Legislation authored by George Sebastian Berry

Includes legislation with George Sebastian Berry as the primary author for the 53rd through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

54th Regular Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of the practice of ophthalmic dispensing; authorizing the licensing of qualified ophthalmic dispensers, setting out qualifications of applicants for licenses; providing restrictions upon the practice of ophthalmic dispensing; defining terms, creating a Board of Examiners to determine the qualifications of the applicants; specifying membership, term of office, powers and duties of such Board of Examiners; prescribing examinations; requiring renewal of licenses; providing certain exemptions from the application of this act; providing a waiver clause; providing a penalty.
HB 99	Caption: Relating to creating an additional district court for Lubbock County to be known as the District Court of the 140th Judicial District.
HB 100	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for inspection of steam boilers in all public and private schools, colleges, universities, or county courthouses.
HB 125	Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act.
HB 210	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes to provide that the provisions thereof as to payment of tuition by members of the armed forces shall not apply to certain members thereof.
HB 288	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of districts for the control and eradication of noxious weeds in certain counties of the State.
HB 404	Caption: Relating to amending the definition of a "subdivision of an underground water reservoir"; dealing with the exclusion of grazing while water is being produced only for domestic and stock raising purposes; to authorize underground water districts to require permits for the drilling, equipping and/or completion of water wells.
HB 418	Caption: Relating to providing that an injured employee of a subscriber under the Workmen's Compensation Act may appeal direct to the courts where the Industrial Accident Board fails or refuses to set his claim for compensation for hearing and to issue its award on said claim within a reasonable time; defining what constitutes a reasonable time; providing for method of appeal to the courts in the same manner as now provided in certain Statutes; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HB 543	Caption: Relating to providing incentives to establish programs of special education for preparation of teachers of exceptional children in state supported colleges and universities in Texas offering advanced graduate work in education; to establish special classes and programs for the education of slow learning children and to extend the programs of special education as currently provided for in the statutes; and to encourage teachers to prepare for and work in this field.
HB 822	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas so as to authorize the liquidator or receiver of an insolvent insurer not organized under the laws of this State to collect and use the proceeds of bonds filed by such insurer with the Board of Insurance Commissioners under the provisions of the Insurance Code of Texas to pay the claims of creditors, claimants, and policy holders of such insurers, and expenses incidental thereto.
HCR 17	Caption: Granting F. C. Fry permission to sue Texas Technological College.
HCR 76	Caption: Authorizing the 36th Division Association to construct a monument of the Capitol Grounds honoring the service of the 36th Division of the Texas National Guard during both World Wars.
HCR 104	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 404 at any time.
HR 102	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 103	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 104	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
53rd Regular Session
HB 34	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by extending existing exemption provisions with respect to payment of certain fees, dues, and charges in state-supported institutions of collegiate rank to persons serving in the armed forces of the United States during the present national emergency, as therein defined, and to children of members of the armed forces of the United States who were killed in action or died while in such service, subject to certain conditions and limitations therein stated; fixing the effective date of the Act.
HB 479	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the execution and delivery by the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College of a right-of-way easement to certain land in Lubbock County, to the State Highway Commission of the State of Texas, for the construction and maintenance of a State Highway across the campus of Texas Technological College.
HB 600	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes in regard to certain funds set aside for Sam Houston State Teacher's College.
HB 682	Caption: Relating to raising revenue; levying a tax upon timber, lime, coal and/or lignite and/or peat and/or coke, asphaltic limestone, asphalt, bentonite, Fuller's earth, gypsum, pumice and/or pumicite, salt, sand, shell, gravel and/or clay, limestone, granite, marble and sandstone; levying a tax on all products imported into this State upon the first sale or use in Texas in intrastate commerce, which are of like kind and character as those products which are herein taxed when produced in Texas; amending so as to increase certain occupation taxes; providing for penalties and interest; fixing the effective date of this Act.
HB 761	Caption: Relating to providing for leaves of absence without loss of time or efficiency rating or vacation time or salary of all officers and employees of the State of Texas and of any county or political subdivision thereof, including municipalities, who are members of the National Guard or Official Militia of Texas or members of any of the Reserve Components of the Armed Forces.
HR 1	Caption: Restricting the privilege of the floor pending the election of the Speaker.
53rd 1st Called Session
HR 136	Caption: In memory of Herndon I. Robinson.