Legislation authored by Robert Emmett Morse

Includes legislation with Robert Emmett Morse as the primary author for the 40th 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
HB 33	Caption: Relating to redistricting the State into Representative Districts.
HB 83	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State of Texas to institute suit to enjoin any person, firm or corporation, or their officers, agents or employees from receiving and collecting interest in excess of that authorized by law and from engaging in business of making loans whereon usurious interest is charged; providing a saving clause.
HB 278	Caption: Relating to creating the Dental College of The University of Texas to be located in the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas, provided the Texas Dental College, Houston, Texas, shall donate its property to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to be used for said purpose, free of all debt or other encumbrances.
HB 410	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues relating to the employment or use of the stock, means, assets and other property of corporations and declaring for what purposes the same may be used.
HCR 171	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House in S.B. No. 332.
HR 62	Caption: Designating Julia Ada Rhodes as a Mascot of the House.
47th Regular Session
HB 3	Caption: Relating to making a specific appropriation to pay a judgment obtained by Trinity Portland Cement Company against the State of Texas for the recovery of filing fees and franchise taxes which the Courts of the State of Texas held to have been illegally collected.
HB 5	Caption: Relating to defining industrial life insurance; forbidding the delivery or issuance for delivery of any policy of industrial life insurance, unless it shall contain certain provisions, and making said provisions subject to certain exceptions.
HB 6	Caption: Relating to defining, licensing, and regulating the business of making loans or advancements in the amount or of the value of five hundred ($500.00) dollars or less; making findings of fact and statement of policy; providing certain exemptions; and providing penalties for violation of certain provisions.
HB 13	Caption: Relating to providing for the deposit of monies to the credit of the State Accumulation Fund of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
HB 18	Caption: Relating to providing for the proration of wet gas and/or wet gas and distillate wells in the same manner as is now provided for oil wells.
HB 72	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide that when a person is charged by indictment or information with driving while intoxicated, that evidence as to the amount of alcohol in the defendant's blood shall be admissible in evidence upon the issue of intoxication.
HB 238	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to declaring the policy of the State with reference to financing the constructing of county lateral roads; creating the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and prescribing its powers and duties.
HB 1016	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts which established the Teacher Retirement System of Texas; providing for the creation, management, and distribution of the Teacher Saving Fund, the State Membership Accumulation Fund, the Membership Annuity Reserve Fund, the Interest Fund, the Permanent Retirement Fund, the Expense Fund, and the Prior Service Annuity Reserve Fund of said System; providing for retirement of members and the method and manner of computing and paying retirement benefits and return of contributions.
HCR 24	Caption: Providing for appointment of a committee to investigate matter of securing an additional State building.
HR 12	Caption: In memory of Harry L. Carpenter of Greenville.
HR 18	Caption: Appointing a delegate by the Speaker to represent the House at the Fifth General Assembly of the Council of State Governments.
HR 106	Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones.
HR 121	Caption: Granting privileges of the floor to Capitol guests.
HR 169	Caption: In memory of Mrs. John C. Townes.
HR 327	Caption: Extending sympathy of the House to C. E. Nicholson.
47th 1st Called Session
HCR 20	Caption: Declaring legislative intent with respect to certain provisions of H.B. 115.
HR 42	Caption: Extending congratulations of the House to Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby.
45th Regular Session
HB 5	Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation and possession of alcoholic liquors; prescribing rules and regulations and the right of local option; prescribing penalties for violations; prescribing penalties for violations.
HB 17	Caption: Relating to the composition of Representative Districts in certain counties.
HB 23	Caption: Relating to allowing 5 years for exploration under leases on prison lands.
HB 51	Caption: Relating to providing for pay of judges and clerks at elections.
HB 122	Caption: Relating to authorizing any private corporation organized under certain statute, subject to a finding by the Secretary of State after proper investigation that such corporation is solvent and its capital unimpaired, to extend its charter.
HB 166	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations for the State Department of Agriculture for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937.
