Legislation authored by Bryan Bradbury

Includes legislation with Bryan Bradbury as the primary author for the 44th through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

46th Regular Session
HB 86 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by more fully defining persons entitled to Old Age Assistance.
HB 87 Caption: Relating to defining public utilities and providing for their regulation; creating the Public Service Department of Texas; providing penalties.
HB 308 Caption: Relating to declaring the policy of the State in regard to the extension and development of free public library service in all parts of the state.
HB 309 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for State Aid to the free public libraries of this State, and for the salaries and other expense of the Division of Public Libraries of the Texas State Library, for the years beginning September 1, 1939, and ending August 31, 1941.
HB 428 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing for the teaching of the effect of alcoholic stimulants, marihuana, and narcotics in the public schools, colleges, and universities of Texas.
HB 585 Caption: Relating to reorganizing the One Hundred and Fourth Judicial District of the State of Texas.
HB 586 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles more fully defining public utilities; providing for their regulation.
HB 827 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article defining the powers and duties of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
HB 938 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot, or kill any deer and/or wild turkey for a period of three (3) years in Taylor County, Texas; fixing penalties.
HB 1046 Caption: Relating to validating and confirming certain proceedings of the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission with respect to authorization and issuance of certain warrants, etc.
HB 1119 Caption: Relating to validating refunding bonds authorized by certain Home Rule Cities.
HCR 123 Caption: Congratulating the Texas Cowboy Band of Hardin-Simmons University of Abilene upon their selection for a tour of the northeast United States culminating in the New York World's Fair.
HCR 149 Caption: Inviting President Franklin D. Roosevelt to visit Texas while en route to the West coast.
HCR 175 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate lobbyist activity.
HCR 191 Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
HR 22 Caption: Memorializing Congress to abolish discrimination in freight rates.
HR 104 Caption: Providing the members of the House with a weekly copy of the State Observer throughout the regular session.
HR 188 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to resolve differences of opinion regarding HJR 16.
HR 218 Caption: Congratulating Representative R. Emmett Morse upon his birthday.
HR 232 Caption: In memory of United States Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Illinois.
HR 273 Caption: Commending Senator Sheppard for his introduction of SJR 220.
HR 320 Caption: Wishing Representative Pat Dwyer a speedy recovery from illness.
HR 323 Caption: Providing for additional appropriation for the committee appointed in HR 292 to investigate the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
45th Regular Session
HB 53 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or receiving or making bets on horse racing and providing a penalty for its violation.
HB 141 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the employment of persons sixteen (16) years of age or less by corporations doing business in Texas and providing a penalty for its violation.
HB 155 Caption: Relating to entitling all incorporated municipalities in Texas to a refund of motor fuel taxes paid on motor fuel used in the operation of motor vehicles owned and operated, for public purposes only, by said incorporated municipalities.
HB 184 Caption: Relating to providing and enjoining duties upon the District Attorney, defining reliable information and providing a penalty for the District Attorney, County Attorney or Attorney General for a failure to perform duties enjoined upon him by certain statutes.
HB 186 Caption: Relating to juries in civil cases in justice courts; providing the number of jurors which may render a verdict.
HB 187 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the form of verdicts of juries in Civil Cases so as to provide that in the trial of Civil Cases nine members of the jury concurring may render a verdict in the District Court.
HB 188 Caption: Relating to special issues; providing that failure to submit an issue shall not be deemed ground to reverse a judgment unless submission is requested in writing by parties complaining thereof.
HB 189 Caption: Relating to defective, informal or conflicting verdicts; providing a court may reform verdicts at the bar.
HB 190 Caption: Relating to special issues in civil cases; providing the court may submit cause upon such issues with or without request of either party, shall submit the cause upon special issues raised by the pleadings and the evidence.
HB 191 Caption: Relating to confining reversals or errors to substance and merit, by providing that the Courts of Civil Appeals shall not reverse a judgment for errors not calculated to cause and which probably did not cause rendition of an improper judgment, or probaby prevented appellant from making a proper presentation of the case on appeal.
HB 192 Caption: Relating to allowing the jury to hear the court reporter read from his notes where there is any disagreement among the jury as to the statement of any witness.
HB 406 Caption: Relating to providing for the institution of suits to set aside compromise, adjustment, settlement and commutation agreements made between the parties on account of fraud, accident or mistake and the award of compensation to the employee in said suit, without the presentment of claim therefor the Industrial Accident Board.
HB 447 Caption: Relating to creating Taylor-Callahan Counties Road District Number 7, embracing lands in the Counties of Taylor and Callahan, Texas.
HB 691 Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to corporations that do not have a permit to do business in Texas.
HB 816 Caption: Relating to providing for the teaching of the harmful effects of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics in the public schools, colleges and universities of Texas.
HB 981 Caption: Relating to providing that minors under sixteen (16) years of age shall not hereafter be employed except under conditions provided by this Act; providing that minors under eighteen (18) years of age shall not be employed in mines, quarries or certain other dangerous occupations; providing a penalty.
HB 1031 Caption: Relating to providing that all political subdivisions of this State authorized to assess and collect taxes shall in the assessing and levying of taxes for such local governments use the latest approved valued made by the assessor and collector of the county or counties in which said political subdivision is situated.
