Legislation authored by Benjamin L. Cox
Includes legislation with Benjamin L. Cox 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 | |
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| HB 65 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act defining the original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Texas and regulating the practice therein. |
| HB 271 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act dispensing with the requirement that public school teachers make affidavit in connection with salary checks as now provided by said Statute. |
| HB 277 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act creating the Tuscola Independent School District in Taylor County, Texas. |
| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act regarding the purchase of additional land for the University of Texas. |
| HB 322 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the application for writs of error. |
| HB 366 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the fees of justices of the peace. |
| HB 369 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the offense of manslaughter, rape and theft of an automobile. |
| HB 383 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the amount to be paid out of the general revenue. |
| HB 432 | Caption: Relating to changing the time of holding court in the various counties of the Forty-second Judicial District of Texas; abolishing the criminal jurisdiction of said District Court in Stephens County and conferring said criminal jurisdiction upon the District Court of the Ninetieth Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 486 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding gas utilities. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the population of incorporated cities and towns. |
| HR 5 | Caption: Providing for a committee to notify the Governor and the Senate of the organization of the House. |
| HR 83 | Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 432 from the Senate. |
| HR 85 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative T.B. King of Erath County, Texas. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 16 | Caption: Providing for the Legislature to adjourn sine die at 12 o'clock on August 16, 1921. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| HB 31 | Caption: Relating to creating the office of State Hotel Inspector, providing for his appointment, defining his duties and powers, fixing the amount of his compensation; efining the necessary regulations for the equipment, management and maintenance and sanitary condition of hotels and cafes in the State of Texas and fixing the penalty for the violation. |
| HB 105 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing for the prompt payment of losses under all insurance policies as is now provided for the payment of loans under life, accident and health policies. |
| HB 157 | Caption: Relating to defining common carrier pipe and gas lines engaged, or to engage in the transportation, sale or distribution of natural or artificial gas; declaring all corporations, persons, partnerships, or associations of persons now engaged or to hereafter engage in selling, distributing, and transporting natural or artificial gas in this State to be common carriers, declaring such common carriers to be public utilities and making them subject to the provisions of this Act; fixing penalties for violation of this Act, and the rules and orders of said Commission; making certain violations a criminal offense and fixing the penalty therefor, and providing means for the recovery of such penalties as are not made criminal, either by the State of Texas, or the party aggrieved by such violation, making the tribunal in which such recovery may be had, and providing for the recovery of excessive charges by patrons of such common carriers. |
| HB 432 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act defining "Delinquent Child" and regulating the treatment and control of same by providing for the trial and punishment of delinquent children or juveniles. |
| HB 458 | Caption: Relating to creating the Eighty-eighth Judicial District; fixing its jurisdiction and time of holding court therein. |
| HR 144 | Caption: Granting photographer an extension of time to complete group picture of members of the House. |
| HR 156 | Caption: Expressing approval for federal Mansfield Bill; urging Texan congressmen to support it. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 53 | Caption: Relating to amending the law creating the 88th and 42nd Judicial Districts by further defining the Forty-second Judicial District and fixing the time for holding court in the counties composing same. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to regulating public gas utilities and placing them under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission. |
| 36th 4th Called Session | |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Relating to adjournment sine die. |