Legislation authored by John E. Davis
Includes legislation with John E. Davis as the primary author for the 32nd through 41st 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.
| 41st Regular Session | |
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| HCR 11 | Caption: Providing for the printing of a Legislative Manual. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Suspending the seventy-two hour Rule relating to Senate and House bills until Wednesday, twelve o'clock noon. |
| HR 14 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. J. C. Rugel. |
| HR 20 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. George Ware. |
| HR 33 | Caption: Providing for the election of House officers. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Providing compensation for the pre-session work of certain House employees. |
| HR 83 | Caption: Providing certain renovations to the Speaker's offices. |
| HR 107 | Caption: Providing for post-Session employment for House employees. |
| HR 112 | Caption: Providing cushions for the Chairs of the Appropriations Committee Room. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| HR 3 | Caption: Providing for the printing and distribution of House Journals. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Providing compensation for certain pre-session labor by employees of the House. |
| HR 22 | Caption: Providing compensation for certain expenses incurred by the State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions Committee. |
| HR 42 | Caption: Providing post-Session employment for certain House employees. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 122 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to purposes for which private corporations may be formed; providing that corporations may be formed for the purpose of dealing in oil leases and royalties. |
| HB 179 | Caption: Relating to validating incorporations of cities, towns and villages; amending certain laws. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Providing for the printing and distribution of the House Journals. |
| HR 33 | Caption: Directing the Appropriations Committee to continue meeting in order to finish the necessary affairs. |
| HR 37 | Caption: Providing post-session work for employees of the House. |
| 41st 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 1 | Caption: Providing compensation for the employees of the House. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Providing for the printing and distributions of the House Journals. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to visit State Rep. N. R. Strong as he recovers from illness. |
| HR 20 | Caption: Directing the State Board of Control to not allow certain rooms of the Capitol to be used during the interim without express permission from the Speaker. |
| HR 21 | Caption: Providing post-session clerical work for certain House employees. |
| HR 22 | Caption: Authorizing the Appropriations Committee to continue to meet after adjournment. |
| HR 23 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to inform the Senate and the governor that the House is prepared to adjourn Sine Die. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| HR 1 | Caption: Providing supplies for the Members of the House. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Providing salaries for the employees of the House. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Providing access to newspapers for the Members of the House. |
| HR 39 | Caption: Inviting former State Rep. F. O. Fuller to address the House. |
| HR 43 | Caption: Authorizing the Committee on State Affairs to conduct an investigation into the offices of State Treasurer and State Auditor and that the committee shall upon its conclusion recommend to the House such action as may be necessary. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| HR 29 | Caption: Providing supplies for the Members of the House. |
| HR 30 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the House Journals. |
| HR 59 | Caption: Providing post-session employment for the staff of the House. |
| 40th Regular Session | |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to assessments for street widening and street opening. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Providing for the compiling and printing of the Legislative Manual for the 40th Legislature. |
| HCR 35 | Caption: Instructing the State Board of Control to deliver seventy-five copies of session laws to the State Library, which should be bound in buckram and not paper. |
| HR 34 | Caption: Providing for pre-session pay for certain employees. |
| HR 46 | Caption: Providing for the payment of expenses for the Governor's inaugural ceremony. |
| HR 73 | Caption: In memory of Edna Rugel, daughter of former Representative J.C. Rugel. |
| HR 101 | Caption: Providing for funeral expenses for Representative A.J. Durham. |
| HR 111 | Caption: Providing for post-session work for certain employees. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 4 | Caption: Providing for employees of the House. |
| HR 14 | Caption: Providing for pre-session pay for certain employees. |
| HR 46 | Caption: Instructing contracting printer to print and deliver the last day's House journal promptly. |
| HR 49 | Caption: Providing for post-session work for certain employees. |
| HR 51 | Caption: Inviting former Representative and Senator J.H. Woods to address the House. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| HB 687 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the general revenue of the State of Texas, to pay the contingent expenses of the Regular Session of the Thirty-ninth Legislature of the State of Texas; providing how accounts may be approved. |
| HR 34 | Caption: Providing pay for the elevator operator of the House. |
| HR 128 | Caption: Providing for post session work. |
| HR 137 | Caption: Relating to compiling session acts by the Speaker of the House. |
| HR 146 | Caption: In memory of Charles Culberson. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Dallas County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| HB 386 | Caption: Relating to the creation of Dallas County Fresh Water Supply District No. 7 in Dallas County, Texas. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act providing for the appointment of a guardian of a person of unsound mind or an habitual drunkard, on a hearing before the court. |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act providing for the appointment of deputy constables in justice precincts in which there is no city of eight thousand or more inhabitants. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the apportion the State into Representative districts, and to fix the number of Representatives thereof. |
