Legislation authored by Pat Curtis Jefferson
Includes legislation with Pat Curtis Jefferson 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 | |
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| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to regulating the work and hours of employees engaged in selling, at retail, drugs and medicines and compounding physicians' prescriptions, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to defining and limiting jurisdiction of the courts in matters affecting employers and employees; declaring all contracts made in violation of such public policy to be unenforceable. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, contractor or subcontractor performing any public work for the State, or for any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this State shall employ any person who is not a citizen of the United States; providing forfeitures as a penalty for violation of this Act; making such employment of an alien a misdemeanor and providing punishment therefor. |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to providing for the investigation and study of wages of women and minors employed in trade and industry in the State of Texas. |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation for a three-year period all improvements placed on real property during said period, and authorizing municipal subdivisions to exempt such improvements from taxation during the same period of time. |
| HB 61 | Caption: Relating to declaring the collared peccary or javelina a game animal; providing an open season for taking same and the number that may be taken or possessed; prohibiting the sale of any peccary or part of such animal; providing a suitable penalty. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Law; regulating the sale of prison made goods in Texas, providing for the proper labeling thereof and providing for a penalty in regard thereto. |
| HB 107 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sexual sterilization of inmates of State institutions in certain cases. |
| HB 155 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); wages paid on public work. |
| HB 161 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Sections of the General and Special Laws, Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); regulating and advocating the promoting, conducting, and maintaining of fistic combat or wrestling matches, boxing or sparring contests or exhibitions for money remuneration, purses or prize equivalent to be received by the participants or contestants. |
| HB 175 | Caption: Relating to providing for the gathering of statistical information on the catch of the various marine products along the Texas Coast; providing a penalty. |
| HB 185 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); providing for the appointment of Grand Jury Bailiffs by the Judge of the Criminal District Court of Bexar County, Texas. |
| HB 233 | Caption: Relating to declaring the policy of the Legislature to provide for the general welfare by cooperating with the Federal Government in making effective the provisions of the Texas Barber Law and the National Recovery Act within the State of Texas with reference to the barber shop trade industry. |
| HB 281 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; grounds for divorce. |
| HB 591 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of State property purchased from funds appropriated to the State Game, Fish and Oyster Commission. |
| HB 689 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article of the Texas Penal Code; preventing commercial fishing in open waters of Gulf of Mexico on outside of Padre Island. |
| HB 714 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to execute a quitclaim deed of such rights or titles as the State of Texas may have in and to certain missions located in Bexar County, Texas, to the Government of the United States of America upon condition that they be used as National Monuments, and that such Federal Government shall accept same within two years from the date of such quitclaim, otherwise the property shall revert to the State of Texas. |
| HB 962 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the State Highway Commission from abandoning certain highways designated and constructed as a part of the State Highway System. |
| HB 986 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay deficiency claims of stenographic work rendered by the Committee on Salt Water Industries and Marine Taxation Investigating Committee, authorized by the Forty-third Legislature. |
| HCR 96 | Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain additions to H.B. No. 185. |
| HCR 178 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 11, 22, 23, 24, and 32 for the Senate to consider H.B. No. 61. |
| HR 8 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control in regards to the desks of the Members. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Providing for the opening prayers of the House Chaplain to spread in writing through the House Journal. |
| HR 29 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the report made by the Legislative Investigating Committee on salt water fisheries and marine taxation. |
| HR 36 | Caption: Granting Gussie Evans permission to purchase the chair of former Journal Clerk Jim Robertson. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon local mutual aid associations; providing certain exemptions; prescribing the rate of tax and methods of its measurement. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to the compensation of district, certain designated county and precinct officers and providing the method and means by which such officers shall be compensated for their services. |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 44th Legislature (R.S.); the establishment of itinerant beauty shops. |
| HCR 20 | Caption: Relating to certain appropriation for an army construction program in Texas. |
| HCR 28 | Caption: Suspending certain Joint Rules for the disposition of H.B. No. 127. |
| HCR 35 | Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 127. |
