Legislation authored by George Milton Hopkins
Includes legislation with George Milton Hopkins as the primary author for the 34th through 36th 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.
36th Regular Session | |
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SB 11 | Caption: Relating to requiring the owner, agent or lessee of any land or any present interest therein, on which any stream is located, in whole or in part, which overflows its banks and floods the land of other persons under cultivation, to keep the timber, underbrush and drifts cleared out of the channels and off the shoals of such creek, making the failure to do so a misdemeanor, and prescribing a penalty. |
SB 12 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the maintenance and operation of pool halls within the State of Texas; creating and defining offenses in violation of this Act and prescribing the punishment therefor. |
SB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to abolish the position of pipe line expert, and to define the duties of the Railroad Commission in regard to assembling information to be used as a basis for making rates, levying a tax on crude oil produced, providing for the payment of certain expenses. |
SB 36 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statue and providing the manner in which State funds shall be kept and deposited; defining the State Depository Board and its powers, and what banks may become State depositories, and the manner and means of selecting and for the qualification of such State depositories, providing for the distribution of such State funds among such depositories. |
SB 159 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the further maintenance for the remainder of the regular session and for summer session of 1919 of the College of Industrial Arts. |
SB 208 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to limit the time in which certain persons may institute suit for the recovery of real estate; adding a new article so as to provide that a person having the peaceable and adverse possession of the land, tenements or hereditaments, the title to which has passed out of the State, using and enjoying same, under regular recorded chain of title for a period of twenty-five years, shall be conclusively presumed to have a good marketable and incontestable title thereto, that abstracts showing such facts shall be deemed a complete abstract of the title to such land. |
SB 254 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide for the collection of inheritance taxes, fixing compensation therefor. |
SB 255 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating a State Council of Defense so as to extend the period of its existence for six months after a final treaty of peace has been signed and published. |
SB 256 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting commissioners' courts from issuing warrant, negotiable or non-negotiable, interest bearing or non-interest bearing, or from otherwise contracting debts against the courthouse and jail fund, or the road and bridge fund, of their respective counties in excess of the estimated receipts in the year for which such warrants or evidence of indebtedness are issued, and declaring all contracts undertaking to create any indebtedness against any such fund in excess of the estimated receipts to accrue for that year to such fund to be illegal and void; making county commissioners and county judges violating this act liable for the payment of any such indebtedness and for any amount illegally paid on such indebtedness. |
SB 290 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that the dissolution of a corporation shall not operate to abate any pending suit and so as to provide that suit may be maintained against the president, directors, general manager, trustee, or assignee of such corporation and providing that assets of said corporation shall be subject to the payment of judgments. |
SB 312 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to further provide for the collection of inheritance taxes, the making of reports concerning estates subject to taxation, the fixing of penalties, prescribing duties and fixing compensation of District and County Attorneys and County Judges. |
SB 318 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute to provide the manner in which State funds shall be kept and deposited; defining the State Depository Board and its powers, and what banks may become State depositories, and the manner and means of selecting and for the qualification of such State depositories, providing for the distribution of such State funds among such depositories. |
SB 366 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain laws providing the management and control of the schools of the City of Bowie shall be vested in the board of the Bowie Independent School District. |
SB 388 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide the manner in which mineral lands shall be advertised and leased, fixing royalties and compensation for the use of the surface. |
SJR 1 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution abolishing the office of County Treasurer. |
SJR 2 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution authorizing the levy of a special tax of not exceeding seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars valuation for the improvement and maintenance of public roads. |
SJR 19 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for local option taxes for the improvement and maintenance of public roads. |
SR 3 | Caption: Relating to selection of seats. |
36th 2nd Called Session | |
SB 9 | Caption: Relating to providing the method of remitting State funds to State depositories and the State Treasury. |
SB 10 | Caption: Relating to validating sales of public free school land made on October 22, 1903, in qualities not exceeding forty acres, and same have been fully paid for. |
SB 64 | Caption: Relating to providing statute of limitation within which to file suit for recovery of real estate. |
SB 65 | Caption: Relating to suits against dissolved corporations and providing for payment of judgments. |
SB 84 | Caption: Relating to defining and classifying the civil service of the State of Texas and its counties and of such municipalities as may adopt the provisions of this Act. |
SB 121 | Caption: Relating to requiring the owner, agent or lease of any land on which any stream is located which overflows its banks and floods the land of other persons under cultivation to keep the timber, underbrush and drifts cleared out of the channels and off the shoals of such creek; prescribing a penalty. |
