02/20/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 88th Legislature: legislation providing lasting property-tax relief for Texas taxpayers; legislation prohibiting governments from imposing COVID-19 mask mandates, COVID-19 vaccine mandates, or COVID-19 business or school closures; legislation promoting education freedom and parental rights; legislation relating to school safety; legislation reforming the bail system in Texas to end revolving-door bail practices that put dangerous criminals back on the streets; legislation relating to securing our southern border; legislation addressing the fentanyl crisis
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: Fight the fentanyl crisis
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: Secure the border
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: End revolving door bail
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: School safety
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: Education freedom
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: End COVID restrictions forever
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2023 (88th R.S.) |
88th R.S. |
Emergency item: Cut property taxes
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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03/09/2021 (87th R.S.) |
87th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 87th Legislature: legislation relating to the correction of any billing errors by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), including any inaccurate excessive charges and any issues regarding ancillary
service prices
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/24/2021 (87th R.S.) |
87th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 87th Legislature: legislation reforming the structure of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to safeguard the Texas electric grid against future blackouts during extreme temperatures; legislation requiring, and providing a method of funding for, increased winterization of the Texas electric grid; legislation relating to expanding broadband initiatives or lowering barriers to expediting broadband deployment; legislation reforming the bail system in Texas by mandating consideration of a uniform risk assessment tool and peace-officer safety when setting bail, and by increasing the qualifications of magistrates setting bail in the most serious offenses; legislation defunding or otherwise penalizing political subdivisions that defund their police; legislation strengthening the integrity of elections in Texas; legislation relating to civil liability protections for health care providers, businesses, and individuals that have operated safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/18/2021 (87th R.S.) |
87th R.S. |
Governor Abbott declares power system winterization, related funding as emergency items, provides update on winter weather response
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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02/16/2021 (87th R.S.) |
87th R.S. |
Governor Abbott declares ERCOT [Electric Reliability Council of Texas] reform an emergency item
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Greg Abbott |
Press release
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03/07/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation relating to making supplemental appropriations and giving direction including direction regarding reimbursement, and adjustment authority regarding appropriations
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/05/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation relating to safety in elementary and secondary schools and in public junior colleges
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/05/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation relating to emergency preparedness, response, and recovery
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/05/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation relating to creation of the Texas Mental Health Care Consortium
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/05/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation relating to reform of the property tax system by requiring voter approval to exceed a 2.5% rollback rate, by improving accountability in the selection of a chief appraiser, and by increasing transparency
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/05/2019 (86th R.S.) |
86th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 86th Legislature: legislation or resolutions relating to comprehensive school finance reform as recommended by the Texas Commission on School Finance, and increased teacher pay
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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05/21/2017 (85th R.S.) |
85th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 85th Legislature: Senate Bill 5 from the 85th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, relating to requiring a voter to present proof of identification
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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01/31/2017 (85th R.S.) |
85th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 85th Legislature: legislation or resolutions relating to a Convention of States under Article V of the federal constitution
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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01/31/2017 (85th R.S.) |
85th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 85th Legislature: legislation relating to child protective services or foster care
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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01/31/2017 (85th R.S.) |
85th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 85th Legislature: legislation relating to ethics reform
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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01/31/2017 (85th R.S.) |
85th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 85th Legislature: legislation relating to state or local government cooperation with federal immigration law or federal immigration officials
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/19/2015 (84th R.S.) |
84th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 84th Legislature: legislation relating to ethics
|
Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/19/2015 (84th R.S.) |
84th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 84th Legislature: legislation relating to transportation
|
Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/19/2015 (84th R.S.) |
84th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 84th Legislature: legislation relating to border security, including funding for operations
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/19/2015 (84th R.S.) |
84th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 84th Legislature: legislation relating to funding higher education
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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02/19/2015 (84th R.S.) |
84th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 84th Legislature: legislation relating to early childhood education
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Greg Abbott |
Legislative message
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05/05/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation relating to the reform of civil remedies and procedures in the State of Texas
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/21/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation that requires a sonogram before a woman elects to have an abortion so that she may be fully medically informed
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/20/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation that will provide for a federal balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/20/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation that requires a voter to present proof of identification when voting
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/11/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation to abolish sanctuary cities in Texas
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/11/2011 (82nd R.S.) |
82nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 82nd Legislature: legislation to protect private property rights and address eminent domain issues
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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03/23/2009 (81st R.S.) |
81st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 81st Legislature: legislation associated with wildfire damage and recovery
|
Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/03/2009 (81st R.S.) |
81st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 81st Legislature, legislation: making appropriations and assisting in costs and recovery from 2008 hurricanes, reforming Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; funding Catastrophe Reserve Trust Fund; reforming and improving state schools and centers operated by Dept. of Aging and Disability Services; and providing appropriations to Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice for contraband and personnel screening technology, video surveillance, and comprehensive security for correctional facilities
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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03/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the prosecution of certain crimes occurring in the Texas Youth Commission
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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03/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the establishment of an office of inspector general at the Texas Youth Commission
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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03/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the power of the attorney general to have concurrent jurisdiction with the local county or district attorney for the prosecution of offenses involving the Texas Youth Commission
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation making appropriations to the Texas Education Agency for the purpose of school district property tax rate reductions
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the allocation and use of the sporting goods sales tax revenue to fund state and local parks
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the prosecution, punishment, and supervision of certain sex offenders and to certain crimes involving sex offenders
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to appropriations for the 2008-2009 biennium
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/05/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 80th Legislature: legislation relating to the management of the water resources of the state, including the protection of instream flows and freshwater inflows
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/12/2007 (80th R.S.) |
80th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 80th Legislature: legislation authorizing reduction of ad valorem taxes and return of state funds to the public
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/14/2005 (79th R.S.) |
79th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 79th Legislature: legislation that provides for comprehensive reform of the public education system by creating incentives to improve student performance and teacher compensation, by affirming greater accountability and transparency in school budgeting, and by supporting these goals with a finance system that encourage and stimulates a healthy job creation climate
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/14/2005 (79th R.S.) |
79th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 79th Legislature: legislation that provides for comprehensive reform and additional funding for Child Protective Services and Adult Protective Services
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/23/2003 (78th R.S.) |
78th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 78th Legislature, legislation relating to homeowners and automobile insurance: effective and efficient rate regulatory system; exclusive power to Texas Department of Insurance and Commissioner to order rate reductions when rates are unfair or excessive; credit scoring; policy forms; water damage claim response, settlement, and water damage repairs; Commissioner flexibility to require and approve withdrawal plans; and Commissioner authority to require all insurance companies to supply documentation to evaluate past and estimated future rates
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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01/23/2003 (78th R.S.) |
