Legislation authored by Harold Kayton
Includes legislation with Harold Kayton as the primary author for the 39th through 43rd 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.
| 43rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 221 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to laws on vehicles and their use on the public highway so as to authorize the State Highway Department to employ twenty (20), License and Weight Inspectors, who shall be charged with the duty of strictly enforcing said laws. |
| HB 277 | Caption: Relating to regulating the license fee of registration of motorcycles and passenger cars. |
| HB 405 | Caption: Relating to giving to Krisch, Lanham and Walker, a partnership firm composed of Rudy Krisch, Jr., R.E. Lanham and S.P. Walker, of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, consent of the Legislature to sue the State of Texas and State Highway Commission for balance due under a contract dated February 2, 1931, for the improvement of Road No. 131, Job No. 136-B, in Kinney County, Texas, commencing at Station 0/00 Bracketville, and extending thence to Station 486/60.3 Spofford, and for damages in connection with and growing out of said contract. |
| HB 442 | Caption: Relating to creating a Central Mailing Bureau; providing for the control of such Bureau by the State Board of control; designating the duties and purpose of such Bureau; making an appropriation for the expense of operation and for the purchase of necessary equipment to establish and maintain said Bureau for a period of six months; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 448 | Caption: Relating to providing for the raising of public revenue by imposing a tax upon the retail sale to the consumer of the retail sale to the consumer of articles of personal consumption and use, and by imposing a tax upon the privilege of engaging in, operating, and conducting certain businesses, trades, occupations, callings, and professions in the State of Texas. |
| HB 472 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on retail sales; defining retail sales; providing for the registration of retailers and the payment of taxes on retail sales; providing for the filing a return with the tax commissioner subject to certain rules, conditions, and penalties. |
| HB 485 | Caption: Relating to requiring the State Board of Control, or other agencies of the State of Texas, having under its jurisdiction buildings, and the construction and design of buildings to be owned by the State of Texas, to employ an architect or engineer on all construction of any public buildings costing more than two thousand dollars ($2,000). |
| HB 500 | Caption: Relating to changing the season on wild turkey in the Third, Fifth, and Fourteenth Senatorial Districts and in certain counties; and providing a penalty for violations of this Act. |
| HB 502 | Caption: Relating to providing that persons holding scrip, issued to them for personal services rendered the county, may pay their ad valorem taxes, and that teachers holding vouchers, issued to them for personal services rendered the school district, may pay their school taxes with such vouchers, and that persons holding evidence of indebtedness, issued to them by cities and towns for personal services, may pay their city taxes with such evidences of their indebtedness. |
| HB 669 | Caption: Relating to authorizing school trustees to issue interest bearing warrants in payment of salaries of employees. |
| HB 679 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of monies deposited to the credit of the County and Road District highway Fund up to September 1, 1935, for application on the payment of principall, interest, and sinking fund on eligible ogligations. |
| HB 773 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Banking Commissioner of the State of Texas, with the approval of the Governor of Texas, from and after the passage of this Act, be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to declare financial moratoria for, and invoke a uniform limitation withdrawal, coextensive with the boundaries of the State, of deposits from all State banks, National banks, State banks and trust companies, trust companies, private banks, building and loan associations, and all other banking and financial institutions in the State of Texas, or both such moratoria and limitations of withdrawal of deposits, and to promulgate any and all orders and decress necessary to enforce such powers herein delegated; providing penalties for violations. |
| HB 863 | Caption: Relating to providing for rural aid in common school and independent school districts of a certain size in the State of Texas, and making an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 866 | Caption: Relating to providing that motor vehicles from foreign States, or countries, can not lawfully operate in this State past the time limit extended by this State on license plates issued for any previous year. |
| HB 880 | Caption: Relating to providing for changes in the times for terms of court in the Thirty-seventh-, Forty-fifth, fifty-seventh, and Seventy-third Judicial Districts of Texas, providing for vacations for the judges thereof, providing necessary provisions with reference to processes, writs, and petit jurors made necessary by the changes made by this Act, and validating nd legalizing the same, providing that the terms of court in the Ninety-fourth Judicial District of texas shall remain as now fixed by law until January 1, 1935. |
| HB 897 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission for the purpose of administering Federal and/or State funds for employment, rehabilitation and/or relief of the unemployed. |
| HB 943 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the State Tax Commissioner's Office for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1933, and ending August 31, 1935, which appropriation shall be in addition to the appropriation made for the State Tax Commissioner's Office in the regular Department Appropriation Bill, passed by the Regular Session of the Forty-third Legislature. |
