Legislation authored by Harold Monroe Hankamer

Includes legislation with Harold Monroe Hankamer as the primary author for the 43rd through 46th 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.

46th Regular Session
HB 10	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act provided that those ministering to the sick or suffering shall refrain from maintaining offices except for the purpose of exercising the teachings of the Church.
HB 78	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization or any combination thereof to engage in business or act in the capacity of a contractor without having obtained a license.
HB 79	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes and creating a division of the Board of Control to be known as the Division of Inspection of Masonry, Public Buildings and Works.
HB 89	Caption: Relating to providing for declaratory judgments.
HB 152	Caption: Relating to ratifying the Rio Grande Compact between the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, entered into by Commissioners representing the three (3) States and the United States on March 18, 1938; authorizing the Governor of Texas to appoint a Commissioner.
HB 245	Caption: Relating to protecting the people from tuberculosis, to provide for the care, treatment, isolation and hospitalization of persons afflicted, and to prescribe penalties for violation of this act.
HB 246	Caption: Relating to protecting the people from tuberculosis, to provide for the care, treatment, isolation and hospitalization of persons afflicted, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act.
HB 373	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from sale or lease all public free school lands heretofore authorized by any law of this State to be sold or leased.
HB 375	Caption: Relating to public lands, and, in connection therewith, providing: for the creation of a Public Land Board; for the sale of certain public lands and for the withdrawing of others from sale.
HB 486	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing for the acceptance of applications and bids for the leases upon certain public lands.
HB 592	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1939, to pay the salary and necessary traveling, engineering, clerical and miscellaneous expenses of the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner for Texas in connection with the negotiation, administration and enforcement of the permanent Rio Grande Compact between the States of Texas, Colorado and New Mexico.
HB 594	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for dividing Water Improvement Districts organized or operating under said Chapter, when such Districts are operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the Government of the United States, into districts for the election of directors thereof.
HB 734	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing in tax suits for service by publication where any defendant in such suit is a non-resident of the State or is absent from the State.
HB 939	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the recording of certified copies of instruments affecting real estate which have been previously filed for record without the State of Texas or in counties other than those in which such real estate is located.
HR 274	Caption: Amending Section 8 of Rule 12, House Rule.
HR 317	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate rumors concerning minutes of the House Committee on Public Lands and Buildings.
45th Regular Session
HB 41	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the holding of unlicensed greyhound race meetings; providing certain penalties for the violation of this Act.
HB 238	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to defray the costs assessed against the State of Texas of the Rio Grande joint investigation being conducted by the National Resources Committee, through the Water Resources Committee, constituted under Act of Congress, and making appropriations to pay the Court costs and expenses of the Attorney General in the prosecution of the complaint of the State of Texas in the cause of the State of Texas vs. the State of New Mexico, et al, No. 12 Original, October Term, 1936, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
HB 428	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot or kill any deer or wild quail of any species, for a period of five (5) years in Hudspeth County, Texas; fixing a penalty.
HB 429	Caption: Relating to fixing terms of office and providing for election of school trustees in cities constituting Independent School Districts or which have assumed control of their Public Free Schools and having, according to the last preceding Federal Census, a population of not less than one hundred one thousand (101,000) inhabitants, and not more than one hundred five thousand (105,000) inhabitants.
HB 431	Caption: Relating to providing for personal service of citation on persons of unsound mind, habitual drunkards and persons for whom it is necessary to have a guardian appointed to receive funds or money due such persons from the Federal Government.
HB 682	Caption: Relating to authorizing credit unions to invest its funds, not to exceed twenty five (25) percent of its paid in capital stock and fifty (50) percent of its cash surplus then on hand in the Securities Savings banks are authorized to invest in by certain statute.
HB 752	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to reimburse growers and producers of cotton for expenses incurred during the years of 1933 through 1936 by reason of the establishment by the State of Texas of regulations requiring such growers and producers to pay for fumigation of cotton and sterilization of seed, and also to pay expenses of the Compensation Claim Board in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
HB 762	Caption: Relating to setting forth the title of the Superintendent of the hospital, his restrictions, rules and regulations, and further the powers and duties of said Chief Executive Officer and the powers of the Board of Managers.
HB 763	Caption: Relating to providing for sworn applications to any county hospital sustained by said County as to their destitute conditions, and failure of means to go elsewhere, and providing said applications must be filed prior to the entrance thereto or as soon thereafter as possible, and prior to the departure of said patient from said county hospital.
HB 772	Caption: Relating to providing the method of disbursement of the funds of such fireman, policeman, and fire alarm operator's pension fund.
HB 812	Caption: Relating to making certain appropriations for the hospitalization of tuberculosis patients in private sanatoria within this State.
HB 985	Caption: Relating to providing for the extension of the Rio Grande Compact, authorizing the Texas member of the present Rio Grande Compact Committee and his successor in office, to act as Commissioner and to negotiate with the Commissioners representing the States of Colorado and New Mexico for a new or permanent Compact, subject to ratification by the Legislature, and authorizing such Commissioner to administer the provisions of such Compact.
