Legislation authored by Russell Cummings
Includes legislation with Russell Cummings as the primary author for the 60th through 61st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 61st Regular Session | |
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| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to assaults and assault and battery by persons using or exhibiting firearms and additional penalties for persons who use of exhibit a firearm during the commission of certain offenses; providing for imprisonment without probation or parole in those instances; increasing the maximum sentences for murder without malice and assault to commit murder with malice to life imprisonment; increasing the minimum sentence for murder with malice to 20 years. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to the possession of certain firearms and prohibited weapons by a person charged with, indicted for, or convicted of a felony; providing a penalty. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to the abolition of common-law marriages and proof of existing common-law marriages; relating to the record-keeping and information-providing function of the Bureau of Vital Statistics. |
| HB 194 | Caption: Relating to restrictions on licenses for drivers of public or common carrier motor vehicles. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to the establishment of a branch of the University of Houston in the city of Houston, Harris County, Texas, to be known as the University of Houston, North. |
| HB 320 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting attempts to elude a police officer and providing penalties. |
| HB 321 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relating to the pay of election judges and clerks in joint elections. |
| HB 322 | Caption: Relating to providing that a tax collector may issue to certain people under certain circumstances a certificate showing that neither their land nor themselves are liable for delinquent taxes. |
| HB 358 | Caption: Relating to the organization, operation, powers, and duties of the Board of Nurse Examiners. |
| HB 359 | Caption: Relating to the practice of professional nursing. |
| HB 421 | Caption: Relating to certain exceptions to the prohibition of closed meetings by governmental bodies and notice of meetings. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to creating the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government and providing for its powers, duties, and procedures. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to providing for the imposition of criminal penalties for the display of any communication at any public beach which states that public does not have the right of access to such public beach. |
| HB 530 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Parks and Wildlife Department to issue numbered tags for trotlines in salt waters of the state; establishing an effective date; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 531 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to include "aircraft or any airborne device" in the list of items from which it is unlawful to hunt. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to the rehabilitation of persons convicted of offenses against the State of Texas by providing greater flexibility in the acquisition and retention of skills through the adoption of a work furlough plan and to allow diversified employment of prisoners to reduce cost of keep. |
| HB 599 | Caption: Relating to the use of certain nets and seines in salt waters within 1,000 feet of any shoreline; providing for penalties. |
| HB 629 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and providing for partial State support of an educational program for five-year-olds in public free school districts of Texas desiring to participate under plan submitted pursuant to regulations of and approved by the Central Education Agency; providing an effective date of this Act. |
| HB 630 | Caption: Relating to authorize and permit transfer annually of any child, other than a high school graduate, who is over six and under 21 years of age, from his resident school district to another Texas district where parent or person having lawful control of child and the receiving district jointly and timely agree in writing to the transfer. |
| HB 733 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Parks and Wildlife Department to issue fish farm and fish farm vehicle licenses for various purposes to the certain operators of fish farms; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 898 | Caption: Relating to the use or exhibition of a firearm in resisting any lawful arrest, apprehension, or investigation by a peace officer; providing a penalty. |
| HB 899 | Caption: Relating to providing a penalty for failure of a parent in certain cases to report a violation of a delinquent child's probation. |
| HB 1002 | Caption: Relating to assessments for water or sewer systems, to provide that the section applies only to cities with a population of less than 900,000. |
| HB 1029 | Caption: Relating to the management, control, and use of the surface estate in certain state-owned submerged lands and islands so as to insure the conservation of the marine resources of the state and the development of a submerged lands and islands management program dedicated to the preservation and utilization of such natural resources of the state in the public interest; placing estuaries and estuarine areas under the same management and control; transferring the functions of the county commissioners court and city governing bodies to the Submerged Lands Advisory Committee; providing for limitation on the right of the School Land Board to lease submerged lands other than for oil, gas, and other minerals for more than five years without cost of living and reappraisal adjustments and providing that no such lease may be granted for more than 50 years. |
| HB 1030 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico or the tidewater limits thereof to exercise certain zoning powers in certain areas in said county; providing for administration, enforcement and remedies. |
| HB 1031 | Caption: Relating to declaring a moratorium on the sale or leasing of the surface estate in state-owned submerged lands, beaches, and islands under any existing laws of this state, pending receipt of the Interagency Natural Resources Council study of these submerged lands, beaches, and islands or until May 31, 1973, whichever is earlier. |
