Legislation authored by Charles Harraway Jenkins
Includes legislation with Charles Harraway Jenkins as the primary author for the 30th through 41st 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.
| 41st Regular Session | |
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| HB 27 | Caption: Relating to providing for a system of pleadings in district and county court I this State; defining such pleadings; providing for the assessment of cot against parties who improperly pled or deny material facts; repealing all laws in conflict with this act. |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes in reference to the defendant's answer in trespass to try title and to provide that al material allegations in plaintiff's petition which are not denied shall be taken as confessed. |
| HB 29 | Caption: Relating to providing for filing in duplicate certain papers in causes pending in the district and county courts and defining what hall constitute the record on appeal to the Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, and the action of the court thereof. |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute in reference to on the twentieth day after the service of citation in any civil case in the district or county court shall be appearance day for such case. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to providing for hearing dilatory pleas, providing for the waiver of such pleas if not presented as herein provided; providing certain statutes in regard to dilatory pleas and repealing all of the laws in conflict with this act. |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to defining what shall constitute the record on appeal of any civil case tried in any district or county court in this State; the manner and time of preparing and filing such record, requiring a motion for a new trial as a prerequisite to appeal and providing that such motion shall constitute the assignment of errors on such appeal and repealing certain statutes. |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to providing for writs of error to the Supreme Court from judgments of the Courts of Civil Appeals; prescribing what shall be necessary for a petition for such writ and the assignment of error; the action of the Supreme Court thereon and repealing certain statutes. |
| HB 34 | Caption: Relating to providing for setting cases for trial in the district and county courts of this State and providing that case so set shall take precedence of cases not so set for trial. |
| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to providing for bills of exception in civil cases tried in any district or county court in this State and repealing certain statutes. |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute in reference to the manner of summoning jurors. |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute in reference to jury service; declaring what opinion shall be cause for challenge in any case, and providing for the examination of jurors as to their qualifications by the judge presiding only. |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to provide that a verdict may be rendered by the concurrence of nine juror in district court and four jurors in the county and justice courts. |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to providing for writs of error to the Supreme Court, what shall constitute a petition therefor, the record therein, and the action of the court thereon; providing for an attorney' fee in favor of appellee and repealing certain statutes. |
| HB 40 | Caption: Relating to making the official stenographic report of the evidence taken in the trial of any Civil Suit, evidence upon any subsequent trial of such suit, or in another suit between the same parties involving the same subject matter. |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute in reference to reading the minutes. |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute with reference to the court commenting on evidence. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to repealing all permits to erect dams or impound water for power purposes where such dam have not heretofore been elected. |
| HB 212 | Caption: Relating to providing the appointing of a water commissioner, defining his power and fixing the salary, and abolishing the office of Board of Water Engineers, as heretofore provided in certain statutes. |
| HB 252 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to searches and seizures. |
| HB 326 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to challenging jurors. |
| HB 328 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the defendant waiving a right to be tried by a jury. |
| HB 329 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the seizure of vehicles and instrumentalities used for the unlawful possession, transportation or sale of intoxicating liquors. |
| HB 330 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to search warrants. |
| HB 359 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that in appropriation of public waters as defined in certain statute, all rights conferred by, through or in the appropriations of such waters for hydro-electric power purposes, shall hereafter be subordinate to and shall remain subordinate to the rights of the State to grant allotment and appropriations thereof for the use of such waters for municipal and domestic purposes (to include animal life comprising food supplies). |
| HB 360 | Caption: Relating to providing that findings of fact by court or jury, when not assigned as error on appeal, or if so assigned, is not sustained, upon another trial of said cause as such, findings of fact shall be taken as conclusive of the facts so found. |
| HB 532 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of an Assistant District Attorney in certain counties. |
| HB 745 | Caption: Relating to providing for additional method of amending the Constitution of the State of Texas. |
| HB 746 | Caption: Relating to prescribing what shall be contained in decisions by Courts of Civil Appeals in this State. |
| HB 751 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of taxes on vendor lien notes by the maker of such notes. |
| HCR 2 | Caption: Relating to approving the proposal of the Legislature of Florida to have the several Southern States take cooperative action in support of the Southland Memorial Association in its efforts to establish, maintain and operate a Great Southland Institute of Learning as a memorial to the "Women of the Confederacy." |
| HJR 25 | Caption: Proposing an amendment forbidding the Legislature to pass special road laws. |
| HR 9 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. D. M. Reedy. |
