Legislation authored by Barry Miller
Includes legislation with Barry Miller as the primary author for the 30th through 37th 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.
| 37th Regular Session | |
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| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act providing places for holding justice courts. |
| HB 161 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the regulation of the Industrial Welfare Commission. |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act providing for the relief of railway corporations. |
| HB 278 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act establishing a legal rate for the publication of proclamations, etc. |
| HB 408 | Caption: Relating to the Lloyds plan of insurance. |
| HB 410 | Caption: Relating to business of insurance and banking companies. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the compensation of the Railroad Commission. |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Relating the to legal action against the Federal Transportation Act of 1920. |
| HCR 26 | Caption: Providing for the 37th Legislature to adjourn sine die. |
| HCR 39 | Caption: Relating to the consideration of Senate bills. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 118 | Caption: Relating to confer certain powers upon life insurance companies. |
| HB 133 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of optometry. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Relating to the price of oil and gasoline. |
| HR 33 | Caption: In memory of William Reagan. |
| 37th 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate the pricing of oil and gasoline. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to taking depositions by oral examinations and answer so as to permit the taking of depositions of witnesses and of parties to suits by oral examination and answer in any civil case in certain courts of this State where depositions are now authorized by law to be taken. |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to provide that no action for injuries done to the character or reputation of another by libel or slander shall be maintained unless written notice of the claim thereof has been given by the claimant to the adverse party or parties within ninety-five days after the accrual of the cause of action. |
| HB 43 | Caption: Relating to fixing the venue of suits for damages for libel and slander. |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to provide what statements shall be deemed privileged and shall not be made the basis of any libel suit without the proof of actual malice. |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to election so as to expedite the counting and returning of the votes, by requiring the observance of standard time, by limiting the size of election precincts, by fixing the time for the opening and closing of the polls at earlier hours, by providing how unused return blanks shall be disposed of, by providing that the returns of primary elections shall be made in triplicate, by providing that primary elections shall be held on Tuesday, and by providing how officers of elections shall be compensated. |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act fixing the salary of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; making an appropriation for additional salaries and expenses for the Bureau for the remaining part of the fiscal year, ending August 31, 1919. |
| HB 165 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to depositions of witnesses. |
| HB 220 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to Hyman Alexander, a minor, to bring suit against the State of Texas, in the district court of Travis county, Texas, for damages for injuries sustained by being run down by an automobile truck, owned by the State of Texas, and operated by an employee of the State on the 20th day of October, A.D. 1917. |
| HB 256 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas relating to using animals without consent of owner so as to make the same read "take or use," and "take up or use." |
| HB 272 | Caption: Relating to the formation of corporations to act as trustees, assignee and agent, to accumulate and lend money, purchase, sell, and deal in notes, bonds, and securities, without banking and discounting privileges. |
| HB 286 | Caption: Relating to permitting the several Chief Justices of Courts of Civil Appeals to sell any books in their respective departments not needed by such department, and reinvesting the proceed of such sale in other books, or exchanging books for other needed books, and requiring them to report such transactions to the Comptroller. |
| HB 290 | Caption: Relating to requiring a corporation that has been placed in the hands of a receiver and turned back by order of court to plead and prove if they seek to interpose the same as a defense in any suit against them, that a receiver was appointed and discharged, and that the property of the corporation and discharged, and that the property of the corporation delivered to it by the receiver is not equal in value to the amount of the plaintiff's claim, nor that the payment of plaintiff's claim has been made a condition of such receiver of the property of the corporation by the order or decree of the court terminating the receivership. |
| HB 318 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the appointment of a guardian of a person of unsound mind or an habitual drunkard, on a hearing before the court, without the necessity of a jury trial, which will be granted if requested as set out in certain statute, and validating all appointments heretofore made without a jury trial. |
| HB 344 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Industrial Accident Board of this State shall not be made a party defendant to any suit to set aside any final ruling and decision made by such board; providing that the Industrial Accident board shall be dismissed with its costs from all suits now pending for such purpose. |
| HB 357 | Caption: Relating to establishing what is known as a uniform warehouse receipt; providing what shall constitute a negotiable receipt and also what shall be a non-negotiable receipt; defining the obligations and rights of warehousemen upon the receipt issued by them; defining the character of receipt that shall be issued in all instances where goods are received for storage, and providing for the taking up and cancelling of receipts issued on the whole or part of goods stored with warehousemen. |
| HB 388 | Caption: Relating to providing for the abandonment and removal of a railroad when its inability to pay operating expenses has been judicially determined. |
| HB 433 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act compelling attendance upon public schools of Texas by children between the ages of eight and fourteen year by providing that all private or parochial schools, and all private tutors, whose instruction shall be sufficient to exempt children from attendance in the public schools of this State shall be licensed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction; providing that in all such school the American or English language be used exclusively, except that certain languages be taught as a branch of study, fixing a penalty of a violation of the Act. |
