Legislation authored by Donald Edmund Garrison

Includes legislation with Donald Edmund Garrison as the primary author for the 57th through 59th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

59th Regular Session
HB 124 Caption: Relating to defining and prohibiting debt pooling; prescribing a penalty.
HB 207 Caption: Relating to amending Section 10 of House Bill No. 620, Chapter 301, Page 731, Acts of the Fifty-fifth Legislature of Texas, Regular Session, 1957, relating to deposits by County Tax Collector to County Road and Bridge Fund.
HB 208 Caption: Relating to providing criminal penalties for certain acts involving certain motion pictures; defining obscene.
HB 351 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the photographic duplication of public records.
HB 433 Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities to establish, acquire, purchase, construct, improve, enlarge, equip, repair, operate and maintain certain public improvements for public gatherings or public use, and buildings, structures, parking areas or other improvements or facilities deemed by such city to be necessary, desirable or convenient in connection with the use, occupancy or operation of such public improvements.
HB 581 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Banking Code to change the qualifications of the Savings and Loan Commissioner and to provide for more than one Deputy Savings and Loan Commissioner.
HB 582 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by authorizing savings and loan associations to contract for and receive an interest charge not to exceed nine dollars per one hundred dollars per annum on the amount of the cash advance on loans which are repayable in substantially equal consecutive monthly installments.
HB 994 Caption: Relating to exempting any person from liability who administers a blood test.
HB 995 Caption: Relating to providing that any person operating a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this State shall be deemed to have given his consent to a chemical test of his breath, blood, urine, or saliva to determine alcoholic content of his blood.
HB 1108 Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to clarify language and to exclude from the unprotected list of birds certain rare, uncommon, beneficial or nondestructive species.
HCR 179 Caption: Providing for issuance of State Official License Plates.
HJR 30 Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide for four-year terms of office for Representatives.
HR 57 Caption: Congratulating Mr. Wayne B. Duddlesten upon being named Outstanding Young Man of the Year by the Houston Junior Chamber of Commerce.
HR 114 Caption: Amending Section 32 of Rule 7 of the Temporary Rules for the House.
HR 217 Caption: Welcoming members of the American Field Service Study Program to the State Capitol.
HR 441 Caption: Congratulating the Honorable Paul Floyd on the occasion of his birthday.
HR 466 Caption: Congratulating Gene Goltz of the Houston Post for winning the Pulitzer Prize for outstanding journalism.
HR 471 Caption: In memory of Mr. C. E. Buehner of Houston.
59th 1st Called Session
HR 5 Caption: In memory of William Lockhart Clayton of Houston.
58th Regular Session
HB 28 Caption: Relating to classifying loans and lenders and providing for their regulation; providing for penalties.
HB 161 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Parks and Wildlife Commission to issue permits for the taking, carrying away or disturbing of marl, gravel, sand, shells or mudshell under certain conditions.
HB 162 Caption: Relating to records to be kept and to purchases without prescriptions.
HB 253 Caption: Relating to barring the collection of those taxes delinquent prior to and including December 31, 1939; providing for an effective date.
HB 419 Caption: Relating to providing that the name of a candidate who is a nominee of more than two (2) or more political parties may appear two (2) or more times on the official ballot.
HB 448 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relative to the licensing of Local Recording Agents and Solicitors, to include Limited Agents.
HB 484 Caption: Relating to providing a net seventy-three and one-half percent (73 1/2%) exemption refund from the Motor Fuel Tax rather than the ninety-eight and one half percent (98 1/2%) exemption now prescribed, and crediting this additional twenty-five percent (25%) to the Available School Fund.
HB 501 Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing body of the Harris County Flood District to designate flood hazard areas.
HB 591 Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code to provide for the manner of appointing the number of presidential electors to which the State of Texas hereafter may be entitled.
HB 789 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by adding a new Article which shall be known as the "Unclaimed Funds Statute for Life Insurance Companies", relating to escheat and unclaimed funds; fixing an effective date; providing for penalties.
HB 923 Caption: Relating to prohibiting discriminatory rules pertaining to the use of the islands, reefs, bays, lakes, rivers and creeks of the State.
HB 1057 Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Sagemont Municipal Utility District of Harris County, Texas".
HR 215 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
HR 543 Caption: Congratulating Gordon Cooper on the success of his flight.
57th Regular Session
HB 368 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act barring the collection of those taxes delinquent prior to and including December 31, 1939; providing for an effective date.
HB 380 Caption: Relating to appropriating funds to the Texas Youth Council for the construction, equipping, paying for architect fees and furnishing of a State Home for Dependent, Neglected and Orphan Negro Children; fixing an effective date.
HB 679 Caption: Relating to providing parole ineligibility for felons convicted of certain crimes until a given portion of the sentence shall have been served.
HB 782 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to taxation of gross premiums and investment income of life, personal accident and health and accident insurance organizations.
HB 783 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to tax on gross premium receipts and gross investment income of certain insurance corporations; to increase the tax on the gross premium receipts of certain classes of insurance companies or carriers; so as to levy a tax on gross investment income of certain insurance corporations.
HB 784 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas relating to approval by the State Board of Insurance of charges for life, term and endowment insurance delivered, issued or used in Texas.
HB 785 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas relating to approval by the State Board of Insurance of chargers for life, health and accident insurance delivered, issued or used in Texas.
HB 827 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute revising the Employers' Liability and Workmen's Compensation Insurance Laws of this State by providing the benefits payable for partial incapacity for work, with limitations, and providing the method of computing the amount of such benefits; providing that this Act shall not affect any rights which have vested or accrued prior to the effective date hereof and retain prior law in effect insofar as injuries sustained prior to the effective date hereof; providing the effective date of this Act.
HB 1029 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas liability of insurance agent for return of commission to insurance company upon cancellation of policy; providing the effective date of this Act.
HB 1030 Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Penal Code prohibiting solicitation by attorneys, free-splitting, information to attorneys by medical personnel for solicitation purposes, and the representation of solicited clients; fixing the venue of the injunction a misdemeanor and providing certain penalties therefor.
HB 1031 Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas providing for offsets in cases of mutual debts and credits by the insurer and another person in connection with any claim or proceeding under this article.
HCR 40 Caption: Authorizing the State Building Commission to oversee the construction of new parking facilities in the Capitol area.
HR 593 Caption: In memory of Mrs. Sam H. White of Houston.
57th 1st Called Session
HR 108 Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the State Insurance Board.
57th 3rd Called Session
HR 18 Caption: Congratulating Bellaire High School of Houston for achieving high national rank in the National Merit Competition.
HR 84 Caption: Congratulating Richard B. Gemmer on being selected as "Outstanding Young Man of the Year".
HR 243 Caption: In memory of E. E. Townes of Houston.