78th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 78th Legislature, legislation relating to medical malpractice reform: tort reform for the health care profession including but not limited to capping non-economic losses to plaintiffs at $250,000 and limiting plaintiffs' attorney fees; special courts or judges to hear medical malpractice claims; Board of Medical Examiners' ability to police medical profession; medical errors; tort immunity to health care providers who treat low-income patients; temporary, emergency liability coverage for doctors denied coverage solely for economic reasons; and expanding Texas Department of Insurance and Commissioner's exclusive ability to review insurance companies' rates and ensure medical malpractice premiums are commensurate with losses
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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04/03/2001 (77th R.S.) |
77th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 77th Legislature: HB 1333, committee substitute, as printed and distributed in the House of Representatives on March 29, 2001 (emergency appropriations)
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/08/2001 (77th R.S.) |
77th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 77th Legislature: the subject as contained in SB 3, relating to the preservation of evidence containing DNA and post-conviction DNA testing
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Rick Perry |
Legislative message
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02/02/1999 (76th R.S.) |
76th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 76th Legislature: temporary exemption from the severance tax for oil and gas produced from wells under certain market conditions (HB 989, HB 1164, and SB 290)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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02/02/1999 (76th R.S.) |
76th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 76th Legislature, appropriations to: Texas Education Agency for additional teacher training in instruction of reading; Texas Forest Service, for forest fire suppression and costs associated with natural disasters; Texas School for the Deaf and Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired for increased teacher salary expenses; State Office of Risk Management for workers' compensation benefits; and Texas Department of Agriculture for eradication of cotton pests (SB 472, SB 448 on boll weevil eradication)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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04/21/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 75th Legislature: appropriations of federal funds from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families block grant to Dept. of Protective and Regulatory Services; appropriations to Texas Youth Commission for costs from maintaining "Six-Month Minimum Length of Stay Rate"; Texas Water Development Board and Edwards Aquifer Authority for EAA initial operating costs; Dept. of Information Resources for making state's information resource system compatible with year 2000; Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission for regional precipitation enhancement; and Texas Dept. of Transportation for funding payments under loan agreement for repayment to general revenue (SB 886, SB 1898)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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04/21/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 75th Legislature, appropriations to: Texas Dept. of Human Resources for automation system to administer federal funds; Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for Pre-freshman Engineering; Texas Dept. of Criminal Justice for settlement in Lucia, Inc. v. Manhattan Construction Co. v. State of Texas; Texas Southern University for funding existing financial obligations; Texas A&M University at Galveston, for severe shoreline erosion; and Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission for making payment to MARTA Technologies for motor vehicle inspection/maintenance contract (SB 1898)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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03/04/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 75th Legislature: appropriations of funds from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families federal block grant to Texas Workforce Commission for Job Opportunity and Basic Skils (JOBS) program, and to Employee Retirement System and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts for payment of related employee benefit costs; appropriation of funds from the general revenue fund to Attorney General for paymrnet of workers' compensation benefits, resolving a cash-flow shortfall, and reimbursement to general revenue fund; and authorizing the Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board to pay salaries of employees (SB 886, SB 1898)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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01/16/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 75th Legislature: purported judgments and other documents from purported courts which have not been expressly established under the Constitution or the laws of this State (HB 1185, SB 125, and SB 424)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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01/15/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 75th Legislature: criminal offense known as "stalking" (SB 97)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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01/15/1997 (75th R.S.) |
75th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 75th Legislature: eligibility for release on mandatory supervision of certain inmates of the institutional division of the Department of Criminal Justice (HB 201, SB 250)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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03/20/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: compensation of the commissioner of education and the payment of certain expenses (SB 1508)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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03/09/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: legislation necessary to make emergency appropriations from the waste tire recycling fund to the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1995 (HB 2761, SB 776)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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03/09/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: legislation necessary to distribute certain state funds appropriated for education and certain statewide retirement systems (SB 8)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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03/01/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: legislation necessary for the use of the balance of the inaugural fund (HB 735)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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02/28/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: legislation necessary to make emergency appropriations of bond proceeds to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (HB 520, SB 4)
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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01/20/1995 (74th R.S.) |
74th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 74th Legislature: legislation related to reform of the state's civil justice system in the areas of punitive damages, deceptive trade practices and consumer protection, joint and several liability, medical malpractice, venue, sanctions against frivolous lawsuits, expert testimony, directions to the Supreme Court to streamline and expedite the process of litigation, judicial fundraising, governmental liability, and contingency fees
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George W. Bush |
Legislative proclamation
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05/05/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to an increase in the amounts of constitutionally dedicated funds for certain institutions of higher education
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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04/02/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Judicial Council, Office of Court Administration
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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03/21/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to an emergency appropriation to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for the use of the Center for the Enhancement of the Biology/Biomaterials Interface
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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03/18/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Forest Service
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/23/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Air Control Board
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/12/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to the criminal responsibility of a person for failure to perform an act that the person has a duty to perform
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/08/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to the validation of governmental acts and proceedings by municipalities
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/04/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to the establishment, operation, and funding of an employment training program, setting unemployment tax rates, and imposing an assessment for employment training purposes
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/14/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to methods and procedures for the eradication of boll weevils in cotton
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/14/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: constitutional amendments and/or legislation related to the establishment of a suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/14/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to state and local corrections facilities and the funding and management of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Administration
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/14/1993 (73rd R.S.) |
73rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 73rd Legislature: legislation related to the appropriation of state money for the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of state government and for state aid to local governments
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/27/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation relating to the expansion of the board of directors of the Texas High-Speed Rail Authority from 9 to 11 members
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/22/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation relating to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for regulatory services relating to the Africanized bee
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/20/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation relating to the term of office and date of election of the commissioners of the Port Arthur Navigation District
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/18/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: constitutional amendments and/or legislation related to the creation of an equitable system of public school finance
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/06/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation related to the creation of emergency service districts in certain counties
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/01/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 72nd Legislature: legislation related to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Department of Human Services, and granting the authority to transfer funds within the agency's appropriations
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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02/01/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 72nd Legislature: legislation to allow the attorney general to provide medical and indemnity payments under the state Workers' Compensation Fund; and to provide an emergency appropriation to the office of the attorney general
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/31/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation related to issuance of additional bonds by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Council