36th 3rd Called Session | |
SB 52 | Caption: Relating to prescribing procedure in suits where misjoinder of parties or causes of action exists so that such suits shall not abate but shall be subdivided. |
SB 91 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain sections of the Denton County Road Law. |
36th 4th Called Session | |
SB 16 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that all poll tax receipts and exemption certificates shall show the political part with which the person to whom the same is issued affiliates. |
35th Regular Session | |
SB 61 | Caption: Relating to providing that no property encumbered by certain liens shall be set aside to the widow or children as exempt property, or appropriated to make up the allowances in lieu of exempt property, or for a year's support, until the debts secured by such liens are first discharged. |
SB 84 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Railroad Commission the power to require the owners or operators of railroads within the State to arrange, rearrange or re-locate their railroad tracts and depot buildings for safety reasons; providing procedure for such requirements. |
SB 85 | Caption: Relating to declaring what counties compose the Sixteenth Judicial district of Texas. |
SB 125 | Caption: Relating to requiring the owner, agent or lessee of any land on which any stream is located which overflows its banks and floods the land of other persons under cultivation to keep the timber underbrush and drifts cleared out of the channels and off the shoals of such creek; creating a misdemeanor, prescribing a penalty, fixing damages and the venue of suits for the recovery thereof. |
SB 130 | Caption: Relating to making bail bonds in all criminal cases good until verdict or judgment and until the Defendant is taken in custody by the sheriff. |
SB 148 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to pay additional teachers during the remainder of the regular session of the North Texas State Normal College and to supply an omission in the appropriation for the summer session of 1917. |
SB 203 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to construct and equip a fireproof dormitory, complete the administration building, and to provide summer support for the College of Industrial Arts. |
SB 204 | Caption: Relating to repealing the law for the payment of in-county witness fees in felony cases. |
SB 350 | Caption: Relating to raising allowances for the widow and children so as to provide that no property encumbered by certain liens shall be set aside or appropriated to make up allowances until the debt secured by such liens are discharged. |
SJR 3 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the levy of a special tax for the improvement and maintenance of public roads. |
SJR 4 | Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing the offices of tax assessor and tax collector and county treasurer and creating the office of assessor and collector of taxes. |
SR 7 | Caption: Providing for a porter to gather all leftover newspapers from the Senate at the end of each day and deliver them to the Confederate Home. |
SR 25 | Caption: In memory of George Dewey. |
SR 81 | Caption: Providing for the return of S.B. No. 85 to the House of Representatives for a roll call and final passage of the same. |
SR 107 | Caption: Inviting former Senator James R. Wiley to address the Senate. |
SR 110 | Caption: Providing for a recess and special order of business at the night session. |
35th 1st Called Session | |
SB 75 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Denton County, Texas. |
SJR 1 | Caption: Relating to proposing and amendment to Section 9, Article 8, of the Constitution, authorizing 75c special road tax. |
35th 2nd Called Session | |
SB 11 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes so as to provide that a sailor or soldier shall not be required to answer to the merits of a suit during the time he is actively engaged as such. |
35th 4th Called Session | |
SB 1 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws and providing the manner in which State funds shall be kept and deposited. |
SB 50 | Caption: Relating to providing for holding primary elections in this State; providing for primaries for party nominations for Federal officers. |
SB 51 | Caption: Relating to providing that all candidates for nominations to office in primary elections shall have their campaign expenses limited; prescribing penalties. |
SB 55 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Railroad Commission of Texas the power to require persons owning or operating railroads withing the State of Texas to rearrange or relocate their railroad tracks and depot buildings at stations when and where the safety of the public may require such rearrangement. |
SB 61 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas to employ not less than three lecturers from among the registered nurses of the State to visit the different high schools, colleges and Universities of the State to arouse a greater interest among young women in the profession of nursing. |
34th Regular Session | |
HB 302 | Caption: Relating to validating the corporation of the City of Pilot Point and all legal acts done by said city since its incorporation. |
HB 533 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute making an appropriation to cover current expenses for Experimental Substation No. 6, located in Denton County, Texas, for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1915. |
HB 585 | Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Railroad Commission the power to require railroad companies to arrange or re-arrange their tracks and buildings where the safety of the public may require such arrangement or rearrangement. |
HB 624 | Caption: Relating to preventing owners, drivers and persons in charge of automobiles, cabs or other vehicles from making and collecting excessive charges; prescribing penalties. |
HCR 5 | Caption: Providing for the copying of enrolled bills. |
HCR 18 | Caption: Granting District Judge Charles A. Spencer a leave of absence from the State. |
HJR 6 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the levy of a special road tax. |
HJR 12 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment abolishing the offices of Assessor of Taxes, collector of taxes and County Treasurer and creating the office of assessor and collector of taxes for each county; |
34th 1st Called Session | |
HCR 1 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to enact legislation to provide pensions to veterans of the Confederate States. |