Legislation authored by James Hollins Woods
Includes legislation with James Hollins Woods as the primary author for the 32nd 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 | |
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| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to and providing for vocational education, accepting and validating previous acceptances of the benefits of an act passed by the Congress of the United States, approved on February 23rd, 1917, for the promotion of vocational education, designating the State Treasurer of the State of Texas as custodian for the reception and disbursement of all funds allotted to this State from appropriations made by the said act of Congress. |
| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to providing for the acceptance of the benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, providing for the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment. |
| SB 81 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas in regard to special venires in capital cases. |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to providing that in certain cases one or more charges against the same defendant may be joined in the same indictment or information and that if two or more indictment or informations are presented in such case, the court may order that may be consolidated. |
| SB 83 | Caption: Relating to defining the offense of Negligent Assault and Battery, fixing a penalty therefor. |
| SB 127 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 13th Judicial District of Texas; providing for terms of court and the organization of jurors. |
| SB 164 | Caption: Relating to providing for auditing of the books, records and accounts of district, county and precinct officers, agents, and employes and of institutions maintained by the county, at public expense, on order of the county commissioners' court. |
| SB 277 | Caption: Relating to establishing a judicial council and defining its powers and duties. |
| SB 432 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the guardians of estates to make mineral leases on real estate of their ward; prescribing the manner in which the said mineral leases shall be made. |
| SCR 6 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to inspect certain Texas State Railroad Property. |
| SJR 2 | Caption: Proposing to amend Article V of the Constitution of the State of Texas relating to the Judiciary Power and Department. |
| SR 2 | Caption: Adopting the temporary rules of the Senate. |
| SR 32 | Caption: Commending and approving all official officers of the law who uphold and and protect the rights of the people. |
| SR 35 | Caption: Commending Lt. Governor Lynch Davidson on his retirement. |
| SR 75 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Senate Rule No. 64. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 7 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to designate a "Bird and Wild Flower Day" in the State. |
| SR 10 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Senate Rules. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the reckless driving and operation of motor vehicles on the public highways of the State of Texas, and prescribing penalties therefor, and defining reckless driving and operation. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the formation and incorporation of Co-operative Agricultural and Horticultural Associations for the purpose of mutual help and to be operated without capital stock or without profit. |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to amending the Act creating the State Board of Control. |
| SB 76 | Caption: Relating to amending the criminal statute by defining the offense of negligent assault and battery. |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to fixing the status of checks or drafts when the maker of such check or draft shall have died between the time of the making same and the presentation for payment. |
| SB 92 | Caption: Relating to providing for the suspended sentence in certain felony cases, etc. |
| SB 191 | Caption: Relating to validating the authentication and acknowledgment of various instruments, where notarial seal did not conform to the law at the time such acknowledgment was made. |
| SB 192 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes on notarial seals. |
| SB 216 | Caption: Relating to providing compensation for County Attorneys, where duties of District Attorneys have been conferred in certain counties and districts. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Providing for the counting of votes for the the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to and providing for vocational education and to accept the benefits of an Act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled for the promotion of vocational education. |
| SB 101 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of sixty thousand ($60,000.00) dollars to build, complete and equip a school building at the State Orphan's Home near Corsicana, Texas. |
| 37th 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 3 | Caption: Providing for a policy on State-provided insurance on public State buildings. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to providing for the preparation and presentation to the Governor and through him to the legislature of definite and authoritative information, schedules and estimates of the needs and demands of the departments and institutions of the State from time to time as may be necessary in the consideration and passage of acts making appropriations and provision for funds to make such needs and demands of the State departments and institutions, defining the duties of the heads of departments and boards of control and officers of the State government in regard thereto. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of a joint committee from the Senate and House to make a careful and thorough investigation into the subject of taxation, its methods and results, for the purpose of devising and reporting to the legislature of this State plans, methods, form, amendments and bills providing a more just, equitable, economical and effective system of taxation for the State and its municipalities. |
