Legislation authored by Frates Slick Seeligson
Includes legislation with Frates Slick Seeligson as the primary author for the 53rd through 56th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 56th Regular Session | |
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| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to the motor vehicle sales tax; removing exemption from State taxes on cigarettes sold to military personnel; changing gross receipts taxes on telegraph companies, gas, electric light, power and water works companies, collecting agencies and telephone companies; repealing certain taxes; providing for fines and penalties. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a Central License Department. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to increase the rate of the present distilled spirits tax from $1.408 to $1.50 per gallon. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to levying a tax upon the sale, consumption, handling or distribution of cigars and smoking and chewing tobacco. |
| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to providing that certain corporations may file amendments to their present charters for the purpose of adopting the provisions of the Texas Business Corporation Act. |
| HB 354 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Commission on State and Local Tax Policy. |
| HB 433 | Caption: Relating to limiting the right to refund of motor fuel taxes paid for non-highway purposes to 3/4 of the tax paid, less certain deductions. |
| HB 561 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to disallow the two (2) per cent discount on stamps for distilled spirits when purchased in lots of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more. |
| HB 643 | Caption: Relating to amending the Probate Code by enlarging the scope so as to include as authorized investments of guardians of estates of wards, investments in savings accounts of national banks or state banks and investments in a common trust fund. |
| HB 739 | Caption: Relating to imposing an excise tax in the amount of 1 1/2% of the purchase price on certain retail sales; imposing a use tax in the amount of 1 1/2% of the purchase price on the use of certain property. |
| HB 764 | Caption: Relating to levying an excise tax upon the use of special fuels for the propulsion of motor vehicles upon the public highways of this State at rates of Five Cents per gallon of liquefied gas and Six and Five-tenths Cents per gallon of distillate fuel so used. |
| HB 855 | Caption: Relating to eliminating the procedure of affixing tax stamps to individual packages of cigarettes to evidence tax payments and providing for the collection of the tax from cigarette distributors on a monthly basis from stock records and reports to be kept and filed by said distributor. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to revising certain taxation statutes, relative to oil production taxes, natural gas production taxes, natural gas production taxes and sulfur taxes. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to the revision of the oil production tax, the natural gas production tax, sulfur tax, motor vehicle sales tax, gasoline tax, tax on express companies, telegraph companies and others. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to revising and rearranging certain statutes of the Taxation Code. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to the disposition of unclaimed property held or owing by banking organizations. |
| HB 128 | Caption: Relating to prescribing a procedure for the submission of petitions to Home Rule Cities for election of charter commissions and amendment of charters; providing a method of determining whether petitioners are qualified voters. |
| HB 279 | Caption: Relating to empowering cities and towns having power to undertake urban renewal projects to issue revenue bonds to finance such projects. |
| HB 307 | Caption: Relating to youth correctional institutions. |
| HB 308 | Caption: Relating to the State Orphans Home at Corsicana. |
| HB 325 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by authorizing the Public Safety Commission to reorganize and consolidate the various divisions and positions provided for in said Acts in interest of economy and efficiency under certain conditions. |
| HB 371 | Caption: Relating to creating the State Tax Study Commission. |
| HB 780 | Caption: Relating to revising and arranging certain statutes of this State relating to taxation into a new title. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the Real Estate Commission. |
| HB 882 | Caption: Relating to empowering the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to grant an easement to the City of San Antonio. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking and possession of shrimp from and on inland lakes, bays, inland salt or tide water and passes and within one mile of such passes; regulating sale and possession of shrimp and providing for a bait dealer license and defining "bait dealer"; requiring and providing for bait trawl licenses under certain circumstances; providing penalties and automatic forfeiture of fishing privileges and licenses upon first, second and third convictions. |
| HB 705 | Caption: Relating to providing for payment of an amount equal to one per cent (1%) of each bid on mineral lease and land sales as a special sale fee; providing that such special payments on high bids be deposited to the General Revenue Fund; providing that failure to remit the special fee shall not render a bid void; providing for demand of payment of such fee; providing a penalty for failure or refusal to make such payment. |
| HB 706 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an increase in the amount of certain fees; fixing the effective date. |
| HB 753 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the exemption of the owners, licensees and operators of radio or television broadcasting stations and their agents and employees from damages for defamatory statements made over such stations by one other than such owner, licensee or operator, or agent or employee unless such owner, licensee, operator or agent or employee failed to use due care to prevent such broadcast; provided due care shall be construed to include a bona fide compliance with any federal law or regulation; provided further that no owner, licensee or operator shall be liable for any damages from any defamatory statement uttered on the radio or television broadcasting station or on behalf of any candidate for public office; provided further in any action for damages the complaining party shall be allowed only such actual damages as he has alleged and proved. |
| HB 754 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for geological, geophysical and other surveys and investigations of islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs owned by the State of Texas within tidewater limits and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, and all unsold public free school land both surveyed and unsurveyed, and all rivers and channels belonging to the State; providing for the promulgation of rules and regulations to prevent the unnecessary pollution of waters, destruction of fish, oysters and other marine life and obstruction of navigation; providing for the issuance of permits; providing a fee and directing the deposit thereof in the State Treasury to the credit of the Permanent School Fund; providing a fee and directing the deposit thereof in the State Treasury to the credit of the Land Office Mineral Fund; creating such a Fund; providing that said Fund shall be used for the enforcement and supervision of rules and regulations and all other lawful purposes involved in mineral leasing, exploration and development; making an appropriation out of said Fund; providing for the transfer of funds in excess of $30,000 remaining in said Fund at the end of the biennium ending August 31, 1957, to the General Revenue Fund. |
| HB 952 | Caption: Relating to providing for the reallocation of certain funds heretofore appropriated to the Board of Pardons and Paroles. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that guardians may be appointed for persons adjudicated as feeble minded. |
| HB 360 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by adding an additional power of home-ruled cities, the power to acquire by purchase or gift, historic building and grounds as an addition to their park and recreational facilities, and to support and maintain the same. |
| HB 361 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the San Antonio Conservation Society, chartered by the State of Texas for the purpose or preserving historical landmarks and sites and making certain exceptions. |
| HB 605 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes so as to provide that no action shall be brought in any court in any of the cases enumerated therein unless the promise or agreement upon which such action is brought, or some memorandum thereof, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith or by some person by him thereunto lawfully authorized in writing. |
| HB 606 | Caption: Relating to counties having a population in excess of 300,000 inhabitants; providing that in no such county shall the commissioners' court make any contract for the expenditure or payment of $2,000.00 or more out of any funds of the county or subdivision thereof without first submitting the proposed contract to competitive bids. |
| HB 641 | Caption: Relating to waiving and quitclaiming the reversionary interest of the State of Texas in and to certain lands in Bexar County, Texas, owned by the Eden Home for the Aged, Incorporated. |
| HB 673 | Caption: Relating to providing for a salt water fishing license for nonresidents of the State of Texas; providing for a salt water fishing license for citizens of Texas; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 65 | Caption: Directing the creation of an Address Committee to investigate and hear certain charges on a case involving C. Woodrow Laughlin. |