Legislation authored by James Franklin Lindsey

Includes legislation with James Franklin Lindsey 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 34 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, fixing fees therefor, declaring operation without license to be a misdemeanor, making an appropriation and providing penalties for violation.
HB 172 Caption: Relating to repealing and amending certain Sections of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.) and 42nd Legislature (R.S.); the authority of counties and incorporated cities and the Texas State Parks Board, separately, or in cooperation with each other, to acquire by gift or purchase land for public parks.
HB 505 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; the circumstances in which a defendant placed in jail on account of failure to pay associated fine and costs can be discharged on habeas corpus.
HB 868 Caption: Relating to promoting the production of better eggs in the State of Texas by regulating the traffic in eggs.
HR 61 Caption: Inviting Sarah T. Hughes, 14th District Judge, to address the House.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 19 Caption: Relating to requiring licenses for the operation, maintenance, opening or establishment of stores in this State, prescribing the license and filing fees to be paid therefor, and the disposition thereof, and the powers and duties of the Comptroller of Public Accounts in connection therewith, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 50 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on hotels and tourist camps, fixing the basis upon which such tax shall be computed, providing penalties.
HB 72 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses for traveling in connection with official business.
HB 108 Caption: Relating to validating Ad Valorem Tax Levies heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in the State of Texas.
HCR 25 Caption: Suspending certain Joint Rules for the disposition of S.B. No. 27.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 16 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that all funds coming into the hands of the State Highway Commission derived from the registration fees of other sources provided for in this subdivision, as collected, shall be deposited by the State High Commission with the State Treasurer to the credit of a special fund designated as "The Old Age Assistance Fund," and shall be paid only on warrants or vouchers drawn by the State Comptroller on the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund as specifically set out in certain Act.
43rd Regular Session
HB 179 Caption: Relating to providing for liens in favor of hospitals and other institutions furnishing care, treatment and maintenance of persons injured in accidents, upon the rights of action, claims and demands of such injured persons against other persons or corporations for damages on account of negligence causing the injuries.
HB 419 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, fixing fees therefor, declaring operation without license to be a misdemeanor, making an appropriation and providing penalties for violation.
HB 647 Caption: Relating to prohibiting individuals, not otherwise expressly permitted by Statute, to engage in the business of insuring others against insurable losses.
HB 648 Caption: Relating to providing that no dividend shall be paid to any policyholder in any other State until the same has been approved by the Board of Insurance Commissioners, and same shall not be approved until such company, exchange, or association has set up and maintained reserves adequate to meet anticipated losses, carry all claims to maturity, and policies to terminate upon workmen's compensation and employer's liability policies issued under the laws of Texas, or any other State, which reserves shall be computed in accordance with such uniform rules as shall be approved by the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
HB 649 Caption: Relating to requiring reciprocal insurance carriers or inter-insurance exchanges, before engaging in writing liability or workmen's compensation insurance, to have not less than fifty separate risks having a total payroll covering not less than two thousand employees.
HCR 59 Caption: Granting Albert Moore permission to sue the Highway Commission of Texas and the State of Texas.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 56 Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensation of County Commissioners in certain counties.
HCR 11 Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 16 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, fixing fees therefor; declaring operation without license to be a misdemeanor.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 24 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, declaring operation without license to be a misdemeanor, providing penalties for violation, defining the terms "operate" and "store," fixing a lien in favor of the State of Texas, allocating funds serived, imposing certain duties upon the Attorney General, making appropriation.
HR 8 Caption: In memory of former Representative J.K. Wester.