Legislation authored by John Forsythe Wallace
Includes legislation with John Forsythe Wallace as the primary author for the 37th 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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| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes relating to the salaries of superintendents of State eleemosynary institutions. |
| HB 353 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State governments for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1927, August 31, 1928, and August 31, 1929. |
| HB 354 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Revenue of the State for the several institutions and departments of the State Government for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1929. |
| HB 355 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to cover deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Judiciary Department of the State government of the State of Texas for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1925, 1926, 1927 and 1928. |
| HB 356 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the general revenue of the State for the Judiciary Department of the State government, for the balance of the fiscal years ending August 31, 1927, 1928 and 1929. |
| HB 578 | Caption: Relating to regulating tuition, fees and charges at State Educational Institutions; limiting the amount of same. |
| HB 647 | Caption: Relating to defining unfair discrimination; providing penalties. |
| HB 691 | Caption: Relating to condemnation of land for rights of way for State Highways. |
| HB 717 | Caption: Relating to regulating arrests under motor vehicle speed laws of this state, and designed to prevent unnecessary arrests under such laws. |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the Legislature to inaugurate the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor. |
| HR 6 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. Eugene H. Blount. |
| HR 40 | Caption: Providing for the employees of the House. |
| HR 59 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 26 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to cover a deficiency in appropriation heretofore made for the support of the State Government for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1928. |
| HB 187 | Caption: Relating to providing for the hiring of persons convicted of a misdemeanor or petty offense. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Providing the salary of certain employees of the House. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions. |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the State Government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1929 and ending August 31, 1931 and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto. |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions of the State. |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay salaries of Judges and the support and maintenance of the Judicial Department of the State Government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1929 and ending August 31, 1931. |
| HB 126 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of Four Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars or as much thereof as may be necessary out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas for supplementing the appropriation made for Rural Aid and the payment of high school tuition. |
| HB 212 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the General Revenue to pay the per diem and mileage of members; and the contingent expenses of the Second Called Session of the 41st Legislature of the State of Texas convened on the 3rd day of June, 1929, by proclamation of the Governor. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Providing for the creation of committees to notify the Governor and Senate that the House is organized. |
| 41st 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for certain educational institutions. |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for the support and maintenance of the State government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1929, and ending August 31, 1931, and for other purposes, and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto. |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain Eleemosynary institutions. |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay salaries of judges and the support and maintenance of the Judicial Department. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to notify the Governor and the Senate that the House is organized. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to providing for the reorganization of the penitentiary of the State of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Inviting the Governor to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to providing for the reorganization of the penitentiary of the State of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| HB 98 | Caption: Relating to the purchase for the State of Texas of property around the Alamo in San Antonio. |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions. |
| 40th Regular Session | |
| HB 159 | Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain sum for rural school education. |
| HB 377 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Penal Code relating to intoxicating liquor sold or furnished on prescription of a physician; prescribing a penalty. |
| HR 29 | Caption: Recommending use of a voting machine in the House. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to appropriating one and a half million dollars per year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the next two fiscal years, for the purpose of promoting rural school education and equalizing the school opportunities afforded by the State to all children of scholastic age living in small financially weak districts. |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to providing more adequately for the construction and maintenance of a system of highways; making better provision for a State Highway Department. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| HB 97 | Caption: Relating to appropriating two million dollars ($2,000,000) out of the general funds of the State to aid all the public schools for the scholastic year beginning September 1, 1925, and ending August 31, 1926, and two million dollars ($2,000,000) out of the general funds of the State to aid all the public schools for the scholastic year beginning September 1, 1926, and ending August 31, 1927, the same to be distributed as the available school fund is now distributed. |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to appropriation of one and a half million ($1,500,000.00) dollars per year to promote public school interests of rural schools. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, distribution, sale, prescription and furnishing of intoxicating liquor for medical purposes; regulating prescription of intoxicating liquor by physicians and the sale or furnishing of intoxicating liquor by pharmacists and prescribing the necessary regulations, requirements and penalties to carry out such purpose; providing for the keeping of the necessary information and records and the filing of same with public officers and agents to facilitate the enforcement of the liquor laws. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to providing for the care, restraint, diagnosis and treatment of persons who are insane, mentally ill or mentally defective; prescribing rule and regulations and defining offense in connection with the care and treatment of such persons; providing necessary salaries to carry out the purposes of this act, repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 250 | Caption: Relating to amending the nepotism law so as not to apply to members of the Legislature who, by reason of physical infirmities, require a personal attendant. |
| HB 650 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of District Attorney in the 77th Judicial District and providing that the county attorney of each county of said district shall perform the duties of a district attorney in said 77th District Court in their respective counties. |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Relating to the destruction of crops by boll worm. |
| HCR 22 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H.B. 249 for the purpose of correcting. |
| HCR 29 | Caption: Rescinding action on H.B. 249 and requesting that the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate erase their names from the enrolled bill. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Relating to remittance of taxes. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 330 | Caption: Relating to creating the Wortham Independent School District in Freestone County. |
| 38th Regular Session | |
| HB 48 | Caption: Relating to providing that all district attorneys, county judges, commissioners, and county attorneys, clerks of the district and county courts, and single clerks in counties where one clerk discharges the duties of district and county clerks, county treasurer, sheriff, county surveyor, assessor, collector, constable, cattle and hide inspector, justice of the peace, and all other county officers now or hereafter existing by authority either of the Constitution or laws, may be removed from office by the judges of the district court for incompetency, official misconduct, or becoming intoxicated by drinking intoxicating liquors as a beverage, whether on duty or not; providing such officers may not be removed because of such intoxication when produced by drinking intoxicating liquor upon direction and prescription of a licensed practicing physician of this State. |
| HB 180 | Caption: Relating to creating a Judicial District Court in the counties of Limestone and Freestone in the State of Texas, in addition to the 77th District Court now existing in said counties; providing for the terms and jurisdiction thereof in said counties and for the grand juries in said counties. |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to amending an act reorganizing the 13th Judicial District of Texas, and creating the 77th Judicial District of Texas so as to fix the terms of the District Court in Freestone and Limestone counties. |
| HB 425 | Caption: Relating to pertaining to the management and control of the prison system of this State so as to exempt the Board of Prison Commissioners, and members thereof, from giving or making any cost, bond, appeal bond, supersedeas bond, writ of error bond, or other bond or security in any civil suit or action heretofore or hereafter brought by or against it, or them. |
| HCR 21 | Caption: Authorizing the State Prison Board to acquire certain additional property at the Blue Ridge Farm site. |
| HJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the exchange of ownership by the Board of Prison Commissioners and the Hermann Hospital Estate of two certain tracts of land at the Blue Ridge State Farm situated in Fort Bend county, Texas. |
| HR 45 | Caption: Urging the House to prioritize bills addressing the issue of raising revenue for the funding of our public schools. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the sale of medicinal or other preparations in public places. |
| HB 405 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act requiring delinquent taxpayers to work on public roads. |
| HB 414 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the assessment of Sate and County poll taxes. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 126 | Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to corporate limits of cities and towns. |