Legislation authored by Robert Higgins Hughes
Includes legislation with Robert Higgins Hughes as the primary author for the 55th through 58th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 58th Regular Session | |
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| HB 229 | Caption: Relating to making it a felony for any person who has been convicted of a felony under the laws of the United States or of the State of Texas or any other state to have in possession under circumstances evincing an intent to use the same, implements adapted, designed, or commonly used in the commission of burglary or safecracking; providing a penalty. |
| HB 230 | Caption: Relating to permitting Probate and County Courts to approve expenditures by guardians from the corpus of ward's estates for support and maintenance for emergency purposes under certain circumstances. |
| HB 231 | Caption: Relating to arbitrations pursuant to written agreements of the parties, expressly excluding all arbitrations relating to any labor union contract and all affecting controversies between any employer and any employee of the employer or their respective representatives. |
| HB 272 | Caption: Relating to regulating the exemption from taxation of motor fuel used exclusively in aircraft engines; removing aircraft use of fuel from certain refund claim procedure; removing the provisions relating to allocation of unclaimed aircraft fuel refunds. |
| HB 273 | Caption: Relating to authorizing an eligible city to provide for improvements to the water and sewer systems, and the construction of street improvements under certain circumstances. |
| HB 322 | Caption: Relating to establishing and adopting a Code of Criminal Procedure for the State of Texas by revising and rearranging the statutes of this State which pertain to the trial of criminal cases; and fixing the effective date of the Code. |
| HB 370 | Caption: Relating to creating one additional District Court and one additional Criminal District Court in Dallas County, Texas, such Courts to be known as the 162nd Judicial District and the Criminal Judicial District Number 4 of Dallas County, Texas, to be effective October 1, 1963, and September 1, 1963, respectively, and each of such Districts to be composed of Dallas County, Texas; an additional District Court in and for Orange County, Texas, to be effective September 1, 1963, and to be known as the 163rd Judicial District; two (2) additional courts in and for Harris County, Texas, known as the 164th and 165th District Courts, to be effective September 1, 1963, and June 1, 1964, respectively; an additional District Court in and for Bexar County, Texas, to be known as the 166th Judicial District to be effective February 1, 1964; and an additional District Court in and for Travis County, Texas, to be effective June 1, 1964, and to be known as the 167th Judicial District. |
| HB 399 | Caption: Relating to amending a portion of the Texas Liquor Control Act, to more clearly define "outdoor advertising". |
| HB 462 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of an occupational license; providing for additional suspension; providing for the payment of a fee for such license; providing for a court order relating to such occupational license; providing a penalty. |
| HB 475 | Caption: Relating to authorizing humane societies in counties with a population of over 800,000 people or more according to the last preceding federal census, defining such societies and authorizing them to investigate and prosecute misdemeanor violations of laws for prevention of cruelty and other wrongs to dumb animals in state and municipal courts upon consent of the prosecuting attorney with respect to violations of state laws and of the city governing body with respect to violation of city ordinances. |
| HB 491 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of The State General Licensing and Certification Agency; providing for fees and penalties. |
| HB 553 | Caption: Relating to the Uniform Commercial Code, relating to Certain Commercial Transactions in or regarding Personal Property and Contracts and other Documents concerning them, including Sales, Commercial Paper, Bank Deposits and Collections, Letters of Credit, Bulk Transfers, Warehouse Receipts, Bills of Lading, other Documents of Title, Investment Securities, and Secured Transactions, including certain Sales of Accounts, Chattel Paper, and Contract Rights. |
| HB 633 | Caption: Relating to providing for the punishment for swindling, and upon conviction of swindling based upon the amount of money or the value of the property, goods, services, instrument of writing or any other thing of value so unlawfully acquired and the number of prior convictions for the same offense. |
| HB 642 | Caption: Relating to the licensing of Truth Examiners, creating a Truth Examiners Board, granting certain powers to the Truth Examiner Board of the State of Texas. |
| HB 774 | Caption: Relating to making requirements for foreign fire insurance companies doing business in this State the same as domestic fire insurance companies with respect to deposits. |
| HB 979 | Caption: Relating to regulating the location of cemeteries, graveyards and mausoleums for burial purposes. |
| HB 999 | Caption: Relating to sexual psychopaths. |
| HCR 15 | Caption: Granting Alvie W. Mosler and wife, Ima Mosler, permission to sue the State and the State Highway Department. |
| HCR 53 | Caption: Relating to the placement of a portrait of Governor Price Daniel in the Capitol Rotunda. |
| HR 8 | Caption: Providing for the salaries of certain officers of the House. |
| HR 229 | Caption: In memory of Ben W. Wiseman of Dallas. |
| HR 274 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 372 | Caption: In memory of Pearson B. Ballowe of Dallas. |
