Legislation authored by Orlando Bacon Black

Includes legislation with Orlando Bacon Black as the primary author for the 36th through 37th 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.

37th Regular Session
HB 36 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the creation and establishment of a tuberculosis sanatorium for negroes, to be maintained by the State of Texas.
HB 59 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the suspended sentence law; and for granting new trial after suspension.
HB 60 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the practice of law and the law business; and to provide penalties and remedies for the violation thereof.
HB 159 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the Thirty-seventh, Forty-fifth, Fifty seventh and Seventy-third judicial Districts.
HB 187 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the creation of a State real estate commission.
HB 207 Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the increase of salaries of district attorneys.
HB 350 Caption: Relating to making unlawful the use of the name of the United States Government in any business, etc.
HB 351 Caption: Relating to the conferring of certain powers upon the State Board of Control.
HB 381 Caption: Relating to making the State a party to divorce suits.
HB 465 Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of public shorthand reporting.
HR 21 Caption: Relating to the pay for the Sergeant-at-Arms.
HR 22 Caption: Providing for the payment of certain expenses of inauguration.
36th Regular Session
HB 173 Caption: Relating to validating the sales of Public Free School Land on condition of settlement, in cases where the purchaser settled on the land but failed to get his affidavit in the Land Office within the time required by law.
36th 2nd Called Session
HB 50 Caption: Relating to preventing persons who have given a mortgage on personal property for the purchase money therefore from removing or allowing same to be removed from the place designated in the mortgage without written notice; providing a penalty.
HB 184 Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the pay of jail guards; defining the number of hours constituting a day.
36th 3rd Called Session
HB 161 Caption: Relating to amending the metes and bounds of Common School District Number 40 in Bexar County, Texas, to be re-created as San Jose Independent School District.
HB 176 Caption: Relating to amending the laws relating to issuance of bonds for road improvements.