Legislation authored by Waggoner Carr
Includes legislation with Waggoner Carr as the primary author for the 52nd through 56th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
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| HR 139 | Caption: Congratulating George W. Dupree on the 45th anniversary of his admission to the State Bar of Texas. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 287 | Caption: Relating to providing for additional compensation for the County Judge of Lubbock County for serving as a member of the County Juvenile Board; naming the fund out of which the additional compensation shall be payable; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of existing laws; providing for a severability clause. |
| HB 452 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide for a Purchasing Agent in counties having a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) or more inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal census; providing that the salary of the purchasing agent shall be set at a figure not less than Thirty-six Hundred Dollars ($3600.00), nor more than Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) per year and providing that this salary shall be paid out of the General Fund and/or the Road and Bridge Fund; providing for a repealing clause. |
| HB 465 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes and exempting from taxation the property of the organization known as Missionary Crusader, Incorporated. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to clarify the fees to be charged as Court costs and the manner in which citation may be served in the Small Claims Court; to provide such Court costs shall apply only to the costs accruing up to and including the entry of judgment in the Small Claims Court, but shall not apply to any proceeding execution after entry of judgment in such Court. |
| HB 502 | Caption: Relating to the construction, acquisition and equipment of buildings and other structures and additions to buildings and other structures by the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, the Board of Directors of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System, the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College, the Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges, etc. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for increased punishment for habitual or repeated violators of traffic laws; making the Act cumulative. |
| HB 530 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to increase the punishment for habitual or repeated violations of traffic laws. |
| HB 829 | Caption: Relating to amending what is commonly known as the Hot Check Law by adding a new section defining offenses relating to the making, drawing, uttering or delivering of a check, draft or order for payment of wages or salaries for personal services without sufficient funds. |
| HB 879 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College at Lubbock, Texas, to select and lease a tract or tracts of land upon the campus of said college to the campus Fraternities and/or Sororities for the purpose of erecting thereon housing suitable for use by the campus Fraternities and/or Sororities; providing terms of such lease contract; and authorizing the Board of Directors of said college to select and set aside a tract or tracts suitable for housing; authorizing said Board of Directors of said college to permit the Fraternities and Sororities, ingress upon said campus and egress therefrom for the purpose of going to and from such housing areas or area. |
| HCR 88 | Caption: Granting B. & H. Warehouse, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 163 | Caption: Granting Northern Natural Gas Co. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 73 | Caption: In memory of Oerton W. Ribble of Lubbock. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Inviting the Texas Technological College choir to perform for the House. |
| HR 361 | Caption: In memory of Arthur Henry Leidigh. |
| HR 449 | Caption: Extending good wishes for State Representative George Berry as he recovers form illness. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming, and validating the designation of Subdivision No. One of the Underground Water Reservoir, High Plains Area, Ogallala Formation, South of Canadian River in Texas, dated March 26, 1951, and of the creation and establishment of High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1. |
| HB 230 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes concerning the "Board of Directors of the Texas Technological College." |
| HB 478 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College at Lubbock, Texas, to select and convey to the City of Lubbock, Texas, a municipal corporation of Lubbock County, Texas, a tract of land not exceeding 7.5 acres upon the campus of said College for the purpose of erecting an auditorium-coliseum building at the expense of the City of Lubbock. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to creating Small Claims Courts in the several counties within the State of Texas; prescribing their jurisdiction and venue. |
| HB 518 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to redemption of property sold at tax foreclosure sales. |
| HB 652 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to removing weight limitations on farm trailers and farm semi-trailers for license fee purposes. |
| HB 655 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts preserving to the State all obligations, taxes, interest and penalties which have accrued; providing that offenses committed or prosecutions commenced under the pre-existing law may be prosecuted under the law as it existed at the time of the offense. |
| HB 657 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Board of Regents of the Texas Technological College to levy a regular fixed student fee for the purpose of operating, maintaining, and improving the Texas Technological Student Union Building at the Texas Technological College of Texas. |
