Legislation authored by Jesse Elbert Roach
Includes legislation with Jesse Elbert Roach as the primary author for the 44th 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 96 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or receiving or making bets on horse racing, and providing a penalty for its violation. |
| HB 282 | Caption: Relating to defining unfair price discrimination and unfair price competition, declaring the same to be misdemeanors, and fixing penalties for violations. |
| HB 284 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the filing of records in the Courts of Civil Appeals in the order received by the clerk of that court, for setting cases for submission, for notifying parties of the date of filing of the records, the date set for hearing, fixing the time and manner of filing brief. |
| HB 285 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; grounds for reversal of judgment, by providing that based upon any cause of action or defense pleaded and sustained by evidence and a jury trial thereon shall be deemed waived |
| HB 303 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to shoot at or kill any squirrel, dove, or quail in Rains County, Texas; providing a penalty. |
| HB 315 | Caption: Relating to defining the business of well cementing and of cementing casing in oil, gas or water wells, and providing for the payment of an occupation tax by any person engaged in such business so defined, and providing who shall be subject to provisions hereof. |
| HB 336 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; prescribing the time when motions for new trials may be made in misdemeanors and felony trials. |
| HB 476 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that all written contracts which stipulate for a greater rate of interest than ten percent per annum shall be absolutely void as to principal and interest and unenforceable in any court of law or equity in this State. |
| HCR 53 | Caption: Directing the State Highway Department to demolish "the circle" on State Highway No. 2. |
| HCR 61 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to amend the Interstate Commerce Act in regards to cigarettes. |
| HJR 29 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III, sections 4, 5, and 24 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing the time members of the House of Representatives shall take office; providing the Legislature shall meet in annual regular session and shall receive an annual salary. |
| HJR 53 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 16, Section 11, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, defining interest and providing that all written contracts for interest in excess of ten percent per annum, shall be null and void as to principal and interest. |
| HR 142 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative William Pierson and his wife, Lena Haskell Pierson, of Austin, Texas. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to defining a pool and billiard table, and providing for the payment of State, county and city occupation taxes, by any person operating a pool or billiard table. |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Chapter of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); providing for a six cent a barrel tax on oil; placing said revenue into the Available School Fund and the Old Age Pension Fund of the State of Texas; requiring reports; prescribing penalties. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); increasing the tax on oil, allocating the revenue to the Public School Fund and for the payment of Old Age Pensions |
| HB 47 | Caption: Relating to defining the business of well cementing and of cementing casing in oil, gas or water wells, and providing for the payment of an occupation tax by any person engaged in such business so defined, and providing who shall be subject to provisions hereof; providing for the time of payment of a tax of 5% of the monies received by such person so engaged; fixing the time such payments shall be due and fixing the time for the filing of the reports required by the provisions hereof and for penalties for failure to pay said tax when due. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on the production of quicksilver; providing for an occupation tax of $5.00 per flask of all quicksilver produced within the State of Texas; providing for the reports and records; imposing forfeitures and penalties for failure to keep records; providing for penalties for failure to pay such tax. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to defining the business of well cementing and of cementing casing in oil, gas or water wells, and providing for the payment of an occupation tax by any person engaged in such business so defined; providing for the time of payment of a tax of five percent of the monies received by such person so engaged; fixing the time payments shall be due and penalties for failure to pay said tax when due. |