Legislation authored by Edgar Lee Berlin
Includes legislation with Edgar Lee Berlin as the primary author for the 52nd through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 54th Regular Session | |
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| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to creating one additional District Court in Jefferson County, Texas, to be known as the -----District Court. |
| HB 71 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes by providing that it shall be lawful for a trade union to seek and obtain employment for its members, and to make and enforce contracts with employers providing therefor, and specifying the wages, hours and working conditions which shall pertain to such union members; repealing conflicting laws. |
| HB 382 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide maximum weekly workmen's compensation benefits at sixty (60%) per cent of the average weekly wage of employees, not to exceed Forty ($40.00) Dollars per week. |
| HB 545 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act to provide that maximum benefit rate shall not be more than Forty Dollars ($40) per benefit period, and to provide that an employer shall be any employing unit which has or had in employment one (1) or more individuals. |
| HB 776 | Caption: Relating to drivers' licenses; amending certain Acts so as to provide for issuance of an operator's license to the holder of a chauffeur's or commercial operator's license and limiting automatic suspension of a license upon conviction for an offense to suspension of the license under authority of which the person was driving at the time of the offense. |
| HB 858 | Caption: Relating to creating Jefferson County Water Control and Improvement District No. 10, a Conservation and Reclamation District. |
| HB 947 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to allow the Commissioners Court of Jefferson County, Texas, to set the salary of the Judge of the County Court of Jefferson County at Law at a figure not less than Eight Thousand ($8,000) Dollars and not more than Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars per annum; providing a severability clause; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HCR 32 | Caption: Granting Carroll E. Reese permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 172 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 286. |
| HR 435 | Caption: In memory of Matthew "Shug" Coleman. |
| HR 443 | Caption: Inviting Fess Parker to address and perform for the Members of the House. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing maximum weekly workmen's compensation benefits at sixty per cent (60%) of the average weekly wage of employees, not to exceed Thirty-five Dollars ($35) per week. |
| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities, towns, and villages to provide for Workmen's Compensation Insurance for city, town and village employees and their representatives and beneficiaries for personal injuries sustained in the course of employment and from death resulting from such injuries; providing a penalty. |
| HB 102 | Caption: Relating to requiring all employers in The State of Texas to pay to employees minimum wages of seventy-five cents per hour, defining terms, providing penalty for failure to pay minimum wage, providing civil suits by employees, providing enforcement procedures. |
| HB 289 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Trustees of any school district in Texas to use local school funds for the purpose of paying premiums on liability insurance on officers and employees while the officers and employees are operating automobiles, motor trucks, school buses and other motor vehicles used by the school districts. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to quitclaiming the title of the State of Texas to Lot One (1), Block Twenty-eight (28), Averill Addition to the City of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, to the widow of R. W. Pipkin, deceased, Mrs. Bess Chance Benckenstein. |
| HB 446 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to specifically authorize cities and counties to enter into lump sum or unit price contracts and to make certain changes in the work to be performed or materials, equipment and supplies to be furnished under public contracts. |
| HB 745 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to allow counties and cities to cooperate in establishing, building, equipping and maintaining hospitals. |
| HB 746 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the duly and legally constituted governing bodies of any city, county, town, village, conservation district, drainage district, water district, navigation district, port district, and any and all other political subdivisions of the State of Texas to use their funds for the purpose of paying premiums on liability insurance on officers and employees while the officers and employees are operating automobiles, motor trucks, other motor vehicles and any and all other equipment, used by said political subdivision; preventing insurance companies writing such insurance from using the immunities of said political subdivisions from liability in defending against claims for damage caused by the insured, its officers or employees while they are operating automobiles, motor trucks, other motor vehicles and any and all other equipment, used by said political subdivision. |
| HCR 95 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. B. No. 15 at any time. |
| HCR 121 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 70. |
| HR 65 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 231 | Caption: Commending Anthony, Bernard, Carl, and Donald Perricone of Beaumont for their military service and patriotism. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 15 | Caption: Granting H. C. Duke and Wayne F. Moye permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 71 | Caption: Congratulating the Port Neches High School football team for winning the Class AAA state championship. |
| HR 72 | Caption: Congratulating the Lincoln High School football team of Port Arthur for winning the Class AAA Negro state championship. |
| HR 73 | Caption: Congratulating the Fannett High School six-man football team for winning the regional championship. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 152 | Caption: Relating to the County Court of Jefferson County at Law; amending Statutes with reference to the salary of the Judge of said Court; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to adopting and making applicable to the Lamar State College of Technology, at Beaumont, Texas, certain laws which are now applicable to other, similar state colleges and institutions of higher learning; providing for the payment of expenses of the members of its Board of Regents. |
| HB 391 | Caption: Relating to declaring the public policy affecting labor management relations; creating within the Bureau of Labor Statistics a Division of Conciliations. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to relinquishing and granting unto the Port District known as the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, the title to the bed and channel of the Neches River in the Port of Beaumont, a part of which has been abandoned by reason of the relocation of the bed or channel of said Neches River. |
| HB 558 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes providing for the issuance of a Gross Receipts Tax Permit by the State Comptroller, in lieu of the present law charging the Office of Secretary of State with such duty. |
| HCR 2 | Caption: Inviting Governor Allan Shivers to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HR 122 | Caption: Naming Edwin O'Neil Nimitz, Jr., Necil Gale Nimitz, Jon Brent Nimitz, and Kolter Nimitz Mascots of the House. |
| HR 260 | Caption: Congratulating Representative W. C. Ross on his 60th birthday. |