Legislation authored by Harry Douglas Pruett

Includes legislation with Harry Douglas Pruett as the primary author for the 49th through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

49th Regular Session
HB 5 Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1945, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided for in Senate Bill No. 333, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-eighth Legislature.
HB 6 Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1945, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided for in certain acts.
HB 7 Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1945, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided for in House Bill No. 665, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-eighth Legislature.
HB 8 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1945, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided for in House Bill No.666, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forth-eighth Legislature.
HB 16 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts granting to incorporated cities and towns having a population of forty thousand inhabitants or more, according to the 1940 United States Census, the banks, beds, channels and abandoned banks, beds and channels of rivers, streams and other channels within present or future corporate limits or along a boundary thereof.
HB 21 Caption: Relating to granting, selling and conveying certain tracts of land to the City of Austin and also the bed, banks of the Colorado River and the islands in said river within the present city limits.
HB 67 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by defining property of incorporated cities and towns devoted exclusively to use and benefit of the public and exempt from taxation; canceling taxes assessed against property so devoted.
HB 222 Caption: Relating to defining a standard health unit and providing for the cooperation of the State Health Officer and any city and county and school officials in establishing standard health units.
HB 642 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for compensation of assessor and collector in collecting State, county and other taxes, etc.
HB 643 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to fee for certificate of title.
HB 644 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to fees of district and county attorneys, etc.
HB 744 Caption: Relating to providing for acquiring and accepting title to 28 1/4 acres of land on the East side of the Colorado River out of the D.J. Gilbert Survey being Block 20 of a subdivision of the P.C. Taylor land and commonly known as a Lagoona Gloria, authorizing the acceptance of title upon condition that the property never been encumbered and shall perpetually be maintained and operated as a museum for art treasures and things of historical interest to the people of Texas, providing for its management and supervision by the State Board of Control and the Texas Fine Arts Association, providing that the land and grounds shall be known as "Clare Driscoll State Art Gallery".
HB 749 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to providing that the utility tax shall be payable by such persons, companies, and private corporations engaged in the business of owning, operating, or managing pipe lines for the transportation or carriage of natural gas, and exempting from such tax producers of gas except when engaged in the business of transporting same by pipe line for sale or delivery to the public or to municipalities or to others engaged in the business of selling or distributing such gas to the public or to municipalities.
HB 751 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Regular session of the Forty-ninth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Forty-eighth Legislature.
HCR 24 Caption: Commending officers and directors of United War Chest of Texas.
HCR 42 Caption: Granting easements to the city of Austin for the construction and maintenance of Lamar Boulevard.
HR 78 Caption: Expressing appreciation to Austin Junior Chamber of Commerce.
HR 79 Caption: Commending the Boy Scouts of America.
HR 95 Caption: Inviting George B. Butler to take oath of office in the House of Representatives.
HR 104 Caption: Expressing appreciation to Walter W. Head.
HR 148 Caption: Providing additional expense account for members of the House of Representatives.
HR 210 Caption: Memorializing Congress relative to wage readjustment of postal employees.
HR 240 Caption: Inviting Archduke Felix of Austria to address the House of Representatives.