| HB 254 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act apportion the State of Texas into Representative districts, etc. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the Legislative Manual of the 37th Legislature. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Directing the State Board of Control to restrict access of the quarters of the Speaker and Lieutenant Governor. |
| HCR 41 | Caption: Relating to the supplies in the Sergeant-at-Arms room. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Providing for certain employees of the House. |
| HR 8 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the House Journal. |
| HR 30 | Caption: Providing for payment of porters for their extra work. |
| HR 56 | Caption: Commending the Von Boeckmann-Jones Co. on providing alphabetized folders to the House. |
| HR 86 | Caption: In memory of U.S. Speaker of the House Champ Clark. |
| HR 98 | Caption: Relating to post-Session work. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to apportion the State into Representative Districts. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Providing for the payment of the employees of the House. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the House Journal. |
| HR 12 | Caption: Providing pay for the temporary employees of the House. |
| HR 40 | Caption: Inviting former State Representative H.B. Savage to address the House. |
| HR 46 | Caption: Providing for post-session clerical work. |
| 37th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts, and to fixing the number of Representatives thereof. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles by defining the term "commission merchants," and requiring all commission merchants dealing in agriculture products, including poultry, other than live stock dealers and corporations chartered under the General Laws of Texas, to take out a license through the Commissioner of Agriculture of this State, paying a fee therefor, authorizing them to do business in this State; prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 496 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain law as amended which relates to reports to made each month by county officers as to actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the conduct of their several offices to the auditing of such expense account and the manner of payment of the same. |
| HB 623 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Fifteen Thousand ($15,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses of the regular session of the Thirty-sixth Legislature. |
| HCR 13 | Caption: Providing for the printing and distribution of copies of the Legislative Manual of the Thirty-fifth Legislature. |
| HR 134 | Caption: Recognizing Representative McCord on the occasion of his 71st birthday. |
| HR 155 | Caption: Providing for payment of per diem and mileage of members and employees of the committee to examine the comptroller's and state treasurer's departments. |
| HR 166 | Caption: Providing for post-session clerical work. |
| HR 174 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of committees to notify the Senate and the Governor that the House is ready to adjourn sine die. |
| 36th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 19 | Caption: Congratulating Representative C.O. Laney and Marie Byrne on the occasion of their marriage. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 173 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide for the appointment of a guardian of a person with unsound mind or an habitual drunkard without the need of a jury trial. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to re-enacting and amending an act to create a more efficient road system for Dallas County, Texas. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| HB 117 | Caption: Relating to the holding of elections in public buildings in all instances when practicable. |
| HB 235 | Caption: Relating to the compensation, fees and duties of district and county attorneys and certain officers. |
| HB 517 | Caption: Relating to amending criminal procedure relating to the amount of the allowance to Sheriffs for the maintenance of prisoners. |
| HB 669 | Caption: Relating to creating the county court of Dallas County at law, so as to restore to the county court of Dallas county jurisdiction in all matters and causes, civil and criminal, over which by the general laws of the State, county courts have jurisdiction. |
| HR 57 | Caption: In memory of former Texas Statesman O.P. Bowser of Dallas, Texas. |
| HR 99 | Caption: Congratulating Representative J.O. Smith and his wife on the occasion of birth of their son. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of Official Stenographers for grand juries by the judges of the District Courts. |
| HB 156 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes; fixing the compensation of county commissioners in counties having a population of 30,000 and over; and counties under 30,000 population. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| HB 114 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of land that may have been or may hereafter be sold to the State of Texas under judgment foreclosing tax lien; freeing such land when sold from any other accrued State and county taxes. |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners court of any county in the State to levy and collect a tax not to exceed five (5) cents on each $100 of assessed valuation of the county for one year for the purchase and improvement of lands for county parks, and providing the manner of acquiring lands for park purposes, and providing for the management and control of said county parks. |
| HB 154 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to incorporation of certain cities and towns, and for the acceptance by certain cities and towns of the provisions; providing for application for incorporation. |
| HB 479 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the time and place of holding elections and providing that in all instances where practicable all elections shall be held in some public building within the limits of the election precinct; authorizing the use of public building. |
| HB 505 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the duties and maximum amount of fees to be retained by certain county and district officials. |
| HB 613 | Caption: Relating to enlarging the concurrent jurisdiction of the Criminal District Court of Dallas County, Texas, and the Criminal District Court No. 2 of Dallas County, Texas. |
