Legislation authored by Lyndon Olson, Jr.

Includes legislation with Lyndon Olson, Jr. as the primary author for the 63rd through 65th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

65th Regular Session
HB 43	Last Action: Coauthor authorized Caption: Relating to the preference for Texas businesses in the awarding of contracts by the Board of Control.
HB 194	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Concerning labeling requirements as related to the Deceptive Trade Practices - Consumer Protection Act; and declaring an emergency.
HB 230	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the compensation and expenses of members of the Texas State Board of Podiatry Examiners.
HB 282	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the authority of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, to contract with medical schools, licensed hospitals, and nonprofit corporations for the purpose of providing state funds to family practice residency training programs.
HB 396	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to creation of a state personnel system and a state personnel board having powers, duties, and functions regarding employment policies and practices of certain state agencies; prescribing unlawful employment practices and providing penalties and other remedies; repealing the Position Classification Act of 1961.
HB 558	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Social Services Caption: Relating to the exemption of live-in houseparents employed by the Texas Youth Council.
HB 561	Last Action: Referred to Subcommittee on Urban Affairs Caption: Relating to heart and lung disease death or disability benefits for certain firemen.
HB 642	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Creating the Texas Adult Probation Commission and providing for its powers and duties; amending Code of Criminal Procedure, 1965.
HB 748	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the exemption of live-in houseparents employed by the Texas Youth Council from the state employees work-week law.
HB 919	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the state library system.
HB 933	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Amending the Texas Uniform Limited Partnership Act.
HB 1068	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the definition and regulation of certain public utilities.
HB 1261	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the compensation of members of the State Board of Education.
HB 1463	Last Action: Assigned to General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the qualifications of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
HB 1473	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the renewal, reissuance, amendment and display of licenses to practice podiatry.
HB 1494	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to regulation of public utilities by regulatory agencies.
HB 1530	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: For the purpose of permitting an individual other than a physician to be appointed as Director of the City-County Health Unit.
HB 1531	Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Relating to the issuing of certificates of indebtedness by certain counties for the purpose of providing funds for jail facilities; providing for severability.
HB 1768	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections Caption: Relating to employers granting employees time off to vote in any election held in this State.
HB 1769	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the renewal, reissuance, amendment and display of licenses to practice podiatry.
HB 1777	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the labeling requirements of distributors for prescription drugs.
HB 1778	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the transferral of public records to regional historical resources depositories.
HB 1779	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the maintenance and disposition of certain county records.
HB 1865	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the Cerebral Death Act and recogntion of irreversible cessation of brain function as a nonexclusive means of determining death.
HB 1866	Last Action: Assigned to General State Calendar Caption: Relating to valuation for ad valorem taxation of an interest in a mineral in place that is not being produced.
HB 1867	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to disability retirement benefits for fire fighters who are members of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
HB 1881	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to the authority of a city to annex property within its extraterritorial jurisdiction that is owned by another city; prohibiting restrictions on the extraterritorial jurisdiction of a city as a result of property owned by another city..
HB 1904	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Higher Education Caption: Relating to tuition rates for nonresident at state-supported institutions of higher education.
HB 1905	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Higher Education Caption: Relating to redesignating the tuition equalization grant program as the tuition offset grant program and providing a method of determining the amount of the grants.
HB 2167	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the creation, jurisdiction, administration, and procedures of the County Court at Law No. 2 of McLennan County; making other provisions relative to the court.
HCR 92	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Calendars Caption: Urging citizens of Texas to observe "Free Enterprise Day" on July 1, 1977.
HCR 93	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Recognizing March 22, 1977 as "Liberty and Justice for All Rally Day."
64th Regular Session
HB 295	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the rights, privileges and obligations of 18-year-olds, amending Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes, Article 5923b by adding a new section providing such Article not applicable to wards of the Texas Youth Council who are admitted to the Texas Youth Council dependent and neglect facilities.
HB 484	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to prohibiting the smoking of tobacco in certain public places; providing penalties.
HB 580	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the reporting by a state employee of certain inappropriate activities and to prohibition of certain reprisals against state employees by employing agencies; providing penalties.
HB 615	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the reporting by a state employee of certain inappropriate activities and the prohibition of certain reprisals against state employees by employing agencies; providing penalties.
HB 738	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Authorizing a parent to consent for the child to donate blood under certain circumstances.
HB 739	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to municipal employee organizations.
