Legislation authored by Richard Burton Humphrey
Includes legislation with Richard Burton Humphrey as the primary author for the 31st through 33rd 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.
| 33rd Regular Session | |
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| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to an ad valorem tax not to exceed five cents on the one hundred dollar valuation on property for the purpose of creating a special fund for the payment of pensions for services in the Confederate army, navy, frontier organizations, the militia and for the widows of such persons. |
| HB 86 | Caption: Relating to pleadings. |
| HB 91 | Caption: Relating to creating a state highway department; establishing a state highway commission and office of state engineer; creating a fund by the license of motor vehicles and fixing a penalty for the failure to pay such license; making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act. |
| HB 124 | Caption: Relating to requiring every person having control of any child of a certain age to cause such child to attend school or to be instructed privately; providing penalties for failure to comply. |
| HB 141 | Caption: Relating to authorizing railroad companies to issue and sell bonds, secured by lien upon its property, for the purpose of making permanent improvements; fixing penalties. |
| HB 143 | Caption: Relating to the validation of certain State land surveys. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to providing that indebtedness secured by lien on real estate shall be exempted from taxation. |
| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to charges and instructions to juries. |
| HB 169 | Caption: Relating to defining and classifying the civil service of this state, creating a civil service commission, providing penalties. |
| HB 183 | Caption: Relating to providing that, bonds, credits and other evidence of indebtedness secured by lien on real estate shall be exempted from taxation, and declaring an emergency. |
| HB 266 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the state into senatorial districts. |
| HB 297 | Caption: Relating to requiring every person having control of any child of a certain age to cause such child to attend school or be instructed privately, providing penalties. |
| HB 437 | Caption: Relating to denouncing the offense of the fraudulent disposition of mortgage property, and providing punishment therefor. |
| HB 504 | Caption: Relating to providing that an unrecorded brand on animals shall not be evidence of ownership thereof and limiting this rule of evidence to civil cases. |
| HB 505 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Penal Code and Revised Civil Statutes, relating to the butcher business, so as to reduce the number of counties exempt. |
| HB 607 | Caption: Relating to the regulation and the issuance and sale of railroad securities and providing the circumstances under and manner according to which such securities my hereafter be issued and sold, and how the proceeds thereof shall be appropriated providing that the benefit of grants, donations and bonuses shall accrue to the railroad corporations constructing railroads and not to individual promoters, officers, directors or agents; providing penalties. |
| HB 632 | Caption: Amending the provisions of the law prescribing the terms upon which foreign life insurance companies may transact business in this state. |
| HB 772 | Caption: Relating to the occupational tax on auctioneers. |
| HB 773 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 869 of the Revised Penal Code so as to include Haskell County in the list of counties exempted from the provisions. |
| HB 834 | Caption: Relating to making unlawful the shipment, delivery or transportation in any manner whatsoever, of intoxicating liquors from points outside the state, into territory within the state where the local option laws of the state prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors; providing penalties. |
| HB 892 | Caption: Relating to creating a road commission for Baylor County by making the members of the commissioners' court ex-officio members of said commission, and defining duties, powers, salaries and qualifications of the same; providing a penalty for all violations of this Act. |
| HJR 1 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for the calling of a Constitutional Convention. |
| HR 4 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of temporary stenographers. |
| HR 8 | Caption: Providing daily newspapers for the members of the House. |
| HR 18 | Caption: Directing that the Supreme Court Library extend its opening hours; also increasing the salary of the Librarian. |
| HR 23 | Caption: Providing extra stenographers to the office of Attorney General. |
| HR 33 | Caption: Providing pay for the temporary porters of the House. |
| HR 79 | Caption: Providing pay to all the House employees for the time of the temporary adjournment. |
| HR 84 | Caption: Requesting the Railroad Commission to submit certain information to the House. |
| HR 108 | Caption: Providing payment to the Railroad Commission for the gathering of certain information. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 18 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Statutes of 1911 so as to provide that prisoners of the State Penitentiary System may be required to labor from sunrise to sunset and need not be paid for Sunday labor. |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to establishing a prison system in the State; providing for the management and control of such system and declaring the policy of the State in reference thereto; providing for the purchase and sale of real estate by the prison commission, with the approval of the general superintendent and the governor; fixing penalties for the violation of this act. |
| HB 25 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of two million dollars for the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of the state's penitentiary system. |
| HB 69 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts, declaring what counties shall compose each district, providing for returning officer for each district. |
| 33rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 1 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking to establish a State warehouse system, defining the liability of the State as a public warehouseman and permitting suits to be brought against it; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to regulating cotton oil mill corporations and public cotton gin corporations. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating fraternal beneficiary associations. |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to requiring Karnes county and exempting Archer, Shelby and Nacogdoches counties from the operation of the law requiring butchers to give bond and to have hides inspected. |
| HB 107 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the courts of the State to disregard errors not affecting the substantial rights of the party or parties seeking to reverse or set aside the judgement in civil and criminal cases or to secure the new trial. |
| HB 142 | Caption: Relating to the protection of stockraisers, farmers and horticulturists; providing for the destruction of wolves and other wild animals; to make an appropriation therefor. |
| HB 152 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of persons serving as grand or petit jurors in the county and district courts of this State. |
| HB 392 | Caption: Relating to increasing the civil jurisdiction of the county court of Haskell County. |
| HB 473 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial districts. |
| HB 519 | Caption: Relating to validating certain records, relating to titles and real estate. |
| HB 520 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act to create a road commission for Jones, Haskell and Taylor counties by making the members of the commissioners court ex officio members of said commission, and defining duties, powers, salaries and qualifications of the same, so as to increase the compensation allowed to county commissioners when acting as road commissioners. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act requiring railroad companies to maintain crossings in fenced enclosures so as to make a separate offense each day's failure to maintain such crossings. |
| HB 582 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on travelling vendors of drugs, stock foods or patent medicines. |
| 32nd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 4 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Senatorial Districts, declaring what counties shall constitute each district and declaring which officers shall make return of elections in each of said districts. |
| HB 28 | Caption: Relating to fixing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of this state by providing that the appellate courts of this state may disregard immaterial errors in passing upon appealed cases. |
| HB 40 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act relative to a system of a State, county and city depositories for State, county and city funds, and defining the duties of the State Treasurer as to the acceptance of State, county, municipal, independent school district, common school district and road improvement bonds as collateral security for deposits made in the State depositories, repealing all laws in conflict therewith. |
| HB 61 | Caption: Relating to creating a road commission for Knox County by making the members of the commissioners court ex-officio members of said commission; providing that certain convicts may be worked upon the public roads; providing how contracts may be let; providing a penalty. |