Legislation authored by Jesse James

Includes legislation with Jesse James as the primary author for the 43rd through 45th 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.

45th Regular Session
HB 68 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or bookmaking on any horse race outside of an enclosure duly licensed by the Racing Commission of Texas; providing penalties for the violation of the several sections of this Act.
HB 130 Caption: Relating to giving the right of eminent domain to certain conservation and reclamation districts to enable them to acquire by condemnation land on which cemeteries are located under certain conditions.
HB 270 Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the General Fund of the State of Texas for the State Treasury Department for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937.
HB 272 Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the General Fund of the State of Texas for the State Treasury Department for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937.
HR 19 Caption: Reducing the Invocation from the Opening Day of Session into writing and printed in the Journal.
HR 67 Caption: In memory of former State Rep. Ed R. Sinks.
HR 78 Caption: Directing the House of Representatives to consider certain appropriations regarding old age assistance as required by a recent constitutional amendment.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 13 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or bookmaking; providing the forms of indictment or information sufficient to charge the offense.
HB 73 Caption: Relating to providing for the maximum amount of fees that may be retained by the Assessor-Collector of Taxes in all counties having a population of not less than thirteen thousand, three hundred and fifty (13,350) and not more than thirteen thousand, four hundred and forty (13,440), according to the most recent available Federal Census and each available Federal Census thereafter.
44th Regular Session
HB 102 Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries to be paid to county commissioners in certain counties.
HB 137 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, and declaring operation without a license to be a misdemeanor.
HB 871 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to kill, take, or have in his possession for barter or sale within a period of ten years of the passage of this Act any wild fox or the pelt thereof in Lee County, Texas, and providing exceptions; providing a penalty.
HB 874 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient Road Law for Lee County, providing for the payment of a tax of Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50) by all persons in said County, subject to road duty under the General Laws, or the performance of certain manual labor on the roads, in the discharge of said road duty; providing a penalty for failure or refusal to perform said road duty.
HB 956 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 42nd Legislature (R.S.); levying a tax upon all persons, firms, or corporations who produce or distribute cement in this State.
HR 16 Caption: In memory of former State Representative J.J. Elliot of Milam County, Texas.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 8 Caption: Relating to levying and imposing occupation taxes on certain industries, and public utilities, and natural resources; providing how the moneys, so derived, shall be allocated to the Texas Old Age Assistance Fund.
43rd Regular Session
HB 235 Caption: Relating to repealing the special road tax law for Burleson County.
HB 711 Caption: Relating to defining "butter," and prescribing regulations to govern the manufacture, storage, and sale thereof; requiring the branding and labeling of artificially colored butter; and declaring a violation of this Act to be a misdemeanor, and providing punishment therefor, and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HR 16 Caption: Endorsing Miller M. Brister for the position of First Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 24 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to catch, or kill, or have in their possession any wild fox, wild otter, and wild beaver, or to take or have in one's possession for barter or sale in the pelts of any wild fox, wild otter, or wild beaver in Burleson County; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 18 Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of stores in Texas, fixing fees therefor, declaring operation without license to be a misdemeanor.
HR 3 Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to nominees of the 44th Legislature.