Legislation authored by Thomas Jefferson Renfro

Includes legislation with Thomas Jefferson Renfro as the primary author for the 39th 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
HB 67 Caption: Relating to providing cumulative and alternative manner in which certain water control and improvement districts may provide for the assessment and/or collection of district taxes, and establishing the compensation to be paid, and the manner of paying therefor, by such districts.
HB 209 Caption: Relating to providing for the preparation of briefs in the Courts of Civil Appeals and in the Supreme Court, setting forth basic elements to be embraced in such briefs.
HB 249 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to filling or not returning container so as to include milk bottle cases.
HB 250 Caption: Relating to amending certain article of the Penal Code of 1925 relating to injuring milk containers so as to include milk bottle cases.
HB 251 Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of 1925 relating to ownership of milk containers so as to include milk bottle cases.
HB 330 Caption: Relating to the taxing of stenographers' fees in civil cases, and providing that a stenographer's fee shall be taxed as costs in a civil case, except suits for delinquent taxes, only when a stenographer is actually used, providing for same to be paid, and paid by the clerk when collected, into the general fund of the county in which said court sits.
HB 361 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to water control and improvement districts so as to provide that in case such a district not completed its works in accordance with its plan for improvements, has not money from other sources adequate to complete its works as planned, but has acquired property or lands found not to be reasonably required to carry out the plans, the proceeds of the sale of such property or land may be applied to the completion of the works contemplated by the district's plans for improvements.
HB 605 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of chain dental offices, by dentists licensed and operating offices in other States; further defining the practice of dentistry; and providing a penalty.
HB 725 Caption: Relating to providing that when a necessity exists for the appointment of a receiver of an insurance company by any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, that it shall be the duty of such court to enter its order so fidning and then to transfer the property and affairs of such insurance company to the Board of Insurance Commissioners of this State, which shall act as liquidating agent, in lieu of any other receiver for the purpose of administering the affairs of such insurance company.
HCR 48 Caption: Granting E.R. Leach permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 64 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale or lease of a machine gun or submachine gun, and defining same, or the barter, exchange, or trade of same to any person, except he be the Adjutant General of the State of Texas, the duly qualified and commissioned sheriff of a county, a duly qualified and commissioned constable of a county, or a duly qualified and commissioned chief of police of any municipality within the State; prescribing a penalty for the violation thereof.
HR 44 Caption: Relating to the employment of one full-time and two half-time district supervisors in the State Department of Vocational Education.
40th Regular Session
HB 100 Caption: Relating to determining, fixing and providing for the payment of office and traveling expenses of the county superintendent of public instruction of Comanche County.
HB 342 Caption: Relating to the organization of Teachers' Institutes; providing for the payment of teachers for attendance upon institutes.
HB 444 Caption: Relating to regulating the tuition at State educational institutions.
39th Regular Session
HB 123 Caption: Relating to providing for and requiring the teaching and study of the Constitution of the United States and of Texas in the public schools of Texas.
HB 261 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of members and employees and other maintenance expenses of the State Board of Pardon Advisers for the eight months' period, beginning January 1, 1925, and ending August 31st 1925.
HB 301 Caption: Relating to creating the Goldthwaite Independent School District in Mills County, Texas; defining its boundaries, including the present Goldthwaite Independent School District; providing for a board of trustees in said district and its boards of trustees all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the general laws of Texas upon independent school districts and the boards of trustees thereof, or any other law or laws that may be hereafter enacted governing independent school districts created or incorporated under the general laws of this State.
HB 319 Caption: Relating to enlarging and re-establishing the limits and defining the territory embraced in the Theny Independent School District in Comanche County, Texas, divesting control of the free school in said district from the existing district and investing the same in the district herein created.
HB 575 Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of County Commissioners in certain counties.
HB 594 Caption: Relating to the creation of Sipe Springs Independent School District in Comanche County, Texas.
HB 644 Caption: Relating to preventing the sale of certain kinds of fish in Mills and Bell counties.
39th 1st Called Session
HB 169 Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Comanche County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 170 Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Comanche County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 171 Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Five (5), in Comanche County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
HB 350 Caption: Relating to creating the Priddy Independent School District in Mills County, Texas.
HB 356 Caption: Relating to creating Mullin Independent School District in Mills County, Texas.