Legislation authored by Jack Gordon Fisk

Includes legislation with Jack Gordon Fisk as the primary author for the 52nd through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

53rd Regular Session
HB 8 Caption: Relating to creating the Office of Central Services, abolishing the State Board of Control, and transferring its powers and duties to the Office of Central Services; fixing an effective date.
HB 9 Caption: Relating to amending, revising and recodifying certain laws dealing with the State Board of Control, prescribing the function and procedures of the Office of Central Services (successor to the State Board of Control); fixing an effective date.
HB 207 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes prohibiting the Texas State Parks Board from constructing hotels, lodges or motels.
HB 241 Caption: Relating to providing for the leasing of islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs, owned by the State 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, for the production of minerals except sand, shell, gravel, gold, silver, platinum, cinnabar, and other metals.
HB 335 Caption: Relating to amending the subject matter of certain Acts; defining the word "veteran" and the phrases "Texas veteran of the present war or wars commonly known as World War II" and "Texas veterans of service in the armed forces of the United States of America subsequent to 1945."
HB 399 Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of a wife in necessitous circumstances and to define what shall constitute willfully deserting, neglecting or refusing to provide for the support and maintenance of one's child or children under sixteen years of age; fixing penalty; providing that a second conviction for a like offense shall be a felony.
HB 541 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas State Parks Board to acquire State park sites by purchase, gift or otherwise, and to improve, beautify and equip their several State parks and to contract with reference thereto, and in payment thereof, or to secure funds therefor, to issue evidences of indebtedness secured by the rents, revenues and incomes from such improvements and/or other fees, rents or revenues from any source other than appropriations made by the State Legislature.
HCR 7 Caption: Adopting the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
HCR 8 Caption: Providing the funds for the inauguration of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
HJR 45 Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to bills for raising revenue.
HR 19 Caption: Providing the salaries for certain officers of the House.
HR 24 Caption: In memory of Nonnie Svadlenak.
HR 84 Caption: In memory of Green Lafayette Davidson of Wharton County.
HR 85 Caption: In memory of J. H. H. Dennis of Wharton.
HR 132 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 137 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 145 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 200 Caption: Congratulating Shirley Jean Senterfitt on her 8th birthday.
53rd 1st Called Session
HB 26 Caption: Relating to revising and arranging certain statutes of this State relating to taxation into a new title to be known as "Title 122A, Taxation -- General"; reducing the rate of all taxes included in Title 122A by ten per cent (10%) except the Poll Tax.
HCR 8 Caption: Directing the State Board of Control to oppose any purchase of air conditioning units by any State college, agency, or institution.
HR 2 Caption: In memory of Sterling Ross "Pete" Peterson of Louise.
HR 3 Caption: Suspending the House Rules in order to allow for the filming of a newsreel of the opening session of the Legislature.
HR 63 Caption: Inviting U. S. Senator Joseph McCarthy to address the House.
52nd Regular Session
HB 534 Caption: Relating to requiring all funds of the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners be deposited in the State Treasury and providing for the expenditure thereof in accordance with appropriations made by law.
HB 734 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to increase the amount of the bond required by the livestock auction commission merchant.
HR 76 Caption: In memory of Frank Albert Shannon, Sr., of Wharton.
HR 141 Caption: In memory of Albert Sidney Johnson of Louise.
HR 220 Caption: In memory of W. R. Swartz of Newgulf.
HR 262 Caption: Congratulating Glenna Gretchen Zeiske on her academic achievements.