Legislation authored by Hezekiah Richard Stovall

Includes legislation with Hezekiah Richard Stovall 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 403 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 42nd Legislature (1st C.S.); injunctions and/or restraining orders to be issued against the Railroad Commission of Texas.
HB 404 Caption: Relating to providing that the Supreme Court of the State of Texas shall have original jurisdiction in the matter of issuing the writ of mandamus or any other mandatory or compulsory writ or process to compel the performance by any judge of a district court in this State of any duty imposed upon him or them, respectively, by the Constitution, and laws of this State.
HB 609 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute all violations under certain statutes relating to water pollution, either for the penal offense committed or to prevent the violations of same by the writ of injunctions.
HB 612 Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000) for making investigations, inspections, and reports on levee and drainage districts and contingent to be used by the State Reclamation Department.
HB 861 Caption: Relating to granting to John Mulkey of Ellis County, Texas, permission to bring suit against the State of Texas and the State Highway Department, in the District Court of Ellis County, Texas, for damages sustained to his property by the construction of road bed and excavating sides of road bed adjacent to and upon his land on Highway Number Six in Ellis County, Texas, impounding water on his land and destroying his farm products.
HCR 78 Caption: Requesting the establishment of Civilian Conservation Corps camps along the Trinity River to remove obstructions.
HCR 103 Caption: Providing for the Committee to investigate the Presbyterian school property at Milford, Texas to be extended into the 45th Legislature.
HR 32 Caption: In memory James L. Robinson, Journal Clerk of the House.
HR 60 Caption: In memory of Mary J. Taylor of Palo Pinto County, Texas.
44th 1st Called Session
HR 21 Caption: Expressing regret at the illness of Representative W.W. Fitzwater.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 92 Caption: Relating to levying a registration fee on secured debts; defining secured debts; providing a registration fee of thirty (30ยข) cents for each One Hundred ($100) Dollars or major fraction thereof, on debts secured by real estate or by real estate and personal property maturing more than one year not more than three (3) years from date.
HCR 15 Caption: Granting Fannie Williams permission to sue the State of Texas.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 27 Caption: Relating to levying a registration fee on secured debts; defining secured debts.
HCR 4 Caption: Granting John Mulkey permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission.
HR 64 Caption: In memory of William H. Fearis of Ellis County, Texas.
43rd Regular Session
HB 404 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to suspending criminal sentences in certain cases.
HB 422 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to filing of controverting pleas by providing that either party may appeal from the judgment sustaining or overruling a plea of privilege, and that such appeal shall suspend the transfer of the venue and a trial of the cause pending the final determination of such appeal.
HB 445 Caption: Relating to repealing the Texas Barber Law.
HB 736 Caption: Relating to relieving the people of this State of the direct burden of gasoline tax, and declaring the policy of this State relative to the registration fees on automobiles, and further declaring the policy of this State relative to the taxing of natural resources.
HB 913 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Revised Criminal Statutes of Texas by providing that it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute all violations under said Articles either for the penal offense committed or to prevent the violations of same by the writ of injunction.
HB 924 Caption: Relating to providing that in all counties containing a city other than the county seat, in excess of 7,000 inhabitants, according to the 1930 decennial census, the tax collector, with the consent and approval of the commissioners court of said county, may appoint a deputy tax collector in such town or city, whoshall have the right to issue valid receipts for all taxes collected by him, and to collect a fee of twenty-five cents from each person who pays his taxes to said deputy, and to whom said deputy issues a receipt.
43rd 1st Called Session
HR 19 Caption: In memory of Bowd Farrar.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 173 Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the county commissioners in every county having a population of not less than fifty-three thousand, five hundred (53,500) nor more than fifty-four thousand (54,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States Census.
HR 9 Caption: In memory of Representative W.A. Few.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 7 Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season in Ellis County, Texas, upon quail and foxes for a period of five years.