Legislation authored by Alonzo W. Jamison

Includes legislation with Alonzo W. Jamison as the primary author for the 54th through 60th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

60th Regular Session
HB 163 Caption: Relating to creating and providing for a Texas Constitutional Amendment Study Commission to advise and assist the Legislature so as to improve the quality of constitutional amendments and facilitate needed revisions of the Constitution by the ordinary amendment process.
HB 164 Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of special improvement districts within this state under and by virtue of Article 3, Section 52, of the Constitution, to be known as municipal special improvements districts, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes, or in aid thereof.
HB 229 Caption: Relating to issuance of teacher certificates to persons from other states.
HB 249 Caption: Relating to increasing the supply of qualified teachers in the public schools of Texas; providing a new class of certificate to encourage college graduates to transfer into teaching from other lines of work; authorizing contracts between the Texas Education Agency and local school districts for the provision of teacher training within those districts; providing the State Board of Education with authority to make necessary rules and regulations to carry out the intent and purpose of the Act.
HB 664 Caption: Relating to directing the State Board of Education to develop and publicize a program to encourage and facilitate the entry into public school teaching and teacher-training programs of certain qualified persons.
HB 874 Caption: Relating to amending certain act to make such effective to governing bodies of the additional institutions named; eliminating restrictions on the type of buildings to be constructed with proceeds of revenue bonds and to fix use fees.
HB 935 Caption: Relating to the required Government or Political Science and American History courses in state-supported and state-aided colleges and universities.
HB 937 Caption: Relating to compensation which may be accepted by officers and employees of state agencies and institutions whose salaries are fixed by the biennial appropriations act.
HB 1153 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Judicial District for Denton County, Texas, to be known as the 181st Judicial District of Texas; declaring an effective date.
HB 1231 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to the Muenster Hospital District so as to permit the Directors to adopt a new fiscal year and providing a date for the hearing on the budget in conformity with such..
HCR 127 Caption: Directing the creation of an interim committee to study the feasibility of restoring and maintaining the Governor's Mansion.
HJR 61 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that members of the Legislature shall receive as salary an amount not exceeding $8,400 per year and to extend to 140 days of the Regular Session the per diem allowance of members of the Legislature.
HR 186 Caption: Commending the students from Texas Woman's University for their interest in State Government.
HR 230 Caption: Commending the Cross Timbers Girl Scout Council for their interest in State Government.
HR 284 Caption: Commending members of the Denton Chapter of the National Honor Society for their interest in State Government.
HR 351 Caption: Directing the State Board of Education conduct a study the feasibility of establishing teacher-training programs.
HR 358 Caption: Directing the creation of a interim committee to study teacher and librarian certification requirements.
59th Regular Session
HB 296 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the Texas Woman's University to sell and convey certain land, located in Denton County, Texas, said land being a part of the Bertha Lakey Estate bequeathed to the Texas Woman's University to establish the Ray and Bertha Lakey Scholarship Fund to provide scholarships for worthy girls seeking a college education.
HB 697 Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Denton County.
HB 795 Caption: Relating to amending certain sections and adding a new Section 17 (a) to said Act which created Lake Dallas Municipal Utility Authority by further defining the term "City."
HB 824 Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment by the District Judge of the 16th Judicial District of Texas, composed of the Counties of Cooke and Denton, of an official shorthand reporter for such Judicial District.
HR 67 Caption: Congratulating Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hunter on their marriage.
HR 82 Caption: Extending wishes for a speedy recovery to Mrs. Edith Thomson and expressing appreciation for her dedicated service.
HR 277 Caption: Welcoming members of the National Honor Society of Denton High School to the State Capitol.
HR 304 Caption: Requesting a study relative to the operation of county government.
HR 458 Caption: Commending the seventh and eighth grade classes of Selwyn School of Denton on their interest in state government.
58th Regular Session
HB 387 Caption: Relating to providing that all land which is designated for agriculture use shall be assessed for tax purposes exclusive of any other consideration; providing for additional taxes when land so designated is diverted to another use.
HB 581 Caption: Relating to adjusting the rate of the excise tax on liquefied gas used as a motor fuel to equalize it with the tax rates on gasoline and distillate fuel in terms of value and efficiency; setting an effective date.
HB 736 Caption: Relating to validating independent school districts having less than two hundred (200) scholastics and located in counties having two or more artificial lakes constructed by the United States of America, under the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, validating the boundaries of such independent school districts and providing that no changes in boundaries shall be made by order of the County School Board unless previously approved by the Board of Trustees of such independent school districts.
