Legislation authored by Herman E. Lauhoff
Includes legislation with Herman E. Lauhoff as the primary author for the 63rd through 66th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 66th Regular Session | |
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| HB 503 |
Last Action: Placed on daily General State Calendar Caption: Relating to limitations of reevaluations of property for ad valorem tax purposes. |
| HB 556 |
Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to the transportation of ready-mix concrete and loose materials in a single load having an overall gross weight in excess of the limitations prescribed in Articles 6701d-11 and 6701d-12. |
| HB 613 |
Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to a possessory lien for the repairer of a household appliance. |
| HB 743 |
Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to time limitations for improvements and repairs to freeway systems in counties with populations greater than 2,000,000. |
| HB 933 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the penalty for the offense of official oppression. |
| HB 934 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to written rules and procedures to govern law enforcement agencies. |
| HB 1104 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to removal of members of the board of certain metropolitan rapid transit authorities. |
| HB 1497 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Business and Industry Caption: Relating to the requirement that restaurants reserve dining area space for persons who do not smoke tobacco. |
| HB 1540 |
Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to use of a scenic overlook, rest area, or comfort station along a public highway. |
| HB 1616 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to the prohibition of cigarette vending machines in state-supported educational institutions. |
| HB 1617 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to purchases of cigarettes by minors from vending machines. |
| HB 1618 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the penalty for sale of tobacco to a minor. |
| HB 1619 |
Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to commercial fishing and the authority of the Department of Parks and Wildlife regarding expenditure of certain funds, extended fishery jurisdiction, and fishery management jurisdiction; making an appropriation; providing a penalty. |
| HB 1620 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs Caption: Relating to the use of nets and seines in inside water or near the shoreline in outside water; prescribing penalties. |
| HB 1621 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the tidal water commercial fisherman's license fee. |
| HB 1622 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to licensing of tidal water commercial finfish fishermen. |
| HB 1623 |
Last Action: Placed on daily General State Calendar Caption: Relating to the purchase and sale of finfish and to the certification of wholesale fish dealers selling or purchasing finfish; providing penalties. |
| HB 1624 |
Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to temporary permits for highway operation of commercial motor vehicles. |
| HB 1625 |
Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to deed restrictions requiring the use of wood shingles. |
| HB 1895 |
Last Action: Scheduled for public hearing on . . . . . . Caption: Relating to provisions for the removal of members of the governing boards of certain districts and authorities. |
| HB 1896 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to salary increases for members of governing bodies of certain political subdivisions. |
| HB 2103 |
Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to the regulation of ambulance service in certain counties. |
| 65th Regular Session | |
| HB 299 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the regulation of ambulance services and ambulance service personnel by the Coordinating Emergency Medical Service Division of the State Department of Health; providing a penalty. |
| HB 318 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to recovery of attorney's fees in suits based on breach of a restrictive covenant pertaining to real property. |
| HB 344 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to possession of unkept or abandoned cemeteries located within a home-rule city in a county with a population of 500,000 or more; relating to a perpetual care trust fund to maintain cemeteries owned, operated, or controlled by a city. |
| HB 345 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to maintenance of unkept cemeteries. |
| HB 346 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to liability for civil damages of a person who removes an injured party to a physician or hospital. |
| HB 347 |
Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Relating to the disclosure of certain subdivision restrictive covenants at the time of conveyance; providing a penalty. |
| HB 348 |
Last Action: Coauthor authorized Caption: Relating to denial of probation to persons convicted of certain offenses. |
| HB 368 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to actions taken and reports made after a motor vehicle accident; amending the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways. |
| HB 634 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the creation of an injunctive power of relief for municipal courts in cities with a population of more than 1,200,000. |
| HB 635 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the licensing of a child care facility and child placing agency. |
| HB 774 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Providing for the transfer to the Department of Corrections of prisoners pending appeal. |
| HB 1412 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the authority of the city council of an incorporated city having a population of 1,200,000 or more, according to the last preceding or any future federal census, to set the salary and expenses to be paid elected city officials. |
| HB 1413 |
Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to an exemption for coal-fired boiler systems and related equipment under the Limited Sales, Excise, and Use Tax Act. |
| HB 1414 |
Last Action: Coauthor authorized Caption: Relating to authorized terms of imprisonment for commission of certain offenses against persons who are elderly or disabled. |