HB 1009	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain a horticultural and agricultural experiment station at some point within the limits of the El Paso irrigated valley in the State of Texas for the purpose of making scientific investigations and experiments in the production of cotton, alfalfa, and farm crops, and of fruits, berries, grapes, nuts, and vegetables and for the development of information as to the best methods of management and use of irrigated soils and irrigated waters, and for conducting scientific experiments in poultry raising, dairying, animal husbandry, and bee culture.
HB 1127	Caption: Relating to providing for the designation of the territorial limits of unincorporated cities, towns and villages through which State Highways and public roads pass, and providing for the designation of school zones on State Highways, public roads and streets and alleys, and providing for the erection and maintenance of signs, markers, signals or lights designating the limits of such unincorporated cities, towns or villages.
HB 1138	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the payment of fees and costs in tax suits so as to provide for the payment, by the County, of costs of publication of citations, notices and all matters required or authorized by law to be published, in tax suits.
HB 1179	Caption: Relating to authorizing separation of firemen's and policemen's pension funds in El Paso.
HCR 22	Caption: Granting George Wieland permission to sue the State of Texas.
HJR 40	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that the Legislature may authorize by law the creation of a system of civil service for the appointive officers of the respective county and Home Rule City governments of the several counties and Home Rule cities in the State and providing for submission of same to the qualified voters of the State.
HR 98	Caption: Directing for the organizing of a Committee of the Full House to hear the facts regarding a certain contested election.
HR 236	Caption: Requesting the Senate to return H. B. No. 58 to the House for further consideration.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 63	Caption: Relating to prescribing the time of meeting of the County Board of School Trustees in counties containing a population of not less than one hundred and thirty thousand (130,000) and not more than one hundred and thirty-three thousand (133,000), according to the last preceding Federal Census.
HR 53	Caption: In memory of Mrs. Thomas O'Keefe.
45th 2nd Called Session
HCR 58	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider certain bills.
44th Regular Session
HB 86	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Railroad Commission to issue orders for the protection and promotion of the health and safety of the public and employees of railroads.
HB 192	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that in the trial of said civil cases nine members of the jury concurring may render a verdict in the district court and five jurors concurring may render a verdict in the county court, county court at law and courts of justices of the peace.
HB 205	Caption: Relating to providing for declaratory judgments; specifying the situations to which this Act applies.
HB 225	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act of the 40th Legislature (R.S.); providing for the levying of a tax annually against the property in each of the counties composing a road district composed of two or more counties for the purpose of securing rights of way within such district for such highways as such districts were created to construct, maintain and operate or acquire, and for the maintenance of such district highways as are not maintained by the State as State highways.
HB 247	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that liens created by the abstracting and recording of judgments shall exist as long as the judgment is alive.
HB 253	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; including the counties of Culberson and Hudspeth in the list of counties exempt from all laws requiring the inspection of hides and animals.
HB 283	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; the payment of wages.
HB 306	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the appointment, compensation, duties, expenses, equipment and removal, etc. of County Traffic Officers.
HB 324	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; fixing a special lien in favor of hotels, inns, boarding houses, apartment houses, apartment hotels, and house courts, and providing a remedy for the enforcing of said lien by advertising and selling the baggage and other property of the guests or tenants of such hotel, inn, boarding house, apartment house, apartment hotel, or house court.
HB 681	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; permitting the filing and recording of the receipts for inheritance and succession taxes paid to the State of Texas and other States, and receipts for estate taxes and other Federal taxes affecting the title to land in Texas, and providing that certified copies thereof shall be admissible in evidence.
HB 682	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; payment of inheritance tax, by adding to the class exempted and taxes under Class "A" therein, stepchildren of the decedent, and their direct descendants and the direct descendants of adopted children, and by providing that such classification shall apply in the case of persons now deceased and whose estates have not been appraised for inheritance tax at the time of the passage of this Act.
HB 685	Caption: Relating to providing for the Extension of the Rio Grande Compact.
HB 870	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to reimburse growers and producers of cotton for expenses incurred during the years of 1933 through 1935 by reason of the establishment by the State of Texas of regulations requiring such growers and producers to pay for sterilization of cotton seed, and also to pay expenses of the Compensation Claim Board in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
HB 987	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to issue surface leases for a term not exceeding ninety-nine (99) years to any University lands located in El Paso County, Texas.
HB 991	Caption: Relating to amending certain Sections of the General and Special Laws of the 43rd Legislature (1st C.S.); providing for the creating of a fireman, policeman and fire alarm operators' Pension Fund in certain cities and towns having a paid fire, police and fire alarm operators' department, and creating a Board of Trustees for the same and defining the duties and powers of the trustees thereof.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 47	Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners' Courts in certain counties to levy a tax of not more than 5 cents on the one hundred dollars assessed valuation, for the purpose of advertising and promoting the growth and development of such counties and their county seats, and providing for an election authorizing such tax.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 110	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering all cities and towns, including Home Rule cities, to build and purchase, to mortgage and encumber certain projects.