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/29/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation related to the salary paid the county attorney of Fayette County
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/25/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 72nd Legislature: legislation to allow college students called to active military service certain higher education considerations including but not limited to tuition refund or taking incomplete grades in their coursework until they return from active duty (designated as HB 303 in House Journal)
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative proclamation
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01/18/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 72nd Legislature: ethics legislation and election reform; and constitutional amendment and legislation establishing a state lottery
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Ann W. Richards |
Legislative message
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01/10/1991 (72nd R.S.) |
72nd R.S. |
Richards to call for emergency legislation (emergency matters: lottery and ethics)
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Ann W. Richards |
Other
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04/24/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation of $7,500 for operating expenses incurred by the State Pension Review Board
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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04/21/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to the State Employee Incentive Commission
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/28/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to Office of Attorney General of $265,000 for defense of LULAC Council No. 4434 v. Mattox and Rangel v. Mattox lawsuits
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/27/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriations not to exceed $165,510 for repairs relating to transformer PCB leakage at Tarleton State University
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/27/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation of $84,889 to Texas Board of Dental Examiners to improve enforcement of Dental Practices Act
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/14/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: HB 1279, relating to balancing of the state budget
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/08/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in the amount of $100,000 to conduct research on Africanized Bees
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William P. Clements |
Legislative message
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03/07/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: $75 million appropriation to Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation for complying with RAJ and Lelsz court orders and for replacing funds transferred to the department through budget execution
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William P. Clements |
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02/28/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to the Structural Pest Control Board up to $76,000 for transfer of lawn and ornamental pest control licensing duties from the Department of Agriculture
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William P. Clements |
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02/24/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to the Department of Agriculture of $60,000 for statistics regarding the production of agricultural commodities by county
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William P. Clements |
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02/24/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriations to the Waco Campus of the Texas State Technical Institute for repairs from fire
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William P. Clements |
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02/13/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation for the Pecos River Compact Commission for costs associated with the lawsuit Texas v. New Mexico
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William P. Clements |
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02/09/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriations for the Public Integrity Unit of the District Attorney's Office for the 53rd Judicial District, Travis County for state motor fuel tax investigations and prosecutions
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William P. Clements |
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01/31/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriations for operating expenses of the National Research Laboratory Commission in fiscal 1989
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William P. Clements |
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01/27/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: legislation relating to broadening the scope and powers of the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission
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William P. Clements |
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01/25/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriations for junior colleges to fund group insurance premiums and to reappropriate any remaining funds which were transmitted to the Northeast Community College District and the Alamo Community College District for the 1986-87 biennium
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William P. Clements |
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01/25/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating emergency matters for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to redeem bonds issued to finance improvements at the Sematech research and development facility; appropriation of $10 million to develop necessary water transportation and related infrastructure improvement at Point Comfort, Calhoun County, Texas
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William P. Clements |
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01/25/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: appropriation to the State Preservation Board of $7.4 million to provide architectural and engineering fees for the restoration of the State Capitol and the General Land Office Building
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William P. Clements |
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01/16/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: legislation relating to sales and use tax on machinery and equipment
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William P. Clements |
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01/16/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: legislation relating to a Goods-in-Transit tax exemption
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William P. Clements |
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01/12/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: legislation relating to authorization of general obligation bonds for acquiring, constructing, or equipping new prison facilities
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William P. Clements |
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01/11/1989 (71st R.S.) |
71st R.S. |
Designating an emergency matter for the 71st Legislature: legislation relating to workers' compensation reform
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William P. Clements |
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03/30/1987 (70th R.S.) |
70th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 70th Legislature: legislation amending Section 112.058 of the Tax Code and relating to the handling, records and disposition of protest payments of taxes imposed in certain insurance business
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William P. Clements |
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02/17/1987 (70th R.S.) |
70th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 70th Legislature: legislation to transfer up to $32.4 million from Highway Fund No. 6 in the following amounts to the following funds: $20.4 million to a special fund for approved expenditures for court-ordered Ruiz compliance (prison reform); and up to $12 million to the Attorney General's office for payment of workers compensation claims
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William P. Clements |
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02/04/1987 (70th R.S.) |
70th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 70th Legislature: SB 215, relating to inmate population in the Texas Department of Corrections, good conduct time, and mandatory supervision
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William P. Clements |
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01/19/1987 (70th R.S.) |
70th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 70th Legislature: SB 25, relating to eligibility for release on parole; SB 24, relating to hazing at or in an educational institution; SB 26, relating to notification regarding an order of parole; and SB 92, relating to establishment of industrial solid and hazardous waste materials exchange
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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01/16/1987 (70th R.S.) |
70th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 70th Legislature: authorizing and making transfers and adjustments in appropriations to expand prison capacity, modernize prison facilities, ensure the constitutional operation of the Texas Department of Corrections, and increase the availability of halfway house beds provided by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles for certain nonviolent inmates eligible for release
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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05/21/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 69th Legislature: SB 1478, authorizing and making a supplemental appropriation to Texas Real Estate Commission relative to implementation of the Texas Time Share Act; SB 1464, supplemental appropriations to Texas Board of Chiropractic Examiners; and HB 2414/SB 568, adding Texas State Technical Institute to those institutions eligible to benefit from existing contingency appropriations to the Coordinating Board for purchased utilities
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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05/14/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 69th Legislature, legislation relating to supplemental appropriations: HB 2510/SB 1452, Disaster Contingency Fund for disasters and emergencies; HB 952/SB 1461, Office of Attorney General for 1985 employees' workers' compensation claims; HB 2507/SB 1460, Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation for 1985 utilities; HB 2508/SB 1454, National Guard Armory Board for 1985 utilities; and HB 2500/SB 1423, State Board of Public Accountancy for expanded law enforcement and accounting capacity
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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04/22/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 69th Legislature: HB 1449, relating to a supplemental appropriation to the Texas Department of Corrections for security salaries
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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03/18/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 69th Legislature: HB 955, relating to the allocation and dedication of certain revenue to areas impacted by significant new national defense facilities
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/12/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 69th Legislature: SB 340, relating to a supplemental appropriation to the Board of Nurse Examiners
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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01/31/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 69th Legislature: HB 442 and companion bill SB 306, relating to reports required from entities to which the Legislature appropriates money
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
Legislative proclamation
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01/21/1985 (69th R.S.) |
69th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 69th Legislature: HB 2/SB 138, relating to conservation, development, and protection and enhancement of the quality of, and flood and subsidence control for, surface and underground water and bays and estuaries and providing various financing mechanisms . . .; and HJR 6/SJR 7, authorizing $600 million Texas Water Development Bonds for water conservation, water development, water quality . . .
