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Includes legislation with Charles Dominic Rutta as the primary author for the 34th through 45th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System. Author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 34th.

45th Regular Session
HB 808	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to providing that no attorney at law, or stenographer, employee or clerk of any attorney at law, shall disclose or be required to disclose any fact or facts communicated by any client to such attorney at law, verbal or written, and/or coming to the knowledge of an attorney at law, and/or the stenographer, employee and/or clerk of such attorney at law, while the relation of attorney and client exists or existed between an attorney at law and another person.
HB 809	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to prohibiting the setting of any steel trap, snare, or deadfall in Colorado County for the purpose of taking any fur-bearing animals for a period of two (2) years; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.
HB 810	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot, or kill any wild turkey for a period of five (5) years in Austin County, Texas; fixing penalties.
HB 1016	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to providing for waiver of notice in adoption cases where living parents have abandoned child for five years and cannot be located.
HJR 14	Author: Rutta, Charles D. \| et. al. Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51 of Article III of the Constitution of Texas, providing for assistance to women who are actual bona fide residents of Texas, whose husbands are dead, or whose husbands are confined in the State Insane Asylum when such women are in necessitous circumstances, and are the mothers of children under the age of fourteen (14) years, in amounts of not to exceed Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per month to each such women and one child, under the age of fourteen 914) years, and an additional amount of not to exceed Five ($5.00) Dollars per month for each additional child under the age of fourteen (14) years, under such limitations, restrictions, and regulations as may be deemed expedient by the Legislature.
HJR 28	Author: Rutta, Charles D. \| et. al. Caption: Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Texas so as to permit the furnishing of State official textbooks free to every child of scholastic age, attending any school within the State.
HJR 46	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Providing for a Constitutional convention to be assembled in the City of Austin on the First Monday in October, 1937, for the purpose of framing a new constitution.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 30	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to declaring it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot, or kill any prairie chicken in the State of Texas for a period of five (5) years; prescribing penalty for violation of the provisions of this Act.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 97	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act prohibiting the trapping of fur-bearing animals in Colorado County.
HB 155	Author: Rutta, Charles D. \| et. al. Caption: Relating to amending certain Act to relating to providing for waiver of notice in adoption cases where living parents have abandoned child for five years and cannot be located by providing that all adoption papers signed prior to March 31, 1923, are hereby validated.
44th Regular Session
HB 378	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to providing that the Commissioners Court shall order the laying out and opening of public roads when necessary, and discontinue or alter any road whenever it shall be deemed expedient.
HB 379	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of county commissioners in certain counties.
HB 511	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to instituting suits to recover real estate as against a person having peaceable and adverse possession thereof within five years after cause of action shall have accrued.
HB 512	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to providing that no attorney at law, or stenographer, employee, or clerk of any attorney at law shall disclose, or be required to disclose, any fact or facts communicated by any client to such attorney at law, verbal or written.
HB 677	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to requiring each person or persons, firm, club, copartnership, association, corporation, or company desiring to conduct any racing meet under the provisions of certain statute, to pay a license fee according to the population of the locality where the meet is held, appropriating the funds so derived.
HB 743	Author: Rutta, Charles D. \| et. al. Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale and distribution of certain petroleum products; providing a penalty for violation of the provisions thereof.
HB 952	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to providing for the combining of the public welfare service now administered by the Board of Control through the Texas Relief Division, the Division of Child Welfare, and the Division of Eleemosynary Institutions and for the administering of these services by the division of Public Welfare of the State Board of Control, which is herein created.
44th 1st Called Session
HB 38	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to defining and classifying secured debts; placing the enforcement of this Act in the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
HB 44	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to requiring each person or persons, firm, club, copartnership, association, corporation, or company desiring to conduct any racing meet under the provisions of certain statute to pay a license fee according the population of the locality where the meet is held.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 137	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing a more efficient road system for Colorado County so as to provide for the laying off of the said county into convenient road precincts, the numbering thereof, describing such precincts by boundaries, providing for the manner of discontinuance of roads and parts of roads, and providing for the reversion of the right of way or roads and/or parts of roads, under certain condition in certain cases.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 61	Author: Rutta, Charles D. Caption: Relating to amending the Road Law for Colorado County so as to provide for the laying off of the said county into convenient road precincts, the numbering thereof, describing such precincts by boundaries, providing for the manner of discontinuance of roads and parts of roads, and providing for reversion of the rights of way of roads and/or parts of roads, under certain conditions, in certain cases.