Legislation authored by Newton Washington McCann

Includes legislation with Newton Washington McCann as the primary author for the 47th through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

52nd Regular Session
HB 713	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide that a state, national or private bank may establish an office or offices at places other than at the locality of its main banking house for the purpose of receiving deposits and paying checks in certain localities; providing restrictions.
HCR 21	Caption: Granting Judge N. L. Dalby permission to leave the State of Texas during 1951 and 1952.
HR 79	Caption: Naming Lilly Darlene Bradshaw Mascot of the House.
51st Regular Session
HB 51	Caption: Relating to validating the discontinuance of territory, the boundaries and areas of certain incorporated cities and towns of 2000 or less population.
HB 134	Caption: Relating to providing for the admission in evidence in all courts of the State of Texas of certified copies of all official records of the Texas Prison System; providing a saving clause.
HB 185	Caption: Relating to providing that any county in Texas having an elective County Superintendent of Public Instruction may be an election authorize the County School Trustees of the county to appoint the County Superintendent of Public Instruction; providing that this Act shall not deprive any person of any term or part of term which he has been duly elected; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act.
HR 112	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
48th Regular Session
HB 217	Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation of such cities and towns of more than two hundred (200) and less than ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants heretofore incorporated or attempted to be incorporated.
HB 337	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be lawful in Marion County, Texas, for any person to kill, take or have in his possession for barter or sale any wild fox or the pelts thereof during the months of December and January of any year.
HB 638	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to kill or take wild deer or wild turkey or to have in the Counties of Cass, Bowie, Fannin and Marion, for a period of five (5) years; prescribing penalty for violation of this Act.
HB 726	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by reorganizing the Fifth Judicial District of Texas; changing the time and terms of holding the Courts.
HCR 97	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 638.
HR 293	Caption: Commending former State Representative Joseph White, Jr. for serving his country in the armed forces.
47th Regular Session
HB 126	Caption: Relating to providing for a certain processing tax on all combustible condensates such as refined gasoline, naphtha, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, drip gasoline, and all other combustible condensates of crude petroleum or any other product by any method of refining, manufacturing, processing, separating, extracting, compounding, blending, or storing by any person, agent, manufacturer, producer, corporation, partnership, association in any refinery, manufacturing plant, processing plant, separating plant, extracting plant, compounding plant, blending plant, storage plant, or any other place or by any other method used for the purpose of producing or storing combustible condensates; providing for penalties for violations of this Act.
HB 167	Caption: Relating to abolishing the positions of Executive Director and Chief Auditor of the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission, and abolishing all positions in connection with the local county administration of the Old Age Assistance Act; providing for a Chief Clerk of the Old Age Assistance Commission; providing that the local county administration of said Act shall be taken over by the County Judge and the Commissioners' Court of each county.
HB 285	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to fixing venue of prosecutions for violation of agriculture quarantine laws.
HB 289	Caption: Relating to declaring the entrance upon the property of another and the trespass or occupancy of a building thereon to be a misdemeanor punishable by a jail sentence of ninety days.
HB 344	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles providing that the minimum qualifications for a county school superintendent shall include a bachelor's degree with not less than 24 semester hours in Education.
HB 503	Caption: Relating to regulating the use of duck blinds in the waters of Harrison and Marion Counties, Texas; providing license tax for the use of commercial blinds; providing exceptions; providing a penalty; providing defenses in certain cases.
HB 504	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing a closed season for taking game fish on Caddo Lake and all fresh waters of Harrison and Marion Counties; providing a suitable penalty for the violation of any provision of this Act.
HB 834	Caption: Relating to compelling any company, etc., engaged in the production, processing or transporting of natural gas to make well connections.
HB 1069	Caption: Relating to prescribing the time of meeting of the County Board of School Trustees in certain counties, the meeting place of said Board, the compensation to be paid to each County School Trustee, and the fund out of which said compensation shall be paid.
HR 34	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 47	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 70	Caption: Proposing an amendment to House rules.
HR 193	Caption: Providing a committee to attend the funeral of Morris Sheppard.
47th 1st Called Session
HB 39	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the killing of deer in Harrison and Marion Counties for a period of five (5) years, ending November 16, 1946; providing a penalty.