Legislation authored by Finis Homer Prendergast
Includes legislation with Finis Homer Prendergast as the primary author for the 41st 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 65 | Caption: Relating to amending and repealing a certain Statute regulating the giving of cost bonds in the courts of Texas. |
| HB 66 | Caption: Relating to preventing theaters, picture shows and other places of amusement from being open on Sunday. |
| HB 67 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute so as to provide that evidence obtained by violating the criminal law cannot be used in court. |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure regulating searches and seizures. |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to fixing the limitation in which suits for land may be brought against claimants. |
| HB 70 | Caption: Relating to preventing judicial nominations by primary election. |
| HB 71 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting suspended sentences and indeterminate sentences. |
| HB 72 | Caption: Relating to regulating the use of statement of facts on appeal from county and district court. |
| HB 73 | Caption: Relating to regulating the practice in the district and county court in the trial of civil cases. |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to regulating the trial of criminal cases in the district county and county court and criminal district courts. |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute defining the jurisdiction of Courts of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to regulating proceedings in Court of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 77 | Caption: Relating to regulating the procedure in the Courts of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to regulating technical objection and proceedings in the courts. |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to regulating procedure in the Supreme Court of Texas; any person desiring to apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of error shall print not less than ten copies of the judgment, finding and conclusion of the Court of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to compelling all subdivisions of the county or the State, when collecting ad valorem taxes, to assess all property at the same value placed on it by the county authorities to collect State and county taxes. |
| HB 81 | Caption: Relating to granting to the wife, who has been deserted by her husband, and to minors who have been deserted by their parents, the right to maintain suit in the district court. |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to regulating the jurisdiction of the county court and courts of justice of the peace. |
| HB 83 | Caption: Relating to regulating the trial on a plea to the venue in the county and district courts. |
| HB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas forbidding drinking of intoxicating liquor on any common carrier. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Requesting the Secretary of State to print the amendments to the Constitution adopted in November, 1928, as preface to the session laws of this meeting of the Legislature, and append the notation to each one of the amendments showing the date of the proclamation by the Governor, putting said amendment in operation. |
| HJR 1 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the legislature to establish and own a system of highways throughout Texas and to levy certain taxes for that purpose. |
| HR 94 | Caption: Requesting the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party to make certain considerations when allowing people to vote in the primary election. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 46 | Caption: Relating to regulating the fixing of term of the District Courts and the service of citation therein. |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to requiring the Commissioners' Court to equalize the valuation of all property for the purposes of Taxation. |