| HB 946 | Caption: Relating to releasing interest and penalties on all delinquent ad valorem taxes due any city, town, or village, or independent school district, if said taxes are paid before the fifteenth day of September, 1933, and the governing body finds that unusual or excessive default has occurred in the payment of taxes, and that an extension of time will promote and accelerate collection thereof; suspending all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith during the term this Act is in force. |
| HCR 21 | Caption: Requiring the State Highway Commission to equip the Highway Motor Patrol with instruments for weighing motor vehicles and conducting brake tests. |
| HCR 53 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Providing for the election of officers of the House. |
| HR 78 | Caption: Endorsing R.A. Tullis for membership on the Federal Farm Board. |
| HR 96 | Caption: Naming Halmond K. Stanfield and Rudolph Cecil Lotief Mascots of the House. |
| HR 133 | Caption: Authorizing the Committee on Contingent Expense to install an electrical buzzer system in order to give notice of an impending vote. |
| HR 192 | Caption: Providing for the selection of a hostess to look after the Hall of the House after adjournment sine die. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 62 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider SB 73. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to repealing the pound fish tax, and providing a privilege license for any person before engaging in the business of a commercial fisherman, wholesale fish dealer, retail fish dealer. |
| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to making a certain emergency and supplemental appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas for the State Department of Health for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1934. |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to providing that every person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association of persons, before engaging in the business of a wholesale fish dealer or a retail fish dealer, shall make application to and receive from the Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission a license to engage in such business; prescribing appropriate penalties for failing to comply with or violating this Act. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to designating certain short wave radio stations as bureaus of criminal intelligence, providing a license fee therefor, providing further the right to designate a central criminal intelligence bureau. |
| HB 147 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of travel bureaus; defining a travel bureau, making violations of this Act a misdemeanor. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die. |
| HCR 10 | Caption: Extending thanks to the Texas Congressional delegation for their vote against prohibiting separate tax returns for husband and wife. |
| HR 8 | Caption: Providing for the selection of a portrait of John Nance Garner to be displayed in the Hall of the House. |
| HR 23 | Caption: Providing for an increase in telephone and telegraph expense accounts for members of the House. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of money to the State Treasurer. |
| HB 66 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of money for the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness. |
| HCR 36 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider HB 110. |
| HR 56 | Caption: Granting use of the Hall of the House to the Division of Child Welfare. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to raising revenues for the support of the Texas Centennial, the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas, and the Available School Fund of the State of Texas, by levying an occupation tax on the production of oil. |
| HCR 2 | Caption: Requesting that the Texas Centennial Commission change plans for the Centennial Celebration. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Requesting that the Highway Department erect markers along State highways designating historic spots for the Centennial celebration. |
| HR 25 | Caption: Requesting certain financial report from the Texas Centennial Commission. |
| HR 27 | Caption: Wishing Representative Joe McCullough a happy birthday. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so that said article shall provide that notices of the filing of final accounts in the estates of decedents may be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper or may be served by posting copies of such notices at the Court House for at least twenty days. |
| HB 532 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts regulating operation of Vehicles on Public Highways. |
| HB 772 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for certain fees in certain educational institutions. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Relating to investigation of water rights of the Rio Grande River by the Military Affairs Committee. |
| 42nd 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 27 | Caption: Relating to the work of the Appropriations Committee. |
| 41st Regular Session | |
| HB 676 | Caption: Relating to overtime allowances to prisoners in penitentiary, etc. |
| HR 19 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. A. W. Moursund. |
| HR 101 | Caption: Authorizing the Appropriations Committee to meet after adjournment. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to providing for the refunding to Merchants Transfer Company of certain moneys collected by the Tax Collector of Bexar County. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| HR 6 | Caption: Extending good wishes to State Rep. R. B. Ewing as he recovers from illness. |
| HR 18 | Caption: Directing the Texas Prison Board to grant the same privileges to female prisoners as it does to male prisoners. |
| HR 20 | Caption: Directing the Texas Prison Board to make certain newspapers accessible to the inmates of State penal institutions. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioner's Courts in certain counties to levy a direct tax for the purpose of advertising the cities of the county seats and counties. |
| HR 44 | Caption: Inviting J. G. H. Buck to address the House. |