HB 234	Caption: Relating to creating the Harris County Flood Control District, declaring it to be a governmental agency for reclamation and flood control in Harris County, defining its powers, authorizing it to acquire and dispose of property, to sue and be sued, to adopt a seal, to appoint a general manager and other officers, agents and employees, and counsel, to fix compensation and to prescribe their duties, providing for surveys, authorizing the devising of plans and the construction of works for flood control and reclamation, to prevent the deposit of silt in navigable streams, authorizing the removal of obstructions, permitting cooperation and contracting with the United States of America and its agencies and the acceptance of grants, loans and advancements, the cooperation with Harris County and adjacent political subdivisions.
HB 520	Caption: Relating to increasing the powers and duties of the State Board of Embalming.
HB 629	Caption: Relating to declaring the islands in Galveston Bay, known as Vingt et Un Islands, as a wildlife sanctuary and prohibiting the molestation of any birds found on said Islands; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.
HB 893	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for an adequate and efficient examination of statewide mutual assessment insurance associations by exempting from the provisions thereof associations which are not operated for profit and which pay no commissions to anyone, and whose operating expense does not exceed One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per month, and which limit their membership to employees and the families of employees of any designated firm, corporation, or individual.
HCR 33	Caption: Requesting the State Board of Education to consider providing free music textbooks to the students of the State.
HCR 53	Caption: Granting D. A. Snyder and Virginia Peters permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 2	Caption: Adopting the temporary House Rules of the 45th Legislature.
HR 48	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 167	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
HR 197	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
HR 275	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to represent the House at the ceremonies at Texas A. & M. College.
HR 286	Caption: Authorizing the Committee on Contingent Expenses to extend certain funds to the Members of the House.
HR 295	Caption: Commending State Rep. Lon E. Alsup for his service in the Legislature.
HR 305	Caption: Providing for the production of copies of the Texas Legislative Manual to be distributed to the Members of the House.
45th 1st Called Session
HCR 22	Caption: Requesting the Governor to add certain legislation to the list of items on the Governor's Call for the special session
HR 9	Caption: Directing the committee on contingent expenses to make certain arrangements to install facilities for dispensing soft drinks near the House Chamber.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 20	Caption: Relating to levying additional taxes upon the sale of alcoholic beverages in this State; levying a gross proceeds tax of ten percent (10%) upon sales of liquor under a Dispenser's Permit; fixing penalties for failure to pay the State the taxes due thereon.
HCR 8	Caption: Granting Eura Boulware permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 29	Caption: Granting the Tyler Pipe Line Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 44	Caption: Granting Russ Mitchell Incorporated permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 49	Caption: Declaring legislative intent in regards to certain legislation.
HCR 60	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 20.
HCR 64	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 20.
HCR 67	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 20.
HR 29	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
44th Regular Session
HB 72	Caption: Relating to regulating petitions in suits for divorce, to require such petitions to state whether there are children under sixteen years of age and if so, to give full information as to such minors, making it the duty of the courts having jurisdiction of such suits to inquire into the status of such children.
HB 383	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the appointment of the members of the State Board of Embalming, so as to create a rotating board and to enlarge the term of office to six (6) years.
HB 384	Caption: Relating to increasing the powers and duties of the State Board of Embalming so as to prescribe and maintain a standard of proficiency as to the qualifications of those engaged, and who may engage, in the practice of funeral directing in connection with the care and disposition of dead human bodies by providing that said State Board of Embalming shall adopt rules, regulations, and by-laws for the examination and licensing of funeral directors and the practice of funeral direction.
HB 438	Caption: Relating to prescribing the fees required of and paid by candidates in primary elections for State Senators and State Representatives in certain counties.
HB 548	Caption: Relating to providing for compensation of county officiers in certain counties.
HB 773	Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing body of any incorporated city or town having a population of two hundred and ninety thousand (290,000) or more according to the preceding Federal Census to formulate and devise a pension plan, said pension plan before becoming effective to be approved by the qualified electors of such city or town.
HB 872	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Texas Penal Code; declaring the existence of a gambling house or gaming paraphernalia to be against public policy and a public nuisance; providing that in a case thereof referred to the justice of the peace, county judge or district judge, any gaming table or bank or gambling device used for gaming purposes that was seized, the same shall be destroyed.