| HB 1892 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to Firemen's Civil Service in certain cities; authorizing in cities with a population of One Million, Two Hundred Thousand (1,200,000) or more, the creation of a new classification in the Fire Department to rank immediately below the Chief or Head of the Fire Department to be filled by appointment by the Chief or Head of the Fire Department. |
| HB 1893 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Creating a Firemen's Civil Service in cities having a population of one million, two hundred thousand (1,200,000) inhabitants or more; defining certain terms used in said Act; providing for a Firemen's Civil Service Commission and providing the method whereby the same shall be appointed and the qualifications of the Commissioners; providing for the organization of said Commission; providing for the organization of said Commission; providing for the powers of said Commission; providing that said Commission shall make rules and regulations pertaining to Firemen and that said rules and regulations shall prescribe the cause for removal or suspension of employees of the Fire Department; providing certain grounds for removal of employees of Fire Departments; providing for the position of Director of Civil Service; providing for the office space for said Commission; providing for the civil service classification of Firemen; providing for the examination for eligibility lists; providing the method of filling positions of the Fire Department; providing for the certification of employees; providing for probationary and full-fledged Firemen; providing for notice of examinations; providing for promotions in the Fire Department; providing for the civil service rights fo the Chief; providing for suspension and reinstatement of Firemen, and the method of procedure in connection therewith; providing certain additional rules of procedure before the Commission; providing for an appeal to the District Court; providing for the procedure in demotions; providing for disciplinary suspensions; providing for reduction of force and reinstatement list; prohibiting certain political activities of Firemen; providing for requiring publishing of rules, regulations and lists; providing for status of present employees; providing certain penalties; providing sick and injury leaves; providing that Firemen shall not be permitted to strike or take any part in any sympathetic strike, and providing penalties therefor; providing that special elections shall be called ninety (90) days after the effective date of this Act, in each city, to determine if cities shall adopt the provisions of this Act; providing a "grandfather" clause; and providing the manner in which cities adopting this Act may submit the matter to the people for a repeal thereof at an election to be held for that purpose; providing for a repealing and saving clause. |
| HB 1894 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Creating a Policemen's Civil Service in cities having a population of one million, two hundred thousand (1,200,000). |
| HB 2201 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the construction and operation of causeways, bridges, tunnels, turnpikes and roads by counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and having a population of 50,000 or more, according to the last Federal Census. |
| 65th 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 1 |
Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Addressing the Governor to remove Donald B. Yarbrough from the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. |
| 65th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 19 |
Last Action: Coauthor authorized Caption: Relating to the reappraisal of real property by a political subdivision for property tax purposes. |
| HB 59 |
Last Action: Rules failed to suspend Caption: Relating to substitution of reappraised values of property for existing values on the tax roll. |
| 64th Regular Session | |
| HB 747 |
Last Action: Laid on the table subject to call Caption: Amending Chapter 13 of Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes by adding thereto Article 1169a authorizing the governing bodies of any Home Rule City to cause to be prepared a proposed new charter for such city and to submit the same to the qualified electors of such city for adoption or rejection. |
| HB 748 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the regulation of ambulance services and ambulance service personnel by the Coordinated Emergency Medical Service Division of the State Department of Health; providing a penalty. |
| HB 922 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the regulation of pricing consumable commodities. |
| HB 1067 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to prohibiting the possession of burning tobacco products or the smoking of tobacco in certain public places. |
| HB 1311 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the disclosure of restrictions on the use of real property. |
| HB 1344 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Insurance Caption: Requiring title insurance companies to furnish purchasers of title insurance with certain instruments relating to the property subject to the insurance before issuing a title insurance policy. |
| HB 1495 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Business and Industry Caption: Relating to the making, collection, and application of contributions toward the expense of maintenance and repair of common elements of subdivisions. |
| HB 1741 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to penalties and remedies for violation of weight and maximum load limits and other requirements regarding the operation of vehicles on public highways. |
| HB 1835 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Business and Industry Caption: Relating to regulating prices marked on consumable commodities. |
| HB 2082 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: To provide energy budgets for state facilities. |
| HB 2124 |
Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Making appropriations for and directing payment of miscellaneous claims and judgments out of the General Revenue Fund; requiring approval of the claims in the manner specified in the Act before payment is made. |
| HCR 72 |
Last Action: Signed by Governor Caption: In memory of the Honorable Hawkins Menefee. |