Legislation authored by Vernon Lemens
Includes legislation with Vernon Lemens as the primary author for the 41st through 48th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.
| 48th Regular Session | |
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| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative qualifications of State depositories; relating to building and loan securities and acceptable collateral. |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative investments by guardians of estates in building and loan association shares. |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues relative awards to, and bonds of, city depositories; relating to building and loan association shares. |
| SB 16 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative building and loan shares acceptable collateral to secure deposits made with county depositories. |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative investment of cemetery care funds in building and loan securities. |
| SB 61 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to supervision and control of building and loan associations. |
| SB 215 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that a registered architect who has entered service in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard subsequent to October 1st, 1940 and who was at the time of his entry into said service or is now in good standing as a registered architect, shall have his name continued on the list of registered architects and shall be exempt from the payment of any further license fee during his service, as aforesaid, and until honorably discharged, and when honorably discharged from the service he shall be exempt from payment of such fee for the then current fiscal year. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to providing for licensing of operators, commercial operators and chauffeurs; providing a penalty. |
| SB 25 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article prescribing additional requirements for the official ballot in general elections. |
| SB 166 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act by making stock of building and loan associations eligible as security by depositories of public funds. |
| SB 209 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing when, how, and under what circumstances building and loan associations may make loans, advance credit and purchase obligations with respect to the building, making of alterations, repairs and improvements in 'Defense Housing Areas.'; providing when such regulations shall take effect. |
| SB 483 | Caption: Relating to providing that mutual life insurance companies and associations may with the approval of the Board of Insurance Commissioners place provisions in the policies issued provided for the payment of reduced benefits or the exclusion of coverage if death or injury occurs while the insured is engaged in military, naval, aerial service or aerial flight in time of peace or war; or while engaged in certain hazardous occupations to be named in the policies; or if death or injury is caused by mob violence or legal execution. |
| SCR 67 | Caption: Granting certain judges permission to be absent from the State of Texas. |
| SCR 69 | Caption: Granting R.W Dillard and Lillian Dillard permission to sue the state. |
| SCR 70 | Caption: Relating to the passage of H.B. 205. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for supervision of building and loan associations. |
| SB 73 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to regulating local mutual aid assessment societies to compel full payment of benefits. |
| SB 74 | Caption: Relating to requiring all persons licensed to practice medicine to be citizens of United States as well as meet other qualifications. |
| SB 158 | Caption: Relating to authorizing municipalities, political subdivisions, and taxing districts to effect a plan for the composition of their indebtedness under the provisions of the Federal Bankruptcy Laws enacted by the Congress of the United States. |
| SB 190 | Caption: Relating to providing for preference of employment in all State Departments of this State of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, nurses and marines of the Army and Navy of the United States in the late Spanish American and Philippine Insurrection Wars, in the China Relief Expedition, and the late World War of the Allied Nations. |
| SB 191 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to foreign building and loan associations doing business in this State. |
| SB 196 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by providing that the Commissioners' Court of Hill County, Texas, may authorize and issue refunding bonds of said county for the purpose of funding certain scrip warrants outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of February 15, 1939. |
| SB 259 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute requiring the making and filing with the Banking Commissioner of Texas of annual financial statements by certain persons affected thereby; providing penalties, appropriating filing fees. |
| SB 265 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by dispensing with publication of financial statements of money lending corporations which do not offer their obligations for sale. |
| SB 272 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute making minor changes in Workmen's Compensation Law. |
| SB 397 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the examination of insurance companies. |
| SB 422 | Caption: Relating to providing that all counties within this State having a population in excess of fifty-three thousand five hundred (53,500) inhabitants and less than fifty-seven thousand (57,000) inhabitants may upon an order made by its Commissioners' Court for this purpose provide and maintain a County Law Library. |
| SCR 23 | Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Fund of the State of Texas for the Board of Water Engineers' Department for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937. |
