Legislation authored by James H. Clark, Jr.

Includes legislation with James H. Clark, Jr. as the primary author for the 60th through 61st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

66th Regular Session
HB 214 Last Action: Referred to Subcommittee on Life and Health
Caption: Relating to the inclusion of certain coverages in an insurance contract and providing for endorsements.
HB 429 Last Action: Coauthor authorized
Caption: Relating to group marketing of motor vehicle insurance.
HB 609 Last Action: Message from the Governor recorded in Journal
Caption: Relating to exemption from school district ad valorem taxes of part of the value of the residence homestead of an individual who is 65 years of age or older or who is disabled.
HB 610 Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing
Caption: Relating to exemption from school district ad valorem taxes of part of the value of the residence homestead of an individual who is disabled.
HB 733 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education
Caption: Relating to a duty-free lunch period for teachers actively engaged in the instruction of public school students.
HB 875 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to the reimbursement paid to a nonresident witness in a criminal case for travel and living expenses.
HB 1143 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to expiration, revenue, and bonding authority of the Battleship Texas Commission.
HB 1295 Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the payments of benefits for survivors of certain public servants who are killed while performing duties.
HB 1404 Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing
Caption: Relating to creation of the 275th, 276th, 277th, and 278th Judicial Districts, each composed of Harris County.
HB 2203 Last Action: Placed on daily Major State Calendar
Caption: Relating to appointment of commissioners to the port commission of the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County.
HCR 33 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Commending Mickey Gilley on his promotion of Pasadena, Texas.
HCR 131 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Recognizing the contribution of Czech people, their language and culture, to the State of Texas.
HJR 109 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to expand eligibility for the residence homestead ad valorem tax exemption for disabled persons.
65th Regular Session
HB 23 Last Action: Assigned to General State Calendar
Caption: Relating to authorizing and regulating group marketing of motor vehicle insurance.
HB 49 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the inclusion of certain coverages in an insurance contracts; providing for endorsement.
HB 321 Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Caption: Relating to the regulation of health care facilities that treat alcoholics.
HB 322 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to certification requirements for marine firemen by the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education; providing a penalty for violations.
HB 323 Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call
Caption: Relating to the penalty for failure to obey orders of county fire marshal.
HB 324 Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education certifying industrial firemen.
HB 325 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance
Caption: Relating to the promulgation and enforcement of a state fire prevention code for unincorporated areas of the state by the State Board of Insurance; providing penalties.
HB 362 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission of Texas over contracts for the sale of water between certain purchasers and political subdivisions.
HB 400 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Relating to a city's providing fire protection in designated industrial districts within its extraterritorial jurisdiction.
HB 658 Last Action: Coauthor authorized
Caption: Relating to providing for a duty-free lunch period for teachers actively engaged in the instruction of public school students.
HB 659 Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing
Caption: Relating to the establishment of school-community guidance center pilot program financed under the minimum foundation school program.
HB 662 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the rights of certain public employees and to the creation of a state employer-employees relations board, its duties and powers; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 1015 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare
Caption: Relating to the establishment of certain rules and regulations for the operation of nursing homes and related institutions.
HB 1185 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the Battleship Texas Commission.
HB 1899 Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing
Caption: Relating to notice and bid requirements on certain contracts of navigation districts.
HB 2007 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Relating to use of the term "actor" in the Penal Code.
65th 2nd Called Session
HJR 28 Last Action: Coauthor authorized
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing political subdivisions to exempt from ad valorem taxation at least $3,000 of the assessed value of a disabled person's residence homestead.
HJR 31 Last Action: Coauthor authorized
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to exempt from local ad valorem taxes at least $10,000 of the value of the residence homesteads of disabled persons and of senior citizens.
HR 6 Caption: Commending the W. Robin Isaacs family.
64th Regular Session
HB 42 Last Action: Motion to suspend rules lost
Caption: Relating to authorizing and regulating group marketing of motor-vehicle insurance.
HB 293 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources
Caption: Relating to the right of collective bargaining for employees of certain navigation districts and port authorities.
HB 341 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Relating to the assignment of peace officer status to municipal park and recreation patrolmen and security officers and providing for financial assistance to the surviving spouse and minor children of such person.
HB 634 Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments
Caption: Relating to driver education programs in the public schools.
