Legislation authored by John Charles Hoyo

Includes legislation with John Charles Hoyo as the primary author for the 47th through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

49th Regular Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for certain sums of money for the use and benefit of the Texas Liquor Control Board for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1945.
HB 10	Caption: Relating to providing for the prevention and control of diseases; giving the State Health Officer and State Board of Health authority to promulgate orders, rules and regulations for the protection of the public health; authorizing the State Board of Health to receive public donations and cooperate with the Texas Water and Sanitation Research Foundation and other foundations for furtherance of public health research; repealing all laws, articles, sections, and subdivisions of laws which conflict or are inconsistent with this Act; prescribing a penalty; providing a saving clause.
HB 28	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to require personal sureties to file a statement with the County Clerk of each county wherein is located real property which is used as security for any guardians bond in excess of $1,000.00, and creating a lien on such real property.
HB 57	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to require personal sureties to file a statement with the County Clerk of each county wherein is located real property which is used as security for any executors or administrators bond in excess of $1,000.00, and creating a lien on such real property.
HB 58	Caption: Relating to creating the office of Veterans County Service Office.
HB 63	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts, providing for unofficial ballots; repair and substitution of voting machines; authorizing and empowering canvassing boards charged with the duty of canvassing said election returns to make and cause to be made, prior to or at the time of canvassing said election returns, a comparison or recheck of said election returns, with the results registered on the counter-dials of said voting machines so used in said election.
HB 66	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Insurance Commissioners to determine, fix, prescribe and promulgate just, reasonable and adequate rates of premiums to be charged and collected by any insurer writing any form of suretyship, including fidelity, blanket, and surety bonds in this State; providing for hearings on grievances, and providing a penalty for violations of the provisions thereof; providing a saving clause.
HB 77	Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring County Commissioners' Courts in certain counties to pay employees salaries while unfit for the discharge of such duties from injuries received in the line of duty; providing mode and manner of payment of such salaries.
HB 78	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Control to acquire and/or construct and/or recondition and equip a State Training School for dependent and delinquent colored girls at a cost of not to exceed $150,000; making an appropriation.
HB 83	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts, fixing salaries of official shorthand reporters in the courts of certain counties, etc.
HB 98	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to allow oaths, affidavits or affirmations of members of the Armed forces of the United States, without the territorial confines of the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia, to be administered by any commissioned officer in the Armed Forces.
HB 111	Caption: Relating to amending certain article so that the commission to take a deposition may be addressed to, and executed and returned by, any commissioned officer int he Armed Forces of the United States, where the witness is alleged to be a member of the Armed forces.
HB 128	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes regulating elections and governing nomination of candidates applicable to political parties whose candidate for Governor shall have received less than 30% of the votes, etc.
HB 163	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to commitment of persons of unsound mind to State institutions.
HB 258	Caption: Relating to amending certain article relative to bond of guardian required in sale of real estate, etc.
HB 468	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for representation for the holding of an election or primary election.
HB 469	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for unofficial ballots, repair and substitution of machines.
HB 527	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to loans secured by real estate guaranteed under provisions of Servicemen's Readjustment Act, etc.
HB 530	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to provide for the publication of the terms of a limited partnership once in each week for four (4) consecutive weeks after registry, and providing that if such publication be not made that the partnership shall be deemed general.
HB 580	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to change the time in which requests for names to be printed on the official ballot shall be filed.
HB 671	Caption: Relating to authorizing savings and loan associations, banks, insurance companies, and other corporations or other organizations, similar or dissimilar, to lend and to buy and sell for their own account, obligations in which except as to a value of property and dignity of lien thereon securing the obligation it is otherwise lawful for such investor to invest its own funds, (by direct loan or by purchase), if the entire amount of the indebtedness is insured or guaranteed in any manner by the United States or by this State.
HB 672	Caption: Relating to authorizing the control by the Board of Insurance Commissioners of the State of Texas of the business of casualty, fidelity, surety and guaranty insurance.
HB 680	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to certain described lines of insurance; also providing for the filing by insurance companies and rating bureaus and associations of underwriters of rates and rating plans, policy forms and endorsements applicable to certain lines of insurance written by fire insurance companies and the approval or disapproval thereof by the Board of Insurance Commissioners of Texas.
