Legislation authored by James Harvey Shell
Includes legislation with James Harvey Shell as the primary author for the 45th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 51st Regular Session | |
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| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to providing for the formation of private corporations to buy, sell, produce, store, transport and process fish, oysters, shrimp and other aquatic products, and the transaction of all business heretofore set out. |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of county superintendent in certain countesi; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 522 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or clerk in any county having a population of not more than ten thousand, three hundred and ninety (10,390) and not less than ten thousand, three hundred and eighty (10,380) inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census of 1940; regulating the salary; providing for payment of salary; providing for removal. |
| HB 560 | Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its agency the City of Rockport, Texas, to which State General Fund ad valorem taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters related to the subject. |
| HB 600 | Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the state and its agency the City of Sinton, Texas, to which State General Fund Ad Valorem Taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters related to the subject. |
| HB 669 | Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its agency the city of Aransas Pass, Texas, to which State General Fund Ad Valorem taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters related to the subject. |
| HB 702 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of the Tri-Community Hospital District by the Commissioners' Court of San Patricio County, Texas; containing a severability clause as to constitutionality. |
| HB 793 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing there shall be appointed a County Auditor in counties containing a population of thirty-five thousand (35,000) inhabitants or more according to the last preceding Federal Census, or having a tax valuation of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) or more according to the last approved tax rolls and providing for their compensation; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict; providing this Act shall be severable. |
| HB 817 | Caption: Relating to creating within the State of Texas, in addition to the districts into which the State has heretofore been divided as a conservation and reclamation district, for the purpose of navigation, the Aransas County Navigation District No. 1 of Aransas County, Texas, defining its powers and duties, creating an authority to make conveyance of certain lands to the City of Rockport subject to certain qualifications and restrictions; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 831 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the continuance in force of various sub-leasehold interests on and near Ransom Island now being jeopardized by the cancellation on the part of the state of Lease No. 39439 dated November 3, 1927, issued by the commissioner of the General Land Office; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 980 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, regulating the deposition of oyster shells. |
| HCR 93 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 817. |
| HR 19 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to repeal the tax on oleomargarine. |
| HR 47 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 840 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to Refugio County to use and improve Copano Bay and the shore line thereof adjacent to proposed St. Mary's County Park in Refugio County, and to use silt, mud, and shell dredged from the bay to fill highland, and make new land, and to construct, erect, and operate improvements, extending wholly or partially into said bay. |
| HB 848 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the formation of private corporations to buy, sell, produce, store, transport and process fish, oysters, shrimp and other aquatic products, and the transaction of all business heretofore set out. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 264 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Employment Agency Law as passed in 1923; providing an Employment and Labor Agency Law for Texas. |
| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to reappropriating the unexpended balance remaining on April 15, 1943, of the appropriation made for the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District by the Regular Session of the Forty-seventh Legislature, Acts 1941, Chapter 144, Section 1.a., for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of said District in making and continuing to make the necessary surveys, investigations and the preparation of necessary plans for carrying out its construction program. |
| HB 266 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by changing the time and terms of holding the terms of District Court in Aransas, San Patricio, Bee, Live Oak and McMullen Counties, constituting the Thirty-sixth Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 267 | Caption: Relating to providing for branch offices for the registration of motor vehicles. |
| HB 268 | Caption: Relating to prescribing venue of actions and suits for collection of delinquent ad valorem taxes on real estate and personal property. |
| HB 667 | Caption: Relating to conserving the oyster resources of Aransas, Nueces, Calhoun, and Matagorda Counties, and providing for a closed season for the taking of such oysters; providing a penalty for the violation; repealing certain laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 685 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to fees received by employment agencies. |
| HB 739 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "oil mill", providing that each oil mill shall maintain a cotton-seed testing laboratory on or within 1000 yards of the premises where the oil mill is located and providing that said laboratory shall be staffed with at least one chemist who shall be qualified to make chemical analysis of cottonseed; providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 745 | Caption: Relating to better conserving the marine resources of this State by providing certain regulations and restrictions in regard to the tidal waters of Aransas County for the duration of the war; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 63 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling clerk of the House to make certain corrections in H.B. No. 266. |
| HCR 129 | Caption: Granting Joe L. Weil permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 153 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. Nos. 622, 763, and 46. |
| HR 301 | Caption: Commending George W. Coltrin on his service as Chaplain of the House. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 281 | Caption: Relating to providing for a Resident Hunting License with certain exemptions; providing certain penalties. |
| HB 282 | Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to redefining the boundaries of the Rockport Wildlife Sanctuary. |
| HB 283 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to extending the scope of the Co-Operative Marketing Act to cover the marketing of aquatic products. |
| HB 298 | Caption: Relating to prescribing additional powers and duties of the Commissioners Court in certain counties relative to levying and collecting taxes for the maintenance of school districts. |
| HB 398 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes providing that a city or town shall have the right of eminent domain to condemn private property for the purpose of digging or drilling thereon water wells or producing water therefrom or constructing pump stations or reservoirs. |
| HB 408 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in counties having a certain population to lease any county hospital belonging to said county, and providing for the terms for said lease. |
| HB 409 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes relating to the appointment and compensation of County Auditors in certain counties. |
| HB 447 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or clerk in any county with a certain population; regulating the salary of same; providing for payment of salary; and providing for removal. |