| HR 571 | Caption: Commending Edith Thompson and the rest of the telephone operation staff for their service during the session. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 5 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Articles of the Penal Code relating to cruelty to animals; defining the words "cruelty", "animals," and the phrase "humane society." |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to declaring strikes by firemen, and collective bargaining by fireman claiming the right to strike, to be against the public policy of the State; providing a penalty for willful violation of this Act; providing for a saving clause; providing that this Act shall be cumulative. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to establishing the County Criminal Court of Appeals of Dallas County, Texas; to define the jurisdiction thereof and to conform to such to change the jurisdiction of the County Court of Dallas County, the County Criminal Court of Dallas County, the County Criminal Court of No.2 of Dallas County, and the County Criminal Court of No.3 of Dallas County; and providing for the transfer of pending appeals of convictions had under the laws of the State of Texas and municipal ordinances of the municipalities located in Dallas County. |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute requiring that notice of hearing on assessments for highway improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting or nearby property. |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act requiring that notice of hearing on assessment for street improvements be mailed to a railway or street railway owning abutting property, and further to provide that failure to give such notice shall be a defense in a suit to enforce any such assessments. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute requiring that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting property. |
| HB 212 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute requiring that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting property. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the establishment of special county-wide day schools for deaf scholastics between the age of Six (6) and Twenty-one (21) years, in all counties having a population of Three Hundred Thousand (300,000) inhabitants. |
| HB 269 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of 500,000 population or more to create a metropolitan transit authority. |
| HB 280 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the license fees required for stores or mercantile establishments within the State. |
| HB 328 | Caption: Relating to amending Article entitled "Enforcement of Support" of the Revised Civial Statutes to provide for the extension of the act to cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of or domiciled in different counties of the State; providing for transfer of proceedings in certain cases from one district court where previous order had been entered to the responding county under this act and for jurisdiction in the responding county. |
| HB 337 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that judges of certain courts may retire at age 65 if they have served ten (10) years or more, that retirement pay shall be seventy-five percent (75%) of active pay, creating the Judicial Retirement Board. |
| HB 471 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration and protection of trademarks and service marks. |
| HB 495 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Insurance Code pertaining to investments by life, health or accident insurance companies in real estate by adding to said Article a paragraph permitting such companies to acquire, secure, retain, hold and convey production payments subject to restrictions and limitations. |
| HB 551 | Caption: Relating to amending Section 89 of the Texas Probate Code so as to expressly provide for the probate of wills as Muniments of Title. |
| HB 729 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that none of the provisions of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code shall apply to any pipeline company. |
| HB 897 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to more clearly define "outdoor advertising." |
| HCR 63 | Caption: Granting Ernest Slaton Pipkin permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 144 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 471. |
| HR 498 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 784 | Caption: Providing for the payment of secretarial staff until a Special Session is convened. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 138 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration and protection of trademarks and service marks; providing for and defining remedies for wrongful acts with respect to marks. |
| HR 63 | Caption: In memory of W. L. "Jack" Thornton of Dallas. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 41 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration and protection of trademarks and service marks; providing for and defining remedies for wrongful acts with respect to marks; relating to amending a certain Statute and the Penal Code of Texas to remove trademark features and certain county registration features therefrom and otherwise rewrite. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Granting E. R. Hinson, et al. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 32 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Robert E. Johnson and his wife Judy on the birth of their son Gordon Robert Johnson. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 182 | Caption: Relating to amending the Probate Code so as to permit Probate and County courts to approve expenditures by guardians from the corpus of ward's estates for support, maintenance and education under certain circumstances. |
| HB 193 | Caption: Relating to amending the statute entitled "Enforcement of Support" to include cases where the petitioner and respondent are residents of different counties. |
| HB 204 | Caption: Relating to providing for the protection and promotion of the public health and welfare by providing for the development, establishment, and enforcement of certain standards in the construction, maintenance and operation of hospitals by the Licensing Agency; fixing a penalty. |
| HB 224 | Caption: Relating to amending the chain store license fee act; levying a schedule of license fees upon those who elect to comply with this Act; providing for a statutory penalty. |
| HB 259 | Caption: Relating to the regulation of the business of giving bail in criminal and quasi-criminal cases and the licensing by the Securities Commissioner of person, firms and corporations who engage in that business. |
| HB 367 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to provide punishment for murder without malice. |
| HB 368 | Caption: Relating to providing that defendants may put up cash money or the equivalent thereof in approved securities in lieu of a bond or recognizance in all cases where bail is allowed under existing law. |
