Legislation authored by Rufus Lee Templeton
Includes legislation with Rufus Lee Templeton as the primary author for the 33rd through 35th 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.
| 35th Regular Session | |
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| HB 143 | Caption: Relating to creating the Western Insane Asylum. |
| HB 342 | Caption: Relating to provisions of law constituting trustees of school districts. |
| HB 343 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the maintenance and operation of pool halls; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 344 | Caption: Relating to the payment of county commissioners. |
| HB 358 | Caption: Relating to establishing and incorporating the Pampa Independent School District with certain boundaries, including the town of Pampa, Gray county. |
| HB 539 | Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the Lipscomb Independent School District in Lipscomb county, Texas. |
| HB 639 | Caption: Relating to permitting the paying of the members of the commissioners' court in Wheeler County, Texas, $4.00 per day for services. |
| HB 640 | Caption: Relating to creating the Wheeler Independent School District. |
| HB 748 | Caption: Relating to creating the Kelton Independent School District in Wheeler county, Texas. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to the compensation of the commissioners court of Donley county. |
| HB 827 | Caption: Relating to the creation of Lelia Lake Independent School District in Donley County. |
| HJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an relating to providing for a constitutional convention. |
| HJR 19 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to the granting of pensions to Confederate veterans and their widows. |
| HJR 24 | Caption: Proposing an amendment amending constitutional provisions relating to homesteads; appropriating funds. |
| HJR 25 | Caption: Proposing an amendment increasing the salary of the Governor. |
| HR 25 | Caption: Providing for window shades in the House Chamber. |
| HR 141 | Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 749 from the Senate. |
| 35th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Alanreed Independent School District in Gray County, Texas. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to preventing the growth and spread of the Russian thistle. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors nearer than ten miles to any camp where the United States are training soldiers; providing a penalty. |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors in the state of Texas; providing a penalty. |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors without first securing a license; providing a penalty. |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors to any person engaged, enlisted or employed in the military or naval forces; providing a penalty. |
| HB 7 | Caption: Relating to preventing the meeting of any person in military or naval service with a lewd woman for illicit relations; providing a penalty. |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the manufacture of Spirituous, Vinous or Malt Liquors capable of producing intoxication for sale, except for medicinal, sacramental, mechanical and scientific purposes; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 65 | Caption: Relating to creating the Follett Independent School District of Lipscomb County. |
| HJR 3 | Caption: Ratifying the recent constitutional amendment prohibiting the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors within the United States. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| HB 47 | Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of optometrists. |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing an industrial home for the adult blind. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to establishing a branch of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas and make appropriations therefor. |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts and designating returning officers. |
| HB 83 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment and maintenance of a State Training School and Home for the feeble-minded of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| HB 128 | Caption: Relating to requiring school attendance of children between the ages of seven and sixteen years. |
| HB 129 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to a system of State, county and city depositories for State, county and city funds, and defining the duties of the State Treasurer as to the acceptance of State, county, municipal, independent school district, common school district and road improvement district bonds as collateral security for deposits made in the State depositories; prescribing the terms and conditions of such bonds, authorizing recoveries thereon, and defining certain duties of the State Treasurer and the Attorney General with reference thereto. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to providing that all persons who appear before the Legislature or in its committees in the interest of or against legislation shall file a statement giving their names, addresses and the parties for whom they appear. |
| HB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws referencing the mode of preventing animals running at large in counties so as to include Collingsworth County. |
| HB 199 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to declare what counties shall compose the Forty-sixth Judicial District. |
| HB 304 | Caption: Relating to increasing the jurisdiction of the County Court of Hemphill County and the County Court of Wheeler County. |
| HB 658 | Caption: Relating to the incorporation of the Clarendon Independent School District. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 129 to the House for correction. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Requesting the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate to rescind their signing of the enrolled H. B. No. 129. |
| HJR 8 | Caption: Relating to calling for a constitutional convention. |
| HJR 26 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the levy of an additional school tax by counties and school districts. |
| HR 100 | Caption: Requesting the Senate to return S. B. No. 69 to the House in order to make certain corrections. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| HB 107 | Caption: Relating to the scholastic age of children and the manner of taking the scholastic census. |
| HB 160 | Caption: Relating to providing a penalty for any minor under the age of twenty-one years, to enter and remain in any business wherein intoxicating liquors are sold without the written consent of the parents or guardian. |
| HB 161 | Caption: Relating to making any divorced person who shall re-marry within one year, guilty of a misdemeanor; providing penalties. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to the per diem pay of county commissioners. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to providing that a conviction of a lower offence than for which a defendant may be prosecuted is not an acquittal of the higher offence. |
| HB 260 | Caption: Relating to amending an act and denouncing the offense of playing cards in a public place. |
| HB 299 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the proceedings in cases of lunacy. |
| HB 313 | Caption: Relating to establishing an industrial home for the adult blind. |
| HB 381 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the state into senatorial districts, designating returning officers. |
| HB 459 | Caption: Relating to authorizing qualified voters to determine by an election whether pool halls shall be prohibited, providing the manner of holding elections, defining the terms, and providing a penalty. |
| HB 512 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes so as to omit the words "forty-sixth." |
| HB 571 | Caption: Relating to providing for the levy and collection of an occupation tax from running or conducting pool or billiard tables, in a public place or for profit. |
| HB 584 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation to be paid to the official Stenographers for District Courts of the State. |
| HB 823 | Caption: Relating to the filing in the General Land Office of chains of title to portions of the sold public free school lands, university and asylum lands. |
| HB 827 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes, with reference to the mode of preventing horses and certain other animals from running at large in counties named, so as to include Ochiltree, Moore, Sherman, Hansford, Henderson, Cameron, Hartley, Dallam, Concho, Pecos, Reeves, Wharton, Gonzales, Kerr, Kendall, Haskell, Young, Cottle, Hardeman and Hall counties. |
| HB 829 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Hemphill County, to lay-out, construct and maintain roads and bridges and exempting said county from the limitation contained in Article 613, Title 18, Chapter 1, Revised Civil Statutes of 1911. |
| HB 853 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Forty-sixth and the Forty-seventh Judicial Districts and creating the Seventy-sixth Judicial District. |
| HR 39 | Caption: Providing a bulletin board for the Calendar Clerk to make an announcement of any changes to meeting times for different committees. |
| HR 73 | Caption: Directing the Attorney General to investigate the question of the actual boundary line between Texas and Oklahoma known as the 100th Meridian. |
| HR 90 | Caption: Endorsing the application of State Sen. W. A. Johnson to the position as Minister to the Republic of Chile. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 7 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the manner of electing United States Senators. |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts, designating returning officers. |