Legislation authored by Grainger Walter McIlhany
Includes legislation with Grainger Walter McIlhany as the primary author for the 51st through 59th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 59th Regular Session | |
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| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to the eradication of swine diseases; providing a penalty. |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to the application of pesticides and licensing commercial applicators; providing a penalty. |
| HB 339 | Caption: Relating to the bond required on commission merchants, dealers, and contract dealers of fruits. |
| HB 599 | Caption: Relating to compensation and reimbursement of expenses of members of the Texas Animal Health Commission. |
| HB 714 | Caption: Relating to temporary registration permits for trucks, trailers, and similar vehicles to expedite and facilitate the harvesting and marketing of cotton. |
| HB 733 | Caption: Relating to entries on the land of another by officials of a water district. |
| HB 743 | Caption: Relating to the regulatory authority of the Game and Fish Commission over the taking of shrimp in Orange and Jefferson counties; repealing certain Acts. |
| HB 949 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts defining "industrial and municipal waste" which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause or pollution of fresh water. |
| HB 992 | Caption: Relating to a creditor's remedy against a person who has a dormant deposit or inactive account which is advertised. |
| HB 993 | Caption: Relating to the amount to be reimbursed to the taxpayer for the collection of the sales tax. |
| HB 1011 | Caption: Relating to leasing mineral interests and to assigning leasehold interests in land under certain circumstances. |
| HB 1012 | Caption: Relating to an occupancy tax imposed on truck stops and similar businesses; amending certain Articles. |
| HB 1013 | Caption: Relating to minimum standards for cesspools. |
| HB 1165 | Caption: Relating to a credit for license fees paid on motor vehicles which are subsequently destroyed. |
| HB 1187 | Caption: Relating to the appropriation of funds from the Special Department of Agriculture Fund in the state treasury. |
| HCR 116 | Caption: Authorizing the enrolling clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 714. |
| HJR 33 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas so as to make it mandatory that a Sheriff and a County Tax Assessor-Collector shall be elected in each county in the State of Texas at the General Election in November, 1968. |
| HR 140 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to the Honorable Joe N. Chapman of Sulphur Springs for his service as State Representative of District 11. |
| HR 212 | Caption: In memory of Mr. Frank Lawrence Ehrle of Childress. |
| HR 375 | Caption: Commending the program of developing the Appalachia region of Tennessee. |
| HR 452 | Caption: Authorizing the Speaker to appoint Representatives to visit certain military installations. |
| HR 480 | Caption: Commending James Randel "Randy" Matson on his record-setting performances as a shot-putter. |
| 59th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 65 | Caption: Congratulating Jay F. Murphy on his life of community service. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| HB 64 | Caption: Relating to regulating the distribution, sale, or transportation of insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, defoliants, desiccants, plant regulators, nematocides, and other economic pesticides and devices. |
| HB 138 | Caption: Relating to Prospecting State Lands for Minerals, including fissionable materials, permits by Commissioner of General Land Office and fees therefor. |
| HB 139 | Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of certain land of the State by Navigation Districts. |
| HB 140 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to steal any oil or gas equipment or pipeline equipment or water well drilling equipment; making such an offense a felony; prescribing punishment therefor. |
| HB 330 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of North Wheeler County Hospital District with boundaries coextensive with the boundaries of Commissioners' Precincts 1 and 2 of Wheeler County. |
| HB 336 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of South Wheeler County Hospital District with boundaries coextensive with the boundaries of Commissioners Precincts 3 and 4 of Wheeler County. |
| HB 411 | Caption: Relating to providing for district committees to promulgate rules and regulations concerning dates for planting of cotton and destruction of cotton stalks for their respective districts so as to promote the eradication of the menace to the cotton industry of Pectinophora Gossypiella, Saunders, commonly known as the pink bollworm. |
| HB 412 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of an official shorthand reporter of the 31st Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 413 | Caption: Relating to providing that in order to encourage county jail discipline, a distinction may be made in the term of prisoners so as to extend to all such as orderly, industrious and obedient, comforts and privileges according to their deserts. |
| HB 594 | Caption: Relating to testimony in trials or hearings for violation of the provisions of the Veterinary Licensing Act. |
| HB 673 | Caption: Relating to retirement age of State employees. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to providing an alternative procedure for the issuance of permits for the movement of oversize or overweight oil well servicing, oil well clean out, and/or oil well drilling machinery and equipment. |