| SB 45 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to appeals in the granting, refusing to grant, dissolving and refusing to dissolve injunctions; and providing that transcript may be filed in the Court of Civil Appeals not later than twenty days after entry of such order or judgment of record, and providing for giving appellee copy of brief filed, if there be one. |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to prepare, have published and distributed "A Peace Officer's Manual" containing all laws of the State prescribing and pertaining to the duties, authority, activities and responsibility of peace officers, with comment and explanation, and making an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 47 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that in case of two or more convictions of the same defendant, the court may provide in rendering judgment and sentence of that the punishments provided shall be either concurrent or cumulative. |
| SB 72 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to depositions and rules of evidence by consolidating them and adding thereto certain provisions for the taking of depositions in cases of probating wills and other proceedings in estates where there is no opposing party or attorney of record, upon whom service of notice and copies of interrogatories may be had. |
| SB 73 | Caption: Relating to providing that in certain cases, one or more charges against a defendant may be joined in the same indictment or information, and that if two or more indictments or informations should be presented, the court may order that they be consolidated. |
| SB 74 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes of the Penal Code of the State of Texas defining and punishing the offense of burglary, distinguishing day-time burglary and night-time burglary and providing separate punishments. |
| SB 75 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas prescribing the punishment for theft of property of the value of $50.00 or over, by reducing the minimum punishment. |
| SB 76 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas prescribing and punishing the offense of fraudulently disposing of mortgaged property, by changing the form of punishment in certain cases and by reducing the minimum punishment. |
| SB 90 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Code of Criminal Procedure providing for judgment in cases where the punishment is other than by pecuniary fine. |
| SB 91 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to sheriffs, constables, and district and county attorneys serving process. |
| SB 92 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Penal Code prescribing the punishment for forgery, passing a forged instrument, and having in possession with intent to pass or use a forged instrument, by changing the punishment in certain cases and reducing the minimum punishment. |
| SB 93 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Code of Criminal Procedure providing how a pecuniary fine may be discharged by a person convicted of a misdemeanor. |
| SB 138 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas prescribing the punishment for the offense of theft from person by reducing the minimum punishment. |
| SB 139 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes of the Penal Code of the State of Texas defining and punishing theft of cattle, hogs, sheep and goats by reducing the minimum punishment therefor. |
| SB 185 | Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Penal Code forbidding candidates for office and other persons from paying the poll taxes of others by striking out the words "candidates for office," and changing the penalty. |
| SB 197 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that a justice of the peace shall transfer to the county court case filed in his court in which he has no jurisdiction, and to provide that the county shall retain jurisdiction of an appeal from a justice court where it appears the latter court had no jurisdiction of the case. |
| SB 231 | Caption: Relating amending certain statute of the Penal Code of the State of Texas by adding a provision defining the offense of negligent assault and battery, fixing a penalty. |
| SB 393 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide for proper presentation, authentication and proof of claims against counties and political subdivisions thereof; providing that any violation of this article or any failure to perform any duty required shall constitute a misdemeanor and providing penalties therefor. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a joint committee to canvass the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor and provide for their inauguration. |
| SJR 3 | Caption: Proposing to amend Article V of the Constitution of the State of Texas pertaining to the Judicial Department of the government of the State of Texas, fixing the date for an election to be held hereunder, and making an appropriation to pay the expenses of said election. |
| SJR 4 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Sections 1 and 2 of Article VI, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, relating to the payment of poll taxes being a prerequisite to the right to vote in certain cases. |
| SJR 5 | Caption: Proposing to amend Article 8, Section 1 of the Constitution of the State of Texas relating to taxation. |
| SJR 9 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for pay of public officials. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 74 | Caption: Relating to creating the Thompson's Mill Independent School District in Henderson County, Texas. |
| SB 103 | Caption: Relating to amending the charter of the city of Corsicana. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to appropriating funds of the general revenue to pay the per diem and mileage of members of the Legislature and to pay the salaries and per diem of officers and employees of the Legislature. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of a joint committee to investigate fully the subject of taxation, including the advisability of segregating the subjects of taxation so that the state tax be collected from certain classes of property and the county tax from other classes, the levy of an income tax, and the means of reducing the cost of collecting public revenue. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to appropriating funds from the General Revenue to pay the contingent expenses of Regular Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature. |
