Legislation authored by John Tucker Briscoe

Includes legislation with John Tucker Briscoe 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 169 Caption: Relating to amending Section 9, Chapter 144, Acts of the Thirtieth Legislature, making the time embraced between first day of September and first day of February of each year the open season for dove shooting.
HB 170 Caption: Relating to repealing Section 12, Chapter 18, of the General Laws of the First Called Session of the Thirtieth Legislature, imposing an occupation tax, measured by the gross receipts upon wholesale or retail dealers in pistols.
HB 309 Caption: Relating to appointing a Commissioner of Highways.
HB 337 Caption: Relating to amending Article 4673, Chapter 1, Title XCVII (97) of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1895, relating to control of Commissioners Court of the streets of unincorporated cities, towns and villages and incorporated cities, towns and villages having no de facto or acting municipal government.
HB 338 Caption: Relating to amending Article 485, Chapter 1, Title XIII (13) of the Penal Code of 1895, relating to control by Commissioners Court of the streets and alleys of unincorporated cities, towns and villages, and incorporated cities, towns and villages having no de facto or acting municipal government, declaring such to be public roads of the first-class.
30th Regular Session
HB 303 Caption: Relating to creating Uvalde Independent School District in Uvalde County, and defining its boundaries; providing for a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools in said district.
HB 304 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law and system for Medina county, Texas, and making county commissioners of said county ex-officio road commissioners, and prescribing their duties as such.
HB 369 Caption: Relating to restoring, to conferring upon the county court of Frio county, the civil and criminal jurisdiction belonging to such court under the Constitution and General Statutes of the State, to conform the jurisdiction of the district court of said county to such change.
HB 377 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the control of roads in towns and cities having no incorporation so as to extend the provisions of said statute to towns and villages having an incorporation or active city government.
HB 378 Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the control of streets by commissioners courts so as to extend the provisions of said statute to all towns and villages having no incorporation or active city government.
HB 393 Caption: Relating to public weighers.
HB 401 Caption: Relating to changing the official title of the State Fish and Oyster Commissioner to "Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner."
HB 441 Caption: Relating to diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the county court of Zavala County, to conform the jurisdiction of the district court thereto.
HB 620 Caption: Relating to prescribing the time within which notice from the board of health of an unincorporated town shall be complied with.
HB 625 Caption: Relating to boards of health in unincorporated towns and villages.
HB 642 Caption: Relating to prescribing additional compensation for county attorneys in counties having three thousand voters or less.
HB 650 Caption: Relating to the duty of district and county attorneys in relation to escheated estates.
HB 651 Caption: Relating to providing that the clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals shall furnish the defendant a certified copy of the opinion of the court in certain cases.
HB 681 Caption: Relating to exempting the county of Frio from the provisions and operations of the livestock inspection law.
HB 715 Caption: Relating to authorizing, directing and requiring the Attorney General of the State of Texas to institute and prosecute, in the name of the State of Texas, any suit or suits which may be necessary to recover all lands within the State of Texas, belonging to the State of Texas, claimed or held or in the possession of any person, firm, corporation or association of persons, adversely to the State of Texas; and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
30th 1st Called Session
HB 72 Caption: Relating to authorizing, directing and requiring the Attorney General of the State of Texas to institute and prosecute, in the name of the State of Texas, any suit or suits which may be necessary to recover all lands within the State of Texas belonging to the State of Texas, claimed or held in the possession of any person, firm, corporation, or association of persons, adversely to the State of Texas; and making an appropriaiton for carrying out the provisions of this Act.