Legislation authored by John E. Blaine
Includes legislation with John E. Blaine as the primary author for the 54th through 61st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 61st Regular Session | |
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| HB 1188 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conveyance of certain state-owned lands to the City of El Paso to be used for park purposes. |
| HB 1189 | Caption: Relating to the Firemen's and Policemen's pension fund in cities of more than 275,000 inhabitants and less than 300,000 inhabitants. |
| HB 1225 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System to acquire by purchase, exchange, gift, or otherwise certain properties to be used for campus expansion and other university purposes at The University of Texas at El Paso. |
| HR 117 | Caption: Commending Reverend B.M.G. Williams of El Paso, Texas. |
| HR 118 | Caption: Commending Mrs. Maurice Schwartz of El Paso, Texas. |
| 61st 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Inviting Governor Preston Smith to address a joint session of the legislature on July 28, 1969. |
| 61st 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 81 | Caption: Commending Robert E. (Bob) Johnson, Parliamentarian of the House. |
| 60th Regular Session | |
| HB 222 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the "Board of Regents of the University of Texas" to the "Board of Regents of The University of Texas System." |
| HR 141 | Caption: Electing children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 309 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the Office of Mascot. |
| HR 437 | Caption: Commending L. H. "Barney" Koogle of El Paso for his service to the community. |
| 60th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 81 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot of the House. |
| 59th Regular Session | |
| HB 1055 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conveyance of certain State-owned lands to the City of El Paso to be used for park purposes. |
| HR 102 | Caption: Congratulating Brigadier General James B. Stapleton on his distinguished military career. |
| HR 149 | Caption: Providing for the permissions of contingent expenses of Members of the House. |
| HR 163 | Caption: Naming Valorie Lynn Scoggins and Julie Ann Scoggins as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 413 | Caption: Naming Raul Muniz, III, as Mascot of the House. |
| HR 439 | Caption: Congratulating Gladys Rodehaver of El Paso on her efforts in the arts. |
| HR 485 | Caption: In memory of Jim Surratt of El Paso. |
| HR 501 | Caption: Authorizing additional credit for contingent expenses of Members. |
| 59th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 6 | Caption: Providing for a photograph of the Honorable Roger Dale Brown. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to providing for the power to acquire lands and buildings, for parks, playgrounds, historical museums, or upon which are located historic or prehistoric sites, to purchase historically significant items. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for anyone, not being the owner thereof, and without lawful authority, to willfully injure, disfigure, remove or destroy any historical structure, monument, marker, medallion, or artifact; providing penalties. |
| HB 530 | Caption: Relating to allowing cities and counties to acquire historical museums, buildings, sites and landmarks, and sites of archaeological or paleontological interest. |
| HB 531 | Caption: Relating to providing for duties of the Texas State Historical Survey Committee. |
| HB 532 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for anyone to willfully excavate in or upon or to disturb, deface, disfigure, damage, destroy or remove any historic or prehistoric ruin, burial ground, archaeological or vertebrate paleontological site, or site including fossilized footprints, inscriptions made by human agency, or any other archaeological or paleontological feature, or any historical marker, medallion, monument or other historical feature, situated on lands owned or controlled by the State of Texas, or any agency thereof; providing penalties. |
| HB 533 | Caption: Relating to providing for the acquisition of lands upon which are located historic and prehistoric sites and other historical features by the State Building Commission, allowing certification or authentication by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee, authorizing the erection and maintenance of historic monuments or memorials, the locating and marking of graves of former Texas heroes, the maintenance of monuments and memorials erected by the State of Texas to commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence. |
| HB 534 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners court of each county to appropriate monies for the purpose of erecting historical markers, monuments, and medallions, and purchasing objects and collections of objects of any kind which are of historical significance to such county. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the county judge to appoint a County Historical Survey Committee. |
| HB 663 | Caption: Relating to the Firemen and Policemen pension fund in cities of over one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants providing for enlarging the membership in the board of trustees, increasing the maximum amount deductible, making participation compulsory within specified age limit. |
