Legislation authored by Charles S. McCombs

Includes legislation with Charles S. McCombs as the primary author for the 40th through 42nd 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.

42nd Regular Session
HB 51	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to citation by publication so as to provide that in actions affecting the title to, possession of, interest in or lien on land a non-resident whose residence or address is disclosed by the records shall be served.
HB 52	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the classification of claims against an estate so as to limit the amount of priority of first class claims.
HB 53	Caption: Relating to regulating the presentation, allowance, approval, classification and payment of claims and liens against estates of deceased persons and to direct the manner of collection and foreclosure of such liens.
HB 57	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property owned or used exclusively and reasonably necessary in conducting any Association engaged in promoting the religious, educational and physical development of boys and girls, young men or young women operating under a State or National organization of like character, and all endowment funds of such institutions.
HB 60	Caption: Relating to adopting the general arbitration statute and making valid and enforceable written agreements and provisions in contracts for the arbitration of disputes.
HB 86	Caption: Relating to defining group life insurance; providing that no policy of group life insurance shall be issued or delivered unless and until a copy of the form therof has been filed with the Life Insurance Commissioner and formally approved.
HB 87	Caption: Relating to providing certain procedure in regard to legal reserve life insurance companies.
HB 116	Caption: Relating to providing that no commissions shall be allowed or received for receiving any cash which was on hand at the time of the death of the testator or intestate, nor for paying out money to the heirs or legatees as such, except upon the equity of mortgaged property in case any of the property of such testator or intestate was mortgaged at the time of his or her death.
HB 117	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to sales of real estate by guardians and loans for the improvement of real estate.
HB 126	Caption: Relating to making January 19th, which is the birthday of Robert E. Lee, a legal holiday.
HB 201	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of Official Court Reporters for the County Court of Dallas County at Law No. 1 and No. 2.
HB 271	Caption: Relating to providing conditions upon which fire insurance companies shall transact business in this State; providing penalties.
HB 491	Caption: Relating to requiring certain districts that levy, assess and collect taxes to file annually a list of delinquent taxes on real property with the county collector of taxes.
HB 512	Caption: Relating to further regulating the business of insurance in order that rates of premium may be reasonable; providing penalties.
HB 726	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes pertaining to executions in the justice court.
HB 775	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to and regulating the license of attorneys at law in the State of Texas and prescribing their qualifications.
HB 778	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes providing for the regulation of insurance against loss by Lightning or Tornado or Windstorm or Hail.
HB 790	Caption: Relating to providing for civil service in the Sheriff's office in certain counties.
HB 798	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by changing the population of towns coming within its scope from two thousand (2,000) to five hundred (500).
HB 871	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing additional purposes for which corporations may be formed under the laws of Texas.
HB 876	Caption: Relating to validating all assessments of Independent School Districts, Fresh Water Districts and Levee Districts in this State for ad valorem taxes which are void or unenforceable.
HB 978	Caption: Relating to providing for the liquidation and supervision of the affairs of unsafe or insolvent insurance companies or associations or those whose business is fraudulently or unlawfully conducted in this State by the Chairman of the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
HCR 20	Caption: Relating to administration of funding of State affairs.
HCR 56	Caption: Granting certain district judge leave of absence.
HR 37	Caption: Relating to the address by Jouett Shouse.
42nd 1st Called Session
HB 18	Caption: Relating to conserving water supplies and prevent the pollution of sources of domestic water supplies for cities, towns, and villages; prescribing a penalty.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of licenses for life, health and accident insurance agents, and the cancellation thereof, regulating the conduct of persons and companies with reference to acting as, and through, life insurance agents; providing penalties.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 44	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts and validating the consolidation of certain school districts.
HCR 19	Caption: Relating to congressional redistricting.
42nd 3rd Called Session
HB 5	Caption: Relating to to authorizing corporations to purchase stock in any bank organized under the Federal Home Loan Bank act.
42nd 4th Called Session
HB 7	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing the cases in which attorney's fees may be recovered by the plaintiff.
41st Regular Session
HB 61	Caption: Relating to creating Dallas County Fresh Water Supply District Number 9 in Dallas County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said County and by the Board of Supervisors of said district in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 62	Caption: Relating to creating Dallas County Beverly Hills Fresh Water Supply District No. 2 in Dallas County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said county and by the Board of Supervisors of said district in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 85	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to increase the salary of the judge of the county court of Dallas County at Law No. 1, and the judge of the County Court of Dallas at Law No. 2, from the thirty-six hundred dollars ($3,600) per annum to forty-two hundred dollars ($4,200) per annum; prescribing the method of payment.
HB 89	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to increase the salary of the judge of the County Criminal Court of Dallas County, Texas, to five thousand dollars ($5,000) per year.
