Legislation authored by Omar Henry Burkett
Includes legislation with Omar Henry Burkett as the primary author for the 46th through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 53rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the present State Board of Control and creating a new Board of Control; providing that this Act shall be effective September 1, 1953. |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to repealing the "Automobile Inspection Law." |
| HB 236 | Caption: Relating to repealing Chapter 388, Acts of the Fifty-second Legislature, 1951, providing the manner of transferring certain cases to the County Court of Eastland County, providing that certain process issued, bonds or recognizance made prior to the taking effect of this Act are valid and returnable to the first term of the county court. |
| HB 237 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum salaries that may be paid to the constables in each precinct of this State; providing the method of fixing the salaries of constables. |
| HB 255 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to authorize trial judges and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to permit persons convicted for the first or second time of Driving while Intoxicated, to drive for the purpose of earning a livelihood during the period of automatic suspension of driver's license; providing for revocation of such permission. |
| HB 256 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to providing for a three (3) member Game and Fish Commission. |
| HB 269 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that Eastland County shall be added to the Ninetieth Judicial District. |
| HB 331 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum salary that may be paid to deputies, clerks and assistants of county and district officers in each county of this State; providing the method of fixing the salaries. |
| HB 337 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for reduction in number of the members on Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools and abolishing present Board; providing for appointment, operation, and organization of new Board; providing for executive director to be medical doctor and for a business manager; providing for Austin State Hospital to be receiving and processing center for mentally insane patients; providing for classifying patients as indigent and non-indigent and enforcement of all claims for care, maintenance, and treatment of non-indigents. |
| HB 351 | Caption: Relating to providing that state employees paid on a stated wage period basis other than monthly or yearly shall receive compensation on holidays in the same manner as salaried state employees. |
| HB 386 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the expenditure of any public money for the purpose of compensating any secretary or stenographer for any county superintendent in all counties having a population of thirty thousand (30,000) inhabitants or less, according to the last preceding federal census; providing this Act shall not prohibit the employment of a secretary or stenographer for a county judge. |
| HB 432 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to reduce the number of members of the State Youth Development Council to four (4); providing for the functions of said Council; fixing the effective date of this Act. |
| HB 442 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to transfer causes from congested District Courts to Counties wherein the docket is less congested, and to permit the assignment of retired Judges to try such transferred causes. |
| HB 443 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and instructing the State Department of Public Welfare to contract with the University of Texas School of Dentistry for the making of dentures for old age pension recipients. |
| HB 668 | Caption: Relating to providing a fine of not more than Twenty-five Dollars ($25) for the first conviction as a speeder, and a fine of not more than Fifty Dollars ($50) for subsequent convictions; providing for a speed limit applicable to persons convicted of speeding more than five times; providing that a governor may be attached to any vehicle driven by such person; providing for additional penalties of fine and imprisonment upon conviction again within six (6) months; providing for a list of speeders to be made available to law enforcement officers. |
| HB 840 | Caption: Relating to fixing the open season for deer and turkey in Eastland County, and providing a bag limit on turkey; providing a penalty for violation thereof. |
| HB 845 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts creating Eastland County Water Supply District relating to the number of directors of the District and the manner of their election. |
| HB 862 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, kill, or attempt to kill wild deer or wild turkey in Shackelford County for a period of five (5) years from and after the effective date of this Act; providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 886 | Caption: Relating to providing for a forty (40) hour work week for certain State employees; providing certain employees be required to work forty-eight (48) hours per week; regulating the office hours of State departments; fixing the effective date of this Act. |
| HCR 49 | Caption: Declaring Legislative intent to have hourly employees of State agencies be given full compensation for state holidays. |
| HCR 60 | Caption: Declaring Legislative Intent regarding the office hours of State Agencies. |
| HJR 46 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for a Board for apportioning the state into judicial districts in the event the Legislature fails to make such apportionment. |
| HR 31 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 93 | Caption: In memory of M. A. "Bill" Bundy of Wichita Falls. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to the game laws for Eastland County, fixing the open season for deer and providing a limit on the number of deer taken or killed; making it unlawful to take, hunt, or kill wild turkey; providing a penalty for violation of the Act. |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for increasing the salaries during the fiscal year 1954-1955 of state employees who receive less than $4800 per year. |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to amending the Teacher Retirement Act so as to provide for a minimum retirement allowance of $75.00 per month for teachers whose major portion of service has been in the elementary and secondary schools; fixing the effective date of the Act. |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Welfare Act of 1941 by providing for the exclusion of earnings under $50 per month in determining income or resources of applicants for or recipients of old age assistance, aid to the blind, and aid to dependent children, and defining the terms "earnings" and "applicant or recipient". |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to amending the law creating Eastland County Water Supply District by making certain changes with reference to the election of directors; by expressly authorizing the District to sell any real or personal property not needed by it; and by correcting a typographical error. |
| HCR 3 | Caption: Inviting the Governor to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HCR 21 | Caption: Granting J. M. Sparks permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to alter the regulations relating to the ability of elderly people to be employed while also receiving old age benefits. |
| HR 25 | Caption: In memory of Orion Elwin Gerron of Odessa. |
| HR 31 | Caption: In memory of Lexie Dean Robertson, Jr. of Rising Star. |
| HR 45 | Caption: Directing the State Commissioner of Education to research and provide information regarding the number of school teachers in the State and their salaries. |
| HR 95 | Caption: Directing the Legislative Budget Board to study the feasibility of certain renovations to the General Land Office Building. |
