Legislation authored by John Doyle Settle
Includes legislation with John Doyle Settle 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 27 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on any person, firm, corporation or association pursuing the occupation of importing beer into this State for the purpose of re-sale; providing a penalty. |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or receiving or making bets on horse racing, and providing a penalty for its violation. |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to requiring licenses for the operation, maintenance, opening or establishment of stores in this State, prescribing the license and filing fees to be paid therefor, and the disposition thereof, and the powers and duties of the Comptroller of Public Accounts in connection therewith, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| HB 61 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Cosmetology, with the approval of the State Board of Health to prescribe sanitary rules to prevent the spread of contagious diseases, providing regulations for owners or managers of hairdressing and cosmetological shops or schools of beauty culture, declaring it unlawful for any persons to practice as a hairdresser except in the homes of customers and bona fide beauty shops, declaring the establishment of home beauty shops unlawful. |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to defining, regulating, licensing, and taxing itinerant merchants by motor vehicle; declaring violation of this Act a nuisance; providing criminal penalties and civil liabilities for violation hereof. |
| HB 139 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College to erect and equip and make contracts for the erection and equipping of dormitories, other buildings and improvements on the campus or other real estate purchased or leased for the purpose. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to providing that the liens created in certain Article shall constitute a first lien superior to all other liens. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to giving school districts same prior lien under paving contracts as enjoyed by State, county and city for ad valorem taxes. |
| HB 208 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to delinquent taxpayers by omitting the clause providing that no suit shall be brought for the collection of delinquent taxes for a School District or Road District unless instituted within ten years from the time same shall become delinquent. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to providing that all real and personal property held or owned by any person in this State shall be liable for all State, county and School District Taxes, and such taxes shall constitute a first lien on such property. |
| HB 283 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon the commercial producers of coal at twenty-five cents ($0.25) per ton. |
| HB 397 | Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of a site and for the establishment, location, and construction of a hospital for the white mentally ill, naming the same, and providing for the care, treatment and support of white mentally ill persons. |
| HB 869 | Caption: Relating to providing that any person buying motor fuel in quantities greater than fifty (50) gallons, shall be exempt from the payment of any excise tax on motor fuel that may be provided by law. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Naming Doris Marie James as the Queen of Mascots. |
| HR 33 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 66 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the feasibility of converting some unused space in the Texas Confederate Veteran's Home into office space. |
| HR 74 | Caption: Providing additional Members to be added to the committee designated in H. R. No. 66. |
| 45th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College to erect and equip and make contracts for the erection and equipping of dormitories, other buildings and improvements on the campus. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 71 | Caption: Relating to the compensation and salary to be paid County Auditors in certain counties. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 246 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; requiring individuals or companies owning, operating, or controlling power plants in this State to make quarterly reports to the Comptroller. |
| HB 248 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that any person, company, corporation or association failing to pay the tax levied in said statute within thirty (30) days after the same is due and payable, shall pay to the State as a penalty an additional amount equal to Ten Percent (10%) of the tax due, and such tax and penalty shall draw interest at the rate of Six Percent (6%) per annum from due date until paid. |
| HB 287 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; levying an occupation tax upon the occupation of producing petroleum oil within this State. |
| HB 288 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; levying a tax of one-fifth (1/5) of one cent (1¢) for each one thousand cubic feet of natural gas produced in this State in the form of an occupation tax. |
| HB 655 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; gross receipts tax of life insurance companies. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 64 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the General and Special Laws of the 44th Legislature (R.S.); distribution of scholastic aid by district population. |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; levying a tax of one-fifth (1/5) of one cent (1¢) for each one thousand (1000) cubic feet of natural gas produced in this State, in the form of an occupation tax. |
| HB 135 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain House Bill of the General Laws of the 44th Legislature; distribution of State aid to public schools by scholastic population of district. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 10 | Caption: Granting the Young Democrats of Texas permission to use the House Chamber for a rally. |