Legislation authored by Benjamin Franklin Cathey
Includes legislation with Benjamin Franklin Cathey as the primary author for the 31st through 45th 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.
| 45th Regular Session | |
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| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to defining certain terms, levying a tax upon persons, firms, and corporations transacting business as security and/or commodity brokers. |
| HB 71 | Caption: Relating to defining, licensing and regulating loan brokers, and the business of loan brokers in amounts of from $50.00 to $500.00, secured or unsecured; providing for a license fee; declaring usurious contracts within the scope of this Act to be unlawful and against public policy and void as to interest only; providing additional penalty for usury collected or paid. |
| HB 318 | Caption: Relating to regulating mutual life insurance companies or associations; providing a penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 418 | Caption: Relating to providing that the local Bar Association in each county, or the District Judge in any county where no Bar Association is organized, may make exceptions to the rules of the Supreme Court of this State relating to Educational requirements and the period of registration required of persons applying to take the State Bar Examination. |
| HB 481 | Caption: Relating to imposing a tax on first sale of cigars; defining certain words, terms, phrases; providing for sale of stamps; requiring Treasurer to exchange stamps when design is changed and providing a felony penalty for possession of old stamps after sixty (60) days from date of issue of a new design. |
| HB 524 | Caption: Relating to limiting the number of persons which any State Official, either elected or appointed, may employ in the office under his jurisdiction from any one county; fixing the penalty. |
| HB 550 | Caption: Relating to the anti-nepotism law. |
| HB 577 | Caption: Relating to defining "Marble Machines", Owner" and "Exhibitor" thereof; levying an occupation tax on "Marble Machine"; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 684 | Caption: Relating to providing that when either the husband or the wife shall have abandoned the other, without any of the ground for divorce set forth in certain statute, and the one who so abandons the other shall thereafter become of unsound mind, he or she may nevertheless be sued for divorce and in such case the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to represent such party defendant. |
| HB 815 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of each county in Texas to fix the rate of wages to be paid county convicts committed to workhouse, county farm or public improvements at an amount per day not less than One Dollar ($1.00) nor more than Three Dollars ($3.00). |
| HB 1035 | Caption: Relating providing that it shall be unlawful to kill quail in Wood County, Texas, except on certain days; providing penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HCR 120 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control to utilize certain office space. |
| HR 16 | Caption: Directing the Executive Director of the Old Age Pension Commission to consider certain recommendations of the Commissioner's Court. |
| HR 47 | Caption: Inviting the superintendents of all State universities and colleges to attend meetings with the Appropriations Committee. |
| HR 53 | Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Chief Clerk to search for a certain report that has gone missing. |
| HR 75 | Caption: Ordering that this resolution take the place of H. R. No. 56 and that only a 17 page summary of the report ordered by that resolution be printed. |
| HR 115 | Caption: Directing the new head of the Old Age Pension Commission to carry out the directive of H. R. No. 16. |
| HR 133 | Caption: Requesting the Social Security Board in Washington D.C. to give input on certain plans being discussed by the House in regards to old age assistance. |
| HR 135 | Caption: Increasing the salaries of certain employees of the House. |
| HR 143 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate certain allegations against different Departments of State. |
| HR 175 | Caption: Expanding the authority of the Investigatory Committee established by H.R. No. 143. |
| HR 181 | Caption: In memory of G. P. McCrary of Mineola. |
| 45th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner's Court of certain counties in Texas to fix the wages to be paid county convicts committed to workhouse, county farm or public improvements at an amount per day not less than $1.00 (1) nor more than $3.00 (3). |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Directing the State Board of Control to make certain arrangements regarding the movement of office space in the State Confederate Home. |
| HR 19 | Caption: Directing the State Health Officer to make an investigation regarding the sale of defective tomatoes. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to add certain legislation to the list of items on the Governor's Call for the special session. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to add certain legislation to the list of items on the Governor's Call for the special session. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 178 | Caption: Relating to extending the time of all loans, or supposed loans, on homesteads, and preventing foreclosure of same. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the issuance of number plates for motorcycles, road tractors, trailers, semi-trailer, or other vehicles so as to provide for the issuance of only one number plate. |
| HB 444 | Caption: Relating to providing that all counties in Texas shall use jury wheels in selecting jurors for service in district and county courts. |
| HB 459 | Caption: Relating to the issuance of license number plates; providing that said plates shall be manufactured and produced in the State Penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas. |
| HB 599 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of certain wild fur-bearing animals; providing a penalty for violation thereof. |
| HB 604 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the gross production tax on oil so as to increase the amount of such tax. |
