Legislation authored by E. Harold Beck
Includes legislation with E. Harold Beck as the primary author for the 43rd through 48th 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.
| 48th Regular Session | |
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| SB 25 | Caption: Relating to Fixing Venue in Habeas Corpus Cases, after final Conviction. |
| SB 111 | Caption: Relating to amending Acts relative to issuance of warrants payable from State available school funds, etc. |
| SB 115 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing that any judge or clerk of an election, chairman or member of an executive committee, or officer of any primary, general, or special election, who willfully makes a false canvass of the votes cast, or false statement of the results of a canvass of ballots, shall be confined in the penitentiary for a term not less than two years nor more than five years. |
| SB 147 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of $43,850.00 out of the General Fund in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the establishment and maintenance of an agricultural experimental station for the development of dairy, poultry and truck crops in the First Senatorial District of Texas, said authority having been given said Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment by the District Attorney of an assistant in Judicial Districts composed of one or more counties where the District Attorney is absent by reason of being a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America. |
| SB 214 | Caption: Relating to providing for the exemption from certain taxes insurance companies, corporations or unincorporated associations organized for the purpose ofsupporting charitable, benevolent, educational or missionary undertakings, financed wholly or in part by the United States Government. |
| SB 255 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Sections of Acts which levies a tax on marble, cinnabar and other ores. |
| SB 271 | Caption: Relating to providing when there is any surplus remaining after the principal and the interest is fully paid on road bonds it may be used by the County Political Subdivision of the County or any Local District that has been or may hereafter be created for the purpose of construction, maintenance, and operation of certain roads and turnpikes or in the aid thereof as may be determined by the Commissioners Court. |
| SB 329 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Texas National Guard Armory Board to cover the expense of moving property pertaining to units of the Texas National Guard now stored in various places throughout the state to Camp Mabry or other places. |
| SB 349 | Caption: Relating to enlarging the jurisdiction of the County Court of Morris County, Texas, in criminal cases to enable the County Judge of Morris County, Texas, to accept pleas of guilty in all cases of misdemeanor. |
| SB 351 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to jurisdiction of the District Courts of the 5th and 102nd Judicial Districts. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| SB 191 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Trustees of Independent School Districts to order an election to vote refunding bonds for the purpose of buying in bonds which have been previously issued without option of prior redemption and prescribing the method of holding such election. |
| SB 343 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Commissioners Court to fix the compensation of the sheriff, tax collector-assessor, county clerk, county judge, district clerk, and county attorney in certain counties; fixing salaries for such officers; fixing the effective date of this Act. |
| SB 348 | Caption: Relating to authorizing purchasers of any former prison lands to sell or lease the minerals that may be contained in the land and to divide the bonus, rentals, and royalties with the State of Texas. |
| SB 458 | Caption: Relating to providing an appropriation for purchase of law books, for the Courts of Civil Appeals and to pay the salary of Walter Monteith as Commissioner of the Court of Civil Appeals, First District, Galveston. |
| SB 492 | Caption: Relating to providing for and fixing compensation for County Auditors in certain counties. |
| SB 496 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the qualified voters of Hooks Independent School District situated wholly within Bowie County, a district containing a certain number of square miles and having an assessed property valuation of not less thanthree hundred seventy thousand dollars, to determine whether or not any such district shall levy a tax for maintenance and bond purposes. |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Inviting the Chiefs and members of the Alabama and Coushatti Tribes to address a joint session on February 10, 1941. |
| SCR 19 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of guard wire to the City of Daingerfield. |
| SCR 35 | Caption: Congratulating the State of Vermont on the anniversary of their admittance into the Union of States. |
| SCR 45 | Caption: Providing for sine die adjournment of the Legislature. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| SB 352 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute by extending period for which medical aid shall be provided not exceeding ninety-one (91) days when authorized by the Board. |
| SB 353 | Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of a Bill to read that the State of Texas will co-operate through the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas with the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey in the destruction of certain predatory animals and rodent pests in the interest of the protection of livestock, crops and ranges. |
| SB 372 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the county attorneys in certain counties. |
| SB 448 | Caption: Relating to directing the Texas State Parks Board to execute quit-claim deeds to lands situated in the Big Bend Park in Brewster County which were sold for taxes and acquired by the State for park purposes under the terms of Chapter 100, Acts of the First Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature, to the original owners in cases where the taxes were not actually delinquent, and where tax receipts or tax certificates can be produced showing payment of such taxes. |
| SCR 23 | Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol. |
| SCR 46 | Caption: Granting W.G. Farrier permission to sue the State of Texas, the State Highway Department, and the State Highway Commission. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to requiring certain reports to be made to the Banking Commissioner, and prescribing the time for filing such reports, the fees therefor; prescribing penalty for failure to file. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of any county, in case of the inability of the regularly elected county judge to perform the duties of his office, or in case of his absence from the county for a period of Ten (10) days, to appoint some person qualified under the law to be elected to the office of county judge, to serve as county judge during the disability or absence of the regularly elected county judge, and during such time, to have and exercise all of the powers of the duly elected county judge of such county, and to provide for the compensation of the person selected. |
