Legislation authored by George Allen Davisson
Includes legislation with George Allen Davisson 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 8 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Board of Public Welfare for the State of Texas. |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to extending the oil proration code to Sept. 1, 1941. |
| HB 123 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts which include within their limits a city or town which according to the latest Federal Census had a population of not fewer than four thousand six hundred (4,600) and not more than four thousand six hundred and fifty (4,650), whether organized under general or special law. |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to declaring that any person who shall, while intoxicated, drive or operate an automobile so as to run into, run upon, strike or hit another person or shall collide with a vehicle with which such other person is riding and shall kill or so injure such other person that he dies within three months shall be guilty of murder. |
| HB 533 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriation out of any moneys in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the balance of the biennium ending August 31, 1937, for the State Department of Agriculture. |
| HB 576 | 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 586 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Unemployment Compensation Commission to make reciprocal arrangements with other states and Federal Government with respect to wages earned and benefits accumulated by employees. |
| HB 708 | Caption: Relating to providing for the forfeiture of oil and gas royalties not rendered for taxation. |
| HB 764 | Caption: Relating to defining the rights and duties of the State Board of Education to exact of school districts and cities and towns which have assumed control of public schools located therein the performance of certain prescribed duties in instances wherein all or any part of the bonds of such districts, cities or towns are owned by the Permanent School Fund. |
| HB 775 | Caption: Relating to making it the duty of the State Highway Department to purchase and issue two license number plate locking devices with each set of license number plates, said locking devices to be used to attach the rear license number plate of all motor vehicles; providing a penalty for violating the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 776 | Caption: Relating to providing for leasing school land by the owners of the soil as the agent of the State for production of oil and gas, relinquishing one-half the value of the royalty on the oil and gas, one-half of any sum paid in addition to royalty, and one-half of the annual rentals, and providing that such rentals be not less than twenty cents (20ยข) per acre. |
| HB 843 | Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Highland Rural High School District, No. 8, of Nolan County, Texas, in replacing equipment destroyed by disastrous fire. |
| HB 873 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the Leon River Conservation Project to be repaid out of the first moneys received. |
| HB 874 | Caption: Relating to declaring that the State shall own an undivided interest in all land included within the field notes but in excess of the acreage sought to be conveyed in the patent from the State. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to providing a method for holding elections to determine whether turkeys shall be permitted to run at large in political subdivisions of Guadalupe, Hardeman, Gonzales, Wise and Eastland Counties. |
| HCR 136 | Caption: Granting W. T. Caswell permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 163 | Caption: Granting the Cavelier de la Salle Missions permission to use the House Chamber on April, 3, 1937. |
| HR 263 | Caption: Providing for the production of and distribution of photos of State Rep. John Dollins throughout his district. |
| HR 274 | Caption: In memory of H. Y. Benedict. |
| HR 304 | Caption: Congratulating State Reps. Jack Langdon and Sam A. Jones and their brides on the occasion of their marriages. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 151 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, validating, and confirming all Waterworks System Revenue Refunding Bonds and all Sewer System Revenue Refunding Bonds heretofore authorized, issued, exchanged, and delivered by cities in Texas operating under the provisions of Special Charters and which refunding bonds have been heretofore validated and confirmed by a final decree of a United States District Court in Texas. |
| HR 24 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate a certain lease of land in Polk County. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 340 | Caption: Relating to validating all ad valorem tax levies made by certain cities and towns. |
| HB 409 | Caption: Relating to creating an unemployment fund; providing for deposit and custodian; providing regular contributions and penalties. |
| HB 667 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting persons from letting turkeys run at large; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 727 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 41st Legislature (2nd C.S.); regulating load and width limits on certain vehicles on public highways. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure; providing that witness fees shall be allowed only to such witnesses as may have been summoned on a sworn, written application of the State's attorney or the defendant or his attorney. |
| HB 810 | Caption: Relating to limiting the term of a lease for the purpose of drilling for oil and gas, making certain exceptions. |
| HB 811 | Caption: Relating to providing for the forfeiture of oil and gas royalties not rendered for taxation. |
| HR 151 | Caption: Urging the Senate of Texas to act on H.J.R. No. 19. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to providing for the protection, welfare, and relief of aged persons in need and resident in the State of Texas; and prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| HB 140 | Caption: Relating to creating the Leon River Flood Control District, a conservation and reclamation district, to be a governmental agency, body politic and corporate. |
| HR 39 | Caption: Inviting Smedley Butler to address the House. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to creating a system of old age assistance in Texas; creating the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission, prescribing their terms of office and qualifications and duties, and fixing their salaries; prescribing penalties. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to creating an Unemployment Insurance System for the State of Texas. |
| HCR 26 | Caption: Authorizing the State Highway Department to loan certain equipment to the City of Eastland. |
| HR 20 | Caption: Inviting Congressman Clyde Garret to address the House. |