Legislation authored by James Howard Goodman
Includes legislation with James Howard Goodman as the primary author for the 46th through 48th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 48th Regular Session | |
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| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to changing the method for handling delinquent children from the present criminal procedure to guardianship in order to secure for each child coming within the Act such care, guidance and control as will serve the child's welfare and the best interest of the State; providing a saving clause and a repealing clause. |
| HB 112 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by fixing the compensation of the first assistant or chief deputy sheriff and other deputy sheriffs in counties where the population is not less than 15,000 and not more than 15,100 inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census and with a total area of not less than 569,250 square acres of land and not more than 569,500 square acres of land, the salary of the chief deputy sheriff in any county shall not exceed Two Thousand Four Hundred Dollars ($2,400.00) per annum and the salary of any other assistant deputy sheriff shall not exceed Two Thousand One Hundred ($2,100.00) Dollars per annum. |
| HB 123 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing for the maximum compensation of county officials in any county where the population is not less than 15,000 and not more than 15,100 inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census and with a total area of not less than 569,250 square acres of land and not more than 569,500 square acres of land. |
| HB 124 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing for the compensation of county commissioners in any county where the population is not less than 15,000 and not more than 15,100 inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census and with a total area of not less than 569,250 square acres of land and not more than 569,500 square acres of land, the salary of each county commissioner shall be not exceeding $3,000.00 per annum. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by changing the time and terms of holding the One Hundred and Ninth District Court in Reeves, Ward, Winkler, Crane, Andrews, and Loving Counties, constituting the One Hundred and Ninth Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes as to holding court in Howard, Martin, Midland, Ector, and Glasscock Counties, constituting the Seventieth Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 164 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the refunding of bonds issued by any town or village incorporated for free school purposes only, or any common, independent, or consolidated common, or consolidated independent, county line, or consolidated county line or rural high school district, providing new bonds bearing the same or less rate of interest maturing within forty years from date of issue may be issued and providing that said bonds may be optional and payable on any interest payment date and giving the State the option to purchase said new refunding bonds by meeting the best bona fide bid; repealing laws in conflict. |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take or kill wild quail of any species for a period of five (5) years in Andrews County, Texas; fixing penalty. |
| HB 316 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that a registered architect who has entered service in the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard subsequent to October 1, 1940, and who was at the time of his entry into said service or is now in good standing as a registered architect, shall have his name continued on the list of registered architects and shall be exempt from the payment of any further license fee during his service, as aforesaid, and until honorably discharged, and when honorably discharged from the service shall be exempt from the payment of such fee for the then current fiscal year. |
| HB 391 | Caption: Relating to establishing coordinated county child welfare advisory councils for the purpose of assisting and advising local judicial, administrative, and educational authorities in preventing increase of juvenile delinquency and solving the child welfare problem in each county in the state. |
| HB 477 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide that officers of the Veterans' State service shall be authorized to administer oaths for general purposes. |
| HB 628 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that if the husband is deceased, divorced, or permanently or temporarily outside the limits of the United States or if his whereabouts are unknown, the mother shall have the right to file with the local registrar the certificate of marriage to which may be attached a birth certificate for each child giving certain information. |
| HB 630 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by adding a provision that in case any child is adjudged to be dependent or neglected, the parent or other responsible person may be compelled to contribute to the support of such child even though the right of control over the child has been terminated. |
| HB 642 | Caption: Relating to the organization and coordination of defense activities in Texas; making an appropriation . |
| HB 682 | Caption: Relating to making provision in The Flower Grove Independent School District of Martin County for an election to determine the tax rate to be levied for the payment of bonds and interest theron. |
| HB 725 | Caption: Relating to requiring the County Superintendent in the case of common school districts and the Board of Trustees in the case of independent school districts to keep a system of financial accounts and to conduct a yearly audit. |
| HCR 12 | Caption: Inviting the State Democratic Executive Committee to attend the inaugural ceremonies. |
| HCR 24 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn from Thursday, February 4, 1943, until Monday, February 8, 1943. |
