Legislation authored by Alfred P.C. Petsch

Includes legislation with Alfred P.C. Petsch as the primary author for the 39th 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 24	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Twenty Thousand ($20,000.00) dollars to be used by the Attorney General of Texas for the purpose of paying expenses and costs in enforcing the laws of Texas against trusts, monopolies, and restraints of trade.
HB 25	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to request the War and Navy Departments of the United States establish and maintain military and naval training at said institution.
HB 26	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by permitting the Defendant to testify and permitting comment upon the failure of the Defendant to exercise such privilege.
HB 27	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to return of bills of exceptions and statements of facts by attorney.
HB 28	Caption: Relating amending certain Statutes relative to time of filing transcript, etc.
HB 29	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative fixing time for filing appeal in civil cases at fifty days and providing for extension of time for cause.
HB 30	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to turkeys running at large, etc.
HB 31	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relative to granting letters of administration.
HB 32	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to survivors having the right to control and manage such community property as may seem for the best interest of the estate and the right to dispose such community property to pay debts.
HB 33	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act relating to court cases.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to actions by or against executors, etc.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to substituting a new definition of homicide by negligence, punishment therefor, and procedure relating to trials.
HB 36	Caption: Relating to abolishing the right of appeal by means of a write of error petition.
HB 37	Caption: Relating to defining the duties of district judges sitting in trials of criminal cases in the matter of assessing punishments.
HB 38	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the regular term of the County Court for probate business as opening on each Monday of each week during the year and repealing the authority of the Commissioners Courts to establish terms of the Probate Court.
HB 39	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for the joinder of more than one plaintiff in one cause of action under the conditions set out in the terms of the Act.
HB 40	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the regulation of sales of real estate by guardians.
HB 41	Caption: Relating to amending and repealing certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to jointly indicting, charging, and trying persons charged with offenses growing out of the same transaction.
HB 42	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and the State Treasurer to transfer of certain monies from the County and Road District Highway Fund to the State Highway Fund.
HB 43	Caption: Relating to defining a Commercial Taxidermist; providing a license for any person, firm, or corporation operating as such; providing for disposition of moneys collected as license fees and keeping of records by licensed taxidermists; providing a suitable penalty.
HB 44	Caption: Relating to providing a payment of Old Age Assistance, providing for the classification and enrollment of applicants, providing for the levy and collection of a general sales tax to raise revenues to pay Old Age Assistance.
HB 45	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to sales of real estate.
HB 46	Caption: Relating to repealing the right of sale under deeds of trust or by means of any form of procedure providing for the sale of any property other than by means of a foreclosure judgment.
HB 200	Caption: Relating to authorizing District and County Judges to suspend imposing of sentences, to reimpose sentences and to place a defendant on probation.
HB 277	Caption: Relating to providing for payment of old age assistance benefits.
HB 323	Caption: Relating to authorizing District and County Judges to suspend imposing of sentences, to reimpose sentences and to place a defendant on probation.
HB 398	Caption: Relating to an Emergency Appropriation to the Texas National Guard Board of $3,500.00 for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1939.
HB 716	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article by more clearly defining what constitutes community property.
HB 717	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure as it relates to who may make an arrest.
HB 879	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, and transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsoever class, kind, or character directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas, in and to that tract of land known as the Blanco State Park, which said tract of land is located in the City of Blanco, Blanco County, Texas.
HB 907	Caption: Relating to creating a road law in Blanco County, Texas, providing work on public roads by those liable to such work; providing a penalty for failure to pay such tax.
HB 922	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county having title to a plot of ground used for public purposes, the area of which is in excess of the needs of the county for its public purposes, to sell such excess or any part thereof at private sale for any fair consideration and approved by its Commissioners Court to the United States of America under the provisions of its Statutes.
HB 986	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Chapter of the Penal Code relating to libel.
HB 1105	Caption: Relating to providing for the construction of a State office building or buildings; providing for the issuance of bonds of the State of Texas for such purpose.
