Legislation authored by Mainor Nelson Westbrook

Includes legislation with Mainor Nelson Westbrook as the primary author for the 45th through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

49th Regular Session
HB 29 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues by defining who shall be regarded as practicing medicine within, the State of Texas, exempting certain persons from such definitions.
HB 76 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts; providing for the allocation of funds from the Clearance Fund to the Old Age Assistance Fund; appropriating Old Age Assistance Fund for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1945.
HB 95 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the allocation of funds from the Clearance Fund to tie Old Age Assistance Fund; appropriating Old Age Assistance Fund for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1945.
HB 285 Caption: Relating to authorizing commissioners' courts to allocate between schools and roads certain funds received and to be received from the Federal Government derived from the sale of timber and all other income on forest preserves.
HB 385 Caption: Relating to providing for salaries of County Commissioners of certain Counties; repealing laws in conflict.
HB 400 Caption: Relating to placing a limitation on reserved mineral rights and providing for same to revert to the land from which it is segregated.
HB 401 Caption: Relating to providing for an open season when it shall be lawful to hunt, take or kill squirrel in Angelina, Cherokee, Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Trinity, and Tyler Counties, Texas, fixing a penalty for the violation thereof; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 589 Caption: Relating to the protection of the public roads, highways and right-of-ways of this State; making unlawful the testing or exploring for minerals on said roads, highways and right-of-ways; providing for enforcement and penalties.
HCR 26 Caption: Urging Congress to amend the Social Security Act.
HJR 5 Caption: Proposing an amendment to provide that the Legislature shall have the power to provide, under such limitations and restrictions as may be deemed by the Legislature expedient, for assistance to needy aged individuals,
HR 97 Caption: Expressing Legislative intent in regard to increase salaries of State Employees.
HR 127 Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 180 Caption: In memory of Sergeant Joseph W. Burnaman of Newton.
HR 212 Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 225 Caption: In memory of Sergeant John T. Barrett, Jr. of Magnolia Springs.
48th Regular Session
HB 20 Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of Chiropractic in Texas; fixing penalties; enacting repealing and saving clauses.
HB 136 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues by providing for the teaching of the effects of alcohol and narcotics in all grades of the public schools, colleges and universities of Texas that are wholly or in part supported by public funds.
HB 713 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation outside of the boundaries of any county of minnows in excess of five hundred (500); providing that this act shall apply only to the counties of Jasper and Newton; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.
HR 47 Caption: Honoring the memory of Solomon Alexander Wright.
HR 60 Caption: Providing for public schools to teach subjects on drug use.
HR 76 Caption: Designating Charles Fowler as a Mascot of the House.
HR 129 Caption: In memory of Steve Wood of San Augustine County, Texas.
HR 159 Caption: Relating to old age assistance payments.
HR 213 Caption: In memory of former State Representative John Thomas Walters of Jasper County, Texas.
HR 233 Caption: Commending the school teachers and administrators of Texas for their services and sacrifices for the war effort.
HR 309 Caption: Congratulating Representative R.A. Fuchs on the occasion of his birthday.
46th Regular Session
HB 143 Caption: Relating to granting and donating to San Augustine and Sabine Counties all the State ad valorem taxes for a period of five (5) years.
HB 144 Caption: Relating to providing for the care and treatment of indigent or destitute sick persons by creating a State Department of Hospitalization and Medical Care; making an appropriation.
HB 183 Caption: Relating to prohibiting school trustees from accepting bribes, etc; providing penalties.
HB 388 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code by making it unlawful to mark or brand any unmarked or unbranded stock with a mark or brand not upon record; affixing penalties.
HB 470 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code making it unlawful to mark or brand any unmarked or unbranded stock with a mark or brand not upon record, or to use any mark or brand or distinguishing device upon any animal not of record; affixing penalties.
HB 495 Caption: Relating to providing for traveling expenses of County Commissioners of certain counties.
HB 783 Caption: Relating to creating a closed season upon wild deer, buck, doe, fawn, or wild turkey for a period of five (5) years in San Augustine and Sabine Counties, in the State of Texas; making it unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, ensnare, kill, or attempt to kill such animals by any means within said Counties for a period of five (5) years; providing a penalty therefor.
HB 983 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Common and Independent School Districts of Sabine County and San Augustine County, Texas; taking off the tax rolls of such districts a large portion of the taxable valuation; making an appropriation for each year of the biennium, 1939-1941.
HB 999 Caption: Relating to prohibiting school trustees from soliciting, demanding, or suggesting the giving of a bribe for themselves, or for another; prescribing penalties for violation hereof.
