Legislation authored by Thomas Henry Ridgeway
Includes legislation with Thomas Henry Ridgeway as the primary author for the 38th through 38th 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.
| 38th Regular Session | |
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| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to providing for the filing with the County Clerk as the recorder, of notices or statements of all liens and claims and releases thereof, in favor of the Government of the United States or of any department or bureau thereof. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to creating the Kerrville Independent School District, in Kerr County, out of the territory known as the Kerrville Independent School District and other adjacent property thereto. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to hotels, apartment hotels and boarding houses protecting them from fraud, limiting their liability. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to creating a Pension Fund for Firemen, Policemen and Fire Alarm Operators in cities and towns of Texas having and maintaining a paid or partially paid or volunteer fire or police department or fire alarm operators' department, and providing for the administration of this Act. |
| SB 124 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of bailiffs to attend upon the grand jury. |
| SB 125 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol or any other firearm upon or across any public street, road or highway in this State and providing for a penalty for the violation thereof. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of county auditors in certain counties. |
| SB 154 | Caption: Relating to providing the method of preparing statement of fact in all cases appealed or taken up on writ of error and for the consideration of same by the appellate courts and for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws in any wise in conflict with the act or providing for the preparation of any statement of facts. |
| SB 155 | Caption: Relating to increasing the term of office for the members of the Board of Highway Commission; and providing compensation for members of said Commission. |
| SB 184 | Caption: Relating to prescribing and defining the jurisdiction of corporation courts in cities, towns and villages having a population of a certain number of inhabitants. |
| SB 258 | Caption: Relating to defining and classifying public utilities and subjecting interurban public utilities to the supervision of the Railroad Commission of Texas with power to enact rules and regulations. |
| SB 274 | Caption: Relating to changing the time of holding courts in the Thirty-third Judicial District of Texas by providing that said court shall hold three terms of two weeks each in Gillespie County. |
| SB 319 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing the cases in which divorce may be granted. |
| SB 320 | Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation to the Texas Cherokee Indians and their associate bands for certain lands in East Texas ceded them by the Republic of Texas. |
| SB 332 | Caption: Relating to assessment of property of taxation and the compensation to be paid assessors for making assessments. |
| SB 371 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to include all lands owned or acquired by the State, either by gift, grant, donation or purchase. |
| SB 372 | Caption: Relating to declaring it to be an offense for any person to persuade, coerce, encourage, induce or aid any "dependent child" as that term is defined, to leave any individual, institution or family to which said "dependent child" has been committed, without written consent of the judge of the court committing said child. |
| SB 375 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, or offer for sale, for human consumption any milk showing an unnatural or abnormal cream line, or quantity of cream which was produced by any unnatural, artificial or mechanical method. |
| SB 380 | Caption: Relating to providing that in addition to the amount of commissions to be received by county treasurers, in counties in which the assessed value of property exceeds one hundred million dollars, or more, such county treasurers shall receive a commission in excess of the commission already allowed by said Article, a sum from the commissions of office not exceeding twelve hundred dollars per annum for the payment oft he salary of a deputy employed by the said county treasurer. |
| SB 393 | Caption: Relating to providing that the father and mother shall be the joint natural guardians of their minor children, with equal rights, powers and duties. |
| SB 430 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Fredericksburg Independent School District to sell and convey a certain tract of land situated in the town of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, Texas. |
| SB 431 | Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase and conveyance to the State of Texas of the land in the City of San Antonio known as the Ancient Government Palace property, which was the building to be used as the capitol of the Ancient Province of Texas. |
| SCR 14 | Caption: Authorizing Edna Collins to erect a scaffold in the Capitol in order to copy the portrait of David Crockett. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, or offer for sale for human consumption any milk which has been so treated by any artificial means or process, as to cause same to have the appearance of containing more cream or butter fat than it actually contains and providing appropriate penalty for the violation thereof. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to amending the statutes relative to the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium and making provision for an addition to the said Sanatorium now located near Carlsbad, Texas, so as to make possible the acceptance, treatment and care of cases in any stage of advancement. |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes relative to elections, general and primary, and the requirements of poll tax receipts. |
| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or offer for sale for human consumption any milk which has been so treated by any artificial means or process, as to cause same to have the appearance of containing more cream or butter fat than it actually contains and providing appropriate penalty for the violation thereof. |
| SB 70 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relative to assessment of property for taxation and the compensation to be paid assessors for making assessments. |
| SB 73 | Caption: Relating to State Parks; creating a State Parks Board to investigate prospective Park sites in the State and report to the Legislature wtih recommendations. |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to regulating the lighting of all motor vehicles in Texas, providing for the testing of such lighting devices and the approval of same by the State Highway Commission before being used on any motor vehicle operated within this State. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 35 | Caption: Relating to regulating the lights and lighting and operation of motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, semi-trailers, motorcycles, and bicycles in this State; prescribing the lights for such vehicles between the hours of half-hour after sunset and half-hour before sunrise; providing for the use of red flags on certain loaded vehicle in the daytime; enacting the necessary penal provisions as to lights for such vehicles and devices and equipment for such lights; prescribing penalties for the violations of the Act |