HB 1134	Caption: Relating to granting the State of Texas the right of injunction against usurious interest and service charges as set forth in the Act.
HCR 113	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate potential investments of the Permanent School Fund.
HCR 117	Caption: Petitioning the District Attorney and Grand Jury of Travis County to investigate charges of alleged chicanery, bribery, graft, and corruption, prompted by the alleged actions of one B. Frank Johnson, Secretary of the Texas Motor Transportation Association.
HCR 147	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in HB 28.
HCR 171	Caption: Granting several Building and Loan Associations permission to sue the State of Texas despite previous lack of permission.
HCR 206	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to propose an amendment to the Constitution in order to adequately finance the Social Security program of Texas.
HJR 4	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing four-year term of office for all elective offices in the State.
HJR 5	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the Attorney General of the State of Texas shall have the authority to appoint six Assistant Attorneys Generals whose terms of Office shall be for six years.
HJR 11	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment levying an Old Age Insurance tax for the payment of Old Age Assistance.
HJR 13	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment levying a Social Security tax for the purpose of paying Old Age Assistance.
HJR 16	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment giving the Legislature power by General Law to provide for the payment of Old Age Assistance subject to certain limitations.
HJR 44	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the lending of Three million Dollars ($3,000,000) of the Permanent School Fund for the construction of a State office building or buildings and acquiring necessary sites.
45th Regular Session
HB 13	Caption: Relating to permitting the defendant to testify and permitting comment upon the failure of the defendant to exercise such privilege.
HB 14	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of Old Age Assistance in accordance with the Constitution of Texas, and providing for the classification and enrollment of applicants in accordance with their circumstances, and declaring the agencies through which this Act is to be administered; providing the method of procedure against delinquent taxpayers and prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
HB 15	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish and maintain military training at said institution, and providing that said course of study may consist of various branches of the military service and authorizing the Board of Regents to enter into the contracts with the War Department of the United States for the establishment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corp at the University of Texas under the National Defense Act.
HB 79	Caption: Relating to creating a State Bar, defining the powers thereof, constituting it an administrative agency of the Judicial Department of the State.
HB 92	Caption: Relating to defining the words "beer," "import" and "Board" and providing that it shall be unlawful to import beer into this State except as herein provided; requiring importers to secure a permit from the Texas Liquor Control Board and fixing the fees for such permit, and providing the manner in which such permit may be applied for and obtained.
HB 109	Caption: Relating to providing that before any restraining order or injunction shall issue to restrain the collection of certain special taxes, fees and penalties, the applicant therefor shall pay into the suspense account of the Treasurer all taxes, fees and penalties then due and thereafter becoming due during the pendency of said injunction.
HB 262	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations for the office of the Secretary of State.
HB 355	Caption: Relating to repealing the right of sale under deeds of trust or by means of any form of procedure providing for the sale of any property other than by means of a foreclosure judgment in a court of competent jurisdiction, and making void all such sales by virtue of contracts after the effective date of this Act.
HB 356	Caption: Relating to regulating the sales of real estate by guardians.
HB 381	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or bookmaking on any horse race outside of an enclosure duly licensed by the Racing Commission of Texas; making certain prima facie evidence of a violation thereof, providing penalties for the violation of the several sections of this Act.
HB 485	Caption: Relating to providing that the Comptroller is authorized to promulgate certain rules and regulations to regulate the sale of cigarettes for movement into states adjoining Texas when such cigarettes have the tax stamps of such adjoining State affixed.
HB 501	Caption: Relating to sales made under powers conferred by deed of trust or other contract lien.
HB 543	Caption: Relating to providing for the joinder of more than one plaintiff in one cause of action under the conditions set out in the terms of this Act.
HB 635	Caption: Relating to defining a Commercial Taxidermist, and providing a license for any person, firm or corporation operating as such; providing a suitable penalty for violation of any provision of this Act.
