Legislation authored by Victor Byron Gilbert

Includes legislation with Victor Byron Gilbert as the primary author for the 40th through 42nd 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.

42nd Regular Session
HB 88 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the accrual of indebtedness for material furnished by material men where there is an agreement to pay for same at a specified time.
HB 89 Caption: Relating to making unlawful cohabitation with another in this State after a bigamous marriage elsewhere; making such an offense a felony and providing a penalty.
HB 90 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the fixing of contractors liens on oil and mineral properties.
HB 92 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to notices given property owners by city and town boards of equalization.
HB 142 Caption: Relating to prescribing and fixing the number of hours that shall constitute a legal day's work on all work being performed by or on behalf of the State of Texas or any political subdivision thereof; providing for cases of emergency.
HB 317 Caption: Relating to the appointment of a receiver for incorporated cities and towns which had defaulted in the payment of bonds or other obligations, lawfully issued and prescribing the duties and powers of such receiver.
HB 343 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to application requirements for pensions.
HB 364 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to pensions.
HB 533 Caption: Relating to requiring every person, firm, corporation or association engaged in the selling, distributing, manufacturing or production of petroleum to post in a manner convenient to be read from the patron car, the chemical analysis, the retail price, and the specific gravity of said product; providing a penalty.
HB 534 Caption: Relating to amending Article 7071 of Chapter 2, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.
HB 535 Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to resident and non resident hunting fees; prescribing a penalty.
HB 627 Caption: Relating to providing for the depositing with the State Treasurer of all funds received by or belonging to State Departments, institutions, schools, colleges, universities, boards, bureaus, commissions or other agencies of the state.
HB 869 Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for the taxation of certain privately owned cars used in this State.
HB 1013 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay miscellaneous claims against the Treasury Department.
HB 1016 Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts relative to the violation of anti-trust laws of this State by foreign corporations.
HCR 30 Caption: Memorializing Congress in regard to certain loans.
HCR 35 Caption: Granting permission to Oscar Raines to maintain and operate a confectionary and cigar stand in the lobby.
HCR 74 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make corrections to H.B. 150.
HR 32 Caption: Relating to appropriations made by the Legislature.
HR 89 Caption: Expressing sympathy of the House to W. W. Boyd.
HR 98 Caption: In memory of R. G. Powell of Baird.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 3 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the planting, cultivating, gathering or ginning of cotton in the State of Texas in the year 1932; providing for the extermination of the Mexican boll weevil, eradicating the disease of the cotton known as cotton root rot.
HB 36 Caption: Relating to providing that the Railroad Commissioner of Texas shall have power and authority over corporations doing business in this state furnishing electric power or natural gas to the public and providing that such commission shall have the right to fix rates for said services and make regulations with reference thereto.
HB 51 Caption: Relating to providing for the pay of the Special Chief Justice of the Eleventh Court of Civil Appeals; making an appropriation.
HCR 29 Caption: Memorializing Congress to place a tariff on the importation of jute.
HR 4 Caption: Extending privileges of the floor.
HR 30 Caption: In memory of J.W. Adamson of Denison.
42nd 3rd Called Session
HB 62 Caption: Relating to providing for relief of Needville Independent School District of Fort Bend County in order to aid the school district in rebuilding and repairing its school destroyed by the hurricane which covered the territory in which this district is located on August 13, 1932.
HR 17 Caption: Inviting Tom Connally to address the Legislature.
41st Regular Session
HB 98 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to guaranty and indemnity bonds.
HB 248 Caption: Relating to open and closed season for killing squirrels.
HB 318 Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation public property used for public purposes; actual places of religious worship and any property owned by a church or by a strictly religious society for the exclusive use as a dwelling place for the ministry of such or religious society and which yields no revenue whatever to such church or religious society for the exclusive use as a dwelling place for the ministry of such church or religious society and which yields no revenue whatever to such church ore religious society.
HB 482 Caption: Relating to amending Article 879c and 879g, Chapter 215 of the General and Special Laws of the State of Texas.
HB 491 Caption: Relating to defining common carrier vehicles; providing for the registration thereof; prescribing penalties.
