Legislation authored by Emmett Carroll Hill

Includes legislation with Emmett Carroll Hill as the primary author for the 43rd through 44th 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.

44th Regular Session
HB 311 Caption: Relating to amending Sections of the Acts of the 41st Legislature; creating the Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation district under the authority of Section 59 of Article XVI of the Constitution of Texas, and defining powers and duties of said district.
HB 435 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; authorizing any fresh water supply district which has heretofore been organized under the laws of the State and has issued bonds, and any fresh water supply district hereafter organized and which may issue bonds, to refund such bonds by issuing new coupon bonds for such purpose.
HB 436 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; authorizing any drainage district which has heretofore been organized under the laws of the State and has issued bonds, and any drainage district hereafter organized, and which may issue bonds, to refund such bonds by issuing new coupon bonds for such purposes.
HB 656 Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum amount of fees officers can receive and retain under provisions of the Maximum Fee Bill in counties having a population of not less than twenty-three thousand (23,000) nor more than twenty-three thousand and seventy-five (23,075), according to the last preceding Federal Census, and which has a tax valuation exceeding twenty-five million dollars, according to the last approved tax rolls of the county.
HB 830 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court to provide for offices in the courthouse for use of the District Judges and District Attorneys.
HB 840 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the obtaining of a statement of facts on appeal or writ of error by the party making the proof required to appeal his case without bond, and providing the compensation of the court reporter.
HB 856 Caption: Relating to providing that the Texas School for the Deaf shall be classed and conducted as an educational institution of the State.
HB 873 Caption: Relating to prohibiting dredging of oysters in Head Waters of Matagorda Bay east of a line from Palacios Point of the Mainland in Matagorda County across Matagorda Bay to Cotton Bayou on the Matagorda peninsula; providing a penalty.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 96 Caption: Relating to amending a certain House Bill of the Special Laws of the 42nd Legislature; making the provisions for repurchase of forfeited Public School Land in certain counties.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 61 Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum amount of fees officers can receive and retain under the provisions of the Maximum Fee Bill in certain counties.
HB 101 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Special Laws of the 42nd Legislature; Public School Land subject to forfeiture in certain counties so as to make the provisions for repurchase applicable and effective as herein provided.
43rd Regular Session
HB 590 Caption: Relating to briefs in trials.
HB 591 Caption: Relating to court procedure.
HB 633 Caption: Relating to cattle branding.
HB 653 Caption: Relating to providing for payment of taxes on State Prison property to all road, drainage, school, and other taxing districts; defining "county purposes".
HB 656 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation, to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas, of the sum of eleven hundred seventy and 20/100 dollars ($1,170.20), not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to the Brazoria Independent School District, covering the years from 1929 to 1932.
HB 658 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to compensate W. C. Hanner for goods, wares, and merchandise sold and delivered by him to the Texas Prison System at Clemens State Farm on April 30, 1929, and which has not yet been paid.
HB 666 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Agricultural and Mechanical College Substation No. 3, located in Brazoria County, Texas, in order to add necessary repairs, and reconstruct all property and equipment destroyed by the great hurricane which swept over the vicinity of said Substation on August 13, 1932.
HB 689 Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Penal Code of 1925 relating to making use of dogs to hunt deer.
HB 874 Caption: Relating to providing for the formation of a county-wide school district in Brazoria County upon majority vote of the qualified voters of said County.
HB 896 Caption: Relating to including the Counties of Bailey, Garza, Jim Hogg, Matagorda, Nueces, and Parmer in the list of counties exempt from the provisions of Title 121, and all laws regulating the inspection of hides and animals.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 50 Caption: Relating to authorizing navigation districts created, organized, and existing in this State under and by virtue of Section 59, of Article XVI, of the Constitution of this State, to acquire any facilities or aids incident to or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways within the navigation district and extending to the Gulf of Mexico.
HB 92 Caption: Relating to aiding the City of Palacios and the village of Collegeport, both situated in commissioners precinct No. 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, in constructing and maintaining sea walls, breakwaters, and shore protection, in order to protect said city and village from calamitous overflows by donating to them eight-ninths (8/9) of the ad valorem taxes collected on all property; providing a penalty for misapplication of the moneys thus donated.
HB 160 Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of all school districts, including common school districts, independent school districts, consolidated common school districts, consolidated independent school districts, county line school districts, consolidated county line school districts, and rural high school districts, whether created by general or special law, or county boards of trustees and boards of such districts.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HCR 24 Caption: Granting A.J. Harbers permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 30 Caption: Relating to aiding the City of Palacios and the Village of Collegeport, both situated in Commissioner's Precinct No. 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, in constructing and maintaining certain sea walls.
HB 75 Caption: Relating to exempting Brazoria County from the provisions of the deer law.