HB 704	Caption: Relating to conferring jurisdiction upon the County Court of Gillespie County in probate matters and general jurisdiction over estates and transferring the jurisdiction of said Court over civil and criminal cases to District Court of said County.
HB 1088	Caption: Relating to providing for emergency relief for Kingsland Common School District No. 29, of Llano County, Texas, to aid said District in the payment of teachers' salaries and in equipping said school building in which there has been an influx of children within scholastic age since the last scholastic enumeration in the State.
HB 1092	Caption: Relating to providing for the regular term of the County Court for probate business as opening on each Monday of each week during the year and repealing the authority of the Commissioners Court to establish terms of the probate court.
HB 1173	Caption: Relating to universal hunting and fishing licenses applicable to the Counties of Mason, Menard, Kerr, Schleicher, Crockett, Sutton, Kimble, Real, Edwards, Blanco, Llano, Kendall, Gillespie, El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Terrell, Brewster, and Harris, State of Texas; requiring a Resident Hunting License of any resident of this State hunting in said Counties, with certain exemptions.
HCR 116	Caption: Adopting the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
HCR 149	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 704 and 1173.
HCR 153	Caption: Urging Congress to support the Cartwright Amendment to the Work Relief Bill currently being debated.
HJR 3	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that the Attorney General of the State of Texas shall have the authority to appoint six Assistant Attorneys General whose terms of office shall be for six years except the first person appointed shall serve: two for two years, two for four years and two for six years.
HJR 4	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article XVI of the Constitution of the state of Texas, providing four year term of office for all elective officers in this State elected after the adoption of this amendment, providing that any officer elected to fill a vacancy shall hold for the unexpired term and that any term of an elective office fixed by the Constitution for a longer term than four years, that the duration of such office shall continue for such term, and providing that no person shall be eligible to hold the Office of Governor more than four years in any period of eight years.
HJR 29	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51-b of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, authorizing the Legislature to provide for Old Age Insurance and for the payment of same not to exceed Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per month to each actual bona fide resident of Texas over the age of sixty-five (65) years who are not habitual criminals not habitual drunkards nor inmates of State supported institution, and providing that the requirements of length of time of actual residence shall never be less than five (5) years during the nine (9) years immediately preceding the application for Old Age Insurance and continuously for one (1) year immediately preceding such application.
HR 63	Caption: Directing the creation of a Committee on Judicial Districts for the purpose of eliminating excess courts through redistricting.
HR 86	Caption: Directing the House of Representatives to not take up legislation increasing the salaries of District Judges until after the issue of Judicial redistricting has been resolved.
HR 112	Caption: Requesting the creation of a Joint Committee to meet to draw up and adopt Joint Rules for the 45th Legislature.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 19	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the keeping or operating of gaming devices; providing penalties.
HR 23	Caption: Inviting Tom Connally, U. S. Senator from Texas, to address the House.
HR 28	Caption: Directing the State Highway Commission to make certain specifications in regards to its contracts.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to providing for the fees of officers in delinquent tax suits; providing said fees shall be treated as fees of office and accounted for as such.
HB 149	Caption: Relating to requiring a hunting license of any resident citizen of the State hunting in certain counties with certain exemptions; providing suitable penalties for the violation of any provision of this Act.
44th Regular Session
HB 12	Caption: Relating to creating a Public Utility Commission; providing for the appointment of commissioners.
HB 21	Caption: Relating to providing and defining felonious shootings, prescribing penalty and requirements of an indictment.
HB 22	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article in the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas; providing for amendments of indictments and preventing continuances.
HB 23	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing an eight percent per annum maximum rate of interest, and prescribing that a charge of a greater rate shall forfeit the total obligation of the contract upon which such excessive rate is charged.
HB 24	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; granting additional powers to the governing bodies of incorporated cities and/or towns.
HB 25	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; authorized expenditures by Public School Boards of Trustees.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure; permitting any Defendant in a Criminal action to testify on his own behalf.
HB 36	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure; all persons charged in a Criminal action, may at the discretion of the Trial Judge be tried singly or jointly.
