Legislation authored by Lewis Thomas Carpenter

Includes legislation with Lewis Thomas Carpenter as the primary author for the 38th through 38th 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.

38th Regular Session
HB 14	Caption: Relating to amending legislation relating to itinerant merchants, or persons, firms, companies or association of persons temporarily engaging in the mercantile business; fixing penalty.
HB 145	Caption: Relating to amending a statute relating to banks and banking by providing a penalty for the giving of worthless checks, drafts or orders.
HB 185	Caption: Relating to providing for the printing of all proclamations and legal notices, or other advertising matter, by the different institutions of the State, districts, counties and subdivisions thereof, and providing for maximum fees to be charged for said publications, and directing the manner of payment therefor, and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 261	Caption: Relating to authorizing the building and equipping of a college of technology and textile engineering, providing for its location and the appointment of the board of directors.
HB 271	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of official grand jury stenographers by the district judge or judge in charge of said grand juries in counties of Texas having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand or more.
HB 516	Caption: Relating to governing the Issuance of Teachers' Certificate in the Teacher Training Course of the Dallas Public Schools.
HB 537	Caption: Relating to providing for the designation of district judges to hold special terms of court in the various judicial districts in the State when accumulation or urgency of business or the public interest justify or require such designation.
HB 554	Caption: Relating to defining indigency.
HB 571	Caption: Relating to authorizing the incorporation of Real Estate Boards for the purpose of acquiring, preserving and disseminating valuable business information with reference to the purchase, sale, handling, improvement and development of real property.
HB 599	Caption: Relating to exempting absolutely and under a certain time limitation, all money or other property, due payable or accruing upon insurance or indemnity contracts for sickness, disease, disability, accident, infirmity, or old age, from all process for forcible payments of debts of the insured.
HCR 2	Caption: Inviting Roy A. Haynes to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
HCR 15	Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact legislation to implement regional quotas on the number of people immigrating to the country in order to preserve "a homogeneous race".
HJR 17	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to provide the maximum amount of taxes that may be levied or assessed in this State against property used in the manufacture of cotton, woolen, worsted, leather or ilk goods.
HR 37	Caption: Inviting former First Lady Anne Pleasant of Louisiana to address the Members of the House.
HR 54	Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass certain amendments to the Interstate Commerce Act.
HR 71	Caption: Inviting J. Frank Norris to give a lecture to the Members of the House.
HR 99	Caption: Requesting the Governor to refuse the resignation of Robert Ewing Thomason.
HR 103	Caption: Commending the citizens of Austin for their hospitality towards the Members of the House.
HR 104	Caption: Confirming the attendance of a quorum of Members of the House for the upcoming special session.
38th 2nd Called Session
HB 69	Caption: Relating to extending oil and gas permits on lands which are now or have been in the possession or under the control of the Federal Receiver appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States for such periods of time respectively as such lands have been or may be in such receiver's possession or under his control.
HB 236	Caption: Relating to authorizing steam or electric railway companies, street railway companies, interurban railway companies and other chartered transportation companies, sleeping car companies, or persons or association of persons operating the same, or the receivers or lessees thereof, or their officers, agents or employees, to issue free transportation to ministers of religion in this State when making intrastate trips.
HB 238	Caption: Relating to creating and providing for a Department of Insurance, for the State of Texas, separate and distinct from the Department of Banking of this State, vesting therein and giving to it jurisdiction of all matters, things, powers and functions of the Department of Insurance and Banking, except as such as may have been divested therefrom and vested in the Department of Banking.
HCR 2	Caption: Authorizing the Texas Prison Committee to make a scientific survey of state prison system.
HR 37	Caption: In memory of State Rep. Lee J. Rountree.
38th 3rd Called Session
HB 39	Caption: Relating to requiring the teaching of the constitution of the United States and of this State, including the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals in all the public schools and colleges.
HB 60	Caption: Relating to defining the duties of the tax assessor and his deputies prescribing an oath to be administered to the taxpayers and those who render property for taxation and providing a penalty for failure to comply with the requirements of this Act.
HB 61	Caption: Relating to prescribing the duties of the owner or agent of property subject to taxation under the laws of this State and requiring such person to render property for taxation and providing a penalty for failure to comply with the provisions of this Act.
HCR 7	Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to adjourn Sine Die.