Legislation authored by Frank Herman Frederic Burmeister

Includes legislation with Frank Herman Frederic Burmeister as the primary author for the 30th through 38th 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.

38th Regular Session
HB 410 Caption: Relating to requiring the erection of adequate fire escapes on certain classes of three or more story buildings now or hereafter constructed in this State.
HB 415 Caption: Relating to creating Laparita Valley Independent School District out of a part of the Charlotte Independent School District, and a part of the Jourdanton Independent School District, in Atacosa County, Texas; providing for a board of trustees therefor.
HB 475 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for additional inspectors for the Live Stock Sanitary Commission to pay compensation or expenses of such inspectors, said appropriation to be available for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1923.
HB 492 Caption: Relating to amending certain Act so as to include all lands owned or acquired by the State, either by gift, grant, donation or purchase, and hereafter to be so acquired, except State cemeteries and parks.
HB 493 Caption: Relating to extending for a period of three years from the passage of this act all permits to prospect for oil and gas heretofore issued on certain bodies of water, submerged lands and islands therein, and on university lands, surveyed, which are unsold at the time this act goes into effect.
HB 507 Caption: Relating to creating the Simmons Independent School District in Live Oak County, Texas; defining its boundaries.
HB 508 Caption: Relating to amending the act creating the Poteet Independent School District in Atascosas County.
HB 542 Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Registrar of Vital Statistics of this State to furnish certified copies of birth and death certificates free of charge to those who are unable to pay for same.
HB 676 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the county of Bishop, out of the territory taken from the existing counties of La Salle, Prio and McMullen.
38th 2nd Called Session
HB 164 Caption: Relating to amending certain law relating to holding elections, in regard to water improvement districts.
HB 204 Caption: Relating to extending for a period of five years from the passage of this Act all permits to prospect for oil and gas heretofore issued on river beds and channels, fresh water lakes and islands therein, and on University lands, asylum lands and public school lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, which are unsold at the time this Act goes into effect.
HR 9 Caption: Commending C. Read Granberry for his service to the Legislature as the Private Secretary to the Speaker of the House.
HR 39 Caption: Commending the citizens of West Texas for their hospitality to Members of the Legislature during a recent visit.
HR 43 Caption: Providing for a suspension of the House Rules in order to consider certain bills.
38th 3rd Called Session
HB 27 Caption: Relating to empowering municipal corporations or county commissioners' courts licensing and regulating public indoor recreation places; providing for issuing a of license by the State Comptroller.
HB 58 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on persons, firms, corporations, associations, partnerships, and persons operating under declarations of trust, engaged in the occupation of manufacturing, buying or selling goods, wares or merchandise, or following same maintains an office in this State and receives compensation for personal services.
HB 91 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon and against physicians, bacteriologists, chiropodists, occultists, dentists, attorneys and counselor at law, civil engineers, consulting engineers, constructural engineers, fire insurance agents, life insurance agents, real estate agents, auditors, certified public accountants, automobile dealers, automobile salesmen, undertaking establishments, bond brokers, wholesale grain dealers, proprietor of electrical establishments, proprietors of plumbing establishments, and providing for a penalty.
HB 97 Caption: Relating to amending certain law creating the Simmons Independent School District; increasing the number of school trustees to seven members; providing how the four additional trustees shall be elected for the first time and thereafter; and providing for the assessment and collection of all taxes in said district.
HB 119 Caption: Relating to creating the Whitsett Independent School District in Live Oak county, Texas; defining its boundaries; providing for the board of trustees; vesting title to all school property within said school district in the trustees and their successors.
HR 31 Caption: Suspending certain House Rules in order to consider Senate Bills.
37th Regular Session
HB 179 Caption: Relating to a certain Act providing for eradication of fever carrying cattle ticks.
HB 327 Caption: Relating to fixing the time for holding the terms of the District Court in the various counties composing the Eighty-first Judicial District of Texas.
HB 356 Caption: Relating to the destruction of prairie dogs, ground squirrels, rats, etc.