HB 37	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to enter any building owned by or occupied by any school, college and/or university without the consent of the owner and/or the person in charge or control of such building and prescribing a punishment.
HB 38	Caption: Relating to declaring it unlawful and void any rule or regulation of the State Department of Education, State Board of Education, University of Texas, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and any other State school or college proposing to limit and/or withdraw affiliation and/or State Aid because of alleged insufficient certificates and/or degrees of the teaching personnel of any public school.
HB 52	Caption: Relating to taking from juries sitting in felony cases the right to fix the punishment, and vesting such right and duty in the district judge.
HB 62	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; making it mandatory on all courts of record with petitions for injunctions may be filed and in which injunctions have been granted to advance such injunction hearings to the first place on the docket of such court, and requiring a final determination of such injunction before disposing of any other business then pending before such court.
HB 63	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; creating the Livestock Sanitary Commission of the State of Texas, providing for the appointment of a chairman and two commissioners thereof.
HB 64	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute regarding the office of Tax Commissioner.
HB 330	Caption: Relating to creating the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas; providing for the transfer of the State Highway Motor Patrol of Texas from the State Highway Department to the Department of Public Safety.
HB 355	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the levy of an occupation tax of four cents (4c) on each barrel of forty-two (42) standard gallons of oil produced within this State.
HB 398	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas to the State Board of Control for building and equipping a central power plant for furnishing electric power and energy to the Austin State Hospital, the Austin State School, the Texas School for the Blind, and the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youths.
HB 439	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 39th Legislature (R.S.); condemnation proceedings by the State Highway Commission for highway purposes.
HB 480	Caption: Relating to declaring it unlawful to shoot across any fence enclosing the lands and into the lands of any person without the consent of the owner of such enclosed land, and fixing the punishment.
HB 481	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to tear down, prop open, tear apart, or in any manner destroy any fence or enclosure, other than by means of a fence cutting, and prescribing a punishment.
HB 770	Caption: Relating to providing that any member of the State Highway Patrol of the State of Texas is authorized to arrest without warrant any person committing a violation of any of the provisions of any of the motor bus, motor truck, highway, or registration laws.
HB 931	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the filing of briefs in the trial court and in the Courts of Civil Appeals, for notice of filing thereof in trial court, and providing that Courts of Civil Appeals may grant further extensions of time for filing and submission.
HB 932	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; 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.
HB 949	Caption: Relating to creating the office of State Permanent Fund Attorney; prescribing duties, qualifications and compensation.
HB 950	Caption: Relating to establishing the office of Bond Supervisor for the Permanent School Fund of the State of Texas.
HCR 41	Caption: Commending President Roosevelt and Congress on the Recovery Program.
HCR 45	Caption: Providing for a joint session of the Legislature to hear an address of Governor Allred.
HJR 7	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution, providing a means of paying off the bonded debt of the State and the counties, cities, towns, road, and school districts.
HJR 8	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article XIV of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for term of office for certain elected officials.
HJR 31	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 48, Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, authorizing the establishment of Teachers' Retirement Systems,
44th 1st Called Session
HR 19	Caption: Directing the Committee investigating the Relief System situation in Tarrant County relating to investigation and interrogation practices.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 9	Caption: Relating to carrying out the principles of Old Age Assistance as prescribed by the Constitution of Texas, defining terms, setting up necessary machinery; providing for hearings, appeals, defining offenses, prescribing punishments.
HB 77	Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; creating a Board of Liquor Control; prescribing rules and regulations, and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, transportation, and possession of alcoholic liquors.
44th 3rd Called Session
HR 3	Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate a previously passed liquor law.
HR 19	Caption: Providing for additional members to the committee investigating the promotion of Communism State supported schools.
HR 46	Caption: Providing for a committee to arrange for good order and decorum within the House.
HR 54	Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate the unusual circumstances of the passing of H.B. No. 8.
