Legislation authored by Ed J. Harris

Includes legislation with Ed J. Harris as the primary author for the 58th through 64th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

64th Regular Session
HB 456	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the composition of state representative districts in Galveston and Chambers counties and part of Harris County.
HB 457	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the appointment and powers of notaries public.
HB 458	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to compensation of the judges of the probate court, county court at law, domestic relations court, and county court in Galveston County.
HB 464	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the retirement and compensation of judges.
HB 513	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the compensation paid from county funds to the district judges of the 10th, 56th, 122nd, 212th District Courts of Galveston County for services rendered to the county.
HB 542	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably substituted Caption: Relating to absentee voting; prescribing civil penalties.
HB 543	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to primary elections held by political parties; providing for the conduct and financing of joint primary elections for all parties required to make nominations by primary elections; prescribing the methods by which a candidate may qualify for ballot position in a primary election; also making changes with respect to other affairs of political parties and to other matters relating to the nomination and election of candidates, which are necessitated by the changes in the law with respect to primary elections; containing penal provisions.
HB 659	Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to the procedure for preparing the statements of canvass and returns in elections where voting machines are used.
HB 660	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to the imposition, implementation, and administration of a corporate profits tax; providing for exemptions and credits; providing penalties; providing effective dates.
HB 812	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Providing for the permissive creation of the office of county elections administrator in certain counties in Texas; establishing a county elections commission to appoint the administrator, and making provisions in regard to his appointment, tenure, powers, and duties, and other matters incidental to the operation and functioning of his office.
HB 1119	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the authority of Commissioners Court of Galveston County to order road improvements and to levy assessments for that purpose.
HB 1120	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Authorizing the commissioners court of certain counties to promulgate and enforce uniform building codes throughout the unincorporated areas of the county; providing penalties.
HB 1121	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the registration and certification of persons engaged in the assessment of property for ad valorem taxation; creating the State Board of Registration and Professional Certification for Assessors in Texas; providing functions, duties, and procedures applicable to the board; providing penalties; providing for the appropriation of funds.
HB 1122	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to exempting from the sales tax the receipts from the sale, lease, or rental of or the storage, use, or other consumption of materials which become component parts of certain vessels and the receipts from certain sales of certain vessels.
HB 1123	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to certain payments to state employees on certain terminations of employment.
HB 1153	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the regulation of the subdivision and development of land by certain political subdivisions.
HB 1476	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the number and amount of food additives and preservatives in prepared food products.
HB 1821	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to public employee organizations and providing a procedure authorizing membership dues payroll deductions for such organizations complying with this act and other laws of this state; defining terms; providing a repealing clause and a severability clause.
HB 1822	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the method of salary payments of public employees; defining terms; providing a repealing clause and a severability clause.
HB 1823	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Setting a time limit for conducting the drawing to determine the order of names on the ballot in certain elections.
HB 2013	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to annual tax levied on gross premiums of insurance companies other than life, health and accident companies, fraternal benefit associations, and other non-profit group hospital service plans; changing the percentage of the tax so applicable; deleting and removing tax credits for investments in Texas securities; changing certain procedures applicable to collection of such taxes.
HB 2014	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to annual taxes levied on gross premiums of life, health, and accident insurance company organized under laws of this state; changing the percentage of such tax; deleting and removing the tax exemption on 1st year premiums; changing certain procedures relating to the collection of such taxes.
HB 2015	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to annual taxes levied on gross premiums of certain insurance organizations not organized under Texas Laws; removing and abolishing tax exemptions for certain insurance organizations; changing the percentage of the tax so applicable; deleting and removing credits for investments in Texas securities; changing certain procedures relating to the collection of such taxes.
HCR 29	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to creating an election code revision committee.
HCR 123	Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Granting permission to Walter E. and Dorothy E. Gundermann to sue the state.
HJR 48	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Constitutional Revision Caption: Relating to providing the appointment of notaries public with statewide jurisdiction.
HR 180	Caption: Congratulating Betty Elliott Hanna.
