Legislation authored by Rufus Underwood Kilpatrick
Includes legislation with Rufus Underwood Kilpatrick as the primary author for the 55th through 62nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 62nd Regular Session | |
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| HR 141 | Caption: Congratulating Miss Brenda Montgomery. |
| HR 179 | Caption: Naming Kelly Doyle and Paddy Doyle Mascots of the House. |
| HR 211 | Caption: In memory of James C. Webb. |
| 62nd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 94 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Beaumont State Center for Human Development to the Will L. Smith Memorial Center for Human Development. |
| 61st Regular Session | |
| HB 441 | Caption: Relating to providing for matching funds in surveys of the buried mud-shell reserves in the inland coastal water ways of the state. |
| HB 1032 | Caption: Relating to declaring the public policy of the State of Texas concerning the maintenance and cleaning of public beaches; providing for payment of state funds to certain cities and counties through the Parks and Wildlife Department. |
| HB 1033 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of beach park boards in counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. |
| HB 1034 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the destruction of the natural vegetation on sand dunes located in certain areas; providing a penalty. |
| HB 1035 | Caption: Relating to permits for certain excavation activities in certain coastal areas; providing a penalty for violations. |
| HCR 72 | Caption: Directing the creation of a special interim committee on expenditure authority of certain examining and licensing boards and special districts. |
| HR 352 | Caption: Inviting Kem Toomin, Tom Combs, and Calvin Williams to address the House of Representatives. |
| HR 403 | Caption: Inviting Kem Toomim, Tom Combs, Calvin Williams, Ricky Culbertson, Gerald Walden, Sidney Chesson, and Richard Palmer to address the House of Representatives. |
| 60th Regular Session | |
| HB 329 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by authorizing the Jefferson County Drainage District No. 6 to issue its bonds in the denomination of $100 and any multiple thereof. |
| HB 380 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of seines or nets of over 160 feet in length in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico within 6 miles of the North Jetty of the pass or ship channel leading from Bolivar Roads and Galveston Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and regulating the use of nets less than 150 feet in length; providing a penalty for violations. |
| HB 423 | Caption: Relating to providing that a trading stamp company's reserves for unclaimed trading stamps shall escheat to the state; providing for enforcement of the Act; providing a penalty. |
| HB 424 | Caption: Relating to regulating trading stamp companies; providing a penalty. |
| HB 924 | Caption: Relating to providing that counties, cities, and the state may levy and collect ad valorem taxes on trading stamps. |
| HB 929 | Caption: Relating to providing that the sale of trading stamps is taxable under the Limited Sales, Excise, and Use Tax Act. |
| HR 77 | Caption: In memory of Dr. William A. Smith of Beaumont. |
| HR 136 | Caption: In memory of F. L. McDonald, President of Lamar State College of Technology in Beaumont. |
| 60th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Recommending Wilson E. Speir for the position of Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. |
| 59th Regular Session | |
| HB 281 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it unlawful for any person accused or convicted of a felony and confined in prison to escape therefrom, or from the lawful custody of an officer, or any other person authorized by law to have such prisoner in his custody; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 282 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person accused or convicted of a misdemeanor and confined in jail to escape therefrom, or the lawful custody of an officer, or any other person authorized by law to have such person in his custody; prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 583 | Caption: Relating to the sale and distribution of gasoline, oil and other petroleum products at retail for use in motor vehicles and to persons engaged in the business of selling and distributing such products. |
| HB 907 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of sponge crabs from the coastal waters of this State. |
| HB 1005 | Caption: Relating to shrimp taken from outside waters for bait purposes; amending the Texas Shrimp Conservation Act. |
| HB 1110 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties of this State to contract with the United States Government or its agencies for the joint construction or improvement of roads, bridges, and other county improvements and for the maintenance of the same, and to pay the county's portion of such expense out of available county funds. |
| HJR 64 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas so as to not require approval by the Governor, Secretary of State and the Comptroller of certain materials and services purchase contracts. |
| HR 44 | Caption: Providing for the salaries to be paid to secretaries of Members. |
| HR 206 | Caption: Presenting Dale Warren a medal for bravery and commending him for being nominated for the Young American Medal for Bravery. |
| HR 294 | Caption: Congratulating Mrs. May Brassard of Beaumont for being selected as the Woman of the year for 1965 of the Women's Auxiliary by District No. 9 of the Texas State Chiropractic Association. |
| HR 608 | Caption: In memory of Edward Cleveland Lack of Kountze. |
| 59th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 11 | Caption: Congratulating James H. Hartzog on his retirement from the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Beaumont. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| HB 44 | Caption: Relating to providing for determination, establishment and payment of prevailing scale of wages to all workers who perform labor on public works and for maximum hours of work by all such workers; providing rights of workers on public works; defining offenses and penalties necessary and incident thereto. |