| HB 811 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring the appointment of an official shorthand reporter of the 100th Judicial District of Texas. |
| HJR 10 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to authorize an increase in the total amount of bonds or obligations that may be issued by the Veterans' Land Board to Four Hundred Million Dollars ($400,000,000.00); providing for the issuance of said bonds or obligations and the conditions relating thereto and the use of the Veterans' Land Fund. |
| HJR 19 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment exempting motor vehicles from all ad valorem taxes except those assessed and levied by school districts; authorizing the Legislature to increase the rates for motor vehicle registration fees; prescribing a limitation on such rates; and prescribing certain limitations on the disposition and use of such fees. |
| HJR 20 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the Legislature may delegate authority to zone public highways, roads, streets, and alleys or portions thereof; relating to and regulating the speed at which any motor vehicle may be operated thereon; and providing certain exceptions. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act extending the exemption from registration of farm trailers and farm semi-trailers to include trailers and semi-trailers owned by cotton gins and grain elevators and used solely for supplying such to farmers to haul agricultural products. |
| HB 96 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article of the Texas Penal Code relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale, or distribution of commercial fertilizer. |
| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that the Commissioner of Agriculture shall fix and collect fees for treating all weights, scales, beams and any kind of instruments or mechanical devices for weighing or measuring; providing a penalty for violation of Act. |
| HB 266 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing fee amounts collected from the inspection of and certificate issuance to public weighers shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Special Department of Agriculture Fund. |
| HB 267 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to certify certain agricultural commodity organizations as representatives of the producers of such commodities. |
| HB 371 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appropriation of funds for soil conservation districts, regulating management and the expenditure thereof. |
| HB 697 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that employers may qualify as self-insurers for Workmen's Compensation purposes; providing for the effective date of this Act. |
| HB 710 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the establishment of multiple use facilities in the State Parks. |
| HB 895 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to define as a common purchaser every purchaser of crude oil or petroleum and to require ratable purchasing of crude oil or petroleum when properly tendered to a common purchaser. |
| HB 961 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Game and Fish Commission to enter into contracts with the Corps of Engineers for the eradication of noxious vegetation in the navigable waters. |
| HB 967 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts of the counties of the 31st Judicial District and the 8th Judicial District to supplement the salary of the District Attorneys of the 31st Judicial District and the 8th Judicial District. |
| HB 1073 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of certain surveyed unsold school land to the City of Dodson, in the County of Collingsworth. |
| HB 1082 | Caption: Relating to the exemption from registration of farm trailers and semi-trailers. |
| HCR 60 | Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H.B. No. 59. |
| HCR 138 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature so either house may consider S. B. No. 400. |
| HJR 11 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas authorizing the Legislature to create agricultural commodity producers committees whose purposes shall be the expansion of markets for such commodities through advertising, public relations and other promotional work, and the development and carrying out of programs of education and research, and further authorizing the producers of the various agricultural commodities of this State to finance such activities by the levy of an assessment against themselves in an amount not to exceed one percent (1%) of the market value of the commodity upon which the assessment is paid. |
| HJR 39 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas so that the Legislature may pass a law which authorizes each county to provide retirement, disability and death benefits for the elective and appointive officers and employees of the county or precinct and so that the county may further provide retirement, disability and death benefits for the elective and appointive officers and employees of any political subdivision of the county. |
| HJR 74 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide for the election of a Speaker on the last day of any regular session to serve as Speaker whose term of office shall commence at the next general election; providing that in the event such elected Speaker does not represent a district at the next session he shall constitute the one hundred fifty-first member of the House of Representatives; providing addition election in the event the Speaker is unable to serve. |
| HR 211 | Caption: Honoring Representative Herman Yezak on his devotion to the Legislature and the State on his Birthday. |
