Legislation authored by J. Herschel Boggs

Includes legislation with J. Herschel Boggs as the primary author for the 39th through 40th 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.

40th Regular Session
HB 154 Caption: Relating providing that any person driving a motor vehicle, motorcycle or other vehicle when approaching the intersection of a public street or highway with the tracks of a steam railroad or interurban railroad shall, before attempting to make the said crossing, bring said vehicle to a complete stop; creating a misdemeanor.
HB 155 Caption: Relating to quieting the title to real property in this state after adverse possession and the payment of taxes thereon.
HB 292 Caption: Relating to the extermination of rattlesnakes.
HB 296 Caption: Relating to creating a lien and protecting certain workmen in the payment of the value of their labor and material for work done.
HB 325 Caption: Relating to providing that there shall be printed at the bottom of each tax receipt in bold type a certain message.
HB 386 Caption: Relating to making provision for the funds out of which the salary of county judges acting as ex-officio superintendent would be paid.
HB 622 Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board of regents of the State University and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell the land heretofore appropriated in the General Laws of the regular session of the 18th Legislature and Section 15 of Article 7, Constitution of Texas 1876.
HJR 1 Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the Legislature to make conclusive that taxes have been paid on property where a receipt is issued by the Tax Collector for any particular year.
HJR 5 Caption: Proposing an amendment making taxable for county and school purposes the University of Texas lands in the county where located.
HJR 6 Caption: Proposing an amendment increasing the per diem of members of the Legislature.
HJR 21 Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that all suits or seizure of property for delinquent taxes shall be brought within ten years from the date said taxes become delinquent or any property seized, for delinquent taxes due prior to 1919.
HR 24 Caption: Extending appreciation of the House to the Southland Memorial Association.
HR 36 Caption: Encouraging perfect attendance of members.
39th Regular Session
HB 74 Caption: Relating to creating the Big Lake Independent School District, Reagan county, Texas, providing a board of trustees therefor, vesting said independent school district and board of trustees with all the rights, power, privileges and duties conferred upon the independent school districts incorporated under the general law of Texas.
HB 279 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to creating a special fund to be known as the fish and oyster fund of the state; providing for the refund of taxes paid on marl, gravel, shell or mudshell; providing for the enforcement of sand, shell and gravel law; providing for the establishment and maintenance of fish hatcheries.
HB 299 Caption: Relating to regulating the method of taking or catching fish in the public fresh waters of Tom Green County, State of Texas, and providing penalties for violations.
HB 403 Caption: Relating to creating the Coahoma Independent School District in Howard County, Texas, including therein the present Common School District No. 2 of Howard County; providing a board of trustees therefor, vesting said Coahoma Independent School District board of trustees with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred upon independent school districts incorporated under the general laws of Texas.
HB 446 Caption: Relating to authorizing the owners of oil and gas permits and leases on fresh water lakes or river beds to sell and transfer them as a whole or in tracts of certain size. Providing for recording transfers; appropriating fees.
HB 470 Caption: Relating to creating the Reagan Independent School District in Reagan County, Texas; providing a board of trustees therefor; vesting said independent school district board of trustees with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred upon independent school districts organized under the general laws of Texas.
HB 471 Caption: Relating to common school districts; removing the restriction that no district shall be so arranged or surveyed or organized that the geographical center of the same shall be more than four miles from its farthest line in certain counties.
HB 472 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute pertaining to the organization of independent school districts; omitting the requirement for the inclusion of certain towns or villages; removing the restriction of area.
HB 503 Caption: Relating to exempting the county of Howard from the provisions and operations of certain statutes relating to the inspection of hides and animals.
HB 541 Caption: Relating to creating the Sherwood Independent School District in Irion County, Texas, and defining its boundaries and conforming the boundaries of all adjoining districts thereto.
HB 612 Caption: Relating to requiring the screening of irrigation ditches in Tom Green, Howard, Reagan, Glasscock, Irion and Sterling counties; prescribing penalties.
HB 667 Caption: Relating to creating the Glasscock Independent School District, in Glasscock County, Texas.
HCR 56 Caption: Inviting the Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows to meet in Austin in 1926.
HJR 21 Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for taxation of school lands owned by counties.
HR 35 Caption: Relating to the conditions at the Confederate Home for veterans.
HR 87 Caption: Relating to funding by the Appropriation Committee in regards to improvements and enlarging of the State Confederate Home.
HR 102 Caption: Relating to the practice of hazing in state colleges.
39th 1st Called Session
HB 306 Caption: Relating to ratifying and validating election heretofore held in and throughout Tom Green County, Texas, upon the question of authorizing the issuance of five hundred thousand dollars special road bonds of said county and levying a tax in payment thereof.