Legislation authored by Samuel Holcroft Parsons
Includes legislation with Samuel Holcroft Parsons as the primary author for the 55th through 57th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 57th Regular Session | |
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| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that the cigarette tax shall be paid by the person who ultimately uses or consumes cigarettes. |
| HB 194 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute revising the classification schedule of the tax on cigars; providing an effective date. |
| HB 287 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act increasing the allowable total bus costs for each school bus and providing a salary for the drivers thereof. |
| HB 388 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to define that portion of Shelby County in which shall be lawful to take and kill buck deer with pronged horns and to make it unlawful to take and kill buck deer with pronged horns at any time in the remaining portion of Shelby County; extending the deer season in Rusk, Harrison and Gregg Counties from ten (10) to fifteen (15) days. |
| HB 664 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act permitting vehicles moving houses or parts of houses the width of which houses or parts of houses does not exceed twenty-one (21) feet, to operate on the public highways of his State. |
| HB 715 | Caption: Relating to providing that a defendant charged with a felony and bound by recognizance or bail bond to appear at any term of a court and who fails to appear on the date set shall be guilty of a felony. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass an amendment to the U. S. Constitution that would allow the legislatures of several states to veto Supreme Court Decisions. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Inviting the U. S. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HCR 57 | Caption: Granting the legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Thursday, March 30, 1961 and ending on Wednesday, April 5, 1961. |
| HCR 91 | Caption: Directing the Highway Commission to raise the salaries of its employees in a comparable manner to the raise of other State employees per S. B No. 1. |
| HJR 10 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas authorizing the Legislature to provide a system of retirement and disability pensions for certain former employees of the State Highway Department and their widows; stating certain conditions for eligibility and fixing the maximum of such pension. |
| HR 604 | Caption: Providing for a wage increase for hourly employees of the State Highway Department. |
| HR 625 | Caption: Congratulating the Henderson High School Track team on their athletic success. |
| HR 627 | Caption: Congratulating the Gaston High School track team of Joinerville on their athletic success. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 2 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide that the tax on cigars or tobacco products shall be paid by the consumer. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to providing for release of interest and penalties on all State ad valorem taxes and on certain county ad valorem taxes that were delinquent on or before January 1, 1951, if paid before November 1, 1959. |
| HB 143 | Caption: Relating to the absences of the County Judges from their duties. |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to willfully burn a motor vehicle; creating a felony offense; prescribing punishment. |
| HB 228 | Caption: Relating to fur-bearing animals; changing the definition thereof in order to remove therefrom coypu (nutria) as a fur-bearing animal. |
| HB 260 | Caption: Relating to providing an open season when it shall be lawful to hunt, take or kill squirrels in Rusk County; providing penalties. |
| HB 289 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to fees of commissioners appointed to assess damages in eminent domain proceedings, so as to provide that in all counties the Commissioners Court shall set the fee of the commissioners at any amount they may deem reasonable, not less than Five Dollars ($5) per day. |
| HB 332 | Caption: Relating to creating the Attoyac Bayou Watershed Authority conservation and reclamation district in Shelby, Rusk, and Nacogdoches Counties. |
| HB 375 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes regulating the lighting of a vehicle parked or stopped upon a roadway or shoulder adjacent thereto. |
| HB 378 | Caption: Relating to declaring any vehicle or structure parked or placed wholly or partly within any highway under the jurisdiction of the Texas Highway Commission for the purpose of selling the same or of selling therefrom or therein, any article or thing, to be a nuisance and authorizing the Texas Highway Department to immediately remove such vehicle or structure from within such highway; fixing the penalty for such violation. |
| HB 663 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due thereon of a certain judgment obtained against the State of Texas in Cause No. 107,038 styled by B & A Pipe Line Company vs. The State of Texas in the 126th Judicial District Court of Travis County, Texas, according to the tenor, effect and reading of such judgment. |
| HB 924 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Game and Fish Commission to negotiate and make reciprocal agreements to allow sport and commercial fishermen to fish and sportsmen to hunt migratory water fowl on lakes and rivers located upon a common boundary with another state; providing a penalty. |
| HB 945 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Health to sell a certain tract of land owned by the State in Rusk County. |
| HB 946 | Caption: Relating to juvenile boards in Harrison and Rusk Counties. |
| HCR 46 | Caption: Granting permission for the Legislature to adjourn from Wednesday, March 25, 1959 to Tuesday, March 31, to observe the Easter Holidays. |
| HCR 137 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control to operate the air conditioning system in the State Capitol's chambers during the Interim. |
| HJR 27 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the Legislature to provide a system of retirement and disability pensions for certain former employees of the State Highway Department and their widows. |
| HR 179 | Caption: Providing for the attendance of the House Game and Fish Committee to attend a certain conference. |
| HR 254 | Caption: In memory of Sydney Leward Oliver of Henderson. |
| HR 269 | Caption: Congratulating the Kilgore High School men's basketball team for winning the Class AAA district championship. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Game and Fish Commission to negotiate and make reciprocal agreements to allow sport and commercial fishermen to fish and sportsmen to hunt migratory water fowl on lakes and rivers located upon a common boundary with another state, allowing reciprocal agreements on license with other states and repealing all laws in conflict; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Granting Ray and Ruth Cyphers permission to sue the State. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 413 | Caption: Relating to providing for release of interest and penalties on all State ad valorem taxes and on certain county ad valorem taxes that were delinquent on or before January 1, 1951, if paid before November 1, 1957. |
| HB 707 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code; creating a shooting resort; providing a penalty. |
| HB 870 | Caption: Relating to permitting the use of dogs for the purpose of trailing wounded deer in Rusk County but prohibiting their use for any other purpose in hunting, pursuing or taking deer in that county; providing a penalty. |
| HJR 22 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas rendering all elected or appointed officers ineligible to be nominated or elected to any other elective public office the term of which begins before the expiration of the term which the officer then holds, without resigning from the office then held. |
| HR 287 | Caption: In memory of the Honorable John Charles Heitman, Jr. of Nacogdoches. |
| HR 292 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to certain officers and employees of the House for their effort and time. |
| HR 378 | Caption: Congratulating Mrs. Louis F. Hale on being crowned "Mrs. Texas" of 1957. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 28 | Caption: In memory of Representative Charles W. Heitman of Nacogdoches. |