42nd Regular Session
HB 194	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Texas Penal Code relating to punishment of persons who violate the liquor law.
HB 244	Caption: Relating to defining the offense of kidnapping for extortion, ransom or robbery and prescribing the punishment.
HB 306	Caption: Relating to creating a public utilities commission.
HB 312	Caption: Relating to requiring Commissioners' Court and governing bodies of cities and towns in this State to advertise for bids on projects respecting public improvements under certain conditions.
HB 340	Caption: Relating to amending the code of Criminal Procedure so that one indictment may cover all offenses growing out of the same transaction.
HB 609	Caption: Relating to defining certain offenses; providing for penalties.
HB 610	Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of fish in Dimmit, Zavala, Medina, Uvalde, DeWitt, Brown, Hamilton, Coryell, Gonzales, Lamar, Bell, Collin, Grayson, Gillespie, Kendall, Blanco, Llano, Mason, McCulloch, San Saba, Cook, Denton, Menard, Kimble, Jefferson, Orange, Mitchell, Fisher, Nolan, Mills, Comanche, Chambers, Travis, Hardin, Lampasas, Fannin, Burnet, Williamson and Parker Counties; providing a penalty.
HB 709	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure with reference to permitting the defendant to testify in his own behalf.
HB 738	Caption: Relating to regulating issuance of death benefit policies.
HB 741	Caption: Relating to inheritance taxes by providing that property passing to or for the use of persons not related to a decedent shall be subject to the payment of inheritance taxes.
HB 744	Caption: Relating to repealing the Blanco County Road Law.
HB 853	Caption: Relating to creating road district No. 5, Kendall County Texas.
HB 899	Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeals.
HB 940	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to game preserves, by providing for the establishment of such preserves for a minimum period of two years.
HB 945	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to public utility reports and requiring the filing of separate reports in each city or town in which the corporation operates.
HB 951	Caption: Relating to giving to the Lee Moore Contracting Company consent of the Legislature to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission, suit to be brought in either El Paso or Travis Counties, growing out of the construction of a twenty (20) mile strip on State Highway No. 130.
HB 1004	Caption: Relative to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to special venire.
HB 1033	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes authorizing incorporated cities or towns to exercise the right of eminent domain to condemn private property for airport purposes.
HCR 73	Caption: Granting Lee Moore Contracting Company permission to sue the State.
HR 17	Caption: Relating to taxes and the appropriation of money.
HR 24	Caption: In memory of J. A. McKenzie of Denton.
HR 25	Caption: Relating to redistricting the State.
HR 70	Caption: Relating to committee in regard to obtaining certain tax data.
42nd 1st Called Session
HR 13	Caption: Relating to committees regarding oil and gas resources.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 38	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the issuance of bonds and warrants by cities and counties so as to authorize the issuance of notes, bonds or treasury warrants for funding the existing legal indebtedness of counties or cities without notice.
HB 57	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the sale of lands belonging to the Public Free School Fund of the State of Texas, except islands, lakes, bays, and other lands within tide water limits.
HB 60	Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of certain judges.
HCR 28	Caption: Providing pay for committee members during the special sessions.
42nd 3rd Called Session
HB 84	Caption: Relating to preventing punishment for violation of illegal injunctions.
HR 16	Caption: Appointing a committee for the purpose of investigating illegal voting.
41st Regular Session
HB 104	Caption: Relating to defining the term "newspaper" wherever that term is used in any law of this State now in force or that may hereafter be enacted which authorizes or requires the publication of any proclamation, publication, notice citation, advertisement or matter required or authorized by law to be printed in a newspaper; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 112	Caption: Relating to requiring the publication in some newspaper of general circulation of all notice now required by law or contract, whether public or private, or relating to a judicial, executive or legislative matter, which notice I now authorized by aw or contract to be made by posting notices in one or more public places.
HB 141	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute by providing that when the wife is offered as a witness by the defendant in his behalf she may be cross-examined by the State upon all matters relevant and material to the trial.