HB 493 Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act providing for the protection of farmers in contracts made in renting or cultivation of farm lands, etc.
HR 33 Caption: Providing for the Texas flag to be flown jointly with the U.S. flag during Session.
HR 47 Caption: Relating to keeping the House Hall lights on.
HR 57 Caption: Commending the citizens of Laredo, TX on hosting the Members of the House.
HR 73 Caption: Inviting M.M. Carrick to address the House.
34th Regular Session
HB 118 Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to officers of elections assisting a voter in preparing his ballot and providing a penalty.
HB 152 Caption: Relating to prescribing and defining the powers and duties of the commissioners courts and limiting the power of said court in incur any indebtedness in excess of two thousand dollars for providing or building courthouses, jails and other public buildings.
HB 383 Caption: Relating to creating the Lytle Independent School District.
HB 540 Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain sum to suppress and eradicate foul brood in bees, to be expended under the direction of the State Entomologist and the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
HB 581 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as better to define "whole sale dealer" and "barrel of oysters."
HB 597 Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of four thousand dollars for the suppression and eradication of charbon disease, or anthrax, to be expended under the direction of the State Board of Health.
HB 615 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to election contests.
HB 626 Caption: Relating to creating a Board of Managers for the State Cemetery at Austin, fixing rules regulating the interment of the dead in said cemetery.
HB 628 Caption: Relating to disorganizing Duval county and attaching it to Live Oak county for governmental purposes.
HB 642 Caption: Relating to creating the Wentz Independent School District, in McMullen county, Texas, and defining its boundaries.
HCR 11 Caption: Accepting the invitation of the citizens of Laredo to attend their Washington's Birthday Celebrations.
HJR 15 Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing females to vote.
HR 14 Caption: Providing an employee to oversee the sanitation of the House Chamber.
HR 47 Caption: Inviting Helen Todd to address the Legislature.
HR 95 Caption: Providing for the replacement of H. B. No. 311.
HR 97 Caption: Inviting J. J. Pastoriza to address the House.
HR 102 Caption: Granting the State Department of Health to use the House Chamber in order to give a presentation to the members of Legislature and the public.
34th 1st Called Session
HB 48 Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 98 of the General Laws of the Regular Session of the Thirty-fourth Legislature changing and prescribing the time of holding district court in the Forty-ninth Judicial District of Texas, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith.
HR 35 Caption: Inviting Colorado State Senator Helen Ring Robinson to address the House.
33rd Regular Session
HB 188 Caption: Relating to amending sections of the Act creating a more efficient road system for Fayette, Uvalde and Frio Counties, so as to include McMullen County and Atascosa County, and to provide for the increase of the payment of the road commissioners in the counties of Fayette, Uvalde, Frio, McMullen and Atascosa to three dollars per day for services actually performed in any one year.
HB 329 Caption: Relating to revaluing the property mortgaged in any chattel mortgage.
HB 370 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to make necessary repairs on the roof of the capitol.
HB 523 Caption: Relating to creating the Poteet Independent School District in Atascosa County, defining its metes and bounds.
HB 807 Caption: Relating to diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Frio County; to conform the jurisdiction of the district courts thereto.
HB 808 Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 24th, 36th, 49th and 28th Judicial Districts and creating the Seventy-fifth Judicial District.
HB 841 Caption: Relating to creating the Pearsall Independent School District in Frio County, Texas, including the town of Pearsall Incorporated for school purposes under General Laws of 1891.
HB 854 Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation and supervision of life insurance agents lapsing and twisting insurance policies in the state, providing a punishment therefor.
HJR 9 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the constitution extending the right of suffrage to women in the state.
HR 92 Caption: Endorsing State Rep. Gustave A. Heilig's application for the position of Collector of Internal Revenue in Austin.
33rd 1st Called Session
HB 40 Caption: Relating to experimental stations - amending Chapter 162, Acts of the Regular Session of the Thirty-third Legislature, relating thereto.