Legislation authored by DeWitt Edward Kinard
Includes legislation with DeWitt Edward Kinard as the primary author for the 46th through 48th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 48th Regular Session | |
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| HB 50 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to Texas securities for insurance companies, etc. |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to providing for the suspension of the running of the primary and principal terms of certain State leases by the School Land Board in certain instances. |
| HB 73 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to deposits to the Board of Insurance Commissioners by life insurance companies. |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to securities life insurance companies may invest in. |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to amending Article relating to requirements of life insurance companies not organized under the laws of this State and transacting business in this State to make a report to the Board of Insurance Commissioners. |
| HB 271 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues concerning dividends to be paid from profits. |
| HCR 37 | Caption: Memorializing Congress in regards to taxes on income. |
| HCR 154 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 301. |
| HCR 155 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 192. |
| HR 320 | Caption: Inviting Byron Utrecht, Dean of the Newspaper reporters, to address the House. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person in the active military service of the United States shall hold or exercise any civil office or employment and that the entering of such service shall vacate any office or employment. |
| HB 112 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to redistricting Representative Districts. |
| HB 138 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts of the General and Special Laws relative to hunting and trapping on inclosed or uninclosed land of another in certain counties. |
| HB 166 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to requiring all persons desiring to practice optometry to pass an examination. |
| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to providing for the State Superintendent, on recommendation of the Director of School Census, to request the State Board of Education to authorize an increase to cover teacher costs because of public calamity. |
| HB 403 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any finance company, its agents, servants, employees, to receive any commission for the sale of any insurance policy covering property against which the finance company has taken a lien; providing a penalty. |
| HB 455 | Caption: Relating to regulating and prescribing limitations for all printing for the State of Texas and political subdivisions thereof; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration and protection of the official insignia or label of any union or association; describing offenses and prescribing the punishment therefor. |
| HB 766 | Caption: Relating to creating the 128th District Court of Texas; prescribing its jurisdiction. |
| HB 934 | Caption: Relating to providing amount of payment to the Executive Committee in order to have the name placed on official ballot for Representative in certain counties. |
| HB 943 | Caption: Relating to regulating and prescribing limitations for all printing for the State of Texas and political subdivisions thereof; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 1042 | Caption: Relating to relinquishing to the City of Port Arthur, Texas, all right, title, and interest of the State of Texas in and to certain land. |
| HB 1043 | Caption: Relating to granting to the City of Port Arthur, Texas, all right, title, and interest of the State of Texas to certain land. |
| HB 1053 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by reducing the interest rate of bonds in which taxes remitted to the City of Port Arthur may be invested. |
| HB 1084 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regarding the membership of the Board of Directors of the Lower Neches Valley Authority. |
| HCR 36 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die May 13, 1941. |
| HCR 46 | Caption: Inviting Sam Jones, Governor of Louisiana, to address a joint session of the Legislature on Monday, February 24,1941. |
| HCR 178 | Caption: Inviting Martin Dies to address a joint session. |
| HJR 5 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to permit dual office holding by the following classes of persons while they are not in the active military service of the United States: Officers of the National Guard of Texas, the National Guard Reserve, The Officers Reserve Corps of the United States, etc. |
| HR 36 | Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot. |
| HR 119 | Caption: Extending invitation to the Military and Naval Committees of the National House of Representatives to inspect the security of the port cities in Texas. |
| HR 272 | Caption: Relating to appointment of certain committee. |
| 47th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 52 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain traveling expenses for County Commissioners in certain counties. |
| HB 57 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide that where a city or town at the time of, or prior to the purchase of acquisition of a Sanitary Sewer System, has authorized the issuance of bonds for the purchase, improvement, extension, enlargement, repair, and construction of a Sanitary Sewer System for said city or town. |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to providing that any city or town owning a sanitary sewer system may sell certain bonds for the purchase, improvement, enlargement, repair, and construction of such system. |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Relating to adjournment sine die of the first called session on September 19,1941. |
