Legislation authored by Jacob Walter Adamson

Includes legislation with Jacob Walter Adamson as the primary author for the 42nd through 44th 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.

44th Regular Session
HB 560 Caption: Relating to regulating and fixing the rights of parties to contracts or conveyances executed by persons at the time who are of unsound mind or otherwise incompetent, where no adjudication of incompetency has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction, and also, where such adjudication has been made but no lawful guardian of the estate of such incompetent has been appointed.
HB 674 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Chapter of the Acts of the 40th Legislature; permitting the Highway Commission of Texas to acquire, construct and maintain interstate bridges without joinder of the Highway Commissions of the adjoining States.
HB 771 Caption: Relating to providing for the taking of fish from fresh waters of Grayson County, Texas, for a period of five (5) years from the effective date hereof, and making it unlawful to take any such fish except by ordinary hook and line or by seine or net, the mesh of which is less than one and one-half inches square; fixing penalties.
HB 772 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; levying a tax of one-fourth (1/4) of one cent (1ยข) for each one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of natural gas produced in this State in the form of an occupation tax.
HB 866 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for the creation of corporations for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, operating and engaging in the business of cleaning, pressing and dyeing clothing and other materials.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 97 Caption: Relating to giving L. B. Hammett and wife, Mrs. L. B. Hammett, consent of the Legislature to sue the State of Texas and State Highway Commission for damages resulting from the construction of State Highway No. 6, in and through Grayson County, Texas.
43rd Regular Session
HB 101 Caption: Relating to defining "lobbying" and "lobbyist"; providing for application for license to lobby; providing for registration and publication of names for persons who lobby and the issuance of license by the secretary of State and prescribing amount to be paid for license and regulating lobbying in this State; prescribing penalties for violation of any of the provisions of this Act.
HB 223 Caption: Relating to regulating the license fee of registration of motorcycles and passenger cars.
HB 785 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on home life insurance companies and life insurance companies organized doing business, and operating in this State and under the laws of this State, based upon gross premiums collected; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
43rd 1st Called Session
HR 12 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to draft a questionnaire regarding members' professions and all other sources of income.
HR 24 Caption: Inviting the Southern Wonder Quartet to perform before the House.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 86 Caption: Relating to regulating court terms of the Fifteenth and Fifty-Ninth Judicial Districts.
43rd 4th Called Session
HR 5 Caption: In memory of W.C. Carpenter.
42nd Regular Session
HB 729 Caption: Relating to further regulating the use of, operation of motor and other vehicles over the highways of this State and regulating the transportation of persons and property thereon for hire or compensation.
HB 763 Caption: Relating to providing that no person transported by the owner or operator of a motor vehicle over the highways of this State as the guest of such owner or operator and without pay, shall have a cause of action for injury or death in case of accident, unless such accident shall have been intentional or heedless, or reckless.
HB 802 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to license fees for vehicles.
HR 99 Caption: In memory of Henry E. Ellis.
HR 104 Caption: Extending sympathy of the House to George B. Terrell.
42nd 1st Called Session
HB 17 Caption: Relating to granting permission to Red River Bridge Company of Texas and J.R. Handy of Grayson County, Texas, to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas upon those two certain contracts purported entered into by and between members of the State Highway Commission and Red River Bridge Company of Texas.
HB 45 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to fixing the compensation of County Commissioners according to assessed valuations.