Legislation authored by Tom Schieffer

Includes legislation with Tom Schieffer as the primary author for the 63rd through 65th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

65th Regular Session
HB 873 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Natural Resources
Caption: Relating to restrictions on provisions in certain contracts for natural gas.
HB 1077 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to means, manner, and times for catching certain fish in coastal water; providing for the conservation of red drum; requiring licenses; providing penalties.
HB 1340 Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting
Caption: Requiring certain political parties to hold presidential primary elections and prescribing alternate methods for selecting delegates to national nominating conventions of those parties.
HB 1712 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Relating to the authority of the secretary of state to certify voting devices; amending the Texas Election Code, as amended.
HB 1883 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Relating to the interest rate on certain loans for oil and gas purposes.
HB 2222 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education
Caption: Amending the Texas Education Code; and declaring an emergency.
HB 2223 Last Action: Effective immediately
Caption: Relating to fees and expenses of directors of the Benbrook Sewer and Water Authority.
HJR 98 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments
Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment establishing a capital reserve fund in the state treasury and providing that income from the investment of the fund be distributed to school districts to reduce ad valorem taxes on residence homesteads.
65th 1st Called Session
HR 2 Caption: Relating to the legislative districts in Tarrant County.
65th 2nd Called Session
HR 13 Caption: Congratulating Lyndon Olson, Jr., an Outstanding Young Texas for 1978.
64th Regular Session
HB 120 Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting
Caption: Relating to creating the Public Transportation Division of the State Highway Department and abolishing the Texas Mass Transportation Commission; establishing a public transportation fund.
HB 425 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to the admission of a child to the first grade before his sixth birthday.
HB 439 Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments
Caption: Relating to the age of children in child care facilities and child placing agencies licensed by the State Department of Public Welfare.
HB 440 Last Action: Referred to subcommittee
Caption: Relating to qualifying requirements for a candidate in a primary election who files under an extended deadline and for a candidate in a general election who is nominated to replace a candidate who has declined a party nomination.
HB 441 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections
Caption: Relating to procedures for and effect of withdrawal of candidacy in a general, special, or primary election or declination of a party nomination in a general election for state and county officers, to ballot changes necessitated by withdrawal, declination, death, or ineligibility of a candidate, and to the effect of votes cast for the candidate if his name appears on the ballot.
HB 442 Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting
Caption: Relating to statements of campaign contributions and expenditures required of certain candidates who withdraw or decline a nomination; prescribing criminal and civil penalties.
HB 443 Last Action: Referred to Committee on Elections
Caption: Relating to the place for filing an application to run for state senator or state representative in a primary election.
HB 444 Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting
Caption: Relating to the place for candidates and political committees involved in state legislative races to file campaign statements and designations of campaign managers.
HB 679 Last Action: Effective in 90 days
Caption: Requiring certain political parties to hold presidential primary elections and prescribing the method for selecting delegates to national nominating conventions of those parties; prescribing criminal penalties.
HCR 136 Last Action: Signed by Governor
Caption: Granting permission to Cal-Cut Pipe & Supply, Inc., to sue the state.
HR 225 Caption: Commending Mary Fields and her staff.
63rd Regular Session
HB 492 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Relating to renaming the State Finance Building as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Building and authorizing the Board of Control to carry out the provisions of this Act; and declaring an emergency.
HB 653 Last Action: Sent to Calendar Committee
Caption: Relating to public mass transportation; creating the Public Transportation Division of the State Highway Department to assist in developing public mass transportation systems in the state; relating to the construction and financing of farm-to-market roads; abolishing the Texas Mass Transportation Commission.
HCR 164 Last Action: Signed by the Governor
Caption: Congratulating the City of Fort Worth upon its celebration of the first Trinity River Festival on May 5-6, 1973.
63rd 1st Called Session
HB 15 Last Action: Filed
Caption: Relating to public mass transportation.