| HB 782 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to provide for a United States Bonded Liquor Export Permit authorizing the holder thereof to engage in the business of importing, transporting, and warehousing United States bonded liquor and the exporting of the same in less than wholesale quantities. |
| HR 99 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 297 | Caption: Providing additional funds to the Members of the House from the Committee of Contingent Expenses. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts permitting the use, in cities of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants in which voting machines are used, of paper ballots under certain conditions, and to lower to five (5) days the period for keeping voting machines locked, under certain conditions. |
| HB 644 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the county board of school trustees of certain counties to create a separate independent school district to contain the same territory then contained in any city assumed or controlled school district in the county where such district extends. |
| HB 826 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance and retirement of funding bonds for the purpose of financing valid outstanding General Revenue Fund Warrants. |
| HR 383 | Caption: Inviting Mayor Raymond L. Telles, Jr. of El Paso to the Capitol to be introduced to the Members of the House. |
| HR 702 | Caption: Commending Dr. Stuart A. MacCorkle, the Institute of Public Affairs, and the University of Texas for their services to the State. |
| HR 723 | Caption: Commending Brigadier General John D. Stevens of Fort Bliss for his service. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 7 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance and retirement of funding bonds for the purpose of financing valid outstanding General Revenue Fund Warrants; making an appropriation to defray necessary expenses and to pay principal and interest maturing during the first biennium. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to authorizing an emergency appropriation for the Texas Industrial Commission to permit continuation of expenditures from the Texas Industrial Commission Special Fund for the remainder of the present fiscal year beginning May 30, 1959, and ending August 31, 1959. |
| HCR 49 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider S. B. No. 10 at any time. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 51 | Caption: In memory of Victor B. Gilbert of El Paso. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to the practice of barbering in this state; removing the provisions affecting and concerning beauty parlors and other similar establishments from the sections pertaining to barbering. |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Providing for a Joint Session to canvass the votes cast for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. |
| HR 342 | Caption: In memory of Judge Robert Reeves Patterson, Sr., of Snyder. |
| HR 432 | Caption: Welcoming Doctor Dietmar Straub to the State Capitol. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to defining the qualifications of electors in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| HB 313 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relative to the handling of the school funds in any independent school district of more than one hundred and fifty scholastics. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to requiring the assessor-collector of taxes of each county to attend one professional conference or legal institute each year and such other conferences or institutes as may be called by the State Comptroller of Public Accounts; providing that the county shall pay all the expenses of the assessor-collector of taxes for attending these conferences or institutes. |
| HB 487 | Caption: Relating to coordinating and correlating the existing statutes relating to the equalization of property for purposes of ad valorem taxation and the fixing of tax rates by all governmental subdivisions and districts whose taxes are carried on the county tax roll, and to provide the county tax assessor-collector sufficient time to complete the current tax roll, current receipts and tax notices prior to the date fixed by law for current collections to begin. |
| HB 488 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that in all counties having a population of less than 225,000 the County Judge as budget officer shall prepare the county budget on or immediately after January 1 of each year; providing that the budget hearing shall take place within seven calendar days after the filing of the budget and prior to January 31 of the current year; providing that upon final approval of the budget, a true and correct copy thereof shall be filed with the State Comptroller of Public Accounts. |
| HB 794 | Caption: Relating to defining certain terms as used herein; providing that any county, municipality, taxing district or other political district or subdivision, commission, authority, department or other public agency of the State authorized to borrow money and issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness may institute suit in the district courts of Travis County, Texas, for determining the legality of proceedings taken or proposed to be taken in connection with the issuance or sale of all such securities and evidences if indebtedness and for validation of same; defining the parties to said suits, and providing for service on such parties; authorizing the entry of decrees and judgments in such causes by the district courts; providing for and limiting appeal therefrom; providing for payment of costs in such proceedings. |