Legislation authored by Thomas Jefferson Bowles

Includes legislation with Thomas Jefferson Bowles as the primary author for the 30th through 31st 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.

31st Regular Session
HB 31	Caption: Relating to amending Article 967 and 969, Chapter 3, Title 18, of the Penal Code of 1895, relating to the penalty for seduction and providing that in a trial for seduction any evidence offiered by the defendant that the seduced had carnal knowledge of another than the seducer must be corroborated by the testimony of the seduced.
HB 32	Caption: Relating to amending Article 950, Title 17, Chapter 17 of the Penal Code relating to fraudulent disposition of mortgaged property.
HB 33	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful as Manager, Ticket Seller, or Player, to Play at or Engage in any game of Base Ball or Foot Ball on Sunday; providing penalties.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to amending Article 376, Title XI, Chapter 2 of the Penal Code, relating to the offering for sale, tickets in raffle.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to amending Article 375, Title XI, Chapter 2, of the Penal Code of Texas, relating to raffles, prescribing a penalty therefor, and prohibiting the keeping for sale of any chance, ticket, or part ticket in any raffle of estate, real or personal, of any value whatsoever.
HB 75	Caption: Relating to exempting Collin County from the provisions contained in Section 1 of Chapter 168 of the General Laws of the Thirtieth Legislature, relating to the appointment and qualification of County Auditors.
HB 77	Caption: Relating to amending Section 2, Chapter 78, of the General Laws of the Regular Session of the Thirtieth Legislature relating to the taking of fish, the purpose of the amendment being to include Brazos, Clay, Collin, Fayette, Gillespie, Hunt, Jack, Kaufman, Mitchell, Raines, Rusk, Smith, and Van Zandt counties in the exemption of said Section 2, and to strike from the list of counties exempted, Harrison and Lavaca counties.
HB 140	Caption: Relating to requiring railroad companies to employ an officer to be designated as chief special officer and conferring upon said officer the power of a peace officer; prescribing a penalty for the violation of this act.
HB 216	Caption: Relating to amending Article 480, Chapter 1, Title 18, of the Penal Code, relating to the obstruction of public roads, highways, bridges or causeways, and prescribing a penalty therefor.
HB 426	Caption: Relating to amending Section 126 of Chapter 124 of the General Laws of the Twenty-ninth Legislature, relating to the attendance of teachers who attend the County Institutes.
30th Regular Session
HB 31	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas with reference to disturbances of the peace by prohibiting any person from making any noise or in any manner acting calculated to disturb the inhabitants of any public place or private house.
HB 32	Caption: Relating to making it an offense of fornication for the carnal intercourse with each other without living together, of a man and woman, both being unmarried.
HB 33	Caption: Relating to making it an offense of adultery for the carnal intercourse with each other, without living together, of a man and woman when either is lawfully married to some other person.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas relating to petty theft so as to make the penalty for theft of property under the value of $50 a fine in any sum not less than $25 nor more than $200.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to providing that where the defendant appeals in any case of felony to the Court of Criminal Appeals, where the punishment is ten years or less in the penitentiary, he nay make bond for his appearance and be released from custody until the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals can be made and received, and prescribing the manner in which said bond shall be made and the amount of same.
HB 179	Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of city councils and boards of aldermen, and providing and authorizing cities and towns to manufacture and sell gas or electricity to the inhabitants thereof for commercial purposes.
HB 238	Caption: Relating to carrying arms.
HB 239	Caption: Relating to authorizing justices of the peace and constables to charge and collect fees in examining trials in misdemeanor cases.
HB 314	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any male person, who is more than 15 years of age, form lounging around, rooming or bedding together with a prostitute or woman of unchaste character at any private residence or boarding house not her own or occupied by her, and prescribing a penalty therefor.
HB 320	Caption: Relating to defining vagrancy, and providing that any male person in this State, who is more than 15 years of age, who shall lounge around, room or bed together with a prostitute or female person of unchaste character at any place not her own, or occupied by her, shall be declared a vagrant.
HB 453	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relating to the payment of road tax for the purpose of being exempt from road duty, and changing the amount of said tax from $3 to $5.
HB 466	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any male person from lounging around or rooming together with a common prostitute or female person of unchaste character or to procure or induce other persons and such prostitutes to engage in sexual intercourse, to induce or attempt to induce any female person to go into any rooming house commonly reputed to be an assignation house, or any other place where prostitutes resort, prescribing a penalty.
HB 521	Caption: Relating to requiring the railroad companies to carry peace officers on certain excursion trains, and providing penalties for violations of this Act.
HB 612	Caption: Relating to making it an offense for any person in this State to give or present to, or expose in the presence of any female person, any indecent and obscene print, picture or written composition.
HB 621	Caption: Relating to making conductors on railroad passenger trains peace officers, and defining their duties, and providing penalties for violation of this Act.
HB 711	Caption: Relating to requiring railroad companies in this State to employ an officer to be designated as chief special officer, and conferring upon said officer the power of a peace officer to arrest without warrant for a breach of the peace committed on any passenger train of the company employing said officer in any county in this State through which said train is run, for a rate less than full fare for a round trip; prescribing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
HB 716	Caption: Relating to requiring all mutual burial associations to provide a surplus and reserve fund.
HJR 23	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 9, Article 8, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to provide for the levying of a tax not to exceed 25 cents on the $100 valuation of property for the maintenance of public roads in commissioners precincts.