Legislation authored by Walt Parker
Includes legislation with Walt Parker as the primary author for the 61st through 65th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
65th Regular Session | |
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HB 30 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the authority of North Texas State University and Texas Woman's University to exercise the power of eminent domain. |
HB 202 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to the authority of the chairman and the director of the Texas Aeronautics Commission. |
HB 423 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Appropriations Caption: Relating to limitations on authority to transfer appropriated funds between assistance programs by the State Department of Public Welfare. |
HB 819 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Human Resources Caption: Authorizing the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to charge for services rendered in connection with genetic counseling; providing for the retention and utilization of such charges; amending the Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act. |
HB 1299 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Making supplemental appropriations to North Texas State University and Texas Woman's University. |
HB 1469 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Relating to supplemental appropriations to Texas Woman's University, The University of Texas System, the University of Houston, and Texas Tech University. |
HB 1550 |
Last Action: Effective in 90 days Caption: Relating to refunding certain bonds and other obligations of cities, towns, and villages. |
HB 1706 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: Making supplemental appropriations to certain universities for utility costs; and declaring an emergency. |
HB 2061 |
Last Action: House refused to concur in Senate amendments Caption: Relating to persons exempted from licensing as life insurance counselors. |
HR 73 | Caption: Relating to requesting a study on the feasibility of terminating mandatory dormitory residency for certain students of state institutions of higher education. |
HR 118 | Caption: Suspending House Rule XXII, Sections 8 and 9, relating to certain matters which may be contained in the conference committee report on HB 510. |
64th Regular Session | |
HB 1165 |
Last Action: Referred to subcommittee Caption: An act relating to social work as a separate and independent profession establishing standards and qualifications for certified social workers, social workers and social work associates; defining terms; establishing a Texas Social Workers' Board and providing for its organization and administration; providing for the licensing and regulation of licensees of the Texas Social Workers' Board; providing certain exemptions; providing severability; providing a repealing clause. |
HB 1861 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Appropriating supplemental sums of money for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1975, to pay the additional cost of purchased utilities (nontransferable) at certain public institutions of higher education and Texas State Technical Institute. |
HB 2210 |
Last Action: Effective immediately Caption: Changing the name of the Lake Dallas Municipal Utility Authority to the Lake Cities Municipal Utility Authority. |
HR 42 | Caption: Congratulating Shirley Cothran and inviting her to address the House of Representatives. |
63rd Regular Session | |
HB 931 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Relating to the authority of the governing board of an institution of higher learning to grant a faculty member a faculty development leave. |
HB 1061 |
Last Action: Signed by the Governor Caption: Relating to compensation to certain counties in which either the county attorney or criminal district attorney performs the duties of a district attorney in addition to the duties of a county attorney or criminal district attorney. |
HB 1137 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of bailiffs for certain District Courts. |
HB 1147 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Appropriations Caption: Relating to pledge of tuition to payment of bonds for institutions of higher education. |
HB 1170 |
Last Action: Committee hearing date Caption: Providing a method and nomenclature whereby particular district courts to be designated in said Act shall have conferred upon them or be specially vested with all or only a specified part of the original and appellate civil and criminal jurisdiction of county courts and county courts at law and the presiding judges thereof shall exercise such jurisdiction in cases pending in such district courts in the same manner as that provided for causes in district courts generally--except, however, that causes over which county courts or county courts at law would otherwise have exclusive original or appellate jurisdiction or jurisdiction concurrent with that of district courts under the constitution and the general laws of this state shall be tried unless a jury is waived, before petit juries having only six members to be selected and empaneled and to return their verdicts as in county courts and except that in such causes writs or error and certiorari may be had and appeals taken to and from such district courts only as provide for county courts; providing similarly a method and nomenclature whereby amendment of the jurisdiction of the county court of a named county but not of a county court at law may be diminished in whole or in part when by such amendment a district court has had vested in it such county all or only some specified part of the