Legislation authored by Bird L. Rogers
Includes legislation with Bird L. Rogers 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 | |
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| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes; salaries of County Commissioners in certain Counties. |
| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; the printing, engraving, binding, and furnishing of textbooks. |
| HB 293 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; prohibiting the waste of gas by escape and requiring the confinement thereof until the same can be utilized for light, fuel, or other useful purposes, including the manufacture of carbon black and natural gasoline, provided the utilization of such gas for the purpose of manufacturing natural gasoline shall be without waste of the residue thereof. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to creating the Commission of the Volunteer Army of the War with Spain to be composed of the Governor of the State of Texas, the Adjutant General of Texas, and the Department Commander of the United Spanish War Veterans of Texas, and their successors in office, all without extra compensation and the Governor as chairman. |
| HB 426 | Caption: Relating to declaring a closed season for a period of five (5) years in which shall be unlawful to hunt, take, capture, kill or posses quail and prairie chicken in the Counties of Lipscomb and Hemphill; and fixing penalties. |
| HB 559 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; providing for quarterly financial statements of county affairs to be made by county clerks to commissioners courts. |
| HB 822 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of any County in Texas to devise means and methods to stop the drifting of soil. |
| HCR 55 | Caption: Providing for a joint committee to negotiate the establishment of the "Cimarron Base Line" with the State of Oklahoma as the true State boundary. |
| HCR 118 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule No. 23 to allow for final disposition of H.B. Nos. 559, 998, and 1001. |
| HJR 4 | Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America, at its first session, which amendment empowers the Congress to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. |
| HR 33 | Caption: Directing the Committee on Contingent Expenses to print the required number of House Journals daily. |
| HR 55 | Caption: Providing for the creation of the Committee on Interstate Cooperation. |
| HR 162 | Caption: |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules 11 and 30 to consider S.B. No. 55. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to validating and approving all acts and proceedings of County Commissioners Courts and the County Judge in the matter of the creation and incorporation of Wind Erosion Conservation Districts in their said counties, and validating and approving all elections held under the provisions of said law where the returns of said elections show that a majority of the legally qualified property taxpaying voters of said counties voting at said elections favored the creation of such districts. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings heretofore had by the governing bodies of all counties, cities and towns in connection with the issuance of bonds for any purpose, including election orders, notices of election, returns of election, orders canvassing election returns, and bonds issued pursuant thereto, including among instances wherein there have been irregularities in the calling of elections and in the giving of notice of elections. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the selection of school depositories for independent districts in certain counties regardless of the population of said districts. |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain section of the Session Acts which created the 114th Judicial District Court; validating and continuing all causes, processes, writs, bonds and recognizances and making them pending, answerable and returnable and valid in the 31st and 84th Judicial District Courts respectively. |
| HB 201 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute prohibiting the waste of gas by escape, and requiring the confinement thereof under the terms and conditions of said statute. |
| HB 455 | Caption: Relating to granting to boards of trustees of independent school districts of this State full management and control of public free schools of such districts, vesting said boards with all the powers in regard to the establishment and maintaining of free schools, including the power and manner of taxation for free school purposes that are conferred by law upon the governing bodies of incorporated cities and towns of this State. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to property taxes. |
| HB 536 | Caption: Relating to the printing, engraving, and binding and furnishing of textbooks. |
| HB 706 | Caption: Relating to further regulating the operation of motor vehicles on State highways; defining the term "special commodity carrier." |
| HB 727 | Caption: Relating to levying an income tax upon natural persons and corporations for the purpose of reducing the State ad valorem tax upon proerty; defining certain terms; providing that first tax shall be assessed in 1934 on net income for 1933. |
| HB 779 | Caption: Relating to providing for the repurchase of land set apart to build the Capitol that has been recovered by the State and appropriated to the Public Free School Fund, and heretofore purchased from the State, and forfeited, or that should be forfeited for non-payment of interest accrued prior to November 1, 1932, the owner of such land or part thereof at the date of forfeiture shall have a preference right for a period of ninety (90) days after the date of notice of revaluation of such land to repurchase the same upon the terms and conditions provided in certain statute. |
| HB 780 | Caption: Relating to authorizing all officers of the State, counties, cities, towns, villages, and all other political subdivisions of the State, now empowered to issue warrants in payment of salaries and other obligations, to issue such warrants in denominations of five, ten, and twenty dollars, or fractional parts thereof, in payment of any such salaries or other obligations. |
| HB 842 | Caption: Relating to providing for quarterly financial statements of county affairs to be made by county clerks to commissioners courts; providing for the publication thereof, and for the enforcement of the provisions hereof. |
| HB 930 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the purposes for which private corporations may be formed so as to provide that corporations may be formed for the purpose of engaging in the business of exterminating moths and termites. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Education in certain instances to issue and sell deficiency certificates bearing interest at a rate of not more than 4 percent per annum from issuance until same are called for payment against the State Available School Fund. |
| HCR 2 | Caption: Authorizing the State Superintendent to pay a consolidation bonus to Morse Rural High School District of Hansford County from the deficiency appropriation for rural schools. |
| HCR 15 | Caption: Granting J.F. Hollis permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department. |
| HJR 1 | Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America, at its First Session, which amendment empowers the Congress to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age. |
| HR 22 | Caption: In memory of Judge Clifford Braly. |
| HR 25 | Caption: Recalling HJR 1 from the Senate for further consideration. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 66 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, ensnare, kill or attempt to kill any wild deer, buck, doe, fawn or wild turkey in the Counties of Hemphill, Roberts, Hutchinson, Potter, Randall, Armstrong, Montague, and Briscoe; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 151 | Caption: Relating to aiding the counties of Dallas, Sherman, Hansford, Hartley, Moore, Hutchison, Ochiltree, Roberts, Lipscomb, Hemphill, Potter, Oldham, Carson, Armstrong, Randall, and Deaf Smith, by releasing said counties form the payment of all ad valorem taxes levied for State purposes. |
| HB 165 | Caption: Relating to staying all sales under execution, or order of sale, or under any deed of trust, mortgage, or other contract giving or granting any power of sale of real property for debt to be made, or now advertised to be made, on March 6, 1934, until the first Tuesday in April, 1934. |
| HCR 49 | Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in the caption of HB 66. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Relating to the conference committee on HB 13. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 42 | Caption: Memorializing Congress and the President of the United States to take steps toward a gradual redistribution of wealth. |