HB 132	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the collateral security to be pledged by depositories for securing State funds, by depositing a depository bond with the State Treasurer or by pledging with the State Treasurer bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States, obligations and pledges of the University of Texas.
HB 134	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to provide that in certain actions begun during the lifetime of the decedent, in which executors, administrators, guardians or the heirs or legal representatives of the decedent have been substituted as parties plaintiff or defendant, and in which such actions either plaintiff or defendant has testified in open court or by deposition and has been subject to cross-examination by the other party, the testimony so given in open court or by deposition by either party may be admitted in evidence upon any subsequent trial of the same issues between the surviving party and the executors, administrators, guardians, heirs or legal representatives of the deceased party.
HB 236	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by adding thereto a provision authorizing the county courts of this State to grant letters of administration upon the estates of certain persons without regard to the date of death when such administration is necessary in connection with the receipt or recovery of moneys due by the United States of America.
HB 237	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by adding thereto a provision whereby the county judge may authorize the payment of bond premiums out of the estate of the ward.
HB 238	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by adding thereto a provision authorizing the county judge to decrease the amount of a guardian's bond whenever, in his opinion, a smaller bond than the one in effect would be adequate to protect the estate of the ward.
HB 239	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide for the removal of a guardian after being cited to answer, when he is proved to have been guilty of gross neglect or mismanagement in the performance of any of his duties as guardian, and when he becomes of unsound mind or a habitual drunkard or is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of years, and when, if he be the guardian of the person, he cruelly treats the ward or neglects to educate and maintain the ward as liberally as to the demands of such ward and the circumstances of the case demand.
HB 240	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the discharge of guardians of incompetents or habitual drunkards where such persons have been restored to their right minds or sober habits by adding thereto a provision authorizing the court to adjudge such persons to be of sound mind or to be no longer habitual drunkards, as the case may be.
HB 241	Caption: Relating to providing for the giving of the filing of all annual and other accounts, and of all applications for the expenditure and investment of funds by guardians whose wards are beneficiaries of the United Veterans' Bureau, and providing for collection of fees therefor.
HB 242	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide for the removal of guardians without notice when notice or other process of court cannot be served upon them on account of their whereabouts being unknown.
HB 243	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to sureties upon guardians' bonds by adding thereto a provision authorizing the county judge to require sureties on guardians' bonds in certain cases.
HB 266	Caption: Relating to securing persons accused of crime by creating the offenses of "escape," "attempt to escape" and "jumping bail," and fixing the penalties therefor.
HB 268	Caption: Relating to provide means and methods for the collection of delinquent taxes and insolvent State, County, School District and other District ad valorem taxes and the penalty and interest thereon..
HB 314	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to as to change the name of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of to Texas School for the Deaf, and providing that said institution shall be classed and conducted as an educational institution.
HB 320	Caption: Relating to providing for the better enforcement of the criminal law by establishing the Board of Criminal Law Administration, whose duty it hall be to appoint the Commissioner of Corrections, and to maintain a bureau for the identification of criminals and for collecting, tabulating, digesting and publishing statistic of crimes and criminal, and of their apprehension, trial and punishment, together with recommendations thereon.
HB 331	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to requirements for law school graduates, and providing that this act shall become effective September 15, 1931.
HB 332	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that the birthday of Robert E. Lee, to-wit, the 19th day of January, be a legal holiday in addition to those provided by law at present.
HB 333	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that the Supreme Court shall be authorized to make rules governing the eligibility of candidates for admission to the bar, so a to provide that they shall have studies at least three years prior to the taking of the examination, and to provide that the time and place of holding these examinations shall be exclusively within the power of the Supreme Court.
HB 374	Caption: Relating to amending Article 3101 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.
HB 387	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to sequestrations.
HB 467	Caption: Relating to providing for the more efficient collection of delinquent taxes by preventing a multiplicity of suits by different corporations to collect taxes against the same property.
HB 472	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide more adequately for the trial and punishment of receivers of stolen property.
HB 476	Caption: Relating to suspending all rules and forms of pleading practice and procedure in Civil Cases by the Legislature and substituting for them rules and forms prescribed by the Supreme Court of Texas.
HB 485	Caption: Relating to amending Article 5053 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas, 1925.
HB 486	Caption: Relating to regulating the presentation, allowance, approval and classification of claims and liens against the estates of deceased persons and to direct the manner of collection and foreclosure thereof.
HB 599	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the issuance of stocks by joint stock land banks.
HB 600	Caption: Relating to designating the securities in which the capital stock of insurance companies may be invested.
HB 617	Caption: Relating to the extension of liens upon real estate.