| HB 77 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Supreme Court to prescribe forms and rules and generally to regulate pleading and practice in the courts of Texas. |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to removing clouds from land titles arising from claims for back taxes, and to authorize the Comptroller of the State of Texas or any county tax collector to issue certificates showing the payment of back taxes. |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to fixing the status of checks and drafts when the maker or drawer shall have died between date of such check or draft and its presentation for payment. |
| HB 185 | Caption: Relating to defining and punishing the offense of burglary; distinguishing day time and night time burglary; providing punishments. |
| HB 186 | Caption: Relating to eliminating the necessity for arraignment after trial is begun. |
| HB 187 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the number of peremptory challenges to jurors in felony cases by reducing the number. |
| HB 188 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the punishment for theft from person by reducing the minimum punishment. |
| HB 189 | Caption: Relating to the appointment of counsel in felony cases for indigent defendants and allowing attorney's fees. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to the taking of depositions in cases probating wills and other estate proceedings where there is no opposing party or attorney of record. |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Attorney General to prepare and distribute 'A Peace Officer's Manual' containing all statutes prescribing and pertaining to the duties, activities and responsibilities of peace officers, with comment and explanation; providing an appropriation. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to providing how a pecuniary fine may be discharged by a person convicted of a misdemeanor. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the punishment for forgery and passing a forged instrument, by changing the punishment in certain cases and reducing the minimum punishment. |
| HB 194 | Caption: Relating to punishment for theft of cattle, hogs, sheep and goats; reducing the minimum punishment. |
| HB 195 | Caption: Relating to punishment prescribed by law for the offense of fraudulently disposing of mortgaged property; reducing the minimum punishment. |
| HB 196 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum punishment for theft of property of the value of fifty dollars and over; reducing the minimum punishment. |
| HB 583 | Caption: Relating to amending articles 900-902 of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to bail. |
| HB 584 | Caption: Relating to fixing a uniform date on which county and precinct officers shall qualify and take over the duties of their respective offices, following their election. |
| HB 695 | Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to the manner of submitting instructions to the jury. |
| HB 703 | Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to charges to juries in felony cases. |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Providing for committees to count the votes for the election of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor on for their inaugurations. |
| HJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1. Article 8, of the Constitution, relative to taxation and revenue. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Providing for the printing of the Rules of the House and Democratic party platforms. |
| HR 43 | Caption: Inviting William H. Wadhams to address the House. |
| HR 51 | Caption: Expressing appreciation for department employees. |
| HR 133 | Caption: Relating to the due consideration of bills. |
| HR 144 | Caption: Commending newspaper representatives for their coverage of the session. |
| HR 148 | Caption: Amending rules relating to prescribing the order of business. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 46 | Caption: Relating to establishing and fixing the salaries of certain named officers of the State Government of the State of Texas, their assistants, deputies, clerks, and other employees. |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to creating the Blooming Grove Independent School District, in Navarro county, Texas, defining its boundaries. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Governor of the State of Texas to make sale of lands mentioned and execute a deed conveying to Independent Order of Odd Fellows Widows and Orphans' Home, an undivided one-half interest in and to a certain two acres of land. |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Relating to the expenses of organizing military forces. |
| HR 51 | Caption: Relating to the consideration of appropriation bills. |
| HR 56 | Caption: Providing for the payment of telegraph expenses. |
| HR 67 | Caption: Amending Rules No. 7 and 8. |
| HR 71 | Caption: Directing the House conferees relating the rules of conference committees. |
| 35th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 11 | Caption: Providing for the publication of certain evidence in the House Journal. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Providing authority to administer oaths to wtinesses. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to the State Institution for the Training of Juveniles. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to making additional appropriations for the support and maintenance of the State Orphan Home. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| HB 13 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to defray the contingent expenses of the Thirty Fourth Legislature of the State of Texas. |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay the per diem pay and mileage of members, and the per diem pay for officers and employees of the regular session of the Thirty Fourth legislature of the state of Texas. |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of a Tax Commission. |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to suspending for two months the imposition of the penalty of ten per cent on the amount of taxes due for the year 1914 A.D. beginning January 31, 1915 until March 31, 1915. |
| HB 165 | Caption: Relating to providing for the control, supervision, inspection and management of jails; providing for a Supervisor of Prisons and prescribing the authority and duties of such supervisor and his assistants; providing penalties. |