HB 1017 Caption: Relating to making it lawful to catch by the use of seine of not less than three (3) inch mesh any fish in the waters of the Sabine River in Sabine County.
HB 1100 Caption: Relating to providing for more adequate and equitable salary for county Superintendents of Public Instruction in certain counties.
HB 1101 Caption: Relating to providing for a rural school supervisor in San Augustine County; providing mode and manner of paying such salary.
HCR 35 Caption: Memorializing Congress to allow for the sale of small tracts of land for agricultural purposes.
HCR 184 Caption: Expressing legislative intent regarding SB 89.
HCR 194 Caption: Expressing legislative intent regarding SB 89.
HR 25 Caption: Congratulating Thomas A. Norwood for his high score on a four-year-college entrance examination test despite educational disadvantages.
HR 44 Caption: Naming William Calvin Montgomery, Jr. Mascot of the House.
HR 46 Caption: Requesting certain information of the Old Age Assistance Commission.
HR 120 Caption: Requesting bills considering Old Age Assistance measures be reported back to the House in the near future.
HR 144 Caption: Expressing intent of the Legislature to not adjourn until the social security program is passed.
HR 193 Caption: In memory of R.G. Gill of the Denning Community.
HR 257 Caption: Expressing tribute to the Texas Centennial Committee of San Augustine County.
HR 275 Caption: In memory of Juanita McGown of Hemphill.
HR 332 Caption: In memory of Mrs. J.R. Bogard of San Augustine.
45th Regular Session
HB 170 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on all persons, firms, corporations or associations of persons engaged in the occupation of owning or operating a dance hall or night club operated for profit.
HB 638 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties to allow each county commissioner certain expenses for traveling.
HB 662 Caption: Relating to granting aid to the property and inhabitants of Sabine and San Augustine counties, Texas, because of the public calamities which have occurred in said counties by reason of floods and storms which have caused great destruction of property and loss of life.
HB 729 Caption: Relating to providing a means for graduates of non-affiliated, non-classified, and non-standardized schools by taking an examination to become standardized scholastics.
HB 907 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a hospital commission, to be composed of five members, for the purpose of allocating and disbursing funds which may be appropriated for the care, treatment and hospitalization of indigent sick poor persons in the State of Texas, who are unable, by reason of their poverty, to provide themselves with such care, treatment and hospitalization, to regulate the operation of hospitals which shall receive any support from State appropriations.
HB 912 Caption: Relating to providing that when the State and County Tax Collector is tax collector for an independent school district that his official bond given to the County shall include moneys collected for such independent school district, and that the amount of money to be collected for the independent school district shall be considered in arriving at the amount of bond to be give by said tax collector.
HB 1004 Caption: Relating to providing that the Commissioners Court of any county wherein the United States Government has or shall hereafter purchase or has designated a purchase unit of at least twenty-five (25) percent in area of the land in said county for reforestation and other purposes may, with the consent of the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and the holders of at least eighty (80) percent of the bonds hereinafter described, refund, under the provisions of existing law, the road bonds of any such county or of any road district or political subdivision thereof, which bonds participate in the County and Road District Highway Fund, into one or more series of refunding bonds and may provide that the eligibility of the bonds being refunded shall be distributed among the various series of refunding bonds in such amounts, or none, as may be agreed upon.
HB 1050 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the common and independent school districts of Sabine County, Texas, made necessary by reason of the fact that the Federal Government has purchased over seventy (70) per cent of the land in said County thereby taking off the tax rolls of such districts of a major portion of the taxable valuation.
HB 1051 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the common school districts of San Augustine County, Texas, made necessary by reason of the fact that the Federal Government has purchased over forty one (41%) per cent of the land in said County thereby taking off the tax rolls of such districts a major portion of the valuation.
HB 1124 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for anyone to hunt, take, or kill any squirrels except during the period from November 10th to January 15th of each year in the Counties of San Augustine and Sabine; providing a penalty.
HCR 10 Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact legislation to reimburse the State of Texas for certain losses and hardships incurred by the Federal Government's purchase of certain land for reforestation purposes.
HR 39 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 141 Caption: Directing the State Tax Commission to conduct a survey of the natural resource tax systems of the various states.
HR 233 Caption: In memory of Mrs. J. A. Morris.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 62 Caption: Relating to extending the closed season on deer in San Augustine and Sabine Counties until February 21, 1939.
HCR 25 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. C. R. No. 2.
HCR 27 Caption: Directing the Old Age Assistance Commission to re-examine the eligibility of certain applicants.