Legislation authored by Robert Lee McDowra

Includes legislation with Robert Lee McDowra as the primary author for the 32nd 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
HB 89 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the suspension of sentence in certain cases of conviction of felony for first offenses, provided that the offender be under the age of eighteen years, upon recommendation of the jury and for submission of the issue to the jury by the court.
HB 109 Caption: Relating to forfeiting to the State all vehicles, including automobiles, and animals used in transporting liquor.
HB 123 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to duties of the Commissioner of Agriculture.
HB 147 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute vesting the control, management and supervision of said law in the Commissioner of Agriculture, by conferring the authority heretofore vested in the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking and the Board of Supervisors of Warehouses upon the Commissioner of Agriculture; providing that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after September 1, 1919.
HB 400 Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for the appointment by the Governor of two members of the Board of Pardon Advisers; fixing their salary.
HB 541 Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Revised Criminal Statutes providing the maximum time for the execution and return of search warrants, providing for a list and the value of articles seized, and providing for the custody of same.
36th 2nd Called Session
HB 16 Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Lamar Couny.
HB 56 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing that the Commissioners Court in each county fix the amount to be collected by road overseers from road hands in lieu of service.
36th 3rd Called Session
HB 24 Caption: Relating to amending the Lamar County Road Law.
HB 157 Caption: Relating to preventing the introduction into the State of Texas of the destructive cotton pest, pectinophora gossypiella, Saunders, known as, and hereafter referred to as the pink boll worm, and to control and eradicate such insect pest when and where discovered in this State; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of the Act.
36th 4th Called Session
HB 11 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of a corporation for the dual purpose of owning both a cotton seed mill and a public cotton gin; providing penalties.
HB 16 Caption: Relating to prohibit any person, firm or association operating a cotton seed oil mill to also own, operate or hold any interest in a public cotton gin; fixing penalties.
35th Regular Session
HB 267 Caption: Relating to applications for and granting of a continuance in trials; amending an act.
HB 268 Caption: Relating to redirecting certain state taxes in Lamar county and the city of Paris for the purpose of reestablishment and rebuilding permanent public improvements for a period of five years; providing a penalty for misappropriation.
HB 294 Caption: Relating to authorizing Lamar County to issue bonds for the maintenance of roads.
HB 410 Caption: Relating to providing for a uniform date for the election of trustees in common school districts and providing for election and qualification of trustees.
HB 528 Caption: Relating to amending acts relating to teacher certificates.
HB 561 Caption: Relating to amending statute providing for the appointment, qualification and removal of the School Trustees in Common School Districts.
HB 731 Caption: Relating to fees of district attorneys in districts composed of two or more counties.
32nd Regular Session
HB 139 Caption: Relating to creating the Deport Independent School District in Lamar and Red River counties, and defining its boundaries.
HB 163 Caption: Relating to and prohibiting the delivery of spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxication liquors to minors by any person who is agent or employee of any express company or common carrier.
HB 185 Caption: Relating to amending an Act as relating to continuance.
HB 208 Caption: Relating to exempting Lamar county from the provisions of the game protective law.
HB 540 Caption: Relating to providing an occupation tax on persons conducting pool or billiards tables.
HB 547 Caption: Relating to providing the manner in which pool and billiard tables may be prohibited in towns of five thousand inhabitants or less.
HB 612 Caption: Relating to amending "An Act to incorporate the city of Paris and to grant it a new charter; to define its powers and to prescribe its duties and liabilities."