HB 684	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the assessment and collection of a maintenance tax on gross premiums on all insurers and collection of a maintenance tax on gross premiums on all insurers writing Title Insurance to defray the salaries and expenses of carrying out the provisions of said Chapter, as amended, and providing that any unexpended balance shall be carried over in succeeding years in a separate fund and shall reduce the assessments for succeeding years.
HB 834	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation district wholly within Bexar County, Texas, to be known as Bexar Metropolitan Water District, pursuant to and for the purposes set forth in Article 16, Section 59 of the Constitution of Texas, to be a governmental agency, body politic and corporate, with power to control, conserve, protect, preserve, distribute, and utilize storm and flood waters of rivers and streams and underground waters situated in the District and to control and regulate the accumulation and disposal of sewage, wastes, refuse, and residuum to protect and preserve the purity of the surface and underground waters; to make rules and regulations pertaining to the operations and providing penalties for violations thereof; providing a savings clause.
HB 856	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that in all incorporated cities and towns containing more than one hundred and seventy-five thousand (175,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, the governing body shall have power to lay out, acquire, and construct any section or portion of any street within its jurisdiction as a freeway under certain circumstances; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 866	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to effect and value of deposits.
HCR 11	Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn for more than three days during the period beginning on Thursday, January 25, 1945, and ending on Monday, January 29, 1945.
HCR 87	Caption: Relating to Texas Centennial Statehood Commission.
HCR 94	Caption: Authorizing Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 856.
HCR 140	Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 866.
HJR 46	Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing ad valorem tax for State General Fund purposes.
HR 28	Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot.
HR 39	Caption: Providing pre session pay for certain employees.
HR 106	Caption: Congratulating Sarah Elizabeth Eagar of San Antonio on her 103rd birthday.
HR 124	Caption: In memory of Ira Pol Hildebrand of La Grange, Fayette County.
HR 162	Caption: In memory of Marion Roy McClannan of Greer County.
48th Regular Session
HB 299	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas to include additional persons as vagrants, to define the terms "prostitution," lewdness," and "assignation"; fixing a penalty.
HB 350	Caption: Relating to providing that Judges of the County Courts at Law in counties of less than five hundred thousand (500,000) population may act for the County Judge of the county in any juvenile, lunacy, probate and condemnation proceeding or matter, and also may perform any and all other ministerial acts required by law of the County Judge, during the absence, inability or failure of the County Judge for any reason to perform such duties.
HB 368	Caption: Relating to empowering the Commissioners Court to create the office of Veterans County Service Office and authorizing the appointment by the Commissioners Court of a Veterans County Service Officer and Assistant Veterans County Services Officers and other necessary personnel.
HB 435	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying and confirming all the acts, decrees, judgments and orders performed, entered or rendered by Special County Judge elected under certain Article, etc.; declaring the provisions of this Act to be severable.
HB 436	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the election of special county judge and providing compensation of such special judge to be the same as that of the county judge.
HB 536	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by fixing the amount of net retention permissible without reinsurance in fire, marine and inland risks by companies incorporated under the laws of the United States or any State of the United States and by companies incorporated under the laws of foreign or alien jurisdiction; providing severability.
HB 595	Caption: Relating to further regulating elections and governing the nomination of candidates; providing a severability clause.
HB 598	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide for the manner and the place in which fire insurance companies and casualty insurance companies incorporated under the laws of this State shall render their property for taxation.
HB 599	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the manner and the place in which life, accident and health insurance companies incorporated under the laws of this State shall render their property for taxation.
HB 610	Caption: Withdrawn.
HB 754	Caption: Relating to authorizing and validating all payments made under any contract by any City or Town in lieu of ad valorem taxes previously paid by the private owners of the plants and systems enumerated in Article 1113, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, but not due at the time of such payment.
HCR 17	Caption: Granting C. Baumberger and others permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 53	Caption: In memory of former State Senator James A. Harley of San Antonio, Texas.
HCR 62	Caption: Providing for a Joint Session for a presentation to A.D. Bruce.
HCR 93	Caption: Granting the Justin Leather Goods Co. permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 162	Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 754.
