Legislation authored by Robert A. Fuchs

Includes legislation with Robert A. Fuchs as the primary author for the 40th through 48th 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.

48th Regular Session
HB 52 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes pertaining to weights and measures; repealing weights per bushel, barrel, and cubic yard for certain commodities.
HB 113 Caption: Relating to amending Article relative to the transportation of school children.
HB 291 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to eligibility for appointment on State Seed and Plant Board.
HB 661 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to change the time and terms of holding the Twenty-first District Court in Washington, Lee, Bastrop and Burleson Counties, constituting the Twenty-first Judicial District of Texas.
HCR 25 Caption: Relative to marketing transportation.
HCR 55 Caption: Providing for a portrait of Governor Coke R. Stevenson.
HR 14 Caption: Providing for block pictures for Members of the House.
47th Regular Session
HB 29 Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to weights and measures; prohibiting the sale, use, or possession of false weights, measures, or weighing or measuring devices and weights which have not been sealed by a weights and measures official; regulating the packing and marking of commodities and containers; providing certain penalties.
HB 30 Caption: Relating amending the Revised Civil Statutes pertaining to weights and measures and the Babcock test for butterfat.
HB 90 Caption: Relating to licensing and regulating persons engaging in the business of constructing, reconstructing, repairing, altering, installing, or adjusting weights, scales, or weighing devices; providing certain penalties.
HB 310 Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes pertaining to weight per bushel, barrel, and cubic yard for certain commodities; describing the method for stacking and measuring wood.
HB 326 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts requiring licensees to mix sufficient chemicals with motor fuel, upon which a refund of the tax may be claimed, before delivering same, or before appropriating same for use; making the failure to color such motor fuel as prescribed to color such motor fuel as prescribed by the Comptroller a misdemeanor and providing the punishment therefor.
HB 483 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, trapping, or killing of raccoons and mink in the Counties of Guadalupe, Washington, Lee, and Burleson for a period of three (3) years; providing a penalty therefor.
HB 556 Caption: Relating to providing special procedure in matters of soil conservation permissive for counties not now active under the State Soil Conservation Act.
HB 566 Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of all baled or packed lint cotton in this State upon its net weight; requiring cotton ginners to mark each bale of cotton to show net weight; providing penalties.
HCR 37 Caption: Providing that the House of Representatives and the Senate join with the American Legion and other patriotic organizations in the ceremonies on March 2, 1941.
HCR 90 Caption: Commending the Federal Government for its contributions toward the control and eradication of the pink boll worm.
HCR 95 Caption: Commending the cotton ginners of Texas for their efforts to bring higher demand for the use of cotton and urging others to lend their support.
HCR 99 Caption: Making an appropriation to purchase a portrait of Governor W. Lee O'Daniel.
HCR 224 Caption: Authorizing the State Highway Department to lend guard wire to Washington County.
HR 8 Caption: Providing for block picture of members of the house.
HR 106 Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones.
HR 142 Caption: Pledging support of members of the House of Representatives of principle of government of the state.
47th 1st Called Session
HCR 12 Caption: Relating to insecticides and the awareness of their chemical components.
HCR 13 Caption: Relating to the sale of cotton and wheat by the Federal Government.
46th Regular Session
HB 480 Caption: Relating to validating and confirming the creation of the Junior College District of Washington County; provided that the college located in said District shall be called Blinn College.
HB 706 Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of bullfrogs; providing a penalty; exempting in certain counties.
HB 859 Caption: Relating to providing duties of Veterinarian Live Stock Sanitary Commissions and reports thereon regarding rabies of dogs and other canines; providing penalties for violating any provision of the Act and affixing penalty.
HCR 50 Caption: Memorializing Congress to take action regarding the smuggling of foreign-grown cotton into Texas.
HCR 106 Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact a law requiring American-produced cotton to be sold on the basis of the net weight of the bale.
HCR 155 Caption: Informing the Federal Government that increased importation of canned meat has a ruinous effect on the livestock industries of Texas and of the United States.
HCR 157 Caption: Urging the Federal Government to replace its use of imported jute twine with US-made cotton twine.
HCR 173 Caption: Memorializing Congress to either provide an agricultural subsidy to offset effects of the High Protective Tariff or lower the tariff on items produced by Southern cotton growers.
HR 9 Caption: Providing for a block picture of the Members of the House.
HR 175 Caption: Requesting the Texas Cotton Ginners' Association, the Texas Cooperative Ginners' Association, and all other Texas cotton ginners to wrap their ginned cotton in cotton and not any other material.
HR 197 Caption: Naming Virginia Alice Broadfoot Queen of Mascots of the House.
HR 266 Caption: In memory of Sam D.W. Low of Brenham.
45th Regular Session
HB 24 Caption: Relating to reciting the existing conditions of the farm, grazing and different lands of the State of Texas.
HB 25 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the State Highway Department or its agencies to change the natural course of water shed on highways so as to divert upon privately owned property adjacent to such highways, unless the owner of such property has given his consent thereto in writing permitting adjacent landowners to divert water form their own lands or to the public roads and highways of this State.
HB 26 Caption: Relating to permitting abutting property owners along the public roads and highways of this State to cut any grass or grasses, and to cut or destroy any obnoxious weed and/or weeds growing along the right of way of any public road or highway of this State.
HB 637 Caption: Relating to making the laws of Texas relating to the National Guard compatible with the Constitution and laws of the United States as required by Section 46 of Article XVI of the Constitution of Texas.
HJR 1 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas, authorizing the Legislature to enact laws in order to require the owners of cultivated lands to properly terrace such lands in order to protect the soil against erosion.
HR 12 Caption: Directing the creation of the block photograph of the House Members.
