Legislation authored by Thomas Kirk Irwin
Includes legislation with Thomas Kirk Irwin as the primary author for the 38th through 39th 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.
| 39th Regular Session | |
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| HB 16 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to indeterminate sentences so as to provide for the discharge of certain convicts under indeterminate sentences upon certain conditions, and providing that this Act shall apply to convicts now serving indeterminate sentences in the penitentiary as well as to those who shall hereafter be sentenced to indeterminate terms of imprisonment in the penitentiary. |
| HB 66 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the writ for the apprehension of persons who are lunatics or non compos mentis and their detention by prohibiting the incarceration of such persons in county jails in counties where city or county hospitals exist, providing they shall be detained n such county or city hospitals. |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas relating to the modes of punishments of convicts; fixing punishment for violation thereof. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to fixing the compensation of baliffs of the grand jury. |
| HB 359 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to authorizing the free transportation to ministers of religion when making intrastate trips; defining ministers of religion. |
| HB 379 | Caption: Relating to defining the venue in criminal prosecutions wherein the defendant charged is an officer, agent or employee of the State of Texas, having to do with the State penitentiary system, or the prisoners in the State penitentiary, and wherein the defendant is charged with an offense connected with, relation to or committed in the performance of any duty relating to the penitentiary system or prisoners in the penitentiary; fixing such venue in addition to the venue existing under present law. |
| HB 672 | Caption: Relating to creating Irwindell Independent School District in Dallas County, Texas. |
| HR 12 | Caption: In memory of deceased members of the 38th Legislature. |
| HR 27 | Caption: Appointing a committee to investigate the penitentiaries system of Texas. |
| HR 47 | Caption: Relating to Penitentiary Investigation Committee. |
| HR 53 | Caption: Inviting the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Associate Justices to address the House. |
| HR 99 | Caption: Relating to conditions in prison system. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 2 | Caption: Appointing a committee to investigate the issues and allegations relating to the Hidalgo County bonds. |
| 38th Regular Session | |
| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities having more than 10,000 population to purchase and condemn real estate for highways, public squares or public places therein, and to provide for the cost thereof, and for the assessment of such costs against property benefited by such improvements and against its owners, and to enforce the collection thereof. |
| HB 53 | Caption: Relating to creating two additional District Courts for Dallas County, defining their jurisdictions, adjusting the business of the existing District Courts to the business thereof, prescribing the duties of the District Clerk with respect thereto, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of the Banking Commissioner of Texas; fixing his term of office, official name compensation and prescribing his qualifications and duties. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Banking Commissioner of Texas may take possession of any bank or trust company under the provisions of the bank deposit guaranty law of the State of Texas. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to providing that State banks, or State bank and trust companies, organized under the general laws of the State of Texas, desiring to convert to any other system of banking, shall give notice to the public by advertisement in a newspaper of such change. |
| HB 208 | Caption: Relating to providing that all banks and trust companies mentioned in Article 445 of the Revised Statute of the State of Texas shall have the right to secure its depositor under the term,set forth. |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a State Banking Board, fixing the number of members thereof, and defining the duties and powers of said board. |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to providing for the amount of capital stock of State banks or State bank and trust companies that may be hereafter organized under Texas law. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to repealing statute allowing any bank whose property and business the Banking Commissioner has taken possession of to apply to the district court to enjoin further proceedings. |
| HB 212 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act by providing that all State banks or State bank and trust companies provided for in said act shall have the right to use any truthful method of advertising. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense to drive an automobile or any motor-driven vehicle upon the streets of any incorporated city, town or village or upon the public highways under the influence of intoxicating liquor. |
| HB 238 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation Young Men's Christian Association buildings, Young Men's Hebrew Association buildings, and Young Women's Christian Association buildings. |
| HB 250 | Caption: Relating to providing for the election of constables, and terms of office, and for the appointment of two deputies in justice precincts where there is a city in said precinct of a certain number of inhabitants. |
| HB 254 | Caption: Relating to fixing in certain counties the compensation of district attorneys and providing for appointment of assistant district attorneys, investigators, stenographers, deputies and other employees and providing for their salaries and the manner of their payment, and repealing all laws in conflict herewith with exceptions. |
| HB 398 | Caption: Relating to providing the manner in which State funds shall be kept and deposited, defining the State Depository Board and its powers, and what banks may become State depositories, and the manner and means of selecting, and for the qualification of such State depositories. |
| HB 438 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act preventing the indiscriminate or fraudulent use of Notarial Seals, by requiring the name of each notary public to be engraved in the margin of the seal of said notary. |
| HB 452 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of an indeterminate sentence upon conviction for a felony; and providing for conditional pardon of persons convicted of felony under certain conditions. |
| HB 473 | Caption: Relating to conferring authority upon the State Depository Board to postpone the selection of State depositories in view of legislation pending in the Legislature. |
| HB 569 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article so as to provide that corporations otherwise duly authorized, which are organized under the laws of any other State, or of the United States, upon compliance with the laws of this State relating to insurance other than life, may enjoy the privileges and do the business authorized and conferred in certain statutes. |
| HB 598 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing for the bond of the State Treasurer so as to provide for the making of such bond with a surety company and the payment of the expense incident thereto by the State. |
| HJR 24 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 16 of the Constitution of Texas giving to the Legislature power and authority to provide pensions for firemen and policemen. |
| HR 72 | Caption: Inviting F. Emory Lyon to address the Members of the House. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to making it a felony to drive an automobile or any motor driven vehicle upon the streets of any incorporated city, town or village or upon the public highway while the driver is under the influence of intoxicating liquor, prescribing the punishment for such violation. |
| HB 195 | Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of convicts, condemned to death, by electrocution; prescribing the procedure in such cases. |
| HB 200 | Caption: Relating to creating and providing for a Department of Banking for the State of Texas, separate from the Department of Insurance of this State, providing for the appointment, term of office, official name, compensation and prescribing the qualifications, powers, and duties of the head of such Department. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment and qualification of non-resident guardians of the estate of non-resident minors in the State of Texas; prescribing the procedure in such cases; fixing the amount of the bond of such guardians. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 102 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any city in the State of Texas of one hundred fifty thousand or more population, whether organized by special law, home rule charter, or general laws of the State of Texas, to disannex unimproved territory. |