Legislation authored by Sam C. Hanna
Includes legislation with Sam C. Hanna as the primary author for the 44th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.
| 51st Regular Session | |
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| HB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending and clarifying the Liquor Control Act; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 336 | Caption: Relating to the relinquishing and granting unto adjacent landowners the title to beds and channels of all abandoned rivers, streams and channels that have been or may hereafter be abandoned by reason of relocation of the beds or channels of such rivers and streams by flood control districts |
| HB 762 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for a Board of Education or Board of Trustees of nine (9) members to be elected for a term of three (3) years, the terms to be so arranged that one-third (1/3) shall be elected annually on the first Saturday in April. |
| HB 837 | Caption: Relating to regulating and providing safeguards in the employment and admission of persons in State-supported universities and colleges; to provide for an oath; to provide for the expulsion or dismissal of certain students and employees under certain conditions; providing for appeal. |
| HB 941 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that no tax shall be levied for the Confederate Pension Fund prior to January 1, 1953, and thereafter only such tax shall be levied as is required for the payment of Confederate Pension and the rate for such tax thereafter shall be fixed by the Automatic Tax Board and in no event shall such tax exceed Two (2) Cents on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollar valuation. |
| HCR 10 | Caption: Designating the third Friday in January of each year as Arbor Day in the State of Texas. |
| HCR 50 | Caption: Instructing the Presidents of the various State Colleges and Universities to make an investigation of their students and expel any persons who are found to be disloyal to the Nation through their communist sympathies. |
| HCR 55 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to hold H. C. R. 50 until after the Legislature can act on H. B. No. 837. |
| HCR 67 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules in order to allow the House to consider H. B. Nos. 19, 147, and 837. |
| HR 172 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Urging the President of the United States to request the resignation of the Secretary of State. |
| HR 4 | Caption: Providing for the election of certain Officers of the House. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000) to pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Regular Session of the Fiftieth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Forty-Ninth Legislature. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to credit unions. |
| HB 625 | Caption: Relating to creating Dallas County Park Cities Water Control and Improvement District No. 2; enacting other provisions incident and necessary to the subject and purpose of this Act. |
| HB 755 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide for appointment of a State Superintendent of Public Instruction by the State Board of Education; repealing conflicting laws. |
| HB 757 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that purchase and distribution of free textbooks shall be under the management of the State Board of Education; to provide for the abolishment of the Textbook Division in the State Department of Education; repealing conflicting laws. |
| HB 806 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties to furnish the juvenile officer an automobile and to make allowances for expenses of such officer and his assistants as the Court may think proper. |
| HB 813 | Caption: Relating to creating Dallas County Park Cities Water Control and Improvement District No. 2, embracing lands in the County of Dallas, State of Texas, as a conservation and reclamation district and body politic and corporate, defining its boundaries, which boundaries include the present Dallas County Park Cities Water Control and Improvement District No. 2, and additional territory; providing a saving clause. |
| HCR 125 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn sine die on Wednesday, June 4, 1947, at 12 o'clock noon. |
| HR 26 | Caption: Designating Bettie Sue Wilson as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 83 | Caption: Inviting Governor Beauford Jester, Lieutenant-Governor Allen Shivers, and the Members of the Senate to attend a program honoring all former Speakers of the House. |
| HR 84 | Caption: Granting privileges of the floor to former Speakers of the House, their wives, and other guests for Tuesday, February 18, 1947. |
| HR 176 | Caption: Relative to the expense accounts of Members of the House. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by permitting a credit union under prescribed limitations to borrow money not to exceed fifty per cent (50%) of its capital and surplus; and by providing for the conditions for the making of loans and removing the limitation of the period for which loans may be made. |
| HB 302 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that consolidation of certain incorporated cities or towns does not include consolidation or school districts. |
| HCR 50 | Caption: Inviting Major General Richard Donovan to address a Joint Session on Tuesday, April 3, 1945. |
| HR 72 | Caption: In memory of Martin B. Winfrey of Dallas. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| HB 668 | Caption: Relating to empowering the State Librarian to issue Certificates of Authorship for the protection of the rights of authors in their unpublished works. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Providing for the printing of copies of the House Rules. |
| HR 256 | Caption: Commending the KRLD and KTBC radio stations for broadcasting a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to corporal punishment of prisoners in prison system. |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to regulating the possession of the carcass of deer or part of same; regulating the storage of same; providing a suitable penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 431 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to sell tickets to any sports event, amusement, or entertainment in Texas for which an admission charge is made, in excess of the purchase price of the ticket appearing thereon, without having procured a license therefor from the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 598 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Commission to issue a third number plate, tag, sticker, or device, for certain motor vehicles, and authorizing the Commission to make rules and regulations governing such plates; providing for penalties. |
| HB 715 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming, and validating orders of certain County Boards of Trustees relating to the establishment, combining, abolishing, changing of boundaries, detaching territory from, or annexing territory to school districts in certain counties. |
| HB 718 | Caption: Relating to providing a method for the exclusion of lands and for elections upon the question of exclusion of lands from Fresh Water Supply Districts. |
| HB 719 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act of the Revised Civil Statutes providing for the assumption by incorporated cities or towns of a certain population of the proportionate part of the bonded indebtedness of any fresh water supply district. |
| HR 171 | Caption: Inviting Nancy Richey Ranson to read before the House on March 27, 1941. |
| HR 308 | Caption: In memory of I. Rude of Austria. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 182 | Caption: Relating to penalty for driving while intoxicated. |
| HB 656 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "saloon", and prohibiting the operation of an open saloon, and providing a penalty for its violation. |
| HJR 13 | Caption: Proposing to amend Article V, Section 18, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to abolish the office of Constables. |
| HR 23 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Inviting Lt. Governor J. B. Snider of Mississippi to address the House. |
| HR 101 | Caption: In memory of Fletcher Fred McNeny of Dallas. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relating to the County and Road District Highway Fund so as to provide that all eligible obligations on or after January 1, 1938, shall participate in the funds on hand and coming into the County and Road District Highway Fund to the extent of the total amount thereof expended upon State highways less the amount thereof heretofore paid by the State of Texas out of such funds; |
| HCR 30 | Caption: Granting the Channel Transport & Market Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 56 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. Nos. 141 and 80. |
| HCR 59 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 141. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HR 15 | Caption: Designating April 1 as "Colonel's Day". |
| HR 33 | Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate the Texas Public Safety Commission. |