HB 1048 Caption: Relating to granting the Commissioners Courts of Callahan, Eastland, and Taylor Counties permission to pay out of the General Fund of said Counties bounties for the destruction of rabbits, rattlesnakes, and ravens.
HB 1151 Caption: Relating to more fully defining persons entitled to old age assistance.
HB 1168 Caption: Relating to prohibiting marriage for males and females under sixteen (16) years of age.
HCR 18 Caption: Granting B. C. Brook permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 67 Caption: Granting Judge W. R. Chapman permission to leave the State during the biennium.
HJR 47 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation shall be equal and uniform.
HR 26 Caption: Inviting Leonard Westfall to address the House.
HR 51 Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to catalog the salaries of Members of the House to publish them in the House Journal.
HR 104 Caption: In memory of Mr. R. D. Green of Abilene.
HR 199 Caption: Directing the heads of State Departments to send certain information to the Chief Clerk's office regarding their public relations staff.
HR 208 Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact certain legislation regarding the assistance of tenant farmers and share croppers.
HR 234 Caption: Congratulating State Rep. Charles D. Rutta and his wife on the occasion of the birth of their daughter.
HR 279 Caption: Memorializing Congress to give attention to the delay in the federal allotment for old age pensions.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 6 Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act empowering the Racing Commission to license the racing of horses, and re-enacting certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or receiving or making bets on horse racing and providing a penalty for its violation, fixing the time of taking effect of this Act.
HR 41 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 17 Caption: Relating to more fully defining persons entitled to old age assistance.
HB 33 Caption: Relating to providing that persons entitled to old age assistance must receive the same and equal amounts.
HB 42 Caption: Relating to more fully defining persons entitled to Old Age Assistance and the levying of additional taxes on ores, marble and cinnabar ore.
HB 59 Caption: Relating to validating the proceedings of the County Board of School Trustees of Taylor County in annexing the Iberis Common School District No. 38 to Wylie Consolidated Common School District No. 11.
HCR 38 Caption: Declaring Legislative Intent in regards to H. B. No. 6 of the 44th Legislature, third called session.
HR 8 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
HR 12 Caption: In memory of William E. Hawkins of Abilene.
HR 31 Caption: In memory of J. M. Estes of Abilene.
HR 32 Caption: Directing the State Highway Department to prevent unnecessary destruction caused by fires along highways.
HR 50 Caption: Providing additional funds for the operation of a certain committee.
44th Regular Session
HB 108 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925; reducing the contract rate of interest from 10 percent to 7 percent, prescribing penalties for violation thereof.
HB 220 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing a method for the trial of civil causes upon special issues of facts submitted to the jury, and requiring the trial judge to submit such cause upon a general charge unless all parties agree for the cause to be submitted on special issues.
HB 364 Caption: Relating to providing the method by which towns or cities may grant any right or franchise for use of public streets, avenues or alleys to any person, firm, or corporation.
HB 517 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for an increase in inheritance taxes.
HB 659 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; requiring companies to pay occupation tax the same quarter in which they open for business.
HB 664 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that in cases of bankruptcy, receivership, that all taxes shall be a first lien on all property, and requiring fiduciaries and courts to see taxes paid, and extending such right to cities, towns, school districts, and all other taxing subdivisions of the State.
HB 703 Caption: Relating to levying an income tax upon natural persons and corporations for the purpose of reducing the State ad valorem tax and the ad valorem tax of the several counties upon property.
HB 776 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot or kill any deer and/or turkey for a period of three (3) years in Taylor, Jones, Shackelford, and Panola Counties, Texas; fixing penalties.
HCR 24 Caption: Expressing approval of the public utility program policies of the National Administration.
HCR 86 Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 23, 24 and 32 for final consideration of H.B. No. 703.
HCR 179 Caption: Designating the Paisano (road-runner) as the State Bird of Texas.
HR 68 Caption: Requesting the Governor set aside a day for fasting and prayer for the State of Texas.
HR 133 Caption: Inviting a member of a certain group of unemployed Texans to appear before the House and submit their plea.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 35 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for method of determining inheritance tax upon estates of resident and non-resident decedents where part of the estate is situated outside of Texas; providing for report of value of the estate as found by the Federal Government with the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and making failure to file such report a misdemeanor.
HB 70 Caption: Relating to levying an income tax upon natural persons and corporations for the purpose of reducing the State ad valorem tax and the ad valorem tax of the several counties upon property; prescribing certain penalties, additional taxes and interest for violation of the provisions of this Act, and the manner of collecting same; providing penalties for violation of secrecy provision by any official or employee of the tax commission.
HR 17 Caption: Relating to the manufacture of munitions.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 28 Caption: Relating to levying an income tax upon natural persons and corporations for the purpose of reducing the State ad valorem tax and the ad valorem tax of the several counties upon property.
HB 87 Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; creating a Board of Liquor Control; prescribing punishments.
HCR 16 Caption: Inviting the Governors and citizens of certain States to visit the State of Texas.
44th 3rd Called Session
HCR 5 Caption: Granting Mike Martin permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 6 Caption: Granting W.L. Walker permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 2 Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-Arms remove mail boxes from the House.
HR 9 Caption: Granting the House certain authority relating to investigating the Old Age Assistance administration.
HR 40 Caption: Requesting that a certain investigating committee allow the public to attend their meetings.
HR 60 Caption: Commending J.C. Davis on his medical services for the Members of the House.