Legislation authored by Deno Arthur Tufares
Includes legislation with Deno Arthur Tufares as the primary author for the 51st through 52nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 52nd Regular Session | |
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| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to creating a nine member Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; dividing the State into nine districts to be numbered one to nine, inclusive, with one member from each district; providing for the appointment, compensation, bond, duties, and functions of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; and providing for an executive secretary, assistant executive secretary to be appointed by the Commission and providing for all necessary game and fish wardens, division heads and other employees of said Game, Fish, and Oyster Commission; providing a residence requirement; providing necessary appropriation out of the State Treasury. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to making it illegal for any person, firm, corporation or group of persons to rent or let for hire any boat upon any of the lakes of this State without having such boat equipped with one (1) life preserver for each person aboard; providing a penalty for violation thereof. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that no person who has been elected to an executive, administrative, judicial or legislative public office in the State of Texas for a term of more than two (2) years shall be eligible to run for nomination or election to any other public office the term of which would begin before the expiration of the term of the original office to which such person was elected, without first resigning from such original office. |
| HB 77 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Welfare Act of 1941 so as to exempt from consideration Nine Hundred ($900) Dollars income per annum per recipient of Old Age Assistance. |
| HB 140 | Caption: Relating to levying and providing for the collection of certain taxes; requiring reports by taxpayers; providing savings and severability clauses; fixing liens for taxes; authorizing the collecting officers, agency or department to make certain rules and regulations; providing penalties. |
| HB 333 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to increase the compensation of jurors in justice courts. |
| HB 427 | Caption: Relating to creating the Public Services Commission for the State of Texas, providing the number of members of such Commission, for the appointment of the initial members thereof, and the election of subsequent members thereof, the payment of salaries of the members thereof and prescribing the powers and duties of such Commission. |
| HB 435 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by transferring the control and management of the Texas School for the Deaf from the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to the State Board of Education; providing for the transfer of all powers and duties heretofore vested in the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools pertaining to the affairs of the Texas School for the Deaf to the State Board of Education; providing for the appointment of the Superintendent of the Texas School for the Deaf by the State Board of Education. |
| HB 504 | Caption: Relating to amending Certain Act relative to pollution of public waters of the State or and political subdivisions thereof; creating the Texas Pollution Board. |
| HB 586 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts so as to provide for the construction and maintenance of rural roads by levying a tax on natural gas produced in this State; defining terms; providing for the administration and enforcement hereof by the Comptroller of Public Accounts; providing penalty for failure to pay the tax in accordance with the provisions of the Act. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to study the state government and make recommendations to the Legislature for revision and reorganization. |
| HCR 108 | Caption: Requesting the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to take necessary steps to meet the minimum standards for residency. |
| HCR 109 | Caption: Requesting a committee to appoint a Poet Laureate of Texas. |
| HCR 189 | Caption: Requesting that Members leave the names of persons occupying certain seats for the address by General Douglas MacArthur by Wednesday, June 13, 1951. |
| HJR 8 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to compensation of members of the Legislature. |
| HJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an amendment repealing the provision making the payment of a poll tax a qualification of electors; requiring the Legislature to enact a general registration law for electors. |
| HJR 33 | Caption: Proposing a Convention of delegates of the people to frame a new Constitution for the State of Texas. |
| HJR 39 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that no city or town shall levy more than twenty-five cents (25) on the one hundred dollars valuation for streets, roads and bridges. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Congratulating the Wichita Falls Coyotes on being named AA State Champions. |
| HR 19 | Caption: Congratulating Midwestern University on becoming a member of the Southern Association of College and Secondary Schools. |
| HR 110 | Caption: In memory of D. M. Perkins of Wichita Falls. |
| HR 147 | Caption: Designating March 25, 1951, as the Day of Greek Independence. |
| HR 190 | Caption: Providing for the House of Representatives to work every afternoon and the two Fridays left of the Legislative Session. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to the levy of a privilege tax upon the gathering of natural gas produced in this State; defining terms; excluding certain gas from the definition; requiring the keeping of records; providing for the administration and enforcement hereof by the Comptroller of Public Accounts; providing penalty for failure to pay the tax in accordance with the provisions of the Act; providing and defining an offense for failure to file the reports ad required in the Act; providing and defining an offense and a penalty for making false records or reports or hiding property upon which a lien is created under the Act; providing that taxes, fines, penalties and interest due under the Act shall be secured by a lien upon the property of such gatherer, and providing for enforcement of the lien; providing for the distribution of the revenue to be realized under the Act; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 129 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person who has been elected or appointed to an executive, administrative, judicial or legislative public office in the State of Texas for a term of more than two (2) years shall be eligible to run for nomination or election to any other public office the term of which would begin before the expiration of the term of the original office to which such person was elected or appointed, without first resigning from such original office; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 540 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of Justices of the Peace who are compensated on a salary basis in Counties having a population of not less than seventy thousand (70,000) inhabitants and not more than one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census; providing that this Act shall be severable; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 663 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, exempting from consideration Nine Hundred ($900) Dollars income per annum per recipient of Old Age Assistance; fixing the effective date; providing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 731 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for official bonds of officers and employees and Game and Fish Wardens of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission of the State of Texas; repealing conflicting laws. |
| HB 760 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, pertaining to the chartering of non-profit corporations to be organized for the purpose of furnishing group hospital service so as to prohibit any discrimination against those physicians or practitioners who practice the healing arts and are licensed to practice the healing arts and are licensed to practice in their filed by a Texas Board under existing laws of the State; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 774 | Caption: Relating to creating a nine member Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; dividing the State into nine districts to be numbered one to nine inclusively with one member from each district; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 962 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for and regulating transportation of horsemeat between certain hours. |
| HB 964 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, creating the State Board of Education and dividing the State into Educational Districts for the purpose of selecting members thereof. |
| HCR 91 | Caption: Proposing certain amendments to the Joint Rules. |
| HR 92 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 198 | Caption: Congratulating Joyce Manford and State Representative Pearce Johnson on their birthdays. |
| HR 232 | Caption: In memory of James V. Forrestal. |
| HR 257 | Caption: Providing funds from the Committee on Contingent Expenses to Members of the Legislature. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 7 | Caption: Relating to levying a privilege tax upon the gathering of natural gas produced in this State; defining certain terms used in this Act; providing that this Act shall expire on August 31, 1951; providing this Act shall be severable; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 25 | Caption: Relating to making it illegal to operate a rent or commercial boat upon any of the waters of this State without having such boat equipped with one life preserver for each passenger aboard and a minimum of four life preservers for each boat; defining the term "life preserver"; providing a penalty for violation thereof; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to regulating fishing on Lake Kickapoo in Archer County, Texas; containing penalty and repealing clauses. |
| HCR 30 | Caption: Directing the Attorney general to investigate certain violations of the State Election Code. |
| HR 11 | Caption: Recognizing Midwestern University for its achievements. |
| HR 12 | Caption: Congratulating the Wichita Falls High School football team for winning the Class AA state championship. |