Legislation authored by John Dwyght Parnell
Includes legislation with John Dwyght Parnell as the primary author for the 36th through 39th 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.
| 39th Regular Session | |
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| SB 83 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manner in which all cities and towns with a population of more than one thousand (1,000) inhabitants, whether incorporated under the General Laws of Texas or operating under a special charter, owning and operating a public utility or any public utilities, shall operate and manage, and appropriate and expend the income from such utility or utilities, providing that the income from the operation of one public utility where more than one is operated shall never be applied to pay any part of the operating expense and maintenance, insurance, deprecation nor interest nor sinking fund of any other public utility, so owned and operated. |
| SB 84 | Caption: Relating to adopting and establishing the Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture and sale of ice providing for inspection by the State Health Department; requiring a license for its manufacture and sale; providing a penalty. |
| SB 129 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the sale to the United States of America of the American Legion Memorial Sanatorium of Texas owned by the State of Texas and situated near the town of Kerrville in Kerr County, Texas, including the lands, buildings, improvements, equipment and appurtenances thereunto belonging. |
| SB 130 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to filing of accounts by guardians and furnishing certified copies thereof in certain cases. |
| SB 131 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the commitment and confinement of insane persons. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the official shorthand reporters in the Thirtieth, Seventy-eight and Eighty-ninth Judicial Districts, of Wichita, Archer and Young Counties, Texas, prescribing the method of payment. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the creation of a Juvenile Board in counties with a population of 40,000 or more. |
| SB 193 | Caption: Relating to defining the authority of the Board of Control in reference to the State Capitol building and the Land Office building situated in the City of Austin, Texas. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of Pullman and sleeping car service and fixing a penalty. |
| SB 239 | Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the Eliasville Independent County Line School District in the counties of Young and Stephens in the State of Texas, defining the boundaries thereof, providing for a board of trustees thereof. |
| SB 253 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners' court of Wichita County to contract with the proper authorities of the State of Oklahoma for the construction of a bridge across Red River at some point on the north line of Wichita County, Texas, and authorizing said commissioners' court of Wichita County, Texas, out of the road and bridge funds of said county to pay not more than twenty-five percent of the cost of construction and maintenance. |
| SB 254 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners' court of Wilbarger County to contract with the proper authorities of the State of Oklahoma for the construction of a bridge across Red River at some point on the north line of Wilbarger County, Texas, and authorizing said commissioners' court of Wilbarger County, Texas, out of the road and bridge funds of said county to pay not more than twenty-five percent of the cost of construction and maintenance. |
| SB 263 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating the Ninth Supreme Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 269 | Caption: Relating to providing that the assessor of taxes and collector of taxes in certain counties may maintain a branch office. |
| SB 327 | Caption: Relating to water improvement districts and providing that lands admitted to a water improvement district organized or operating under Section 59, Article 16 of the State Constitution may be admitted upon agreement that same be taxed upon assessment of benefit plan or upon a uniform acreage basis or upon definite annual payment. |
| SB 352 | Caption: Relating to the protection of fish in, and to regulating the catching and taking fish in, and prohibiting the sale, barter and purchase of fish taken in waters which are located in the valley of the Big Wichita River in Wichita, Archer, and Baylor Counties. |
| SB 356 | Caption: Relating to providing that heirs of a person whose whereabouts are unknown may file affidavit showing the existence of property; providing for service of citation and for the appointment of an administrator of the estate. |
| SB 362 | Caption: Relating to providing a method of serving citation in cases filed in the district and county courts in cases where the defendant's whereabouts are unknown. |
| SB 403 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Young County by permitting the issuance of bonds by Young County for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for road and bridge purposes. |
| SB 450 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Baylor County, Texas. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Relating to providing a commission to make a disposition of certain properties. |
| SCR 21 | Caption: Appointing a joint committee to reapportion the State into Supreme Judicial Districts. |
