Legislation authored by Milton Horace West
Includes legislation with Milton Horace West as the primary author for the 42nd through 43rd 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.
| 43rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 160 | Caption: Relating to creating and providing for compensation and duties of assistant district attorneys in judicial districts composed of five or more counties and containing a population in excess of 150,0000, according to the preceding Federal Census, providing for their appointments, qualifications, duties, terms of office, and removal. |
| HB 304 | Caption: Relating to providing that in all judgments foreclosing any lien, except a tax lien, on homestead where the trial court finds as a matter of fact that the property on which such a lien is foreclosed constitutes the homestead, no execution, order of sale or writ of possession shall issue until after the expiration of seven hundred and thirty (730) days after the rendition of a final judgment, repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 308 | Caption: Relating to providing that in all sales of real estate made under powers conferred under any deed of trust or other contract lien where the property which is to be sold constitutes the homestead of the grantor in said deed of trust; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 549 | Caption: Relating to providing for the propagation of game fish, and for the sale thereof. |
| HB 873 | Caption: Relating to providing that in certain counties which contain Navigation Districts, Water Improvement Districts and Water Control and Improvement Districts, the county auditor shall audit books, accounts, records, bills, and warrants of such districts, and other districts created for improvement and conservation purposes which are not administered by the Commissioners Court of such counties. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| HB 436 | Caption: Relating to creating and validating Cameron County Water Control and Improvement District No. 18 in Cameron County, Texas, as a Conservation and Reclamation District. |
| HB 545 | Caption: Relating to creating Cameron County Water Improvement District No. 8, in Cameron County, Texas, as a Water Improvement District with the powers of a Conservation and Reclamation District under Article 16, Section 59, of the Constitution of Texas, defining its territorial limits, purposes and powers. |
| HB 553 | Caption: Relating to declaring the counties of Cameron, Willacy, Hidalgo, Starr, Zapata, Jim Hogg, Brooks, Kenedy, Kleberg, Nueces, Jim Wells, Duval, Webb, San Patricio, Refugio, Bee, Live Oak, McMullen, La Salle, Dimmit, Maverick, Zavala, Frio, Atascosa, Wilson, Karnes, DeWitt, Victoria, Goliad, Calhoun, Aransas, to constitute what shall be known in the future as the Citrus Zone of this State. |
| HB 561 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles of the Penal Code requiring motor vehicles to slow down their speed to fifteen miles an hour in passing each other. |
| HB 562 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to permit regularly uniformed traffic officers operating in automobiles to legally make arrests for speeding. |
| HB 603 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the County Commissioners in certain counties. |
| HB 604 | Caption: Relating to providing fees for officers and jurors in delinquent child proceedings. |
| HB 617 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale to Port Isabel Channel, Dock and Wharf Company of certain submerged land under the waters of Laguna Madre in Cameron County, Texas. |
| HB 720 | Caption: Relating to creating Lower Rio Grande Water Conservation District of Texas. |
| HB 868 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the criminal district Court for the counties of Nueces, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron and vesting all jurisdiction heretofore exercised by said court in the 118th and 119th Judicial District Courts. |
| HB 1045 | Caption: Relative to authorizing navigation districts to dissolve in certain cases. |
| HB 1057 | Caption: Relating to exempting Cameron County from the Hide and Animal Inspection Law. |
| 42nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 16 | Caption: Relating to conserving petroleum by providing that every person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or any receiver thereof shall pay to the State a graduated production tax on the daily production of each petroleum well in this State; fixing the penalty. |
| HB 65 | Caption: Relating to authorizing two (2) or more navigation districts, all or parts of which are situated in a single county, and which may be interested in or may be benefited by, a navigation project which has been approved by Act of Congress of the United States, or by the Secretary of War, to enter into contracts with the Government of the United States, or with each other, to consumate such projects of common interest. |
| 42nd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to waiving the right of the State of Texas to enter upon certain agreement for the purpose of development of mines, minerals and mineral rights to any Navigation District, for navigation purposes. |
| HB 43 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article so as to provide that the occupation tax paid by producers of oil shall in no event be less than two cents per barrel. |
| HB 55 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to fees of office for certain judges. |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statues by providing county auditors for public districts in certain counties. |
| HB 97 | Caption: Relating to waiving the right of the State of Texas to enter upon, for the purpose of development of mines, minerals and mineral rights, all lands granted under certain article to any navigation district. |
| HCR 38 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make corrections to H.B. 59. |
| 42nd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 67 | Caption: Relating to empowering Water Improvement Districts without an election to refund outstanding bonded indebtedness including matured and unpaid interest coupons and accrued interest. |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to the relief of Water Improvement Districts and Water Control and Improvement Districts; declaring and providing for such Districts the power to make contracts with, sell securities to and borrow money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
| HB 81 | Caption: Relating to the organization of navigation districts. |
| HB 92 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for the proper auditing of every district having for its purpose the expenditure of public funds. |
| HB 93 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article 1667 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas for 1925. |
| HB 95 | Caption: Relating to creating, constituting and establishing the Texas State Conservation and Reclamation District No. 1. |
| HB 101 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by prohibiting mineral development on coastal lands used for navigation purposes. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Relating to appropriation of money by the Committee on Contingent Expense for the purchase of supplies for the House. |
| HR 34 | Caption: Expressing sympathy to John N. Garner in his bereavement. |
| 42nd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to conserving petroleum by providing that every person, firm, partnership, corporation, association or any receiver thereof shall pay to the State a graduated production tax on the daily production of each petroleum well in this State; fixing the penalty for violation. |