| HR 40 | Caption: Commending Martin Dies. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to making certain requirements necessary before a person is eligible to receive a license. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting payment of funds of State or local subdivisions to any person who is not a citizen of the United States of America. |
| HB 248 | Caption: Relating to regulating and prescribing limitations for all printing for the State of Texas and political subdivisions; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to providing for the display of the United States Flag at all public schools; providing for installation of Chair of Americanism in all State Universities and State-supported colleges; providing that all teachers in State-supported schools shall be citizens of the United States. |
| HB 412 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article by more clearly defining some of the duties of the Attorney General. |
| HB 548 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all Independent School Districts which include within their limits a city which was more than seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty (7,850) population, and fewer than eight thousand (8,000) population, whether under General or Special Law. |
| HB 683 | Caption: Relating to defining a "nonresident commercial fisherman"; providing for a nonresident commercial fishing license and the fee for same; providing a penalty for violation of the Act. |
| HB 864 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article so that default judgment being taken in Justice Court or County Court in Forcible Entry and Detainer proceedings. |
| HB 865 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act so default judgment may be taken in Justice Court in Forcible Entry and Detainer proceedings. |
| HB 905 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code so that it shall be unlawful for any person to trap or set a trap or deadfall on the inclosed or uninclosed land of another without the consent or permission of the owner of the said land; providing a penalty. |
| HB 911 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code relating to entering upon the inclosed or uninclosed land of another without the consent of the owner and hunt with firearms or catch any game thereon, or thereon catching or taking or attempting to catch or take any fish from any pond, lake, tank, or stream on said land; providing a penalty. |
| HB 945 | Caption: Relating to providing that in certain counties that whoever shall enter upon the inclosed or uninclosed land of another with the consent of the owner and hunt with firearms or catch any game or take or attempt to catch or take any fish from any pond, lake, tank, or stream of said land; shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; providing a penalty. |
| HB 946 | Caption: Relating to providing that in certain counties it shall be unlawful for any person to trap or set a trap or deadfall on the inclosed or uninclosed land of another without the consent or permission of the owner of said land; providing a penalty. |
| HB 1058 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Orange County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of March 1, 1939, by the issuance of funding bonds. |
| HB 1099 | Caption: Relating to validating and approving all proceedings had by cities and towns having a home rule charter in amending said charters so as to eliminate any requirements in said charter that any portion of the annual ad valorem tax levied in said city or town shall be provided for or set apart for the use of the Public Free Schools in said city or town. |
| HB 1107 | Caption: Relating to validating, confirming, approving, and legalizing all bonds heretofore authorized by the necessary vote of the qualified voters of all cities or towns at an election. |
| HB 1108 | Caption: Relating to providing that taxes levied by other entities under and by virtue of Article 3, Section 52 of the Constitution shall never be reckoned in determining the power of any city or town to levy taxes. |
| HB 1115 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to A.J. Clingan to bring suit against the State of Texas and/or the Texas National Guard. |
| HB 1131 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the teaching of communism, fascism, nazism or any other "ism" compromising a collectivist form of government in public schools, colleges and universities in this State; providing for the dismissal of any teacher of professor teaching or advocating any such subject. |
| HCR 91 | Caption: Recalling HB 683 from the Governor. |
| HCR 109 | Caption: Recalling HB 194 from the Governor for the express purpose of amendment. |
| HCR 179 | Caption: Granting A.J. Clingan, minor, permission to sue the State of Texas through his father Leroy Clingan. |
| HJR 8 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the duration of all offices not fixed by the Constitution to two (2) years, shall not apply to appointive offices of any municipalities that are placed under the terms and provisions of Civil Service but the duration of such offices shall be governed by the provisions of the Civil Service Law. |
| HR 48 | Caption: Commemorating the actions of Alvin Granger of Orange. |
| HR 62 | Caption: Naming Shirley Ann Taylor Mascot of the House. |
| HR 102 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to prevent the settlement of refugees in Texas. |
| HR 209 | Caption: Inviting the Perricone Quadruplets to appear before the House. |
| HR 324 | Caption: Commending the Gulf Port Boiler & Welding Works, Inc., for bringing new industry to Texas. |