| HR 134 | Caption: Commending Speaker John W. Woods for his service as Speaker during the session. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 61 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of land that may have been or may hereafter be sold to the State of Texas under judgment foreclosing tax lien; providing a method of advertising the same; freeing such land when sold from any other accrued State and county taxes. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing that any incorporated city, town, or village of a certain population is authorized to extend its limits. |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners court in any county to levy and collect a tax not to exceed 5 cents on each 100 dollars of assessed valuation of the county for one year for the purchase, improvement and management of park lands. |
| HB 130 | Caption: Relating to providing for the safe-keeping, support, and maintenance of prisoners confined in jail, or under guard. |
| HB 164 | Caption: Relating amending articles of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, providing for the payment of salaries instead of fees to district, county and precinct officers. |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in any city or town which has fixed limits in which the same shall be sold, outside of such limits, and providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 335 | Caption: Relating to duties of railroad agents, and affixing a penalty. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to Mrs. F. E. Gardner, surviving widow of W.S. Gardner patient and inmate of the State Epileptic Colony, to bring suit against the State, to ascertain, fix and establish her claims for his death as the result of wounds alleged to have been inflicted by another inmate under the control of the State. |
| HB 600 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of land that may have been or may hereafter be sold to the state, under judgment foreclosing tax lien, providing a method of conveying same and the disposition of the proceeds of such sale and freeing such land when sold from any other accrued state and county taxes. |
| HB 742 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 19 of the General Laws by adding thereto section 7 and renumbering its present sections 7 and 6. |
| HR 128 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules limiting the duration of speeches given by Members to 10 minutes. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 64 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 7642, of Chapter 13, Title 126, Revised Statutes of 1911, providing for the redemption by the owners of lands or lots heretofore sold to the State, city or town for taxes, and to provide for the sale of land that may have been under judgment foreclosing tax lien. |
| HB 77 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Dallas county, Texas, and defining the powers and duties of the commissioners court of said county and making county commissioners ex-officio road commissioners of their respective districts. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| HB 63 | Caption: Relating to regulating fees and salaries paid; providing for the keeping and maintenance of county prisoners and to create the office of jailor; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 123 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners of any county in the State to levy and collect a tax on assessed valuation of the county for the purchase and improvement of lands for county parks. |
| HB 235 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act providing that any incorporated city, town or village in this State containing six hundred inhabitants or over, including those incorporated under Chapter 11 of this title, and other laws general and special, may accept the provisions of this title. |
| HB 297 | Caption: Relating to the qualifications and service of grand jurors. |
| HB 346 | Caption: Relating to providing for publicity of contributions to campaign funds in this State; providing penalties. |
| HB 349 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or association of persons to haul Johnson grass hay along any public road or highway unless the same be baled; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 421 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into representative districts and to fix the number of representatives thereof. |
| HB 422 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to the purpose for which corporations may be created. |
| HB 458 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act prescribing franchise taxes and providing for the collection thereof, extending until the first day of September, 1911, the time during which corporation embraced pay taxes and penalties. |
| HB 497 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to Sunday Law. |
| HB 498 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to insurance, providing the limitations upon the amount of any one risk or hazard; providing that re-insurers shall be authorized to do business in the State. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act to create the "County Court of Dallas County at Law, ' to define the jurisdiction thereof". |
| HB 544 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to corporations. |
| HB 587 | Caption: Relating to creating the Garland Independent School District in Dallas county, Texas, so as to include the territory situated within the bounds of the town of Garland in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, and other lands and territory adjacent thereto, providing for the election of a Board of Trustees to manage and control the public free schools within said district and for the continuance in office of certain trustees until said election; prescribing limitations. |
| HB 615 | Caption: Relating to incorporating and creating the Rylie Independent School District of Dallas County, Texas, for free school purposes only, defining its boundaries and providing for the election of a board of trustees, for the raising of revenue by taxation, issuing of bonds; vesting said district and board with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred upon Independent School Districts. |
| 32nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 47 | Caption: Relating to incorporating and creating the Rylie Independent School District of Dallas county, Texas, for free school purposes only. |
| 29th Regular Session | |
| HB 222 | Caption: Relating to the levying and collection of poll taxes. |