| HB 391 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to regulate the investment of the funds of life insurance companies. |
| HB 395 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to salaries and investment of funds; relating to authority to contract; relating to membership certificates and other types of contracts. |
| HB 466 | Caption: Relating to authorizing humane societies to investigate and prosecute misdemeanor violations of laws for prevention of cruelty and other wrongs to dumb animals in state and municipal courts upon consent of the prosecuting attorney with respect to violations of state laws and of the city governing body with respect to violation of city ordinances. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to providing for the registration and protection of trademarks, service marks and the like; providing an effective date. |
| HB 784 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code so as to regulate the investments of the funds of life insurance companies. |
| HB 785 | Caption: Relating to requiring the teaching of Texas History in all senior high schools supported by public funds within this State and in all senior colleges and universities supported or maintained by the State of Texas. |
| HB 860 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to more clearly define "outdoor advertising". |
| HB 935 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by authorizing the Board of Managers of County Hospital Employees to establish a retirement program in addition to the retirement program provided for therein. |
| HCR 17 | Caption: Granting the Gaston Hospital permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 77 | Caption: Commending the M. D. Anderson Foundation for their donation to the Texas Legislative Council to allow them to begin the project of codifying the school laws of the State. |
| HCR 108 | Caption: Instructing the House Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. J. R. No. 6. |
| HCR 126 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 391 at any time. |
| HJR 30 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing elections to determine whether contributions by the county to the Retirement, Disability and Death Compensation Fund of such county shall not exceed seven and one half per centum of compensation. |
| HR 1 | Caption: Restricting privileges of the floor pending the election of the Speaker. |
| HR 52 | Caption: In memory of Max V. Goettinger of Dallas. |
| HR 105 | Caption: Inviting Dr. Fred Schwarz of Sydney, Australia to address the House. |
| HR 180 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 288 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the necessity of the Texas Aeronautics Commission. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of county building authorities to acquire, own and operate a public building to be used principally as a county courthouse; applicable only in counties having a population in excess of 500,000. |
| HB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to fix the minimum and maximum salaries of certain officials in Dallas County, Texas. |
| HCR 52 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 84 at any time. |
| HR 70 | Caption: In memory of Ben Emmett Bradford, Jr. of Dallas. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 46 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to provide for the exchange of benches in the three County Criminal Courts of Dallas County, Texas. |
| HB 48 | Caption: Relating to the requirement of consent of parent or guardian of certain parties before said parties may marry or a marriage license be issued to them and relating further to the issuance of marriage licenses by the county clerk after a prescribed period of three (3) days from the date of the filing of application. |
| HB 59 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to fix the minimum and maximum salaries of certain offices in Dallas County, Texas. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider S. B. No. 24 at any time. |
| HR 93 | Caption: Welcoming Elliot Skull to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 34 | Caption: Relating to validating the additions of land an annexation to Dallas County Water Control and Improvement District No. 6. |
| HB 51 | Caption: Relating to creating an additional district court in Dallas County, Texas, to be known as the 162nd Judicial District. |
| HB 52 | Caption: Relating to creating an additional domestic relations court in Dallas County. |
| HR 83 | Caption: In memory of Frank A. Skipwith of Dallas. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 11 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the business of giving bail in criminal and quasi-criminal cases. |
| HB 261 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and providing for purchase by the State Board of Education of State-owned education films for the use and benefit of the public free school systems. |
| HB 299 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts; levying a schedule of license fees upon those who elect to comply with this Act; providing for a report to be filed with the Comptroller and prescribing the information to be contained therein; relates to the Chain Store Tax Law. |
| HB 529 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it unlawful to carry arms; enumerating the arms so prohibited; providing a penalty therefor. |
| HB 691 | Caption: Relating to enabling cities to create Hospital Authorities, without taxing power. |
| HB 703 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due on a judgment obtained against the State of Texas by Hassie Hunt Trust. |
| HB 704 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due on a judgment obtained against the State of Texas by Casey & Weempe Oil Company. |
| HB 779 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to revising tax on certain coin operating machines. |
| HCR 65 | Caption: Inviting the Honorable William A. Blakley to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HR 6 | Caption: Providing for the election of officers of the House. |
| HR 29 | Caption: In memory of Everett Lee DeGolyer of Dallas. |
| HR 468 | Caption: In memory of John Lynch Lancaster, Jr., of Dallas. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 57 | Caption: Inviting Fred Schwarz to address the House of Representatives. |