Legislation authored by William Henry Rampy

Includes legislation with William Henry Rampy as the primary author for the 47th through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

52nd Regular Session
HB 1	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 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 Fifty-Second Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Fifty-First Legislature.
HB 8	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relative to the payment of wages to employees semi-monthly.
HB 163	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the executive and administrative departments and agencies of the State Government for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1951, and ending August 31, 1953, and for payment of other specified claims and items.
HB 164	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support, maintenance and improvement of the State Hospitals and Special Schools, and the Youth Development Council of the State of Texas for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1951, and ending August 31, 1953; and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect to the expenditure of said appropriations; providing a saving clause.
HB 165	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Judiciary of the State of Texas for the biennium beginning September 1, 1951 and ending August 31, 1953; prescribing certain rules and restrictions respecting the expenditures of appropriations made herein.
HB 166	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the several State institutions of higher learning, and for certain other educational agencies of the State, for the two fiscal years beginning September 1, 1951 and ending August 31, 1953, both dates inclusive.
HB 167	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to supplement local funds for the support and improvement of accredited public junior colleges of Texas for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1951 and ending August 31, 1953, prescribing certain requirements of eligibility for participation in this appropriation.
HB 426	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the judiciary and the executive and administrative departments and agencies of the State of Texas, for the support, maintenance and improvement of the State hospitals and special schools and the institutions under the management and control of the Youth Development Council and improvement of the several State institutions of higher education and certain other institutions and agencies.
HB 739	Caption: Relating to providing for the treatment of alcoholics in certain State Hospitals; prescribing the method of admission, detention and release of such persons; providing for the payment for such treatment by such persons; providing that no person shall be denied admittance and treatment because of inability to pay therefor.
HB 753	Caption: Relating to providing for the accounting and responsibility for and use of State property possessed by State Departments, agencies, boards and instrumentalities.
HB 754	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 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 Fifty-second Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Fifty-first Legislature.
HB 808	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to clarify the intention of the Legislature and authorize Texas Southern University to offer courses of instruction offered at The University of Texas and authorize Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College to offer courses of instruction offered at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas;
HB 827	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the publication of certain proposed constitutional amendments and for paying labor costs and other expenses necessary thereto.
HB 828	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses, and to pay the mileage and per diem of the members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Fifty-Second Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Fifty-first Legislature.
HCR 66	Caption: Requesting the Governor to reorganize a certain agency to secure surplus war materials.
HCR 122	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 426.
HCR 163	Caption: Expressing legislative intent in regard to Section 34, Article 5 of H. B. No. 426.
HR 74	Caption: Congratulating Henry G. Lehman for his years of public service as a Representative.
51st Regular Session
HB 98	Caption: Relating to providing an open season for squirrels in Runnels County.
HB 143	Caption: Relating to appropriating Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000.00) as a supplemental appropriation to the funds appropriated for salary aid in House Bill 295 of the Fiftieth Legislature; providing that the funds herein appropriated are to be used to supplement payments for salary aid for the first year of the current biennium 1947-1948 and for no other purpose; providing a savings clause.
HB 347	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, fixing the time and terms of holding of the 51st Judicial District Court in the Counties of Tom Green, Irion, Schleicher, Coke and Sterling; validating and continuing all process issued or served before this Act takes effect; validating the summoning of Grand and Petit Juries under this Act.
HB 414	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to kill deer and wild turkey and quail in Coke County for a period of four (4)years from and after the passage of this Act; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a penalty.
HB 692	Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its agency the Upper Colorado River Authority, to which State General Fund Ad Valorem Taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters related to the subject.
HCR 45	Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to adjourn from Thursday, March 17 to Monday, March 21, 1949.
HCR 87	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar at any time.
HCR 105	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 347.
HR 129	Caption: In memory of State Representative Aaron "Robin" Henderson.
HR 227	Caption: Congratulating State Representative R. B. Spacek on his birthday.
HR 251	Caption: Extending good wishes to State Representative William S. Fly as he recovers from illness.
HR 277	Caption: Congratulating Adele Jacobs on her 21st birthday.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 11	Caption: Relating to levying and providing for the collection of certain taxes in addition to those now levied by law.
HB 58	Caption: Relating to transferring certain funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31, 1950, out of the Foundation School Fund, by H. B. No. 322 from the State Auditor to the State Department of Education.
HB 63	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of minnows taken in the County of Runnels, State of Texas, beyond the borders of said County for the purpose of sale; providing penalties for any violation of this Act.
50th Regular Session
HB 260	Caption: Relating to granting permission to A. M. King to bring suit against the State of Texas and/or Highway Department, in a Court of competent jurisdiction, in Runnels County, Texas, for damages to his property alleged to have been caused by the Highway Department of the State of Texas; providing that if any provisions of this Act shall be invalid, the validity of the other provisions thereof shall not be affected.