| HR 147 | Caption: Honoring State Representative Gabe Garrett on his retirement from the Legislature. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 154 | Caption: Relating to declaring the Texas School for the Deaf of Austin, Texas, the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute at Austin, Texas, and the Texas School for the Blind to be educational institutions and fixing sums that may be charged parents of such children enrolled therein as incidental costs connected with educational work. |
| HB 296 | Caption: Relating to providing that no compensation or salary shall be paid to any officer or employee of this State or of any district, agency, instrumentality, county or municipal corporation thereof for any period of time during which such officer or employee shall, for any reason, fail or refuse to discharge the duties of his office or employment. |
| HB 418 | Caption: Relating to fixing the annual salaries for County Commissioners in counties of not less than ten thousand (10,000) and not more than fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants according tot he last preceding Federal Census or any future Federal Census at not less than Nine Hundred ($900.00) Dollars nor more than Nineteen Hundred and Eighty ($1,980.00) Dollars paid in equal monthly payments; repealing all general and special laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 575 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues by providing that any subscriber who willfully fails or refuses to make a written report to the Industrial Accident Board of any injury sustained by any employee or neglects or refuses to give said board any information required by said board which is in the possession of or can be ascertained by the employer by the use of reasonable diligence, shall automatically forfeit its charter to engage in any character of business in Texas and shall be fined for each and every offense. |
| HB 594 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an annual Occupation Tax of Five Dollars ($5.00) to be collected from every "peddler," "itinerant vendor," or "transient merchant," defining same, and exempting certain traveling salesmen, certain producers of farm or dairy productions and certain other persons; containing a severability provision. |
| HB 618 | Caption: Relating to regulating the activities of labor unions; protecting the working man, unionist or non-unionist; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 715 | Caption: Relating to requiring each State Department head, Personnel Director, Executive Secretary, or any other person having executive authority over any person employed in any department in this State, whether elective or appointive, to give each discharged employee a letter and a copy of order of dismissal; providing penalty. |
| HR 73 | Caption: In memory of William Wallace Chambers, son of Representative W.R. Chambers. |
| HR 84 | Caption: Designating George Edward Clark as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 121 | Caption: Designating Noel Baker, Jr. as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 130 | Caption: Commending the Texas servicemen who participated in the Battle of New Guinea. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 163 | Caption: Relating to making it a penal offense for any person, agent, and/or attorney, to knowingly make any false statement or report to any department regarding the allowables of oil and/or gas for the purpose of allocating and/or increasing said allowables; defining a dead well; providing that any statement so made shall constitute a felony and providing a penalty. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to defining the powers and duties of the board of Pardons and Paroles; establishing a system of parole for convicts sentenced to penitentiaries. |
| HB 311 | Caption: Relating to requiring each State Department head, personnel director, executive secretary, or any other person having executive authority over any person employed in any department, whether elective or appointive, to give each discharged employee a letter and a copy of order of dismissal; providing penalty upon conviction. |
| HB 360 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties in this State to allow each County Commissioner certain expense for traveling and in connection with the use of his automobile on official business only; requiring each such commissioner to pay the expense of operation and repair of such vehicle so used by him without any further expense whatsoever to the county. |
| HB 1002 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any employee or department head of any State department of this State, or any employee of this State, to violate any of the provisions of any appropriation bill; providing for penalty. |
| HCR 289 | Caption: Suspending joint rules for the purpose of permitting the House to consider S.B. 489. |
| HR 29 | Caption: In memory of Oscar Fitzallen Chastain of Eastland County. |
| HR 116 | Caption: In memory of George Allen Davidson. |
| HR 266 | Caption: Relating to terms of employment. |
| HR 322 | Caption: Relating to expense accounts of members. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 7 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation providing relief for the Clyde Independent School District of Callahan County, Texas, in replacing equipment, building, and motor bus destroyed by a disastrous tornado on June 10, 1938. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties in this State to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses for traveling and in connection with the use of his automobile on official business only and/or in overseeing the construction and maintenance of the public roads of the county. |
| HB 349 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Callahan County Road District Number 2 in Callahan County, Texas, under Article III, Section 52, of the Constitution of Texas, for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof. |
| HB 478 | Caption: Relating to making it a penal offense for any person, agent, and/or attorney, knowingly, to make any false statement or report in writing to any Department in this State regarding the allowables of oil and/or gas for the purpose of allocating and/or increasing said allowables; providing that any statement so made shall constitute a felony. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Callahan County Road District Number 1-A in Callahan County, Texas, under Article III, Section 52 of the Constitution of Texas for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof. |
| HB 882 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Callahan County Road District Number 2 in Callahan County, Texas, under Article III, Section 52 of the Constitution of Texas for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof. |
| HB 955 | Caption: Relating to establishing, authorizing, and providing for junior colleges in connection with the independent school districts now established and located in certain counties and where the school buildings and grounds of such independent school districts are located in certain towns or cities; authorizing the creation and establishment by the boards of trustees of such independent school districts. |
| HB 967 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts which include within their limits a city or town which according to the latest Federal Census had a population of not fewer than six thousand, two hundred (6,200) and not more than six thousand, two hundred and twenty-five (6,225) whether organized under General or Special Law. |
| HB 979 | Caption: Relating to providing mandatory provisions for metering of all oil and gas pipe lines within the State of Texas whether engaged in intra-state or interstate transportation, or both; defining the powers and duties of the Railroad Commission with respect to its enforcement; providing penalties for violation of the Act. |
| HB 1085 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act prescribing taxable values in certain school districts. |
| HR 329 | Caption: In memory of Tom J. Cunningham. |