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
Legislative proclamation
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03/29/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 68th Legislature: SB 729, relating to the regulatory and enforcement procedures and authority of the Railroad Commission of Texas
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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03/15/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: HB 761/SB 670, supplemental appropriations to Texas A&M University and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to replace property destroyed by fire; SB 445, supplemental appropriation and transfer of funds to Office of Attorney General; and HB 1130, supplemental appropriations to pay the additional cost of purchased utilities at certain institutions of higher education
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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03/09/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: Texas public education compensation plan (teacher shortage/teacher salaries); equalization formula in Texas Education Code (school finance, additional funding for our state's low wealth/low tax base school districts); and amendments to the Public Utility Regulation Act to correct inequities of utility regulation
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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03/03/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: SB 27, relating to public school textbooks; SB 469, supplemental appropriation for expenses of the Judiciary; SB 589, appropriation to State Purchasing and General Services Commission required to complete construction of the William B. Travis State Office Building; and SB 341, directing and authorizing the Board of Regents, Texas State University System, to replace and repair fire-damaged structures and sites at Sam Houston State University and appropriating funds for such projects
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/17/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: SB 345/HB 633, appropriation to Texas Tech University for snowstorm damage to livestock pavilion; SB 442, supplemental appropriation to the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy; SB 121, creation of a judicial district composed of the counties of Washington, Lee, Bastrop, and Burleson, and salary and expenses of the judge of the court; SB 466, appropriation to Texas Board of Architectural Examiners to pay increased cost of puchasing examinations; SB 467, appropriation to Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation to pay utility costs; and HB 778, appropriation to Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for research concerning the rice borer
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/14/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: legislation extending the discount period for property tax payers in certain circumstances and legislation allowing counties to borrow money under certain conditions; HB 691, relating to the enforcement of certain vehicle weight limitations; and SB 307/HB 156, relating to conveyance of certain state-owned real property in Fort Bend County
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/08/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 68th Legislature: amendment of the state constitution to provide permanent support for higher education and restructuring of the permanent university fund, including specifically, SJR 4 and HJR 19
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/07/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 68th Legislature: SB 373, relating to supplemental appropriations to the Senate and State Purchasing and General Services Commission required by fire damage to the Capitol
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/07/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: SB 186/HB372, supplemental appropriations to the treasury department to run in a business-like and efficient manner; SB 281, supplemental appropriation to Board of Pardons and Paroles for relocating to different office space; and SB 282, supplemental appropriation to General Land Office to eliminate large existing backlog and delays in Veterans Land Program and also improve cost effectiveness of management of state lands
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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02/02/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 68th Legislature: appropriation of money for the support of state government, increasing minimum salaries for public school teachers and personnel; and SB 213, amending Art. 5547-66, Mental Health Code, relating to notice and probable cause hearings in connection with orders of protective custody
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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01/26/1983 (68th R.S.) |
68th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 68th Legislature: SB 183, relating to certain permits and leases for public school, university and asylum land
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Mark W. White, Jr. |
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06/01/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 67th Legislature: SB 1260, relating to creation, jurisdiction, administration, and procedures of County Court at Law No. 5 of El Paso County
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William P. Clements |
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05/30/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: SB 148, relating to access to public and personal information; SB 626, relating to certification of court reporters and regulation of shorthand for use in litigation; and SB 1228, relating to notice of proposed utility rate changes
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William P. Clements |
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05/30/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: SB 1236, relating to definition of "mortgagor" and "economically depressed or blighted area" in the Texas Housing Finance Corporations Act; SB 1170, relating to authorizing the recovery of certain types of damages in wrongful death actions; and SB 769, relating to the registration and regulation of architects
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William P. Clements |
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05/30/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: SB 1259, Clear Creek Watershed Drainage District; SB 438, masters in the district courts of Dallas County; SB 759, counties of 1,200,200 inhabitants or more to establish alternate system for resolving disputes; SB 1216, municipal courts of record in city of Dallas; SB 1272, Texas Department of Corrections payments to certain survivors of employees; SB 255, birth and death certificates; and SB 142, promotion or graduation requirements in public schools
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William P. Clements |
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05/11/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 67th Legislature: legislation which gives the State Board of Insurance specific authority to adopt rules that establish loss ratio benchmarks and presumptive premium rates . . .
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William P. Clements |
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04/10/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: appropriation for three new district attorneys created by the 67th Legislature; emergency appropriation to enforce occupational safety laws in public and private grain elevators; and SB 322, emergency increase in benefits to retired teachers
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William P. Clements |
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03/30/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 67th Legislature: HB 1884, extraordinary and unusual expenses suffered by Texas Southern University
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William P. Clements |
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03/23/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 67th Legislature: emergency appropriation of $6 million to the Disaster Contingency Fund
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William P. Clements |
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03/11/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: SB 74, moving election date for the Board of Directors of the Wilson County Hospital District from May to April; SB 860, correcting boundaries of Conservation and Reclamation District Number 3 in Brazoria County
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William P. Clements |
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03/04/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: SB 264, right-to-work; HB 1209, appropriation to the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service; and SB 17/HB 715, student loans guaranteed by the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation
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William P. Clements |
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02/19/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: Clear Lake City deannexation from Houston; Comptroller direct deposit of state employee checks; reasons for state agency proposed rules; Victims of Crime Fund; emergency appropriation to Texas Department of Corrections to eliminate overcrowding; easement to Department of Corrections for electrical substation and line; pesticides; school districts' bonded indebtedness for natural disaster; emergency appropriation for desegregation of higher education plan; and making murder of a child a capital offense
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William P. Clements |
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02/18/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 67th Legislature: SB 511/HB 1136, changes in products liability suits
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William P. Clements |
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02/11/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: State Board of Education fees for issuance of teaching certificates; raising the age to 19 to drink legally; allow the Department of Corrections to sell some of their properties containing lignite, and some other minerals other than oil and gas; enabling legislation creating Courts of Appeal; local government bonds; Crippled Children's Service Program; repair of damaged state owned buildings; Texas Health Facilities Commission; new courts; school finance; nepotism; and disaster emergency statutes
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William P. Clements |
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01/30/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: state inheritance tax law; appropriations to repair damage at Sul Ross State University and Texas Tech University; group insurance program for Texas Public School Employees; transfer the Nimitz Museum to the Parks and Wildlife Department; creation of additional district courts in certain fast-growth areas; supplemental appropriation to pay for purchased utilities at institutions of higher education; Employment Compensation Act
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William P. Clements |
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01/26/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: emergency appropriations to the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners and Texas Real Estate Commission; local referendum on franchise awarded by a city; appropriations bill; distribution of Board of County and District Road Indebtedness funds; franchise tax; conduct of public servants; boundaries of Franklin Mountains State Park; and name change for Special Events Center at University of Texas at Austin
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William P. Clements |
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01/26/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: public education; anti-crime package; war on drugs; anti-pornography; initiative and referendum; management; higher education; elections; other items
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William P. Clements |
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01/16/1981 (67th R.S.) |
67th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 67th Legislature: pay raise of state employees; increase in benefits for retired state employees; increase in benefits for retired teachers; legislation to allow an election for Board of Trustees for the Dallas Independent School District; bill to allow transfer of funds for supplemental residential services for mentally retarded from Rusk to other locations; and emergency appropriation for the Committee on Aging
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William P. Clements |
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05/26/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: SB 830, relating to a demonstration project for the medical assistance to certain medically needy persons; SB 588, relating to fees allowed to sheriffs and constables; and SB 502, relating to establishment of a licensing procedure for food, drug and cosmetic salvage brokers and establishments
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William P. Clements |
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05/26/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: SB 245, relating to the sale or exchange of certain property by the Texas Board of Corrections; and SB 1251, relating to the authority of the Governor to transfer certain programs to other agencies
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William P. Clements |
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05/26/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: SB 1317, relating to ceremonies and events for the inauguration of the governor and lieutenant governor; and HB 1249, relating to abolition of the State Board of Examiners in Basic Sciences
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William P. Clements |
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05/24/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 66th Legislature: appropriation to specified institutions of higher education to pay the additional costs of purchased utilities (nontransferable), as contained in SB 563
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William P. Clements |
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05/04/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 66th Legislature: emergency appropriation not to exceed $200,000 to the Parks and Wildlife Department for repair of damage caused by flood to the Texas State Railroad
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William P. Clements |
