Legislation authored by George Byron Butler

Includes legislation with George Byron Butler as the primary author for the 43rd through 44th 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.

44th Regular Session
HB 230	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1800), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any moneys in the General Revenue Fund of the State, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of hiring two (2) additional stenographers for the Governor's Office, together with necessary materials etc., such as appropriation to last throughout the current biennium, ending August 31, 1935.
HB 262	Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of insecticides and fungicides, prohibiting their adulteration, misbranding, or misrepresentation, providing for the collection and analysis of samples, the expenses of the enforcement of the law, fixing penalties for its violation.
HB 263	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; the collection and apportionment of motor vehicle license fees; providing for the distribution and apportionment of such fees as between the State, counties and cities or towns in such counties.
HB 323	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the individual members of the Board of Insurance Commissioners, and the board, to assess penalties for the violation of the insurance laws of this State and orders made pursuant thereto.
HB 333	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the General Laws of the 41st Legislature (R.S.); enlarging the territory to which the operations of Local Mutual Aid Associations in the writing of business shall be confined.
HB 603	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; withdrawing all forest lands from the market and providing for a system of State forest lands, management and control thereof, and defining forest lands.
HB 792	Caption: Relating to subjecting to taxation for school purposes certain land in Brazos County, Texas, owned by the State of Texas heretofore set aside to the Agricultural and Mechanical College.
HB 905	Caption: Relating to investing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, branch of the University of Texas, with the management and control of lands heretofore and hereafter granted to such College.
HB 943	Caption: Relating to providing for a rural school supervisor, prescribing qualifications and duties of said rural school supervisor, providing for the payment of the salary of said rural school supervisor in certain counties.
HCR 57	Caption: Providing for the establishment of the Texas Commission on Interstate Cooperation and all its functions.
HR 85	Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Doorkeeper the floor of the House is clear one hour before session and to correctly enforce rules relative to privileges of the floor.
HR 116	Caption: In memory of C.C. Todd of Texas A&M College.
HR 122	Caption: In memory of Ward Templeman of Navasota, Texas
44th 1st Called Session
HCR 8	Caption: Relating to cooperative agricultural extension work concerning Texas A&M University.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 52	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to lease lands belonging to the State Experimental Stations for oil and/or gas and/or sulphur development, prescribing the duties and powers of said Board in regard to such leases, prescribing the mode and manner of sale of said oil and gas and/or sulphur leases on said land and making an appropriation to defray the expenses of the Board in executing the provisions of this law.
43rd Regular Session
HB 584	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Forester, under the general supervision of the board of directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, to cooperate and execute agreements with the Federal Forest Service, other Federal agencies and timber land owners, involving cooperative forest protection and development projects when such action is required by Federal statute or policy.
HB 586	Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and other certain colleges to retain control of fees and other local institutional income collected at said schools; defining such fees and local institutional income; providing for depository banks, where said funds shall be deposited.
HB 774	Caption: Relating to providing for the assessment and collection of ad valorem taxes on property belonging to Joint Stock Land Banks located in this State; providing for the levying and collecting of ad valorem taxes on the shares of stock of Joint Stock Land Banks located in this State.
HB 832	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Athletic Commission, which shall have sole jurisdiction over all ring exhibitions in the State, said Commission to consist of three members, appointed by the Governor, and fixing the terms of office at two years.
HR 19	Caption: In memory of Louis L. McInnis.
HR 51	Caption: Endorsing T.O. Walton for the position of Secretary of Agriculture under President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
HR 72	Caption: Providing for the appointment of an attorney to aid members of the House in drafting bills.
HR 111	Caption: In memory of John Wesley West.
HR 187	Caption: Wishing Representative Emmett C. Hill a speedy recovery from illness.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 126	Caption: Relating to establishing the office of county superintendent of public instruction, and providing that the commissioners court of every county which has three thousand (3,000) scholastic population or more, as shown by the preceding scholastic census, shall, at the next general election after 1934, and likewise each four years thereafter, provide for the election of a county superintendent of public instruction to serve for a term of four (4) years.
HB 139	Caption: Relating to authorizing the temporary board of directors of the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation district, as constituted in accordance with the provisions of certain Act, insofar as practicable to accomplish the declared purposes of said Act.
HB 185	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, approving, confirming, and declaring enforceable all levies and assessments of ad valorem taxes heretofore made by independent school districts in this State in certain counties.
HCR 40	Caption: Discouraging enforcement of HB 832 against not-for-profit wrestling and boxing associations.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 117	Caption: Relating to fixing the tuition to be collected from students registered in schools of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by appropriations of public funds from the State Treasury.
HB 128	Caption: Relating to establishing the office of county superintendent of public instruction, and providing that the commissioners court of every county which has three thousand (3,000) scholastic population or more, as shown by the preceding scholastic census, shall, at the next General Election after 1934, and likewise each four years thereafter, providing for the election of a county superintendent of public instruction to serve for a term of four years.
HB 137	Caption: Relating to providing a basis for salaries for services in summer schools at certain State-supported institutions of higher learning and repealing certain provisions for the collection of certain matriculation and tuition fees from students of summer schools in certain State-supported institutions of higher learning.
HB 157	Caption: Relating to changing the open season on dove and quail to open November 15th to January 16th, inclusive, in Brazos County, Texas.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HR 41	Caption: Inviting descendants of indigenous peoples in Texas to participate in the 1936 Texas Centennial.