| SB 103 | Caption: Relating to providing that the court may set several capital cases on the same day; providing that only one venire shall be drawn for all capital cases set for the same day; providing each defendant shall be furnished a list of the venire for the day his case is set; providing that court may in his discretion excuse the remainder of the venire. |
| SB 178 | Caption: Relating to providing that all State and county taxes on personal property shall be a lien upon the property upon which they are assessed. |
| SB 203 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the increase or decrease in the list of subjects for which free textbooks are adopted. |
| SB 204 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of $611,672.28, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated to pay the apportionment for the period now due and to be due for the and to be due for the balance of the State fiscal year ending August 3, 1937, to all counties in which the county officers are compensated on the basis of a salary, as provided for in Section 6 of Senate Bill No. 5, enacted at the Second Called Session of the Forty-fourth Legislature. |
| SB 236 | Caption: Relating to compensation insurance. |
| SB 237 | Caption: Relating to workmen's compensation insurance. |
| SB 284 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of corporations for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, operating and engaging in the business of grading, constructing of terraces and drainage structures and all other forms of dirt construction work. |
| SB 285 | Caption: Relating to providing for the organization of cooperative, non-profit, membership corporations for the purpose of engaging in rural electrification. |
| SB 298 | Caption: Relating to making the laws of Texas relating to the National Guard compatible with the Constitution and Laws of the United States as required by Section 46 of Article 16 of the Constitution of Texas. |
| SB 299 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of district, certain designated county and precinct officers and providing the method and means by which such officers shall be compensated for their services. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Joint Rules of the Legislature. |
| SCR 32 | Caption: Commending the hospitality of the citizens of Lubbock during a recent visit by the Members of the Legislature. |
| SCR 45 | Caption: Authorizing the State Highway Department to lend certain equipment to facilitate certain projects at Camp Maybury. |
| SCR 55 | Caption: Granting H. R. Allman permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to requiring a resident fishing license of residents of this State who catch or attempt to catch any fish from any waters in this State. |
| HB 320 | Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of all school districts and tax levies therein. |
| HB 345 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing and permitting local mutual aid associations to operate in the State of Texas and write business in territory embraced within one county, or to a territory embraced within a radius of one hundred (100) miles of the city or town of the association, including counties traversed by said radius or to all the counties adjoining that in which the home office is situated or where the home office of an association is located within less than one hundred (100) miles of border line of the State to a limited number of connecting counties whose total area does not exceed that allowed under the law to any other local mutual aid association of Texas. |
| HB 731 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the general revenue of the State of Texas for the State Board of Water Engineers to pay the salary of two (2) assistant engineers. |
| HB 918 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that the tax lien on land shall be paramount and superior to all liens, charges or rights, whether created before or after the tax lien attaches, and making the provisions applicable to school districts, and all other taxing agencies of the State. |
| HB 919 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that the officers and directors of insolvent corporations shall be jointly and severally liable to all persons, firms, and corporations for any indebtedness incurred after such corporation becomes insolvent, and the value of any property, labor or services received or converted by it after insolvency. |
| HB 920 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that in all suits for collection of ad valorem taxes due the State, or any subdivision thereof, that it may be maintained in the county in which such tax was assessed or in which the city, town, village, school district, or other taxing subdivision is situated. |
| HCR 112 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule No. 23 to take up H.B. No. 345 out of order. |
| HJR 17 | Caption: Proposing to amend Section 1, Article XVI, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by striking from the oath of members of the Legislature, and all officers, the provision against sueling with deadly weapons, sending, or accepting a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, and acting as a second in carrying a challenge or aiding, advising, or assisting any person thus offending. |
| HR 57 | Caption: Providing for an inquiry of the State Treasurer relative to the funds of the Racing Law of Texas. |
| HR 74 | Caption: Wishing Representative Gene Worley a speedy recovery from illness. |
| HR 100 | Caption: Directing the State Auditor and Efficiency Expert to report to the House any information relevant to the funds due under the Racing Law. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 42 | Caption: In memory of Robert Hunter Sparkman. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 120 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the General Revenue Funds of the State of Texas for the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District, to aid said District to start immediate work on its program of construction. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 30 | Caption: Directing the Contingent Expense Committee to purchase copies of the Texas Statutes, 1936 Centennial edition for the House. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to fees for hunting by a resident of this State hunting outside of the county of his residence, and to non-residents and aliens hunting in this State, fixing the fees for same. |