HB 945 Caption: Relating to prohibiting owners of livestock or persons responsible for their control from allowing animals to traverse or roam at large on the right-of-way of any numbered Farm-to-Market Road where the same is enclosed by fences on both sides in this State.
HB 1008 Caption: Relating to creating Lake Dallas Municipal Utility Authority, a Conservation District, comprising the territory contained in the City of Lake Dallas, as of April 30, 1963, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and treating, transporting, distributing, and storing the same and for the purpose of constructing and operating a complete sanitary sewer system.
HB 1047 Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to knowingly offer or expose for sale, sell, use in the buying or selling of any commodity or thing, or for hire or award, or use in the computation of any charge for services rendered, commodities or things sold or delivered or accounts rendered, a false calculating device; providing a penalty.
HCR 92 Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of the problems associated with the assessment and taxation of certain land.
HR 317 Caption: In memory of Sam B. McAllister of Denton.
HR 478 Caption: Urging the Game, Fish, and Parks Commission of Texas to design and issue hunting and fishing licenses that are a size and shape suitable to be inserted into wallets.
57th Regular Session
HB 2 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act authorizing electic cooperatives, under certain conditions, to serve any structure, apparatus, or point of delivery located in rural areas, or in an area which was a rural area when the corporation first undertook service therein.
HB 494 Caption: Relating to creating the Denton State School Independent School District.
HB 848 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act concerning the employment of retired teachers by state-supported colleges and universities.
HB 1047 Caption: Relating to validating under certain conditions proceedings relating to the adoption of Home Rule Charters.
HB 1112 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act making sales of tangible personal property by the State of Texas, its agencies, political subdivisions and instrumentalities subject to the sales tax.
HR 27 Caption: In memory of Mr. Bennie Larrabee, Sr. of San Antonio.
HR 144 Caption: Congratulating Master Dick Laney of Denton on his 11th Birthday. and granting him the privileges of the floor for a day.
57th 1st Called Session
HB 157 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act defining "consolidation" for the purposes of Senate Bill No. 80, Chapter 260, Acts of Fifty-Seventh Legislature, Regular Session, 1961.
57th 2nd Called Session
HR 33 Caption: Recognizing W. R. Long for his gifting program to children.
57th 3rd Called Session
HB 53 Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, approving and confirming bonds heretofore authorized by any Home Rule City in the State of Texas, for the purpose of providing street and drainage improvements, or for the purpose of constructing new fire stations, and any and all proceedings pertaining to the authorization and issuance thereof.
56th Regular Session
HB 3 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing the purposes for which electric cooperatives may be formed, the areas in which they may operate, the terms and conditions under which they may use the streets and alleys of an incorporated city or town.
HB 430 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts of Denton and Cooke Counties to pay the District Judge of the 16th Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the State.
HB 578 Caption: Relating to amending certain civil statutes by adding one member to the Board who shall be a member of the Legislature of the State of Texas; providing the time when this Amendment shall take effect.
HB 891 Caption: Relating to imposing the Texas Equalization Tax for education based upon the Texas base as defined herein, allowing certain tax credits for taxes paid to the State or any of its political subdivisions.
HCR 81 Caption: Authorizing the Governor to re-designate the Texas Surplus Property Agency for the next fiscal biennium.
HCR 94 Caption: Granting the Pacific Coast Fire Insurance Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
56th 1st Called Session
HB 20 Caption: Relating to imposing the Texas Equalization Tax for education based upon the Texas base, as defined herein, allowing certain tax credits for taxes paid to the State or any of its political subdivisions.
HR 39 Caption: Commending Violet Raley Schram of Taylor for her recognition as the outstanding Comeback Farmer of her region.
HR 125 Caption: In memory of Jack Johnson of Denton.
56th 3rd Called Session
HR 46 Caption: Commending Frederick Mars Russell on his achievements in the sport of little league baseball.
55th Regular Session
HB 204 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to eliminate the 1949-50 exception "cost factor" clause in order that transportation funds may be allotted on the formula basis established therein; authorizing a School Bus Revolving Fund.
HB 364 Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Game and Fish Commission regulatory authority over wildlife resources in Denton County.
HB 395 Caption: Relating to creating the Rural Public Utilities Commission of Texas, granting it power to regulate rural rates and services of telephone, gas and electric utilities and to regulate intrastate telephone rates, prescribing the procedure, establishing an assessment to defray cost of regulation.
