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Includes legislation with Rudolph Benjamin Spacek as the primary author for the 47th through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 53rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 77 | Caption: Relating to revising and codifying the laws relating to the profession of funeral directing and embalming; creating a State Board of Morticians; prescribing penalties for the violation of this act. |
| HB 315 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to restrictions on drivers of school buses and public or common carriers, by reducing the minimum age of school bus drivers from twenty-one (21) years to seventeen (17) years. |
| HB 366 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to make it unlawful to use a hoop net and a seine or net over twenty (20) feet in length to take minnows. |
| HB 832 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to hunt, take, trap, or kill, or attempt to hunt, take, trap or kill, or otherwise molest wild turkey in Colorado, Jackson, Lavaca, and Wharton Counties for a period of two (2) years; providing a penalty. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 346 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into judicial districts; providing for the jurisdiction and terms of district courts; providing for the effective date of the apportionment provided under the provisions of this act. |
| HB 756 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking and killing of squirrels in Fayette County; providing an open season for the taking or killing of squirrels; limiting the number of squirrels that may be taken in any one day and limiting the number of squirrels that any person may have in possession at any time; fixing penalties for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 768 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts relating to taking and possessing bull frogs in Fayette County. |
| HB 769 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts catching and taking certain fish from the waters of Fayette County. |
| HB 773 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of minnows taken in Fayette County beyond the borders of said County for the purpose of sale; providing penalties for any violation of this Act. |
| HB 788 | Caption: Relating to regulating the use of seines and nets for the taking of fish in Fayette County; providing a penalty for violation thereof. |
| HB 793 | Caption: Relating to providing a closed season on wild deer and pheasants in Fayette County for a period of five (5) years; prescribing a penalty. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to providing for the supervision and construction of two (2) State buildings; providing for the wrecking and removal of Watson Office Building, and the repairing and reconditioning of quarters now occupied by certain Courts of Texas, and removal of law libraries of said Courts. |
| HB 175 | Caption: Relating to regulation for the parking of vehicles along curbs on streets opposite State-owned property, for the paving of which the State has paid part. |
| HB 182 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act lien securing the purchase of any merchandise except as to bonafide retail sales, etc |
| HB 183 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that any person, his guardian, or his dependents or heirs at law, may secure certified or authenticated copies of instruments in the custody or on file in the offices of the county clerks, district clerks, or other public officials of this State for the purpose of establishing any claim against the Government of the United States of America arising out of the service of any person in the armed forces of the United States of America or the services auxiliary thereto, including the maritime service and the merchant marine; providing that the country clerks, district clerks, and other public officials shall furnish said copies of instruments to said parties without said person, his guardian or dependents or heirs at law having to pay any fee therefor; providing furthers that in cases where said copies are furnished by the county clerk or district clerk in a fee county that said clerk shall receive 15 cents from the Commissioners' Court for each 100 words curtained in said instrument; and that said fee shall be paid by the Commissioners' Court out of the general fund of said county; and that the provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to counties where the county officials are compensated on a salary basis under the provisions of a certain Article; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 184 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the registering of official discharges of members of the armed forces of the United States of America or the armed force reserve of the United States of America, or of the auxiliary units of the armed forces or armed force reserve of the United States of America; providing that the County Clerk shall do the recording |
| HB 466 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the sum of Fourteen Hundred Seventy-eight ($1,478.00) Dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of installing one electric air pressure water pump and water system, erecting a flag pole, and other necessary items and Monument Hill State Park, to be administered by the Texas State Parks Board. |
| HB 479 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, exempting securities or memberships issued by a religious corporation. |
