Legislation authored by John William Hunt

Includes legislation with John William Hunt 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 484 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Penal Code; making it a misdemeanor for grooving or drilling the teeth of animals with the intent to defraud.
HB 852 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; requiring the defendant to state that the testimony can not be procured from any other source in his first application for a continuance.
HJR 20 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51, Article III of the Constitution of Texas, providing for aid to indigent or disabled Confederate soldiers and sailors.
HR 46 Caption: In memory of the wife of former State Representative George C. Stephens of Sulphur Springs, Texas.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 42 Caption: Relating to Pensions; providing for the payment of an old age pension to persons both male and female, who have attained the age of sixty-five years or upward, are citizens of the United States, who have been residents of the State of Texas for five years during the nine years immediately preceding the application.
HR 22 Caption: Inviting J.H. (Cyclone) Davis to address the House.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 11 Caption: Relating to creating a system of old age assistance in Texas; creating the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission, prescribing their terms of office and qualifications and duties, and fixing their salaries.
HB 75 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Green Pond Common School District No. 86, and for the Sandifer Common School District No. 84 of Hopkins County, Texas, in order to aid said school districts to pay indebtedness for rebuilding their schools which were destroyed by fire.
43rd Regular Session
HB 73 Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute providing that no aid shall be granted to any school located within two and one-half miles of another school of the same race.
HB 602 Caption: Relating to the gross production tax on oil, providing for a graduated gross production on oil, and providing that each person, firm, or corporation owning, controlling, managing, operating, or leasing any oil well, or who produces oil in any manner, shall make quarterly reports on the first days of January, April, July, and October, of each year, to the Comptroller, under oath, of the amount of oil produced by such person, firm, or corporation, from each well or otherwise, during the next preceding quarter, and the average market value thereof.
HB 826 Caption: Relating to restricting the interest rate to be borne by funding bonds.
HB 836 Caption: Relating to providing a penalty for whoever sends a threatening letter with a view of extorting, namely, property, or anything of value whatsoever, from such person, or threatening injury to relative of such person.
HR 22 Caption: Naming Charles Lee Tennyson Mascot of the House.
HR 163 Caption: Endorsing William J. Fanning for the position of US Ambassador to El Salvador.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 180 Caption: Relating to providing for the retirement of bonds of drainage districts, water improvement districts, and other reclamation districts created for the conservation, reclamation, and protection of teh natural resources of the State of Texas.
HR 28 Caption: In memory of Mrs. J.M. Melson, wife of former Representative J.M. Melson.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 24 Caption: Relating to imposing and levying an occupation tax on all individuals, companies, corporations, and associations selling or furnishing power or electrical energy to the public for compensation.
HB 46 Caption: Relating to providing for the retirement of bonds of drainage districts, water improvement districts, and other reclamation districts created for the conservation, reclamation, and protection of the natural resources of the State of Texas.
HCR 15 Caption: Endorsing William J. Fanning for the position of Minister to Czechoslovakia.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 8 Caption: Relating to declaring a five (5) year closed season on wild fox in certain counties; providing for violation of this Act.
HCR 38 Caption: Submitting the question of an additional tax measure to raise five million dollars for the Texas Centennial Celebration to a vote at the next general election.
43rd 4th Called Session
HR 4 Caption: Postponing indefinitely the Texas Centennial Celebration.