HB 957	Caption: Relating to protecting the public health and morals by preventing the renting out by landlords and occupying by tenants of insanitary houses, and defining same, and providing for the carrying out of the provisions of the law, and providing penalties.
HCR 38	Caption: Providing for a joint session of the Legislature to hear an address from Governor Allred.
HCR 51	Caption: Granting H.B. McElmurray and his wife permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 88	Caption: Granting Mary M. Wise permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Labor Department.
HJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for a local option on the question of the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.
HR 7	Caption: Providing for the rules of the Forty-third Legislature to be temporarily observed and the appointing of certain temporary committees.
HR 110	Caption: Directing the Chairman of the Contingent Expense Committee to authorize the furnishing of supplies for each Representative.
HR 135	Caption: Authorizing the Committee on Contingent Expense to pay for certain loud speaker equipment for use in the House.
HR 154	Caption: Providing for the printing of 400 copies of the Texas Legislative Manual for use by the House.
HR 157	Caption: Providing for a picture of former State Representative Mildred Canon to be added to the group picture of the 42nd Legislature.
HR 170	Caption: Commending the Committee on Contingent Expense for their service during the 44th Session.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 1	Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation and possession of alcoholic liquors; levying taxes; prescribing penalties for violations.
HB 4	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; authorizing the creation of corporations to engage in the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic liquors.
HB 13	Caption: Relating to amending certain Sections of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); taxation on all beer sold, stored or distributed in this State.
HB 14	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the General Laws of the 43rd Legislature; the manufacture and sale of beer in Texas so as to make it unlawful for any manufacturer or distributor of beer, directly or indirectly or through a subsidiary or affiliate, and agent or employee, or by any officer, director or firm member, to own any interest upon or under which beer is sold for consumption on the premises.
HCR 22	Caption: Relating to the delegates of the National Democratic Convention.
HR 1	Caption: Providing for committees to notify the Governor and the Senate the House is ready to transact business.
HR 23	Caption: Authorizing the Board of Control relative to certain electrical equipment.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 79	Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation and possession of alcoholic liquors; prescribing penalties for violations.
HCR 4	Caption: Granting the Continental Assurance Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 26	Caption: Granting the Texas Federated Women's Club privileges of the floor for the day.
HR 39	Caption: Providing for a copy of the House Manual to mailed to all current and future Members of the House.
44th 3rd Called Session
HR 73	Caption: Expressing to the Senate the approval of the House of the conference committee report for H.B. No.8.
HR 79	Caption: Congratulating Representative E.D. Dunlap on the occasion of his retirement.
43rd Regular Session
HB 10	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts; fixing the number of Representatives thereof; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HB 13	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that private corporations may be formed for any lawful purpose or purposes, except as specified in this Act; providing that nothing in this Act shall be held to repeal or amend any general law of this State other than Article 1302, pertaining to the creation of corporations, the powers and duties thereof or limitations thereon.
HB 20	Caption: Relating to safeguarding against the irresponsible practice of the profession of architecture; defining and regulating the practice of architecture; creating a Board of Architectural Examiners; fixing the terms of office.
HB 26	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for the distribution and apportionment of collections of license fees and for reports thereof.
HB 47	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the wilful taking, injury, or destruction of trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, and moss on certain lands.
HB 203	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to a franchise tax so as to provide that the franchise tax mentioned therein shall not apply to any bonds and notes of any corporation, which are secured by a lien upon real estate of the State of Texas.
HB 262	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to marriage rights by striking out the words "after the death of her mother" immediately following the words "her mother's husband"; and by striking out the words "after the death of her daughter" immediately following the words "her daughter's husband."
HB 928	Caption: Relating to making for provisions for the submission and adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment to provide for the adoption of a home rule charter by any county in Texas, upon a vote of the qualified resident electors of any county, all as proposed in the pending Senate Resolution No. 3, reference to said proposed amendment to the Constitution in the exact form for submission to the electors of the State here is made to the same effect as though it were embodied herein.
HCR 58	Caption: Endorsing J. Lewis Thompson for Assistant Secretary of War.