HR 60	Caption: Requesting the State Board of Control to remove the large neon sign from the front of the Capitol Building.
HR 93	Caption: Relating to the process of recognizing Members for the purpose of suspension.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 74	Caption: Relating to regulating the presentation, allowance, approval and classification of claims and liens against the estates of deceased persons, and to direct the manner of collection and foreclosure.
HB 198	Caption: Relating to adopting a general arbitration statute.
HR 4	Caption: Providing for access to newspapers for the Members of the House.
41st 2nd Called Session
HB 35	Caption: Relating to adopting a general system of arbitration and making valid and enforceable written agreements and provisions in contracts for the arbitration of disputes.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to regulating the presentation, allowance, approval and classification of claims and liens against the states of deceased persons and to direct the manner of collection and foreclosure thereof.
HB 129	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing for the time for filing statements of fact and bills of exception in the District and County Courts.
HB 130	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing for the time for filing statements of facts and bills of exception in certain District Courts.
HB 131	Caption: Relating to providing for a more efficient method of collecting delinquent taxes; amending a certain Statute.
HB 160	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for extending the boundaries of cities and towns.
41st 3rd Called Session
HB 13	Caption: Relating to the duties of State Tax Board in calculating rate of State taxes.
41st 4th Called Session
HB 85	Caption: Relating to providing that all motions for a new trial must be presented within thirty days after the original motion has been filed and must be determined within forty-five days after said motion has been filed.
HB 95	Caption: Relating to providing for the organization of the Civil District Courts in Dallas County.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 16	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to be hired or paid by the Texas Prison system who cannot read and write the English language.
HB 22	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property owned or used exclusively and reasonably necessary in conducting any Association engaged in promoting the religious, education and physical development of boys and girls, young men or young women operating under a State or National organization of like character.
HB 39	Caption: Relating to providing that all motions for a new trial must be presented within thirty (30) days after the original motion has been filed, and must be determined within forty-five (45) days after said motion has been filed.
HR 24	Caption: Requesting the Speaker to secure certain information regarding the residence and future attendance of an absent member of the House.
40th Regular Session
HB 105	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Health Officer through special inspectors to prevent materials subject to infectious diseases being used in the making or remaking of bedding; providing penalties.
HB 106	Caption: Relating to prescribing procedure in suits on promissory notes and other contracts involving liquidated demands, and on sworn accounts.
HB 162	Caption: Relating to increasing the salary of the judge of the County Court of Dallas County at Law No. 1 and of the Judge of the County Court of Dallas County at Law No. 2.
HB 163	Caption: Relating to authorizing the recording of marketing agreements of co-operative agricultural marketing associations.
HB 168	Caption: Relating to authorizing the establishment of building lines on streets in cities of a certain population.
HB 276	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to continuances.
HB 277	Caption: Relating to amending and repealing certain articles of the Revised Civil Statutes relating to continuances.
HB 427	Caption: Relating to the appropriation of water; providing that any one may construct on his own property a dam or reservoir.
HB 429	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of public shorthand reporting; and creating an examining board; providing a penalty.
HB 441	Caption: Relating to bail for persons accused of crime.
HB 447	Caption: Relating to providing for joint trials of defendants jointly indicted; permitting each defendant so indicted to testify.
HB 461	Caption: Relating to amending Article 3716 of the Revised Civil Statutes by adding thereto certain language relating to testimony in trials.
HB 567	Caption: Relating to the purpose of promoting the rural schools of the state.
HB 577	Caption: Relating to permitting the district or County Attorney to amend an indictment in order to correct defects which would not prejudice the substantial rights of the defendant, and would require a special finding thereon.
HB 590	Caption: Relating to amending a Title of the Revised Civil Statutes by exempting from said Title schools and other public buildings of fireproof construction as defined in this Act.
HB 592	Caption: Relating to providing for the better enforcement of the laws of the State of Texas by providing that when an offense charged is in violation of both state and federal law and the minimum punishment fixed by federal law is less than that fixed by state law, all peace officers of this state and their deputies are required to file their charges in the state courts; fixing a punishment for the nonobservance of said Act.
40th 1st Called Session
HB 38	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 650 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas of 1926, which permits defendants jointly prosecuted to sever upon the request of either.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to amending a certain article of the Revised Civil Statutes regarding recorded instruments admissible in evidence.
HB 112	Caption: Relating to amending Article 4011, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925, so as to permit a railroad to issue a free pass, or free transportation, to any minister of religion without being required to issue like free pass or free transportation to every other minister of religion in the State making application therefor.
HB 113	Caption: Relating to amending Article 3716 of the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas of 1925 by adding a provision relating to legal actions begun during the lifetime of the decedent.