| HR 10 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. Henry Sackett. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to providing that the transcribed notes of the official stenographer of the evidence in any civil case tried in any District or County Court of this State may be read in evidence upon subsequent trial of any such case. |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to providing for bills of exceptions in Civil cases. |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to requiring clerks of the District Courts, the Courts of Civil Appeals, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the clerk of the Supreme Court to file with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas each year a written report showing the condition of their respective dockets. |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing that a verdict may be rendered by the concurrence of nine jurors in a District Court and four jurors in the County or Justice Court. |
| HB 40 | Caption: Relating to providing for filing in duplicate certain papers in causes pending. |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to appearance day and judgments by default. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article; relating to the disqualifications of persons to serve as jurors in any particular case. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to requiring a motion for a new trial in all Civil cases tried in any District or County Court in this State as a prerequisite to the right of appeals. |
| HB 115 | Caption: Relating to providing what shall be the necessary allegations of fact in suits to determine the title to lands and to provide that plaintiffs allegation of title if not denied by the defendant shall be taken as confessed and to provide that the defendant may plead any fact in bar of plaintiffs right of recovery. |
| HB 116 | Caption: Relating to providing that the findings of fact by the Court or Jury if on appeal that there is no assignment of error as to any such findings, the facts so found shall be conclusively presumed upon the subsequent trial of such cause between the same parties to be correct and no such evidence shall be received as to such facts. |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to providing that all material allegations alleged in the pleadings of either party to a Civil Suit in any District or County Court shall be taken as true unless the same be specifically denied by the adverse party. |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to abolishing appeals by writ of error. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to providing for hearing dilatory pleas and to provide for the waiver of such fees. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to prescribing what shall be contained in decisions by Courts of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 214 | Caption: Relating to providing for writs of errors to the Supreme Court of Texas from any judgement rendered by any Court of Civil Appeals of this State. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to providing that the transcribed notes of the official stenographer of the evidence in any civil case tried in any District or County Court may be read in evidence upon subsequent trials of any such case. |
| HB 22 | Caption: Relating to requiring clerks of various courts of Texas to file with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas each year a written report showing the condition of their respective dockets. |
| 31st Regular Session | |
| HB 53 | Caption: Relating to providing for the location of, establishment maintenance of a state sanitorium for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis, and to provide for the care and treatment of indigent consumptives. |
| HB 58 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 1050, and to repeal Article 1051, Chapter twenty-three, Title XXVII of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, relating to terms of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, and to locate the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, and to locate the Court of Criminal Appeals at Austin, Texas. |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to an occupation tax on all dealers in non-intoxicating malt liquors; fixing penalties. |
| HB 166 | Caption: Relating to creating, defining, and punishing the offense of felonious homicide, and assault with intent to commit felonious homicide; to amend Articles 605, 607, 644, 649, Subdivision 4 of Articles 675, 676, 713, 716 and 718 of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, so as to make said articles conform to the provisions of this act, and to repeal Articles 698, 699, 700, 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 709, 710, 711, 712, 714 and 720 of said Penal Code. |
| HB 343 | Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to abandon or wilfully neglect to provide for the support or maintenance by any person, of his wife, or of his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances and to empower the court to make disposition of any fine that may be imposed. |
| HB 351 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the method of pleading in civil cases in District and County Courts; authorizing the Supreme Court to make additional rules of pleading. |
| HB 427 | Caption: Relating to making the testimony taken by the official stenographer in the trial of any civil case, or the agreed statement of facts in any such case admissible as evidence in any future trial. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the legal fiction of superior title in the vendor of lands sold upon a credit and to define the interest in such land prior to the payment of the purchase money. |
| HB 429 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 3356, Chapter 11, Title 47 of the Revised Statutes in reference to limitations and adding Article 3365a to said chapter, defining what actions shall be barred by the four years' statute of limitations. |
| HB 430 | Caption: Relating to providing a method or releasing vendor liens and mortgages and Deed of Trust Liens on real estate; providing a penalty for making false representations. |
| HB 431 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 973, Title 8, Chapter 3, of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in reference to the formation of juries in capital cases. |
| HB 433 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 7 of the General Laws, passed at the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, prescribing the time within which statements of fact, bills of exception, and findings of fact and conclusions of law, may be filed in causes tried in district and county courts of Texas. |
| HB 479 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting minors over the age of fifteen from buying, receiving or accepting any intoxicating liquor and providing that any guilty of such offense may be compelled to testify as to such transaction and exempting the person so testifying from prosecution for any violation of this Act. |
