Legislation authored by William Wade Bridgers
Includes legislation with William Wade Bridgers as the primary author for the 30th through 49th 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.
| 49th Regular Session | |
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| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to the payment of the prevailing rate of wages on public works; declaring the provisions of this Act to be severable. |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to providing a penalty for the private use of county property or labor or services paid for by a county, including supplies, equipment, or other things of value belonging to such county. |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of the Counties of this State to employ interpreters by the month for Justice and County Courts where services are regularly needed, and to set up a monthly salary for such interpreters as County employees. |
| HB 262 | Caption: Relating to prohibit any person from receiving or accepting pay or remuneration for becoming a surety or bondsman in any criminal case; providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 300 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the allocation of funds from the Clearance Fund to the "Children's Assistance Fund"; providing for the appropriation of such funds. |
| HB 337 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Welfare Acts of 1941 by defining "Dependent Child" providing a method of determining the amount of assistance to be paid to a dependent child; providing a saving clause; and providing for an anticipatory clause. |
| HB 562 | Caption: Relating amending certain Article of the Penal Code relating to the control of any dog accustomed to run, worry, or kill goats, sheep or poultry, by adding to said Article a provision making it unlawful for any owner, keeper, or person in control of any dog which has bitten or attacked any person off the premises of the owner to permit such dog to run at large, and providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 563 | Caption: Relating to prohibit the carrying of gasoline other than gasoline in the tank of any motor vehicle used for the purpose of transporting of one or more persons, and providing a penalty for the violation of this act. |
| HB 564 | Caption: Relating to authorizing county tax assessors and collectors to convey properties acquired by the state and county through tax foreclosure proceedings. |
| HB 597 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of any county having a population of over 100,000 inhabitants to adopt regulations and provide penalties for violations thereto relating to speeding and all other matters incidental to protection of the public in the use of county roads by pedestrians and vehicles where such roads do not form a part of the highway system and fall outside of the city limits of said incorporated city. |
| HB 598 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Commission to adopt regulations as now provided for the State Highway System of Texas under certain conditions, for use of county roads not forming part of State Highway System and falling outside of city limits of incorporated cities; requiring the keeping of certain reports by the Commissioners' Court. |
| HJR 44 | Caption: Proposing an amendment giving Cities or counties of Texas the authority to levy a tax of not exceeding one cent on the one hundred dollar assessed valuation of such City or County for the purpose of providing and maintaining a memorial or place of recreation for all United States Veterans upon an affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified tax paying voters of such city or county. |
| HR 183 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact legislation in regard to mail carriers. |
| HR 224 | Caption: Congratulating B. J. Leyendecker on his 79th birthday. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 96 | Caption: Relating to placing additional duties upon the State Board of Education and the Textbook Committee with reference to preferential treatment of textbooks and teachers' manuals wholly or partly manufactured in Texas. |
| HB 198 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of writs of injunction by any county or district court to restrain any person, firm or corporation from the collection of usurious interest. |
| HB 369 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas and the State Treasurer of the State of Texas to transfer Three Hundred Twenty-five Thousand ($325,000) Dollars from the State Board of Hair Dressers and Cosmetology Fund to the General Fund of the State. |
| HJR 9 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to permit a greater rate of interest than 10 per centum per annum on small short-time loans and to provide by law against abuses and fraudulent practices incident to such loans. |
| HR 133 | Caption: Designating W.T. McDonald, Jr. as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 217 | Caption: Granting former State Representative Woodrow Bean privileges of the floor for the day. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to the filing of bids for furnishing of textbooks to the State. |
| HB 162 | Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to prescribing a uniform or standard form of proof of death in claims for the payment of life insurance; directing the Life Insurance Commissioner to prescribe or approve such forms; providing certain penalties. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing for Textbooks for use in teaching the German and Czech languages and to add thereto a provision for Textbooks for the teaching of the Spanish language. |
| HB 288 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Commissioners of any county having a County Court at Law to appoint an official interpreter for the County Court at Law in such county; granting County Commissioners authority to terminate employment of interpreter; to provide for the salary of such interpreter and to prescribe his duties and providing for the oath of such interpreter. |
| HB 348 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Control to lease or rent certain County Hospitals; authorizing the State Board of Control to take over, manage and operate jointly with any County or City-County medical Unit in conjunction with the operation of the State Tuberculosis Sanitorium certain tuberculosis hospital units. |
