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Legislation authored by William S. Jameson
Includes legislation with William S. Jameson as the primary author for the 50th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
51st Regular Session
HB 33 Author: Jameson, William S. | et. al.
Caption: Relating to providing for the retirement of all Commissioners, Judges and Justices of Appellate Courts, Judges of District Courts and Criminal District Courts of this State; providing for repeal of laws in conflict; providing for validity of remaining portion of Act, if any part declared unconstitutional.
HB 157 Author: Jameson, William S.
Caption: Relating to prescribing the minimum and maximum salaries of the sheriffs and their deputies in all counties of the State of Texas; providing that the act shall be severable; repealing all law in conflict.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing a term of office of six years for school trustees in certain cities.
Caption: Relating to repealing previous Statutes relating to the criminally insane.
Caption: Relating to repealing a previous Act, allowing for the abolition of the requirement of a separate acknowledgement by married women.
Caption: Relating to provide for the appointment of a commission to revise and direct the General Laws of Texas, defining their powers and duties, and fixing the qualifications and compensation of said commission.
HB 264 Author: Jameson, William S. | et. al.
Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the use of the Rio Grande Compact Commissioner.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing authority for the Comptroller to authorize distributors to affix revenue tax stamps by imprinting tax meter stamps upon original packages of cigarettes, providing rules and regulating thereto, prescribing the duties of the State Treasurer in invoicing, distributing and handling stamp metering machines.
Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the State Highway Fund for the operation of the Texas Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to statements of facts for the Appellate Courts.
Caption: Relating to revising a previous Statute providing for the appointment of Notaries Public by the Secretary of State; repealing all laws inconsistent herewith; containing a savings clause.
Caption: Relating to changing the name of the School or College of Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso to the "Texas State College of Mines and Arts," or any reference thereto, whatever such name or reference appears in the Revised Statutes of Texas, 1925, or any amendments thereto, or in any acts of the Legislature, or in any Constitutional Amendment.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to require the heads of departments of government to submit budgets to the State board of Control at certain times; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict.
Caption: Relating to empowering and directing the State Department of Public Welfare to refund to the Federal Government One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety-four Dollars and Sixty-nine Cents ($1,894.69) to make adjustment in amounts expended in excess of those found necessary by the Social Security Administration for the proper administration of the Civilian War Assistance Program and the Enemy Alien Program; providing a repealing clause, a savings clause.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that in the trial for all suits for divorce where there is a child or children, under sixteen years of age, as an issue or the marriage sought to be dissolved, the court shall enter an interlocutory degree preventing either party from marrying any other person for one year, and providing that no final divorce judgment shall be entered until one year after the interlocutory decree is entered.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing the officials who may issue certified copies of birth or death certificates wherein a person is stated to be illegitimate.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing County Commissioners Courts shall have power and authority to require railroad companies to construct and keep in repair suitable crossings at the intersection of highways, roads, streets, avenues and alleys outside the cornorate limits of cities, towns and villages.
Caption: Relating to the protection of the interest of the people of Texas in submerged lands, including lands, minerals, and other resources within and beneath the navigable waters of the State, tidelands, foreshore, salt water lakes, bays, tidewaters, inlets, lagoons, bayous, rivers, marshes, reefs, arms of the sea, the sea and bed thereof within the boundaries of the State, and lands formerly covered by such waters.
Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to period of time necessary for an employee to cast his vote.
Caption: Relating to amending previous Statues relating to Livestock Sanitary Commission; repealing all laws in conflict.
Caption: Relating to amending certain Act so as to clarify and specify the kind and amounts of insurance coverage to be carried by every license, as described in that Act.
50th Regular Session
Caption: Relating to authorizing any County in the State to establish a Civil Service for certain of the employees of the County Government and providing for the election or appointment of a Civil Service Commission; repealing all laws in conflict.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that any incorporated city or town in the State of Texas shall be authorized and empowered to levy and collect a city permit fee or a street rental charge on motor vehicles transporting passengers for hire under the provisions of a city ordinance and not under permit or certificate of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas or the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Caption: Relating to amending and re-enacting Article 5517 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, so that no person may acquire a title by limitation to any lands owned by any city or county.
Caption: Relating to amend a previous Act, making bribing of officials, players and participants in athletic contests a crime.
Caption: Relating to declaring a public calamity to exist in El Paso and Hudspeth Counties, Texas, and granting and donating to said Counties for a period of ten (10) years, beginning with the taxable year 1947, State ad valorem taxes collected for general revenue purposes in said Counties; providing that if any portion of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Act.
Caption: Relating to declaring the waters of underground streams, channels, artesian basins, reservoirs or lakes, having reasonably ascertainable boundaries, to belong to the public, to be subject to appropriation for beneficial use, to be a natural resource subject to and requiring conservation, development and regulation in the manner and for the uses named in the Act; providing penalties for violation of the provisions of the Act; defining waste and prescribing a penalty therefor.
Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing certain water control and improvement districts to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of constructing extensions and improvements to water and sewer systems and irrigation systems, and to pledge the net revenues derived from the operation of such irrigation systems to the payment of such bonds, and providing that such bonds may be issued in one or more issues; validating certain districts.