| HB 480 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 1093, Chapter 2, Title 15 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in reference to witness fees in felony cases. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to repealing Article 3391 of Title 69 or the Revised Statutes relating to local option. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to providing for appeal upon Bill of Exceptions and prescribing the procedure in such cases. |
| HB 502 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the granting of charters or permits to corporations having among its stockholders any person who was a director ; prescribing punishment and providing venue in suits arising under this Act. |
| HB 527 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Thirty-fifth Judicial District; naming the counties composing the same. |
| HJR 4 | Caption: Relating to repealing Sections 4 and 25 of Article 3 of the Constitution relating to the Legislative Department, and amendments to Section 2, 3, 5, 24 and 31 of said Article. |
| HJR 27 | Caption: |
| 30th Regular Session | |
| HB 98 | Caption: Relating to creating the Legislative Commission and Bureau of Information of the State of Texas, defining its duties and fixing the salary of the members thereof. |
| HB 99 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting drinking intoxicating liquors in a place except as herein provided and defining a public place within the meaning of this Act. |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to appeals so as to provide that the State may appeal in a criminal action from a judgment quashing an indictment on information, and that counsel for the State may except to any ruling of the trial court on a question of law. |
| HB 101 | Caption: Relating to providing that no subpoena shall be issued in a criminal case for either the State or the defendant, unless the party applying for the same shall make an application in writing under oath, stating all the facts that he expects to prove by such witness. |
| HB 102 | Caption: Relating to admission of evidence in certain cases. |
| HB 103 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to deal in future, post or publish future quotations, permit the use of property for such purpose, furnish telegraphic or telephone messages relative to futures, permit telegraph or telephone wires, instruments or equipments to be used for transmitting or receiving such messages, or to remain in any place where such business is transacted, and defining such offenses and prescribing penalties therefor and procedure in trial of such offenses. |
| HB 185 | Caption: Relating to regulating and placing certain restrictions upon the shipment and transportation of intoxicating liquors into any county, justice precinct, school district, city or town, or subdivision of a county within this State, where the sale of intoxicating liquors has been prohibited under the laws of this State; fixing penalties for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to defining dependent and neglected children, and regulating the treatment of same. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to defining "delinquent child," and regulating the treatment and control of same. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to providing for the punishment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the delinquency or neglect and dependency of children. |
| HB 208 | Caption: Relating to validating and legalizing all sales of real estate belonging or that belonged to Coleman County, situated in the town of Coleman, in Coleman County, heretofore made at private sale for and in behalf of said county, by J. F. Miles and W.O. Read, each in his representative capacity as Commissioner, under appointment of the Commissioners' Court of said county, by orders entered upon its minutes, to sell and dispose of real estate of said county situated in said town, and also validating all conveyances of said real estate made by said Commissioners as such, in consummating such sales. |
| HB 301 | Caption: Relating to creating and defining the offense of felonious homicide, and assault with intent to commit felonious homicide. |
| HB 420 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on dealers in non-intoxicating malt liquors, and fixing a penalty for the violation of this Act. |
| HB 470 | Caption: Relating to creating an independent school district, to be known as the Coleman Independent School District, including within its limits the municipal corporation of the town of Coleman. |
| HB 471 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the compensation of district attorneys in districts composed of four or more counties. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to special venires in criminal cases. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the terms of the Court of Criminal Appeals so as to provide for one term of said court each year to be held at the city of Austin. |
| HB 487 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to severance on trial. |
| HB 515 | Caption: Relating to local option, and declaring results of local option elections. |
| HB 523 | Caption: Relating to the rights of married women. |
| HB 524 | Caption: Relating to conveyances of separate property of wife. |
| HB 576 | Caption: Relating to pleadings. |
| HB 657 | Caption: Relating to creating the Rockwood Independent School District in Coleman County, Texas, and defining its boundaries, providing for the election of a board of trustees thereof and defining their duties, powers and authority. |
| HB 688 | Caption: Relating to amending the Coleman County road law. |
| HB 693 | Caption: Relating to creating an independent school district to be known as the Coleman Independent School district, including within its limits the municipal corporation of the city of Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. |
| HJR 31 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the State of Texas. |
| HJR 37 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 11 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that any incorporated town or city owning any water works, gas, electric light, telephone or any other revenue producing plant, may mortgage the same. |
| HJR 38 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, relating to the Legislature and legislative procedure. |
| 30th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to evidence in criminal actions. |
| HB 32 | Caption: Relating to the reasons for which a challenge for cause may be made to a juror. |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to creating, defining and punishing the offense of felonious homicide and assault with intent to commit felonious homicide, and prescribing a rule of evidence in prosecution for said offense. |
| HB 92 | Caption: Relating to creating a Legislative Commission and Bureau of Information. |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to declaring under what conditions a subpoena shall issue, and under what condition witnesses shall be excused form attendance on court. |
| HB 95 | Caption: Relating to pleading in civil cases. |