HCR 108	Caption: Providing for the printing of four hundred copies of the Texas Legislative Manual of the Forty-third Legislature for use of the House and Senate.
HJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas by adding to Article IX thereof a new section, to be numbered 3, so as to authorize any county having more than 60,000 population to adopt a home rule charter for the establishment and regulation of its establishment and regulation of its government, which may provide that the commissioners court of such counties may serve as the governing body, or some other body shall act in lieu thereof.
HR 7	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #19, Section #4.
HR 20	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #17, Section #2.
HR 40	Caption: Providing for the posting of times of public hearings.
HR 45	Caption: Providing for the printing of the report of the Legislative Tax Survey Committee.
HR 57	Caption: Inviting M.E. "Mefo" Foster to address the House.
HR 59	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #19, Section #7.
HR 73	Caption: In memory of former Representative Walter Acker, Sr.
HR 74	Caption: In memory of former Representative Walter Acker, Sr.
HR 77	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #9, Section #5.
HR 101	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #9, Section #8.
HR 102	Caption: Proposing to amend House Rule #19, Section #6.
HR 147	Caption: Endorsing Henry S. Moore for the position of US Marshall for the Southern District of Texas.
HR 149	Caption: Commending Representative Milton H. West on the occasion of his election to the US House of Representatives.
HR 150	Caption: Extending privileges of the House to Representative-elect Augustine Celaya.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 35	Caption: Relating to making provision for the adopt of a home rule charter by counties in Texas, upon a vote of the qualified resident electors of such counties, all as provided in Section 3, Article IX, of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
HR 3	Caption: In memory of Mildred Canon, daughter of Representative C.C. Canon.
HR 7	Caption: Providing for the printing of members' names on their respective House manuals.
HR 49	Caption: Providing for increases in members' telephone and telegraph allowances.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 6	Caption: Relating to providing for form of application for registration of motor vehicles; providing any owner of a vehicle previously registered in any State for the preceding or current year may, in lieu of filing an application, present license receipt and transfer receipts.
HB 132	Caption: Relating to providing a more efficient system for the appointment of Deputy District Clerks serving in certain counties, in which counties there are more than one District Court, including Criminal District Courts, by providing that the Clerk of the District Court may appoint a Deputy for each District Court or Criminal District Court in his county when directed so to do by the Judge of any such court; fixing the salaries of such deputies, and providing a method for their payment.
HB 133	Caption: Relating to the amending certain statute relating to the appointment, authority, duties, and qualifications of deputy sheriffs, limiting the number of such deputies in any county, and providing for the payment of their compensation, by adding a clause thereto excepting counties of over 355,000 population from the provisions of said statute, in so far as the same relates to the number of deputies to be appointed by the sheriff in said counties.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HR 20	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the advisability of improving loudspeaker equipment.
HR 57	Caption: Providing for the mailing of manuals to new members of the House.
43rd 4th Called Session
HR 6	Caption: Directing the Speaker to hire university students as committee clerks.
HR 37	Caption: Inviting Congressman Milton West to address the House.
42nd Regular Session
HB 38	Caption: Relating to defining abstracters of land titles.
HB 311	Caption: Relating to validating assessment of ordinances in certain cities.
HB 385	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to new school districts created at Eleemosynary Institutions.
HB 721	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to provide that the Board may, upon receiving such bodies, deliver to the State Board of Embalming such number as may be necessary for the use of said State Board of Embalming in conducting its semi-annual examinations.
HB 731	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to provide that any person engaged or desiring to engage in the practice of embalming in connection with the care and disposition of dead human bodies within this State shall make a written application to the State Board of Embalming for a license.
HB 732	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to taxes paid by corporations.
HB 753	Caption: Relating to defining and providing for the registration and licensing of motor vehicle and aircraft mechanics; prescribing penalties.
HB 789	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the support of children under 16 years of age.
HR 20	Caption: Relating to purchase of wastepaper baskets.
HR 92	Caption: In memory of J. H. Swope of Houston.
42nd 1st Called Session
HB 54	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts, to fix the number of Representatives thereof.