HR 95	Caption: In memory of Robert Johnston McMillan, former City Attorney of San Antonio.
HR 141	Caption: In memory of Sidney J. Brooks, former Judge of Bexar County, Texas.
HR 175	Caption: In memory of William Leighton Jones, Second Lieutenant.
HR 222	Caption: In memory of William Theodotus Capers, Bishop of Diocese of West Texas of the Episcopal Church.
47th Regular Session
HB 80	Caption: Relating for the employment of two (2) rural school supervisors in certain counties; prescribing the qualifications and duties of said supervisors and defining their powers.
HB 94	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to the issuance of an arrest warrant in lunacy cases, whereby the sheriff or constable executing said warrant with the consent of any State Hospital Superintendent may place said person in such Hospital to be taken before the County Judge.
HB 95	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of certain counties to rent or let to any landowner any tractor, grader, machinery, or equipment belonging to said county to be used in construction for the purpose of soil conservation and soil erosion prevention, and for the purpose of constructing water tanks and reservoirs.
HB 201	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to pertaining to the powers and duties of Commissioners Courts by adding a provision authorizing the Commissioners Court to appropriate money not exceeding Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000), out of the General Fund, to lend to aid and assist in carrying out the purposes and provisions of an Act of Congress of the United States pertaining to the distribution of surplus agricultural commodities under the direction of the Department of Agriculture of the United States.
HB 220	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to making certain statement of taxes sued for in delinquent tax suits admissible in evidence; providing said statement shall be certified by Tax Collector or his authorized deputy to be correct.
HB 293	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes pertaining to practice in certain District Courts whereby the District Judges may appoint an Assignment Clerk to serve under the presiding Judge in setting and disposing of civil cases on the general docket.
HB 295	Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to the appointment and salaries of deputies in the offices of District Clerks in certain counties.
HB 462	Caption: Relating to adopting the rule of the Comparative Negligence; prescribing the effect of Contributory Negligence upon the right of recovery.
HB 474	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of the public health; authorizing the State Health Officer to define and fix the specifications and standards for certain meat and food products as defined in the Act.
HB 581	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for a certain amount to pay Mrs. J. Albert Ackerman for damages done certain properties in Bexar County, Texas by reason of the construction of a State HIghway.
HB 704	Caption: Relating to regulating Beauty Schools, Beauty Shops, Hairdressers, Cosmetologists, Manicurists and Beauty School Instructors and defining each; creating a Department of Cosmetology and a Commissioner of Cosmetology; providing for penalties.
HB 791	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act excepting passenger cars used in the delivery of the United States mails from the term "Commercial Motor Vehicle."
HB 888	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Mrs. Mamie Scherrer and her husband Emil Scherrer, and in case of the death of Mrs. Scherrer, her heirs to bring suit against the State of Texas and/or Highway Department in a Court of competent jurisdiction in San Patricio County, for damages for personal injury.
HB 902	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that water control and improvement districts may purchase, own, and operate fire engines and all necessary fire-fighting equipment and appliances.
HB 1051	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes providing for compensation of judges and clerks of general and special elections.
HB 1054	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to make adequate provision for the employment and compensation of assistants and employees by the District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney in any certain county.
HCR 92	Caption: Granting permission to Mrs. Mamie Sherrer and husband, Emil Sherrer to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 283	Caption: Authorizing the Board of Control to execute to the State Highway Department an easement in certain property for highway purposes.
HR 101	Caption: In memory of William Aubrey of San Antonio.
HR 275	Caption: Providing for the printing of address by Coke R. Stevenson.
HR 312	Caption: Congratulating P. L. Anderson on his election as Fire and Police Commissioner.
HR 331	Caption: Commending the American Legion for their program Boys State.
47th 1st Called Session
HB 12	Caption: Relating to granting consent by the State of Texas to Mrs. Mamie Scherrer and husband Emil Scherrer, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, to file suit against the State of Texas and/or County of San Patricio and/or State Highway Department of Texas in the District Court of San Patricio County.
HB 64	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act to make provisions thereof applicable to cities having a population in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants.
HR 39	Caption: Extending congratulations of the House to Claude V. Birkhead.