Legislation authored by Robert E. Johnson
Includes legislation with Robert E. Johnson 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 29 | Caption: Relating to arranging the Statutes of this State affecting savings and loan associations and their operations in appropriate Chapters and Sections into a consistent whole and under a single Act; providing penalties for slander of an association, embezzlement, declaring greater dividends than earned, failing to comply with law, suppressing evidence and disclosures by examiners; providing an effective date. |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to raising revenue for the State of Texas; levying an annual occupation tax on billiard tables. |
| HB 67 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of more than ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding federal census to adopt a program whereby upon consent of any fireman or policeman a stipulated amount will be withheld from his monthly salary or wages to be forwarded to this bona fide employee's association in payment of membership dues; providing penalties for violation. |
| HB 115 | Caption: Relating to the Uniform Act for Fiduciary Security Transfers, providing that signatures on the transfer of securities coming within the terms of this Act shall be guaranteed by an officer of certain banks. |
| HB 192 | Caption: Relating to the taking of fish with nets, seines or traps from bay tidal waters; providing penalties. |
| HB 200 | Caption: Relating to amending the subject matter of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act pertaining to the benefit amount for total unemployment; providing for an effective date. |
| HB 201 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, providing for benefit eligibility conditions; providing for an effective date for this Act. |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, providing for disqualification of benefits; providing for an effective date for this Act. |
| HB 203 | Caption: Relating to amending the subject matter of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, providing that an individual shall be disqualified for benefits for any benefit period with respect to which he is receiving or has received or has become eligible to claim remuneration in the form of old age benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act or similar payments under any Act of Congress, or a State Legislature; providing for an effective date for this Act. |
| HB 204 | Caption: Relating to amending the subject matter of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, providing for disqualification for benefits; pertaining to certain students; providing for an effective date for this Act. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to Committees of the House of Representatives. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Railroad Commission to permit gas production in excess of the monthly allowable under certain conditions. |
| HB 207 | Caption: Relating to deposits for installing services by public utility companies to increase amount of deposit and penalties. |
| HB 208 | Caption: Relating to the issuance, expiration, renewal, cancellation, suspension and revocation of operator's, commercial operator's, and chauffeur's driver's licenses, and relating to violations, remitting of fees, penalties, reporting requirements and other general provisions. |
| HB 410 | Caption: Relating to creating an additional Probate Court in Dallas County to be known as Probate Court Number 2 of Dallas County; providing the Act shall not be effective until January 1, 1965. |
| HB 492 | Caption: Relating to increasing the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Judges and Commissioners of the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals, and the Judges of the District Courts and Criminal District Courts of this State; making an appropriation for payment of salary increases provided in this Act during the biennium beginning September 1, 1963. |
| HB 654 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code, so as to permit the use after December 31, 1959, of the Commissioner's 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table and the Commissioner's 1960 Standard Group Mortality Table or such other Commissioner's Standard Mortality Table as shall be adopted by the Company with the approval of the State Board of Insurance; amending to permit the use after December 31, 1963, of the Commissioner's 1961 Standard Industrial Mortality Table. |
| HB 655 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain ineffective and useless Articles of the Insurance Code relative to the investment of legal reserves in Texas Securities. |
| HB 686 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to permit life, health and accident insurance companies to invest not more than twenty-five per cent (25%) of their capital, surplus and contingency funds in the capital stock of any one fire and casualty company. |
| HB 687 | Caption: Relating to providing that renewal coverage of terminated insurance shall be subject to evidence of insurability; and providing that the total insured indebtedness shall not exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000). |
| HB 807 | Caption: Relating to providing a tax on gross premiums of insurance companies other than life, other than fraternal benefit associations and other than non-profit group hospital service plans. |
| HB 997 | Caption: Relating to the allocation of dividends and share rights. |
| HCR 73 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider House Bill No. 492 at any time. |
| HCR 117 | Caption: Congratulating Mr. Walter E. Long and Staff of the Texas Legislative Service. |
| HJR 77 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for a Board for apportioning the State into Judicial Districts in the event the Legislature fails to make such apportionment. |
| HR 16 | Caption: Providing for the order of business of the House. |
| HR 50 | Caption: In memory of John O. Beaty of Dallas. |
| HR 305 | Caption: Congratulating Lee R. Faucett and his wife Patricia on the birth of their daughter Lisa Lynette Faucett. |
| HR 514 | Caption: Advising the House Conference Committee on Appropriations on the position of the House regarding the salaries to be paid to the Judiciary during the biennium. |
| HR 585 | Caption: Directing the creation of an interim Committee on Saving Taxes. |
| HR 592 | Caption: Providing for the employees of the House during the Interim. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 85 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statue providing a legal rule for rate-making. |
| HB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act, relating to benefits, eligibility conditions, etc. |
| HB 221 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas 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 264 | Caption: Relating to abolishing court costs in misdemeanor cases tried before a Justice of the Peace. |
| HB 652 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the issuance, expiration, renewal, cancellation, suspension, and revocation of operator's, commercial operator's, and chauffeur's driver's licenses; relating to violations and penalties. |
| HB 675 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for increase of the filing fee for candidacy for Statewide offices. |
| HB 703 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act relating to the ending the allocation of moneys to the Farm-to-Market Road Fund from the Omnibus Tax Clearance Fund. |
| HB 814 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act making the Joint Board of Park Commissioners a body corporate and politic and providing that title to the park properties and facilities shall be vested in said board. |
| HB 1044 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code providing that members and employees of the State Board of Insurance shall be subject to the same code of ethics and standards of conduct as members and employees of other State regulatory agencies. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 78 | Caption: Relating to amending and re-enacting a certain Act relating to the issuance, expiration, renewal, cancellation, suspension and revocation of operator's, commercial operator's, and chauffeur's driver's licenses, and relating to violations, remitting of fees, penalties, reporting requirements and other general provisions; providing rules of construction. |