HB 702 Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing
Caption: Relating to the inclusion of certain coverages in an insurance contract; providing for endorsement.
HB 857 Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments
Caption: Relating to the exemption of volunteer firemen enrolled in fire science courses from payment of tuition and laboratory fees at state-supported institutions of higher education.
HB 879 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the membership of the navigation and canal commission of certain navigation districts.
HB 975 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the adoption of firemen's and policemen's civil service by certain cities.
HB 979 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation
Caption: Relating to the powers, duties and functions of county-city transit authorities.
HB 1192 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education
Caption: Providing for a duty-free lunch period for teachers and teachers' aides actively engaged in the instruction of public school children; providing that the duty-free lunch period does not result in a lengthened school day.
HB 1620 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to carrying certain weapons in historical or commemorative exhibitions.
HB 1810 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to the assignment of peace officer status to security officers commissioned as peace officers by the port commission of the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas.
HB 1983 Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs
Caption: Relating to the powers, duties, and procedures of the Consumer Protection Division of the office of the attorney general with respect to the regulation of public utilities as defined in this Act; providing legal remedies and penalties.
HCR 52 Last Action: Read second time
Caption: Relating to memorializing Congress to enact legislation to require all states to develop oil and gas resources.
HCR 56 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to memorializing Congress regarding necessity of reducing influx of illegal aliens by providing that stringent penalties be imposed on their employers.
HCR 69 Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs
Caption: Relating to creating an interim commission on libraries and information services.
HJR 74 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Constitutional Revision
Caption: Relating to providing for a citizens constitutional convention.
HR 101 Caption: In memory of L. L. "Bill" Hay.
63rd Regular Session
HB 70 Last Action: Minority report filed
Caption: Relating to authorizing and regulating group marketing of motor vehicle insurance.
HB 85 Last Action: Subcommittee hearing notice posted
Caption: Declaring a policy for a standards of ethics for members of the House of Representatives and Senate, legislative officers or employees, elected or appointed state officers, and judges; establishing standards of conduct; creating a State Ethics Commission; requiring reporting a campaign financial contributions; requiring full, public disclosure of all sources of income, debts, holdings of members, officers and judges and their immediate families; requiring legislative agents to register with the Ethics Commission and submit certain information to the comission; prescribing standards of conduct for legislative agents; declaring violations and penalties for legislative agents; declaring powers and duties of the Ethics Commission; declaring findings and disposition of cases brought before Ethics Commission members; declaring violations and penalties; providing for appeals; providing that other remedies not be prejudiced; repealing certain other acts; providing for severability and declaring an emergency.
HB 116 Last Action: Committee substitute
Caption: Providing for a duty-free lunch period for teachers actively engaged in the instruction of public school children; providing funds in the Minimum Foundation Program for implementation of the duty-free lunch period; providing that the duty-free lunch period shall not result in a lengthened school day; and declaring an emergency.
HB 222 Last Action: Point of order sustained
Caption: Relating to driver education programs in the public schools; authorizing the Central Education Agency to develop such programs and to establish standards for the certification of necessary personnel; providing for the financing of the programs; providing an effective date.
HB 283 Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date
Caption: Relating to removing from the State Board of Insurance ratemaking authority for insurance covering motor vehicles and casualty insurance on dwellings as defined in this Act and providing for competitive rate making authority; providing the procedures for adopting and using rates and rating plans and their modifications and for operating under these provisions; providing a penalty.
HB 332 Last Action: Sent to Calendar Committee
Caption: Relating to certain requirements applicable to common carriers transporting or transmitting certain hazardous materials capable of causing pollution.
HB 333 Last Action: Sent to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to water quality control plans for navigation districts and port authorities; providing for employment of water quality control inspectors.
HB 380 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Amending the Texas Insurance Code.
HB 381 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance
Caption: Relating to the cancellation or renewal of certain motor vehicle insurance policies.
HB 413 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of nurses aides; and declaring an emergency.
HB 414 Last Action: Reported favorably
Caption: Relating to the establishment of certain rules and regulations for the operation of nursing homes and related institutions.
HB 434 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
Caption: Relating to the sale, reproduction to sell and possession of original designs, drawings, posters and books that are reproduced without the consent of the owner; providing penalties for violation; and declaring an emergency.
