Legislation authored by Otis Theodore Dunagan

Includes legislation with Otis Theodore Dunagan as the primary author for the 43rd 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 70	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article; providing that persons who are feeble, ill and confined in bed or confined to their places of abode by reason of illness, may vote as absentees.
HB 71	Caption: Relating to the licensing of motor vehicle operators and to the liability of certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles on the public highways, providing for issuance of licenses, revocation of operator's and chauffeur's licenses under certain conditions, forbidding driving by persons without licenses, providing penalties.
HB 116	Caption: Relating to levying and providing for payment and collection of luxury taxes upon persons who purchase chewing gum, perfumes, cosmetics, cigars, tobacco, snuff, smoking and chewing tobacco (except rolled cigarettes), candy cereal beverages, bottled drinks which are not cereal beverages, soft drinks which are not bottled, tickets to places of amusements, playing cards, jewelry, malt, firearms and sporting goods.
HB 117	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of slot machine halls; and providing a penalty for the operation of slot machine halls.
HB 252	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing that the Assessor and Collector of Taxes in certain counties shall receive $4,500.
HB 567	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge or Judges of certain counties to retain the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600) of fees in lieu of any other fee.
HB 569	Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners court in certain counties to purchase out of certain funds of the county, one truck or pickup for each commissioner precinct, to be used in said precinct in the official duty of commissioner or commissioners, providing that said truck or pickup shall not be used by commissioner, commissioners, or anyone else for personal business or pleasure trips.
HR 87	Caption: Designating Cecil A. Lotief, Jr. as a Mascot of the House.
HR 95	Caption: In memory of Ella Beck.
HR 143	Caption: Congratulating Representative Taylor Russell and Arlene Wilson on the occasion of their marriage.
44th 1st Called Session
HR 44	Caption: Commending the East Texas Yamboree.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 54	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; absentee voting by persons absent or physically disabled.
HB 126	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the trapping or hunting with guns of wild foxes, or having in possession the pelts thereof in Camp County; providing penalty.
43rd Regular Session
HB 48	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the payment of poll tax.
HB 142	Caption: Relating to releasing the penalty and interest accrued and as now fixed by law, on all State, county, special school, school district, road district, levee improvement district, and irrigation district taxes, and taxes of other defined subdivisions of the State; suspending all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith during the term of this Act.
HB 412	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting, taking or trapping in any way, any fur-bearing animal or animals in Upshur and Camp Counties, by transient or other persons, who are not resident citizens of said counties; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; prescribing a penalty.
HB 414	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to regulation of public utilities by providing for, and including thereunder regulation and control of electric light and power companies and telephone and telegraph companies, and defining certain terms and phrases, and providing for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 701	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to an occupation tax on coin-operated vending machines, marble table machines, and similar devices, within the scope of the statute; providing such funds to be placed to the credit of the State Available School Fund
HB 702	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the expenses of patients in the Pasteur Hospital so as to provide for the payment of expenses of an indigent parent accompanying a minor child.
HB 790	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting, taking, or killing of wild foxes, or having in possession the pelts thereof in Upshur County; providing a penalty.
HB 940	Caption: Relating to granting the Board of Control, with the Governor's approval, the right and power to sell not more than ten (10) acres of the land owned by the Gilmer State Orphanage.
HCR 49	Caption: Granting Dick Isbell permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 102	Caption: Granting Dick Isbell permission to sue the State of Texas.
HJR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VI, Section 2, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by providing that every person subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one (21) years, and who shall be a citizen of the United States , and who shall have resided in this State one (1) year next preceding an election, and the last six months within the district or county in which such person offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector.
HR 106	Caption: Inviting comedian Eddie Cantor to address the House.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 59	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the trapping or hunting with guns of wild foxes, or having in possession the pelts thereof in Upshur County; providing a penalty.
HB 101	Caption: Relating to amending the Special Road Law for Smith County, Texas, so as to further provide that the Commissioners' Court of Smith County, Texas shall provide for the transportation of the county convicts who may be ordered to work on said roads, and for the transportation from place to place in the County of the various employees and hands, laborers, mechanics and artisans who may be employed on the roads and bridges of Smith County, Texas.
HB 146	Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensation of County Commissioners in certain counties and providing for the manner and the fund from which said salaries shall be paid.
HCR 32	Caption: Providing for the distribution of a survey to Senators.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 22	Caption: Relating to levying taxes upon all money wagered or contributed toward the entry of all horses entered in races conducted under certain statute.
HB 23	Caption: Relating to levying a ten percent (10%) tax upon each individual, firm, club, co-partnership, corporation, company, or association, which conducts any racing meet under the provisions of certain statute, where an admission fee is charged or received; providing for the collection of said tax by the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and appropriating said tax to the Texas Relief Sinking Fund.
HB 67	Caption: Relating to requiring every person, firm, corporation or association of persons in this State who sells cigarettes by means of a vending machine of any kind or character to secure a permit from the Comptroller or Public Accounts as is required of other dealers under the provisions of certain statute.
HB 104	Caption: Relating to providing an open season or period of time when it shall be lawful to hunt, take, or kill wild quail of all kinds, wild Mexican pheasants or chachalaca in the north zone, as such defined in certain Article of the Revised Penal Code.
HB 123	Caption: Relating to defining the offenses of forcible entry and detainer, and forcible detainer, and fixing a penalty.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 96	Caption: Relating to the providing that the Assessor and Collector of Taxes shall receive a salary of $4,500 in certain counties.
HCR 26	Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
HR 6	Caption: In memory of former Representative J. Ben Hill.
HR 46	Caption: In memory of J. Nathan Aldredge.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 64	Caption: Relating to providing that counties containing as many as 22,296 and not more than 22,580 inhabitants, according to the last Federal Census, the Assessor and Collector of Taxes shall receive $4,500.