| HCR 30 | Caption: Inviting Roane Waring, National Commander of the American Legion, to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HCR 52 | Caption: Relating to the boundary line between Texas and Louisiana. |
| HCR 112 | Caption: Granting F.C. Dale permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 116 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 630. |
| HR 21 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative Taylor White. |
| HR 137 | Caption: Inviting T.V. Smith of the University of Chicago to address the House. |
| HR 180 | Caption: Granting the widow of former State Representative Clyde F. Elkins privileges of the floor of the House. |
| HR 321 | Caption: Memorializing Congress in regards to freight rates. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 216 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the maximum compensation of County officials in any County where the population is less than 20,000 inhabitants and which was a tax valuation of not less than $17,000,000.00 and not exceeding $25,000,000.00 according to the last approved tax roll and with a total area of not less than 950 square miles and not exceeding a square of 980 square miles. |
| HB 217 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the compensation of County Commissioners in any county where the population is less than 20,000 inhabitants and which has a tax valuation of not less than $17,000,000.00 and not exceeding $25,000,000.00 according to the last approved tax roll and with a total area of less than 950 square miles and not exceeding an area of 980 square miles. |
| HB 366 | Caption: Relating to create a Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in the State of Texas, providing that said home shall be operated in conjunction with the Confederate Home at Austin, Texas. |
| HB 430 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming, subject to the consent and approval of the Congress of the United States an agreement and compact between the States of New Mexico and Texas, pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the Alamogordo River Reservoir upon the Pecos River in the State of New Mexico, and providing for agreement on the part of the State of New Mexico pertaining to the use of the waters of the Pecos River. |
| HB 448 | Caption: Relating to providing for preference of employment in all State Departments of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, marines, and nurses of the Army and Navy of the United States in the late Spanish-American and Philippine Insurrection Wars, in the China Relief Expedition, and the late World War of the Allied Nations. |
| HB 452 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to eliminate the issuance of special commodity permits on household goods. |
| HB 455 | Caption: Relating to exempting a certain independent school districts created under Chapter 5, Acts 1930, Forty-first Legislature 5th. C.S. from the provision of Article 2767 of the Revised Civil Statutes. |
| HB 523 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to provide for the appointment of all other officers by the city council when so provided by ordinance so as to authorize the governing bodies of general law cities and towns, having more than 3,000 inhabitants, to dispense with the office of marshal and imposing duties thereof upon some other officer. |
| HB 602 | Caption: Relating to creating the 128th Judicial District |
| HB 643 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to provide for the incorporation of investment and loan companies in cities of 5,000, 10,000, and 25,000 inhabitants by providing for a capital stock of $5,000.00, $10,000, and $25,000 respectively. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article relating to the suspension of a severance tax on certain mineral resources. |
| HB 751 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas relative to the speed of motor vehicles. |
| HB 977 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to fixing allowances to school districts. |
| HB 1026 | Caption: Relating to aiding Red Bluff Water Power Control District, a Conservation and Reclamation District, due to a calamity caused by drought and to grant aid to said District as a Conservation District under the provisions of the Constitution and granting and donating to such District for a period of two (2) years, fifty (50%) per cent of all State valorem taxes for general revenue purposes in the Counties of Loving, Reeves, Ward and Pecos. |
| HB 1118 | Caption: Relating to the authorizing, enabling, and permitting the territory situated within the bounds of the Andrews Independent School District to incorporate as an independent school district for free school purposes only, to be hereafter known as the Andrews Independent School District. |
| HB 1128 | Caption: Relating to providing that no taxing unit of the State shall employ valuation experts except on a salary basis; fixing maximum salary to be paid such experts. |
| HCR 79 | Caption: Providing for the raising of funds, sponsored by the Texas Women's Press Association, to build a new location for the Texas State Library. |
| HCR 166 | Caption: Inviting Robert L. Ripley, Believe it or not, to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HR 86 | Caption: Commemorating the birth of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson. |
| HR 110 | Caption: Inviting J. Bonner to address the House. |
| HR 165 | Caption: Urging the Board of Control to redecorate the Capitol dome. |
| HR 214 | Caption: Commissioning Representative Joe Monkhouse to reorganize, direct, and command the Texas Navy. |
| HR 223 | Caption: Inviting Lynn Landrum, author of a column in the Dallas News, to address the House. |
| HR 228 | Caption: In memory of Ira G. Yates of Pecos County. |
| HR 267 | Caption: In memory of Ernest Linwood Hardin of Austin. |
| HR 270 | Caption: Inviting the Legislature to attend the decoration of certain members who are World War veterans and descendants of Confederate veterans, hosted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. |
| HR 306 | Caption: Providing for the raising of funds, sponsored by the Texas Women's Press Association, to build a new location for the Texas State Library. |