HB 261	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Mrs. H. T. Russell, a widow, to bring suit against the State of Texas and/or Highway Department, in a Court of competent jurisdiction, in Runnels County, Texas, for damages to her property alleged to have been caused by the Highway Department of the State of Texas; providing that if any provisions of this Act shall be invalid, the validity of the other provisions thereof shall not be affected.
HB 511	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Acts; making an appropriation out of funds donated and granted the Upper Colorado River Authority for administrative expenses of said Authority.
HCR 84	Caption: Relative to H.B. No. 511.
HR 142	Caption: In memory of former State Representative H.O. Jones.
HR 150	Caption: In memory of State Representative Henry L. Atkinson.
HR 159	Caption: Designating Mary Ann Henderson and Francis Howard Wilson as Mascots of the House.
HR 190	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to secure the certificate of the Comptroller on H.B. No. 511.
HR 194	Caption: Congratulating the birth of Harley Sadler Huff.
49th Regular Session
HB 521	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts, whether organized under general or special laws, and which, according to the last preceding approved original Scholastic Census, had a scholastic population of not less than twelve hundred and fifty (1,250) and not more than three thousand (3000) scholastics, and located in counties with a population of not less than ten thousand (10,000) and not more than twenty thousand (20,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census, and in all independent county unit school districts in counties with a population of not less than one thousand (1,000) and not more than two thousand (2,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census.
HB 819	Caption: Relating to prescribing an additional qualification for a person to act or serve as a trustee of any independent or common school district in this state by requiring him or her at the time of his or her election or appointment or have one or more children or their descendants who are pupils or students in the school for which he or she may be elected or appointed trustee.
HCR 60	Caption: Granting district judges permission to leave the state.
HCR 65	Caption: Memorializing Congress to investigate the advisability of creating an international Pink Boll Worm Commission with the Republic of Mexico.
HR 5	Caption: Authorizing Speaker to appoint certain temporary committees.
HR 30	Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot.
48th Regular Session
HB 196	Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to the remission of taxes in Coke and Tom Green Counties.
HB 208	Caption: Relating to amending Article so as to further define the qualifications of the Superintendent of each State Hospital; providing for removal of same for good cause; defining good cause; and repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 321	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes in regard to election judges, etc.
HB 367	Caption: Relating to providing for a more efficient public school system in Texas; providing for the equalization of funds; making an appropriation of Eight Million Four Hundred Forty-four Thousand, One Hundred Ninety Dollars for each year of the biennium ending August 31, 1945; providing for penalties for violations of this act.
HB 692	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by changing the time and term of holding of the Fifty-first Judicial District Court in the counties of: Tom Green, Irion, Schleicher, Coke, and Sterling, and changing the time and term of holding of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Judicial District in the counties of: Coleman, Concho, Runnels, and Tom Green constituting the Fifty-first Judicial District Court and the One Hundred and Nineteenth Judicial District Court of Texas.
HCR 101	Caption: Granting District Judges O.L. Parish and Dudley Stephenson permission to leave the State.
47th Regular Session
HB 221	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to granting of taxes to the Upper Colorado River Authority.
HB 302	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of minnows taken in Concho County beyond the borders of said County for the purpose of sale; providing legal length of catfish in said county; providing certain penalties.
HB 375	Caption: Relating to validating notices to bidders on certain county projects and notices of intention to issue time warrants in payment thereof in each instance where the first publication of such notice was fourteen (14) or more days prior to the date set for receiving bids, notwithstanding the fact that such notice was not published for two (2) consecutive weeks.
HB 508	Caption: Relating to providing for additional traveling expenses for County Superintendents of Public Instruction in certain counties.
HB 548	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses in connection with the performing of the duties as road commissioner in addition to the duties as County Commissioner.
HB 731	Caption: Relating to amending House Bill No. 375 of the Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-Seventh Legislature, regarding County Contracts and Validation of Notices, for the purpose of correcting a clerical error made during passage of the bill.
HB 750	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the authority conferred on the Court to alter, change, or supersede the provisions of judgments providing for the support of minor children, and the authority conferred upon the Court to enforce such judgments may be exercised by the Judge of said Court in vacation.
HB 758	Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Coke County, Texas; providing that said county may fund or refund into coupon bonds the scrip and time warrants outstanding against its road and bridge fund.
HB 788	Caption: Relating to the Counties of Coke, Irion, and Sterling, State of Texas, prohibiting the transportation of minnows taken in said counties for the purpose of sale; providing penalties for any violation of this Act.
HB 789	Caption: Relating to the County of Coke, State of Texas, prohibiting the taking or hunting of wild deer, buck, doe, fawn, and other wildlife for certain period of time; and providing penalties.
HB 790	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes providing that no one, with certain exceptions, shall act as chairman or as member of any District, County, or City Executive Committee who has not paid his poll tax.
HB 897	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses in connection with the performing of the duties as road commissioner in addition to the duties as County Commissioner.
HCR 93	Caption: Granting Judge O.L Parish permission to leave the State during months of July and August in the years of 1941 and 1942.