| SB 196 | Caption: Relating to providing for the relief of the Douglassville Common School District No. 20, Cass County, Texas, in order to aid said district in rebuilding and equipping its school that was destroyed by fire in December, 1935, making an appropriation to said district for said property. |
| SB 202 | Caption: Relating to creating the Special Fifth District Court of Marion County and Cass County, Texas, prescribing its jurisdiction, limiting its existence, fixing its terms. |
| SB 253 | Caption: Relating to providing that no policy of life insurance shall be issued or delivered in this State, or be issued by a life insurance company incorporated under the laws of this State, if it contains a provision limiting the time within which any action at law or in equity may be commenced to less than two years after such company definitely serves notice upon the beneficiary that the company declines to pay the claim on such policy. |
| SB 373 | Caption: Relating to prescribing additional powers and duties of the Commissioners' Court in certain counties. |
| SB 430 | Caption: Relating to providing for the time of holding the terms of Court of the District Court of the 102nd Judicial District of Texas, naming the counties constituting the same. |
| SB 431 | Caption: Relating to providing for the time of holding the terms of Court of the District Court of the 76th Judicial District of Texas, changing the length of the terms of the District Court in the counties in said Judicial District. |
| SB 432 | Caption: Relating to providing for the reorganization of the Fifth Judicial District, naming the counties constituting the same. |
| SB 448 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 7-A, in Cass County, Texas. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Authorizing the State Highway Department to loan certain equipment to Morris County. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 24 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the county attorneys in all counties in the State of Texas having a population of more than forty-eight thousand five hundred and forty (48,540) and less than forty-eight thousand eight hundred (48,800), according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 325 | Caption: Relating to acknowledging the legal, moral, and implied obligations of the State to compensate and reimburse counties and defined road districts for expenditures on all public roads in this State. |
| HB 407 | Caption: Relating to creating a State System of Public Employment Offices. |
| HB 763 | Caption: Relating to providing for relief of certain school districts of Texas, in order to aid said districts in rebuilding their properties, and equipping their schools, which were recently destroyed by fire. |
| HB 906 | Caption: Relating to authorizing J.F. Akin, J.F. Rochelle, and the Texarkana National Bank, a Corporation, to sue the State of Texas to recover the amount due, or that may be found to be due upon Comptroller's Deficiency Certificate No. 2417, for the sum of Two Hundred and Sixty-four Dollars ($264), issued to J.F. Akin of date August 28, 1930, fixing the venue of such suit, and authorizing J.R. Telford to sue the State of Texas to recover the sum of Twenty-four Hundred, Four Dollars and thirty-five cents ($2404.35), and any and all amounts that may be due under and by virtue of Comptroller Deficiency Certificate No. 654, issued to J.D. Baker on March 25, 1929. |
| HB 976 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; changing the times of holding the terms of Court of the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District of Texas. |
| HJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 6 of Article XVI of the Constitution of Texas, providing for an old age relief system, and providing for the support and maintenance thereof. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Providing the all those not in any way associated with the House of Representatives be barred from the chamber pending the election of the Speaker. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Wishing Representative Jasper N. Reed a speedy recovery from illness. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 5 | Caption: Authorizing the Contingent Expense Committee with the power furnish supplies as seen fit. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 13 | Caption: Authorizing the Contingent Expense Committee to furnish necessary supplies for the House. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 1-A, in Cass County, Texas. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to designating State hospitals to which insane, epileptic, and feeble-minded persons may be committed for care or treatment and providing for the transfer of patients from one institution to another, and providing for the commitment and transfer of such patients to the United States Veterans' Administration or such other agency or department of the United States as will accept such patients for care or treatment. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 559 | Caption: Relating to providing for sale of real estate under the powers conferred by the deed of trust or contract lien; providing for the posting of notices; and providing for notice to be given the fee owner of junior lien holders, if any. |
| HB 685 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful and providing the punishment to take, or catch, or kill any wild fox or fur-bearing animal at any time of the year by means of steel trap, deadfall, snare, or mechanical device of any kind, in Bowie county, Texas. |
| HB 713 | Caption: Relating to permitting residents of the counties in the State of Arkansas, which border upon the State of Texas, to hunt in the Counties of Cass and Bowie, in the State of Texas, upon the same terms and upon payment of the same license fees as those requried of residents of the State of Texas, for hunting in other counties of the State than the counties in which they reside; repealing all laws in conflict with this Act. |
| HB 951 | Caption: Relating to changing the times of holding the terms of Court of the District Court of the 102nd Judicial District of Texas; and changing the length of the terms of the District Court in the Counties in the said Judicial District; providing that this Act shall take effect September 1, 1933. |
| HB 952 | Caption: Relating to changing the times of holding the terms of Court of the District Court of the 5th Judicial District of Texas; and changing the length of the terms of the District Court in the counties of said Judicial District; providing that this Act shall take effect September 1, 1933. |
| HCR 106 | Caption: Granting Frank Demopulos permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to refund on tax on out of state beer shipments. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 3 | Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to members-elect of the 44th Legislature. |