| HB 742 | Caption: Relating to providing for an occupation tax on dealers in oleomargarine, margarine, oleo, or other butter substitutes, by whatever name known; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HCR 98 | Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the caption of HB 459. |
| HJR 15 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, amending Section 2, Article III, changing the number of Members in the Senate and the House of Representatives. |
| HR 5 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a public stenographer. |
| HR 37 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a public stenographer. |
| HR 46 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass legislation regarding national banks, immigration, and nepotism. |
| HR 79 | Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to Susie Rudasill, flagmaker and donor. |
| HR 156 | Caption: Requesting that the Board of Control withhold making contracts regarding license plates until relevant legislation is discussed. |
| HR 179 | Caption: Correcting the salary of night watchmen. |
| HR 185 | Caption: Providing for the purchase and relocation of the James Stephen Hogg home. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 134 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of twelve hundred and fifty dollars with which to purchase the building used and occupied by James Stephen Hogg in his early public career. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Requesting that Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, fix a just and equitable price for cotton. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Clarifying meaning of the Anti-Nepotism Law. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 6 | Caption: Authorizing the Chairman of the Contingent Expense Committee to secure bids for the repair or replacement of the loudspeaker system in the Hall of the House. |
| HR 37 | Caption: In memory of Uriah A. Griffith. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to defining license tax, regulating, and controlling recreation establishments, fixing penalties for violation of this Act. |
| HR 18 | Caption: Recording offer of unemployed citizens who previously addressed the House to work for the Texas Centennial Celebration; defending their patriotism against claims to the contrary. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to defining and prohibiting usury; providing penalties. |
| HB 115 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the Winnsboro Independent School District in Wood and Franklin Counties, Texas, for free school purposes only, divesting the city of Winnsboro of control of its public schools and title to school property and vesting the same in said School District. |
| HB 140 | Caption: Relating to the pay of jurors in criminal cases. |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to fees of jurors in justices' courts. |
| HB 334 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Treasurer to pay J.H. Beavers for loss sustained by virtue of two patents having been issued by the State to the same tract of land. |
| HB 335 | Caption: Relating to creating a state text book board and defining certain duties of said board. |
| HB 442 | Caption: Relating to creating a road system for Wood County. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation of Public Weighers in precincts where public weighers are appointed or elected; providing penalties. |
| HB 488 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the Winnsboro Independent School District in Wood and Franklin counties, Texas, for free school purposes only, defining its boundaries, and providing for a board of trustees, divesting the city of Winnsboro of the control of its public schools, and title to school property and vesting the same in said Winnesboro Independent School District, and its Board of Trustees, prescribing the right, powers, privileges and duties of said Winnsboro Independent School District and its Board of Trustees. |
| HB 523 | Caption: Relating to creating the Pleasant Grove Independent School District, in Wood County, Texas, and defining its boundaries, and investing said District with all the powers, rights and duties of independent school districts formed for free school purposes only. |
| HB 573 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the Mineola Independent School District in Wood county, Texas, for free school purposes only, defining its boundaries, and providing for a Board of Trustees; divesting the city of Mineola of the control of its public schools, and title to school property, and vesting the same in said Mineola Independent School District, and its Board of Trustees. |
| 32nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Wood County and making the County Commissioners ex officio road commissioners; providing for the working of county convicts and delinquent poll taxpayers on the public roads; providing for condemnation of lands for public road purposes. |
| 31st Regular Session | |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to amending Section 23 of "An Act relating to State and county finances of cities incorporated under the general laws of this State, providing for a system of State, county and city depositories of the State, county and city funds, for the selection and designation of such depositories; to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act," relating to bonds to be executed by depositories. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to amending an act entitled "An act to amend Sections 36, 37, and 40 of Chapter 124 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, relating to county supervisions of public schools." |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to providing for revising, digesting and publishing the laws, civil and criminal, of the State of Texas; providing for the appointment of commissioners and their compensation. |
| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to defining the duties of the Attorney General with reference to the examination and approval of articles of incorporation of proposed corporations and applications of foreign corporations for a permit to do business within this State. |
| HB 455 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Wood County and making the county commissioners ex-officio road commissioners, and prescribing their duties; providing for condemnation of land for public road purposes. |