HR 15 Caption: Providing for a public stenographer.
HR 106 Caption: In memory of former State Rep. Oscar A. Seward.
HR 116 Caption: In memory of Congressman James P. Buchanan.
HR 127 Caption: Requesting the Land Utilization Division of the Resettlement Administration to allocate necessary funds o develop the Lost Pine Area of Bastrop County.
HR 221 Caption: Memorializing Congress to decrease the price of gold as it would negatively affect the agricultural market of the State.
HR 248 Caption: Excusing State Rep. John Dollins for the purpose of having his picture made for the Member Block Photo.
45th 1st Called Session
HR 6 Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass H. B. No. 6763 to aid the farmers of the nation.
HR 52 Caption: Memorializing Congress to make an investigation of the funds collected through a certain tax on cotton production.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 62 Caption: Relating to authorizing, consenting to, and granting permission to John Wiese, Lonnie Wiese, and Tom Wiese to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department of the State of Texas for damages to their land.
HR 18 Caption: Inviting J. E. McDonald to address the House.
44th Regular Session
HB 39 Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act of the Acts of the 42nd Legislature (R.S.); encouraging and aiding in the conservation of soil fertility in the counties of Texas, and maintaining the productiveness of agricultural lands for the production of essential foods and commercial crops upon which the public well-being depends.
HB 40 Caption: Relating to prohibiting any owner or person having control of horses, mules, donkeys, cows, bulls, steers, hogs, sheep, goats, or any other livestock from permitting or allowing the same to traverse or roam at large upon any designated State Highway of this State unattended, providing a penalty.
HB 509 Caption: Relating to providing additional duties upon the State Reclamation Engineer in making and executing plans for preventing soil erosion, for increasing and conserving underground water supply, for preventing silting and polluting of water sources and reservoirs, and for cooperating with Federal and other governments and other political subdivisions and agencies in such work.
HB 696 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons to ship, move, or transport any hay from or out of any tick-infested areas in this State; fixing penalties.
HB 936 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take squirrels in Washington County at any time other than during the months of May, June, July, October, November, and December, or to take more than ten (10) squirrels in one day or to posses more than twenty (20) squirrels at one time; providing a penalty.
HR 20 Caption: Providing for the selection of a photographer for a portrait of the Members of the Forty-fourth Legislature.
44th 1st Called Session
HCR 9 Caption: Relating to the quality of cotton production in the State.
44th 3rd Called Session
HCR 28 Caption: Directing the Board of Control tp place a plaque with names of all Members of the Legislature in the Hall of State.
43rd Regular Session
HB 386 Caption: Relating to providing for a ginner's lien on cotton to cover the cost of ginning, wrapping, or repacking, or fumigating bales or parcels of cotton, and prescribing the life of the lien, manner of giving notice of existency of the lien, and fixing the liability of purchasers for value.
HB 446 Caption: Relating to providing that the punishment for the offense of robbery where a firearm or other deadly weapon is used or exhibited in the commission of the offense shall be death for the second offense whether committed within this State or out of it.
HB 514 Caption: Relating to fixing an open season, or period of time for hunting, taking, or killing wild mourning doves, wild quail of all kinds, and wild Mexican pheasants in Washington County; making it unlawful to hunt, take, or kill same at any other time of the year; fixing a penalty for violations of the provisions of the Act; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act.
HCR 24 Caption: Providing for the adoption of a State Flower Song.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 33 Caption: Relating to providing that any note, mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument in writing evidencing any indebtedness hereafter executed payable more than one year after the date of its execution, and drawing 5 percent, or more interest per annum, and secured in whole or in part by any lien upon any real estate in this State, shall be assessed for taxes by the holder or owner thereof, and the taxes thereon shall have been paid before any such note or instrument in writing shall be admissible in evidence for any purpose.
HCR 6 Caption: Requesting that the Agricultural Credit Administration set up a production credit corporation and cooperative bank in the Eleventh Federal Lank Bank District at the earliest possible date, and to simplify and liberalize regulations affecting the Farm Mortgage Relief Program.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HR 4 Caption: Providing for public stenographers.
43rd 4th Called Session
HR 14 Caption: In memory of Roland Mackay, son of Representative Henry Mackay.
42nd Regular Session
HB 13 Caption: Relating to encouraging and aiding in the conservation of soil fertility in the Counties of Texas, and to maintain the productiveness of agricultural lands for the production of essential foods and commercial crops upon which the public well-being depends; authorizing cooperation between the counties and owners of lands in conserving soil fertility.
HB 372 Caption: Relating to repealing the Washington County Road Law.
HCR 53 Caption: Designating the second week of January as the Soil and Water Conservation Week.
HCR 57 Caption: Relating to the prevention of erosion.
41st Regular Session
HB 286 Caption: Relating to providing that every person registering a motor vehicle, tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or motorcycle was rendered for taxation for the preceding year or that said vehicle was not liable for taxation during said preceding year, or that said vehicle was not owned in whole or in part, by the applicant during the preceding year, and stating that the number plates or seal assigned to applicant will not be used on a different motor vehicle, tractor, trailer, semi-trailer or motorcycle other than for which application is made, and providing for the payment of the tax upon said vehicle for the preceding year in lien of such statement.
HR 12 Caption: In memory of former State Rep. D. C. Giddings.
HR 55 Caption: In memory of former State Rep. S. H. Goodlet.
40th Regular Session
HB 335 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the road system for Washington County; exempting citizens of Washington County from road duty by payment to the County Treasurer money in lieu thereof.
HB 460 Caption: Relating to persons registering certain vehicles used on public highways of this State; requiring proof of payment of tax upon said vehicle; providing a penalty.