Legislation authored by John Bell Walling
Includes legislation with John Bell Walling as the primary author for the 52nd through 55th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 55th Regular Session | |
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| HB 26 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Stream Pollution Control Board and prescribing its composition, method of appointment, authority, powers, duties and responsibilities. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to providing for the filing of portions of logs of exploratory wells, wells for oil and gas, and any well for any other purpose, with the State Board of Water Engineers for the purpose of determining and preventing the pollution of streams and public bodies of surface water of the State and any sub-surface water strata that is capable of producing water suitable for domestic or livestock use or for irrigation and for the purpose of obtaining information concerning sub-surface water strata of this State and for the purpose of obtaining information to determine whether surface casing has been installed to a depth necessary to protect sub-surface fresh water strata of this State; providing a penalty. |
| HB 330 | Caption: Relating to repealing Article 923b of the Penal Code of Texas, 1925, which makes it unlawful to injure or kill bats. |
| HB 477 | Caption: Relating to creating Midwestern University at Wichita Falls, Texas, and providing for work at said University suitable to a University of higher learning teaching the liberal arts and sciences of the first class. |
| HB 640 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the retirement of judges. |
| HB 807 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to require those drilling or deepening a commercial water well to keep a well log record thereof and deliver or mail a copy of such log to the Board of Water Engineers and also to the office of the underground water conservation district when the water well is located within the boundaries of such district; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 808 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide regulation of swimming pools. |
| HB 811 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes which authorize a coordinated health program. |
| HB 837 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to travel expenses of State officers and employees. |
| HR 123 | Caption: In memory of R. W. "Dick" Lindsey of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 175 | Caption: In memory of Mrs. Roy "Bennie Lee Moore" Meagher of Houston. |
| HR 309 | Caption: In memory of Pat H. Simmons of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 336 | Caption: Naming Donna Sue Wilson and Brenda Joyce Wilson Mascots of the House. |
| HR 379 | Caption: Urging the President to limit imports of foreign oil as authorized by the Trade Agreements Acts of 1955. |
| HR 438 | Caption: In memory of Wayne Patterson of Sunset. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 22 | Caption: In memory of Marvin Smith of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 72 | Caption: In memory of Forest Hardin "Ted" Harwell of Wichita Falls. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 22 | Caption: Providing for a committee concerning the State parks in Wichita Falls. |
| HR 58 | Caption: Congratulating Truett Ray Wilson for being selected as an all-district tackle. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 104 | Caption: Relating to validating bonds voted by Wichita County, Texas, for the purpose of acquiring necessary right-of-ways for the construction and improvement of State and National highways through said County, and the construction and improvement of roads and bridges in said County. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to public recreational programs and facilities; authorizing their establishment by counties, cities and towns acting singly or jointly. |
| HB 134 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the deposit of certain Funds and Fees to the Special Department of Agriculture Fund in the State Treasury. |
| HB 346 | Caption: Relating to changing the name and purpose of the Abilene State Hospital; eliminating epilepsy as a cause or bar to admission or commitment to State institutions; providing for a repealing clause, preserving and reserving all rights and causes of action that arose by virtue and under said Act hereby repealed; providing a savings clause. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Granting W. C. Frey permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 104. |
| HR 43 | Caption: In memory of Walter Alexander Franklin. |
| HR 205 | Caption: Congratulating the Midwestern University men's basketball team on their athletic success. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 113 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Agriculture Department for operating expenses incurred in the enforcement of the provisions of House Bill No. 593, 52nd Legislature for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1953. |
| HB 114 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture for the operating expenses for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1953, provided for its expenditures under the general provisions of House Bill No. 426, Regular Session, Fifty-second Legislature. |
| HB 189 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Act concerning the establishment and operation of a State Cancer and Pellagra Hospital. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Statutes concerning the American Legion Memorial Sanatorium. |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts concerning the Camp Hulen Lease Board. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to repealing Statutes concerning County Home Guards. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles relating to wreck masters. |
| HB 341 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the keeping of permanent records, and the reporting of all transactions involving pistols. |
| HB 342 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to contracts let by the State Highway Department. |
| HB 343 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the conduct of bar examinations and admission to the bar. |
| HB 376 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the amount of fees that may be retained as compensation by justices of the peace who are compensated on a fee basis. |
| HB 378 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that county tax assessors and collectors shall retain ten per cent of the motor vehicle sales and use tax as fees of office or to be paid to the officers salary fund of the county where collected. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to public recreation; authorizing any city, town, school district or county to establish, construct and conduct, singly or jointly, recreational facilities. |
| HB 528 | Caption: Relating to regulating fishing in certain waters of the Big Wichita River and lakes impounded thereon and in the waters of Lake Kickapoo on the Little Wichita River. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to raising revenue; levying an occupation tax on producers of coal. |
| HB 669 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to transfer of territory from one school district to another. |
| HB 823 | Caption: Relating to food and lodging of jurors; amending the Code of Criminal Procedure. |
| HB 824 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes defining non-resident tuition rates for students enrolled in public junior colleges. |
| HB 858 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so that in the 30th Judicial District of Texas the maximum salary of investigators and assistants appointed by the District Attorney may be fixed at a sum not exceeding Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) and a maximum salary of the stenographer appointed by the District Attorney may be fixed at a sum not exceeding Three Thousand, Six Hundred Dollars ($3,600.00). |
| HB 859 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the District Attorney of the Thirtieth Judicial District. |
| HCR 11 | Caption: Congratulating the Midwestern State University Band for their selection to perform in the Inaugural festivities. |
| HCR 72 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. B. No. 113 and H. B. No. 114. |
| HR 110 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 140 | Caption: In memory of Carsie Fern Boone, Jr. of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 212 | Caption: In memory of G. Clint Wood of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 221 | Caption: In memory of Ben Dobyns Donnell of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 239 | Caption: In memory of George D. Fox of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 263 | Caption: In memory of Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 302 | Caption: In memory of James G. Rowe, Jr. of Wichita Falls. |