Legislation authored by Joseph Norwin Chapman
Includes legislation with Joseph Norwin Chapman as the primary author for the 53rd through 59th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 58th Regular Session | |
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| HB 288 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Assistance Program for Aid and Services to Needy Families with Children. |
| HB 289 | Caption: Relating to providing for the elimination of the four (4) year residence requirement for employees of the State Department of Public Welfare. |
| HB 440 | Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer by the Supreme Court of cases from one Court of Civil Appeals to another. |
| HB 441 | Caption: Relating to the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| HB 442 | Caption: Relating to providing that the beneficiary of a deceased retired Judge shall be paid the difference between the total amount of the contributions made by him and the amount received by him as retirement pay. |
| HB 681 | Caption: Relating to providing that in appeals from the county court to the district court in proceedings where letters have been previously granted to one whose right thereto is being contested and for whom a successor or substitute is sought, the qualified and acting appointee to whom letters were previously granted shall continue to act as such until termination of the contest, including any and all appeals. |
| HB 690 | Caption: Relating to removing the general jurisdiction in trial of all matters of eminent domain on appeal from the awards of commissioners from the County Court of Titus County; transferring the general jurisdiction in trial of all matters of eminent domain on appeal from the awards of commissioners to the district court having jurisdiction in Titus County. |
| HB 786 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of a Hospital District comprising all of Titus County, Texas, and the assumption of all outstanding indebtedness of Titus County incurred for hospital purposes. |
| HB 805 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the County Court of Franklin County the civil and criminal jurisdiction as conferred to county courts by the Constitution and the general laws of this State; changing the jurisdiction of the 62nd and 76th District Courts to conform. |
| HB 806 | Caption: Relating to selection of jurors by the jury wheel system so as to make its provisions applicable to additional counties. |
| HB 902 | Caption: Relating to providing for establishment of a Retirement System to provide retirement, disability, and death benefits for officers and employees of the State; providing an effective date. |
| HB 1063 | Caption: Relating to requiring justices and judges of the State Courts to file statements under oath with the Secretary of State as a matter of public record disclosing certain information relating to interests in or offices held by such justices, judges or their wives in any private corporation. |
| HCR 51 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die. |
| HJR 79 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize the Legislature to extend the right of trial by jury to all appeals from actions, rulings or decisions of administrative agencies and executive departments of the State of Texas and to provide that such appeals shall be tried and determined in the same manner as suits at common law. |
| HR 23 | Caption: In memory of George Ennis Tittle of Mt. Vernon. |
| HR 231 | Caption: In memory of George S. Prim of Sulphur Springs. |
| HR 542 | Caption: In memory of Jesse J. Murray. |
| HR 562 | Caption: Designating State Representative Will L. Smith as Dean of the House of Representatives. |
| HR 563 | Caption: Designating State Representative Grainger McIlhany as Dean of the House of Representatives. |
| HR 564 | Caption: Designating State Representative Menton Murray as Dean of the House of Representatives. |
| HR 565 | Caption: Designating certain Members as Deans of the House of Representatives. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 108 | Caption: Relating to requiring the labeling of the minimum percentage of milkfat or butterfat content of all milk produced, offered for sale, or sold in this State; providing penalties for violation of this Act; providing for the effective date of this Act. |
| HB 457 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes permitting the organization of stipulated premium life, health and accident companies. |
| HB 542 | Caption: Relating to providing for the allocation of professional units provided in the Foundation School Program to certain districts. |
| HB 582 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act establishing a ten-day season for the taking of deer in Hopkins, Delta and Franklin Counties. |
| HB 638 | Caption: Relating amending Section (2) of Article 19.01 of Title 122A Taxation-General, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, by deleting therefrom real estate as an object or subject matter with reference to which said Article 19.01 levies an occupation tax. |
| HB 651 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Accountancy Act of 1945 relating to public accountancy examinations and permits to practice. |
| HB 659 | Caption: Relating to repealing H. B. No. 725, Acts of the 54th Legislature; the use of fascimile signatures and seals upon public securities and instruments of payment. |
| HB 776 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to obtain telecommunications service with the intent to defraud any individual, corporation or other person of the lawful charges; prescribing penalties for violation. |
| HB 828 | Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of clinical laboratory directors through the Texas State Health Department; providing for violation of this Act. |
| HCR 28 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to grant pensions for the Veterans of World War I. |
| HCR 33 | Caption: Granting Frankie LeRoy Davis and Mary Jean Davis of Hopkins County permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 48 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 114 | Caption: Electing children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 191 | Caption: In memory of Wayne Gee of Sulphur Springs. |
| HR 219 | Caption: In memory of Former Representative William Agnew "Bill" Swindell of Commerce. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a county-wide hospital district in Hopkins County. |
| HB 47 | Caption: Relating to providing for the allocation of professional units provided in the Foundation School Program to certain districts. |
| HB 113 | Caption: Relating to placing all County Attorneys performing the duties of District Attorney on a salary basis of compensation and fixing the minimum and maximum amounts of such salaries; providing for deposit of fees in County Treasury; providing for payments by the State into the Officers' Salary Fund of each county having a County Attorney performing the duties of District Attorney; providing an operative date. |
| HCR 20 | Caption: Instructing the House Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 33. |
| HCR 41 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 113 at any time. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 101 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the hunting, taking or killing of deer in Hopkins, Delta, and Franklin Counties, to establish a ten-day season for the taking of deer in Hopkins, Delta and Franklin Counties. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 307 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on the business done within this State of selling, issuing or delivering trading stamps or other similar devices; providing an effective date. |
| HB 341 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Lake Fork Water Control and Improvement District Number One, to levy, assess and collect a special assessment based upon actual benefits received by lands within the District arising from floodwater retarding structures and dams in the District constructed by the District. |
| HR 148 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 169 | Caption: In memory of W. L. Willis. |
