Legislation authored by James Thomas Sparks
Includes legislation with James Thomas Sparks as the primary author for the 49th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 51st Regular Session | |
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| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Article, regarding insurance companies investing in certain securities. |
| HB 281 | Caption: Relating to amending an Article in regard to allowing insurance companies to underwrite certain real estate loans. |
| HB 637 | Caption: Relating to creating with the Bureau of Labor Statistics an Industrial Safety Board; providing a saving clause and repealing all acts in conflict herewith. |
| HB 644 | Caption: Relating to providing for the operating expenses of the State Banking Department. |
| HB 645 | Caption: Relating to providing for the method of payment by employer to employee of wages by check of draft; providing a penalty; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 866 | Caption: Relating to amend certain Article relative to Employer's Liability and Workmen's Compensation Law. |
| HCR 88 | Caption: Directing the Appropriations Committee of the House and the Financial Committee of the Senate to consider certain appropriations for the biennial budget. |
| HR 73 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to consider options for available office space for Members of the House. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Commending Harold R. Medina for his patriotism and courage in presiding over a certain trail. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 84 | 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. |
| HB 866 | Caption: Relating to prescribing certain requirements for workmen's safety, vesting in the Commissioner of Labor Statistics supervisory, investigatory, administrative, and enforcement powers; providing certain penalties; providing invalidity of a part shall not invalidate the whole. |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Providing for a Committee to count the votes cast for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn until February 3, 1947 in memory of George W. Coltrin. |
| HCR 39 | Caption: Grating the Legislature permission to adjourn from Feb. 27 until March 3, 1947. |
| HCR 77 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die on May 13, 1947, at 12:30 o'clock p.m. |
| HCR 109 | Caption: Relative to the construction of rural roads on certain communities. |
| HCR 138 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die on Friday, May 30, 1947, at 12:30 o'clock p.m. |
| HCR 142 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from Thursday, May 22, 1947, until Monday, May 26, 1947. |
| HCR 187 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 273. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Commending Claude Isbell, Secretary of State, on serving as Presiding Officer of the House. |
| HR 16 | Caption: Commending former State Representative Clinton Kersey on his service to the House. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Commending Flynn V. Long for serving as the Acting Chaplain for the House. |
| HR 81 | Caption: Designating Tommy Edwards as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 177 | Caption: Welcoming former Lieutenant Governor Coke R. Stevenson to the House of Representatives and granting privileges of the floor for the day. |
| HR 225 | Caption: Commending the school administrators across Texas who offer driver education courses at their schools. |
| HR 227 | Caption: Commending Representative Charles B. Moore, III and the City of Del Rio for hosting the Legislature. |
| HR 239 | Caption: Commending Representatives John R. Garner, Donald Peters, and Britton Edwards, and the citizens of the Winter Garden Area for hosting the Legislature. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 500 | Caption: Relating to providing for the general welfare and to protect the health, efficiency and general well being of members in the state of Texas by providing for the elimination of wage and hour standards detrimental to the health, efficiency and general well being of workers, to prescribe the minimum wage and maximum hour standards; to prescribe penalties for violations of this Act or all orders or regulations of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics authorized hereunder; and to repeal such laws or parts of laws as are specifically provided for in this Act. |
| HB 700 | Caption: Relating to providing annuities payable by the State of Texas to certain citizens over sixty years of age or blind or physically disabled; prescribing penalties for violations of this Act. |
| HCR 54 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to repeal the automobile use tax. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Concerning salaries of officers of the House. |
| HR 18 | Caption: Concerning compensation of employees of the House. |
| HR 62 | Caption: Relating to compensation of officers and employees. |