Legislation authored by John Thomas Cox

Includes legislation with John Thomas Cox as the primary author for the 41st through 42nd 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.

42nd Regular Session
HB 29 Caption: Relating to appropriating Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be placed upon the Fort Parker monument, when a like sum is raised by public subscription.
HB 190 Caption: Relating to requiring all public school property to be insured against loss by fire, tornado, hail and windstorm.
HB 360 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to include therein all profit sharing, mutual, reciprocal, underwriters and Lloyd Companies or Associations writing fire insurance policies.
HB 379 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to fix the venue of such suits in the county where the land lies.
HB 384 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so the three commissioners of the State Highway Department shall be elected.
HB 426 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to provide that the three Commissioners of the State Highway Department shall be elected in the same manner as other state officials.
HB 622 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing for the imposition of an occupation tax on all persons who are local agents for, and selling as such, life insurance policies or contracts for Old Line Legal Reserve Companies; prescribing penalties and punishments.
HB 754 Caption: Relating to providing for a rural school supervisor in certain counties in lieu of teachers' institutions.
HB 786 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the listing of taxable property by a taxpayer.
HB 1056 Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting, trapping, ensnaring or killing any wild buck deer or wild turkey, or either of them, within the limits of Limestone County, of the State of Texas, for a period of five (5) years from and after the passage of this Act; providing a penalty therefor.
HCR 41 Caption: Inviting Tom Connally to address the Legislature.
HCR 67 Caption: Relating to repair of the State Capitol Building.
HR 27 Caption: Relating to holiday leave for employees of the House.
42nd 1st Called Session
HB 6 Caption: Relating to reducing fire hazard in oil producing areas of Texas.
HB 20 Caption: Relating to defining unfair discrimination and prohibiting any person, firm, company, association or corporation engaged in the production, manufacture, sale or distribution of any commodity in general use in this State, from discriminating for the purpose of destroying the business of a competitor in any locality or for the purpose of fixing the price of such commodity.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 88 Caption: Relating to providing for the organization of purely cooperative petroleum marketing associations.
41st Regular Session
HB 288 Caption: Relating to appropriating fifteen hundred dollars to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be placed upon the Fort Parker monument, when a like sum is raised by public subscription; appointing commissioner to purchase said statue and use said funds therefor, and to withdraw such appropriations upon their affidavits of the collection of such like sum by public subscription; providing for selection of successors in case of necessity, of such commissioners.
HB 563 Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be lawful to kill, take and have in possession any fur bearing animal except a fox within Limestone County during the open season and providing that it shall be legal to kill, take, and have in possession within Limestone County rabbits at any time.
HB 692 Caption: Relating to providing a mode by which horses, mules, jacks, jennets, cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats may be prevented from running at large in Limestone County.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 34 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be placed upon the Fort Parker Monument.
HB 56 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statue; relating to rate of occupation tax on gross production of oil; providing an effective date.
HB 88 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be placed upon the Fort Parker Monument.
HB 114 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws; providing that it shall be lawful to kill, take, and have in possession any fur-bearing animal, except a fox, within Limestone County during the open season, and providing that it shall be legal to kill, take, and have in possession within Limestone County rabbits at any time.
HB 135 Caption: Relating to the prevention of fraud in the purchase of gasoline and oil and to assure correct measurement; proscribing penalties; providing an effective date.
41st 2nd Called Session
HB 39 Caption: Relating to providing for a statue at Fort Parker Monument; making an appropriation.
HB 46 Caption: Relating to preventing fraud in the purchase of gasoline and oil and to assure correct measurement and declaring the retail sale of gasoline and oil to be affected with a public interest; prescribing penalties.
41st 3rd Called Session
HB 9 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be applied upon the purchase of a statue to be placed upon the Fort Parker monument.
41st 4th Called Session
HB 64 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the Fort Parker Monument.
HCR 17 Caption: Requesting the farmers of the State to plant less cotton in 1930 in order to boost the market price.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 13 Caption: Relating to occupation tax on the production of sulphur; providing for report on records imposing forfeitures and penalties for failure to keep records; providing penalty for failure to pay tax.