Legislation authored by Bill T. Swanson

Includes legislation with Bill T. Swanson as the primary author for the 60th through 62nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

62nd Regular Session
HB 48 Caption: Relating to providing for no bail pending appeal in certain instances.
HB 49 Caption: Relating to providing for abolition of common-law marriages after December 31, 1971.
HB 50 Caption: Relating to providing for issuance of capias for arrest of a defendant following forfeiture of bail.
HB 51 Caption: Relating to notice of a creditor's intention to foreclose a lien on real property used as the owner's residence and expiration of a 60-day period for compliance as conditions precedent to foreclosure.
HB 52 Caption: Relating to increasing the penalty for dumping, depositing, or leaving refuse, garbage, rubbish, or junk on or near a public highway.
HB 199 Caption: Relating to the establishment, organization, and control of the University of Houston at Clear Lake City.
HB 200 Caption: Relating to providing for a change in membership of the Texas Board of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
HB 353 Caption: Relating to enabling county commissioners courts to supplement the compensation of Justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals from county funds.
HB 354 Caption: Relating to the conveyance and reconveyance of development rights in lands utilized for outdoor recreational or park purposes, the execution and release of a covenant limiting the use of the land for those purposes, the powers and duties of parties to the convenants, and the basis of assessment of the land after the conveyance or covenant.
HB 355 Caption: Relating to creating the Gulf Coast Mass Transity Authority for the purpose of establishing a mass transit system for Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller Counties.
HB 368 Caption: Relating to providing for appeal to a district court of any order of Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund in certain cities.
HB 465 Caption: Relating to removing the sales, excise adn use tax exemption for contractors performing a contract for the United States or its incorporated or unincorporated agencies and instrumentalities.
HB 487 Caption: Relating to the authority of the governing body of certain state-supported colleges and universities to close a street or alley running through the campus.
HB 1080 Caption: Relating to providing that the court may, as a condition of probation, require payment by the defendant of all or part of court costs.
HB 1709 Caption: Relating to the compensation of employees of the Battleship Texas Commission and its Operating Board.
HB 1842 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing, without consent of political subdivisions, a conservation and reclamation district known as "Spencer Road Public Utility District," declaring district a governmental agency, body politic and corporate.
HB 1886 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing, without consent of political subdivisions, a conservation and reclamation district known as "Myrtle Glen Public Utility District".
HB 1887 Caption: Relating to creating and establishing, without consent of political subdivisions, a conservation and reclamation district known as "Garth Road Public Utility District".
HCR 60 Caption: Concerning the celebration of Cinco de Mayo Day and paying tribute to General Don Ignacio Zaragoza.
HJR 5 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article l of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for the denial of bail by a magistrate to any person accused of a felony and found by the court to be free on bail for a felony when charged with a second felony, and denial of bail to any person charged with a capital offense; providing a limit to that person's incarceration without trial; granting the right of appeal.
HR 172 Caption: Creating an interim study committee on emergency medical services and charges.
HR 173 Caption: Creating an interim study committee on vocational training schools.
HR 174 Caption: Creating an interim study committee on nursing homes.
HR 181 Caption: Inviting James Carby to address the House.
HR 379 Caption: Congratulating the United States Steel Corporation.
HR 380 Caption: Congratulating Roy Needham.
HR 381 Caption: Congratulating George Hartung.
HR 505 Caption: Welcoming students from Auty School in Houston [Awty School].
HR 509 Caption: Congratulating the 1970-71 championship rifle team of the University of Houston.
HR 526 Caption: Creating a special interim committee on oil and gas regulation.
HR 545 Caption: Creating an interim study committee to conduct a study of pari-mutuel system of horse racing.
62nd 3rd Called Session
HR 9 Caption: Requesting the State Building Commission to prepare a project analysis for a state laboratory building in Harris County.
HR 10 Caption: Requesting the State Building Commission to prepare a project analysis for the construction of a state office building in Harris County and the necessary funds for the construction.
62nd 4th Called Session
HB 83 Caption: Relating to defining pollution control agencies.
HCR 35 Caption: Authorizing acceptance of the Liberty Bell replica donated to the state by the Texas Society of Sons of the American Revolution.
HR 6 Caption: Requesting the State Building Commission to prepare a project analysis for construction of a state laboratory building in Harris County.
HR 7 Caption: Requesting a project analysis from the State Building Commission concerning construction of a state office building in Harris County.