Legislation authored by Wallace Harland Miller
Includes legislation with Wallace Harland Miller as the primary author for the 57th through 59th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 59th Regular Session | |
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| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to mental health and mental retardation; creating the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and prescribing its organization, powers, duties and functions and abolishing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools. |
| HB 102 | Caption: Relating to transferring the supervision of the Historical State Battlegrounds, of San Jacinto Battleground and Fannin State Battleground, now under the advice and consent of the State Board of Control, to the control and custody of the Parks and Wildlife Commission, under the authority conferred upon the Parks and Wildlife Department by existing laws; providing for transfer of appropriations. |
| HB 211 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting common-law marriages. |
| HB 212 | Caption: Relating to selling, offering for sale, or holding for sale preparations containing thallium sulphate, thallium salts, or any thallium compound. |
| HB 213 | Caption: Relating to making privileged certain communications between husband and wife, attorney and client, clergyman and confessor, physician and patient, and newsman and his source of information. |
| HB 214 | Caption: Relating to the subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated; amending the Penal Code. |
| HB 215 | Caption: Relating to exceptions to the Texas Motor Vehicle Safety-Responsibility Act. |
| HB 216 | Caption: Relating to amending the Mental Health Code of Texas, to provide that certain records in mentally ill dockets of county clerks are public records of a private nature which may be used, inspected and copied when in the public interest, only by order of the county judge, probate judge, court of domestic relations judge, or a district judge of a county in which the records are. |
| HB 217 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes levying an additional tax on cigarettes and allocating the additional tax for cancer research. |
| HB 364 | Caption: Relating to physicians' reports of certain injuries involving children. |
| HB 487 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the Governor; providing an allowance for expenses. |
| HB 548 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas to acquire by donation or deed of gift from The Texas Medical Center in Houston certain properties in the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas. |
| HB 614 | Caption: Relating to grounds for divorce; amending the Revised Civil Statutes. |
| HB 637 | Caption: Relating to designating the head of a mental hospital in which a patient is confined as the patient's agent for service of process; amending the Texas Mental Health Code. |
| HB 700 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for contracts in the conduct of research. |
| HB 968 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to prerequisites for taking the regular examination for license to practice law. |
| HB 1072 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act by adding a director of administrative services. |
| HB 1148 | Caption: Relating to the care, treatment and custody of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons infected with tuberculosis. |
| HCR 11 | Caption: In memory of General Douglas A. MacArthur. |
| HCR 15 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Committee for the Return of the Flag of the Alamo. |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Requesting continuance of a certain study of non-academic psychological testing in the public schools. |
| HCR 21 | Caption: In memory of Judge Elwood Fouts of Houston. |
| HCR 42 | Caption: Authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to accept certain grants for the purpose of constructing a dental science research building. |
| HCR 90 | Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to study the feasibility of establishing a Texas Heritage Department. |
| HCR 109 | Caption: Granting W. R. Aldrich and Company, its successors and assigns, permission to sue the State of Texas and the Texas Highway Department. |
| HCR 166 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. No. 211. |
| HJR 32 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide for a partial exemption of the value of residence homesteads of all persons sixty-five years of age or older from all ad valorem taxes levied by any county, city, town, school district or other political subdivision or instrumentality of the State. |
| HR 145 | Caption: In memory of J. W. Sartwelle of Houston. |
| HR 202 | Caption: Providing for the salaries of Pages of the House. |
| HR 276 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section II of Rule 7 of the Temporary Rules of the House. |
| HR 286 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of a voting machine study committee. |
| HR 312 | Caption: Congratulating Judge C. L. Abernethy of Plainview on his record of public service. |
| 59th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 10 | Caption: In memory of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Expressing intent of the Public Welfare Act of 1941. |
| HR 37 | Caption: In memory of Felix Tijerina of Houston. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| HB 119 | Caption: Relating to providing for a reduction of maximum working hours and limiting the number of hours in each work shift of firemen employed in cities of more than ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants; providing minimum and maximum work shift hours in cities of more than eight hundred thousand (800,000) inhabitants. |
| HB 156 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to use any personnel and facilities under its control and management for carrying out research in mental retardation. |
| HB 157 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to kill, wound, shoot at, hunt or molest the roseate spoonbill; providing a penalty. |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Mental Health Code to prohibit bringing into Texas from another state or taking out of Texas to another state any person who has been adjudged mentally ill and hospitalized by the state in which he was committed. |
| HB 159 | Caption: Relating to providing criminal penalties for certain acts involving certain obscene articles. |
