Legislation authored by John Bryant

Includes legislation with John Bryant as the primary author for the 63rd through 87th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System. Author information is not available for the 87th Legislature.

67th Regular Session
HB 644	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Public Education Caption: Relating to standards for the employment of public school professional personnel.
HB 737	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to magistrates for criminal proceedings in certain district courts.
HB 738	Last Action: Vetoed by the Governor Caption: Relating to creation of offenses relating to the sale of tickets to athletic or entertainment events.
HB 757	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to proof of financial responsibility on registration of a motor vehicle and on application for a driver's license and maintenance of proof of financial responsibility.
HB 2202	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to inclusion of certian motor busses and motor trucks under the state motor-vehicle assigned risk plan.
HB 2203	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the Penal Code definition of obscenity.
HB 2204	Last Action: Subcommittee laid on table subject to call Caption: Relating to certification of specialties by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
HB 2205	Last Action: Subcommittee laid on table subject to call Caption: Relating to certification of specialties by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
HB 2391	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the payment of the costs of an extradition.
HR 260	Caption: Welcoming the 73rd annual convention of Rotary International to Dallas.
67th 3rd Called Session
HR 12	Caption: Congratulating Mona Joy and William C. Smith.
66th Regular Session
HB 1556	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to proof of financial responsibility on registration of a motor vehicle and on application for a driver's license and maintenance of proof of financial responsibility.
HB 1575	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to the reprimanding of teachers or the suspension of teaching certificates by the state commissioner of education.
HB 1576	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to medical and rehabilitative services for children.
HB 1810	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to a motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program.
HB 1828	Last Action: Scheduled for future calendar placement Caption: Relating to the operation of motorboats having exhaust water manifolds in fresh water.
HCR 95	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Rules Caption: Expressing appreciation to the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers.
HCR 128	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Finance Caption: Memorializing Congress to adopt Senator Bentsen's legislation ending revenue sharing for state governments.
65th Regular Session
HB 28	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the effect of resignation of certain public officers from an unexpired term of office after election to a succeeding term; and declaring an emergency.
HB 93	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Prohibiting expenditure of public funds of political subdivisions to influence the outcome of elections on measures and providing criminal and civil penalties and remedies for enforcement.
HB 232	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Health and Welfare Caption: Relating to the prohibition and disclosure of conflicts of interests of board members of community centers for mental health and mental retardation.
HB 307	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the authority of a justice of the peace and a medical examiner to permit the taking of corneal tissue for transplants; and providing immunity in certain civil suits.
HB 308	Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to required training for certain persons who may enucleate eyes for anatomical donations and declaring an eye bank as a legal donee of an anatomical gift.
HB 309	Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Relating to the return of stolen property to the rightful owner when no criminal trial is pending.
HB 319	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the requisites of an indictment, an information, and a complaint.
HB 488	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in formal meeting Caption: Relating to proof of financial responsibility on registration of a motor vehicle and on application for a driver's license and maintenance of proof of financial responsibility.
HB 489	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to county regulation of massage practitioners and establishments; providing penalties.
HB 527	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to unauthorized vehicles in fire lanes; removal; liability; and declaring an emergency.
HB 528	Last Action: Coauthor authorized Caption: Relating to penalties for hindering secured creditors.
HB 614	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the creation of state and local charitable deduction committees and the authorization for all state agencies, boards, commissions, departments, and institutions to accept and process payroll deductions from officer and employees for contributions to certain charitable heatlth and welfare organizations.
HB 851	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to preventing execution of civil process in civil cause; providing a penalty.
HB 905	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the return of stolen property to the rightful owner when no criminal trial is pending.
HB 982	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the election of members of the governing boards of certain countywide community college districts from single-member trustee districts and to the dates and manner of conducting the elections.
HB 983	Last Action: Assigned to Consent Calendar Caption: Relating to purchase or sale of tickets for admission to athletic events in excess of face value; providing a penalty.
HB 1143	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the withholding of workmen's compensation benefits to certain employees of political subdivisions.
HB 1144	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to pension contributions on offset workmen's compensation benefits to certain employees of political subdivisions.
HB 1815	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the appointment of deputies by duly elected constables.
HB 2073	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Repealing the Admissions Tax.
HJR 21	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III, Section 5 and 24, of the Texas Constitution, to provide for annual regular sessions of the legislature.
