Legislation authored by John Bicknell Patterson
Includes legislation with John Bicknell Patterson as the primary author for the 44th 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 | |
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| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the formation of a Juvenile Board in certain counties so as to make the same applicable to counties having three or more District Courts. |
| HB 253 | Caption: Relating to continuance of case by Members of the Legislature. |
| HB 574 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of One Hundred Fifty Thousand ($150,000.00) Dollars to the Texas State Employment Service for the purpose of maintaining public employment offices provided for under certain statute, for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937. |
| HB 591 | Caption: Relating to creating a Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in the State of Texas, providing that said home shall be operated in conjunction with the Confederate Home at Austin, Texas, and placing the operation thereof under the supervision of the State Board of Control. |
| HB 610 | Caption: Relating to exempting nursery stock in ground from payment of taxes. |
| HB 679 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of district attorneys in each judicial district in this State composed of only one county in which county there are two or more district courts with concurrent jurisdiction of all prosecutions for failing or refusing to pay over money belonging to the State under certain statute. |
| HB 950 | Caption: Relating to titles of rivers. |
| HB 952 | Caption: Relating to absentee voting. |
| HB 977 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the several sums of money herein specified as an emergency appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Bureaus of Identification and Records and of Intelligence, Department of Public Safety. |
| HB 1002 | Caption: Relating to fixing salaries and compensation of County Commissioners in Counties with a population of not less than seventy seven thousand six hundred (77,600) inhabitants nor more than eighty eight thousand (88,000) inhabitants, according to the last Federal Census, as same now exists or may hereafter exist, and having an assessed valuation of not less than Forty Million One Dollars ($40,000,001.00) nor more than Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000.00), according to the last approved tax rolls, as same now exists or may hereafter exist. |
| HB 1028 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of certain fish in the waters of Travis County during the months of February, March, and April; providing means, methods, and devices for taking fish; providing size limits, bag limits, and possession limits; permitting the use of seines and nets for certain species; prohibiting the sale, or the taking for the purpose of selling, of any fish from the waters of Travis County; providing a penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 1146 | Caption: Relating to amending the Lower Colorado River Authority Act to provide that nothing in said Act shall prohibit the District from acquiring property from or selling property to the City of Austin upon such terms and conditions, and entering into such contractual relations thereto, as the District and the City may mutually agree upon. |
| HB 1176 | Caption: Relating to omitting the January Term of Court in Mills County, Texas. |
| HJR 53 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article IX, Section I of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that adjacent counties may, under such rules as the Legislature may prescribe, consolidate. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 173 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that recorded judgment lien shall continue for ten years from date of record and index. |
| HB 467 | Caption: Relating to providing for an additional Assistant District Attorney for the Fifty-third Judicial District of Texas, prescribing his qualifications, who shall be authorized to perform any official act devolving upon or authorized to be performed by the district attorney of such district. |
| HB 482 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; last will and testament made when the testator had no child living shall be void. |
| HB 520 | Caption: Relating to making forcible entry a misdemeanor, defining same for the purpose of this Act. |
| HB 693 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 41st Legislature; providing that being a member of the Legislature shall be a sufficient cause for continuance in civil, criminal, or probate suits. |
| HB 825 | Caption: Relating to providing for a tax of ten percent (10%) of the wholesale value of intoxicating liquors; providing that failure to keep record or exhibit them for inspection shall be punishable as a misdemeanor; providing that unauthorized manufacture, possession or sale of stamps shall be punishable as a felony and prescribing the punishment; providing that the sale or possession of liquor not properly stamped shall be punished as a felony and prescribing the punishment. |
| HB 843 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; defining persons who shall be charged with water pollution; providing that it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prosecute violations under said statutes for the penal offense committed, or to prevent the violation of same by writ of injunction, and by further providing that the terms of same shall apply to all officers of municipal and private corporations. |
| HB 848 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 42nd Legislature (R.S.); permitting the court to set apart to the widow or children of decedents the exempt property, or property appropriated to make up allowances made in lieu of exempt property or for the support of the widow or children, after discharge of the liens or encumbrances thereon, or subject to such liens or encumbrances. |
| HB 864 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Fund of the State of Texas for the State Service Office of the Adjutant General's Department for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1935. |
| HB 992 | Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Travis County, Texas. |
| HB 995 | Caption: Relating to transferring the use and possession of 16.66 acres of land out of the George W. Spear Headright League adjoining Camp Mabry in Travis County, Texas, title to which is now in the State of Texas. |
| HCR 64 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control to install and maintain an information desk in the Capitol building. |
| HCR 80 | Caption: Providing for confirmation of the purchase of certain land for military purposes. |
| HCR 127 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 22, 23, and 32 for final disposition of H.B. Nos. 843 and 995. |
| HCR 133 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule Nos. 23, 24, and 32 for final disposition of H.B. 995. |
| HCR 155 | Caption: Granting W.T. Dickerson permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 171 | Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 234 from the Governor. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 15 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; the manufacturing and sale of denatured alcohol and its byproducts. |
| HB 112 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money to pay judgment for the sum of Twelve Hundred ($1200.00) Dollars against the State of Texas in favor of R. D. Winder in cause No. 52982 in the 126th District Court of Travis County. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 34 | Caption: Requesting the Board of Control relating to hiring certain employees. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HCR 27 | Caption: Granting the Martin Brothers firm permission to sue the State of Texas. |