Legislation authored by Arthur Bosworth Tarwater
Includes legislation with Arthur Bosworth Tarwater as the primary author for the 41st through 46th 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.
| 46th Regular Session | |
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| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the Babcock Test for Milk and Cream. |
| HB 397 | Caption: Relating to defining "warehousemen" and "warehouse," names and words associated therewith; and providing for the licensing and bonding of same and the manner of securing license and bond; providing for forfeitures and penalties for violation of provisions of this Act. |
| HB 688 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relative to the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness. |
| HCR 71 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pay Texas cotton farmers a subsidy to produce cotton for a world market. |
| HCR 130 | Caption: Granting Judge C.D. Russell permission to be absent from Texas while his Court is not in session. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 599 | Caption: Relating to providing for the organization of cooperative, non-profit, membership corporations for the purpose of engaging in rural electrification. |
| HB 701 | Caption: Relating to describing, defining, and officially naming a system of coordinates for designating the position of points on the surface of the earth within the State of Texas. |
| HB 702 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purchase of buses by all school districts, prescribing the purposes for which such buses may be used. |
| HB 1058 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Parmer County, Texas, authorizing the Commissioners' Court to require surety bonds of road overseers, validating certain time warrants and the proceedings heretofore had by the County and by its officials in reference to the issuance of certain time warrants for the purchase of rights-of-way, authorizing the Commissioners' Court of said County to issue serial coupon bonds of said County in the funding of said time warrants, and to levy all or any part of the fifteen cents special road and bridge maintenance tax of said County for payment of said bonds. |
| HB 1163 | Caption: Relating to validating the transfer of territory proceedings detaching territory from the Center Plains Common School District No. 4 and the Science Hill Common School District No. 8, both of Hale County, Texas, and attaching same to the Cotton Center Independent School District of Hale County, Texas, including petitions, hearings, orders, notices, elections, orders declaring results of elections, assumption of indebtedness, and ratifying changes made by the County Board of School Trustees of Hale County, Texas, in the Cotton Center Independent School District of Hale County, Texas. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 92 | Caption: Relating to the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 256 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve, and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in Swisher County where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon the "Hutchison Iron Pipe Survey." |
| HB 278 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming a compact entered into by and between Texas and New Mexico relative to certain school districts. |
| HB 317 | Caption: Relating to defining "warehousemen" and "warehouse," names and associated therewith; and providing for the licensing and bonding of same and the manner of securing license and bond and exempting certain warehouses; providing for forfeitures and penalties for violation of provisions of this Act. |
| HB 401 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon upon certain persons, firms, associations and corporations engaged in the business of soliciting or receiving orders from consumer for sale, distribution, transportation, or importation of cigarettes within this State. |
| HB 590 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of property at public sale. |
| HB 860 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; changing and prescribing the terms and time of holding District Courts of the Sixty-fourth Judicial District of the State, composed of Hale, Lamb, Swisher, Castro, and Bailey Counties. |
| HB 984 | Caption: Relating to providing for the filing by executors and administrators of petitions for composition or extension with creditors of insolvent estates in the United States District Court and the invocation of the relief provided by Section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 as amended, upon order of the County Court. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 118 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Lamb County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of April 13, 1935, setting forth the method of operation. |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Bailey County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of April 10, 1935, setting forth the method of operation. |
| HB 123 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Swisher County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of July 8, 1935, setting forth the method of operation. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 24 | Caption: Directing the investigating committee provided in H.R. No. 12 to make inquiry into the financial grants provided to certain institutions of higher learning. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 253 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to exempt Bailey County and others from the provision requiring the election of a hide and animal inspector and other provisions of said statute. |
| HB 274 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell the West 3/4 of the West 1/2 of Section 140, Block M-15, in Swisher County, Texas, to T.H. Love, under the provisions of certain statute. |