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05/02/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 66th Legislature: emergency appropriation of $6,126,000 to the Disaster Contingency Fund
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William P. Clements |
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04/26/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 66th Legislature: emergency appropriation of $750,000 to the Disaster Contingency Fund, and $65,000 from General Revenue Fund to the office of the governor for payment in emergencies to National Guard Troops
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William P. Clements |
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04/09/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: authority of the Governor to transfer programs of certain offices and agencies to other agencies; Governor's authority to designate the chairmen of state boards and commissions; emergency appropriation to the Treasury Department of Texas for installation of a fire protection system; HJR 3, a proposed constitutional amendment to provide for legislative review of the process of rulemaking by agencies in the executive department, and HB 594, enabling legislation
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William P. Clements |
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03/20/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: electronic surveillance; permitting oral confessions; bail bond reform; criminal history records system; repeat offenders; drug enforcement; juvenile justice; State's Right of Appeal; evidentiary search; hazardous duty pay
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William P. Clements |
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03/08/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: emergency appropriation to the Board of Control to repair cooling tower and structural damage to the Sam Houston State Office Building; emergency appropriation to the Judiciary Section of the Comptroller's Department for payment of expenses under Article 26.005 of the Code of Criminal Procedure
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William P. Clements |
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02/19/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: budget execution; removal of appointees for stated reasons; prohibition against income tax; implementation of Tax Relief Amendment limiting spending to the Economic Growth of the State; initiative and referendum; repeal of the 10 cent property tax; bill requiring local election for tax increase; limitation of terms of Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General; bill to establish agricultural use values; bill implementing exemptions for elderly and disabled and freezing their taxes; proposed constitutional amendment to require 2/3's vote to increase taxes; back-to-basics in public education; single county appraisal system…
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William P. Clements |
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02/15/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: SB 466, providing emergency appropriation to University of Houston for fire damage; SB 547, providing supplemental appropriation to Texas Board of Architectural Examiners; SB 425, providing supplemental appropriation to Texas Real Estate Commission; SB 173, creating 272nd District Court in Brazos County; SB 151, making supplemental appropriation to State Rural Medical Education Board; and SB 589, providing supplemental appropriation to Judiciary Section, Comptrollers Department
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William P. Clements |
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01/15/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature, appropriations for: operation of the First, Fifth and Fourteenth Supreme Judicial District Courts of Civil Appeals; repair of fire damage to Sam Houston State University; operation of the Deepwater Port Authority; operation of the Texas Animal Health Commission; SB 127 by Schwartz
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Dolph Briscoe |
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01/11/1979 (66th R.S.) |
66th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 66th Legislature: appropriations for operation of Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers, Office of the Attorney General, and Railroad Commission of Texas
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Dolph Briscoe |
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05/30/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: SB 1327, relating to county school administration of Fayette County
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Dolph Briscoe |
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05/28/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 65th Legislature: SJR 50, proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution; SB 874, relating to issuing certificates of indebtedness by certain counties for the purpose of providing funds for jail facilities; SB 1208, relating to contracts between certain cities, towns, and districts, or nonprofit corporations; SB 1306, relating to the authority of certain hospital authorities to sell property to other political subdivisions; and SB 1311, relating to creation of the Kleberg County Hospital District, of Kleberg County, Texas
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Dolph Briscoe |
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05/27/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: SB 152, relating to eligibility for probation when it is shown that the defendant used or exhibited a firearm during the commission of the offense of voluntary manslaughter or during the immediate flight therefrom
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Dolph Briscoe |
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05/26/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: HB 924, relating to commitment of a child who may be mentally retarded and who is accused of engaging in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision
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Dolph Briscoe |
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05/10/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 65th Legislature, legislation providing supplemental appropriations for 1977 fiscal year to: Department of Corrections for utility costs and inmate release payments; Attorney General's Office for workmen's compensation insurance program for state employees; certain institutions of higher education for utilities; Texas Women's University, UT Health Science Center Houston, University of Houston, and Texas Tech for flood and fire damage; State Rural Medical Education Board for loans, grants, and scholarships; and Judiciary Section - Comptroller's Department for judges' travel expenses
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Dolph Briscoe |
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04/18/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 65th Legislature: school finance, Foundation School Program; insuring a school district will receive same amount per student as 1976-1977 school year; authorizing Commissioner of Education to adjust personnel allocations; increasing allocations for drivers education; providing for allocation and utilization of personnel units; providing for calculation of district's local fund assignment; providing for funding special education; providing for defense of boards of trustees, members, and/or school districts in court of law
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Dolph Briscoe |
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04/05/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: legislation relating to school finance, discussed in State of the State Message and outlined in Governor's report on November 1, 1976, pursuant to HB 1126, Section 10, 64th Legislature
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Dolph Briscoe |
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03/28/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: legislation authorizing Public Utility Commission appropriations for fiscal year ending August 31, 1977, to dispose of numerous utility rate cases
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Dolph Briscoe |
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01/31/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 65th Legislature: companion bills HB 3 and SB 50, relating to state highway funding crisis
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/26/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: omnibus district courts bill to create 23 new judicial districts and reorganize 3 existing districts
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/26/1977 (65th R.S.) |
65th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 65th Legislature: SB 331, authorizing the Railroad commission to transfer a maximum of $188,974 from their 1977 fiscal year appropriation for Oil and Gas Regulation to their appropriation for Natural Gas Utilities
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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06/02/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: HB 734, relating to child care
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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06/01/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: SB 364, reappropriating certain funds to certain institutions of higher learning; and SB 163, relating to court administration
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/31/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: SB 521, relating to the disposition of certain fees and charges collection by East Texas Chest Hospital, Harlingen State Chest Hospital, and San Antonio State Chest Hospital; SB 1005, making supplemental appropriations to the Industrial Accident Board; SB 734, implementing the Texas Community Development Act of 1975; and SB 262, relating to monopolies, trusts, and restraint of trade
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/29/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: SB 1046, providing for the effective implementation of the voting rights of all qualified citizens of the State
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/20/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: SB 635, SB 491, and SB 466, each pertaining to medical liability insurance
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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04/24/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: regulation of proprietary schools and the establishment of a refund policy
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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04/18/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: legislation providing an appropriation to make available to the Secretary of State the unexpended and unencumbered balance in the 1974 Primary Finance Fund, for the purpose of defraying a part of the expenses to be incurred by all counties at the Constitutional Amendment election ordered for April 22, 1975
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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04/03/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: regulation of the planning, development, construction and modification of certain health care facilities and services, relating to recent passage by Congress and enactment by the President of the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-641)
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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03/18/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: legislation providing a supplemental appropriation to the State Board of Education from the State Textbook Fund for paying contracted textbook obligations
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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02/27/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 64th Legislature: public school finance and reform of public school laws in Texas
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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02/06/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: legislation authorizing the commissioners court of any county to exercise urban renewal powers in unincorporated areas; legislation amending Lower Colorado River Authority Act in order that immediate construction plans can be implemented to help alleviate part of the energy crisis presently existing in the State; legislation amending Controlled Substances Act to make the Department of Public Safety responsible for issuing licenses, create a special fund to deposit fees . . .; legislation providing a supplemental appropriation of $200,000 to Texas Transportation Institute of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, for conducting a feasibility study of a rail system to link the major metropolitan areas of the State with intermediate service to rural and suburban areas between the major cities; legislation providing a supplemental appropriation of $472,000 to Comptroller of Public Accounts to meet additional costs of consumable supplies and materials, current and recurring operating expense and capital outlay
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/23/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: resolution to amend the Texas Constitution to raise the limit on amounts that can be appropriated by the Legislature to pay retirement benefits, to revise and consolidate provisions relating to state and local retirement systems and programs and allow increased retirement benefits; and legislation which would: provide immediate increases in benefits for persons retired under State Employees Retirement System and Teacher Retirement System, appropriate funds to the retirement systems to the greatest extent possible, appropriate sufficient funds from General Revenue Fund to finance the full cost of the increases in benefits contingent upon voter approval of a Constitutional Amendment, provide that such increased benefits would automatically terminate if a Constitutional Amendment, authorizing such expenditures, fail to pass at an election
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/20/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: authorization and appropriation of sufficient funds to provide an increase from $12.50 to $15.00 per month in state employees' premiums on group life, health, accidental death and dismemberment, disability income and hospital, surgical and/or medical insurance policies; and to provide an increase from 12 to 16 per mile in the reimbursement rate for employees using their motor vehicles for official travel, and an increase from $18 to 22 in per diem . . .