| HB 727 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for San Patricio County, Texas; providing that said County may fund or refund into coupon bonds the scrip and time warrants outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act so as to provide means by which the soldiers stationed in Texas under the National Defense Act, and others may be permitted to enjoy fishing in salt water without the payment of nonresident fishing license and artificial lure license. |
| HB 806 | Caption: Relating to fixing the term of office of school trustees of certain independent school districts. |
| HB 819 | Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer of title of certain lands to Refugio and Aransas Counties, said lands consisting of three (3) adjoining tracts lying under, along and adjacent to a proposed causeway and approaches across Capono Bay in Refugio and Aransas Counties near the town of Bayside. |
| HB 843 | Caption: Relating to declaring all of the area inundated by the waters of Lake Corpus Christi to be a wild life sanctuary; prohibiting the carrying of firearms thereon; providing a penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 975 | Caption: Relating to better conserving the game and fish resources of Aransas County by providing for the closure of a certain area in Aransas Bay to the use of the oyster dredge; making it unlawful to dredge in such area; providing penalties. |
| HB 980 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code relating to hunting deer with dogs. |
| HB 991 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to shoot, take, trap, snare, or kill any quail in Bee County, Texas, for a period of two (2) years, except as otherwise provided by the authorization of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 1088 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Chapter of the First Called Session of the Fortieth Legislature authorizing a ninety-nine year lease to be issued to the Town of Aransas Pass, leasing Ransom Island and certain waters surrounding the same, situated in Nueces County. |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Reserving parking spaces on the capitol grounds for use of newspaper representatives and members of the Legislature. |
| HR 106 | Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones. |
| 47th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to amending House Bill No. 6, Acts of the Forty-first Legislature, 1929, Second Called Session with the amendments thereto and adding a new section providing for the establishment of suboffices or branch offices outside of the County Seat by the Tax Collector for the registration of motor vehicles and issuance of receipts incident thereto. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 180 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act aiding the City of Rockport in constructing seawalls, breakwaters, revetments and shore protections by donating to the City the ad valorem taxes to be collected by the State on all property and from all persons owning property situated in Aransas County for a period of twenty years; providing a penalty for the misapplication of funds raised therefrom. |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to extending provisions of certain Act to aid City of Aransas Pass in constructing sea walls, etc. |
| HB 303 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in any county having a population of not less than seven thousand, six hundred and eighty (7,680) and not more than seven thousand and seven hundred (7,700) inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to lease any county hospital belonging to said county, and providing for the terms for said lease. |
| HB 356 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or clerk in any county having a population of not more than seven thousand, seven hundred (7,700) and not less than seven thousand, six hundred and eighty (7,680) inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census of 1930. |
| HB 357 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in any county having a population of not less than twenty-three thousand, eight hundred and twenty-five (23,825) and not more than twenty-three thousand, eight hundred and fifty (23,850) inhabitants, to lease any county hospital belonging to said county, and providing for the terms for said lease. |
| HB 777 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing for a General Election for a County Superintendent in certain counties. |
| HB 808 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article relating to the appointment and compensation of County Auditors in certain counties. |
| HB 846 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act providing for the transfer of title of ownership of state-owned Jacks and Stallions by the Commissioner of Agriculture to the Commissioners' Courts of Texas counties. |
| HB 854 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of county superintendent in all counties in this State having a population of not less than 23,800 and not more than 23,860 according to the last preceding Federal census. |
| HB 902 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to levy a tax on chattel mortgages, deeds of trust, mechanic's lien contracts, vendor's liens, conditional sales contract and all other instruments of a similar nature which are filed or recorded in the office of the County Clerk. |
| HB 965 | Caption: Relating to declaring a certain area adjacent to the town of Rockport, Aransas County, Texas, a Wildlife Sanctuary; providing a suitable penalty for hunting therein. |
| HB 1021 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to use or possess oyster dredges in or on certain waters of Copano Bay, with exceptions; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 25 | Caption: Authorizing the operation of a vending stand by a blind person inside the Capitol Building. |
| HR 190 | Caption: In memory of Pearl Comstock. |
| HR 264 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the availability of funds to survey pollution in public streams. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to providing for the admissibility in evidence of certified copies of certain instruments required by Statute or by Rules of the Railroad Commission of Texas to be filed with the Railroad Commission of Texas. |
| HB 358 | Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to take any fish for sale from the waters of Lake Corpus Christi, situated in the Counties of San Patricio, Jim Wells, and Live Oak, or from the waters of the Nueces River between La Fruta Dam on the Nueces River and the highway bridge over the Nueces River near George West, including all of the tributaries of the Nueces River within the boundaries of Live Oak County; providing a suitable penalty for any violation of this Act. |
| HB 613 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for San Patricio County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against this road and bridge fund prior to May 21st, 1931. |
| HB 626 | Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of County Auditors in certain counties. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to extending for an additional period of twenty five (25) years the provisions of certain Act remitting ad valorem taxes to the City of Aransas Pass. |
| HB 928 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to liquor stamps by authorizing the Treasurer to distribute stamps as required by said statute; providing a penalty. |
| HB 966 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act aiding the City of Rockport in constructing seawalls, breakwaters, revetments and shore protections, by extending the provisions of said Act for a period of forty (40) years from September 1st, 1920 and to aid the City of Rockport to pay interest and sinking funds upon outstanding bonds heretofore issued, the proceeds of which have been used exclusively in constructing and maintaining seawalls, breakwaters and share protection to protect the City of Rockport to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing seawalls, breakwaters, revetments and shore protection to protect said City of Rockport. |
| HB 1109 | Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of County Auditors in certain counties. |
| HB 1175 | Caption: Relating to granting to the United States of America easement to construct and maintain the Louisiana and Texas Intracoastal Waterway over and through portions of bays and tidal lands owned by the State of Texas in Brazoria, Matagorda, Calhoun, and Aransas Counties. |