| HB 275 | Caption: Relating to providing for a game breeder's license, the fee for same; effective date of such licenses; providing suitable penalties. |
| HB 310 | Caption: Relating to defining "warehouseman" and "warehouse" and names associated therewith; and providing for licensing and bonding of same and the manner of securing license and bond; and providing for the procedure thereof; defining the duties and liabilities of warehousemen. |
| HB 420 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to auctioneers. |
| HB 429 | Caption: Relating to providing tax of 10 cents per pound on certain oleomargarines, for method of collecting tax, for certificates and reports to Commissioner of Agriculture by wholesalers of taxable oleomargarine; defining "oleomargarine," and other terms used in this Act. |
| HB 488 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve, and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in Swisher County, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized land surveyor, and based upon the "Hutchison Iron Pipe Survey". |
| HB 861 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming a compact entered into by and between representatives of the State of Texas and the State of New Mexico, authorized by certain statute. |
| HCR 44 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass SB 1197, the "Frazier Bill." |
| HCR 67 | Caption: Inviting members of the Home Demonstration Clubs and County Agents from across Texas to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HR 161 | Caption: Inviting Francis J. Clair, President of the National League for Economic Stabilization in Chicago, to address the House. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 106 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming an compact entered into by and between representatives of the State of Texas and the State of New Mexico, authorized by Act of the Regular Session of the Forty-second Legislature, and approved by the Governor on May 27, 1931. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to defining oleomargarine and other terms used in Act; providing tax of four cents per pound on certain oleomargarines, for method of collecting tax, for certificates and reports to State Comptroller by wholesalers of taxable oleomargarine. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to defining "oleomargarine" and other terms used in this Act; imposing a tax of Ten (10) Cents per pound on certain oleomargarines; providing for forfeitures and penalties for violations of Act. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Texas Centennial Commission may contract or agree with any private parties, association or corporation for the financing of such Texas Centennial, for profit. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| HB 129 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by adding Garza and Parmer Counties to the counties exempted from hide and animal inspection laws. |
| HB 261 | Caption: Relating to imposing an occupation tax upon wholesalers of oleomargarine and other substitutes for butter; providing penalties. |
| HB 297 | Caption: Relating to defining unfair discrimination and prohibiting any person, firm or company engaged in the business of buying poultry, eggs, milk, cream or butterfat for the purpose of manufacture or sale, from discriminating between different localities. |
| HB 419 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by establishing Babcock test as official dairy test for butterfat; providing punishment and penalties for violation of provisions of this act. |
| HB 742 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the creation of common school districts including portions of other districts having outstanding bonds. |
| HB 994 | Caption: Relating to school districts adjoining the Texas-New Mexico line. |
| 42nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to providing for conserving the soils of this State and their fertility and imposing an occupation tax upon wholesalers of oleomargarine and other substitutes for butter; providing offenses, fines, punishment and other penalty. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Inviting A.K. Short to address the House. |
| 42nd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 13 | Caption: Relating to providing for conserving the soils of this state and their fertility, and imposing an occupation tax upon wholesalers as defined herein, of oleomargarine and other substitutes for butter; providing for a report and for penalties. |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to the prohibiting of the use of butter substitutes in institutions supported in whole or in part by public funds and providing penalties. |
| 41st Regular Session | |
| HB 304 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Lamb county, Texas; providing that the county commissioners shall be road commissioners of their respective precincts; providing that such commissioner shall have charge of the road teams, tools, machinery and appliances of said county under the direction of the commissioners court. |
| HB 344 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all school districts, including independent districts, consolidated districts, rural high school districts and common school districts organized under general or special laws; repealing all laws in conflict herewith, both general and special. |
| HB 513 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide a refund of the tax paid on gasoline to be used for agricultural purposes; providing a penalty. |
| HB 587 | Caption: Relating to providing a Mechanic's lien on motor vehicles. |
| HB 685 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Floyd County, Texas, requiring surety bonds of Road Overseers. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the election and term of office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of all oil and/or gas in State Prison Lands by lease; making an appropriation. |
| HB 63 | Caption: Relating to exempting Parmer county from certain acts. |