| HR 229 | Caption: Congratulating Representative Donald "Don" Gladden on his birthday. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code by redefining the term "livestock" to include certain other animals; redefining the term "slaughterer" to include certain other persons; relating to duties of the Texas Animal Health Commission with respect to provisions of this Act. |
| HCR 28 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 44 at any time. |
| HCR 33 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 145 at any time. |
| HR 220 | Caption: In memory of Mr. Herman Manning Wiley of Wheeler. |
| HR 221 | Caption: In memory of Harold Earl Nicholson, Jr. of Wheeler. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide for the maintenance of Farm to Market Roads and to require the expenditure of certain amounts for the construction of newly designated Farm to Market Roads; making certain appropriations. |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide that owners of certain construction machinery used for certain purposes and under certain conditions although required to register shall pay an annual registration fee of Five Dollars ($5) instead of the regular registration fee. |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide procedure for determining whether or not there shall be nominees for election to the office of joint clerk for the county and district court or nominees for the separate offices of district clerk and county clerk in certain counties. |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the definition of a motor carrier. |
| HCR 16 | Caption: Granting R. L. Pugh and Virgil Romack permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to amending certain codes so as to provide for the control and eradication of bovine brucellosis in the State of Texas under the supervision of the Livestock Sanitary Commission of Texas; defining offenses and fixing penalties. |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles requiring certain safety equipment on certain vehicles operated upon the highways of this State. |
| HB 135 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Livestock Sanitary Commission of Texas to regulate the movement of livestock out of livestock markets in order to prevent the dissemination of infectious, contagious or communicable livestock diseases; defining offenses and fixing penalties. |
| HB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to regulate the movement of livestock and domestic fowl into the State of Texas; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 151 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the control and eradication of vesicular exanthema in swine; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 152 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the office of Veterans County Service Officer. |
| HB 245 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts prescribing the annual license fees of motor buses. |
| HB 841 | Caption: Relating to amending portions of the Veterinary Licensing Act to redefine the authority of the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners to adopt rules of professional conduct for profession of veterinary medicine. |
| HB 952 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring the appointment of an official shorthand reporter of the 100th Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 954 | Caption: Relating to creating a juvenile board for Gray County and designating the Chairman thereof. |
| HB 998 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming and validating Collingsworth County Water Control and Improvement District Number One and declaring it to be a validly existing and operating conservation and reclamation district. |
| HCR 64 | Caption: Granting Leon Gay permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Game and Fish Commission to transfer and convey certain lands in Hemphill County, Texas to the Adobe Walls Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. |
| HR 112 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Raymond Richard Russell, Jr. on his birthday. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 67 | Caption: Extending Texas Citizenship to George Franklin Dillman. |
| HR 100 | Caption: Requesting that the Senate accede to the request of the House to appoint a new members of the Senate to the Conference Committee in order to draft the tax bill. |
| HR 114 | Caption: Requesting the Senate to return S. B. No. 33 to the House for corrections. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 6 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Warren "Red" Cowen on his birthday. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 16 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale and distribution for sale of commercial feed as defined in this Act in this State. |
| HB 129 | Caption: Relating to the creation and designation of Ground Water Conservation District Number Three, South of the Canadian River, and validating the creation and election confirming said District. |
| HB 422 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due thereon of a judgment against the State of Texas by W. J. Smith. |
| HB 423 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due thereon of a judgment obtained against the State of Texas by Cabot Carbon Company. |
| HB 550 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due on a certain judgment obtained against the State of Texas by the Wheeler Gas Company. |
| HB 576 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of public cemetery districts. |
| HB 699 | Caption: Relating to narcotics; defining all parts of the plant of the genus Lophophora, commonly known as peyote or mescal and all derivatives of such plant as a narcotic drug. |