| HB 236 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to protection of fish in Bosque County. |
| HB 237 | Caption: Relating to increasing the amount that may be spend by a candidate for nomination to membership in the House of Representatives. |
| HB 238 | Caption: Relating to the salary of the county judge as superintendent of public instruction in certain counties. |
| HB 239 | Caption: Relating to providing notice and competitive bids shall not be required for expenditures for the purchase of right of way for highway construction. |
| HB 267 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the duties of sheriffs; providing that no indemnity bond shall be required of the party procuring the issuance of the writ of sequestration; providing suitable penalties for failure to perform these duties. |
| HB 268 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the duties of constables; providing that indemnity bond shall not be required of the party procuring the issuance of the writ of sequestration; providing suitable penalties for failure to perform these duties. |
| HB 292 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to apportionment of funds; providing weekly deposit by county tax collector of net collections to be apportioned to respective city street, or county road and bridge fund, where collected. |
| HB 423 | Caption: Relating to providing and permitting local mutual aid associations to operate in the State of Texas and write business in territory embraced within one county, or to a territory embraced within a radius of one hundred (100) miles of the city or town of the association, including counties traversed by said radius or to all the counties adjoining that in which the home office is situated or where the home office of an association is located within less than one hundred (100) miles of border line of the State to a limited number of connecting counties whose total area does not exceed that allowed under the law to any other local mutual aid association of Texas. |
| HB 424 | Caption: Relating to the regulation of local mutual aid associations paying death benefits, operating an assessment insurance benefit association, and paying benefits, where the funds are provided by collection from the members. |
| HB 470 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on peddlers, and defining the term "peddler," and providing for the enforcement thereof by the county and district attorneys, and providing proper receipts and licensing of peddlers, and for the collection of the tax, and fixing a penalty for failure to pay the tax. |
| HB 516 | Caption: Relating to fees of sheriff or constable. |
| HB 517 | Caption: Relating to fees of sheriff or constable. |
| HB 550 | Caption: Relating to levying and providing for payment and collection of luxury taxes upon persons who purchase chewing gum, perfumes, cosmetics, cigars, tobacco, snuff, smoking and chewing tobacco (except rolled cigarettes), candy, cereal beverages, bottled drinks, which are not cereal beverages, soft drinks, which are not bottled, tickets to places of amusement, playing cards, jewelry, malt, sporting goods, and firearms, and defining the terms "jewelry", and "sporting goods". |
| HB 570 | Caption: Relating to establishing the office of county school superintendent, and providing that the commissioners court of each county, which has three thousand scholastic population or more, as shown by the preceding scholastic census, shall, at the next general election after 1934, and likewise each four years thereafter, provide for the election of a county school superintendent, to serve for a term of four years. |
| HB 592 | Caption: Relating to providing for supervisors in certain counties, in lieu of teachers' institutes; prescribing the duties of said supervisors; prescribing the salary of said supervisors, and how it shall be paid. |
| HB 621 | Caption: Relating to providing that the president of the University of Texas, the president of A. & M. college, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be the State Board of Vocational Education, with necessary authority and power to cooperate with the Federal Board of Vocational Education, as provided and required by an Act of Congress of the United States of America, approved February 23, 1917; and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 687 | Caption: Relating to providing that no life insurance company organized under the laws of any State other than the State of Texas, or organized under the laws of any foreign country, may reinsure the entire outstanding business of any solvent life insurance company organized under the laws of this State, or acquire, either directly, or indirectly, all, or substantially all, of the assets of any solvent insurance company organized uner the laws of this State; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 697 | Caption: Relating to assisting in the prevention of the theft of motor vehicles in Texas; requiring the owner of every motor vehicle to acquire certificate of title from county tax collector, and requiring each such owner to acquire from county tax collector anf affix on vehicle metal registration card container, and registration card; repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HCR 37 | Caption: Granting G.B. White and Byrd White of the White Brothers firm permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 45 | Caption: Granting Womack Construction Company, the First National Bank of Alvarado, and the First National Bank of Grandview permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 33 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by striking out Section 4, and providing in lieu thereof for a term of four years for Representatives. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Providing for the replacement of flags in the Hall. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Providing for a block picture of the members of the House by the Jensen Studio of Austin. |
