Legislation authored by Lee Duggan

Includes legislation with Lee Duggan as the primary author for the 58th through 60th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

60th Regular Session
HB 85 Caption: Relating to establishing the Texas County and District Retirement System to provide certain retirement, disability and death benefits for officers and employees of counties or other political subdivisions of the State, and of political subdivisions of counties.
HB 118 Caption: Relating to requiring the identification of practitioners of the healing arts who are included and excluded under the medical coverage provided in an accident and sickness insurance policy.
HB 279 Caption: Relating to dangerous drugs; including all hallucinogens known as LSD, LSD25, DMT in the Texas Dangerous Drug Law; providing for prohibition against unlawful possession, providing for penalties.
HB 294 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal procedure relating to providing for selection of not less than 15 nor more than 20 persons as grand jurors.
HB 295 Caption: Relating to cosmetologists and hairdressers; relating to penalties for certain offenses.
HB 304 Caption: Relating to contractual relationship between parties to a construction contract; exempting contracts in existence prior to the date this Act takes effect; providing that all other laws or parts of laws do not conflict herewith; providing for severability.
HB 347 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code; defining and regulating mortgage guaranty insurance; providing exceptions, providing severability.
HB 440 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code so as to provide that credit for reserves for unearned premium liability and loss reserves may be taken by ceding insurers provided that the assuming insurer qualifies by meeting certain standards.
HB 444 Caption: Relating to registration and issuance of license plates for vehicles; changing periods of registration for vehicles.
HB 445 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for fees of Tax Assessors-Collectors for issuing license receipts and license plates.
HB 592 Caption: Relating to the practice of professional nursing.
HB 746 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code pertaining to knowledge, experience, and instruction requirements for local recording agents and to license and renewal license fees required of local recording agents and solicitors.
HB 757 Caption: Relating to furnishing legal counsel for indigents accused of crime and to investigating entitlement to release of persons on personal bond.
HB 762 Caption: Relating to the creation of the Criminal District Court No. 7 of Harris County and the Criminal District Court No. 8 of Harris County.
HB 1098 Caption: Relating to the punishment and jury instructions for murder.
HB 1099 Caption: Relating to authorizing all county officers and employees to be included in any retirement, disability and death compensation system heretofore or hereafter established.
HB 1100 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to bond elections for county road maintenance.
HB 1227 Caption: Relating to providing that "consignee" shall include (i) the master, (ii) the owner, (iii) the agent, (iv) the sub-agent, and (v) any person, firm or corporation who enters or clears said vessel at the collector of customs; and further providing that the pilot who serves, or offers to serve, said vessel shall be entitled to recover lawful pilot fees, in any court of competent jurisdiction, jointly and severally from any one or more of said persons, firms, or corporations.
HB 1291 Caption: Relating to the regulation of massage establishments; containing a penalty.
HCR 25 Caption: Inviting the Democratic National Committee to hold its 1968 Convention in Houston.
HCR 26 Caption: Inviting the Republican National Convention to hold its 1968 Convention in Houston.
HCR 80 Caption: Granting House of Tobacco, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 121 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections to H.B. No. 347.
59th Regular Session
HB 105 Caption: Relating to enforcement of land use restrictions by incorporated cities, towns, and villages which do not have zoning ordinances in certain counties.
HB 149 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to create the office of Industrial and Occupational Safety Coordinator under the control of the Industrial Accident Board.
HB 393 Caption: Relating to better securing to homeowners and other owners of property the benefits of restrictions on the use of land.
HB 576 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing that liens attaching to oil and gas and mineral property and machinery, buildings, appurtenances thereto used in the operation thereof on behalf of suppliers of materials and services to the owner or operator of such properties attach also to the oil and gas produced therefrom and the proceeds from the sale thereof and to constitute the operator of such property the agent of the owner or owners thereof.
HB 609 Caption: Relating to amending Section 7 of Chapter 360, Acts of the Forty Fifth Legislature, Regular Session, 1937 (codified as Article 8280-120 of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); relating to bonds issued by the Harris County Flood Control District.
HB 726 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to redefine the term "public security" by including within the definition of such term assignable certificates of special assessment issued pursuant to the valid laws of the State of Texas or Charter provisions of any city to evidence an assessment levied for public improvements.
HB 742 Caption: Relating to authorizing all independent school districts, whether created under Special or General Laws, in all counties having a population of 1,200,000 or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to provide for Workmen's Compensation Insurance.
HB 805 Caption: Relating to repealing a certain paragraph and a certain Article relating to compensation of precinct officers in certain counties and the making of annual reports.