| HR 146 | Caption: Directing the General Investigating Committee to investigate the Gatesville State School for Boys. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to amending and re-enacting a certain Act relating to the issuance, expiration, renewal, cancellation, suspension and revocation of operator's, commercial operator's, and chauffeur's driver's licenses, and relating to violations, remitting of fees, penalties, reporting requirements and other general provisions. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| HB 60 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing maximum working hours for firemen in cities of more than ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants, and defining the work week of firemen in such cities whose duties do not include fighting fires. |
| HB 181 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to immoral or depraved publications, motion pictures, phonograph records, penny arcade machine pictures and indecent objects, so as to provide that the editing, publishing or dissemination of any pamphlet, magazine, phonograph record or any printed paper devoted mainly to the publication of whoring, lechery, assignation, intrigues between men and women or immoral conduct of persons, or of depraved acts showing violent brutality, or knowingly possessing or keeping for sale or distribution or assisting in the sale or distribution of any such, or the showing of lewd, lascivious, obscene, indecent, immoral pictures on the cover, jacket, or frontispiece of any pamphlet, magazine, or any printed matter shall be a misdemeanor offense; providing a penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 183 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes providing that the Supreme Court may grant certain attorneys who have practiced law in a State of the United States for a period of seven (7) years and who hold a license to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States and who have resided in the State of Texas for a period of twenty-four (24) months, a license to practice law in the State of Texas without taking examination; providing certain substitutes for prelegal study. |
| HB 209 | Caption: Relating to cruelty to animals; defining the words "cruelty", "animals", and the phrase "humane society". |
| HB 243 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes establishing the 17th, 48th, 67th, and 96th Judicial District Courts in and for Tarrant County, Texas and certain acts creating the district court for the 153rd Judicial District of Texas. |
| HB 275 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts in reference to the construction and financing of water supply projects under contracts between eligible cities and river authorities and the financing by such cities of intakes, pumping stations and equipment, pipelines, treatment and filtration plants and intermediate and terminal reservoirs. |
| HB 290 | 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 316 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that married women shall have the control, management and disposition of their contracts of life insurance or annuity, subject to nullification of the provisions of this Act by the husband by notice to the insurance company. |
| HB 364 | Caption: Relating to amending the Mental Health Code providing for judicial restoration of persons previously adjudged mentally incompetent. |
| HB 449 | Caption: Relating to amending the sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to first application for continuance by a defendant. |
| HB 506 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas to provide that minors not less than fourteen (14) years of age and without guardians of their estates may contract for and otherwise acquire policies of life, term or endowment insurance, or annuity contracts, and exercises all rights and powers and give valid acquittance thereunder notwithstanding their minority and as though of full legal age. |
| HB 545 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by providing that no foreign or alien insurance corporation shall be refused a license to do business within this State on the ground that all of its authorized capital stock has not been fully subscribed and paid for. |
| HB 791 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to create a Juvenile Court and a Court of Domestic Relations so as to authorize Judges of all District Courts to sit for, hear and decide cases pending in the Juvenile Court and Domestic Relations Court of Dallas County. |
| HCR 59 | Caption: Congratulating the congregation of Sherith Israel on their 75th anniversary. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 74 | Caption: Relating to entering into the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact. |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code so as to provide that all public officers of this state and all Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Receivers, and Trustees appointed by any court, whose bonds have been executed by a corporate surety, shall be subject to suit in the proper court of the county wherein said bond is filed. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 49 | Caption: Relating to entering into the Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact. |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code so as to provide that all public officers of this State and all Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Receivers, and Trustees appointed by any court, whose bonds have been executed by a corporate surety, shall be subject to suit in the proper court of the county wherein said bond is filed. |
| HR 40 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Robert Higgins and his wife Ann on their 11th wedding anniversary. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| HB 42 | Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of professional engineering in this State. |
| HB 71 | Caption: Relating to providing that where a defendant in the course of a criminal action, gives a bail bond or enters into a recognizance before any court or person authorized by law to take same, for his personal appearance before a court or magistrate, to answer a charge against him, the said bond or recognizance shall be valid and binding upon the defendant and his sureties thereon, for the defendants personal appearance before the court or magistrate designated therein, and for any and all subsequent proceedings had relative to the charge, and that each such bail bond or recognizance shall be so conditioned except as further provided in the Act. |
| HB 918 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to allowing an officer of any county, city or town to be paid for rendering certain services. |
| HCR 17 | Caption: Invoking the Sovereignty of the State of Texas against the encroachment by the Federal Government up on the reserved powers of the State of Texas, and appealing to Congress to help resolve the question of contested powers between the sovereign states and the Federal Government. |
| HCR 90 | Caption: Granting G. Carroll Goen permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 32 | Caption: Naming Ann Louise Hughes and Robert H. Hughes, Jr., as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 205 | Caption: Congratulating John F. Tufts for being named the outstanding farmer of Texas in the Annual Texas Chamber of Commerce Award. |
| HR 447 | Caption: Congratulating the Highland Baptist Church on the sixty-sixth anniversary of its founding. |
| HR 502 | Caption: In memory of E. P. Lamberth of Dallas. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 71 | Caption: In memory of William G. Duncan of Dallas. |
| HR 131 | Caption: Directing state agencies and schools to allow Members to park in any reserved parking area. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 24 | Caption: Relating to clarifying certain laws so as to give full force and effect to the rules of procedure of the House and Senate, respectively, as they relate to admission of persons other than Members to the floors of the Houses. |
| HR 15 | Caption: Congratulating the Texas A & M College Aggies on their successful football season. |