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/15/1975 (64th R.S.) |
64th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 64th Legislature: appropriations to school districts for emergency grants; Central Education Agency for vocational-technical programs and Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System for Texas Public Junior Colleges State-Aid; Central Education Agency for adult education programs; State Board of Control for additional costs of utilities; Texas State Technical Institute and West Texas State University for constructing and equipping instructional buildings destroyed by fire; Department of Labor and Standards for operations; Texas Schools for the Blind and Deaf for operations of the Schools; Attorney General's Office for administrative costs and payment of claims; State Board of Landscape Architects, to meet obligations; Board of Examiners of Psychologists to meet increased costs of examinations and moving expenses; an Act amending State Unemployment Compensation Law; an Act repealing Chapter 14, Texas Education Code, thereby abolishing scholastic census requirement; authorization and appropriation of sufficient funds to provide a ten percent salary increase for all State employees for remainder of current fiscal year; appropriation to State Building Commission for constructing two additional levels of parking at State Law Center
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/25/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: HB 222, providing for driver education programs as prescribed by the Texas Education Agency to be placed in the Fuondation School Program
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/25/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: HB 564, relating to authorizing the Comptroller to require payments of Limited Sales, Excise and Use Tax monthly in certain circumstances
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/25/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: Committee Substitute for SB 994, relating to protection of consumer rights in purchase of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) products; critical fuel shortage in Texas agriculture
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/23/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: SB 966, relating to financing the 1974 primary elections after United States Supreme Court decision in Bullock v. Carter (1972)
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/22/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: presumption of date of death according to a relating certificate of death issued by the armed services; Missing in Action in Vietnam
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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05/08/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: emergency funding for disadvantaged school districts and to establish machinery for developing a plan for the revision of public school finance; methods of financing the State Foundation Program; remarks to Edgewood School delegation on Texas Supreme Court decision
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Dolph Briscoe |
Speech Legislative message
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04/25/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: Texas Credit Union Act
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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04/10/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: SB 485 and companion HB 828, supplemental appropriation of $401,975.00 for fuel costs to provide utilities at Texas A&M University for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1973
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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03/19/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: appropriation to Texas State Technical Institute in Waco for repair of tornado damage
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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03/12/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 63rd Legislature: HB 391, HB 393, HB 394, and HB 1332-1342, relating to water control and improvement districts
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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02/27/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: supplemental appropriation out of Fund Number 87 to the Texas Board of Examiners in the Fitting and Dispensing of Hearing Aids for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1973
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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02/22/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: Habitual Traffic Offender Act
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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02/21/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: appropriation to Texas Southern University for repair of damage by fire to the Pharmacy Building
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/29/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: operation of the public schools of Texas on the basis of a quarter system begining with the 1975-1976 school year
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Dolph Briscoe |
Legislative message
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01/12/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: extension of the Governor's Committee on Human Relations, and supplemental appropriation to the Governor's Committee on Human Relations to provide operating expenses at the current rate for the remainder of fiscal year ending August 31, 1973
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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01/12/1973 (63rd R.S.) |
63rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 63rd Legislature: appropriation for adequate staff, office space, equipment, supplies and other necessary expenses for the Constitutional Revision Commission
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/24/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: Texas Aeronautics Commission's Airport Aid Program (federal aviation grants, HB 730)
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/24/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: highway beautification (HB 1400 and SB 749 relating to billboards and outdoor advertising, compliance with Highway Beautification Act of 1965, federal aid highway funds)
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/13/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: HB 1858, to reduce the rate of the motor fuels tax and provide for the distribution of the motor fuels tax
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/10/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 62nd Legislature: legislation amending the present filing fee statutes to allow persons who are not financially able to pay the filing fees to get on the ballot; and legislation to provide for state financing of primaries . . . ; suggesting either SB 610 or HB 1488 or legislation similar; in response to court decision in Pate v. Dies, 321 F. Supp. 1358 (1970)
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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03/10/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Special message to the Legislature on traffic safety (drunk driving/DWI, driver education, driver licensing, emergency medical services, Uniform Vehicle Code, motor vehicle inspection program, accident reporting, additional Highway Patrol personnel); submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: the removal of application of the Misdemeanor Probation Act in all offenses involving automatic suspension of the driver license on conviction
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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02/16/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: supplementation appropriation out of Architects Registration Fund to the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners for remainder of fiscal year ending August 31, 1971
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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02/03/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: a bill incorporating the House Appropriations Committee Substitute for HB 213 (supplemental appropriations to State Department of Public Welfare)
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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01/21/1971 (62nd R.S.) |
62nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 62nd Legislature: a bill creating the Higher Education Facilities Bond Program to finance construction of physical plant and facilities at the new institutions of higher education authorized by the 61st Legislature
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/05/1969 (61st R.S.) |
61st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 61st Legislature: tort claims act limited to personal injuries and death resulting from negligent operation of motor vehicles, with limits of liability not to exceed $100,000 per person and $300,000 per occurrence against all governmental units
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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01/29/1969 (61st R.S.) |
61st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 61st Legislature: a bill amending the state employees retirement act, calling for increased minimum retirement, service retirement, and death benefits
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Preston Smith |
Legislative message
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05/24/1965 (59th R.S.) |
59th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 59th Legislature: tax bill increasing cigarette tax, and change in inheritance tax law; appropriation to Texas Tourist Development Agency for constructing buildings and facilities for HemisFair 1968; noting above new revenue recommendations are sufficient to finance teacher salary increase in SB 4, the HemisFair appropriation, and the claims bill
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John B. Connally, Jr. |
Legislative message
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04/05/1965 (59th R.S.) |
59th R.S. |
Concerning Department of Defense deactivation of military installations and the James Connally Air Force Base in Waco, Texas; submitting emergency matters to the 59th Legislature: statutory authorization for the Board of Directors of Texas A&M University to accept James Connally Air Force Base on behalf of the State of Texas and operate the James Connally Technical Institute; related appropriations to Texas A&M University and Central Education Agency, subject to prior approvals of proposed budgets by the Governor after securing advice of the Legislative Budget Board
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John B. Connally, Jr. |
Legislative message
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01/28/1965 (59th R.S.) |
59th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 59th Legislature: appropriations to Animal Health Commission for screwworm eradication; State Board of Control for electric and water utility expenses; State Department of Health for mental health planning; Texas Water Commission for development of long-range, comprehensive water resources program; Texas Commission on Higher Education to finance administration of Higher Education Facilities Act; authorization for Texas Board of Corrections to sell certain property in Fort Bend, Walker, and Harris Counties and deposit proceeds in Mineral Lease Fund and appropriation to Texas Board of Corrections to purchase land in Anderson and Freestone Counties; appropriation to Lamar State College of Technology for construction of building to replace science building destroyed by fire
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John B. Connally, Jr. |
Legislative message
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05/23/1961 (57th R.S.) |
57th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 57th Legislature, relating to highway safety, traffic deaths and injuries: revising the antiquated Driver Licensing Act (HB 652); providing driver education courses in Texas high schools (HB 234); providing for chemical test in cases of driving while intoxicated (SB 134 and HB 204); providing for system of traffic courts (SB 112, SB 113, HB 16, and HB 406); increasing personnel and salaries of State Highway Patrol
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/27/1961 (57th R.S.) |
