Legislation authored by Elvis Abner Calvin
Includes legislation with Elvis Abner Calvin as the primary author for the 30th through 33rd 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.
| 33rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 461 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of Farmers' County Public Libraries. |
| HB 465 | Caption: Relating to fixing the ad valorem tax rate at five cents on the one hundred valuation for the purpose of creating a special fund for the payment of pensions for services in the Confederate Army or Navy, Frontier organizations and the militia of the state of Texas, and the widows of such soldiers serving in said organizations. |
| HB 541 | Caption: Relating to requiring all shippers of 'bolly' or 'threshed' cotton to mark on same the word 'bolly' with indelible ink and to require all railroad companies to take cognizance of such marks; to issue bills of lading accordingly; providing penalties. |
| HB 657 | Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of the fish and oysters within tide water limits along the gulf coast of this State from the most interior point of tide water seaward co-extensive with the jurisdiction of the State, and the fish in such fresh water lakes, rivers and streams inland as may be owned by the State; and to provide for the sale and contracting for dam sites and protection of all marl, sand ,gravel, shells and mudshell that may be in or upon the bottoms of any location, providing for the issuance of permits for taking pearls, providing for leasing of the bottoms and proceeds arising shall be credited to the Fish and Oyster Fund; providing penalties; providing for compensation and prescribing duties of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner and Chief Deputy. |
| HB 857 | Caption: Relating to providing for the formation and incorporation of rural credit unions as co-operative associations for the purpose of promoting thrift among their members, and for moderate loans of money for short periods. |
| HJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the constitution to authorize the issuance of bonds and collection of taxes for the payment of the interest and sinking fund of certain public improvements. |
| HJR 26 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the constitution to authorize the issuance of bonds to finance the construction and operation of public warehouses. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to amending Articles of the Penal Code of the Revised Criminal Statutes of Texas 1911; providing for the conduct of the business of public warehousemen, describing what constitutes such warehouse, and defining who shall be held to be public warehousemen; providing a penalty for public warehousemen who violate provisions of this Act. |
| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Bonded Warehouse System and affording a method of co-operative marketing for those engaged in the production of farm and ranch products; creating a State Warehouse Commission; defining the authority of the Commission and giving it powers of visitation over corporations chartered under the act; declaring gins to be subject to public use and requiring that all gins to be subject to public use and requiring that all gins in the State after July 31, 1914, shall obtain a license from the State Warehouse Commission and prescribing certain rules and regulations relative to the ginning and baling of cotton and sampling the same; prescribing penalties. |
| 33rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to creating a state bonded permanent warehouse system; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to establishing "The Bank of Texas" to provide a Fiscal Agency for the State, its counties, municipal corporations and all districts with the power to levy and collect taxes. |
| 33rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to establishing "The Bank of Texas" to provide a Fiscal Agency for the State, its counties, municipal corporations and all districts with the power to levy and collect taxes and issue bonds or to expend the public funds; defining the powers and authority of The Bank of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| 28th Regular Session | |
| HB 155 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the scholastic age of children, and adding two years to the present age. |
| HB 175 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the employment of a clerk or secretary of the Confederate Home, and fixing his compensation. |
| HB 536 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the creation of corporations. |