jurisdiction of county courts and county courts at law; and providing similarly a method and nomenclature whereby such a district court may be directed by amendment to exercise such jurisdiction concurrently with the county court or a county court at law of such county county by having the judges of the district court and of the county court or county courts at law transfer cases between their courts, exchange benches, and otherwise arrange for an efficient conduct of the judicial business of such courts in the same way as provided or permitted for judges of district courts; and then creating the 211th Judicial District, composed of the County of Dention, to provide for such creation and to provide, further, that in accordance with the general methods and nomenclature prescribed in the preceding amendment the 211th District Court also has the jurisdiction of county courts and county courts at law and shall exercise such jurisdiction concurrently with the County Court of Denton County and the County Court at Law of Denton County; providing for severability; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict. |
HB 1333 |
Last Action: Committee hearing date Caption: Relating to the audit of certain districts. |
HB 1672 |
Last Action: Referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs Caption: Providing that any city, whether general law or home rule charter, may contract with a district created pursuant to Article XVI, Section 59 of the Texas Constitution, for the collection and disposal of solid waste, providing that cities may pledge to the payment of such contracts sanitary service fees and other revenue of the city, to pay such contracts, providing that cities may adjust such sanitary service fees in order that such fees together with other revenues, if any, of the city are sufficient to meet the contractual obligations, that may include operation and maintenance expenses, and debt service of the district's revenue bonds issued for solid waste improvements, providing a severability clause, and declaring an emergency. |
HCR 225 |
Last Action: Filed without Governor's signature Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to permit both houses to take up House Bill No. 1061. |
HR 140 | Caption: Requesting House Appropriations Committee to make a study concerning grants to medical students. |
62nd Regular Session | |
HB 214 | Caption: Relating to the student union fee at North Texas State University. |
HB 306 | Caption: Relating to validating special elelctions held, prior to January 1, 1971, changing the form of government in cities and towns operating under the general laws, and which special elections were held on the same day as primary election day as designated in the Election Code of the State of Texas, as amended. |
HB 1752 | Caption: Relating to the salaries of the official shorthand reporters for the 16th and 158th Judicial Districts. |
HB 1754 | Caption: Relating to the allowance for traveling expenses and automobile depreciation for county judges and county commissioners in certain counties. |
HB 1850 | Caption: Relating to compensation of certain county and district officials in certain counties. |
HR 33 | Caption: Congratulating Phyllis George, Miss America of 1970. |
HR 561 | Caption: Creating an interim committee to study classroom hours taught by full-time professors and instructors at state colleges and universities. |
62nd 4th Called Session | |
HCR 33 | Caption: Granting permission to L. L. and Betty Jo Haney to sue the state. |
61st Regular Session | |
HB 418 | Caption: Relating to the Lake Dallas Municipal Utility Authority, providing a method for the addition of lands to the area of the Authority. |
HB 645 | Caption: Relating to creating Collin-Denton County Water and Sanitation District. |
HB 646 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Denton County Hospital District over all of Denton County, Texas. |
HB 647 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment by the Judge of the 16th Judicial District of Texas of an official shorthand reporter. |
HB 648 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Judicial District for Denton County, Texas, to be known as the 199th Judicial District of Texas. |
HB 649 | Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Denton County, Texas; providing for its jurisdiction, terms, personnel, administration, and practice. |
HB 650 | Caption: Relating to the compensation of assistant county attorneys in certain counties. |
HB 1340 | Caption: Relating to the annual salaries of assistants to the county school superintendent in certain counties. |
HCR 28 | Caption: Granting Linda McAlpine and her father M.B. McAlpine permission to sue the State of Texas. |
HR 271 | Caption: Congratulating Cathryn Louise Muirhead of Denton, Texas on being selected "1969 Maid of Cotton". |
HR 293 | Caption: In memory of Faye Pannell, former Dean of the College of Nursing of Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas. |
61st 1st Called Session | |
HB 67 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Judicial District for Denton County, Texas, to be known as the 158th Judicial District of Texas. |
HR 97 | Caption: In memory of Ben C. Ivey, Sr., of Denton, Texas. |
61st 2nd Called Session | |
HB 36 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Judicial District for Denton County, Texas, to be known as the 158th Judicial District of Texas; providing for the appointment by the governor of a judge to act as judge of said court; providing coextensive jurisdiction with the 16th Judicial District Court in and for Denton county, Texas; providing for the appointment of a court reporter; prescribing terms of court. |