| HR 16 | Caption: Endorsing Miller M. Brister for the position of First Assistant Secretary of Commerce. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Providing for the introduction of Carl Nesbitt, Commander of the American Legion for Texas, to the House. |
| HR 141 | Caption: In memory of Celia M. Jones, sister-in-law of Representative Walter E. Jones. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 65 | Caption: Relating to providing for payment of the salary of the Ex-officio Superintendent of Public Instruction in all counties having not less than three thousand (3,000) and not more than three thousand one hundred (3,100) population, from the County Available School Fund. |
| HB 173 | Caption: Relating to providing for the pledging of delinquent district school taxes of school districts to be used to pay the interest and sinking fund on a loan or loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or other sources, for certain purposes. |
| HB 204 | Caption: Relating to declaring the validity of certain indebtedness arising out of the construction of State Highway No. 2 in the County of Johnson. |
| HCR 48 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #23 so that the House might consider HB 175. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, killing or possession of wild fox for the purpose of barter or sale, and prohibiting the use of steel traps for taking fur-bearing animals in certain counties; providing a penalty. |
| HR 34 | Caption: Requesting that the County Attorney of Travis County investigate the operation of a gambling game called "Skill Ball." |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HR 24 | Caption: Urging the Texas Centennial Commission to arrange for financing the Centennial by means other than direct appropriation from the State Treasury. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| HB 332 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article to provide that whenever the Texas Employers' Insurance Association shall have accumulated at the end of any calendar year an admitted surplus in excess of incurred losses, expenses and unearned premiums or other liabilities, the liability of its members to assessment shall be suspended. |
| HB 341 | Caption: Relating to establishing at Meridian in Bosque County, Texas the Central Texas State Teacher's College. |
| HB 537 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and approving the acts, orders and proceedings of the Commissioner's Court of Somervell County relating to incorporation of the City of Glen Rose. |
| HB 634 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by exempting from Territorial Limitation the operation of Local Mutual Aid Associations. |
| HB 678 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Johnson County, Texas. |
| HB 710 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Headlight Testing Law. |
| HB 756 | Caption: Relating to providing for the election of a District Attorney in the 18th Judicial District. |
| HB 889 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide for the payment of costs to officers by the county in any and all cases wherein the defendant is unable to pay his fine. |
| HB 918 | Caption: Relating to providing that mutual insurance companies may write life insurance on the legal reserve plan provided that no such policies shall exceed One Thousand Dollars in amount. |
| HB 998 | Caption: Relating to validating ratifying, confirming, and approving the acts, orders and proceedings of the Commissioners' Court of Somervell County, Texas, relating to incorporation of the City of Glen Rose. |
| HB 1050 | Caption: Relative to applying to Johnson and Ellis Counties, making it unlawful to seine, catch or possess minnows for sale or commercial purposes and making possession of two hundred minnows prima facie evidence of guilt; prescribing penalties. |
| HCR 44 | Caption: Recalling H.B. 537 from the Governor's desk. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Expressing appreciation of the House to J. R. Reed Music Company. |
| HR 75 | Caption: Appointing a committee to make arrangements for the installation of a piano in the hall of the House. |
| HR 91 | Caption: Extending use of the hall to the University of Missouri and the University of Texas |
| 42nd 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 15 | Caption: Requesting Pat Dwyer to temper his speeches with less enthusiasm. |
| 42nd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 96 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws by providing notice and competitive bids shall not be required for expenditures for the purchase of right of way for highway construction. |
| HR 7 | Caption: In memory of John H. Veatch. |
| 41st Regular Session | |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to providing for nine members of the Board of Regents of the State teachers colleges, instead of six members. |
| HB 230 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that in a felony case, on a pea of guilty, the defendant may waive a trial by a jury, providing that the judge shall assess the punishment. |
| HB 417 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws; placing the counties of Somervell and Bosque under the same law as applies to killing of fox in the counties east of the boundary line defined herein; repealing the five-year closed season on trapping in Limestone County. |
| HB 560 | Caption: Relating to permitting defendants in felony cases to waive trial by jury and to provide in such cases for trial by the judge without a jury. |
| HB 739 | Caption: Relating to establishing at Meridian in Bosque County, Texas the Central Texas State Teacher's College. |
| HCR 16 | Caption: Requesting the Senate to return S. C. R. No. 14 to the House for further consideration. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 185 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to provide for rural school supervisors. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| HB 103 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for a rural school supervisor in lieu of the teacher's institute in certain counties. |