Legislation authored by Howard C. Davison
Includes legislation with Howard C. Davison as the primary author for the 44th 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 351 | Caption: Relating to empowering the Courts of the State of Texas having original jurisdiction of criminal actions to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and place defendants on probation under certain conditions. |
| HB 401 | Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of a site and for the establishment, location and construction of a hospital for the white persons mentally ill, naming the same, and providing for the care, treatment and support of white mentally ill persons. |
| HB 415 | Caption: Relating to Special Teachers Certificates. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointing and sitting as a Board of Equalization for cities and towns of the State of Texas, so as to allow members of the City Council to sit on the Board of Equalization. |
| HB 417 | Caption: Relating to authorizing a District Court to proceed to trial at the instance of either party to the shit, where there are as many as twenty-five (25) parties to said suit, even though some parties who have, or claim an interest in the subject matter involved in said suit, are not made parties thereto, and providing that said judgment so rendered shall be binding on the parties to said suit, but shall in no way affect those not joined or dismissed from said suit. |
| HB 668 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the fund provided for the use and benefit of the Comptroller in the administration and enforcement of the provisions of the Act for the use and benefit of the Comptroller in the administration of said Act from and after May 30, 1937, for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937. |
| HB 686 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing Governor to enter into a compact on behalf of the State of Texas with any of the United States legally joining therein. |
| HB 687 | Caption: Relating to providing the duty of the Governor of this State to have arrested and delivered up to the executive authority of any other State of the United States any person charged in that state with treason, felony or other high crime, who is found in this State. |
| HB 689 | Caption: Relating to providing the summoning of witness in this state to testify in another State; providing the effective date. |
| HB 705 | Caption: Relating to providing for the jurisdiction of the County Court of Crosby County, conferring upon said Court civil and criminal jurisdiction and increasing the criminal and civil jurisdiction of said Court. |
| HB 711 | Caption: Relating to adding Mitchell, Nolan and Fisher Counties to the Hide and Animal Inspection Act. |
| HB 714 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the Special Racing Fund of Ten Thousand Two Hundred Sixty Dollars ($10,260.00) to the Texas Racing Commission for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937. |
| HB 849 | Caption: Relating to providing for the filing of mining claim upon all unsold public free school lands, university land, asylum land, or any such land sold with a reservation of minerals therein and in or on said land that was purchased with the relinquishment of the minerals therein and all lands of which the mineral rights therein have reverted to this State as a sovereign Government and that may be in or upon any other public lands including islands and river beds and channels which belong to the State. |
| HB 1128 | Caption: Relating to providing for the consolidation of Rural High School Districts and Common School Districts upon an election being held in the respective districts. |
| HB 1154 | Caption: Relating to the authority of school districts to issue bonds for teachers' homes. |
| HCR 20 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules. |
| HCR 24 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Joint Rules of the Legislature. |
| HCR 102 | Caption: Commending the First Voters League of Texas for their work to increase the voter turnout amongst the population. |
| HCR 107 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider certain bills on April 28th, 1937. |
| HR 139 | Caption: Providing for an increase of certain funds to the Members from the Committee on Contingent Expenses. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 291 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries to be paid to County Commissioners in certain counties. |
| HB 627 | Caption: Relating to fixing the tuition to be collected from students registering in the schools of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by appropriation of public funds from the State Treasury. |
| HB 894 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; providing that anyone who sits as an examining court in a felony case shall be entitled to the same fees allowed by law for similar services in misdemeanor cases to justices of the peace. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Inviting Will Rogers to address a joint session of the Legislature. |
| HR 161 | Caption: In memory of James Henry Beall, Sr. of Sweetwater, Texas. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 34 | Caption: Inviting Elliot Roosevelt to address the House. |