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HB 1, 59th 1st C.S.
Relating to registration of voters; amending the Election Code of the State of Texas to provide a general registration system conditioned on the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas abolishing payment of the poll tax as a prerequisite for voting or upon a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States invalidating payment of a poll tax as a requirement for voting in State and local elections.

Author: Gene Norris Fondren
Coauthor: Bill Clayton | Roy W. Arledge | William Thomas "Bill" Satterwhite | John Traeger | William Taylor "Bill" Dungan | Joshua M. "Red" Simpson | James D. Cole | Fritz Thompson | Steve A. Burgess | Robert Landis "Bob" Armstrong | James Edward "Jim" Klager | Richard C. Slack | Robert Wilton "Bob" Bass | James E. Ward | George M. Cowden | William Reed Quilliam, Jr. | Alan C. "Bud" Atwood | Ralph "Skip" Scoggins | Pat Cain | Wilson Foreman | Don Warren Hefton | Charles Alexander Wheeler, Jr. | W.C. "Bud" Sherman | Randall George "Randy" Pendleton | David William Crews | David Graves Haines | Ben Atwell | Honore Ligarde | Gene R. Hendryx | Tony Bonilla | Otha Wyatt "Skeet" Birkner | George T. Hinson | Amando F. Canales | Gus F. Mutscher | Joseph Terry Newman | Grant Jones | Joseph Charles "Whit" Whitfield, Jr. | Charles H. Jungmichel | Henry A. Fletcher | Elder McKenzie "Mack" Edwards | Glenn A. Johnson | John Wright | Cooper Blankenship | John Allen | H. Maurice Doke | Roger Dale Brown | Lloyd Myron Guffey | Jesse T. George | Ralph Erskine Wayne | Donald E. "Don" Garrison | Billy H. Williamson | James E. Nugent | Wallace H. Miller | Fitzhugh Lee Duggan, Jr. | Jack Ray McLaughlin | J. Hudson Moyer | Leroy J. Wieting | James Richard "Dick" McKissack | Milton Joe Schiller | Walter Lee Knapp, Jr. | James Terrell "Terry" Townsend | Guy V. McDonald | Jack Ross Hawkins | John Allen Mobley, III | W.S. "Bill" Heatly | Jack Walton Crain | Don Cavness | David Currie "Dave" Howard | Wayne W. Connally | George H. Richards | Thomas H. "Tom" Holmes, Jr. | William Rayford Price | Henry Cushing "Hank" Grover | Thomas Clifton "Tommy" Shannon, Jr. | Dudley R. Mann, Jr. | Renal B. Rosson | John E. "Ned" Blaine | Delwin Jones | Archie Cullen Hallmark | Mack Neal Solomon | John Field | Franklin Ace Pickens | James Lenoy Slider | Paul W. Floyd, Jr. | Henry Jackson "Jack" Woods | James Kuykendall "Jim" Wade | Willis James Whatley | Travis V. McClinton | Raleigh Holden Brown | Vernon James Stewart | Temple Dickson

Remarks: The listing of coauthors may be incomplete; not every name on the introduced bill could be matched to a specific member’s signature.

Subjects:
Elections--Registration & Suffrage


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