| HB 716 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to publishing, distributing, etc., of immoral and depraved publications; providing a penalty for violations. |
| HB 812 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to redefinine the terms "motor fuel" and "other liquid fuels." |
| HB 852 | Caption: Relating to authorizing County Commissioners Courts to fix the compensation of constables at any reasonable sum not to exceed Eight Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars. |
| HB 888 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due on a certain judgment obtained against the State of Texas by Thomas L. Wade. |
| HCR 71 | Caption: Granting approval to the Board of Directors of A&M College of Texas to expend certain funds. |
| HCR 107 | Caption: Granting North Plain telephone Company, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Granting South-Tex Corporation permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 137 | Caption: Instructing the House Conferees on H. B. No. 6. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to amending Item 46 of the biennial appropriation for the Department of Agriculture by adding the words "or pest" immediately after the word "insect" that appears in Item 46. |
| HR 22 | Caption: Congratulating Darrell C. Royal on his record as a football coach. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property of organizations known as The American Legion or local organizations of or affiliated with The American Legion. |
| HB 175 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, and distributing for sale of commercial feed in this State. |
| HB 219 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas so as to increase fees and allowances to sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and constables. |
| HB 220 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes by raising certain fees for Sheriffs and Constables. |
| HB 221 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum ad valorem tax rates which may be common school districts that maintain a twelve-year program of instruction, other than rural high school districts; providing a severability clause; suspending conflicting laws. |
| HB 302 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to immoral or depraved publications, motion pictures, penny arcade machine pictures and indecent objects; providing a penalty for violations of this Act. |
| HB 841 | Caption: Relating to veterinary medicine and surgery; amending the Veterinary Licensing Act by making further provisions for licensing of veterinarians. |
| HB 936 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by making it unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or servant thereof, acting as a wholesale distributor or news agency to require, or demand of, any person, firm, or corporation selling goods, wares, and merchandise at retail to purchase or accept from such distributor or agency any other pamphlet, magazine, or printed matter, providing a penalty for violations of this Act; repealing all laws in conflict with this Act in so far as they conflict with this Act. |
| HCR 57 | Caption: Granting the Cabot Carbon Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 58 | Caption: Granting the Wheeler Gas Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 144 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 175 at any time. |
| HCR 154 | Caption: Granting William Jarrel Smith permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 305 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative W. T. McNeil and his new wife on their marriage. |
| HR 328 | Caption: Designating Mrs. John L. Crosthwait as "Honorary Poetess" of the House. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to sell, give or cause to be sold to any minor under the age of eighteen years of age any narcotic drug. |
| HB 406 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to county law libraries, so as to provide that the Commissioners Courts of Texas shall be authorized to fix the assessment to be made in each civil case for the maintenance of such library, a sum not to exceed five dollars ($5.00). |
| HB 880 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the allocation of professional units in certain school districts containing two hundred and fifty (250) square miles or more and having fewer than one (1) pupil per square mile, and which operates and maintains a four-year accredited high school; providing the effective date of this Act. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 43 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum ad valorem tax rates which may be levied by common school districts that maintain a twelve-year program of instruction, other than rural high school districts. |
| HCR 54 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow both houses to consider H. B. No. 43 at any time. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by authorizing and empowering the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain an Agricultural Experimental Station to conduct scientific investigations, experiments and demonstrations in the study of agricultural problems with particular emphasis on the study of problems relating to upbuilding of sandy farms in the North West region of Texas, said scientific investigations and experiments to be conducted in sandy land sections of Wheeler, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray, Childress, Hall, Motley, and Cottle Counties. |
| HB 272 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing that drip gasoline extracted or expelled from natural gas pipe lines shall be labeled in plain, legible lettering as "Drip Gasoline" wherever sold or offered for sale for use in motor vehicles on the highways of Texas. |