| HB 809 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to require directors, trustees, or officers of private educational organizations and corporations going out of existence or ceasing to function as educational institutions to perpetuate their scholastic records by transferring the same to the Office of the Registrar of the State University of Texas; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 887 | Caption: Relating to provide for the safe operation of stationary power plants and the better protection of life and property and the prevention of disastrous accidents in the operation of same; providing penalties; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 906 | Caption: Relating to providing the Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges shall determine departments of instruction to be maintained and subjects of study to be pursed in State Teachers Colleges. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 48 | Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of all school districts; making certain exceptions; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 159 | Caption: Relating to enabling State employees to purchase for their individual use automobile tires, tubes, batteries, and other motor vehicle accessories under the contracts made by the Board of Control for the purchase of said articles; providing a penalty for violation hereof. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to providing for the construction and location of a State Court Building. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Monument Hill State Park for the remainder of the biennium ending August 31, 1947, to be administered by the Texas State Parks Board. |
| HB 194 | Caption: Relating to amending previous Acts, relative to Notaries Public. |
| HB 195 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Six Hundred Dollars ($600) for the purpose of erecting monuments at the graves of Father Miguel Muldoon, McHenry Winburn and Williamson Daniels. |
| HB 196 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment, maintenance, operation, administration, and expansion of nonprofit school lunch programs in public schools in this State, and making an appropriation for matching and supplementing Federal funds for subsidizing the school lunch programs of this State. |
| HB 197 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the State Treasury to supplement the regular appropriation of the State Department of Education, for administration of school lunch funds, inspection of school plants of this State for safety and design, for secretarial and clerical hire, contingent expense, equipment and machines; Board of Examiners for seasonal examiners, stationery, printing, supplies and contingent expense. |
| HB 395 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum qualifications of all county superintendents of public instruction who are elected or appointed under existing law; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 514 | Caption: Relating to creating the Fayette County Flood Control District in Fayette County, Texas, and defining its powers; providing that if any provision of this Act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions shall not be affected; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 626 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the transportation of pupils to and from school. |
| HB 845 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by adding thereto a provision excepting from the operation of said Article any lien securing the purchase price of any merchandise or other article except as to bona fide retail sales. |
| HB 870 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property of institutions or organizations known as the Girl Scouts of America or local organizations of or affiliated with the Girl Scouts of America. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 265 | Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season or period of time when it shall be unlawful to take bullfrogs from any of the public waters of this State; providing a penalty for violation of any provision of this Act; repealing conflicting laws. |
| HB 266 | Caption: Relating to granting the Commissioners' Court of Fayette County the privilege of paying bounties for the destruction of foxes in said county. |
| HB 290 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the transportation of pupils to and from school; providing penalty for drivers of school transportation vehicles who fail to bring their vehicles to a dead stop before crossing any railroad tracks. |
| HB 291 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by defining the powers and authority of Notaries Public. |
| HB 303 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay deficiency appropriations granted to the State Soil Conservation Board, to pay the supervisors of soil conservation districts in Texas. |
| HB 481 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to drive or operate a motor vehicle upon the public roads, highways, or streets, with a spotlight attached thereto; providing a penalty. |
| HB 675 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum qualifications of all county superintendents of public instruction who are elected or appointed under existing law. |
| HB 690 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide for the appointment and additional qualifications of certain County Superintendent of Public Instruction. |
| HB 731 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain law which invests the Supreme Court with rule making power; adopting all rules of practice in civil cases existing prior to the enactment of said law. |
| HB 809 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain provisions; providing that no male person of Fayette County, Texas, shall be required to do any kind of road duty or be required to pay any head tax in lieu of such road work or duty; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 875 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Six Hundred Dollars ($600), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purposes of erecting monuments at the graves of Father Miguel Muldoon, McHenry Winburn and Williamson Daniels. |