57th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 57th Legislature, to reduce General Fund spending: enforcement and reporting statute to supplement the present Texas escheat law (HB 470 and HB 760); financing Colson-Briscoe farm-to-market road program (HB 562); tuition increase of $50 per semester, with continuation of tuition scholarship program (HB 933); including Texas Education Agency budget in Minimum Foundation Program financing (HB 479); financing county school superintendents and administration from local sources and allowing any county to abolish this office (recommendation of Hale-Aikin Committee, HB 909 and SB 380); redefining scholastic as pupil in average daily attendance (Hale-Aikin, HB 304 and SB 254); changing statutory allocation of certain tax revenue from Available School Fund to Minimum Foundation Fund (HB 334); and increasing collections from families of non-indigent patients in state hospitals (HB 334)
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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03/07/1961 (57th R.S.) |
57th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 57th Legislature: construction of an additional floor on the State Insurance Building and the second State Office Building, authorized from presently appropriated funds now held by the State Building Commission
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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03/01/1961 (57th R.S.) |
57th R.S. |
Clarifying emergency matters submitted to the 57th Legislature on January 18, 1961, relating to retirement of the General Fund deficit; submitting emergency measures for deficit retirement purposes: HB 331, HB 470, HB 559, HB 334, HB 562, and HB 563
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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01/18/1961 (57th R.S.) |
57th R.S. |
State of the State, submitting emergency matters to the 57th Legislature for retiring the deficit: natural gas production tax; franchise tax; financing Colson-Briscoe farm-to-market road program through gasoline taxes; escheat law
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Speech
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06/11/1959 (56th 1st C.S.) |
56th 1st C.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 56th Legislature, 1st Called Session: adequate protection of State and public rights and uses of Gulf beaches
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/29/1959 (56th R.S.) |
56th R.S. |
Signing SB 11, 56th R.S., which provides for an increase in the weight limit of trucks operating on the highways of Texas; submitting emergency matters to the 56th Legislature: amending Article 834, Penal Code, so that the procedure and power of the State Highway Commission in regard to zoning of State Highways will be the same as farm to market roads, and increased appropriations for the License and Weight Division of the Department of Public Safety
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/29/1959 (56th R.S.) |
56th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 56th Legislature: legislation which will provide that purchase of the controlling interest in a State bank must be approved by the State Banking Commissioner; proposed bill prepared by the Banking Commissioner
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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03/10/1959 (56th R.S.) |
56th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 56th Legislature: one year increase in the corporation franchise tax (HB 238) and change of formula for interstate corporation, to retire the state deficit
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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03/05/1959 (56th R.S.) |
56th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 56th Legislature: appropriating twenty percent of penalties recovered by the Attorney General in the enforcement of anti-trust laws for the Attorney General's office
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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05/08/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: appropriations of $15,000 for hydrological investigations and $10,000 for repairing flood damage to gaging stations for the State Board of Water Engineers, relating to recent heavy rains and floods
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/30/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: appropriation of $20,000 for Martial Law and Emergency Use of Troops in Line Item 85 of the appropriations to the Adjutant General's Department, for relief and evacuation work of the National Guard in flood disaster and recent storms and tornadoes
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/12/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: equitable adjustment of manufacturers' license fees provided in Article 667-3 of the Penal Code without abandoning the policy of graduated fees for additional establishments
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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03/13/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: establishment of a State Law Enforcement Commission for nonpolitical, non-partisan investigations of state official or employee misconduct, crime prevention, and improvements in law enforcement
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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02/12/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: legislation reorganizing the Insurance Commission
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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02/07/1957 (55th R.S.) |
55th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 55th Legislature: HB 4, 55th R.S., which provides for a majority vote in the selection of certain public officials in special elections (United States Senator and United States Representative)
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Price Daniel, Sr. |
Legislative message
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04/20/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: appropriation to State Department of Health to process and supply Salk polio vaccine
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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04/18/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: appropriation from unexpended balance of Livestock Sanitary Commission under provisions of HB 111, 53rd R.S., to pay indemnity to owners of sheep and goats exposed to contagious and fatal disease of scrapie
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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04/18/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 54th Legislature: appropriation for investigations of the Veterans Land Program, to Attorney General, State Auditor, and International Security Division of Department of Public Safety; appropriation to Veterans Land Board for expenses arising out of civil suits to recover money fraudulently taken from the state
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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03/21/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: proposed constitutional amendment changing oath of office to include appointive officers of the state
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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03/14/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: emergency disaster fund for financing disaster relief operations (relating to drought), noting that during the last two years (1953-1955), $1,149,206 in federal funds has been spent on drought relief in Texas
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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03/07/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: enabling legislation creating the State Building Commission
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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03/07/1955 (54th R.S.) |
54th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 54th Legislature: authorizing the Travis County District Attorney to appoint additional Assistant District Attorneys and make an appropriation for salaries, in view of fraud suits involving the Veterans' Land Program
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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02/17/1953 (53rd R.S.) |
53rd R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 53rd Legislature: establishment and construction of tuberculosis hospitals at San Antonio and Harlingen, as proposed in SB 11; authorization for the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to transfer tuberculosis patients, as proposed in HB 68 and SB 26
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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02/03/1951 (52nd R.S.) |
52nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 52nd Legislature: legislative, congressional and judicial redistricting
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Robert Allan Shivers |
Legislative message
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07/01/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: re-appropriation of $55,000 to revolving fund of State Approval Agency, for veterans' education and job training (SB 503, already passed by the Senate)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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07/01/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: protection of the state in drainage of oil and gas leases and lands (SB 498), reenacting and adding to SB 391
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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06/30/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: carbon black occupation tax, relating to legislative message of May 12, 1949 (HB 938)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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06/28/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: approval of Gulf States Marine Fisheries Compact, already passed in the Senate (SB 164)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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06/15/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of a committee to study the entire matter of state and local taxation
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/26/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of a commission to survey and study the state higher education system
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/25/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: refunding outstanding bonds of this state
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/23/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: stamp affixiation method of collecting certain taxes
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/12/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: occupation tax on manufacturing or producing of carbon black (see related message June 30, 1949; HB 938)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/12/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: adequate voter registration law and interim study of revision of election laws
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/20/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: levying and collection of full general fund ad valorem tax for the next two years
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/19/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: election of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General for four-year terms, instead of present two-year terms; Four-year terms for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General (observations submitted by Governor Jester in connection with formal message, listing Governor election laws in other states)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/06/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: franchise tax collection, defunct corporations
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/04/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation for state eleemosynary institutions for balance of fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/30/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: reduction of tax levied for Confederate Pension Fund and authority for Automatic Tax Board to levy tax
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/29/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: administration of the one percent motor vehicle sales tax, Article 7047k, V.A.C.S.
