Legislation authored by Truett Davis Clifton

Includes legislation with Truett Davis Clifton as the primary author for the 50th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

51st Regular Session
HB 34	Caption: Relating to providing for a processing tax of one cent per gallon on all combustible condensates, such as refined gasoline, naphtha, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, drip gasoline, and all other combustible condensates of crude petroleum, natural gas, or any other product by any method of refining, manufacturing, processing, separating, extracting, compounding, blending, or storing, whether manufactured within or without this State, by any person, agent, manufacturer, producer, corporation, partnership, association, or otherwise, in any refinery, manufacturing plant, processing plant, separating plant, extracting plant, compounding plant, blending plant, storage plant, or any other place or by any other method used for the purpose of producing or storing combustible condensates; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing a savings clause. Provides for changing the name of Board and County and District Road Indebtedness to Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and Highways
HB 174	Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of the several State institutions of collegiate rank to exempt certain persons who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States from payment of certain dues, from State Institutions of Higher Learning, with certain exceptions; defining total disability; providing for repeal of laws in conflict; containing severance and saving clauses.
HB 880	Caption: Relating to abolishing Texas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, the Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital, the Advisory board of American Legion Memorial Sanatorium, the Special Land Board, the Post War Economic Planning Commission, the Camp Hulen Lease Board, the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection, the Local Board of Managers of the North Texas Junior Agriculture College, the Board of Managers of the Texas State Railroad, the State Mining Board, the office of State Mining Inspector, the Board of Managers for the State Iron Industries, the Board of Equalization for Unorganized Counties, the office of Commissioners of Deeds, all being State Boards and Commissions which are now obsolete and inactive.
HB 951	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the Adjutant General's Department, State of Texas, for the remainder of the current fiscal year ending August 31, 1949.
HCR 84	Caption: Welcoming representatives of the Royal Canadian Air Force to Texas as they dedicate a memorial to the Texans who fought and died in their service during the early years of World War II.
HR 32	Caption: Inviting Audie Murphy and Wanda Hendrix to address the House.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, increasing the tax levied on cigarettes, effective until August 31,1957; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict; providing for severability.
HCR 23	Caption: Directing a portrait of John W. Thomason, Jr. to be hung in the State Capitol.
50th Regular Session
HB 113	Caption: Relating to providing for the removal of the disabilities of minority of veterans and their minor spouses for the purpose of obtaining benefits under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
HB 215	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas Prison Board, through its General Manager, to bid upon contracts with the Board of Control of the State of Texas to supply the State with printing, binding, stationery and supplies of like character; providing restrictions as to use of labor; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict.
HB 432	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to divert or empty water into a state highway or a public road by terraces and drainage ditches, or to cultivate or plow in the right-of-way of any state highway, without the permission of the Commissioners Court or the State Highway Department; providing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
HB 464	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to authorize the governing boards of the several State institutions of collegiate rank to exempt certain persons who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States from payment of certain dues, fees, and charges, with certain exceptions.
HB 496	Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer of title to certain lands to the State Highway Commission consisting of six (6) separate tracts or parcels, in Denton County, necessary for the expansion and improvement of State Highway No. 24, from North Locust Street in the City of Denton easterly to the Denton-Collin County Line.
HB 650	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to increase the tax on motor fuel, and amending certain Articles allocating the funds from such tax; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict; providing a saving clause.
HCR 104	Caption: Commending Texas City Relief for their performances to benefit the victims of the Texas City disaster.
HCR 106	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 650.
HR 148	Caption: Providing for a Committee to investigate the price of gasoline.