Legislation authored by William Edwin Clayton
Includes legislation with William Edwin Clayton 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 114 | Caption: Relating to eliminating certain provision which prohibits any person interested in the publication of textbooks or in selling the same to be used in the public schools of this State from being eligible to hold certain positions in the public schools in this State. |
| HB 429 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; property reserved to families and exempt from attachment or execution and every other species of forced sale for the payment of debts. |
| HB 469 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; changing the time of holding the terms of the District Courts of the Thirty-fourth, Forty-first and Sixty-fifth Judicial Districts of Texas. |
| HB 470 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Texas Penal Code; the willful neglect or refusal to provide for the support and maintenance of wife or child under the circumstances set out in said statute. |
| HB 527 | Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas for the support and maintenance of the Texas State Parks Board. |
| HB 691 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating "auto caravans" using the highways of this State outside of the limits of incorporated cities, towns, or villages; providing a penalty. |
| HB 751 | Caption: Relating to reappropriating the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for contingent expenses of the Third Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature for the purpose of paying contingent expenses of the Fourth Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature and supplementing the appropriation made for that purpose. |
| HB 854 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support, maintenance, operation and improvement of the State institutions of higher learning for the two (2) fiscal years beginning September 1, 1935, and ending August 31, 1937, and for certain other educational agencies of the State. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Granting D.R. Pinney permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department. |
| HCR 40 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule No. 23 to postpone consideration of S.B. No. 90 until final disposition of H.B. No. 527 by the House. |
| HR 17 | Caption: Amending Rule 9, Section 8 of the House Rules. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 23 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 37. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, distribution, disposition, storage and transportation of vinous or malt beverages, prescribing definitions, and providing for the means, manner and method thereof. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 50 | Caption: Relating to defining the offense of embezzlement by directors, officers, agents and attorneys at law or in fact, or incorporated companies or institutions, joint stock companies or voluntary associations, or money or property belonging to persons, firms, and corporations, other than the principal or employer of such director; prescribing the punishment therefor. |
| HB 491 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay a deficiency claim approved by the Governor during the fiscal year ending August 31, 1932. |
| HB 560 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of patents to certain lands formerly claimed by the State of New Mexico. |
| HB 699 | Caption: Relating to the office of district attorney in judicial districts containing one or more counties, and containing a city having a population of between one hundred thousand (100,000) and one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants, according to the last Census of the United States, and according to any United States Census which may hereafter be taken. |
| HB 700 | Caption: Relating to changing the manner and amount of the salary of official shorthand reporters in each judicial district in any county which, alone, constitutes two or more judicial districts. |
| HB 808 | Caption: Relating to the operation of ships of places of business where secondhand goods, wares, and merchandise are sold or used, and providing that operators of such places of business shall keep a record of the origin of all such secondhand goods, wares, and merchandise in such places of business, and providing a penalty. |
| HCR 80 | Caption: Granting Lee Moor Contracting Company permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission. |
| HR 2 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass legislation authorizing the construction of a reservoir and drain at the Rio Grande. |
| HR 14 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to frame and hang the picture of the Forty-third Legislature. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 17 | Caption: Relating to certain counties in this State and providing for the appointment and compensation of Assistant District Attorneys, stenographers and investigators in the District Attorney's office and for expense of such office in such counties; providing that this Act shall become effective on and after January 1, 1934. |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to permitting any city or town to pledge or encumber the revenue from their light systems, water systems, sewer systems, natural gas systems, parks, and swimming pools, or any one of them, without the necessity of an election, for the purpose of securing the United States Government or any of its agencies in the repayment of any loan made for the purpose of building, improving, enlarging, extending, or repairing such systems or any one of them. |
| HB 116 | Caption: Relating to validating all issues of funding and refunding notes, bonds, warrants, time warrants, and treasury warrants heretofore issued or authorized to be issued and attempted to be issued by any and all cities in the State operating under charters adopted or amended under the provisions of Article XI, Section 5, of the Constitution of Texas, having a population in excess of one hundred thousand, according to the last preceding United States Census, issued and attempted to be issued under authority of House Bill No. 312, of the Forty-second Legislature. |
| HB 187 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to execute bonds in a sum not in excess of one million two hundred thousand dollars, to obtain funds with which to complete the Main Building of the University of Texas. |
| HCR 52 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #23 so that the House might consider HB 193. |
| HCR 59 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider HB 116. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of $1,200 for each of the two years, beginning September 1, 1933, and September 1, 1934, to pay the traveling and living expenses of Justices of the several Courts of civil Appeals in hearing oral arguments in transferred cases under the provisions of certain statute. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to providing for the validation of the organization of all defined districts organized as water improvement districts, the name of which has been changed to water power control district, and providing for the validation of elections held in water power control districts for authorization of issuance of bonds and/or incurring debts and/or obligations. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 7 | Caption: Inviting Members-elect of the 44th Legislature to address the House. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to validating bonds issued for the purpose of improving municipal sewer system of certain cities. |