| HB 1215 | Caption: Relating to boxing and wrestling fees and taxes and making other provisions relating thereto. |
| HB 1216 | Caption: Relating to raising the maximum limit on fees that may be charged for the inspection of steam boilers and raising the fee levied against owners and users of steam boilers for each certificate of operation issued. |
| HCR 34 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to return regulation of obscene material to the State of Texas. |
| HCR 57 | Caption: Urging Congress to reexamine federal land management policy as it relates to forest land and lumber supply. |
| HCR 69 | Caption: Commending the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and designating the week of March 16-21 as "Texas Wildlife Week". |
| HR 6 | Caption: Providing for Committee to arrange for parking spaces for Members of the House. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Extending belated birthday greetings to Representative Thomas Hutcheson Bass III. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Honoring Representative Cletus A. "Cowboy" Davis on his birthday. |
| HR 157 | Caption: In memory of Mason G. Lockwood of Houston, Texas. |
| HR 158 | Caption: Commending the Parks and Wildlife Department and request that the white-tail deer season be set to begin and end at a later date in South Texas. |
| HR 166 | Caption: Naming Davis Samuel Bass, of Houston, Harris County, Texas, as Mascot of the House. |
| HR 168 | Caption: Naming Lorraine Leigh, David Mitcham, and Paula Ann Lemmon, of Houston, Harris County, Texas, as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 266 | Caption: Congratulating R.C. Roebuck on his retirement as principal of Sutton Elementary in Houston, Texas. |
| HR 287 | Caption: Congratulating Cadette Girl Scout Troop No. 173 of Houston, Texas. |
| HR 440 | Caption: In memory of F. Lee Duggan, Sr., of Houston, Texas. |
| HR 445 | Caption: Commending Girl Scout Troop No. 1178 of Houston, Texas on their upcoming visit to the Capitol. |
| HR 479 | Caption: Congratulating Julio S. Laguarta on being named "Realtor of the Year" by the Houston Board of Realtors. |
| 61st 1st Called Session | |
| HR 2 | Caption: Providing for spaces in the Capitol Grounds for parking cars of House Members, etc. |
| HR 10 | Caption: Commending Ray R. Elliott of Houston. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Designating the Texas Conservation Foundation as recipient of certain royalties donated by the Winchester Western Division of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. |
| 61st 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 12 | Caption: Instructing the enrolling and engrossing clerk of the house to make corrections in H.B. No. 4. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Providing for parking spaces in the Capitol Grounds for House Members. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Congratulating Representative Jack R. Hawkins on his birthday. |
| HR 57 | Caption: Creating an interim committee to study Texas beaches. |
| HR 62 | Caption: Congratulating Representative James L. Lovell on the occasion of his birthday. |
| HR 71 | Caption: Commending Raymond Delancey and his Staff. |
| 60th Regular Session | |
| HB 195 | Caption: Relating to requiring building permits for the building, erection or construction of any building or other structures, or for making improvements to any existing structure and for the moving of buildings; making the violation of this Act a misdemeanor and fixing penalties. |
| HB 316 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any city having a population of 900,000 or more, according to the preceding federal census, and whose home-rule charter provides for an elected comptroller, auditor, or treasurer, acting by and through the official or officials of such city charged with the duty of managing and conducting its fiscal affairs and subject to supervision and control of its governing body, as established by ordinance, from time to time to invest any and all trust funds and special deposits in the custody of such city. |
| HB 317 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting attempts to elude a police officer. |
| HB 318 | Caption: Providing for the recordation of certain instruments; providing penalties. |
| HB 893 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and providing for partial state support of an educational program for five-year-olds in public free school districts of Texas desiring to participate under plan submitted pursuant to regulations of and approved by the Central Education Agency; prescribing formula for determination of allotments and costs, professional units, operation and transportation for purposes of this Act; authorizing and providing for payment of the State's share out of the Foundation School Fund; providing an effective date of this Act. |
| HB 1026 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the construction of arterial streets in Texas cities by the State Highway Department; providing an effective date. |
| HB 1143 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to authorize County Judges and Judges of Probate Courts in counties of 1,200,00 population to appoint an official shorthand reporter to serve for the duration of a pending case only, and specifying the qualification and providing for the compensation of such reporters. |
| HCR 51 | Caption: Commending Southwestern Bell Telephone Company for their adoption of antipollution measures. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Cletus A. Davis on his 37th Birthday. |
| HR 213 | Caption: In memory of Kermit D Wright of Houston. |
| HR 275 | Caption: Commending the students of Wilchester Elementary School in Houston for their interest in State Government. |
| HR 298 | Caption: In memory of Fred D. Leggett of Houston. |
| HR 299 | Caption: In memory of Harold G. Pyle of Houston. |
| HR 394 | Caption: Directing the creation of a Texas Beach Committee to study problems in commercial pollution. |
| HR 440 | Caption: In memory of Jerry Douglas Allen of Houston. |
| 60th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 111 | Caption: In memory of Houston Police Officers Ben E. Gerhart and Bobby L. James who died in the line of duty. |