| HB 418 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties having a population of not less than 6,117 and not more than 6,201 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to expend monies for the purpose of maintenance and upkeep of the public cemeteries. |
| HB 419 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties having a population of not less than 10,186 and not more than 10,332 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to expend monies for the purpose of maintenance and upkeep of the public cemeteries. |
| HB 459 | Caption: Relating to providing for a County Law Library in certain counties; providing a fund to be raised by collecting costs in certain civil cases and for the administration of said fund; providing for the appointment of a Library Board for the administration of said fund and to determine with certain limits the costs to be collected; providing for housing and management. |
| HB 498 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties having a population of not less than 9,074 and not more than 9,169 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to expend monies for the purpose of maintenance and upkeep of the public cemeteries. |
| HB 580 | Caption: Relating to defining delinquent parents; providing that a parent or person standing in place of a parent who fails or omits to exercise reasonable diligence to prevent a child from operating or driving an automobile or any other motor vehicle in a reckless manner, at an excessive rate of speed, or while under the influence of intoxicating liquors, is guilty of a misdemeanor; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 581 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for minors between the ages of fourteen (14) and seventeen (17) years of age to drive or operate an automobile or any other motor vehicle in a reckless manner, at an excessive rate of speed, or while under the influence of intoxicating liquors; providing a penalty for violation thereof. |
| HB 593 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale, use and application of hormone type herbicides; fixing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 662 | Caption: Relating to reappropriating the unencumbered funds of "The 2, 4-D License Fund" to the Commissioner of Agriculture; appropriating the fees to be collected under the above law to the Commissioner of Agriculture. |
| HB 693 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts of counties having a population of not less than twenty-four thousand, four hundred and forty-one (24,441), nor more than twenty-five thousand, one hundred and eleven (25,111) inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, in which counties the Commissioners Courts have authorized county officials to be compensated on a salary basis, to fix the salaries to be paid to county officials, their deputies, clerks and assistants. |
| HR 154 | Caption: Naming Richard Nolan Craig Mascot of the House. |
| HR 271 | Caption: Welcoming Paula Ann Rogers and wishing her many happy years. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 49 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain an Agricultural Experimental Station for the purpose of making scientific investigations and experiments in the study of agricultural problems with particular emphasis on the study of problems relating to upbuilding of sandy farms in the North West region of Texas, said station to be located in a sandy land section of either Wheeler, Collingsworth or Donley Counties, authorizing said Board of Directors to accept donations of land, appropriations, money, or anything of value for the establishment and maintenance of said station, authorizing the use of any donation or appropriations, placing the supervision of said station under the direction of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, providing the manner in which said experimental station shall be operated and conducted. |
| HB 160 | Caption: Relating to permitting certain county line school districts to hold an election to change the administrative jurisdiction of the school district to the county of the choice of the majority of the voters of the school district. |
| HB 390 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that Reports of Alien Ownership of Land may be filed on or before Six Months from the time the occasion arises for filing such report. |
| HB 825 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that each justice of the peace of the State of Texas as an ex officio notary public shall be granted the privilege of using the seal of a notary public. |
| HB 931 | Caption: Relating to validating the city charters, charter amendments, and ordinances and proceedings of city councils, including home rule cities, defining the boundaries of and annexing territory adjoining such city when such annexation has been authorized by a majority of the inhabitants qualified to vote for Members of the Legislature in such annexed territory. |
| HB 956 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Wheeler County forfeited prior to August 1, 1941, and after January 1, 1941, where the lands have been improved by the present occupant to the extent of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) or more, providing that the provisions of this Act shall not apply as to intervening rights of third parties. |
| HCR 82 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to call a constitutional convention to consider proposed amendments regarding the United States participation in a federal world government. |
| HR 151 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HR 54 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |