Legislation authored by Amos Percy Scarborough

Includes legislation with Amos Percy Scarborough 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 310 Caption: Relating to requiring dealers in secondhand oil field supplies to obtain a license; providing a penalty.
HB 406 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting, trapping, ensnaring or killing of any wild deer, buck, doe or fawn within the limits of the Counties of Jasper and Newton, State of Texas, for a period of three (3) years from and after the passage of this Act; providing a penalty therefor.
HB 516 Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensation of county commissioners in counties with a population of not less than 12,522 and not more than 12,525 population, according to the last Federal Census.
HB 553 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 40th Legislature (R.S.); designating the conditions under which certificates of convenience and necessity shall be issued and limiting the power of the Railroad Commission in issuance of certificates of convenience and necessity to motor bus companies and further protecting the rights of the public to local transportation.
HB 709 Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensations of County Commissioners in certain counties.
44th 2nd Called Session
HB 124 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the selling, taking or possession for barter or sale of wild fox, or the pelt thereof in Newton and Jasper Counties; to prohibit the killing of wild fox in said counties, providing penalties.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 36 Caption: Relating to regulating and licensing persons engaged in the business or occupation of outdoor advertising and all persons erecting or maintaining or authorizing the erection or maintenance of outdoor advertising signs or structures outside the limits of incorporated cities and towns within a distance of one half mile of State designated highways.
HB 40 Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax upon local mutual aid associations; providing certain exemptions, prescribing the rate of tax and the methods of its measurement.
HB 58 Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, approving, confirming and declaring enforceable all levies and assessments of ad valorem taxes heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in this State which are unenforceable because same were made and adopted by resolution, motion or other informal action, and because of the failure of the governing body of such city or town to appoint the proper and statutory board of equalization.
HCR 34 Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 13 until dispositon.
43rd Regular Session
HB 505 Caption: Relating to compensation of county commissioners.
HB 797 Caption: Relating to imposing and levying an occupation tax on all individuals, companies, corporations, and associations selling or furnishing power or electrical energy to the public for compensation.
HB 830 Caption: Relating to validating all annexations of a portion of one common county line consolidated school district to an independent school district, made pursuant to elections held in each of said districts on the same day, wherein, and whereby, at the election so held in the common school district seeking to be annexed to such other district, a majority of the tax-paying voters, voting at such an election, voted for such annexation.
HB 938 Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, 1925, so as not to exempt Angelina, Tyler, Jasper and Newton Counties from the provisions of certain Articles of the Penal Code.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 23 Caption: Relating to the continuation of the campaign for the control and prevention of malaria; prescribing the duties of the State Board of Health in reference thereto; making appropriation.
HB 57 Caption: Relating to permitting the taking of pelts of fur-bearing animals for the purpose of sale in Jasper and Newton Counties, during the months of December and January; providing a penalty.
HB 184 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to hunt, take or kill any squirrel except from November 10th to January 10th of each year, in the counties of Jasper, Newton and Young.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 148 Caption: Relating to the wild duck and geese zone; placing certain counties in the north zone which are now located in the south zone, being Shelby, Nacogdoches, San Augustine, Angelina, Sabine, Polk, Tyler, Jasper, and Newton, and changing the zone line so as to include these counties in the north zone.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HR 30 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Legislative Oil Investigating Committee.
HR 50 Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Legislative Oil Investigating Committee.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 40 Caption: Relating to fur-bearing animal law for Anderson, Jasper and Newton Counties; providing a penalty.