Legislation authored by Homer Thornberry
Includes legislation with Homer Thornberry as the primary author for the 45th through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 46th Regular Session | |
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| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Regular Session of the Forty-sixth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts of the Second Called Session of the Forty-fifth Legislature. |
| HB 50 | Caption: Relating to providing for licensing of operators, commercial operators and chauffeurs; providing a penalty. |
| HB 269 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article so as to provide that no person shall ever acquire, by occupancy or adverse possession, any right or title to any part or portion of any road, street, alley, sidewalk or grounds belonging to any town, city, or county or which have been donated for public use. |
| HB 270 | Caption: Relating to providing that the governing boards of all institution of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by funds of the State of Texas shall exempt all citizens of Texas who are the children of men and women who died in active service during the World War or from disability during said war from the payment of all dues, fees and charges whatsoever for tuition. |
| HB 307 | Caption: Relating to the regulation of the business of lending money without security of individuals; prescribing a penalty for this violation. |
| HB 1135 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the State Board of Control out of the unexpended balance of monies already appropriated for the painting of the roof of the Capitol Building. |
| HCR 51 | Caption: Providing for Joint Session to hear Nathan Straus. |
| HCR 176 | Caption: Providing for the use of an unexpended balance, which is marked for the repainting of the Capitol dome, to repaint the Capitol roof. |
| HCR 214 | Caption: Approving the suspension of all Joint Rules so that the House and Senate might consider HB 1135. |
| HJR 34 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to ratifying certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America passed by the sixty-eight Congress to regulate and prohibit labor of persons under eighteen years of age. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 279 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relating to making better provision for the regulation of the sale of and dealings in stocks, bonds, and securities in this State, so as to appropriate all fees collected thereunder for the use of the Secretary of State in enforcing said Act. |
| HB 385 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person shall ever acquire, by occupancy or adverse possession, any right or title to any part of portion of any road, street, alley, sidewalk or grounds belonging to any town, city or county, or which has been donated or dedicated for public use in any such town, city or county by the owner thereof, or which has been laid out or dedicated in any manner to public use in any town, city or county in this State. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to providing that the governing boards of all institutions of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by funds of the State of Texas shall exempt all citizens of Texas who are the children of men and women who died in active service during the World War or from disability incurred in the line of duty during said war from the payment of all dues, fees and charges whatsoever for tuition. |
| HB 615 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to pay court costs accrued and cost of printing State Brief in the case of State of Texas versus Atlantic Oil Producing Company, et al, No. 53453, which case was tried in the District Court of Travis County and is now on appeal in the Court of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 725 | Caption: Relating to providing for the public sale of oil and gas in and on University lands by the Board for Lease of University Lands and providing for the expense of said sales. |
| HB 831 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commission of the Volunteer Army of the War with Spain to invest the principal, and the Department Commander of the United Spanish War Veterans to administer and disburse the income, from the fund provided in certain Act, for the benefit of aged and indigent Spanish-American War Veterans, their widows and orphans. |
| HB 937 | Caption: Relating to providing that if any person shall enclose or shall remove the fence from the enclosure of any part thereof of any cemetery or burial ground with the purpose or intent to use such cemetery or burial ground for any other use or purpose he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail or by both such fine and imprisonment. |
| HB 1186 | Caption: Relating to granting unto the Municipal Authorities of the City of Austin, Texas, the right to establish, erect, operate and maintain a Public Municipal Auditorium and Fire Station upon the tract of land bounded on the North by Fifth Street, on the south by Fourth Street, on the east by Guadalupe Street and on the west by San Antonio Street in the City of Austin. |
| HCR 29 | Caption: Recognizing Lutcher Stark for his donation of fine art to the University of Texas at Austin. |
| HCR 56 | Caption: Granting Walter P. Dickerson permission to sue the State. |
| HCR 138 | Caption: Directing the Men's Confederate Home to be used as office space for State Departments. |
| HJR 11 | Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America, at its first session, which amendment empowers the Congress to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. |
| HR 103 | Caption: In memory of Mrs. C. N. Avery of Austin. |
| HR 146 | Caption: Commending the Attorney General and his staff for their assistance to the Members of the House. |
| HR 188 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. O. E. Olander. |
| HR 240 | Caption: Memorializing the Federal Communications Commission to consider the application for a certain radio frequency by the State Capitol Broadcasting Association. |
| 45th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 23 | Caption: Relating to instructing the Texas Racing Commission to turn over the Jockey Fund to the State Treasury for deposit to the General Fund. |
| HR 62 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to inform the Senate and Governor that the House is ready to adjourn Sine Die. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Granting the firm Martin Brothers permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 7 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. A. W. Griffith. |