| HB 527 | Caption: Relating to providing for the re-organization of a Ranger Force for the protection of the frontier against marauding and thieving parties, foreign foes, or any enemy of the State of Texas, or the government of the United States, and for the suppression of lawlessness and crime throughout the State or to suppress any invasion from an alien enemy of this State, or any State of the United States of America; prescribing duties and powers of members of such force; regulating their compensation. |
| HB 576 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice veterinary medicine, surgery and dentistry; creating a Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners for the examining and licensing of veterinary physicians and surgeons, dentists, and prescribing their powers, duties and qualifications; providing for the proper registration of veterinary physicians, surgeons and dentists, and providing for the revocation of their licenses and fixing suitable penalties for the violation of this act. |
| HB 634 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of official grand jury stenographers by the criminal district judges of Dallas and Bexar counties, and prescribing the qualifications and duties of said official stenographers and providing for their compensation and prescribing the time and method of transcribing the evidence and testimony taken before said grand juries. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Request that the Secretary of War issue an order directing the Thirty-sixth Division of the American Expeditionary Forces to disembark at Galveston. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Inviting General B.B. Buck to address the House. |
| HR 4 | Caption: Providing manner of voting for Speaker of the House. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of committees to notify the Governor and the Senate of the organization of the House. |
| HR 31 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a mailing clerk. |
| HR 59 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the activities of the Ranger force. |
| HR 101 | Caption: Granting use of the Hall of the House for a public discussion regarding proposed legislation on educational institutions. |
| HR 128 | Caption: Increasing pay of page Carl Phinney. |
| 36th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die. |
| HR 31 | Caption: Instructing the chairman of the Contingent Expense Fund to pay mileage to officers of the House. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the appointment by the Governor of two members of the Board of Pardon Advisers; fixing the salary. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 103 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the appointment of certain officers, deputies or assistants. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws authorizing corporations so as to allow such corporations to act as general commercial brokers and customs brokers. |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay transportation, subsistence and all other expenses of military forces of the State when ordered on State duty. |
| 36th 4th Called Session | |
| HB 25 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the owner of an Oil and Gas permit covering University Land who has performed certain development work thereunder to designate what is to be known as a University land Oil and Gas area to consist of one or more, not exceeding six, blocks of University land. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of certain officers named in the Revised Civil Statutes, of deputies or assistants in the performance of the duties of such officers, where such assistants or deputies are necessary for the efficiency of the public service. |
| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to establishing and creating a criminal judicial district of Dallas county, and to fix the territorial limits of said criminal judicial district, and to designate the criminal district courts that have jurisdiction in said criminal judicial district of Dallas county. |
| HB 108 | Caption: Relating to permitting insurance companies to invest in stocks of banks. |
| HB 109 | Caption: Relating to authorizing corporations to borrow money in excess of capital stock. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to providing pensions for the survivors of the Texas Rangers who served the state from 1873 to 1880 and their widows. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to the taking of depositions by oral examinations and answer. |
| HB 236 | Caption: Relating to extending to private corporations the right to condemn property necessary for the construction of reservoirs and stand pipes, and for the purpose of laying a pipe line to connect such reservoirs and stand pipes. |
| HB 381 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the kind of seal to be used by notaries public. |
| HB 385 | Caption: Relating to limiting the jurisdiction of justices of the peace to their precinct. |
| HB 668 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of corporations to adjust losses of insurance companies. |
| HB 684 | Caption: Relating to preserving defenses in libel suits. |
| HB 685 | Caption: Relating to designating what proceedings, etc., are privileged for publication. |
| HB 686 | Caption: Relating to fixing the venue of suits for damages for libel and slander. |
| HB 702 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Dallas County. |
| HB 788 | Caption: Relating to the law relating to school attendance officers. |
| HB 810 | Caption: Relating to authorizing formation of corporations to produce cotton, sugar cane, and rice. |
| HR 30 | Caption: Congratulating Charles A. Culberson of Dallas County, Texas on his election to the U.S. Senate. |
| HR 53 | Caption: Providing for additional stenographers. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of the members of the Industrial Accident Board and of the secretary thereof. |
| 35th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 46 | Caption: Commending Noel K. Brown for assisting Journal Clerk. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to prescribing penalty for the use of any disloyal language or any disloyal conduct by any person of or toward the United States of America during the period of the war with Germany. |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to permitting railroad corporations to change, relocate or abandon any portion of its line when without and adjacent to the limit of certain incorporated cities, providing for the exercise of the right of eminent domain to require right of way and depot grounds when lines are changed or relocated. |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to declaring that casualty insurance companies shall hereafter have authority to write marine insurance, in which may be included the hazards and perils incident to war. |
| 27th Regular Session | |
| SB 1 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to a uniform system of text books, adding thereto additional branches of study and making same apply to cities of more that 10,000 inhabitants. |