| HB 760 | Caption: Relating to providing for the compelling of evidence from certain persons in criminal proceedings and for the granting of immunity from prosecution to such persons. |
| HB 876 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to steal any internal combustion engine, electric motor, water well pump or battery used for irrigation or livestock watering purposes or any accessorial part of any such engine, motor, pump or battery; making such offense a felony; prescribing punishment therefor. |
| HR 199 | Caption: Congratulating the New Deal High School women's basketball team for winning the class AA state championship. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to amending Acts in regard to levying certain occupation tax on certain services performed in or at any gas or oil well during drilling or completion of said well. |
| HR 46 | Caption: In memory of George A. Simmons of Lubbock. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 24 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties in this State to provide for the establishment of County Law Libraries. |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Gaines County, Texas, to issue the Road and Bridge refunding bonds of said County, bearing interest at a rate of not exceeding three and one half per centum (3-1/2%) per annum from date for the purpose of refunding all outstanding interest-bearing coupon time warrants of said County outstanding and unpaid as of January 1, 1951, and describing the method of issuing such bonds. |
| HB 142 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the liability of owners of dogs; authorizing persons bitten or injured by dogs to recover damages from the owner or owners thereof under certain circumstances; making it unlawful to own, harbor or have in custody any dog that bites, injures or attacks a person lawfully upon the property of the scene of the injury. |
| HB 318 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas, providing for summoning veniremen in a capital case. |
| HB 327 | Caption: Relating to providing that all counties within this State may upon an order made by its Commissioners' Court for this purpose provide and maintain a County Law Library; and that such Library may upon an order made by said Commissioners' Court be maintained and supported by a trial fee to be assessed and collected in all cases filed in the County and District Courts of said Counties, said fee not to exceed the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar for each case filed. |
| HB 348 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of two (2) investigators or assistants and the employment of one (1) stenographer for the district attorney of the 106th Judicial District; prescribing qualifications of the investigators or assistants; providing for compensation and expenses of the investigators or assistants; prescribing their duties. |
| HB 349 | Caption: Relating to exempting property in certain counties from taxation belonging to organizations, clubs, associations or corporations which are federations of women's clubs in Texas, and which organizations, clubs, associations or corporations serve civic, literary and educational ends and purposes only, and the property and money of which does not and will not inure, by succession or otherwise, to the benefit of any private member or individual. |
| HB 403 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to properly define the offense of making, drawing, or uttering or delivering with intent to defraud any check, draft or order for the payment of money, upon any bank, person, firm or corporation, knowing at the time thereof, that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in, or on deposit with such bank, person, firm or corporation for the payment of such check, draft or order, in full, and all other checks, drafts or orders upon said funds then outstanding; making it an offense for any person who has instigated criminal prosecution under this Act to request or suggest the dismissal of same; providing penalties. |
| HB 410 | Caption: Relating to validating certain sales and conveyances, or attempted sales and conveyances, of county lands, and interests in county lands, under certain conditions therein described; provided more than three years have elapsed since the date of such sale or attempted sale; and providing that this Act shall not apply to any sale or conveyance the validity of which is involved in any litigation pending at the time this act becomes effective. |
| HB 589 | Caption: Relating to creating a Court of Domestic Relations for Lubbock County, Texas, and prescribing the jurisdiction and powers thereof. |
| HB 590 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to unlawfully carrying arms so as to provide that any person who shall carry on or about his person, saddle or in his saddle bags or in his portfolio or purse any device for the purposes of offense or defense shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) or by confinement in jail for not less than (1) month nor more than one (1) year. |
| HB 744 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to steal any internal combustion engine, electric motor, water well pump or battery used for irrigation or livestock watering purposes or any accessorial part of any such engine, motor, pump or battery; making such offense a felony or a misdemeanor; prescribing punishment therefor. |
| HB 765 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the District Attorney of the 72nd Judicial District of Texas; authorizing the Commissioners Courts of the counties comprising the 72nd Judicial District to supplement the salary of the District Attorney and providing the method of supplementation. |
| HCR 127 | Caption: Granting Almeda Hardin permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 166 | Caption: Granting Marjorie Byford permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 107 | Caption: Congratulating the Lubbock High School Westerners Basketball team for being named the AA State Champions. |
| HR 243 | Caption: In memory of James Marcus Gordon of Lubbock. |