HB 60	Caption: Relating to amending the Bond and Warrant Law of 1931 by adding thereto a new section providing that nothing contained in said Act shall be construed as requiring any city to give any notice as a condition precedent to issuing warrants payable out of current funds of such city.
HB 68	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing the way and manner in which cities, towns, and villages shall take bids for depositories of funds of such cities, towns, and villages and providing for the way and manner in which said funds shall be secured.
HR 11	Caption: Inviting J. Lewis Thompson to address the House.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 4	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts, to fix the number of Representatives thereof.
HR 8	Caption: Relating certain points of order.
42nd 3rd Called Session
HB 91	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts.
41st Regular Session
HB 48	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the payment of salary to the County Judge by the Commissioner's Court for presiding over said court, ordering elections, making returns thereof, hearing and determining civil causes, and transacting all the official business, by providing that in counties having $290,000,000.00 assessed valuation, or more, and which have established therein institutions for the care of dependent and delinquent boys and girls, the County Judge shall receive the further sum of $3,000.00 per annum which shall be ex officio and not to be accounted for as fees of office, but in addition to all amounts allowed under the maximum fee bill.
HB 149	Caption: Relating to validating the charters and amendments to charters of all cities of more than 5,000 inhabitants in this State which have adopted charters or attempted to adopt or amend charters since the adoption of the home rule enabling act in 1913 and validating and approving all orders, acts and proceedings had by city councils, city commissions or other governing authorities of said cities in regard to the matter of the adoption of charters or amendments to charters.
HB 577	Caption: Relating to conferring upon all cities and towns in Texas and also upon certain independent school districts the right and power by the exercise of the right of eminent domain to acquire the fee simple title to real property for certain purposes.
HB 666	Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of deputies and assistants of certain Departments and County Officers.
HCR 28	Caption: Providing for the printing and publication of the Legislative Manual and for the compensation of the House Parliamentarian.
HJR 23	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that members of the Legislature shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to mileage as may be provided by law.
HR 15	Caption: In memory of C. B. Gillespie.
HR 38	Caption: Inviting R. C. Burrows to address the House.
HR 103	Caption: Suspending the House Rules in order to consider certain Senate Bills.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 96	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing for the discharge of convicts from the penitentiary in the county in which they were indicted.
HCR 3	Caption: Authorizing the legislature to adjourn until Monday, April 29, 1929 to allow the members of the Senate to complete an inspection tour.
HR 36	Caption: Providing for the printing of a certain report of the Committee on State Accounting System.
41st 2nd Called Session
HB 145	Caption: Relating to providing methods by which certain cities may extend their boundaries and annex additional territory adjacent or contiguous to such city; amending a certain Statute.
41st 3rd Called Session
HB 15	Caption: Relating to permitting the Trinity Valley & Northern Railway Company to take up and remove that portion of its roadbed lying between Fullerton and Lumm and to remove all tracks, interlockers, bridges, culverts, and other materials and equipment belonging to said Company within that area.
HCR 7	Caption: Recalling H. B. No. 15 from the Governor in order to make certain corrections.
41st 4th Called Session
HR 46	Caption: Expressing good wishes to State Rep. Sam Hefley as he recovers from illness.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 4	Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the production of sulphur; providing penalties.
HB 75	Caption: Relating to providing for filing with County Clerks notices of special assessment proceedings for improvement of streets, avenues, alleys, highways, boulevards, drives, public places, squares and any portion or portions thereof by cities, towns, and villages, providing for the recording of such notices and the contents thereof and the time at which special assessment and re-assessment liens for such improvements shall take effect.
HB 92	Caption: Relating to pay of judges and clerks of general and special elections.
HCR 12	Caption: Providing for the compiling and printing of the House Journal.
HR 11	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
HR 25	Caption: Instructing the House Conferees on the preferences of the body in regards to the sulphur tax bill.
HR 27	Caption: Providing for the distribution of the Mouse Member's Questionnaire to the press.
HR 49	Caption: Instructing the House Conferees on the conference committee for H. B. No. 2.
HR 58	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the report of a fiscal study committee and prepare bills to submit to the 42nd Regular Session.