HB 492 Caption: Relating to providing for the registration in this state of vehicles owned by citizens of said state or country for the current year; prescribing restrictions and penalties.
HB 495 Caption: Relating to the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers; prescribing the license fees required for registration.
HB 496 Caption: Relating to providing that there shall be allowed to County Judges, clerks of the District and County Courts, sheriffs, County Treasurers, Tax Assessors and Collectors, books, stationery, blanks, and all office furniture and supplies that may be necessary for a proper administration of their offices.
HB 584 Caption: Relating to validating all orders, judgments, and proceedings of the County Court at Law for Eastland County, providing that if any part of this Act is held unconstitutional it shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion.
HCR 10 Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the Legislature to hear highway recommendations.
HR 31 Caption: In memory of W. E. Gilliland.
HR 57 Caption: Providing for the printing of additional copies of the House Journal.
HR 58 Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to inspect the properties of the State penitentiary system.
HR 62 Caption: Inviting Lexie Dean Robertson to address the House.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 110 Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation public property used for public purposes; actual places of religious worship and certain other properties.
HB 168 Caption: Relating to fixing the fees and compensation of County Attorneys in certain counties, and in which counties there are one or more judicial districts, and which have no District Attorney.
HB 180 Caption: Relating to providing for the destruction of certain predatory animals and rodent pests; providing for cooperation of this State with the United States Department of Agriculture in destroying certain predatory animals and rodent pests in the interest of live stock, crops, and ranges; authorizing an appropriation.
HB 211 Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners' court or certain Counties to pay bounties of certain predatory animals.
41st 2nd Called Session
HB 30 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be expended under the contingencies of certain laws providing for the destruction of certain predatory animals and rodent pests.
HB 31 Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of an Act passed by the First Called Session of the 41st known as HB 180, relating to the destruction of certain predatory animals and rodent pests.
HB 65 Caption: Relating to exemption from taxation property owned by a church or by a strictly religious society for the exclusive use as dwelling places for the ministry of such.
HB 117 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to the ability of commissioners' courts to enforce the collection of delinquent taxes.
HB 125 Caption: Relating to qualifications for voting in special elections; amending a certain Statute.
HB 181 Caption: Relating to defining the residence of teachers regularly engaged in the discharge of their duties in educational institutions in this state and Ministers of the Gospel and Jewish Rabbis actively engaged as such; amending a certain Statute.
HB 204 Caption: Relating to open season for killing turkeys in Callahan and other Counties; amending certain laws.
HR 10 Caption: In memory of George B. Scott.
HR 24 Caption: In memory of R. A. St. John.
41st 3rd Called Session
HR 9 Caption: Extending good wishes to State Rep. J. C. Duvall as he recovers from illness.
41st 4th Called Session
HCR 10 Caption: Directing the Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard to design an distribute service medals to the Members of the Guard who served in active duty.
HR 23 Caption: In memory of A. P. Conway.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 79 Caption: Relating to compelling prompt payment of license fees to Highway Department.
HB 115 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court to contract for the collection of insolvent taxes due on personal property in the same manner and subject to the same rules and regulations as now provided by Law for contracts governing the collection of delinquent taxes due on real property.
HB 116 Caption: Relating to providing that all petroleum tank cars used in this State shall be liable for taxation in the county where such tank cars are maintained or assembled for storing or shipping petroleum products or where the owner or lessee of such tank cars maintains an office or loading rack.
HCR 8 Caption: Providing certain patriotic medals for service to the members of the Texas National Guard who served in active duty.
40th Regular Session
HB 60 Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain sum of money to supplement the available school fund.
HB 137 Caption: Relating to changing the year upon which is based the assessed valuation of taxable properties affected by this Act to be amended relating to the compensation of county commissioners.
HB 240 Caption: Relating to repealing the law creating the Lockney Independent School District in Floyd County, including therein the Lockney Independent School.
HCR 22 Caption: Memorializing Congress to secure passage of certain bills for the retirement of disabled emergency army officers.
40th 1st Called Session
HB 74 Caption: Relating to the drawing of juries; defining the duties of certain officers in connection therewith; and providing a penalty for the failure to perform such duties.