63rd Regular Session
HB 75	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee Caption: Relating to the use of flashing red signal lights on church buses; requiring drivers of other vehicles to stop when approaching a church bus under certain circumstances.
HB 566	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing notice posted Caption: Providing assistants and expenses for certain county judges who perform duties of the former county school superintendent.
HB 794	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Relating to the regulation of subdivision and development of land by certain counties and municipalities; providing penalties; and declaring an emergency.
HB 795	Last Action: Sent to Calendar Committee Caption: Relating to the authority of the commissioners courts of certain counties to order street improvements and assessments; and declaring an emergency.
HB 796	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to the authority of the commissioners courts of certain counties to order street improvements and assessments; and declaring an emergency.
HB 797	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee Caption: Relating to certain payments to state employees on certain termination of employment.
HB 1151	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to the imposition, implementation, and administration of a corporate profits tax; providing for exemptions and credits; providing penalties; providing effective dates.
HB 1200	Last Action: Motion to suspend rules lost Caption: Relating to electronic voting systems.
HB 1310	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections Caption: Relating to the registration of voters; making changes in the registration procedures, the period for which registration is effective, and other features of the voter registration system; defining offenses and prescribing penalties.
HB 1312	Last Action: Considered in public hearing Caption: Relating to officers and employees of the State of Texas; providing a comprehensive and uniform state personnel system for employees of the State of Texas; creating and establishing a state personnel board and providing for its authority and operation; defining terms; making certain findings and declarations of legislative policy; establishing standards and guidelines for the recruitment, selection, development and maintenance of an effective, responsive and productive work force, including policies and procedures for employee hiring and advancement, training and career development, job classification, salary administration, employee grievances, fringe benefits, compensation, discipline, discharge and other related employer-employee relationships; establishing guidelines for standards of conduct for state employees; making certain exemptions; prohibiting discrimination in state service because of race, sex, religion, color, political affiliation or national origin; delegating authority for the making of rules and regulations necessary to implement and carry out the purpose of this Act in all its particulars; providing a severability clause; repealing all laws in conflict with this Act; incorporating the classification officer and merit system council into the department of personnel and providing for the transfer of records, property and employees to the department of personnel and safeguarding the compensation and benefits of such transferred employees.
HB 1349	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the number and amount of food additives and preservatives in prepared food products.
HB 1350	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Labor Caption: Amending the subject matter of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act as follows: providing benefits; providing duration of coverage and elections; providing definitions of terms and adding additional definitions of terms; providing for repeal of all laws and parts of law in conflict and for preserving rights accrued thereunder; providing severability of provisions; providing an effective date for this Act.
HB 1443	Last Action: Reported favorably Caption: Relating to the conduct of elections, the qualifications for voting, the registration of voters, and other procedures and matters incidental to the holding of elections in this state; containing penal provisions; amending sections of the Texas Election Code relating to qualifications and requirements for voting; relating to absentee voting; relating to voting by former residents in presidential elections; relating to voting rights and procedures after a change of residence to another county; relating to records of voting by persons lacking full voting rights; relating to information required on a voter registration application; relating to the form and content of voter registration certificates; relating to voter registration records; relating to voting rights and procedures after a change of residence to another county; relating to lits of registered voters; relating to the order of party columns on the ballot; relating to the publication of notices on proposed constitutional amendments; relating to absentee voting where an electronic voting system is used; relating to the form of the ballot for electronic voting systems; relating to assistance to voters in preparing their ballots; relating to assistance to voters; repealing sections of the Texas Election Code relating to voting by new residents in presidential elections; relating to residence requirements and other qualifications for voting in city elections.
HB 1529	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Providing for a Voters' Information Pamphlet; amending the Texas Election Code by adding Section 8; and declaring an emergency.
HB 1550	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Regulating campaign contributions and expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates for nomination or election to statewide public offices; containing both civil and criminal penalties for violations; amending the Texas Election Code by amending Section 238 (Article 14.02, Vernon's Texas Election Code) and by adding Section 240a; and declaring an emergency.