| HB 738 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the offense of conversion by an executor, administrator, or guardian having charge of any estate, real, personal, or mixed. |
| HB 1022 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of bull frogs and disposition of same in El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culberson Counties; providing a license for those propagating bull frogs on private property, prohibiting the sale of bull frogs that originate in either said Counties with certain exceptions; providing a penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 1064 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for dividing certain Water Improvement Districts. |
| HCR 206 | Caption: Suspending joint rules for the purpose of considering H.B. No. 55. |
| HJR 9 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the holding of more than one public office at the same time with certain exceptions. |
| HR 106 | Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones. |
| HR 176 | Caption: Supporting President Roosevelt in his proposal to have the Social Security Program be administered by the Federal Government. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to providing for and creating a City-County Health Unit in certain counties. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to Wine and Beer Retail Dealer's Permits. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act relating to the trial of insane persons charged with crime and providing for the commitment of such persons to a State Hospital for the Insane. |
| HB 449 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article adding a provision to prohibit the importation into this state from without the state any alcoholic beverages except by an authorized class B wholesaler. |
| HB 1130 | Caption: Relating to releasing all penalty and interest accrued on ad valorem city and independent school district taxes which were delinquent on July 1, 1938, in all cities in this State having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) nor more than one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) and in which the city council shall by proper resolution so determine. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 225 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to intoxicating liquors, and in lieu of said statute to provide the appointment by the Governor of Ten (10) supervisors for the enforcement of this Act in cities of twenty five (25,000) thousand inhabitants or more. |
| HB 287 | Caption: Relating to providing for a lien in favor of owners of apartment houses, as well as proprietors of hotels or boarding houses on the baggage or other property of tenants, guests and lessees of hotels, apartment houses and boarding houses for rent due to such owners of hotels, apartment houses and boarding houses, and further providing for a lien upon the baggage or other property of such tenants for the wanton, willful or negligent destruction of property in or about, or connected with the premises occupied by such tenants. |
| HB 590 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners' Court of all counties in Texas to provide for the establishment and completion of soil erosion projects, and construction and maintenance of improvements in connection therewith, within such counties and to cooperate with the United States Government in such projects. |
| HCR 127 | Caption: Granting R. F. Davis permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 145 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. Chris B. Callan. |
| HR 200 | Caption: In memory of W. M. McDonald of Houston. |
| HR 216 | Caption: Directing the Adjutant-General of Texas to make an investigation into certain actions by Texas Rangers in Wichita Falls. |
| 45th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Granting R. F. Davis permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 35 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to adopt an amendment to certain bills being debated. |
| 28th Regular Session | |
| HB 176 | Caption: Relating to preserving and protecting the wild game, wild birds and wild fowl of the State, to provide adequate penalties for the unlawful taking, slaughter, sale or shipment thereof. |
| HB 329 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to defining the attempt to commit theft from a person and providing a penalty. |
| HB 389 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting certain exhibitions. |
| HB 401 | Caption: Relating to providing for a mineral survey of public lands and make an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 406 | Caption: Relating to creating the Sixty-third Judicial District of the State of Texas, to be composed of the counties of Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Pecos, Val Verde, Kinney and Maverick, and prescribe the time of holding terms of the district court in said district; and to reorganize the Forty-first and Thirty-fourth Judicial Districts; to prescribe a time for holding court therein. |
| HB 516 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to authorize and empower commissioners courts to divide ward in certain cities into election precincts and to appoint officers therefor. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Relating to providing for a joint committee to negotiate a purchase by the State of McArdle's battle painting, "The Battle of San Jacinto". |
| HCR 27 | Caption: Relating to requesting the Governor to return H.B. No. 406 for correction. |
| 27th Regular Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to making the theft of a bicycle a felony. |
| HB 133 | Caption: Relating to preventing the secretion of stolen property by second hand dealers. |
| HB 319 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Texas; to prescribe the time of holding the terms of the district court therein. |
| HB 320 | Caption: Relating to protecting the practice of veterinary surgeons, and to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Texas. |
| HB 404 | Caption: Relating to providing for the prompt payment of wages of railroad employes in case of discharge. |
| HB 512 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to delinquent taxes. |