HB 234	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the offense of kidnapping and abduction and defining the offense of kidnapping; fixing a penalty for the offense of kidnapping.
HB 278	Caption: Relating to prescribing the kind of tackle and method for taking fish from the fresh waters of certain counties and prohibiting all others; prohibiting possession of any tackle not authorized by this act within two hundred yards of any fresh waters mentioned herein, and prescribing penalties.
HB 310	Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas; providing for the vesting of all the powers, rights, duties now imposed upon and enjoyed by the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas in the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
HB 519	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to remove the remains of certain Texas Heroes and providing for monuments of such Heroes.
HB 539	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court in certain counties to pay the sheriff of such county for summoning jurors in district or County Courts.
HB 544	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities.
HB 559	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of the Ex-officio County Superintendent's salary out of the available school fund of the county.
HCR 4	Caption: Directing the creation of a joint committee to investigate the operations of the General Land Office
HCR 7	Caption: Inviting the city attorneys of several major cities in the State to testify to a committee on the regulation of public utilities.
HCR 22	Caption: Commending H.J. Graham for his chivalrous and patriotic act of erecting a monument to the fallen of "the late World War".
HJR 5	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for the regulation of public utilities; providing for changing the name of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
HJR 7	Caption: Proposing an amendment fixing the salary of the Governor; making an appropriation.
HR 84	Caption: Commending H. J. Graham for his construction of a monument in Boerne commemorating the fallen of the World War.
HR 90	Caption: Requesting the Committee on Constitution Amendments to issue a report on a certain S. J. R.
HR 117	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to notify the Senate that the House is prepared to adjourn Sine Die.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 67	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities; providing for the regulation of rates to be charged; creating a Public Utilities Commission; providing a penalty.
HB 169	Caption: Relating to ex officio salary of sheriff in certain counties.
HB 190	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws; designating the salary of County Commissioners of certain counties.
HB 217	Caption: Relating to prescribing the kind of tackle and method for taking fish in the fresh waters in certain counties and prohibiting all other tackle; prescribing a penalty.
HB 218	Caption: Relating to defining unfair discrimination and prohibiting discrimination in dealing with farm products; providing punishment, penalty and forfeiture.
HB 219	Caption: Relating to defining unfair discrimination and prohibiting discrimination in dealing with general commodities; providing punishment, penalty and forfeiture.
HR 32	Caption: Directing the printing of a certain tax commission report in the appendix of the House Journal.
41st 2nd Called Session
HB 40	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to redefine "offenses"; prescribing jurisdiction and method of trial.
HB 41	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes; providing for the payment of the Ex-officio County Superintendent's salary out of the available school fund of the county.
HB 51	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities; providing for the regulation of rates to be charged by public utilities for services rendered; prescribing penalties.
HR 8	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules regarding the barring of former Members from the House floor.
41st 3rd Called Session
HB 17	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from the market all lands which may be discovered or found as vacant lands, serap lands or unsurveyed lands, by virtue of an as a result of the surveying of the University of Texas Lands, and withdrawing from the market all other public lands which have been forfeited for nonpayment of interest.
41st 4th Called Session
HB 81	Caption: Relating to co-operative marketing associations.
HB 97	Caption: Relating to prescribing the kind of tackle and method of taking fish in certain fresh waters in certain counties and prohibiting all other tackle; prescribing a penalty.
HCR 18	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate certain allegations made by the State Auditor concerning the conduct of the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller.
HR 47	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 54	Caption: Relating to amending the co-operative marketing association law.
HB 105	Caption: Relating to providing for the taking of depositions in matters pending before the Railroad Commission, or any division thereof.
40th Regular Session
HB 10	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment, qualifications, and other things essential and incidental to the subject of Notaries Public; prescribing penalties.
HB 13	Caption: Relating to amending an Act so as to properly define the word "offense", the word "felony" and the word "misdemeanor"; prescribing what is and is not a capital felony.
HB 115	Caption: Relating to regulating the time for preliminary pleadings in capital cases.
