Legislation authored by Wilbur Claude Davis
Includes legislation with Wilbur Claude Davis 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 | |
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| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to providing for the location and establishment of a factory for the manufacture of cotton bagging, sacks, and twine by the Board of Management of the State Penitentiary for the employment of managing experts and certain state convicts. |
| HB 221 | Caption: Relating to promoting the safety of travelers and employes by compelling common carriers engaged in commerce by railroad within the State of Texas to equip their locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles used in moving intrastate traffic within said State with certain safety devices and appliances, and providing penalties for violations of this Act, and providing further that employes of such carriers continuing in the service with notice of knowledge of such violations shall not be held to have assumed the risk of injuries resulting from the same. |
| HB 380 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of white lead, paint and paint materials. |
| HB 409 | Caption: Relating to provide for the organization of a "Ranger Force" for the protection of the frontier against marauding and thieving parties, and for suppression of lawlessness and crime throughout the State. |
| HB 513 | Caption: Relating to amending Section No. 126 of Chapter 2, of the General Laws entitled "An Act to regulate elections" and also to amending Section 141 of said Act relative to contested primary elections. |
| HB 517 | Caption: Relating to amending Section 1, Chapter 122 of the Acts of the Thirtieth Legislature to provide for an eight-hour day for railroad, telegraph or telephone operators, and providing penalties. |
| HB 550 | Caption: Relating to amending Articles 715 and 717 of Chapter Five of Title VII (8) of the Code of Criminal Procedure ; providing that the charge of the court shall be submitted to counsel of both sides before argument to the jury is commenced. |
| HB 561 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating Fraternal Beneficiary Associations and repealing Chapter 115 of the General Laws of the 26th Legislature. |
| 30th Regular Session | |
| HB 309 | Caption: Relating to State and county finances and to the finances of cities incorporated under the general and special laws of this State, providing for the designation of depostories for State, county and city funds. |
| HB 336 | Caption: Relating to providing for an eight hour day for railroad, telegraph or telephone operators, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| HB 370 | Caption: Relating to providing for the examination and license of all telegraph operators engaged in handling "block signals" and telegraphic train orders affecting the movement of trains on all railroads operate din the State of Texas. |
| HB 426 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to lease thirty acres of land located in Brazos County, Texas, for the purpose of the erection of a brick plant on said land. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to amending the county depositories, making the failure or refusal of the commissioners court in any county in this State to advertise for bids, as required by law, for county depositories, a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. |
| HB 674 | Caption: Relating to the terms of the Supreme Court. |