| HB 160 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxes the receipts from the sale, lease or rental of and the storage, use or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property used for or in connection with the loading or unloading from or onto ships, vessels, or barges of freight or cargo imported from this state. |
| HB 270 | Caption: Relating to requiring that passenger cars manufactured after a certain date and registered in this state be equipped with seat belt anchorage units; prescribing specifications and regulations relating to sale and use of motor vehicle seat belts. |
| HB 291 | Caption: Relating to conferring on the Board of Regents of the University of Houston the power of eminent domain. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering municipal corporations and political subdivisions, including conservation and reclamation districts, to enter into contracts and agreements with the owners of land relating to the development of such land. |
| HB 515 | Caption: Relating to the punishment for subsequent offenses of driving while intoxicated. |
| HB 634 | Caption: Relating to providing for the right of appeal from Orders of Temporary Hospitalization, Observation and Treatment; providing for closed hearings on the Application for Temporary Hospitalization, Observation and Treatment of a proposed patient and/or on the Petition for Indefinite Commitment of a person to a mental hospital, only when the consent of the proposed patient or person first shall have been obtained. |
| HB 788 | Caption: Relating to providing that an additional period in which practicing architects who were practicing on May 22, 1937, may register and receive a certificate without examination. |
| HB 934 | Caption: Relating to abolishing special funds in the State Treasury; providing that all moneys accruing to departments or agencies of the State of Texas shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund; providing an effective date. |
| HB 952 | Caption: Relating to creating the "Public Records Division" in the State Treasurer's office. |
| HCR 82 | Caption: Granting LeBlanc, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas and the Board of Directors of Texas Southern University. |
| HCR 88 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider House Bill No. 291. |
| HJR 15 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for an exemption of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) of the value of residence homesteads of all persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older from all ad valorem taxes levied by any county, city, town, school district, or other political subdivision or instrumentality of the State. |
| HR 98 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 103 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Paul Floyd and his wife on the birth of their son, Charles Ridge Floyd. |
| HR 132 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to study the feasibility of city-county consolidation in Texas. |
| HR 446 | Caption: In memory of J. P. "Jake" Hamblen of Houston. |
| HR 460 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules. |
| HR 464 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Paul Floyd on his 34th birthday. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to relieving from liability for civil damages persons who render emergency care at the scene of an emergency. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by adding false statements under oath before either House of the Legislature or any committee thereof, to the definition of perjury; authorizing legislative committees to require witnesses to be sworn. |
| HB 191 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code relating to immoral publications, motion pictures, penny arcade machine pictures, and indecent objects. |
| HB 233 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute relating to the new resident use tax on motor vehicles. |
| HB 255 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of hypnosis or attempts to use hypnosis and establishing a penalty therefor; exempting persons licenses to practice medicine in this State, persons licenses to practice dentistry in this State and psychologists as herein defined. |
| HB 384 | Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings in connection with city tax bonds heretofore favorably voted for the purpose of constructing, improving and extending the water works and sewage systems is such city. |
| HB 462 | Caption: Relating to providing that any person who shall be injured, in person or property, by any intoxicated person shall have a right of action for damages against certain other persons. |
| HB 590 | Caption: Relating to repealing Chapter 17 (Stores and Mercantile Establishments) of Title 122A, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, as amended, and enacting a new Chapter 17, Title 122A of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, to be known as the Texas Business Excise Tax providing for a tax upon the act of engaging, in this State, in the business of selling tangible personal property for end use or consumption; providing for penalties; providing for the Comptroller of the State of Texas to enforce such Act. |
| HB 674 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Mental Health Code relating to the taking into custody the mentally ill. |
| HB 1090 | Caption: Relating to fixing and making certain the amount of compensation to be paid from county funds by certain counties. |
| HR 80 | Caption: Electing children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 389 | Caption: Directing the creation of an interim committee to study Sunday Laws in the State. |
| HR 730 | Caption: Congratulating Representative Don Garrison on his Birthday. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 115 | Caption: Relating to validating all school districts, including all types of junior and regional college districts, together with the boundaries and names thereof. |
| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to establish and maintain a psychiatric hospital for the confinement, care, and treatment of emotionally disturbed children; regulating and providing for its operation. |
| HR 125 | Caption: Congratulating State Representative Myra D. Banfield on her birthday. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 19 | Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as "Memorial Villages Water Authority". |
| HR 225 | Caption: In memory of Bertha Huebotter of Houston. |