Legislation authored by Webster Winifred Glass
Includes legislation with Webster Winifred Glass as the primary author for the 43rd through 57th 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.
| 57th Regular Session | |
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| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to the admission as evidence in the Courts of this State of statements contained in certain affidavits, documents or records which statements concern the claim of ownership or title in or the actual use, occupancy or posession of real estate. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Directing the placement of a Texas Flag on a flagpole near the south main entrance of the Capitol. |
| HJR 14 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas removing the ceiling on the total amount of grants out of state funds for assistance to the needy aged, needy blind, and needy children; providing a maximum on individual grants to needy aged inmates of rest homes, convalescent homes, and similar institutions; empowering the Legislature to authorize counties and cities to operate homes for needy aged persons; authorizing the levy of a welfare tax for the payment of public assistance grants and the support of eleemosynary institutions, and making other provisions relative to public assistance programs. |
| HR 18 | Caption: Providing for the salaries of certain employees of the 57th Legislature. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 57 | Caption: Extending good wishes to Gussie Evans as she recovers from illness. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to sell certain described tracts of land which are part of the site of the Rusk State Hospital. |
| HB 438 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to convey certain land in Cherokee County, Texas. |
| HB 774 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by authorizing an election within any city or cities in the District to determine whether that city or cities shall be detached from the District. |
| HCR 83 | Caption: Granting W. H. Taylor permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 227 | Caption: Providing for the contingent expenses budget for the Members of the House. |
| HR 258 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 346 | Caption: Inviting the Lass-O Band from Texas Women's University to perform for the Members of the House. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 61 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by authorizing an election within the city of Rusk to determine whether that city shall be detached from the District. |
| HCR 40 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 61 at any time. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 53 | Caption: Commending Uncle Henry Blair for his decades of service to the House and permitting his body to lie in State whenever his death comes. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to amending the Vocational Nurse Act; by changing the title of "Visiting Secretary" to "Director of Training"; changing the composition of membership of the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners, beginning in 1957; adding a provision permitting the Board to accept applicants for examination who are domiciled in this State upon completion of two (2) years of training in certain schools of professional nurse training in lieu of the requirement for completion of an accredited course in an accredited school for training Vocational Nurses. |
| HB 803 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to convey certain land in Cherokee County, Texas. |
| HB 885 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, acting by the Executive Director thereof, to execute and deliver to the State Highway Commission of Texas a right-of-way easement to certain land in Cherokee County, Texas, for the reconstruction and maintenance of a State highway extending along and across certain State property known as Rusk State Hospital. |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Granting W. H. Taylor permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 41 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing use of a portion of the Permanent University Fund for construction and operation of a general museum, a livestock laboratory, and a zoological collection or garden. |
| HR 181 | Caption: Naming Bill Sadler and Sam Sadler Mascots of the House. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide payment of salaries of a chief supervisor and three assistant supervisors in the maximum security unit for the criminally insane in the Rusk State Hospital. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide certain changes in the number of directors to be appointed from the City of Tyler in the event said city shall be annexed to the District; limiting the amount and purpose of bonds which may be issued by the District supported wholly or partially by taxation but only in the event the City of Tyler shall be annexed to the District; providing a proper voter classification in elections for annexations of territory where no debt or other obligation is presented for assumption at such election. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by authorizing the Board for State Hospitals and Special Schools to accept other lands in Cherokee County in exchange for certain lands it now owns. |
| HR 21 | Caption: In memory of Frank L. Weimar of Alto. |
| HR 70 | Caption: In memory of J. N. Bone of Jacksonville. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 669 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to sell certain described tracts of land which are a part of the site of the Rusk State Hospital; describing the manner of the sale; providing for disposition of the proceeds; making an appropriation. |
| HCR 139 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 669 at any time. |
| HR 108 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 549 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to make the appropriations for the Texas Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety from and out of the General Revenue Fund, and to make appropriations for the License and Weight Inspectors Division of the Department of Public Safety from and out of the General Revenue Fund. |
| HB 627 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the execution and delivery by the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, acting by the Chancellor thereof, of a deed to certain land in Cherokee County, Texas, conveying said land to the City of Jacksonville. |
| HB 642 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the State Parks Board to sell iron ore in place, for reasonable and valuable considerations, located in or on the lands of Jim Hogg State Park and to grant certain rights. |
| HB 879 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 6, Cherokee County, Texas, and specifically setting out its boundaries, including therein a portion of the territory embraced in Road District Number 3, authorizing the Commissioners Court to continue to levy an ad valorem tax in such territory for the payment of its pro rata share of the principal and interest on all outstanding bonds of Road District Number 3. |
| HB 906 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to sell certain described tracts of land which are a part of the site of the Rusk State Hospital; making an appropriation. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 813 | Caption: Relating to creating "Sabine-Neches Conservation District," a conservation and reclamation district with the powers provided in Section 59, of Article XVI, of the Constitution, to conserve, control, and utilize the waters of the Sabine and Neches Rivers and their tributaries, including their storm and flood waters, except said district shall have no power of taxation nor right to create any debt payable out of taxation. |
| HB 908 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of a steel trap for taking fur-bearing animals in Cherokee County, with certain exceptions; providing a penalty. |
| HB 909 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the selling, taking or possession for barter or sale of wild fox, or pelt thereof in Cherokee County; to prohibit the killing of wild fox in said County; providing penalties; providing that the Act shall remain in effect for two years. |
| HB 911 | Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to take or kill squirrel in Cherokee County during certain months; providing a penalty for the violation thereof. |
| HB 973 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; taking Cherokee County from the Sixth Supreme Judicial District and placing said county within the Ninth Supreme Judicial District. |
| HJR 6 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, authorizing the Legislature to provide for the payment of old age pensions and to classify persons for these pensions. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to appropriating Seventy Million ($70,000,000) Dollars for the purpose of paying old age pensions in Texas during the remainder of the present biennium. |
| HR 7 | Caption: Providing that bills relating to certain subjects are considered before all others. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to creating a system of old age assistance in Texas; placing a restrictions on the granting of such assistance; creating the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission, and prescribing their terms of office and qualifications and duties, and fixing their salaries. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 441 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of a seine or net for taking fish in Cherokee County, except a seine or net of not less than three inch square mesh during certain months; excepting a minnow seine from the provisions of this Act; providing a penalty; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 533 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of a steel trap for taking fur-bearing animals or the setting of any steel trap in Cherokee County, with certain exceptions; providing a penalty; repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 812 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to liens against contract labor by further providing in said statutes, as amended, that claimants shall itemize their claims, and file sworn accounts, and that suits can only hereafter be brought either in the county of the contractor's residence or the county in which the work was done or labor performed. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HR 43 | Caption: In memory of James Patton Lane. |