HJR 23	Last Action: Assigned to Constitutional Amendments Calendar Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution to provide that the lieutenant governor and the speaker of the house shall each receive an annual salary equal to two-thirds the annual salary of the governor.
64th Regular Session
HB 227	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to investigations of nuisance telephone calls.
HB 228	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the salaries of purchasing agents in certain counties.
HB 229	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to the carrying of weapons.
HB 342	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the authority of a department, agency, board, or political subdivision to convert land used for park purposes to another public use if the land was originally obtained for that use or the other use will not interfere with the use of the land as a park.
HB 377	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the effect of resignation of certain public officers from an unexpired term of office after election to a succeeding term.
HB 536	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Relating to benefits paid for death and disability of a fireman from heart or lung disease.
HB 537	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to a county purchasing agent's power to purchase provisions for a county jail in certain counties.
HB 551	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to preventing the execution of process in a civil cause; providing a penalty.
HB 686	Last Action: Rules suspended Caption: Relating to the penalty for the commission of the offense of prostitution.
HB 778	Last Action: Considered by subcommittee in public hearing Caption: Relating to regulation of rates and policy forms of professional liability insurance covering persons engaged in the practice of medicine.
HB 846	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to the types of alcoholic beverages that may be served and consumed on the premises of private clubs.
HB 847	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to the practice of law by law students.
HB 915	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the color of the symbols, tabs, or other devices to be attached to license plates for registration year 1976.
HB 916	Last Action: Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caption: Relating to making an anatomical gift by executing a statement on the reverse side of a driver's license.
HB 917	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to a judge's discretion in a temporary commitment hearing for a mentally ill person.
HB 1090	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the incorporation of certain sections of the general workmen's compensation law into the workmen's compensation provisions for employees of political subdivisions.
HB 1098	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to the date when a registered architect may be subject to having his or her certificate to practice architecture in this state revoked.
HB 1102	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to a court administrator system for certain district courts.
HB 1117	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to excluding from the sales price of coins or currency the face value of United States coin or currency.
HB 1178	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Revenue and Taxation Caption: Relating to exempting from the sales tax certain newspapers and printing charges for certain newspapers distributed freely.
HB 1244	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the appointment of a retired judge of a domestic relations or special juvenile court to sit for the regular judge of a domestic relations or special juvenile court.
HB 1457	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to a court administrator system for certain district courts.
HB 1458	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence Caption: Relating to transporting certain copper; providing a penalty.
HB 1477	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to permitting the regulation of motorcycles and motor driven cycles on private property by an incorporated city or town; relating to prosecution for violation of local ordinance which regulates motorcycles or motor driven cycles on private property.
HB 1491	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to jurisdiction for actions for forcible entry and detainer.
HB 1546	Last Action: Reported from subcommittee with substitute Caption: Relating to the regulation of sexual conduct and sexual contact during a massage performed for a fee; providing penalties.
HB 1547	Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to the issuance of certificates of indebtedness by certain counties for certain purposes.
HB 1709	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs Caption: Relating to the establishment, jurisdiction, and operation of municipal courts of record for the purpose of hearing non-traffic cases in any city with a population of more than 800,000 as determined by the last preceding federal census and providing for municipal judges and other personnel of the courts; prescribing the appeals from municipal courts of record; providing an effective date.
HB 1759	Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Relating to rates made, demanded, or received by telephone companies as defined in this Act.
HB 1760	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments Caption: Relating to the weekly compensation benefits paid to injured employees or their beneficiaries under the workmen's compensation law; providing an effective date.
HB 1761	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to eliminating the 401 week limitation on certain workmen's compensation benefits.
HB 1762	Last Action: Considered by committee in public hearing Caption: Relating to the interest rate on certain workmen's compensation benefits.
HB 1966	Last Action: Referred to Committee on State Affairs Caption: Relating to the licensing of beauty culture schools by the Texas Cosmetology Commission.
HB 2225	Last Action: Reported from committee favorably without amendments Caption: Relating to permitting any magistrate to grant an order of protective custody for a proposed mental patient in counties with a population in excess of 1,200,000.
HCR 95	Last Action: Referred to Committee on Transportation Caption: Relating to directing the Department of Public Safety to continue enforcing the 55 mile-per-hour speed limit.