Legislation authored by Eugene Charles Williams

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

51st Regular Session
HB 5	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a Medical Branch of The University of Texas in San Antonio or Bexar County, Texas; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act to the extent of such conflict only.
HB 116	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of employees, deputies and assistants of certain county officers and Commissioners' Court, and employees of agencies created by Commissioners' Courts, and jail guards, patrons and assignment clerks in counties with a population of not less than Three-Hundred Thousand (300,000) nor more than Five-Hundred Thousand (500,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, and providing for an increase in salary of such employees, deputies, assistants, jail guards, matrons and assignment clerks; repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
HB 530	Caption: Relating to conferring additional authority on the County Court and the County Judge, so as to authorize the County Judge in any county in Texas having a population of more than three hundred and thirty thousand (330,000), according to the last preceding, or any future, federal census, upon a certificate of necessity to that effect filed with and recorded in the minutes of the Commissioners Court of any such county, to appoint an official shorthand reporter to make and to preserve a record of the testimony in all cases where either party litigant or the court may so require, for the information of the county court, the jury and the parities thereto, in matters of probate, in matters of lunacy, in matters of juvenile delinquency, in matters of condemnation or eminent domain, and in any or all other proceedings or matters coming before the county court; providing for a severability clause; providing a savings clause.
HB 559	Caption: Relating to repealing previous Statutes relating to election laws.
HB 579	Caption: Relating to appropriate money to pay Judge Delos Finch for services as Special District Judge in the 73rd Judicial District.
HB 711	Caption: Relating to amending Statues so as to provide for the examination and licensing of master and journeymen gas fitters and to provide for the issuance of licenses without examination to master plumbers, journeymen plumbers, plumbing inspectors, master-employing gas fitters and journeymen gas fitter who now hold licenses, from any city examining and supervising Board.
HB 754	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to reduce the permit fee for the operation of each motor vehicle transporting passengers for hire from two (2%) per cent of the gross receipts per annum to one (1%) per cent.
HB 794	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that counties having an assessed valuation of not less than Seventeen Million ($17,000,000.00) Dollars and a population of not more than twenty-five (25) persons per square mile, such counties are authorized to vote, levy, assess and collect a county-wide School Maintenance tax; repealing all laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict.
HB 818	Caption: Relating to creating in counties having a population in excess of 325,000 inhabitants and less than 350,000 inhabitants according to the 1940 Federal Census, a Juvenile Probation Department; providing this Act shall be severable; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
HB 856	Caption: Relating to regulating the discharge of inmates of State Hospitals committed thereto; making the provisions of this Act cumulative; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing a savings clause.
HB 857	Caption: Relating to amending Article 601-A, Code of Criminal Procedure of 1925, relative to the summoning of juries in certain counties; repealing all laws in conflict therewith to the extent of such conflict only,.
HB 910	Caption: Relating to pertaining to compensation of employees of certain county and precinct officials in counties with a population of not less than three hundred and one thousand (301,000) inhabitants, nor more than three hundred and ninety-eight thousand (398,000) inhabitants, and to justice precincts in such counties having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants in such precincts, according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census and who are compensated on a salary basis; providing an effective date; providing that the County Commissioners Court shall grant to such offices a minimum budget appropriation for deputy clerk hire of not less than the payroll for MArch 1949 of such office multiplied by twelve (12) (months), plus an additional fifteen per cent (15%); providing that every employee who is on the payroll when this Act becomes effective shall receive fifteen per cent (15%) increase in salary, provided said employee was on any part of the MArch 1949 payroll of said office; providing that the officials of the offices named must submit to the County Commissioners Court the number of positions and salary of each position necessary to perform the duties of said office and siad Court shall approve said positions and salaries provided the total of positions and salaries does not exceed the annual budget appropriation for deputy clerk hire; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 965	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000) to transfer to their general fund and use for general or special city purposes such part of the revenues of any city-owned utility system as authorized or permitted in the indenture, deed of trust, or ordinance providing for and securing payment of revenue bonds issued under Articles 1111-1118, Revised Statutes, as amended.
HB 977	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, fixing other compensation for Judges of the District Courts or County Judges and provided that the compensation allowed County Judges in Senate Bill 426 shall not be counted as fees of office.
HB 987	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, changing the period of time in which the tax remission for flood control improvements for San Antonio River Canal and Conservancy District will begin.
HCR 83	Caption: Granting William I. Bothe permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 114	Caption: Granting Clyde Rose permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 138	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 139	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 46	Caption: Relating to providing that neither the State nor any political subdivision or agency thereof shall take official notice of any Federal Decennial Census, or any part thereof, before the 10th day after the also day of the regular session of the Legislature next following the calendar year during which the census is taken, and that said census shall then be recognized on such day as official by the State and the political subdivisions and agencies thereof, but not before.
50th Regular Session
HB 93	Caption: Relating to re-establishing the Division of Child Welfare in the State Department of Public Welfare; providing for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws in conflict; providing a savings and severability clause.
HB 136	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for a six months limitations period for the enforcement in courts for claims for wages computed upon an hourly basis; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 391	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of Official Shorthand Reporters and providing for the payment thereof in counties having a population of not less than two hundred and twenty-five thousand (225,000) and not more than three hundred and ninety-eight thousand (398,000); providing a saving clause; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of the conflict.
HB 620	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to Mutual Life Insurance Companies.
HB 621	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to authorize a Mutual Life Insurance Company to also issue, combined or separately, life, health, and accident insurance policies.
HB 654	Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of grand jury bailiffs in counties having a population of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants and not more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith only to the extent of the conflict.
HB 707	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, enabling cities of over two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) population to establish two (2) Corporation Courts; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause.
HB 794	Caption: Relating to validating proceedings heretofore taken by cities in Texas for the authorization of refunding bonds under specified conditions, validating the bonds to be issued pursuant to such proceedings, providing for the issuance and payment for such bonds.
HCR 179	Caption: Suspending the Joint Twenty-four Hour Rule to permit each House to consider any bill up to 6:00 p.m. June, 5.