HB 819	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Defining public utilities and providing for their regulation; providing for the creation of the Texas Public Utility Commission and for the appointment of commissioners and the fixing of their qualifications and compensation; prescribing the duties and powers of the commissioners and the commission and railroad commission and the manner in which the jurisdiction and power conferred herein shall be exercised; providing for employees and the salaries, duties and authority of employees; providing for reporting by public utilities; providing for territories and services; providing for regulation of public utility services and rates; providing for regulation of rates and division of revenue; providing for hearings and other procedures for regulation; defining certain offenses and providing penalties; providing procedures for public utility regulation by municipalities; providing for appeals and other procedures in the courts; providing for financing of commission operations.
HB 821	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to retirement compensation based on years of service for judges achieving eligibility for retirement.
HB 941	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Adding an exemption to the Texas Minimum Wage Act of 1970 concerning employees in certain child caring institutions.
HB 942	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to records kept by certain permittees.
HB 943	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to rights, privileges and obligations of certain 18-year olds.
HB 944	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to the duties of the Comptroller of Public Accounts; transferring duties relating to the accounting and responsibility for the use of State property to the State Board of Control.
HB 1156	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to certification of the genetic purity and identity of seeds and plants; relating to the composition, powers, and duties of the State Seed and Plant Board; relating to the licensing of producers of certified classes of seeds and plants; relating to the registration of plant breeders; relating to the registration of certain varieties of cotton.
HB 1331	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the payment, collection, and deposit of adult probation fees.
HB 1490	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Human Resources Caption: Relating to property records kept by the Texas State Department of Health.
HB 1548	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to establishing administrative internships for students enrolled in educational administration certification programs; providing an appropriation.
HB 1579	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the mailing of notice to each claimant of water rights under the Water Rights Adjudication Act.
HB 1607	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Human Resources Caption: Relating to compensation and expenses for members of the Texas State Board of Podiatry Examiners.
HB 1610	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Amending the Municipal Annexation Act, as amended; reducing the length of time after the effective date of annexation of an area to a city in which such city must provide the annexed area with governmental and proprietary services substantially equivalent to other areas of such city having similar characteristics of topography, patterns of land utilization, and population density; prohibiting annexation of land by any city for the sole purpose of extending such city's area of extraterritorial jurisdiction; relating to the minimum width of an annexed area; adding a new Section to the Municipal Annexation Act to require each city to create an annexation review commission, providing for its members and their qualifications, providing the duties and powers of such commission and other provisions; authorizing certain cities to annex adjacent territory without the consent of the residents thereof.
HB 1868	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to reports of confiscated liquor.
HB 1869	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to uniform system of accounting; counties, hospital districts and certain cities; quarterly reports; providing an effective date.
HB 1976	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections Caption: Relating to the filing of financial statements with the secretary of state by candidates for certain offices, and to the furnishing of lists of candidates to the secretary of state.
HB 1985	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to granting authority to the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System, to contract with teaching hospitals for certain purposes.
HB 1986	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to direct payment permits issued to consumers to pay sales and use taxes directly to the State of Texas; providing an effective date.
HB 1987	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to the Special Use Tax Exemptions for taxable personal property acquired outside the State of Texas and brought into Texas for use by licensed and certified carriers; providing an effective date.
HB 1988	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Authorizing the commissioners court of a county to regulate the use of land lying outside the limits of incorporated cities, towns, and villages; providing that no existing structure or use will be affected; providing for notice and hearings; establishing and prescribing the duties of a zoning commission; providing for appeals; providing for enforcement; prescribing penalties; prescribing the effect of conflicting laws; providing exceptions.
HB 1989	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the appraisal of open space land devoted to farm and ranch purposes; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to publish classifications of land and information pertaining to the appraisal of certain land according to its productive capacity; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to make rules relating to the appraisal of certain land; providing an additional tax on certain land no longer qualifying as open space land devoted to farm and ranch purposes.
HB 2196	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to a procedure by which all counties in the State of Texas may apply for assistance to defray part of their expenses for the Constitutional Amendment Election called for April 22, 1975; making an appropriation.
HCR 109	Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: Commending the American Legion for its sponsorship of the Boys State Program.
HR 120	Caption: Amending House rules relating to constitutional revision.
HR 220	Caption: Commending Dorothy Hallman and her staff.
63rd Regular Session
HB 636	Last Action: Considered in public hearing Caption: Relating to names, including trade names and assumed names under which podiatrists may conduct their practices.
HCR 54	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: In memory of Frank M. Fitzpatrick, Sr.