| HB 817 | Caption: Relating to providing that in all counties having a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants or more, in which there are two (2) cities having populations between sixty-five thousand (65,000) and one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000), according to the last preceding Federal Census, an annual audit shall be made of all county books, records, and accounts of district, county and precinct officials, agents, or employees including all governmental units of the county, hospitals, farms, and other institutions of the county and all matters pertaining to the fiscal affairs of the county; providing that the first annual audit shall be made in 1964 and completed prior to December 31, 1964. |
| HB 1017 | Caption: Relating to extending and adding to the territory of the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, approximately seventy-four (74) acres of land located substantially in Orange County, Texas, and adjoining the present boundary line of the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, and removing such territory and land from the territory and land of Orange County Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas. |
| HJR 7 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide four-year terms for members of the House of Representatives; to provide for the division of members of the House of Representatives into two (2) classes after each apportionment, seats of the first class to be vacated at the expiration of the first two (2) years and those of the second class to be vacated at the expiration of four (4) years; and to provide that members of the House of Representatives shall not be candidates for any other office at any regular primary or general election without first having resigned from the House of Representatives. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Directing the creation of a General Investigating Committee of the House. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act creating the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, enlarging the authority of the District to issue refunding bonds; making such bonds eligible for certain investments and eligible to secure certain funds. |
| HB 568 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act increasing the salaries of Commissioners of drainage districts in certain counties covered by the Act to a sum not to exceed Three Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($350) per month. |
| HB 858 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the headquarters of the Texas Rangers Force shall be at Austin. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 171 | Caption: In memory of Olin Culberson. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 80 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relating to election officers in counties in which elections are conducted by the use of voting machines; authorizing the Commissioners Court to suspend in whole or in part its previous orders adopting voting machines where two or more elections are to be held on the same day or within a period of ten (10) days and the county does not have a sufficient number of machines for all such elections. |
| HB 98 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relating to form of the poll tax receipt. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to the disposition of unpaid and unclaimed proceeds of oil, gas, and other mineral interests. |
| HB 306 | Caption: Relating to providing for the annexation of territory to certain drainage districts. |
| HB 363 | Caption: Relating to unlimited use of prior convictions of felonies less than capital in subsequent prosecutions of felony offenses for the purpose of enhancing the punishment. |
| HB 576 | Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of dealers in scrap metal; levying an occupation tax on dealers in scrap metal. |
| HB 949 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum salary and providing other compensation for the Official Shorthand Reporters of the Judicial District Courts, Civil or Criminal, and the Official Shorthand Reporter of the County Court at Law, of Jefferson County. |
| HJR 17 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing each county to provide retirement, disability and death benefits for appointive officers and employees of the county or precinct, or for appointive and elective officers and for employees of the county or precinct. |
| HR 410 | Caption: Commending Vic, N. J., and S. J. Rogers for their donation of a certain property to Jefferson County for the housing of juvenile delinquents. |
| HR 482 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative W. T. Oliver on being awarded the outstanding Senior Citizen Award by the Mid-county Jaycees. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 89 | Caption: Congratulating the Nederland High School baseball team for winning 3rd place in the Class AAA state championship. |
| HR 90 | Caption: Congratulating the Beaumont High School baseball team for winning the Class AAAA state championship. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 248 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by creating the Port of Beaumont Navigation District of Jefferson County, Texas, so as to clarify and make more certain the rights, powers, privileges, functions, and authority of said District to acquire, construct, operate, and maintain facilities or aids consistent to or necessary to the operation or development of ports or waterways within the District, and to make more certain any obligation incurred payable from taxation shall be submitted to a vote of the qualified electorate. |
| HB 448 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes requiring Commissioners Courts to provide suitable jails in their respective counties; defining the term "suitable jails". |
| HR 527 | Caption: Providing each Member with a list of Members on Interim Committees. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 50 | Caption: Commending the Lamar Tech Football Team for winning its first conference championship. |