Legislation authored by Jack Bascom Brooks
Includes legislation with Jack Bascom Brooks as the primary author for the 50th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 51st Regular Session | |
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| HB 52 | Caption: Relating to creating Lamar State College of Technology of Beaumont, Texas; providing for work at said College suitable to a College of Technology of the first class; providing for courses of study to be offered; providing for the organization, control and management thereof, the appointment of a Board of Regents and the selection of a president; providing all necessary details to accomplish the purpose of this Act; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 112 | Caption: Relating to the County Court of Jefferson County at Law; amending Statutes relating to the terms of said court and the election, tenure, and qualifications of the Judge of said Court; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 377 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing any political subdivision of the State of Texas which heretofore has issued and sold bonds and is unable to obtain labor and material to carry out the purposes for which the bonds were issued to invest the proceeds now on hand in government bonds or other obligations of the United States of America. |
| HB 455 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, pertaining to the hunting of deer with dogs in Jefferson County. |
| HB 469 | Caption: Relating to validate, ratify, approve, confirm, and delcare enforceable all levies and assessments of ad valorem taxes heretofore made by independent school districts or cities or towns including home rule cities in this state not in excess of the limit now provided by law which are void or unenforceable, etc. |
| HB 553 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation within this State of districts to be known as port and navigation districts including within their boundaries a city containing 75,000 population or more, according to the preceding or any future Federal census, for the purpose of making improvements for navigation, and for the purpose of acquiring the wharf and dock properties, assets and facilities of such city within its boundaries by assuming the outstanding indebtedness of such properties, and for all other purposes stated in Section 59, Article 16, of the Constitution, such districts to be known as port and navigation districts, which may or may not include within their boundaries and limits districts and municipal corporations of any kind, or part thereof, or a portion of existing navigation districts created under Section 52, of Article 3, of the Constitution, which districts shall be governmental agencies and bodies politic and corporate, with such powers of government essential to the accomplishment of such purposes; providing this act shall be cumulative; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 609 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the transfer of properties of union junior college districts after a State-supported senior college has been created within said districts, to such senior college; containing a severability clause. |
| HB 616 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the increase of the annual insurance agent's license fee from $1 to $2; providing that this Act shall take effect March 31, 1950. |
| HB 642 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas to invest in United States Government Bonds, or place on time deposit, not more than eighty-five (85%) of the "General Property Deposit" which is required of all students, income from which investments or time deposit is to be used in making student scholarship awards, and limiting the period for making refunds of such deposits. |
| HB 771 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that in all incorporated cities and towns containing more than fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, the governing body shall have power to lay out, acquire, and construct any section or portion of any street within its jurisdiction as a freeway under certain circumstances; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HCR 66 | Caption: Granting D. S. Rogers, Jr. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 97 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar. |
| HJR 33 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas by repealing Section 49a, which section requires certain statements under oath by the Comptroller of Public Accounts to be submitted to the Governor and the Legislature upon its convening, showing the financial condition of the State Treasury at the close of the last fiscal year, and an estimate of the probable receipts and disbursements for the current fiscal year. |
| HJR 40 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III, Sec. 49a of the Constitution of the State of Texas providing for the certification by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of estimates of available funds in connection with bills appropriating money after said bills have been returned to him by the House in which same originated and for presentation of such bills to the Governor for approval or disapproval. |
| HR 54 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 83 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 84 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 85 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 86 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 87 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 148 | Caption: Directing the Director of the Department of Public Safety to adequately enforce certain sections of State Penal Code. |
| HR 205 | Caption: In memory of Williams M. Crook of Houston. |
| HR 217 | Caption: In memory of Joe Ed Morris of Beaumont. |
| HR 241 | Caption: Honoring the service of the members of the Texas State Guard during World War II. |
| HR 242 | Caption: In memory of Robert Elmo Ferguson of Austin. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming and validating all resolutions and orders adopted by the Commissioners Court of Jefferson County, Texas, and the election held thereunder in the Port District known as the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, on the twenty-first day of June, 1949; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, changing and redefining the boundaries of Trinity Bay Conservation District. |
| HR 34 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative S. J. Isaacks on his 81st birthday. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to creating Lamar State Technological College at Beaumont, Texas; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 184 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the trustees of any union junior college district in Texas, when the Legislature shall create a State-supported senior college or university within the boundaries of such union junior college district, to transfer the corporeal properties and facilities of such junior college district to such State-supported college. |
| HB 555 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners of drainage districts to join with any governmental agency, county or political subdivision, any city, town, or railroad company, or any other person, corporation, or association, in constructing and maintaining drainage improvements and to pay their portion of the costs thereof; repealing all laws in conflict only to the extent of the conflict; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 609 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 46, Acts, 1937, 45th Legislature, in regard to the appointment of Chief Probation Officer and Assistants in certain counties. |
| HB 672 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners Courts in counties having a population of not less than one hundred and forty-five thousand (145,000) nor more than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants, and in which there is located a Court of Civil Appeals, to provide for, maintain and establish a County Law Library. |
| HB 799 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article pertaining to the term of office of trustees in common school districts so as to provide for the appointment and election of seven trustees for common school districts which have more than 300 scholastics; providing for the reduction of a seven member board to a three member board by an election; providing for filling vacancies in said office; repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 855 | Caption: Relating to the County Court of Jefferson County At Law; amending previous Acts; providing a saving clause. |
| HCR 168 | Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 631. |
| HR 90 | Caption: Designating Miller B. Walker, Jr. and Daniel Walker as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 91 | Caption: Designating Roland, Douglas, and Daryl Lee as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 143 | Caption: Designating Thomas David Read, Jr. as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 264 | Caption: Welcoming U.S. Congressman J. M. Combs to the State Capitol and granting privileges of the floor for the day. |
| HR 265 | Caption: Granting Otho Plummer, Mayor of Beaumont, Texas, privileges of the floor for the day. |