Legislation authored by Joe Kelton Wells
Includes legislation with Joe Kelton Wells 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 89 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act; making the producer of oil primarily liable for tax. |
| HB 204 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of aeronautics within this State; creating a State aeronautics commission; providing for the promulgation and issuance of rules and regulations by such commission, providing penalties for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 351 | Caption: Relating to establishing a merit system of appointing employees of the various departments, agencies, and institutions of the State Government of Texas and declaring it to be the policy of the State to so establish same. |
| HB 352 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the General Laws of the 41st Legislature (2nd C.S.); regulating license fees for the registration of motorcycles and passenger cars. |
| HB 812 | Caption: Relating to the duties of the county board of trustees of public schools of this State in certain counties, authorizing them to condemn land for school purposes. |
| HCR 70 | Caption: Granting T.G. Allen permission to sue the State Highway Commission. |
| HCR 182 | Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 89. |
| HR 48 | Caption: Designating Marie Cagle, Betty Bourne, Eleanor Clayton, Sharon Yvonne Head, Catherine Ann Roberts, and Marydell Leona Hankamer as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 49 | Caption: Inviting W.A. Tarver, former Insurance Commissioner of Texas, to address the House. |
| HR 71 | Caption: Designating Jeanette Gibson as a Mascot of the House. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to increasing the amount that may be allowed by County Boards of Trustees to the County Superintendents of Public Instruction for expenditures for office and traveling expenses in counties with a population of not less than sixty thousand (60,000), nor more than sixty-one thousand (61,000), and in counties having a population of not less than six thousand eight hundred (6,800) nor more than six thousand nine hundred (6,900), according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Congratulating Representative Vernon Lemens and his wife on the occasion of the birth of their son. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HCR 10 | Caption: Granting T.G. Allen to sue the State Highway Commission. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 187 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1925 relating to suspending sentences for felony or misdemeanor convictions. |
| HB 222 | Caption: Relating to creating a closed season upon wild deer, buck, doe, fawn or wild turkey for a period of five (5) years in the Counties of Anderson, Haskell, Henderson, Jones, Navarro, Shackelford, Throckmorton, Brown, and Coleman, in the State of Texas, making it unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, ensnare, kill, or attempt to kill by any means whatsoever, any wild deer, buck, doe, fawn or wild turkey within said Counties, for a period of five (5) years; providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 440 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the time of application for registration of motor vehicles or chauffeur's licenses, and relating to the annual license fee for the registration of a motorcycle, motorcycle side car, or a passenger car, so as to change the amount of the license fee for motorcycles, motorcycle side cars, and passenger cars; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 511 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to registration of motor vehicles so as to require a certificate of rendition of such vehicles for State, county and cit taxes. |
| HB 860 | Caption: Relating to giving jurisdiction to the district courts of Travis County to herein determine certain claims against the State, and certain claims by the State against claimants; providing that the jurisdiction of such courts shall not extend to or include claims growing out of destruction of property, or damage done, by the military or naval forces of the United States or of the State of Texas. |
| HCR 29 | Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in HB 222. |
| HCR 61 | Caption: Granting W.F. Sewell, his wife Irma Sewell, and J.C. Lewis permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas. |
| HCR 62 | Caption: Granting E.A. Eliot and his wife Hattie Eliot permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas. |
| HR 130 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass SB 1197, the "Frazier Act." |
| HR 146 | Caption: In memory of former Representative Charles H. Mills. |
| HR 153 | Caption: Expressing appreciation of the House to the University of Texas on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Round-Up. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to providing and imposing a tax on sales in intrastate commerce in this State of cigarettes, according to their weight; providing that the payment of such tax shall be evidenced by stamps furnished by the State Treasurer. |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, killing or possession of wild fox for the purpose of barter or sale, and prohibiting the use of steel traps for taking fur-bearing animals in certain counties. |
| HCR 30 | Caption: Granting J.F. Bentley permission to sue the State Highway Commission. |
| HCR 70 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider SB 108. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, killing, or possession of wild fox for the purpose of barter or sale in certain counties. |
| HCR 5 | Caption: Granting W.F. Sewell, Irma Sewell, and J.C. Lewis permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas. |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Granting E.A. Eliot and Hattie Eliot permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Inviting Lowry Martin of the Texas Press Association to address the House. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 8 | Caption: In memory of Donna Bourne, daughter of Representative Bourne. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to providing for credit for taxes paid by mistake; providing that tax levied shall be a liability on producer first purchaser and subsequent purchasers. |