Legislation authored by Abe Mulkey Mays, Sr.

Includes legislation with Abe Mulkey Mays, Sr. as the primary author for the 45th through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

46th Regular Session
HB 14 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to the operation of vehicles on the public highways; fixing the load limit, equipment on certain carriers and the regulation of the amount of tonnage to be transported on any motor vehicle.
HB 51 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide additional regulation of State-wide Mutual Assessment Insurance Companies.
HB 129 Caption: Relating to providing certain occupation tax upon itinerant vendors.
HB 130 Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the production of salt.
HB 322 Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas for the Livestock Sanitary Commission for additional support and maintenance for the Livestock Sanitary Commission for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1939.
HB 335 Caption: Relating to providing a Production Tax of six cents (6) per 1000 cu. ft. on natural gas, providing for one-fourth of the receipts of said tax to go into the public school fund to be allocated to rural aid and teachers retirement, providing three-fourths of said receipts shall go into the Social Security fund to be allocated to the blind, dependent children, tubercular control, syphilis control and Old Age Assistance.
HB 423 Caption: Relating correcting the inequalities in the assessment of the properties of the railroads of this State for the purpose of taxation, and to provide a method for establishing a uniform basis for the assessment of such taxes; providing for the appointment of the Board of Railway Taxation by the Governor of Texas.
HB 424 Caption: Relating to amending certain Article to provide for annual reports of free passes, franks and transportation; prescribing a penalty for violation.
HB 425 Caption: Relating to prohibiting a freight train to consist of more than seventy (70) cars, exclusive of caboose, to be run on any Texas railroad; prohibiting a passenger train to consist of more than fourteen (14) cars to be run on any Texas railroad; providing for a penalty for violation of laws.
HB 488 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing a more definite definition of the term "motor carrier."
HB 589 Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay past due rent on armories from March 1, 1932 to August 31, 1932, under lease to the National Guard of the State of Texas, and authorizing payment of said rent on taking effect of this Act.
HB 821 Caption: Relating to providing for, legalizing, regulating and licensing the operation of billiard or pocket billiard establishments in the State of Texas; providing for the application to and the issuance of licenses by the State Comptroller of Public Accounts; providing a penalty.
HB 843 Caption: Relating to safeguarding life and property from electrical hazards and the promotion of the welfare of the public; establishing a State Electrical Board as a subdivision of the Fire Insurance Division of the Board of Insurance Commissioners; providing a penalty.
HCR 145 Caption: Demanding that the Texas Railroad Commission and Department of Public Safety enforce the "7,000-Pound Truck Load Limit Law" to the fullest extent.
HCR 161 Caption: Recalling HB 231 from the Senate for further consideration.
HR 1 Caption: Providing for seat assignments for the duration of the 46th Legislature.
HR 212 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to conduct a survey of the Texas prison system.
45th Regular Session
HB 252 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Douglasville School District of Cass County, Texas, in order to aid said school district in replacing equipment destroyed by fire in December, 1935.
HB 282 Caption: Relating to creating the Special Fifth District Court of Marion County and Cass County, Texas.
HB 566 Caption: Relating to declaring it unlawful for any person to sell, take, or have in his possession for the purpose of barter or sale any wild fox or the pelt thereof in Cass, Bowie, or Marion Counties; providing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
HB 594 Caption: Relating to providing that vehicles owned and operated by bona fide orphans homes, shall pay a registration fee of Five ($5.00) Dollars only.
HB 595 Caption: Relating to providing that the limitation as to length, height and load of vehicles shall not apply to vehicles owned and operated by bona fide orphans homes and used exclusively for the purpose of picking up and transporting donations of goods, wares and merchandise to such homes.
HB 643 Caption: Relating to providing a method for the extermination of gophers and salamanders in certain counties; providing this Act shall be operative for four (4) months only.
HB 789 Caption: Relating to prescribing additional powers and duties of the Commissioners' Court in Counties having a population of not less than thirty thousand (30,000) and not more than thirty thousand one hundred (30,100) according to the latest Federal Census.
HB 1032 Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 7-A in Cass County, Texas.
HCR 49 Caption: Granting Jim Moore permission to sue Cass County.
HCR 98 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 566.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 15 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any itinerant vendor to engage in such business without first paying occupation tax levied herein; defining violations of this Act and prescribing penalties therefor.
HB 44 Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the production of salt; providing for an occupation tax of One ($1.00) Dollar a long ton on all salt produced within the State of Texas; providing for reports and records; imposing forfeitures and penalties for failure to keep records; providing penalties for failure to pay tax.
HB 47 Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act remitting ad valorem taxes to Galveston.
HB 52 Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the total amount of fees, tolls and service charges collected by any person operating a hotel on local telephone calls made from such hotel by the patrons or guests thereof; providing for reports and records; imposing forfeitures and penalties for failure to keep records; providing penalties for failure to pay tax.