Legislation authored by Magus Fulton Smith
Includes legislation with Magus Fulton Smith 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 76 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts permitting the State Board of Control and Superintendents of Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions to increase salaries of certain employees of the State, and providing certain regulations and restrictions in respect to the expenditure. |
| HB 438 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming, and legalizing all proceedings had by cities and towns in the State of Texas having a population of not more than three thousand (3,000), according to the preceding Federal Census, in submitting to the qualified voters, during the year 1941, the question of issuing of revenue bonds to finance the construction of a sanitary sewer system, in spite of any irregularities in following the requirements of the laws governing the holding of such election and canvassing the returns thereof are concerned. |
| HB 724 | Caption: Relating to providing for the abolition of the elective office of County Superintendent and the creation of the appointive office of County Superintendent in certain counties; providing effective date of Act. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to providing for the closed season on quail, wild deer, wild duck, and wild turkey in McMullen County, for a period of five (5) years; providing a penalty; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HR 99 | Caption: Directing the Chief Clerk of the House to return to the weekly payment plan for Members and employees. |
| HR 112 | Caption: Designating Joe Horace Welch as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 234 | Caption: In memory of R.F. (Dick) Knaggs of LaSalle County, Texas. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that anyone may construct on his own property a dam or reservoir to contain not to exceed fifty (50) acre-feet of water for domestic and livestock purposes without securing a permit. |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person by word of mouth, writing, sign of symbol to willfully and deliberately advocate, advise, or teach the doctrine that the government of the United States or any state or any political subdivision should be overthrown by force, violence, or unlawful means; providing certain penalties. |
| HB 124 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing grounds for divorce. |
| HB 352 | Caption: Relating to amending certain chapter permitting all towns and cities to require a building permit for the construction, erection, renovation, removal, or repair of any building or buildings, without regard to whether such town or city has a zoning law. |
| HB 411 | Caption: Relating to providing that any sheriff or deputy sheriff who in the fulfillment of the duties of his office leaves the county in which he holds office to secure and return a prisoner indicted for a criminal offense of the grade of a felony shall be entitled to receive five (5) cents per mile for transportation, provided that the distance traveled shall be the shortest practicable route between points. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to E.B. Rodriquez to bring suit against the State of Texas and/or Highway Department, in a court of competent jurisdiction, in Frio County, Texas, for damages for personal injuries received by him while on duty in the employ of the Highway Department of the State of Texas. |
| HB 573 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of corporations in certain instances. |
| HB 574 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Board of Control of the State of Texas may purchase buses, tires, tubes, radios, and other goods and supplies for school districts in certain cases. |
| HB 575 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of water control and improvement districts in certain cases. |
| HB 793 | Caption: Relating to authorizing all independent school districts in certain counties to pay present outstanding legal indebtedness of the said school districts by refunding warrants to bear interest of not more than six (6) per cent per annum and to be payable out of a portion of the local maintenance taxes. |
| HB 932 | Caption: Relating to providing for the closed season on wild deer, wild turkey, quail, and javelina in Live Oak County, Texas, for a period of three (3) years; providing, however, none of the provisions of this Act shall apply to that part of Live Oak County known and defined as the J. Frank Dobie Game Preserve; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 1063 | Caption: Relating to defining Labor Organizer; providing a license for Labor Organizers and the qualifications of one entitled to receive such license; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 146 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections in H.B. No. 411. |
| HR 106 | Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones. |
| HR 117 | Caption: In memory of Albert Urban Knaggs of Cotulla , La Salle County. |
| HR 172 | Caption: Recalling H.B. 567 from the Senate. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to providing a minimum and maximum amount allowable as compensation to a garnishee. |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to service of citation. |
| HB 173 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act preventing horses and certain other animals from running at large in the Counties named so as to include in said Article the County of Frio. |
| HB 218 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by changing the penalty for the violation of unlawfully acting as agent. |
| HB 493 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article relating that no officer in this State shall be removed from office for any act he may have committed prior to his election to office. |
| HB 538 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense for any representative, agent or attorney of any insurance company in this State to misrepresent the provisions of any insurance policy for the purpose of making a sale thereof; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 543 | Caption: Relating to providing that all bonds issued and sold in certain counties shall be entitled to participate in the State Highway Fund. |
| HB 627 | Caption: Relating to making it a violation of the law for a person to voluntarily represent himself to be an officer, agent, or an employee of the State of Texas, and making an arrest or search, providing a penalty. |
| HB 629 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense to falsely pretend to be an officer of the State of Texas; providing a penalty. |
| HB 656 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles validating the Acts of Probate Courts in certain cases. |
| HB 767 | Caption: Relating to amending to provide for supervision of absentee voting in the office of the County Clerk in primary elections. |
| HB 771 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article of Vernon's Texas Statutes relative to county dog licenses. |
| HB 900 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to require every person having horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, goats or turkeys to brand and/or earmark the same and to register each brand or earmark with the county clerk of the county where said animals shall be on or before January 1, 1940, and every twenty years thereafter. |
| HB 1083 | Caption: Relating to aiding the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District; granting and donating to such District, with limitations, for a period of ten (10) years, fifty (50) per cent of all the State ad valorem taxes for General Revenue purposes upon the property and from persons and counties comprising in whole or in part such District. |
| HB 1121 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for McMullen County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of May 15, 1939, setting forth the method of operation. |
| HB 1122 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to E.B. Rodriguez to bring suit against the State of Texas, and/or Highway Department for damages for personal injuries received by him while on duty in the employ of the Highway Department of the State of Texas. |
| HB 1141 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Frio County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of June 12, 1939, setting forth the method of operation. |
| HCR 204 | Caption: Approving the suspension of certain Joint Rules so that the House might consider HB 1135, HB 1125, HB 1144, SB 478, SB 489, SB 292, HB 58, HB 1140, SB 396, HB 243, HB 178, HB 1039, HB 644, HB 61, HB 56, HB 758, SB 435, and SB 476. |
| HR 186 | Caption: Authorizing the Committee on Legislative Pictures and the Photographic Division of the Department of Public Safety to photograph and restore a picture of the Thirteenth Legislature to be framed in the Hall of the House. |
| HR 272 | Caption: Inviting Rafael P. Gamboa, Diputada al Congreso de la Union XXXVII Legislatura, to address the House. |