HB 445 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts extending the time vocational nurses may be licensed without examination.
HB 476 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that widows of Confederate soldiers and sailors who were married to such soldiers and sailors prior to January 1, 1922, shall be eligible for pensions under certain circumstances and providing that no widow of a Confederate veteran born since January 1, 1886, shall be entitled to a widow's pension.
HB 547 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to authorize electric cooperatives, under certain conditions, to serve persons, dwellings, structures, apparatus and points of delivery not receiving central station service located in rural areas or in an area which was a rural area when service was undertaken.
HB 571 Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Texas State College for Women at Denton, in Denton County, to the "Texas University for Women"; providing a changed meaning of the names "College of Industrial Arts" and "Texas State College for Women", or any reference thereto wherever such names of references appear in any Acts of any Legislature of this State; ratifying and confirming in behalf of the "Texas University for Women" all Legislative Acts and appropriations heretofore passed in behalf of the College of Industrial Arts, or the Texas State College for Women, or the Texas University for Women.
HB 821 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by refunding tax on motor fuels if used by city transit companies.
HB 831 Caption: Relating to defining the authority of the Board of Trustees of each school district with respect to the classification and assignment of students to particular schools.
HB 832 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for declaratory judgment suits to be brought against the State to determine if the Anti-Trust Laws of the State are being violated or if they will be violated.
HB 841 Caption: Relating to the proof of financial responsibility with respect to registration and operation of motor vehicles.
HB 879 Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of Regents of the North Texas State College of Denton, Texas, acting by the president of said college, to execute and deliver to the City of Denton, Texas, an easement across certain land in the City and County of Denton, Texas, for a public street.
HB 880 Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of Regents of the North Texas State College of Denton, Texas, acting by the President of said College, to execute and deliver to the City of Denton, Texas, an easement across certain land in the City and County of Denton, Texas, for the construction, reconstruction, maintenance and operation of water pipelines.
HB 891 Caption: Relating to amending Acts relating to the official shorthand reporter of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Texas; fixing the maximum and minimum salary and fixing the fee for transcripts.
HCR 46 Caption: Providing for the continuation of the Texas Surplus Property Agency in Fiscal Years 1957-58 and 1958-59.
HR 116 Caption: Welcoming Dinah Shore to the State Capitol.
HR 236 Caption: Naming Donna Sue Wilson and Brenda Joyce Wilson Mascots of the House.
HR 360 Caption: Commending the students of North Texas State College for their interest in state government.
HR 485 Caption: Granting privileges of the floor to Elizabeth Ann McCullar.
HR 517 Caption: Congratulating Frederick Mars Russell on his success as Cub Scout.
55th 2nd Called Session
HCR 17 Caption: Congratulating the citizens of Denton County on their community sprit.
54th Regular Session
HB 234 Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, acting by the Chancellor thereof, to execute and deliver a deed to certain land in Denton County, Texas, conveying said land to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company; providing for the exceptance and reservation unto the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas of all fissionable materials and all oil, gas, and other minerals of whatever nature upon, in, or under said land.
HB 276 Caption: Relating to repealing the Special Road Law for Denton County and all amendments thereto.
HB 277 Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the maintenance of the public roads and highways in Denton County by authorizing the County to issue certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring right of way for the designated State Highways, including Farm to Market Highways, of Federal Highways when the acquisition of such right of way is approved by the State Highway Commission.
HB 556 Caption: Relating to any independent school district which has separated from municipal control and had an election assuming all or part of outstanding bonds theretofore issued by the municipality for school purposes; authorizing such district to levy a bond tax of not to extend 75 cents on the One Hundred Dollars of assessed valuation and a maintenance tax of $1.75 on the One Hundred Dollars of assessed valuation.
HB 626 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by requiring District judges to instruct grand juries as to election law violations, providing penalties.
HB 643 Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to wildlife resources in certain counties.
HB 709 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to define the term "political subdivision" and to impose certain restrictions upon participation in the old-age and survivor's insurance program of the Federal Government.
HB 834 Caption: Relating to prescribing the means and method for taking fish in the fresh waters of Denton County; containing penalty and repealing clauses.
HB 838 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to authorize the Commissioner of Education to assume the management and control of public school districts under certain conditions.
HR 70 Caption: Commending Read Granberry for providing assistance to the "freshman" Members of the House.
HR 236 Caption: Commending the business and civic leaders of Denton and Dallas counties for their investment in the construction of new railroads.
HR 296 Caption: Welcoming the students of Pilot Point Public School to the State Capitol.