Legislation authored by Henry Grady Perry

Includes legislation with Henry Grady Perry as the primary author for the 37th through 52nd 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.

52nd Regular Session
HB 256 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts increasing the maximum annual fees that may be retained by Justices of Peace and Constables in certain counties and prescribing a limit to the expense of such officers.
HB 371 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts regulating the discharge of inmates of State Mental Hospitals.
HB 372 Caption: Relating to defining the liability for support and care of inmates of the Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools; providing for an exception as to certain institutions; defining indigent and non-indigent patients and students; providing for a setting of rate for the care, support and maintenance of inmates, where there is a liability to pay.
HB 373 Caption: Relating to changing the name of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, so as to be hereinafter known as the McKnight State Sanatorium.
HB 374 Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Texas State School for Cerebral Palsied, so as to be hereinafter known as the Moody State School for Cerebral Palsied Children.
HB 375 Caption: Relating to providing for the deposit and investment of inmates funds, under the jurisdiction and control of superintendents of the various institutions under control of the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools.
HB 376 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing for the better and more efficient care of epileptic patients at at the Abilene State Hospital; defining the duties of the Superintendent; prescribing the means for admission; authorizing the transfer of epileptic patients from the mental hospitals to the epileptic hospital; prescribing the duties of the County Judge regarding admissions.
HB 377 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the better care, maintenance and treatment of the aged senile in both the State Hospitals and the Austin State School; authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to transfer and maintain at said institution, as a senile custodial institution, any aged senile person now or hereafter committed and/or admitted to a State Hospital or the Austin State School; providing for the furlough or or discharge of such persons.
HB 378 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts defining the qualifications of the Superintendents of the Texas School for the Blind and the Texas School for the Deaf; providing for the removal of same for good cause; defining good cause; making said Superintendents employees of the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools.
HB 379 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the sale of oil and/or gas in the lands belonging to the Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools; creating a board for the leasing of said lands; prescribing the duties and powers of said board; prescribing the mode and manner of selling oil and/or gas leases in said lands belonging to the Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools; making an appropriation to defray the expense of enforcing said Act.
HB 380 Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles relative to the manner and method of commitment of insane persons and admission to State Hospitals.
HB 381 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes defining the duties of the Superintendent of each asylum.
HB 382 Caption: Relating to providing for authorization for the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to enter into reciprocal agreements with other states; providing for the payment of the expense of return of nonresidents.
HB 481 Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Department of Texas to enter into agreements with the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools and/or the State Youth Development Council for the construction and maintenance of roads within the grounds of institutions under the supervision of the Board and/or the Council.
HB 575 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to remove, alter, deface, cover or destroy the manufacturers' serial number or other manufacturers' number or other distinguishing identification mark upon any tractor or farm implement; prescribing penalties for violation of this Act.
HB 591 Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of fish and minnows from the public waters of streams of Hood County; providing for exemption for minnows taken from a hatchery; defining a "minnow hatchery"; providing a rule of evidence; providing penalty.
HCR 61 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 256.
HR 30 Caption: Requesting to change the name of the Committee on State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions to the Committee on State Hospitals and Special Schools.
HR 226 Caption: Requesting the return of H. B. No. 372 to the House from the Senate.
51st Regular Session
HB 105 Caption: Relating to changing of the name of John Tarleton Agricultural College, at Stephenville, to the "Tarleton State College."
HJR 43 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas by providing for State ad valorem tax levies for the year 1949 and 1950 in those counties from which tax donations have not heretofore been granted and in those counties from which the tax donation heretofore granted in less than the full amount of State ad valorem taxes levied in said counties, and donating the amounts so levied and not heretofore donated to the respective counties from which the tax revenues are derived, said revenues to be expended by the counties solely for the construction and maintenance of Farm-to-Market Roads or for Flood Control; providing for an election, appropriating funds therefor, and for the issuance of a proclamation therefor.
HR 181 Caption: Congratulating the students of John Tarleton Agricultural College as they celebrate their 50th anniversary.
51st 1st Called Session
HR 56 Caption: In memory of W. B. Goodland of Dublin.
37th Regular Session
HB 274 Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the creation of an efficient road system for Erath County.
HB 443 Caption: Relating to hunting, killing, etc., of wild animals in Erath county.