Legislation authored by Rae Files Still

Includes legislation with Rae Files Still as the primary author for the 47th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

51st Regular Session
HB 354 Caption: Relating to providing a more efficient method of State and ministration of the public free schools; terminating and abolishing the present State Board of Education and State Superintendent of Public Instruction; repealing conflict laws or parts of laws; containing a savings clause.
HR 74 Caption: In memory of Mrs. E. K. Ward of Midlothian.
HR 288 Caption: In memory of S. L. Hornbeak.
50th Regular Session
HB 25 Caption: Relating to providing for a suit against a parent who fails to provide for support and maintenance of his or her child or children under sixteen years old; providing punishment; providing that his Act shall be cumulative or other remedies.
HB 299 Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, the residence requirements for personnel with the State Department of Public Welfare; providing a repealing clause; providing a saving clause.
HB 542 Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of One Million, Eight Hundred and Ten Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty-six Dollars ($1,810,456) for the purpose of promoting public school interests and assisting local districts in teaching of vocational agriculture, home economics, trades and industries, distributive education, and for the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 881 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Ellis County Road District Number 13a in Ellis County, Texas, for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof; providing the provisions of this Act shall prevail in the event of a conflict with any other General or Special Laws; providing that if any provision hereof is held to be invalid such holding shall not affect the other provisions hereof.
HJR 28 Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to declare the qualifications of voters so as to require the payment of poll tax before the first day of June next preceding an election as a prerequisite of the right to vote.
HR 31 Caption: Providing for a group picture to be taken of the Members of the House.
HR 100 Caption: Designating Michael Lewis Reynolds as a Mascot of the House.
49th Regular Session
HB 199 Caption: Relating to creating a board of censors for moving picture exhibits in each of the Senatorial Districts of this State, providing for appointment of the boards and their tenure, for previews and orders of censor, and means of enforcement, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 217 Caption: Relating to providing that any incorporated city or town in Texas that may own, operate or have control of a cemetery shall have power to act as trustee, providing for perpetual care and upkeep of cemetery, providing procedure, duties of such trustee, method of acquiring funds as such trustee, authority to invest such funds.
HB 630 Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to exemptions from the compulsory school attendance statutes, subject to provisions of Senate Bill 278, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-ninth Legislature.
HB 635 Caption: Relating to clarification of the functions originally transferred from the State Board of Control to the State Department of Public Welfare.
HB 636 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for cooperation with local units of Government; defining duties and responsibilities of the Department of Public Welfare with respect to child welfare; providing for the inspecting and licensing of day nurseries, child placing agencies, children's boarding homes, etc.
HB 637 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for a uniform system of reporting adoptions to the State Department of Public Welfare; providing a repealing clause; providing a saving clause.
HB 638 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for regulation and supervision of children brought into the State of Texas for placement.
HB 800 Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in certain independent school districts of Texas.
HCR 68 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections in H.B No. 217.
HCR 144 Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 300.
HR 253 Caption: Inviting John Gunther to address the House of Representatives.
48th Regular Session
HB 525 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by placing Hunt County within, to compose a part of, both the Fifth and Sixth Supreme Judicial Districts of Texas and by placing Ellis County within, to compose of a part of, both the Fifth and Tenth Supreme Judicial Districts.
HB 602 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to time spent in armed forces by members of the Teachers Retirement System.
HR 140 Caption: Welcoming the citizens of Ellis County to the House.
HR 210 Caption: In memory of Herman T. Shaw, Staff Sergeant, of Ennis, Texas.
47th Regular Session
HB 624 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by providing for uniform fees to be charged for the issuance of delayed birth and death certificates by the Probate Court, the Clerk thereof and the State Registrar.
HCR 172 Caption: Granting R.W. Dillard and wife, Lillian Dillard, permission to sue the State of Texas.
HJR 36 Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the Commissioners' Court of the respective counties may constitute a Board of Equalization or that the Commissioners' Court of the respective counties may appoint three citizens of the county to perform the duties of a Board of Equalization.
HR 140 Caption: Inviting the Trinity University Choir of Waxahachie, Texas to present a program on Monday, March 10, 1941.
HR 218 Caption: Expressing appreciation of the House of Representatives.
47th 1st Called Session
HR 8 Caption: Memorializing Congress in regard to certain tax on oleomargarine.
HR 25 Caption: Commending the Motion Picture Industry.