HB 575 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the protection of health and safety of employees.
HB 576 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to residency or internship of graduates of foreign medical schools in hospitals in this state.
HB 638 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance
Caption: Relating to the determination of premiums for motor vehicle insurance.
HB 695 Last Action: Sent to Calendar Committee
Caption: Relating to the establishment of school-community guidance center pilot programs financed under the minimum foundation school program.
HB 889 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the ownership of land covered by water as a result of land subsidence.
HB 997 Last Action: Reported favorably
Caption: Stating legislative purpose; defining terms; providing certain limitations on the use of convict labor; providing injunctive relief; repealing all laws in conflict; providing for severability; and declaring an emergency.
HB 1098 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Public Utilities Commission and prescribing their powers, duties, functions, financing, procedures, administration, maintenance, and operation; repealing certain statutes.
HB 1444 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to certain Federal Funds that have been made available for textbooks for blind and visually handicapped children attending private, non-profit schools.
HB 1611 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to annual net revenues of the Battleship Texas Commission; amending Section 6, Chapter 139, Acts of the 50th Legislature, 1947, as amended (Article 6145-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency.
HCR 52 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Rules
Caption: Commending and congratulating the League of Women Voters for outstanding service to the public and to the state.
HCR 128 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Recognizing the celebration of Texas Maritime Day on May 22, 1973.
HCR 161 Last Action: Filed without Governor's signature
Caption: Memorializing the Congress of the United States to take favorable action on S1587, which would prevent the proposed closing of certain Public Health Service hospitals and facilities.
HCR 227 Last Action: Reported engrossed
Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to permit both Houses to take up House Bill No. 222.
HR 50 Caption: Authorizing House Committee on Labor to study feasibility of creating a state agency on employee-employer relations.
HR 64 Caption: Requesting the Committee on Education to study vocational-technical education programs.
HR 80 Caption: Authorizing the House Committee on Labor to study state personnel policies.
HR 98 Caption: Commending certain oil companies for contracts in which they include health and safety clauses for protection of employees.
HR 162 Caption: Authorizing the House Committee on Labor to study the program of the Texas Occupational Safety Board.
HR 163 Caption: Authorizing the House Committee on Labor to make a study concerning labor and management.
HR 164 Caption: Authorizing the House Committee on Labor to make a study concerning the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
HR 165 Caption: Authorizing the House Committee on Labor to make a study of the Texas Employment Commission and the state unemployment compensation system.
63rd 1st Called Session
HCR 1 Last Action: Referred to Committee on House Administration
Caption: Providing for temporary adjournment of the First Called Session, 63rd Legislature.
62nd Regular Session
HB 57 Caption: Relating to authorizing and regulating group marketing of automobile insurance.
HB 267 Caption: Relating to making the offer to sell or deliver a dangerous drug a felony.
HB 268 Caption: Relating to making the offer to sell a narcotic drug a felony.
HB 288 Caption: Relating to the cancellation of policies by the insurer of motor vehicle insurance against liability.
HB 289 Caption: Relating to the cancellation or renewal of certain motor vehicle insurance policies.
HB 347 Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Harris County Houston Ship Channel Navigation District of Harris County, Texas, to the Port of Houston Authority of Harris County, Texas.
HB 348 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Harris County Ship Channel Navigation District of Harris County, Texas, to provide for the prevention, detection, control, and fighting of fires and explosions on and adjacent to waterways, channels, and turning basins within its jurisdiction.
HB 398 Caption: Relating to the exemption of persons employed as firemen from tuition and laboratory fees for courses in fire science offered by state-supported institutions of collegiate rank.
HB 540 Caption: Relating to the retention and distribution of records identifying persons arrested.
HB 673 Caption: Relating to amending the employers' liability and workmen's compensation laws of this state.
HB 907 Caption: Relating to the use of strikebreakers. ("Citizens Job Protection Act")
HB 944 Caption: Relating to the coordination of all federal grant and assistance programs in the state with local and state governmental officials.
HB 1185 Caption: Relating to water quality control plans for certain navigation districts, port authorities, and commercial ship unloading and barge facilities operated by private persons or industries.
HB 1186 Caption: Relating to the issuance of solid waste disposal permits by the Texas Water Quality Board and the State Department of Health.