HB 130	Caption: Relating to providing a method for the exclusion of lands from fresh water supply districts in counties having a population of not more than twenty thousand (20,000) or not less than three (3,000) according to the last preceding Federal Census and embracing not less than fifty thousand (100,000) acres, which districts have no outstanding bounded indebtedness.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 66	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to defray the costs assessed against the State of Texas of the Rio Grande joint investigation being conducted by the Natural Resources Committee, through the Water Resources Committee, constituted under Act of Congress, and making appropriations to pay the court cost and expenses of the Attorney General in the prosecution of the complaint of the State of Texas in the cause of the State of Texas vs. the State of New Mexico, et al, No. 12 Original October term, 1936, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
HCR 17	Caption: Granting G.C. Kent permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
HCR 20	Caption: Commending the State Highway Department on constructing certain information offices for the Texas Centennial.
HCR 22	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 3 from the Senate for correction.
HCR 35	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 8.
43rd Regular Session
HB 53	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that judgments will not become dormant where execution has issued such judgments within ten (10) years after a judgment was rendered.
HB 180	Caption: Relating to creating the office of county purchasing agent in all counties in this State having a population of more than 100,00 inhabitants and less than 150,000 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, and wherein is situated an incorporated city of more than 100,000 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, providing for the appointment of such agent, prescribing his duties, and fixing his compensation.
HB 335	Caption: Relating to prescribing certain duties of clerks of Courts of Civil Appeals, with reference to filing, recording, and preservation of the records and proceedings of said Court.
HB 336	Caption: Relating to providing for the filing of records in the order received, for setting the cases for submission, and the notification of parties of the receipt and the date set for hearing, and of all motions.
HB 542	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute prohibiting removal or prosecution of officers for any act committed prior to election to office.
HB 555	Caption: Relating to the salaries of County Commissioners; providing the effective date of this Act shall be January 1, 1934; repealing all laws, both general or special, and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 688	Caption: Relating to promoting the development of the egg industry in Texas; prohibiting the sale of eggs unfit for human food; providing for proper labeling of all eggs displayed for sale to the consumer; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act; and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HCR 46	Caption: Granting H.L. Stancil permission to sue the State of Texas and the Highway Commission of Texas.
HCR 65	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the caption of HB 431.
HR 58	Caption: In memory of W.S. Clayton, father of Representative W.E. Clayton.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 31	Caption: Relating to providing for creating a Fireman, Policemen, and Fire Alarm Operators' Pension Fund in certain incorporated cities and towns in this State, having a paid fire, police and fire alarm operators' department.
HB 66	Caption: Relating to requiring every foreign corporation doing business in Texas to maintain a complete set of books, accounts, records, minutes, letters, momoranda, documents, checks, vouchers, telegrams, constitutions, and bylaws touching or concerning any and all business done by such foreign corporation in Texas.
HB 84	Caption: Relating to empowering counties through their Commissioners Courts to borrow money or receive grants of money from the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works or other Federal Agency under the terms and provisions of the Act of the Congress of the United States commonly known as the National Industrial Recovery Act.
HCR 46	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #23 so that the House and Senate might consider HB 84.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 50	Caption: Relating to providing for the relief of holders of unpaid State warrants, requiring the State Treasurer to issue a call for outstanding and unpaid General Revenue Fund warrants whenever a deficiency exists in the State Treasury, and whenever there is accumulated in the General Revenue fund, moneys equaling the sum of one-half million dollars ($500,000).
HB 62	Caption: Relating to validating refunding bonds issued by certain water improvement districts under authority of certain statute; authorizing a re-levy to be made for prior years where part or all the bonded indebtedness of such water improvement districts has been refunded, so as to reduce or eliminate certain levies no longer needed.
HB 122	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of trust funds, for maintenance of cemetery lots, and the appointment of trustees and substitute trustees therefor, and for the construction of said trust; providing certain penalties.
HCR 18	Caption: Granting W.D. Malone and B. Dreyer permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission.
HCR 33	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in HB 79.
HCR 38	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider SB 48.
HCR 53	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the caption of HB 122.
HR 17	Caption: In memory of Jack McQuay of El Paso.
HR 34	Caption: Providing for the consideration of only Senate bills for the day.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 63	Caption: Relating to providing the method of prorating funds appropriated to reimburse cotton growers for expenses incurred in sterilizing cotton seed and fumigating cotton.
HCR 21	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the caption of HB 4.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 26	Caption: Relating to providing actual possession of property not necessary to maintain suits to try title.
HB 55	Caption: Relating to empowering counties, through their commissioners courts to provide for annual exhibits, of horticultural and agricultural products, livestock and minerals and other products of interest to such counties and in connection therewith to establish and maintain museums, including the erection of the necessary buildings and other improvements.