| HR 21 | Caption: Providing for the warrant of O.M. Pickles for the assault of Representative O.C. Venable. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 16 | Caption: In memory of former State Senator Ernest Fellbaum. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 54 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of not less than the general prevailing rate of wages on public works, and not less than the general prevailing rate of wages for legal holiday and overtime work on public works; providing penalties for violation of the provisions thereof. |
| HB 183 | Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation and practice of cosmetology; creating a State Board of Cosmetologists for the licensing of persons, firms, co-partnerships, associations or corporations to carry on and/or to teach such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners. |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to empowering and requiring the commissioners courts of the various counties to require bonds of county and district officials who are required by law to receive funds to be held in trust as a part of their official duties, and fixing the amount of and the conditions of said bonds, and providing for the removal of officers who fail to give said bond, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to permitting obligors on or for indebtedness representing unpaid purchase money for real estate to discharge such indebtedness by conveying such real estate to the holder or holders of such indebtedness in substantially as good state of improvement as such property was in when such indebtedness was created, making due allowance for ordinary wear and tear. |
| HB 259 | Caption: Relating to empowering and requiring the commissioners courts of the various counties to require bonds of county and district officials, who are required by law to receive funds to be held in trust as a part of their official duties, and fixing the amount of and the conditions of said bonds and providing for the removal of officers who fail to give said bond, and repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 715 | Caption: Relating to fixing the term of office of school trustees of independent school districts, heretofore created by Special Acts of the Legislature, having the vote of seven (7) trustees, and have included within their boundaries, a city whose population was in excess of two hundred thousand, as shown by the last preceding Federal Census; adjusting the terms of office of trustees to conform to the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 776 | Caption: Relating to election of school trustees in certain independent school districts. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to rules of practice and procedure in certain district courts by changing the first or definitive paragraph of said statute which immediately precedes Section 1 of said statute, so as to make said statute and all of its terms applicable also to counties to which said statute and its terms are new applicable. |
| HB 898 | Caption: Relating to defining and limiting the jurisdiction of courts, and their purposes. |
| HCR 16 | Caption: Granting Agatha Harris permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Providing for the acceptance of title to the De Zavala Cemetery by the State Park Board on behalf of the State of Texas. |
| HR 39 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate accusations made surrounding the murder of San Antonio State Hospital supervisor H.A. Simpson. |
| HR 62 | Caption: Endorsing the appointment of Frederick Charles Chabot for the position of minister in the diplomatic services of the United States. |
| HR 97 | Caption: Commemorating Texas Independence Day. |
| HR 99 | Caption: Endorsing Richard M. Kleberg for the position of Ambassador to Mexico. |
| HR 152 | Caption: Inviting Adina De Zavala to address the House. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 165 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Highway Department shall issue, or cause to be issued, license number plates for each motorcycle, road tractor, trailer, semi-trailer, and for any other vehicle registered under certain Act. |
| HB 171 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person, firm, corporation, association, partnership, contractor, or subcontractor, performing any public work for the State, or for any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of this State, shall employ any person who is not a citizen of the United States; providing forfeitures as a penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Granting Walter Strickland permission to sue the State Highway Commission. |
| HCR 35 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to regulate the sale of 3.2 beer. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 98 | Caption: Relating to grounds for divorce. |
| HB 101 | Caption: Relating to declaring the collared peccary or javelina a game animal; providing an open season for taking same and the number that may be taken or possessed; prohibiting the sale of any peccary or part of such animal providing suitable penalty. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to declaring the policy of the Legislature to provide for the general welfare by cooperation with the Federal Government in making effective the provisions of the National Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Recovery Act within the State of Texas with reference to producers, distributors and processors of milk and milk products; authorizing said Board to impose such conditions as are necessary to make the codes effective and to establish rules and regulations for their conduct; providing penalties for violation of such codes; authorizing the said Board to suspend or revoke certificates of authority; providing a penalty for violation of the Act. |
| HCR 33 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider HB 56. |
| HR 10 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to survey taxation of marine products. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Inviting Maury Maverick, Democratic nominee for the 20th Congressional District, to address the House. |
| HR 12 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to survey taxation of marine products. |
| HR 37 | Caption: Amending certain resolution in regard to studying tax conditions on marine products. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to levying and imposing an occupation tax of one percent of the gross average deposits of every bank operated by any person, firm or banking corporation in the State of Texas. |