Legislation authored by Fred Cumming Felty

Includes legislation with Fred Cumming Felty as the primary author for the 45th through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

46th Regular Session
HB 176	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating hospitals, sanitariums, and infirmaries; providing for the creation of the State Hospital Board and providing for inspection and reports; providing penalties.
HB 362	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act fixing the terms and prescribing the jurisdiction of the 37th, 45th, 57th, and 73rd Judicial District Courts, etc.
HB 427	Caption: Relating to exempting newspaper men testifying with reference to the source of certain confidential information.
HB 542	Caption: Relating to amending House Bill No. 726, Acts of the Forty-fifth Legislature, approved May 5, 1937, and creating San Antonio River Canal and Conservancy District under authority of Section 59 of Article 16 of the Constitution of the State of Texas to be a governmental agency, municipality, body politic and corporate; prescribing penalties for violation of provisions of franchise.
HB 569	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act reenacting a part of the oil and gas conservation law that is set to expire on September 1, 1939.
HB 737	Caption: Relating to providing for the labeling of pecans, giving the name of the grower and the location of the orchard or grove producing the same, and making it unlawful for anyone to purchase pecans not containing such label.
HB 792	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing regulations for the design, installation, construction, and operation of containers and pertinent equipment for the storage, handling, and transportation of butane or liquefied petroleum gases, empowering the Railroad Commission to alter and amend such regulations.
HB 856	Caption: Relating to declaring the sovereignty of Texas along its seacoast, fixing its present seacoast boundary and ownership; fixing the limits and boundaries of each seacoast counties in the waters within such boundary; making said waters a part of the area of the various seacoast counties for all proper jurisdictional purposes.
HB 884	Caption: Relating to declaring the Collared Peccary or Javelina a game animal; providing an open season for taking same and the number that may be taken or possessed; prohibiting the sale of any Peccary or part of such animal; providing a suitable penalty.
HB 959	Caption: Relating to validating the organization of Water Control and Improvement Districts created by authority of Chapter 25, Acts of the 39th Legislature, and amendments thereto in certain counties.
HB 1009	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that in no event shall the expenditure for the administration of this act exceed Sixty-five Thousand Dollars ($65,000) for any one fiscal year.
HB 1074	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Acts so as to make them applicable to all counties having five (5) or more District Courts with either civil or criminal jurisdiction.
HB 1120	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the use of the San Antonio River Canal and Conservancy District.
HR 85	Caption: Authorizing the installation of an automatic soda water vending machine in the House.
HR 307	Caption: Inviting members of the Coahuila Legislature to address the House.
45th Regular Session
HB 30	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000) out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a suitable Mausoleum or Monument for the remains of the heroes of the Alamo.
HB 31	Caption: Relating to requiring a resident fishing license of those who fish in the fresh waters of this State, excepting those under seventeen (17) years of age and excepting those holding an Artificial Lure License or a Commercial FIshing License; providing suitable penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act.
HB 32	Caption: Relating to requiring a General Hunting License, a Small Game License and a County Hunting License before indulging in certain hunting privileges; providing for suitable penalties and forfeitures for violation of any provision of this Act.
HB 33	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of fish in Kimble, Kerr, Edwards, Real, Sutton, Bandera, Mason, Menard, Blanco, Llano, Kendall, or Gillespie Counties with any device equipped with more than two (2) hooks, except artificial bait used with a rod and real and excepting a twenty (20) foot minnow seine for the purpose of taking minnows for bait; providing a penalty for any violation of this Act.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to kill, take or possess any of the game birds, game animals, fur-bearing animals or fish of this State, except in compliance with regulations promulgated by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission; providing suitable penalties for violation of this Act or any regulation issued hereunder.
HB 316	Caption: Relating to exempting newspaper men testifying with reference to the source of certain confidential information.
HB 806	Caption: Relating to declaring the Collared Peccary or Javelina a game animal; providing an open season for taking same and the number that may be taken or possessed; prohibiting the sale of any Peccary or part of such animal; providing a suitable penalty.
HB 983	Caption: Relating to making owners of dogs liable for such damages as may be suffered by persons bitten by dogs either on or in a public place, or on or in a private place, and in case of private place the person is lawfully upon said premises in the performance of some duty imposed upon him by law or postal regulations of the United States, or upon invitation, expressed or implied of the owner thereof.
HB 1103	Caption: Relating to providing that there shall be a closed season on fishing in the waters of Medina Lake in Bandera County, Texas, during the months of February, March, and April of each year.
HB 1150	Caption: Relating to permitting employees of San Antonio Independent School District other than holders of offices of financial trust to own stock or interest in concerns doing business with the district.
HB 1181	Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Sayers Common School District No. 21 in Bexar County, Texas, in replacing and repairing damage to buildings and equipment caused by a calamitous cloud burst and hail storm about February 14, 1937, making an appropriation for said district to replace and repair such damage.
HR 131	Caption: In memory of Joseph Ryan of San Antonio.
HR 192	Caption: In memory of Charles F. Knight of Austin.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 54	Caption: Relating to making adequate provision for the compensation of one Court Reporter to be appointed by the Criminal District Attorney in any county having a population in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) and less than three hundred and fifty-five thousand (355,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census and which alone constitutes two or more judicial districts.
HB 55	Caption: Relating to appointing Directors of San Antonio River Canal and the Conservancy District, providing for the appointment of their successors, designating their terms of office, providing for the filling of vacancies, prescribing the oath of office, providing who is eligible for appointment.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 129	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to record of proceedings and notice in lunacy proceedings, so as to provide that the County Clerk shall be required to enter in the minutes of the Court only the judgments of the Court rendered in lunacy proceedings.
HB 148	Caption: Relating to making adequate provision for the compensation of court reporters appointed by the district or criminal district attorney in any county having a population in excess of one hundred ninety thousand (190,000), according to the last preceding Federal Census.