HB 1187 Caption: Relating to the filing, recording and review of subdivision plats for unincorporated areas in the state.
HB 1188 Caption: Relating to the mileage allowance of the county tax assessor and collector and his deputies in certain counties.
HB 1213 Caption: Relating to the appointment of the county auditor in certain counties.
HB 1302 Caption: Relating to common carriers transporting or transmitting certain hazardous materials capable of causing pollution.
HB 1303 Caption: Relating to the concurrence of the Texa Water Quality Board in pollution control activities of the Texas Railroad Commission.
HB 1602 Caption: Relating to the issuance of injection well permits.
HB 1603 Caption: Relating to providing for joint regulation of the collection and disposal of waste.
HB 1836 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing, without consent of political subdivisions, a conservation and reclamation district known as "North Park Public Utility District" declaring district a governmental agency, body politic and corporate.
HB 1837 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing, without consent of political subdivisions, a conservation and reclamation district known as "Dowdell Public Utility District," declaring district a governmental agency, body politic and corporate.
HCR 25 Caption: Memorializing Congress to continue the operation of the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Galveston and the outpatient clinics in Houston and Port Arthur.
HCR 116 Caption: Welcoming today's visitors from the Harris County Commissioners Court Neighborhood Youth Corps.
HCR 135 Caption: Honoring President Harry S. Truman on his birthday.
HR 77 Caption: Naming Miss Tina Renee Nelms as Mascot of the House.
HR 280 Caption: Congratulating Representative Johnny Nelms on his new title of Great Uncle.
HR 288 Caption: Commending the Eighth Grade Class of Corpus Christi Catholic School of Houston.
HR 294 Caption: Commending the Ladies Auxiliary Chapter No. 5 of Local 872, I.L.A.
HR 302 Caption: Commending the Ladies Auxiliary of the International Longshoremen's Association, Local 1273.
HR 438 Caption: Creating an interim committee on coastal waterways and shipping industry.
HR 451 Caption: Creating a special interim committee on nursing aides and licensing of nurses.
HR 508 Caption: Commending the Women's Activities Division of the Harris County AFL-CIO.
HR 541 Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Lauro Cruz on his birthday.
HR 642 Caption: Congratulating Representative and Mrs. Johnny Nelms on their wedding anniversary.
HR 677 Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Tony Korioth.
62nd 3rd Called Session
HCR 32 Caption: Commending George A. Thompson.
HCR 42 Caption: Expressing the concern of the Texas Legislature for the health and welfare of Texas citizens and urging environmental control through the authority vested in local and state agencies (Stauffer Chemical Company of Houston).
62nd 4th Called Session
HB 36 Caption: Relating to authorizing and regulating group marketing of motor vehicles insurance.
HB 41 Caption: Relating to removing from State Board of Insurance rate making authority covering certain motor vehicles and providing for competitive rate-making authority.
61st Regular Session
HB 214 Caption: Relating to the tax on distilled spirits; amending the Texas Liquor Control Act.
HB 328 Caption: Relating to creating an Institution of Higher Learning in Harris County, Texas to be known as the University of Houston at Clear Lake City; providing for the organization and control thereof.
HB 329 Caption: Relating to prescribing matters pertaining to labor management relations in this state; providing election duties of Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; prescribing means of enforcement and prevention of violation of the Act.
HB 419 Caption: Relating to amending, revising, and rearranging the Texas Water Quality Act of 1967 to improve the structure of the act and to provide for more effective control of water quality in this state; preserving the terms of office of current board members; providing for severability.
HB 601 Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Toll Bridge Authority and prescribing its membership, organization, procedures, powers, and duties; prescribing certain penalties.
HB 691 Caption: Relating to making unlawful certain acts relating to the use of strikebreakers; providing penalties.
HB 692 Caption: Relating to withdrawal of accumulated contributions from the Teachers Retirement System on electing to participate in the Optional Retirement Program.
HB 982 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of geographic factors in setting rates for motor vehicle insurance.
HB 1009 Caption: Relating to Pension Systems for policemen in cities of nine hundred thousand or more inhabitants which do not now have a police, firemen, and fire alarm operators pension system organized under another law.
HB 1264 Caption: Relating to the "Clear Creek Basin Authority"; providing for the addition of or annexation of land; providing that bonded or tax indebtedness, if any, shall be borne, pro rata, by the added territory if the voters in the added territory so elect.