HB 116	Caption: Relating to defining murder and prescribing the punishment therefor.
HB 118	Caption: Relating to amend a certain articles regarding damages by libel; defining privileged matters.
HB 330	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that in all criminal actions where either the husband or wife becomes or is used as a witness for the other, such husband or wife may be cross-examined by the state.
HB 357	Caption: Relating to making an emergency and supplemental appropriation out of the General Revenue of this State for certain utilities for the Governor's Mansion and Grounds.
HB 433	Caption: Relating to appropriating a sum necessary for the compensation and expenses of the Commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States to run the boundary lines between the State of Texas and the State of Oklahoma.
HB 643	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain railway and telegraph companies, or persons or associations operating the same, to issue free passes and franks to the members of the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Engineer, repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HJR 22	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the salaries or compensation of the members of the Legislature and all state officers that are now fixed by the Constitution shall be hereafter fixed by law; making an appropriation.
HR 1	Caption: Expressing appreciation of the House toward the Governor for his appointment of the new Highway Commission.
HR 8	Caption: Providing for the appointment of committees to notify the Governor and the Senate of the organization of the House.
40th 1st Called Session
HB 54	Caption: Relating to providing that where there are one or more felony charges against one or more persons for the same act or transaction, or for two or more actions or transactions connected together, or for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes of offenses which may be properly joined, the whole may be joined in one indictment in separate counts, charging separate offenses, and a conviction may be secured for each offense in the same trial under the same indictment.
HB 88	Caption: Relating to authorizing counties to pay taxes on school lands owned by such counties, pursuant to Section 6a of Article 7 of the State Constitution recently adopted by the people; prescribing the funds out of which any such taxes may be paid.
HB 146	Caption: Relating to providing for the approval of bonds issued by water control and improvement districts, including preliminary bonds.
HB 147	Caption: Relating to providing for the validation of water control and improvement districts and bonds issued thereby and taxes levied in payment therefor.
HR 36	Caption: Requesting that the courts furnish the Legislature with certain information.
39th Regular Session
HB 93	Caption: Relating to defining, licensing, regulating and controlling recreation establishment and fixing penalties.
HB 187	Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the Comfort Independent County Line School District lying in the counties of Kendall and Kerr in the State of Texas, defining the boundaries thereof, placing said independent district under the control of the General Laws governing independent districts, providing that no outstanding indebtedness of the Comfort County Line School District be invalidated.
HB 349	Caption: Relating to increasing the amount of county funds that Commissioners Courts may appropriate to carry on farm demonstration work in cooperation with the Extension Service of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
HB 466	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes of the Penal Code relating to trespassing.
HB 467	Caption: Relating to providing that in all cases where any bond is now or may hereafter required to be given or executed by the State Treasurer, or any of his clerks or deputies, or by any county or city depository, or by any State, county or city tax collector or by their clerks or deputies, or any other employee of the State, or any county or city therein, that said bond hall be conditioned as now provided by law and shall be executed by some surety or bonding company authorized to do business in this State, and that the cost of such bond shall be paid by the State, county or city, of which such officer is an employee, and in addition to the salary of such officer.
HB 547	Caption: Relating to permitting Otto Limberger and H.M. Tarver to maintain a suit pending in the 38th Judicial District of Texas, District Court of Bandera county, Texa.
HCR 40	Caption: Relating to the United States Army and Navy.
HCR 44	Caption: Instructing the Chief Clerk of the House to correct amendments in H.B. No. 8.
HJR 25	Caption: Requesting the Congress of the United States to appropriate funds in furtherance of the National Defense Act of 1920.
HR 117	Caption: Relating to invitations to address the House.
HR 121	Caption: Relating to appropriation out of the contingent fund for the purpose of providing for certain expenses.
HR 123	Caption: Relating to suspension of House rule for the purpose of extending consideration of certain bills.
39th 1st Called Session
HB 87	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Kendall County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 288	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Gillespie County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.