| HB 886 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Monument Hill State Park for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1945, and ending August 31, 1947, to be administered by the Texas State Parks Board. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that before any county clerk shall issue a marriage license the man and woman shall supply information as to date of birth, residence, occupation, and as to the place and date of their parents, occupation of their father, and their mother's maiden name; requiring a doctor's certificate of the man with respect to venereal diseases. |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season or a period of time when it shall be unlawful to take bullfrogs from any portion of Fayette County, Texas; providing a penalty for violation of said Act. |
| HB 92 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of squirrels in Fayette County, Texas, during certain months of each year; providing a penalty for violation of said Act. |
| HB 109 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the registering of the official discharge of the members of the Armed Forces of the United States of America or Armed Force Reserve of the United States of America or of Auxiliary Units of the Armed Forces or Armed Force Reserve of the United States of America who have served since 1916. |
| HB 120 | Caption: Relating to marks and brands of livestock in Fayette County. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to providing for the setting of nets for the purpose of catching suckers, buffalo, carp, shad, and gar in the waters of Fayette County during certain months; relating to prohibiting the use of drag seine; relating to making it unlawful to have in possession certain fish under certain conditions; providing a penalty. |
| HB 603 | Caption: Relating to providing that in and for Fayette County, Texas, there shall be imposed upon all male persons who do not reside in an incorporated city, town, or village the duty of working five (5) days of eight (8) hours efficient service on public roads each year, or the payment on or before May 1st or each year of the sum of Three Dollars ($3). |
| HB 664 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide a closed season on deer and turkey in Burleson, Fayette, Lee, Washington, and Calhoun Counties, for a period of five years. |
| HJR 14 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide free textbooks for children of scholastic age attending any private, church, parochial school or academy, or any orphan asylum in Texas, at the election of such schools to use such textbooks. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 243 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing that both the man and the woman shall supply separate affidavits with certain information before any county clerk shall issue a marriage license; requiring a doctor's certificate of both the man and the woman with respect to venereal diseases. |
| HB 385 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the organization of Cemetery Monument Associations to engage in the business of providing cemetery monuments and serving in connection therewith by means of insurance benefits. |
| HB 524 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to provide that premium on official bonds for county treasurers, county auditors, county road commissioners, county school superintendents, and hide and animal inspectors, and their deputies, shall be paid from county funds. |
| HB 525 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes to provide that district attorneys and criminal district attorneys shall hold office for a term of four (4) years. |
| HB 526 | Caption: Relating to levying a certain tax on the production of all pit run gravel, washed gravel, sand, crushed rock and/or stone of any form used in road building or in the construction of buildings; providing for penalties. |
| HB 527 | Caption: Relating to levying a tax on the production or mining of Fullers Earth in this State of One Dollar ($1.00) per ton; fixing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| HB 671 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes so that trucks hauling tomatoes or transporting same are hereby excluded from the terms of this Act, and no inspection or certification thereof shall be required. |
| HB 709 | Caption: Relating to providing in certain counties, there shall be imposed upon all male persons the duties of working five (5) days of eight (8) hours efficient service on public roads each year, or the payment on or before May 1st of each year the sum of Three Dollars ($3); fixing age bracket of persons to be summoned. |
| HB 1004 | Caption: Relating to providing in certain counties there shall be imposed upon all male persons who do not reside in an incorporated city, town, or village the duties of working five (5) days of eight (8) hours efficient service on public roads each year, or the payment before May 1st of each year the sum of Three Dollars ($3). |
| HB 1102 | Caption: Relating to marks and brands of livestock in Fayette County. |
| HJR 7 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide free textbooks for children of scholastic age attending any church or parochial school or academy, or any orphan asylum in Texas, at the election of such schools to use such textbooks; providing for an election to vote on the proposed Amendment. |
| HJR 22 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment increasing the term of the office for the Clerk of the District Court to four (4) years. |
| 47th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to marks and brands of livestock in Fayette County requiring that each owner of certain livestock shall within six (6) months after this Act takes effect shall have his mark and brand of such stock recorded at the office of the County Clerk. |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, trapping, or killing of raccoons and mink in Fayette County for a period of three (3) years; providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of squirrels in Fayette County, Texas, during certain months of each years; providing for an exception when squirrels are found to be damaging crops; providing a penalty for violation. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season or a period of time when it shall be unlawful to take bullfrogs from any portion of Fayette County, Texas; providing for a penalty for violation of said Act. |