Legislation authored by Benjamin Edward Jarvis
Includes legislation with Benjamin Edward Jarvis as the primary author for the 56th through 58th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 58th Regular Session | |
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| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to providing in all cities of less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand (185,000) inhabitants, for a program of contributions and membership to the Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund. |
| HB 68 | Caption: Relating to creating the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District and the Thirteenth Supreme Judicial District and to locate the Courts of Civil Appeals thereof. |
| HB 226 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment and continuance of the State Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists as presently constituted, and defining the duties and powers of such Boards; prescribing certain offenses which shall constitute misdemeanors; providing for the punishment for willful making of any false statement. |
| HB 227 | Caption: Relating to providing that every assessor and collector of taxes may proceed to enforce the collection of delinquent ad valorem taxes, and penalties and interest thereon, by distraint and sale. |
| HB 228 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Department of Public Welfare shall be responsible in certain instances for finding fathers who desert their families and fail to support their children; providing for the mother's or guardian's responsibility. |
| HB 248 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the School Land Board from leasing any river beds or channels with one permissible exception. |
| HB 256 | Caption: Relating to requiring owners of motor vehicles to maintain certain items of vehicular equipment in operating condition at all times. |
| HB 268 | Caption: Relating to providing that an employer and prospective employee or an employer and a present employee may enter into an agreement certifying the nature and the extent of any preexisting disability of the prospective or present employee. |
| HB 293 | Caption: Relating to requiring vehicles carrying explosive substances or flammable liquids as principal cargo to stop at railroad crossings. |
| HB 389 | Caption: Relating to clarifying the adoption procedure and to safeguarding the confidentiality of the records in the case of the children of parents whose parental rights have been terminated by the Juvenile Court or other court of competent jurisdiction. |
| HB 443 | Caption: Relating to nursery growers and dealers and agents, florists, and nursery products. |
| HB 451 | Caption: Relating to providing that certain motor fuel purchased or otherwise acquired outside of the State of Texas and brought into this State by any person who is returning thereto immediately following an absence therefrom for a period of less than twenty-four (24) hours duration shall be subject to the excise tax levied on the first use of such motor fuel in this State and payable by such person as the Comptroller may prescribe; providing for an effective date. |
| HB 721 | Caption: Relating to importation of wild birds and animals. |
| HB 916 | Caption: Relating to providing that motor vehicle of certain organizations shall be required to register such vehicles but shall not be required to pay registration fees but shall pay a fee of Five Dollars ($5). |
| HB 917 | Caption: Relating to repealing an Act relating to county budgets. |
| HB 918 | Caption: Relating to providing that each county, after having adopted a budget for the ensuing tax year, and after having made the annual levy of taxes for county purposes, may borrow money pending the receipt of tax collection. |
| HB 981 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a County Court at Law for Smith County. |
| HB 1050 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking or killing of deer and squirrel in Smith County; providing for a penalty. |
| HCR 121 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider House Bill No. 67. |
| HJR 52 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to give to the Legislature the power to provide, under such limitations and restrictions as may be deemed by the Legislature expedient, for the garnishment of fifty per cent (50%) of the current wages of a parent for personal services for child support payments in accordance with an Order of a Court of competent jurisdiction. |
| HR 386 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of the State Firemen's Pension System. |
| HR 451 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of the repeal of a certain article in the Texas Constitution. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Department of Welfare shall be responsible in certain instances for fiding fathers who desert their families and fail to support their children. |
| HB 186 | Caption: Relating to abolishing common law marriages; providing for the legitimacy of all children born or conceived prior to the effective date of this Act; providing for an effective date. |
| HB 187 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that an employee can waive future compensation for the re-injury or aggravation of an injury or condition existing prior to the acceptance of employment. |
| HB 236 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the assignment and garnishment of wages to secure payment of child support. |
| HB 719 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the annexation of common and/or independent school districts to certain junior college districts. |
| HB 829 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act changing the existing provisions relating to the licensing and operation of barber schools and colleges. |
| HB 830 | Caption: Relating to providing necessary authority and responsibility for the Commissioner of Agriculture to prescribe rules, regulations, conduct inspections, establish grades, classify rose plants, cuttings and bushes; provide for a fee for issuance of certificate of authority; providing for a "Stop Sale" Order; providing for a penalty. |
| HCR 143 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 829. |
| HJR 15 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to give the Legislature the power to provide, under such limitations and restrictions as may be deemed by the Legislature expedient, for the garnishment of the current wages of a parent for personal services for child support payments in accordance with an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. |
| HR 26 | Caption: In memory of Marvin H. McMurrey of Tyler. |
| HR 96 | Caption: Electing children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 147 | Caption: In memory of Judge Nathaniel Walton Brooks of Tyler. |
| HR 272 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules. |
| HR 284 | Caption: In memory of Judge Samuel Ashbury Lindsey of Tyler. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 198 | Caption: In memory of John L. Young of Tyler. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HR 113 | Caption: In memory of Tomas Hartwell DeLay of Tyler. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 164 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to the residence requirements for employees of the State Department of Public Welfare. |
| HB 165 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to authorize the Board of Legal Examiners, with the approval of the Supreme Court, to appoint a Secretary, authorizing salary for same. |
| HB 254 | Caption: Relating to providing for the frequency of payment of salaries to State employees; providing an effective date of this Act. |
| HB 319 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the designation of the Supreme Judicial Districts of the State of Texas and the location of the Courts of Civil Appeals in such districts. |
| HB 808 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by prohibiting the running at large of livestock on designated highways. |
| HB 842 | Caption: Relating to allowing cities to regulate rendering plants within the city limits or within one (1) mile thereof. |
| HB 894 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to create the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District, comprised of the counties of Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Anderson, Houston, Freestone, Cherokee, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Angelina, Hunt, Rains, San Augustine, Sabine, Wood, Upshur, Kaufman, Navarro, Leon and Trinity, and to locate the Court of Civil Appeals thereof in the City of Tyler. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to levying a severance tax on general minerals and natural resources; providing a penalty. |
| HR 77 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Steve Burgess on his birthday. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 16 | Caption: Relating to levying a severance tax on certain natural resources severed in the State of Texas; providing penalties. |