Legislation authored by Thomas Bunyan Ridgell
Includes legislation with Thomas Bunyan Ridgell as the primary author for the 33rd 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 55 | Caption: Relating to amending article 1333 of the revised statutes providing for the submission of causes on special issues upon request of any party to the suit, or upon the courts own initiative. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to making it the duty of the attorney general to institute all suits and proceedings necessary to recover for the state all property that may escheat and vest in the state. |
| HB 89 | Caption: Relating to jurors in justice and city courts, providing for excuses, qualifications and days of service. |
| HB 171 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to throw or deposit any glass bottle, glass, nails, tacks, hoops, wire, cans or any other substance in a public road, street or alley likely to injure any person, animal, automobile or vehicle, and to provide a punishment for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 182 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to operate or drive an automobile, motor cycle, or any other motor vehicle when intoxicated and providing penalty therefor. |
| HB 300 | Caption: Relating to whenever any foreign corporation doing business in this state shall remove any cause from the state court to federal court, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to revoke the license of such corporation. |
| HB 308 | Caption: Relating to selling goods on Sunday. |
| HB 331 | Caption: Relating to charges of the court. |
| HB 431 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense for any person to willfully injure or destroy any shade tree or any ornamental tree not his own, and providing penalty. |
| HB 432 | Caption: Relating to making insanity a ground for divorce, when same shall have continued for ten consecutive years and there shall be no reasonable expectation that the insane shall ever be restored to sanity, and prescribing rules of procedure in suits for divorce on such grounds. |
| HB 440 | Caption: Relating to providing, that where any carriage, buggy, wagon, plow or any article constructed, manufactured or repaired for any person, shall be liable for the price of the labor and material employed in constructing, manufacturing or repairing the same and giving a lien against the article. |
| HB 635 | Caption: Relating to providing liens on materials furnished in the construction of levees or embankments. |
| HB 650 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Rockwall County, Texas, and making the commissioners court of said county ex-officio road commissioners in their respective precincts, and providing for, and fixing their compensation as such road commissioners, providing penalties for violation of this Act. |
| HB 665 | Caption: Relating to creating the Rockwall Independent School District. |
| HB 680 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Statutes in regard to the Board of Pardon Advisers. |
| HB 741 | Caption: Relating to amending the General Laws relating to exemptions as affecting certain persons |
| HB 792 | Caption: Relating to making it murder in the first degree for any person not in his own actual necessary self-defense to kill any reasonable creature in being, though without an apparent intention to kill, where the killing is done by shooting or in any other manner, in a public place or street where people commonly resort for pleasure or business, prescribing a penalty. |
| HCR 4 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the cost and arrange travel in order that the Legislature may attend the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Transmitting a communication to President-elect Woodrow Wilson. |
| HR 61 | Caption: Directing the Committee on Penitentiaries to make a visit to the state's institutions to inspect the facilities. |
| HR 66 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to accompany the Penitentiary Committee on their inspection tour. |
| HR 81 | Caption: In memory of State Rep. D. C. Kelley. |
| HR 153 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. J. W. Crayton. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to regulating and supervising the sale and purchase of stocks and bonds of private, foreign and domestic corporations. |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to providing for the service of citation upon agents of non-resident defendants, and defendants absent from the state in causes pending in the courts of this state, and to declare who are the agents of such defendants. |
| HB 57 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes, relating to attachments, providing for the issuance of attachments in suits against persons, co-partnerships, associations, or corporations upon whom personal service cannot be obtained within this State, founded in tort and upon unliquidated demands and providing for the fixing of the amount of bond in such cases. |