HB 1444 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district known as "Fairwood Utility District".
HCR 85 Caption: Designating the creation of a joint interim committee to study the desirability and feasibility of creating a Texas Department of Labor.
HCR 87 Caption: Commending the Ravens basketball team of San Jacinto College, Houston.
HCR 89 Caption: Directing the creation of a joint interim committee to study alternate methods of attracting new industry in Texas.
HCR 119 Caption: Directing the creation of an interim committee to study the problems of traffic safety and fire protection administration in the Houston Ship channel and surrounding areas.
HCR 138 Caption: Commending Ted Felds of Houston, Texas for his achievements in progressing education for safety and rescue work in Texas.
HR 167 Caption: Naming M. Lamonte ("Monte") Bray, of Pasadena, Harris County, Texas, as Mascot of the House.
HR 214 Caption: Welcoming the students of Carter G. Woodson Junior High School of Houston, Texas to the Capitol.
HR 442 Caption: Commending visitors from Houston and Harris County, enrollees of the Harris County Commissioners Court Neighborhood Youth Corps.
61st 1st Called Session
HB 33 Caption: Relating to the printing of Legislators' official cards and stationery by printers with union shops.
HB 90 Caption: Relating to making unlawful certain acts relating to the use of strikebreakers by any person, as that term is defined, who is not the employer directly involved in a labor dispute, and providing exemptions; making unlawful strikebreaking by certain persons; making unlawful certain acts relating to transportation of strikebreakers; providing penalties.
HCR 5 Caption: Directing the Board of Control to accept bids for printing members' cards and stationery from printers with union shops.
HR 83 Caption: Creating a joint interim committee to study problems of traffic safety and fire protection administration in Houston Ship Channel and surrounding areas.
61st 2nd Called Session
HB 26 Caption: Relating to the imposition, administration, and implementation of a corporate profits tax; providing for a credit against the franchise tax for corporate profit taxes paid.
HB 58 Caption: Relating to making unlawful certain acts relating to the use of strikebreakers by any person, as that term is defined, who is not the employer directly involved in a labor dispute, and providing exemptions; making unlawful strikebreaking by certain persons; making unlawful certain acts relating to transportation of strikebreakers; defining terms; providing penalties.
60th Regular Session
HB 128 Caption: Relating to amending the subject matter of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, as amended and as embraced in Section 3, providing benefits; Section 7, providing for contributions, as amended; providing an effective date for this Act.
HB 259 Caption: Relating to providing that in counties containing a population in excess of 1,200,000 inhabitants, the county clerk is relieved of all duties prescribed by Article 1657, Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925, and requiring the county treasurer to prepare a triplicate receipt for all moneys received, and authorizing the county auditor to prescribe a system consistent with this Act, to the county treasurer for receiving and depositing all moneys received.
HB 514 Caption: Relating to compensation of members of the Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
HB 582 Caption: Relating to providing incentive allotments to pay tuition for full-time, regularly-certified teachers.
HB 635 Caption: Relating to requiring certain employers to establish and maintain first aid stations conforming to rules promulgated by the State Department of Health and to keep a registered nurse on duty; providing for enforcement.
HB 965 Caption: Relating to the cancellation, suspension, and revocation of drivers' licenses.
HB 1064 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of certain shrimp trawls in the shrimp nursery grounds of Harris, Chambers, and Galveston Counties; providing a penalty.
HB 1222 Caption: Relating to receipts and deposits by county clerks; providing that in counties containing a population in excess of 1,200,000 inhabitants according to the last preceding federal census, the county clerk is relieved of all duties prescribed by Article 1657, Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925.
HB 1229 Caption: Relating to the assessment and collection of taxes for any independent school district having two hundred thousand (200,000) or more scholastics according to the preceding official scholastic census and wherein there is situated all or part of a city having a population of nine hundred thousand (900,000) or more inhabitants according to the last Federal Census.
HCR 66 Caption: Inviting Lyndon Baines Johnson, President of the United States, to speak to a Joint Session of the Legislature.
60th 1st Called Session
HR 8 Caption: Congratulating Representative Curtis M. Graves of Houston on his marriage to Miss Johanne Gordon of Opelousas, Louisiana.