Legislation authored by James Carroll Sewell

Includes legislation with James Carroll Sewell as the primary author for the 51st through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

52nd Regular Session
HB 28	Caption: Relating to providing for the disposition of property and choses in action when there is no sufficient evidence that persons have died otherwise than simultaneously.
HB 97	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for examinations by licensed optometrists as well as ophthalmologists or physicians skilled in the treatment of diseases of the eye for the purpose of establishing blindness for applicants and/or recipients of Aid to the Needy Blind.
HB 386	Caption: Relating to providing for a salary of not less than twenty-one hundred dollars ($2100.00) nor more than twenty-eight hundred dollars ($2800.00) per annum for Justices of the Peace who are compensated on a salary basis in precincts situated in a county with at least 39,000 inhabitants and not more than 40,000 inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census, and which county includes a city of at least 19,100 inhabitants.
HB 656	Caption: Relating to the extradition of persons charged with crime, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto.
HB 657	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State of Texas to enter into a compact with any of the United States for mutual helpfulness in relation to the fresh pursuit of criminals across state lines.
HB 658	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of an agreement by the State of Texas to enter in a compact with any of the United States for mutual helpfulness in relation to persons convicted of crime or offenses, who may be on probation or parole.
HB 659	Caption: Relating to securing the attendance of witnesses from without the State in criminal proceedings.
HB 669	Caption: Relating to levying a tax upon the occupation of gathering gas; fixing the liability and providing for the computation of the tax; providing gatherers shall keep records and make reports of gas gathered and disposed of to Comptroller of Public Accounts; authorizing the Comptroller to prescribe forms, rules and regulations for the administration of this Act; fixing liability for and date of payment of tax; providing for penalties and interest; defining terms.
HR 72	Caption: Naming Frederick Van Cleve Meridith, Jr., Mascot of the House.