| SCR 23 | Caption: Relating to the University of Texas. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an amendment permitting officers and enlisted men of the National Guard, the National Guard Reserve, and the Officers Reserve Corp of the United States to hold public office in Texas. |
| SR 10 | Caption: Inviting former member of the Senate D.F Goss to address the legislature. |
| SR 47 | Caption: Inviting Madam Schumann-Heink to address the Senate. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 245 | Caption: Relating to the creation of Road District Number Four (4) of Wilbarger County, Texas and defining its boundaries; validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 246 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three (3), in Wilbarger County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 269 | Caption: Relating to validating and legalizing six hundred thousand ($600,000.00) dollars road bonds issued by the County of Hardeman, Texas, for the construction of roads within such county, pursuant to Section 52 of Article 3, of the Constitution. |
| SB 273 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 94, approved March 19, 1925, relating the forfeiture and resale of public free school and, and providing for the validation of the forfeiture and resale and award, in cases where requests for revaluation were made within the time required by law, and of applications for said land that were filed after the time allowed by law. |
| SB 284 | Caption: Relating to creating Megargel School District in Archer and Baylor County, Texas. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the official shorthand reporters in the Thirtieth, Seventy-eight and Eighty-ninth Judicial Districts of Wichita, Archer and Young Counties, Texas. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| HB 406 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to the acknowledgment of married women to instruments of writing, and the manner and method of taking the same, and amending certain statute relating to the form of acknowledgment for married women to instruments of writing. |
| HB 410 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds and members of the Board of Pardon Advisors at thirty-six hundred ($3600) dollars per annum. |
| HB 435 | Caption: Relating to providing that there shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent and advice of the Senate, a convenient number of notaries pubic for each organized county and not to exceed six notaries public for each organized county in this State, who shall hold their office for the term of tow years from the first day of June after appointment at a regular session of the Legislature; provided that the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, may appoint additional notaries public at any regular or special session of the Legislature who shall hold their office until the first day of June succeeding the regular session of the Legislature after their appointment. |
| HB 505 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to better define the powers of the commissioners with reference to public roads. |
| HB 526 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for heating, plumbing fixtures, sewerage disposal, ice plant, laundry machinery, and for the erection of an industrial building, nurses' home, male chronic ward and female chronic ward for the Northwest Texas Insane Asylum in addition to the appropriation contained in certain statute, and providing that such fund shall be expended under the direction of the building board created by the Act of the Thirty-fifth Legislature. |
| HCR 28 | Caption: Inviting governors and legislators to attend a meeting of the US Good Roads Association and Bankhead National Highway. |
| HCR 37 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to draw a general revenue bill. |
| HJR 25 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 3 of Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, authorizing the levying of certain taxes for the further maintenance of public free schools and the erection and equipment of buildings. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to creating the Harrold Independent School District in Wilbarger County, Texas, out of the territory known as the Harrold Common School District No. 9 in said county. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law for Wichita County, Texas. |
| HB 49 | Caption: Relating to creating the 89th Judicial District in Wichita County, Texas. |
| HB 107 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person shall be required to list or render for taxation bonds or other evidence of indebtedness in the State of Texas. |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to directing Governor, Lieutenant Governor and the Attorney General to deliver the property of the Northwest Texas Insane Asylum to the Board of Control. |
| HB 135 | Caption: Relating to creating Special District Court Number 91 for Wilbarger County, Texas for the trial of civil Cases. |
| HB 143 | Caption: Relating to extending the time for the development of permits to prospect for oil and gas issued by the State which cover lands which are now or may hereafter be placed under the Federal Receiver appointed by the United States Supreme Court in the controversy now pending between the State of Oklahoma and the State of Texas. |
| HB 171 | Caption: Relating to fixing the fees to be charged by the State Board of Water Engineers for storage, diversion and use of water. |
| HB 197 | Caption: Relating to creating the Oklaunion Independent School District in Wilbarger County, Texas. |