HB 1574	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Relating to the salary of the judges of County Courts Nos. 1 and 2 of Galveston County; amending Section 11, Chapter 269, Acts of the 59th Legislature, Regular Session, 1965, as amended (Article 1970-342a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency.
HB 1575	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Relating to the composition of the Galveston County Juvenile Board and the compensation of its members; relating to the membership and duties of the Citizens Juvenile Advisory Board; amending Subsections (a) and (b), Section 8, Chapter 64, Acts of the 57th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, 1962, as amended (Article 2338-16, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency.
HB 1576	Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Relating to the salary of the judge of the County Court at Law No. 2 of Galveston County; amending Section 9, Chapter 187, Acts of the 53rd legislature, Regular Session, 1953, as amended (Article 1970-342, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency.
HB 1628	Last Action: Subcommittee hearing date Caption: Relating to the salary of the Criminal District Attorney of Galveston County; amending Section 4, Chapter 124, Acts of the 54th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955, as amended (Article 326k-28, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes); and declaring an emergency.
HCR 98	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Creating the election code revision committee.
HJR 25	Last Action: Considered in public hearing Caption: Proposing an amendment of the Texas Constitution to provide for certain counties and cities bordering on the Gulf of Mexico may issue bonds for construction of seawalls and breakwaters upon the vote of the majority of the resident property taxpayers voting in an election.
HR 129	Caption: Creating an interim committee to study all aspects of oyster and related shellfish industry.
HR 197	Caption: Requesting the House Committee on Elections to study all matters within its purview.
62nd Regular Session
HB 219	Caption: Relating to the creation, powers and duties of a research advisory panel for narcotic and dangerous drug research.
HB 222	Caption: Relating to the qualifications for jury commissioners, by eliminating the requirement that a jury commissioner be a freeholder.
HB 256	Caption: Relating to the appointment, powers and duties of reserve deputy sheriffs and reserve deputy constables.
HB 286	Caption: Relating to the official shorthand reporters of the 10th, 56th, and 122nd Judicial Districts of Texas.
HB 287	Caption: Relating to the term of office of Supervisors of the Bayview Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas.
HB 436	Caption: Relating to home rule cities, park boards of trustees and parks.
HB 472	Caption: Relating to a compulsory student government fee at state institutes of higher education.
HB 558	Caption: Relating to validating elections and other proceedings relating to the authorization, execution and delivery of water supply contracts, under certain conditions.
HB 920	Caption: Relating to driving to the left side of a roadway when there is a line of standing vehicles awaiting access to a public ferry.
HB 973	Caption: Relating to benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Act.
HB 1033	Caption: Relating to the Board of Directors of the Galveston County Flood Control District.
HB 1114	Caption: Relating to the incorporation, organization, and regulation of cooperative associations, providing penalties.
HB 1285	Caption: Relating to providing that the district clerk may charge a reasonable fee for the performance of certain duties.
HB 1443	Caption: Relating to the date of election of navigation and canal commissioners and their fees of office.
HB 1549	Caption: Relating to the establishment of a statewide adult probation system.
HB 1560	Caption: Relating to the creation of a Texas Casualty Insurance Corporation authorized to write fire and extended coverage insurance in the coastal area of Texas.
HB 1579	Caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Casualty Insurance Corporation authorized to write fire and extended coverage insurance in the coastal area of Texas.
HB 1703	Caption: Relating to exempting certain judicial retirement payments and rights from state, county, and municipal tax, levy, sale, garnishment, attachment, or other process.
HR 265	Caption: Congratulating Mrs. Gwen Nunez Nugent for her achievements.
HR 362	Caption: Naming Miss Neil Thayer Patterson Mascot of the House.
HR 406	Caption: Relating to censorship of printed material by the House Printing Shop.
HR 550	Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Lindsey Rodriguez on his birthday.
62nd 4th Called Session
HR 80	Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold on her birthday.
61st Regular Session
HB 319	Caption: Relating to levy, collection, enforcement, and disposition of a transaction tax.
HB 365	Caption: Relating to payroll deductions from wages and salaries of county employees in counties having 20,000 or more population.
