Legislation authored by Jasper Newton Reed
Includes legislation with Jasper Newton Reed as the primary author for the 43rd through 47th 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.
| 47th Regular Session | |
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| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts of the General and Special Laws relative to providing for the creation of a Legislative Audit Committee and fixing its duties; providing for the appointment of a State Auditor and fixing his duties; providing for the creation of a uniform budget system and fixing its procedures; designating the Governor as the chief budget officer and prescribing his duties; providing for the appointment of a Director of the Budget and fixing his duties. |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to providing that there shall hereafter be paid out of the revenue of this State, on the last day of each month, to each bona fide citizen of this State over the age of sixty five years the sum of fifteen dollars per month as an old age pension; assigning the State Department of Welfare, County Judges, and Commissioners' Court as administrators and defining their duties. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws and the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing for the levying of certain taxes on oil and their allocation; providing for an effective date. |
| HB 195 | Caption: Relating to making certain appropriation for the Sulphur River Conservation and Reclamation District. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act of the General and Special Laws relative to the collection of a certain tax on coin-operated machines; prescribing misdemeanor and civil penalties. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to amending the General and Special Laws relative to declaring the policy of the State with reference to building, maintaining, and financing the construction of State designated roads; creating the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness and prescribing its powers, duties, and obligations; creating a County and Road District Highway Fund and a Lateral Road Account; providing for the handling of County Sinking Funds accumulated from the payment of certain road bonds and warrants; providing for the payment of certain Navigation District Bonds; prescribing certain penalties. |
| HB 272 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations for educational institutions of higher learning, and declaring the policy thereof; prescribing certain rules and regulations to be followed in determining said appropriations; requiring audits; making appropriations for the support, maintenance, buildings, and improvements of the several State institutions of higher learning for a certain period of time. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "Dance Hall", providing that any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a Dance Hall shall apply for and secure license from the State Comptroller of Public Accounts; levying an annual occupation tax; providing for penalties. |
| HB 391 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing that every sale or contract of sale of any security in violation of any provisions under this act shall be voidable at the election of the purchaser. |
| HB 397 | Caption: Relating to validating the order of the Commissioners Court of Bowie County, Texas, which required the County Tax Assessor and Collector to accept in full payment of all county taxes delinquent for the years 1932 and 1933, and due in 1934, the sum of Fifty (50) cents on the dollar; and instructing the State Comptroller to abide by the order of said Commissioners Court. |
| HB 634 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the imposition of a tax on the amount paid for admission to any place with certain exceptions, and fixing the amount of the tax; providing for penalties. |
| HB 982 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for law books for the Courts of Civil Appeals of Texas. |
| HB 1076 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the qualified voters of Hooks Independent School District to determine whether or not such District shall levy a tax for maintenance and bond purposes. |
| HCR 195 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die on June 6, 1941. |
| HCR 198 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die on Tuesday, June 10, 1941. |
| HCR 243 | Caption: Granting the Legislature permission to adjourn sine die on June 21, 1941. |
| HCR 246 | Caption: Granting the House permission to consider H.B. No.363. |
| HR 106 | Caption: In memory of Walter E. Jones. |
| HR 189 | Caption: In memory of Morris Sheppard of Wheatville, Morris County. |
| HR 202 | Caption: In memory of Morris Sheppard, United States Senator. |
| 47th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 23 | Caption: Relating to amending House Bill No. 397, passed by the Regular Session of the Forty-seventh Legislature, 1941, validating the order of the Commissioners Court of Bowie County, Texas, which required the County Tax Assessor and Collector to accept in full payment of all county taxes delinquent for the years 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933, and due in 1934, the sum of Fifty (50) Cents on the dollar; and instructing the State Comptroller to abide by the order of the said Commissioners Court. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the sheriffs of counties in Texas, having National Defense Projects to appoint additional deputies in writing under certain conditions. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to providing a system of Old Age Assistance, establishing certain funds for Old Age Assistance, making appropriations, and repealing all laws that conflict herewith. |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on oil produced within this State of six (6) cents per barrel of forty-two (42) standard gallons. |