| HR 218 | Caption: Welcoming Linda Kellum to the State Capitol. |
| HR 322 | Caption: Congratulating the North Hopkins High School women's basketball team on winning the Class B state championship. |
| HR 474 | Caption: Congratulating Paul Ray Jones on his selection as one of the outstanding law enforcement officers of the year in Texas. |
| HR 485 | Caption: Commending the Northeast Texas Diary Association for their contributions to the State dairy industry and designating the week of May 3-9, 1959 as Dairy Show Week in Hopkins County. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on the business done within this State of selling, issuing or delivering trading stamps or other similar devices; providing an effective date. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 22 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative Alex Brice. |
| HR 60 | Caption: In memory of Judge and Mrs. S. S. Bullock of Sulphur Springs. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 239 | Caption: Relating to promoting interracial harmony and tranquility and to that end to declare it to be the public policy of the State that the right of all people to be secure from interracial tension and unrest is vital to the health, safety and welfare of the State; requiring registration of persons and organizations engaged in advocating racial integration whose activities opposing segregation of races tend to cause racial conflicts or violence, or engaged in raising or expending funds for certain purposes in connection with litigation. |
| HB 267 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Probate Code, relating to the penal amount to be fixed for bonds of personal representatives of estates. |
| HB 268 | Caption: Relating to exemptions of corporations from the franchise tax. |
| HB 665 | Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic to regulate entrance to any highway. |
| HR 91 | Caption: In memory of Mrs. Claude H. McCorkle of Sulphur Springs. |
| HR 134 | Caption: Naming W. T. Oliver, Jr., David Michael Oliver and Carolyn Sue Oliver Mascots of the House. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 57 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relative to fur-bearing animals; providing that the Counties of Hopkins, Delta, and Franklin shall be excepted in the prohibition of hunting mink with dogs. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Urging the President to refrain from sending federal troops to Texas. |
| HR 33 | Caption: In memory of Zeke Kitts of Sulphur Springs. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 23 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to fur-bearing animals; providing that the Counties of Hopkins, Delta, and Franklin shall be excepted in the prohibition of hunting mink with dogs. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 309 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that after consolidation of an independent school district with other independent school districts or with common school districts, where one of the independent school districts has a scholastic enrollment in excess of five (5) times the combined scholastic enrollment of the other districts consolidated with it, the members of the Board of Trustees of the larger district shall serve as the Board of Trustees of the combined district until their respective terms expire and their successors are elected. |
| HB 445 | Caption: Relating to revising certain portions of the Workmen's Compensation Insurance Laws of this State by providing that the maximum and minimum weekly compensation benefits paid in instances of death covered by Workmen's Compensation Act be increased in all cases, and providing that these benefits be increased an additional amount per week in cases where two (2) children and a widow survive, and providing an additional weekly increase for each surviving child more than two (2). |
| HB 474 | Caption: Relating to providing an open season for deer and bag and possession limits thereon and making it unlawful to kill or attempt to kill wild turkey in Hopkins, Delta, and Franklin Counties; fixing penalties for violations. |
| HB 498 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize the retirement of any person serving twenty-three years and six months or more on one or more courts of the State. |
| HB 525 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to highway speed limits; prescribing speed limits on open separated flow highways; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause. |
| HB 596 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to jurisdiction and terms of court of the 8th Judicial District so as to provide for continuous terms of court in such District; providing a savings clause; providing for time of taking effect in event court is in session on effective date. |
| HB 614 | Caption: Relating to driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated; providing that any person who has been convicted of the misdemeanor offense of driving while intoxicated and who shall thereafter drive an automobile while intoxicated shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction be punished by a fine and confinement in the county jail or the State penitentiary; amending the Drivers License Law to eliminate a provision for automatic suspension of license upon conviction for driving while intoxicated. |
| HB 631 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the Statement of Facts in a criminal proceeding so as to provide that the defendant may preserve in the Statement of Facts or by informal Bill of Exception certain objections. |
| HB 713 | Caption: Relating to creating Sulphur River Municipal Water District, a conservation district comprising the territory contained within the cities of Cooper, Commerce and Sulphur Springs, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and processing and transporting the same. |
| HB 857 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that Hopkins County shall be within the 62nd Judicial District; changing the terms of the District Courts of Hunt, Lamar, Delta, Franklin, and Hopkins Counties; providing for the jurisdiction of such courts and the functions of the judges thereof; providing procedure for transfer of cases and proceedings; providing procedure for transferred cases and proceedings; providing for the exchange of benches and for judges to sit for each other; providing for district clerks and sheriffs to serve the courts; validating and continuing all process issued or served before this Act takes effect; making such process returnable to the next term of the Court; validating the summoning of grand and petit juries under this Act; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 941 | Caption: Relating to the use of a public road which has been under fence for a period of fifteen years or more. |
| HCR 156 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 941 at any time. |
| HJR 31 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas by providing that the Legislature may grant aid and compensation to persons who have been fined or imprisoned in this State, under the laws of this State for offenses of which they are not guilty. |
| HR 187 | Caption: In memory of James Monroe Fleming of Mt. Vernon. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 568 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to vest sole discretionary authority in boards of trustees of independent school districts to sell district school buildings and lands. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to providing that a portion of the Sabine River from its source to its juncture with the east boundary line of Wood County shall hereafter be deemed a non-navigable stream insofar as hunting and fishing rights on and along said stream are concerned; providing that whatever title the State of Texas may have to the bed or waters of said stream shall not be divested hereby. |
| HCR 57 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow both houses to consider H. B. No. 127 at any time. |
| HR 106 | Caption: Congratulating the citizens of the city of Sulphur Springs on the community's 100th anniversary. |