HB 437	Caption: Relating to the filling of vacancies on the Board of Directors of the Galveston County Water Authority; providing for appointment of three Board members by the Galveston City Council.
HB 455	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities to establish, acquire, lease as lessor or lessee, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate and maintain permanent public improvements, to-wit: structures, parking areas or facilities for off-street parking or storage of motor vehicles or other conveyances.
HB 456	Caption: Relating to the Texas Tort Claims Act; making liable for tort claims for personal injury all units of government in Texas and setting certain limits; abolishing certain immunities of the sovereign to suit, and granting permission for such suits, etc; providing for an effective date hereof.
HB 524	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Auditor, or if there is no County Auditor, then the County Treasurer, of each County to place any accumulated interest derived from trust funds in the possession of County and District Clerks of such County in the proper General Fund of the County, to offset the expenses of handling such trust funds for the benefit of litigants.
HB 617	Caption: Relating to providing that in all actions brought to recover damages for personal injuries, injuries resulting in death, or injury to property, the contributory negligence of the person injured, or his agent, or the owner of the property, or person having control over the property, shall not be a complete bar to the recovery of damages, but such damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the contributory negligence shown; providing that all questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury to determine.
HB 757	Caption: Relating to providing for the procedures to be followed by certain commissioners of pilots in fixing rates of pilotage and removing the statutory ceiling on such rates in the ports of Galveston County, Texas.
HB 794	Caption: Relating to excluding land from Galveston County Water Control and Improvement District No. 21 of Galveston County, Texas.
HB 1075	Caption: Relating to the composition of the Juvenile Board of Galveston County and a citizens juvenile advisory board; concurrent jurisdiction of certain courts of the county; appointment and compensation of the chief juvenile officer and other juvenile officers; and compensation of the members of the juvenile board.
HB 1383	Caption: Relating to requiring that after May 1, 1969, three (3) of the directors of Galveston County Water Authority of Galveston County, Texas, shall be appointed by the Commissioners Court of Galveston County upon recommendation of the City Council of the City of Galveston.
HB 1391	Caption: Relating to setting the qualifications and the salary for a judge of the Court of Domestic Relations of Galveston County, providing that the Juvenile Board may designate said court as the Juvenile Court of Galveston County.
HB 1406	Caption: Relating to converting Galveston West Bay Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas from a fresh water supply district to a water control and improvement district; prescribing the district rights, powers, privileges and duties; providing that no conversion election shall be required.
HB 1480	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district known as "Harbor Utility District".
HCR 40	Caption: Granting Jimmie Ethel Hamilton permission to sue the State of Texas, the John Sealy Hospital, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, and the University of Texas Board of Regents.
60th Regular Session
HB 74	Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles of the Penal Code so as to remove the requirement that railway companies and other intercity common carriers provide separate coaches or compartments for white and Negro passengers and to removing the requirement that whites and Negroes be segregated on buses.
HB 197	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to increase the rate of pilotage.
HB 553	Caption: Relating to prohibiting a person from taking off, landing, or maneuvering an aircraft on a public highway, road, or street; providing a penalty.
HB 565	Caption: Relating to declaring the public policy of Texas with regard to oyster reefs; closing an area of Galveston Bay to the taking of shell and mudshell, and cancelling existing permits.
HB 612	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts raising the age of eligibility factor for Aid to Families with Dependent Children; raising the requirement for attending school for children receiving services and/or assistance; fixing an effective date of assistance grants.
HB 613	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes; redefining the term "permanent and total disability" for applicants for Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled; fixing an effective date of assistance grants.
HB 690	Caption: Relating to prohibiting certain financial transactions between sellers of automobiles or their agents, and persons who sell automobile insurance; providing penalties.
HB 761	Caption: Relating to providing that in all actions brought to recover damages for personal injuries, injuries resulting in death, or injury to property, the contributory negligence of the person injured, or his agent, or the owner of the property, or person having control over the property, shall not be a complete bar to the recovery of damages, but such damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the contributory negligence shown; providing that all questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury to determine.
HB 1042	Caption: Relating to the tax on the production of oil.