| HB 199 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of any county, in case of the inability of the regularly elected County Judge to perform the duties of his office, or in case of his absence from the county for a period of ten (10) days, to appoint some person qualified under the law to be elected to the office of County Judge, to serve as County Judge during the disability or absence of the regularly elected County Judge, and during such time, to have and exercise all of the powers of the duly elected County Judge of such county, and providing of the compensation of the persons selected. |
| HB 200 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "Dance Hall," providing that any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a Dance Hall shall apply for and secure license from the State Comptroller of Public Accounts. |
| HB 383 | Caption: Relating to requiring the licensing of all dogs in the State over six months of age and to further require that no license shall be issued until a certificate of a physician or licensed veterinarian shall be furnished the proper authorities showing that the dog to be licensed has been vaccinated with anti-rabies serum within thirty days of the date of application; providing a penalty. |
| HB 384 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting Commissioners' Court of any county in this State from transferring funds from the general fund of the county to the Officers' Salary Fund. |
| HB 482 | Caption: Relating to releasing the interest and penalties on all delinquent ad valorem and poll taxes that were delinquent on or before August 1, 1936, due the State, any county, city, school district, road district, levee improvement district, water improvement district and water control and improvement district, irrigation district and other defined subdivisions of the State, provided same are paid before May 15, 1937. |
| HJR 12 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1-a of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, exempting Three Thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars of the assessed taxable value of all residence homesteads, as now defined by law, from all State, county, city, town, district and other political subdivision purposes. |
| HR 229 | Caption: Providing for the consideration of H. B. Nos. 3, 229, 482, 664, 1151. |
| HR 290 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the "Hot Oil Situation". |
| 45th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 8 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or bookmaking; providing the form of indictment or information sufficient to charge the offense; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| HR 7 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the alleged production of "Hot Oil" within the State. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relative to tax on oil. |
| HB 83 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on all persons, firms, corporations, or associations of persons, owning or operating dance halls or night clubs; providing a penalty for violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| HR 10 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the creation of eligibility rolls for Old Age Assistance within the State. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any taxpayer in any common school district or independent school district to pay one-half or all of such school tax prior to the payment of any other tax that may be collectable on the same roll during the period of time covered by this Act. |
| HB 103 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article; requiring a man to procure a certificate from a reputable, licensed physician before securing a marriage license. |
| HB 319 | Caption: Relating to granting to Willis Fountain of New Boston, Bowie County, Texas, permission to bring suit against the State Highway Department in the District Court of Bowie County, Texas, for damages sustained to his property by the construction of dams on each side of Highway No. 8 which runs between the towns of New Boston and Corley in Bowie County, diverting the water on the farm of Willis Fountain. |
| HB 678 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; increasing the rate on certain sections of the Inheritance Tax Law, including inheritance by wife and children, domestic bequest, inheritance by brother or sister, by uncle or aunt and foreign bequests as classified in said Inheritance Tax Law. |
| HB 762 | Caption: Relating to providing that no license may be issued an agent until proof of solvency and stability of the company, association, or society sought to be represented has been furnished by the Insurance Department; providing for license fee; fixing a penalty. |
| HB 824 | Caption: Relating to providing relief for the DeKalb Independent School District of Bowie County, Texas, in order to aid said district in rebuilding its properties and equipping its school which was destroyed by fire on December 4, 1934. |
| HB 948 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of any seine, gill net or trammel net for taking fish from any of the waters of Bowie County, except a seine, gill net or trammel net of not less than two inches square mesh; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 98 | Caption: Requesting the construction of Civilian Conservation Corps camps along the Sulphur River. |
| HJR 5 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1a of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, exempting Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) of the assessed taxable value of all residence homesteads, as now defined by law, form all State, county, city, town, district and other political subdivision purposes. |