HB 878 Caption: Relating to the immunity of construction contractors from liability for certain defects.
HB 880 Caption: Relating to creating an additional Criminal District Court of Harris County.
HB 932 Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming, approving and validating proceedings and actions had and taken by the governing body of Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No. 89 and the organization and boundaries of said District.
HB 1109 Caption: Relating to the compensation of certain county officials in counties having a population of 1,000,000 or more.
HB 1153 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to fees which county clerks and clerks of county courts shall receive for their services in counties having a population of 1,000,000, or over, according to the latest Federal Census.
HB 1170 Caption: Relating to excepting certain prepared flour and meal from the standard measures and labeling requirements.
HCR 68 Caption: Granting W. E. Thomason permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 74 Caption: Granting the Communications Workers of America, Local 6222, permission to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Highway Department.
HCR 75 Caption: Granting H. Kempner Cotton Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
HJR 31 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas providing for the exemption from local ad valorem taxes of the property of certain charitable organizations, provided such organizations meet certain conditions and requirements and expend at least one and one-half million dollars annually on free medical and hospital care for the indigent within the State of Texas.
HR 18 Caption: In memory of the Honorable William Pettus Hobby.
HR 153 Caption: Naming Bridget Cushing Grover as Mascot of the House.
HR 286 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a voting machine study committee.
59th 1st Called Session
HCR 15 Caption: Expressing legislative intent regarding H. B. No. 869, Chapter 314, Acts of the Fifty-ninth Legislature.
58th Regular Session
HB 41 Caption: Relating to providing punishment for murder without malice.
HB 258 Caption: Relating to providing for an increase in the minimum punishment for murder.
HB 520 Caption: Relating to the raising of assessments of property.
HB 521 Caption: Relating to Board of Equalization notice to owners of raise in value of property.
HB 541 Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of retired judges as presiding judges of the administrative judicial districts as well as regular judges, in the discretion of the Governor.
HB 574 Caption: Relating to providing that in all counties having a population in excess of one million and two hundred thousand (1,200,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census, in addition to the expenditures now authorized, the Commissioners Court of such counties may furnish Justices of the Peace courtrooms, offices and office furniture and furnish Constables offices and office furniture.
HB 637 Caption: Relating to creating an additional Criminal District Court of Harris, prescribing the jurisdiction thereof.
HB 638 Caption: Relating to creating the County Criminal Court at Law No. 4 of Harris County, Texas.
HB 777 Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of a bond in the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), by the Probate Judge of Harris County, Texas, and the taking of the oath as provided for the County Judge of Harris County, Texas.
HB 778 Caption: Relating to providing for the Probate Judge to act as presiding Judge for the County Judge acting in probate matters in the event of absence, disqualification or incapacity.
HB 865 Caption: Relating to the regulation and sale of pre-need funeral merchandise and service contracts.
HB 866 Caption: Relating to providing that defendants may put up cash money or the equivalent thereof in approved securities in lieu of a bond or recognizance in all cases where bail is allowed under existing law; providing for a forfeiture, the safe keeping and return of same, the procedure and construction in regard thereto.
HB 867 Caption: Relating to increasing the maximum punishment for assault with intent to murder.
HB 898 Caption: Relating to providing that the maximum punishment for burglary at night may be life imprisonment.
HB 991 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts of certain counties in this State to issue bonds and levy taxes for the purpose of acquiring, constructing and equipping county workhouses and county farms for certain purposes, including the acquisition or purchase of sites thereof.
HB 1000 Caption: Relating to the time of reappointment and the period of qualifying of Notaries Public including new appointments for a new term of office in each odd numbered year.
HB 1002 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district known as Harris County Water Control and Improvement District Number 82.
HB 1035 Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing body of an issuer by ordinance to fix and prescribe the denominations of bonds of the issuer, when the same have otherwise been authorized in the manner prescribed by law.
HCR 49 Caption: Inviting the seven original Astronauts to speak before a Joint Session of this Legislature.
HCR 61 Caption: Granting United Gas Pipe Line Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 81 Caption: Granting F & C Engineering Company, its successors or assignees, to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Highway Department.
HCR 124 Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider House Bill No. 541.
HR 34 Caption: Welcoming the choir from the Mirabeau B. Lamar High School to the State Capitol.
HR 91 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 102 Caption: Inviting John Noble to address the House.
HR 201 Caption: Commending the Civil Aeronautics Board of the United States and Trans-Texas Airways for their decision to open up more routes and services within the State.
HR 470 Caption: In memory of former First Lady of Texas Maud Gage Sterling.
HR 521 Caption: In memory of Phillip C. Cezeaux, Jr. of Humble.