| HB 204 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code in regard to the punishment of forgery; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code defining the offense of the Fraudulent Disposition of Mortgages Property; providing a penalty. |
| HB 371 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the manner of taking testimony in examining trials; providing that the testimony on such trials shall be reduced to writing by the magistrate or under his direction and shall then be certified by such magistrate. |
| HB 412 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Supreme Court to prescribe forms and rules and generally to regulate pleadings, procedure and practice in civil business arising in the courts of the state. |
| HJR 14 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to taxation and revenue. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Directing the creation of a temporary Committee on Appropriations. |
| HR 36 | Caption: Proposing amendments to the House Rules. |
| HR 128 | Caption: In memory of Eliza E. Wallace of Bell County. |
| HR 136 | Caption: Commending the members of the Capitol press for their work during the Session. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 4. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to inform the Governor and Senate that the House is organized. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Authorizing the use of the House Chambers by the State Orphan Home to provide a choral performance for the Members of the Legislature. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| HB 25 | Caption: Relating to granting aid to Confederate veterans and the widows of such veterans. |
| HB 105 | Caption: Relating to providing for the control, supervision, inspection and management of County jails, city jails, calabooses, reformatories, juvenile training schools, county and city convict farms or camps and convict farms when county convicts are leased to private individuals, firms or corporations, providing for a supervisor and assistants. |
| HB 420 | Caption: Relating to providing for the preparation, printing, publishing and distribution under the direction, charge and supervision of the attorney general of a "peace officers' manual" for the use and instruction of guards and peace officers of the state. |
| HB 458 | Caption: Relating to providing that indigent and disabled confederate soldiers and sailors and veterans of the Mexican war shall be exempt from occupation tax on peddlers. |
| HB 695 | Caption: Relating to authorizing issuance of road bonds by Navarro County, Texas, or any political subdivision thereof. |
| HB 826 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes with respect to granting injunctions and providing for appeals from orders and decrees of district and county courts, either granting or refusing temporary injunctions and fixing effects of appeals by amending said article in regard to appeals by providing that appeals may also be taken from an order or judgment refusing to dissolve such injunction. |
| HJR 5 | Caption: Ratifying a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that provides for the selection of US Senators by a direct election of the people. |
| HJR 15 | Caption: Ratifying a proposed Amendment to the US Constitution that provides for the selection of US Senators by a direct election of the people. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to regulating and supervising persons, firms, associations, companies and corporations dealing in, selling or negotiating for the sale within the State of Texas of stocks, bonds, contracts or other securities and providing and prescribing penalties. |
| 33rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 8 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conduct of the business of public warehousemen; providing penalties. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act providing how a judgment of a pecuniary fine against a defendant may be discharged, amending same by providing that such fine may be may be discharged by imprisonment, labor or payment in monthly installments upon order to be made by the county judge. |
| HB 364 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act , providing what judgment shall be rendered when the punishment is a pecuniary fine only. |
| HB 365 | Caption: Relating to providing that a person charged with an offense, may in certain cases after arrest, be released on bail by taking his individual bond or recognizance. |
| HB 366 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act which provide for the issuance of a capias providing that in certain cases a "summons" may be issued in lieu of a capias. |
| HB 367 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act, defining a warrant of arrest, and amending same by defining a "warrant of arrest" and a "summons", providing what shall be the requisites of substance, what force may be used in executing same and what shall constitute an arrest. |
| HB 413 | Caption: Relating to providing for the control, supervision, inspection and management of County jails, city jails, calabooses, reformatories, juvenile training schools, county and city convict farms or camps and convict farms when county convicts are leased to private individuals, firms or corporations; providing for a Supervisor; providing penalties. |
| HB 417 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act to establish and create in each of the cities, towns and villages a State Court to be known as the Corporation Court . |
| HB 418 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act with respect to the granting of injunctions and providing for appeals from the orders and decrees of district and county courts. |
| HB 499 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of $50,000 for the purpose of erecting, constructing and equipping and furnishing a boys dormitory at the State Orphans Home at Corsicana. |
| HB 564 | Caption: Relating to duties of collectors of taxes; prescribing penalties. |
| 32nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering Navarro County or any political subdivision of said county to issue bonds not exceeding one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such county and to levy and collect taxes to pay the interest on such bonds for the purpose of constructing and maintaining roads; providing penalty. |