Legislation authored by John Miles Wagstaff

Includes legislation with John Miles Wagstaff as the primary author for the 33rd through 34th 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.

34th Regular Session
HB 455 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to enforce against the introduction of and prevent the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease; providing penalties.
HB 475 Caption: Relating to amending a certain law authorizing a special school tax to be levied by the city of Abilene.
HB 575 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the construction, maintenance and operation of warehouses.
HB 631 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the licensing of immigrant lawyers to practice law in this State.
HCR 1 Caption: Providing for a change in the text format of printed bills.
HCR 4 Caption: Adopting the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
HR 7 Caption: Providing Nat Patton a seat within the Chamber to represent his district until a successor can be elected.
HR 18 Caption: Adopting the temporary rules of the House.
HR 61 Caption: Inviting former Speaker of the House Chester Terrell to address the House.
34th 1st Called Session
HB 1 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the per diem and mileage of members and per diem of officers and employees of the First Called Session of 1915.
HB 2 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the contingent expenses of the First Called Session of the Thirty-fourth Legislature.
HB 3 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay salaries of judges, and for the support of the judicial department of the State government, for two years, beginning September 1st, 1915 and ending August 31, 1917.
HB 4 Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions of the State, and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them.
HB 5 Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support of the State government for two years, beginning September 1, 1915 and ending August 13, 1917, and for other purposes, and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto.
HB 7 Caption: Relating to providing for the collection, housing, maintenance and exhibition of the resources and products of the State of Texas at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco, CA in 1915; making an appropriation.
HB 8 Caption: Relating to promoting and improving the development of the country schools of the State by the appropriation of $500,000.00 each year, or such part thereof as may be necessary for the next two fiscal years ending August 31, 1916, and 1917, respectively, by allowing the State Board of Education to aid any one school in any sum not exceeding $500.00 in any one year; and providing that schools receiving such aid be located and constructed in a certain way, and having certain and necessary equipment.
HB 9 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them.
HB 14 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to finish paying for publication of notices of election for constitutional amendments.
HB 15 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the current expense of the State Prison Commission of Texas for the year 1915, and to pay for obligations incurred by the Prison Commission of Texas since the first of January, 1915.
HB 55 Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay various miscellaneous claims against the State, authorizing the payment of said miscellaneous items, except as otherwise stated in this item, on the taking effect of this Act, making appropriations for deficiencies incurred in the support of the State government for the fiscal year ending August 31st, 1915, and for the purpose of meeting emergencies occurring during the fiscal year ending August 31, 1915.
HR 34 Caption: Mandating the attendance of all Members of the House for the remaining days of the special session.
33rd Regular Session
HB 342 Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a department of dentistry in the University of Texas.
HB 371 Caption: Relating to providing that the state normal School Board of Regents shall control the same; fixing the time for the opening of said school; making an appropriation to construct buildings and pay salaries.
HB 446 Caption: Relating to requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish a Department of Dentistry in the Medical Department of the University, making an appropriation.
HB 502 Caption: Relating to providing that an unrecorded brand on animals shall not be evidence of ownership thereof, and to limit this rule of evidence to civil cases.
HB 620 Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to deeds of trust and vendor's lien notes, providing that powers of sale conferred by deeds of trust and mortgages heretofore or hereafter given shall not be executed after the indebtedness is barred by limitations and that the lien created thereby shall cease to exist.
HJR 40 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the constitution to empower cities with a population greater than 5,000 to adopt their own charters by a popular vote.
33rd 1st Called Session
HB 54 Caption: Relating to amending Article 5695 Revised Statutes of Texas, 1911, relating to the renewal and extension of liens that are secured by deeds of trust, mortgages or original vendors lien on real estate.