HCR 20	Caption: Directing the Legislature to create a Joint Committee to study the role of money in political campaigns.
59th Regular Session
HB 17	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of any county bordering on the Gulf of Mexico or the tidewater limits thereof to regulate the speed of motor vehicles on beaches which are open and accessible to the public, and also to prohibit the littering of such beaches.
HB 316	Caption: Relating to registration and issuance of license plates for vehicles used by certain foreign governments in the conduct of consular affairs.
HB 317	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to provide that owners of motor vehicles used in the conduct of the consular affairs of foreign governments maintaining friendly relations with the United States shall be required to register such vehicles but shall not be required to pay registration fees.
HB 330	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the making of a complaint of a violation of a game and fish law in a justice court in any precinct other than that in which the alleged offense occurred or in which the alleged offender resides, with certain exceptions; providing a penalty.
HB 331	Caption: Relating to prohibiting a person from taking-off, landing, or maneuvering an airplane on a public highway, road, or street; providing a penalty.
HB 522	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas for and on behalf of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Texas, to acquire by donation and deed of gift certain properties contiguous and/or adjacent to the campus of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston when deemed necessary by the Board of Regents.
HB 606	Caption: Relating to providing for the rendition by the lessee for ad valorem taxation of tangible personal property located in this State and owned by a banking corporation.
HB 886	Caption: Relating to the election, terms of office, and organization of the State Board of Education.
HB 919	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Arcadia Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas".
HB 1033	Caption: Relating to removing the territory of a school district from a county junior college district or a union junior college district lying wholly within one county under certain conditions.
HB 1082	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district, to be known as "San Leon Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas."
HB 1083	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Sweetwater Lake Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas".
HB 1127	Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation and Reclamation District to be known as "Galveston County Water Authority of Galveston County, Texas."
HB 1142	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to authorizing certain cities to issue bonds for construction of parks, etc and use of tidelands of the Gulf of Mexico.
HB 1177	Caption: Relating to providing for the election of trustees of independent school districts in counties with population of more than one hundred forty thousand (140,000) and less than one hundred fifty-five thousand (155,000) and with a scholastic population of more than six hundred (600) and less than seven hundred fifty (750).
HCR 70	Caption: In memory of David H. Nathan of Galveston.
HR 132	Caption: Naming Cyndi Lea Neugent as Mascot of the House.
58th Regular Session
HB 65	Caption: Relating to providing exceptions to the requirement of a fishing license of persons who fish.
HB 465	Caption: Relating to providing that owners of motor vehicles used in the conduct of the consular affairs of foreign governments maintaining friendly relations with the United States shall be required to register such vehicles but shall not be required to pay registration fees; providing procedures to be followed by the owners of such vehicles.
HB 466	Caption: Relating to providing that owners of motor vehicles used in the conduct of the consular affairs of foreign governments maintaining friendly relations with the United States shall be issued special license plates for a particular period.
HB 600	Caption: Relating to creating City Employees Civil Service requirements in cities having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants; providing for penalties for violation of the Civil Service Act.
HB 609	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the making of a complaint of a violation of a game and fish law in a justice court in any precinct other than that in which the alleged offense occurred or in which the alleged offender resides, with certain exceptions; providing a penalty.
HB 764	Caption: Relating to providing for certain presumptions which shall arise from the amount of alcohol in the defendant's blood at the time of the alleged offense as shown by chemical analysis of the defendant's blood, urine, breath, or other bodily substance in any criminal prosecution for a violation of any law of this State relating to driving an automobile or other motor vehicle while intoxicated or while under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
HB 765	Caption: Relating to modifying the requirements for abolishing certain districts.
HB 1068	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Friendswood Drainage District of Galveston County, Texas".
HB 1069	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Bacliff Municipal Utility District of Galveston County, Texas".
HCR 19	Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to conduct a study of the ramifications of the adoption of an equal rights for women amendment to the Constitution of Texas.
HR 398	Caption: In memory of Edgar S. Bobbitt, Julius F. Marullo, Jr. and Michael Schiewe.