Legislation authored by Melville Clyde Parrish

Includes legislation with Melville Clyde Parrish as the primary author for the 40th through 40th 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.

40th Regular Session
HB 67	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for repairing the roof of the old Land Office.
HB 195	Caption: Relating to the practice of barbering.
HB 267	Caption: Relating to the conservation of the soil and its protection against ultimate destruction of its productivity; making it a misdemeanor for any owner of land to plant cotton for a second year in succession; providing a penalty.
HB 310	Caption: Relating to granting and dedicating the City of Austin Texas, for exclusively municipal park and other recreational purposes, a certain tract of land.
HB 340	Caption: Relating to employing a custodian for the museum of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
HB 407	Caption: Relating to providing for the registration of trailers drawn behind motor vehicles and providing for annual license fee.
HB 409	Caption: Relating to increasing the number of horses exempted to a family and further define a carriage as exempted to a family.
HB 468	Caption: Relating to transferring to the University of Texas for University Purposes certain blocks of the City of Austin and also the heating plant at Camp Mabry.
HB 487	Caption: Relating to changing and increasing the compensation of Field Examiners for State Banks and Banking Corporations.
HB 488	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Banking Commissioner of Texas to appoint State Bank Examiners, not to exceed one for each thirty banking corporations subject to examination.
HB 500	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 348, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, of 1925, abolishing the position of liquidating agent in the banking department.
HB 501	Caption: Relating to requiring the Banking Commissioner of Texas to file a final report of all liquidations.
HB 502	Caption: Relating to requiring Directors of State Banks, Bank and Trust Companies and Banking Corporations, organized and doing business under the laws of this State, to be elected annually and providing a penalty.
HB 503	Caption: Relating to relieving State Banks, in the hands of the Banking Commissioner for liquidation, from the payment of franchise taxes, providing that the failure of the Commissioner to pay franchise taxes for any such bank shall not operate to revoke or forfeit the charter of such corporation.
HB 504	Caption: Relating to providing that no attorney's fee shall be collectible on notes or other evidence of debt issued by a State Bank in the hands of the Commissioner for liquidation, where such notes or other evidence of debt are placed with an attorney for collection within thirty days after closing of such bank.
HB 505	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the Banking Commissioner and his employees from purchasing, directly or indirectly, any asset belonging to a State bank in the hands of the Commissioner for liquidation; providing penalty.
HB 506	Caption: Relating to empowering the Banking Commissioner to require from State banks any statement concerning the affairs of such corporations as he may deem necessary; providing a penalty.
HB 507	Caption: Relating to repealing the provision of statute requiring bond of bank liquidating officer.
HB 508	Caption: Relating to requiring all State Banks, Savings Banks, and Bank and Trust Companies to adopt by-laws and to file certified copies of such by-laws with the Banking Commissioner; providing a penalty.
HB 509	Caption: Relating to making it a felony for any stockholder, officer, director, employee, or agent of any bank, incorporated and operating under the laws of this State, to abstract, remove, destroy, or secrete any papers, books or records of any such bank, or from the custody of the Banking Commissioner.
HB 510	Caption: Relating to making it a felony for any director, officer, or employee of a State Bank or Bank and Trust Company incorporated under the laws of this State who is, or may be actively engaged in the handling of the funds of any Bank or Bank and Trust Company and who is, or may be receiving a yearly or monthly salary from said Bank or Bank and Trust Company, to enter into any contract with a bucket shop, or to place any order with a bucket shop, as thus defined, for a margin contract or any contract denounced by Article 658 and by Article 661 of the Penal Code of Texas; fixing a penalty.
HB 511	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to State Banks which are members of Federal Reserve Bank; eliminating therefrom the words "and a receiver or other agency appointed for the liquidation of its affairs and the payment of its debts", and substituting therefor the following: "and taken over by the Banking Commissioner of Texas for the purpose of liquidation, as provided by law".
HB 512	Caption: Relating to requiring all State Banks to charge off annually for depreciation a percentage of cost of furniture and fixtures and regulating the carrying of bank buildings as an asset.
HB 513	Caption: Relating to amending Article 455, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, and eliminating therefrom the provision that stockholders who are depositors of insolvent banks shall be protected for only that portion of their deposits over and above their liability as stockholders.
HB 514	Caption: Relating to reducing the minimum penalty for embezzling or misapplying the funds of any State Bank or Bank & Trust Company incorporated under the laws of Texas from five years to two years.
HB 517	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of bonds for securing county deposits; provides who may make such bonds, the manner in which such deposits shall be secured and the amount of such bonds.
HB 531	Caption: Relating to prescribing the rate of interest that state banks, directors and officers thereof, may pay upon deposits made with such corporations.
HB 532	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale by any officer, director or employee of a state bank of any note, security or property to such bank without the written consent of the board of directors.
HB 533	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from being president and cashier, at the same time, in any bank, organized and operating under the laws of this State.
HB 534	Caption: Relating to authorizing the admission in evidence, in suits to which the Banking Commissioner of Texas may be a party, of all books, records, papers and documents, or certified copies thereof, of insolvent banks in course of liquidation by the Banking Commissioner and providing that such originals or certified copies shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein contained.
HB 535	Caption: Relating to allowing the recovery of attorney's fee and interest on Stockholders' assessments, in suits against stockholders of State banks to enforce their personal liability.
HB 536	Caption: Relating to relieving the Banking Commissioner of Texas and the State Banking Board from giving cost bonds in trial courts, and cost bonds and supersedeas bonds on appeal.
HB 545	Caption: Relating to requiring State Banks and State Bank and Trust Companies to increase their capital stock when there shall be an undue excess of deposits over capital stock and surplus, and giving the Banking Commissioner authority to require an additional increase of capital stock of such corporations when necessary for the protection of depositors.
HB 546	Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating the amendment of charters of State Banks and State Bank and Trust Companies.
HB 634	Caption: Relating to amending a civil statute regarding the security required of State depository banks and fixing the interest rate to be paid by said banks.
HCR 33	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a joint committee to select a state song from one of six candidates.
HR 113	Caption: Granting use of the Hall of the House to "the colored Knights of Pythias of the State of Texas."
40th 1st Called Session
HB 121	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Revised Civil Statutes relating to reserved deposits in savings departments of State banks.
HB 135	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 2538, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, providing for the investment of State funds in Government bonds.