Legislation authored by Howard Walling Wells
Includes legislation with Howard Walling Wells as the primary author for the 38th 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 | |
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| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to amending Section 1 of the Article 7047, Title 122, Chapter 1 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas; relating to occupation taxes on itinerant merchants. |
| HB 248 | Caption: Relating to regulating the packing and marking of packages and containers. |
| HB 249 | Caption: Relating to regarding the sale of certain products. |
| HB 320 | Caption: Relating to providing for a license for non-residents who shall fish with artificial lures of any kind in the waters of this State; and to provide penalties for the failure of persons to procure a license to fish. |
| HB 389 | Caption: Relating to game and game preserves. |
| HB 446 | Caption: Relating to creating the Sand, Gravel and Shell Fund, and appropriating the same. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to creating, defining and establishing road district number 3 of Jackson County, Texas, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes. |
| HR 21 | Caption: Providing for additional House journals. |
| HR 115 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of two committees to notify the Governor and the Senate that the House has completed its duties and is ready to adjourn sine die. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to providing that road districts may be created and road bonds thereof issued in counties having outstanding road bonds. |
| HB 120 | Caption: Relating to providing better protection for fish in the fresh waters of Jackson County by making it unlawful to use nets or seines in any of the fresh water streams, lakes, bayous, or lagoons in Jackson County. |
| HB 144 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Penal Code so as to regulate and enact provisions in reference to the taking and catching of fish in certain waters; adding a new article to be numbered 941aa prescribing method of closing waters to seining by proclamations of the Commissioner. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to declaring all wild animals, wild birds, and wild fowl to be the property of the people of this State; to preserve, propagate, distribute, and protect the wild game animals, wild game birds and fowls, and wild birds of this State; defining offenses, and prescribing penalties for the violations thereof. |
| HB 6 | Caption: Relating to declaring fish and other aquatic animal life contained in the fresh water rivers, creeks and streams and in lakes or sloughs subject to overflow from rivers or streams within the borders of this state, and in the public rivers, bayous, lagoons, creeks, lakes, bays and inlets of this state, and all that part of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of this State, are the property of the people of the state; declaring persons required to purchase angler's license and penalties for failure to procure or exhibit the same with exceptions. |
| HB 8 | Caption: Relating to amending the statutes relating to the conservation and propagation of the fish and oysters of this State; providing for the fish and oyster fund and appropriating same; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to the appropriation and use of water; providing that water may be used for public parks, game preserves, recreation and pleasure resorts, power and water supply for industrial purposes and domestic uses. |
| HB 558 | Caption: Relating to creating the Edna Independent School District in Jackson county, Texas. |
| HB 570 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Jackson county. |
| HB 572 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Wharton county. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Relating to the selection of seats for members of the House of Representatives. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Relating to votes for officers of the House. |
| HR 7 | Caption: Relating to salary for employees of the House. |
| HR 96 | Caption: Congratulating Representative W. P. Lane and his wife on the occasion of their marriage. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 30 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Jackson County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Jackson County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| 38th Regular Session | |
| HB 611 | Caption: Relating to providing that the city council of any city or town shall have power to levy and collect an annual poll tax, not to exceed one dollar. |
| HR 25 | Caption: Directing the printing and distribution of county maps of Texas for usage by the Members of the House. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to providing that the city council of any city or town shall have power to levy and collect an annual poll tax not to exceed one dollar, of every inhabitant of said city over the age of twenty-one years (idiots and lunatics excepted) who is a resident thereof at the time of such annual assessment. |
| HB 138 | Caption: Relating to releasing the inhabitants of and property in Wharton county, comprising one district, and that portion of Matagorda county embraced in Commissioners' Precincts Nos. 1, 2, and 4, as described in the minutes of the commissioners court of said county from the payment of taxes levied for state purpose. |