Legislation authored by Charles Ervin Hughes
Includes legislation with Charles Ervin Hughes as the primary author for the 52nd through 57th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 57th Regular Session | |
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| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute creating the office of Industrial and Occupational Safety Coordinator under the control of the Industrial Accident Board; providing qualifications and duties for such office. |
| HB 335 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that the Trustees of certain Independent School Districts having 150 scholastics or more shall have the power to lease real property for school purposes. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the requirement of unanimous concurrence of the jurors in civil actions and to restore the constitutional provision permitting ten (10) members of a jury, concurring, in civil causes to render a verdict; requiring verdicts in all criminal cases by unanimous concurrence of all jurors. |
| HB 470 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Title of a Revised Civil Statutes relating to escheat; providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat, defining terms, providing for notices and determination of escheat, administrative and court procedures, sales, determination and payment of subsequent claims, examination of records, reciprocity, penalties, and Expense and Reimbursement Fund, and other related rules and procedures for enforcement of the escheat laws of the State. |
| HB 649 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute aportioning the State of Texas into Representative Districts. |
| HB 760 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to escheat; providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat, defining terms, providing for notices and determination of escheat, administrative and court procedure, sales, determination and payment of subsequent claims, examination of records, reciprocity, penalties, an Expense and Reimbursement Fund, and other related rules and procedures for enforcement of the escheat laws of the State; making it unlawful, under specified circumstances, to deduct for or change inactive or dormant deposits which are/or may become subject to escheat. |
| HCR 137 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature so either house may consider H. B. No. 829. |
| HR 218 | Caption: Congratulating Mrs. Bird Amonett of Van Alstyne on her 100th Birthday. |
| HR 579 | Caption: Welcoming students from the Denison High School Band to the Capitol. |
| HR 740 | Caption: Commending E. L. Langley for his services to the State and wish him luck on his moves to Pennsylvania. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to escheat; providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat, defining terms, providing for notices and determination of escheat, administrative and court procedure, sales, determinations and payment of subsequent claims, examination of records, reciprocity, penalties, and Expense and Reimbursement Fund, and other related rules and procedures for enforcement of the escheat laws of the State; relating to petition for escheat, officials authorized to act, contents and procedure, appeal and other related purposes. |
| HCR 35 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 5 at any time. |
| HCR 46 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 143 at any time. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to protect and preserve dormant deposits and inactive accounts held by depository; prohibiting the conversion or reduction of such accounts while in dormant or inactive status; requiring advertising for lost owners and reporting to the State of certain accounts of owners who cannot be located; creation of State Conservator Fund; transfer of funds liquidated depositories held by State Banking Commissioner; providing penalties. |
| HR 221 | Caption: Honoring Doris Connerly for her service as State Legislative Reference Librarian. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to making findings and declaring policies relating to occupational safety; providing for the enforcement and administration of such rules by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; providing penalties. |
| HB 355 | Caption: Relating to the jury verdict in civil cases in district courts. |
| HB 508 | Caption: Relating to amending the Probate Code so as to more clearly define and make more certain the law pertaining to the execution of collateral instruments as to mineral leases, pooling and unitization agreements without a court order. |
| HB 647 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Trustees of all Independent School Districts having 150 scholastics or more shall have the power to lease real property for school purposes. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to home demonstration services being accredited as teacher experience under the minimum pay schedule for classroom teachers. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 61 | Caption: Proposing certain amendments to the House Rules. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to the tax on the production of oil. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of a County Building Study Committee to study building needs in Counties having a population in excess of 600,00 and which have not constructed a county courthouse within the last ten years. |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to home demonstration service being accredited as teacher experience under the minimum pay schedule for classroom teachers. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to home demonstration service being accredited as teacher experience under the minimum pay schedule for classroom teachers. |
| HR 84 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing increased minimum salaries for firemen and policemen in cities having certain populations. |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to making findings and declaring policies relating to occupational safety. |
| HB 109 | Caption: Relating to the Lobbyist Registration Act, concerning the regulation of persons promoting or opposing the passage of bills or resolutions by the Legislature or Executive approval thereof. |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code by providing that representatives of newspapers, radio and television stations shall have the right to attend the precinct conventions, the county conventions and the State convention for the purpose of reporting the proceedings thereof. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 8 | Caption: Relating creating the Lobbyist Registration Act, relating to the regulation of certain persons who undertake to promote or oppose the passage of legislation by the Legislature or its approval or veto by the Governor; repealing certain articles of the Penal Code. |
| HCR 34 | Caption: Granting United Pentecostal Church of Denison, Texas permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to making findings and declaring policies relating to industrial safety; defining terms; creating within the Bureau of Labor Statistics an Industrial Safety Board; authorizing said Board, after hearing, to make industrial safety rules for places of employment; to provide for the review of such rules; to provide penalties. |
| HB 386 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by limiting expenditures for maintenance and operation of county-owned parks in certain counties. |
| HB 437 | Caption: Relating to the disposition of unclaimed property held or owing by banking organizations; providing for transfer and payment to the State of property presumed to be abandoned, as defined in the Act, subject to stated rights of the owners to establish ownership; and providing procedures, remedies and penalties for administration and enforcement of the Act. |
| HB 515 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration of copies of instruments certified by county or district clerks, prohibiting the use of certified copies of instruments filed with county or district clerks in court proceedings unless a registration number appears thereon; providing an operative date; prohibiting subsequent recordation of an instrument certified by not registered. |
| HR 357 | Caption: Congratulating Roland Kenneth Towery for winning the Pulitzer Prize. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 57 | Caption: Relating to levying a tax upon the occupation of processing gas; providing for penalties and interest; prescribing penalties and fixing lien to secure taxes, penalties and interest. |
| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing body of any incorporated city or town (including home rule cities) having a population of twenty-five thousand (25,000) inhabitants or less, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to lease any city-owned hospital, or part thereof, to be operated by the lessee as a public hospital under such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by such governing body and lessee. |
| HB 661 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by raising the classification of counties which may pay the County Commissioners of said county additional compensation from counties having not more than sixty-five thousand (65,000) inhabitants to counties having not more than seventy-one thousand (71,000) inhabitants. |
| HR 156 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 135 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming and validating the creation and organization of the Grayson County Water Improvement District No. 1. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 259 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide increased fees for County and District Attorneys in certain cases tried in District or County Courts, or a County Court at Law. |
| HR 108 | Caption: In memory of Charles Wilson Hackett of Austin. |
| HR 206 | Caption: In memory of Randolph Bryant of Sherman. |