| HJR 19 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that the Legislature shall have the power to cooperate with the United States of America in providing for and paying an old age pension to actual bona fide citizens of Texas over the age of sixty-five years who have not been convicted of a felony within ten years next prior to the granting of such pension and who have never been convicted of being an habitual criminal. |
| HJR 41 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform. |
| HJR 45 | Caption: Proposing an Amendment to the State Constitution, providing a means of paying off road indebtedness heretofore incurred by political subdivisions of the State. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to creating an Old Age Pension System. |
| HB 40 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; inheritance taxes for certain classes of persons. |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to creating an Old Age Pension System. |
| HB 81 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "Dance Hall"; providing that any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a Dance Hall shall apply for and secure license from the State Comptroller of Public Accounts. |
| HR 26 | Caption: Inviting U.S. Congressman Wright Patman to address the House. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to creating an Old Age Pension System; defining an Old Age Pension Fund; defining those eligible to share in the distribution of the fund, the time and the manner of making proof of eligibility for an old age pension; providing for penalty. |
| HB 34 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; increasing the rate of inheritance tax by 50% on all brackets of taxable values of estates; providing for filing of report of value of the estate as found by the Federal Government with the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and making failure to file such report a misdemeanor. |
| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to creating an Old Age Pension System; defining an Old Age Pension Fund; defining those eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; providing for penalty. |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "Dance Hall"; providing that any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a Dance Hall shall apply for and secure a license from the State Comptroller of Public Accounts; levying an annual occupation tax of $25.00 against each person, firm or corporation operating a Dance Hall; providing that any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association of persons operating a Dance Hall without having paid the occupation tax provided for herein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor subject to conviction and fine in any sum not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 43rd Legislature (R.S.); levying an occupation tax on oil produced within this State of six (6) cents per barrel of forty-two standard gallons. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to quarterly reports of owners of sulphur mines. |
| HB 116 | Caption: Relating to authorizing county tax collectors to issue tax receipts for school taxes in common school districts separate from other taxes. |
| HB 315 | Caption: Relating to increasing the rate of tax on certain classes of the Inheritance Tax Law, including inheritance by wife and children, domestic bequest, inheritance by brother or sister, by uncle or aunt, and foreign bequests, as classified in certain statute on Inheritance Tax. |
| HB 480 | Caption: Relating to providing for rural school supervisor or supervisors in lieu of the teachers' institute, as required under certain statute, and providing for the payment of the salaries of said rural school supervisor or supervisors, in counties having a population of forty-five thousand (45,000), according to the Federal Census of 1930, and a scholastic population of at least 14,000, as shown by the scholastic census report for the school year of 1931-32. |
| HB 525 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the allocation of funds from the gasoline tax so as to make such funds payable one-fourth (1/4) to the County and Road District Highway Fund. |
| HB 554 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds to refund bonds and matured interest coupons of common school districts, independent school districts, consolidated common school districts, consolidated independent school districts, consolidated county line school districts, and rural high school districts. |
| HB 743 | Caption: Relating to providing for an exception to legal length of loads carried by motor vehicles in the case of motor vehicles transporting overlength poles and logs. |
| HB 751 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes relating to regulations of the Texas Railroad Commission regarding waste and pipelines. |
| HB 752 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the gross production tax on oil so as to increase the amount of such tax; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict. |
| HCR 92 | Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die. |
| HR 65 | Caption: Inviting Joe White of New Boston to address the House. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of certain State bonds, as provided for by Section 51-a, of Article III, of the Constitution of the State of Texas. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to tax on sulfur. |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to providing that the registration fees to be paid by promoters of boxing and wrestling contests be increased. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 23 | Caption: Relating to the licensing of motorcycles, side cars, and passenger motor vehicles; providing a license fee therefor and fixing an effective date for this Act. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Granting Mr. and Mrs. Willie Fountain permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HR 33 | Caption: In memory of former Representative R.M. Hubbard. |