caption: Granting the Forest Lawn Lot Owners permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 29 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas by adding a section thereto to be known as Section 30 providing for the service of women on juries and for the enactment of necessary legislation; providing for the issuance of the necessary proclamation and publication by the Governor, and making an appropriation. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to the "Interchangeable Jury Law" and "The Jury Wheel Law."; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment and compensation of grand jury bailiffs in certain counties; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict to the extent of the conflict. |
| HB 214 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of the salary of the State's Attorney Before and in Aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act. |
| HB 317 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money out of the State Highway Fund to pay the judgment, interest and costs in favor of Christine Mayes Wallace and husband, Morris Wallace. |
| HB 356 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for exchange of teachers by designated proper authorities in the State of Texas; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict. |
| HB 390 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide requirements for the labeling of all bedding and requiring the germicidal treatment for all dirty or used material; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 408 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, pertaining to hotels and boarding houses and particularly to amend to provide for the limitation of liability of hotels, apartment hotels and boarding houses to guests; repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict; providing severability. |
| HB 409 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to number properly the sections and subsections of the Act; relative to bonds and insurance companies dealing in liquefied petroleum gases. |
| HB 556 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that all payments made under order of the court in divorce cases and in wife and child desertion cases may be paid to either the probation officer or to the district clerk of such court; providing for the disbursement of said funds for the benefit of the wife and children; requiring bond of said probation officer; requiring the keeping of records; providing that said Act shall apply to certain counties. |
| HB 557 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money out of the State Treasury to pay judgment in favor of Roy B. Wadsworth against the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission for the settlement of Thirty-six Hundred Dollars ($3600) with interest in the sum of One Thousand and Eighty Dollars ($1,080). |
| HB 805 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the Board of Pardons and Paroles. |
| HB 808 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to authorize common carriers to grant free passes to the Chairman and members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. |
| HB 869 | Caption: Relating to providing for a mandatory increase of the salaries and compensation of all county officers, deputies and employees and all bailiffs in all counties having a certain population; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 871 | Caption: Relating to providing for the assessment of personal property for ad valorem taxes for previous years in cities and towns in certain counties where any party has omitted to render such personal property for taxation for former years; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 883 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing salaries of certain counties; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HCR 87 | Caption: Granting Edith and Ed Lawrence permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 144 | Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 356 from the Governor. |
| HCR 152 | Caption: Granting the Forest Lawn Lot Owners permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department. |
| HCR 182 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H.B. Nos. 556, 805, 869, 871, and 883. |
| HJR 9 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment so that the Legislature may enact a Statute or Statutes prescribing the qualifications for grand and petit jurors to include both men and women. |
| HJR 39 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the Legislature to provide for the retirement and compensation of Judges and Commissioners of Appellate Courts and Judges of District and Criminal District Courts on account of length of service, age or disability, and for their reassignment to active duty where and when needed. |
| HR 135 | Caption: In memory of William Gentry Polk of Dallas County, Texas. |
| HR 237 | Caption: In memory of Winter King, Judge of the Criminal District Court of Dallas County. |
| HR 249 | Caption: Commending Bess Blackwell, her assistants, and the telephone company. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 361 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide for additional compensation for Presiding Judges of Administrative Judicial Districts; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 476 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the creation of corporations for the redevelopment of blighted areas in cities. |
| HB 477 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by finding and declaring that there exists in cities of the State blighted areas, resulting in depreciated value, impaired investments and inability of said areas to pay reasonable taxes; that the acquisition, clearance, and redevelopment and reconstruction of such blighted areas, and the sale or lease of the land within such areas for redevelopment in accordance with a redevelopment plan of such city are public uses and purposes and governmental functions. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to making specific appropriation of Seven Hundred Fifty ($750.00) Dollars out of the State Highway Fund in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to pay a certain judgment obtained by William Trakes against the State highway Commission and the State of Texas on September 17, 1942, in the 68th District Court of Dallas County, Texas, in Cause No. 65,866-C. |
| HB 665 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that where the requisite number of jurors are not in attendance at any time the Court may direct the sheriff to summon a sufficient number of qualified men to make up the deficiency providing that in counties governed by the jury wheel law the names of those to be summoned shall be drawn from the jury wheel unless the parties waive the use of the jury wheel and providing for the discharge of the jurors so drawn and providing for adjournment of the whole number of jurors for the week or part thereof to any subsequent day of the term. |
| HB 766 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of compensation to Judges of District Courts and Criminal District Courts in Counties having a population in excess of 350,000 according to the last preceding or any future Federal census. |
| HB 767 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of compensation to Judges of District Courts and Criminal District Courts in Counties having a population in excess of 350,000 according to the last preceding or any future Federal census. |
| HB 768 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person or persons to manufacture, construct, build, sell or operate a boat, that will capsize with one or more persons therein, on any waters, either public or private, in this State; providing penalties. |
| HB 769 | Caption: Relating to providing for the County Tax Assessor and Collector to renew and revise all poll tax exemptions every two years. |
| HB 770 | Caption: Relating to providing for the furtherance of the outstanding merits of the State of Texas and providing for the establishment of the Greater Texas Committee to be appointed by the Governor of Texas with the approval of the State Senate. |
| HB 805 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of compensation to Judges of District Courts and Criminal District Courts in Counties having a population of not less than three hundred and thirty-eight thousand (338,000) nor more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding or any future Federal census. |
| HB 830 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing war-time exemption for certain persons from jury service in capital cases. |
| HB 858 | Caption: Relating to making adequate provisions for the employment of assistants and employees by the District Attorney in certain counties. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the compensation of grand jury bailiffs in counties having a population of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants and not more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict only. |
| HCR 100 | Caption: Requesting President Harry Truman to return employment service to several states. |
| HCR 113 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. Nos. 881, 869 and 887. |
| HCR 126 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 881. |
| HJR 35 | Caption: Proposing an amendment 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. |
| HR 53 | Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot. |
| HR 271 | Caption: Congratulating Tom C. Clark for being named to the post of Attorney General. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 497 | Caption: Relating to creating the Dallas County Flood Control District in Dallas County, Texas, and defining its powers; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 505 | Caption: Relating to setting the filing fees in the primary elections for all Judges of Courts of Civil Appeals in the several Judicial Districts of the State of Texas. |
| HB 512 | Caption: Relating to providing for the County Tax Assessor and Collector to renew and revise all poll tax exemptions every two years. |
| HB 557 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to pack for sale, sell or offer for sale any wheat flour, whole wheat flour, graham flour, other cereal flour, or corn meal, except such cereals sold as grits, except in standardized packages. |
| HB 744 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by authorizing the Commissioners Court of Dallas County to allow the County Judge, County Auditor, and County Commissioners necessary traveling expenses when traveling on official county business in connection with the public roads and highways of Dallas County. |
| HCR 106 | Caption: Granting Roy Wadsworth permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 90 | Caption: In memory of Ed Cobb, Jr., Major. |
| HR 193 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative Robert B. Allen. |