Legislation authored by Henry Cecil Baker

Includes legislation with Henry Cecil Baker as the primary author for the 45th through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

46th Regular Session
HB 69 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing additional regulation of state-wide mutual assessment insurance companies.
HB 189 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for compensation of the official court reporter by the county in which is tried a civil case where the appellant has made necessary proof required to appeal his case without bond; charging the expense of preparing such transcript as costs and providing for the reimbursement of such county.
HB 192 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act fixing the salary of County Commissioners in certain counties.
HB 237 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide for the granting of certificates of public convenience and necessity, requiring certain service of common carrier motor carriers.
HB 466 Caption: Relating to exempting from all State and County ad valorem and occupation taxes certain office buildings of the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers.
HB 552 Caption: Relating to conveying the title of the State of Texas to Lot No. Eight (8) in Block No. Thirty-eight (38) of the original townsite of Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Texas, according to the plat of said town, appearing of record in Volume P, Pages 146 and 147 of the Deed Records of Fort Bend County, Texas, acquired by the State under tax sale to Mrs. Thelma Moers Forster, to her separate use and benefit.
HB 591 Caption: Relating to eliminate solitary confinement cells or "dark cells" in this State; exempting city or county jails from the provisions of this Act; and providing for the regulation of solitary confinement cells or "dark cells" in the Texas Prison System; providing a penalty.
HB 667 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing a limitation on the powers of Trustees of Common School Districts, or Consolidated Common School Districts in the election of teachers.
HB 724 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article by adding a provision for expenses for court reporters in certain judicial districts.
HB 793 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas relating to cases where any felony case is appealed and defendant is not able to pay for a transcript of the testimony.
HB 810 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article relating to requiring Notaries Public to print or stamp their name under their signatures.
HB 953 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute by adding a provision for expenses for Court Reporters in certain Judicial Districts.
HB 962 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for a uniform free textbook system.
HB 1136 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the Textbook Commission; providing that the Commission shall have authority to adopt supplementary readers for the first seven grades.
HCR 17 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee regarding the codification of the insurance laws of Texas.
HJR 25 Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
HJR 36 Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the State Department of Education shall consist of a State Superintendent and assistants.
45th Regular Session
HB 264 Caption: Relating to providing the time of meeting of the Legislature and providing that at any special called session of the Legislature after the general election on November 3rd of any year, that the newly elected Members at said general election may appear and qualify.
HB 368 Caption: Relating to abolishing the State Board of Barber Examiners, the State Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists and the State Board of Embalmers.
HB 718 Caption: Relating to conveying the title of the State of Texas to Lot No. 3, Block 1, in the R.T. Mulcahy's Addition to the town of Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Texas, acquired by the State under tax sale, to the Rosenberg Gin Company, a Texas corporation.
HB 719 Caption: Relating to the State Parks Commission.
HB 720 Caption: Relating to the State Parks Board.
HB 791 Caption: Relating to limiting the time within which ad valorem taxes may be collected by the State, any county, municipality or other defined subdivisions of the State.
HB 792 Caption: Relating to the duties of the State Parks Board.
HB 822 Caption: Relating to validating all school districts heretofore established, validating all elections and the levy of taxes by school districts, validating all proceedings had in the issuance of bonds and the levying of taxes therefor, validating bonds heretofore authorized or voted but not yet issued when such bonds are to be used in financing any undertaking for which a loan or grant has been made through the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works.
HB 823 Caption: Relating to removing population classification from statute authorizing cities from neither artificial nor natural gas system to establish a system.
HB 851 Caption: Relating to providing an increase in salaries of County Superintendents of the various counties according to scholastic population of such counties.
HB 1086 Caption: Relating to providing that in counties containing not less than twenty nine thousand five hundred (29,500) nor more than thirty thousand (30,000) population, according to the last preceding Federal Census, the Justice of the Peace shall be allowed to retain out of the fees collected by such officer the sum of Twenty Four Hundred ($2400.00) Dollars.
HB 1155 Caption: Relating to providing compensation of Constables and Justices of the Peace in certain counties.
HJR 33 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
HJR 38 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Sections 1 and 18 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
HR 166 Caption: Inviting former State Rep. George Roane to address the House.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 56 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the filing of cases and taking of appeals therefrom without giving security for costs, by providing stricter requirements for proof of inability to pay such costs.
HB 59 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the obtaining of a transcript of the evidence in appeals or writs of error in forma pauperis from County and District courts, by providing for the compensation of the official Court Reporter by the county in which such case is tried, charging the expense of preparing such transcript as costs and providing for the reimbursement of such county, and limiting the use of such transcript to securing same.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 6 Caption: Relating to levying a gross receipts tax on all persons who are merchants and/or manufacturers, defining certain terms, providing that the ad valorem taxes levied on certain articles for State purposes shall be credited on the tax herein levied, shall be paid after credit is allowed on all ad valorem taxes for State purposes and providing penalties.
HB 74 Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, and confirming the acts of the County Boards of Trustees in creating, defining, redefining, or attaching additional territory to common consolidated school districts, common school districts, independent school districts, and rural high school districts, with certain exceptions.