Legislation authored by Cecil Azar Lotief
Includes legislation with Cecil Azar Lotief 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 | |
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| HB 46 | Caption: Relating to declaring monopolies contrary to public policy of this State; making it unlawful for those engaged in the public utility business to prevent or hinder legitimate competition, or to fix discriminatory rates. |
| HB 111 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925; regulating the construction and maintenance of magnetic telegraph lines. |
| HB 290 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any member of either branch of the Legislature of the State of Texas to be an employee, agent, representative, or attorney of any corporation, foreign or domestic, or joint stock company, or hold any retainer therefrom; prescribing the penalties. |
| HB 415 | Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to permit dancing upon premises used by retail dealer of beer, or to operate place of retail dealer of beer within three hundred yards of public dance hall; fixing penalties. |
| HB 592 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; levying a tax upon the occupation of producing natural gas. |
| HB 815 | Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of photography, defining photography, classifying photography, defining a studio, creating a board of examiners in photography, and declaring its powers and duties; making a violation of any provision of this Act a misdemeanor and imposing a penalty. |
| HB 997 | Caption: Relating to permitting and authorizing Joe H. Jones of Eastland, Texas, to bring and prosecute a suit against the State of Texas for recovering of fees paid into the State Treasury, or to file a cross action against the State in any suit that the State may hereafter institute against him and involving the fees of office of the district and county attorney during the period of time said Joe H. Jones was District and County Attorney of Eastland County. |
| HCR 144 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 11, 23, 24, and 32 so that both chambers can consider H.B. No. 997. |
| HJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 26, Article I of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to authorize municipalities to make flat-rate contracts with public utilities for any number of years, not exceeding twenty (20). |
| HJR 28 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for the initiative and referendum. |
| HR 23 | Caption: Amending Rule 9, Section 17 of the House Rules. |
| HR 37 | Caption: Providing for a special committee relative to unemployment in Texas. |
| HR 134 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass the "Utility Bill" and grant more regulations to Public Utility Companies. |
| HR 156 | Caption: Designating the poem "The Spirit of Texas" as the official poem of Texas. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 65 | Caption: Relating to levying a graduated occupation tax upon all producers engaged in the business of producing and selling natural and/or casinghead gas in intrastate commerce within the State of Texas, including all persons importing gas into the State, making certain exceptions; defining and making it a misdemeanor for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act and prescribing fines and penalties therefor. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Expressing disproval of certain newspaper articles. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to levying a graduated occupation tax upon all producers engaged in the business of producing and selling natural and/or casinghead gas in intrastate commerce within the State of Texas, including all persons importing gas into the State and selling the same in intrastate commerce within this State, making certain exceptions; defining and making it a misdemeanor for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act and prescribing fines and penalties therefor. |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; requiring every individual or company owning, controlling, or operating certain utility plants to make quarterly reports to the Comptroller. |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the production of salt, providing for an occupation tax of One ($1.00) Dollar per long ton of all salt produced within the State of Texas; providing penalties for failure to pay tax. |
| HR 9 | Caption: Congratulating Mary Catherine Berry on the occasion of her 82nd birthday. |
| HR 22 | Caption: Providing for the discontinuation the services of a certain committee. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that all individuals, companies, corporations, associations or partnerships owning, operating, managing or controlling any plant or process used in the manufacturing of milk into condensed or powdered form shall pay a gross receipt of one (1%) percent. |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of County Commissioners in certain counties where the taxable values in said counties are not less than Seven Million ($7,000,000.00) Dollars and not more than Seven Million, Two Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand ($7,225,000.00) Dollars. |
| HR 63 | Caption: Requesting the committee provided in H.R. No. 126 of the 44th Regular Session to submit its final report. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 337 | Caption: Relating to declaring monopolies contrary to public policy of this State; making it unlawful for those engaged in the public utility business to prevent or hinder legitimate competition, or to fix discriminatory rates; providing for prima facie evidence of violation; providing for quo warranto proceedings and forfeiture of charter; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 379 | Caption: Relating to placing under the intangible assets tax laws of this State all oil pipeline companies, gas pipeline companies, and all other classes of common carrier pipeline companies, whether individual or corporate; providing that should any sentence, paragraph, section, or part thereof, be held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect any remaining part or parts hereof. |
| HB 494 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to sealed proposals for county depositories, opening bids and selection of a depository, and bond for the county depositories. |
| HB 508 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to a tax on natural gas so as to change the rate levied thereon. |
| HB 661 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to an occupation tax on itinerant merchants so as to increase the amount of such tax. |
| HB 843 | Caption: Relating to providing for the selection of jurors by the jury wheel system in all counties in this State which had a poplation of 12,000, or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
| HJR 37 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 26, Article I, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to authorize municipalities to make flat-rate contracts with public utilities for any number of years, not exceeding twenty (20). |
| HR 5 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to notify the Governor and the Senate of the organization of the House. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Providing for the employ of two lawyers to assist members of the House in drawing proper and legal bills. |
| HR 35 | Caption: Providing for the employ of two lawyers to aid in the drafting of bills. |
| HR 48 | Caption: Requesting that the Committee on Appropriations investigate rumors of evasion of the nepotism law in certain state departments. |
| HR 85 | Caption: Naming Albert G. Walker, Jr. Mascot of the House. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to declaring monopolies contrary to public policy of this State; making it unlawful for those engaged in the public utility business to prevent or hinder legitimate competition, or to fix discriminatory rates; providing for prima facie evidence of violation; providing for quo warranto proceedings and forfeiture of charter. |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of occupation tax by producers of natural gas for light and fuel. |
| HB 96 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of occupation tax by producers of natural gas for light and fuel; and providing who shall be subject to the provisions hereof. |
| HR 20 | Caption: In memory of H.D. Holbrook, father of Senator T.J. Holbrook. |
| HR 35 | Caption: Relating to the gauging of oil production. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of occupation tax by producers of natural gas for light and fuel. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 26 | Caption: Relating to imposing intangible assets ta upon certain persons, associations, and corporations, oil and gas pipeline companies, and common carrier pipeline companies of every character whatsoever, including gas distributing companies, engaged in the transportation of oil and/or gas or either of them, and all classes of utility companies, including electric light and power, and telephone and telegraph companies, doing business wholly or in part within this State. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to levying a tax of one cent per thousand cubic feet (M. C. F.) upon every person, firm, company, corporation or pipeline company engaged in the transportation of natural gas within this State, providing for the payment and collection of such tax, fixing a lien, the fund same is to be placed in. |
| HB 34 | Caption: Relating to requiring companies operating certain public utilities to make quarterly reports to the Comptroller. |
| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to levying and imposing an occupation tax of two percent of the gross receipts of every person, firm, company, partnership, corporation or association of persons owning or operating any hotel or engaged in the hotel business in the State of Texas; providing penalties and interest for violations of this Act and for the non-payment of the taxes herein levied. |
| HR 9 | Caption: Requesting that the Governor submit the subject of revenue and taxation for the Texas Centennial. |
| HR 42 | Caption: In memory of W.H. Kittrell, Sr. |