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/14/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: comprehensive Youth Development Program, emphasizing prevention of juvenile delinquency, scientific diagnosis and treatment, in addition to custodial care; Report and recommendations of the Texas Training School Code Commission
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/10/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation of $3,400 for administration of Rio Grande Compact Commission (HB 264 by Jameson and Isaacks)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/09/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: distribution of electric light and power in rural areas (SB 205 and HB 393)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/01/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature relating to Texas State University for Negroes: authorization for Board of Directors to use student fees to supplement legislative appropriations, issuance of bonds by Board of Directors for dormitories and facilities, and emergency appropriation of $400,000 for operation for the current fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/22/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: creation of Texas Commission on the National Capital Sesquicentennial Celebration; report of Commission on Texas' Participation in the National Capital Sesquicentennial Celebration
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/16/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $156,000 for Texas Highway Patrol due to rise in general operating costs for equipment, materials, and labor
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/15/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: anti-lynching legislation (bill introduced by Representative Isaacks, HB 83); formal statement of May 21, 1948 in Report to the People of Texas relating to civil rights and lynching
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/15/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: provision of an additional ten million dollars a year to supplement funds available to Texas Highway Department for construction of rural roads
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/14/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: establishment of a State Capital Planning Commission
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/14/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation to combat the citrus black fly
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/14/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $2,712 for General Education Board to continue grants for school libraries
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/09/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation to Attorney General of Texas for defeding title to lands beneath navigable waters (tidelands), emergency appropriation to School Land Board for cooperating with other states in opposing federal control of state submerged lands, acts relating to navigable waters, conservation and protection of fish and equatic life in tidal waters, and authorizing issuance of permits for exploration on submerged lands
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/07/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: purchase of furniture and library material for Court of Civil Appeals for the Third Supreme Judicial District due to retiring Judges, amount $3,500
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/07/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: increase in salaries of state employees for remainder of the current fiscal year
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/07/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: ratification of Pecos River Compact
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/31/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: emergency appropriation of $70,000 to inaugurate the Records Administration Division in the State Library, for microfilming and preservation of records
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/26/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: recommendations of Gilmer-Aikin committee (HCR 48, public schools)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/25/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 51st Legislature: nine bills in regard to Texas prison system: appropriation of $4,196,075 for capital improvements, emergency appropration bill for operation of prison system for remainder of fiscal year, removing provision that prison designs are approved by State Board of Control, allowing agricultural or manufacturing sales for prisoner employment, repealing industrial revolving fund, providing for disposition of bodies of convicts legally executed, addressing time and expense for prison representatives testifying in trials, providing more overtime for trusties than regular line men, and making escape from pentientiary a felony
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/17/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: appropriation of $25,000 from unexpended balance in emergency appropriation by 50th Legislature to Livestock Sanitary Commission to continue quarantines against foot and mouth disease
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/17/1949 (51st R.S.) |
51st R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 51st Legislature: amendment to the State Equalization Law for 1947-1949 biennium for the purpose of enabling districts to meet their full obligations in financing teachers' salaries
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/29/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appointment of a commission to study reforms in Code of Criminal Procedure
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/19/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 50th Legislature: establishment of Department of Commerce and Labor to replace the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Industrial Commission, and Post-War Economic Planning Commission; creation of Boxing and Wrestling Commission; recommending legislation on arbitration in labor disputes (HB 403)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/13/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Relating to telephone labor strike at Odessa and creation of Industrial Commission of Texas; submitting emergency matters to the 50th Legislature: labor disputes between management and employees of utilities and required arbitrations
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/13/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: emergency appropriation for State Board of Control, for equipment and supplies and emergency repairs to the third floor of the Capitol in the Senate Chamber
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/06/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: enlargement of the State Board of Control to handle purchase of surplus property after the close of World War II (HB 832)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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05/05/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: creation of a State Veterans Commission (HB 18)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/21/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: redistricting of the state, to provide for equality of representation in the Legislature and equitable distribution of the work load among the district courts
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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04/08/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: reorganizing and reitemizing appropriations and budgets for Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Governor's office
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/31/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: assistance to municipalities in plans for building airports and participation in the Federal Aid Airport Bill, on recommendation of Texas Aeronautics Commission (SB 193 and HB 334)
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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03/18/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: control or eradication of foxes infected with rabies in East Texas counties
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/12/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: financing the building program of state-supported higher educational institutions, as embraced in SJR 4
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/11/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: emergency appropriation of $30,588 for counties in East Texas after forest fires and severe ice storm
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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02/03/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appropriation to Veterans' State Service Office for supplementing appropriations and increasing personnel, due to termination of World War II and numerous disabled veterans
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/30/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: appropriation to pay salary of the District Attorney of the 28th Judicial District, January 1-August 31, 1947
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Beauford H. Jester |
Legislative message
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01/20/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: emergency appropriation for the several departments and institutions of state government
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/20/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: amending Article 4726, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, designating when life insurance companies may secure, hold, and convey real property
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: redistricting the State into Senatorial and Representative Districts agreeably to the provisions of Sections 25, 26, 26a, and 28 of Article III of the Texas Constitution
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: support and maintenance of a university, or institution of higher learning, for education of the negro youth of this state
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: authorization for judges, clerks, and commissioners of courts of record to adminster oaths, affidavits, and affirmations
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: amendment to the State Equalization Law to enable teachers in rural schools to receive increased compensation (SB 21 by Senator Morris, HB 181 by Representative Lock)
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1947 (50th R.S.) |
50th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 50th Legislature: amending the Texas Aeronautics Commission Act
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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04/05/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 49th Legislature: appropriation of at least $336,000 for use and benefit of the Texas Cotton Research Committee, in its efforts to discover new and expanded market outlets for Texas cotton (Acting Governor George Moffett)
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/29/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 49th Legislature: authorizing and granting power to Board of Regents of State Teachers Colleges, State of Texas, for use and benefit of Sam Houston State Teachers College, Huntsville, Texas, to manufacture munitions of war for the United States Government
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/22/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 49th Legislature: appropriation for old age assistance; increase in salaries of state employees in lower brackets; amending Article 4359, Revised Civil Statutes with reference to time for issuance of warrants in payment of salaries of state employees; emergency appropriation for State Department of Education and letter from State Superintendent of Public Instruction L.A. Woods, 1/10/1945
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/16/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 49th Legislature: amendment to State Equalization Law for purpose of enabling teachers in rural schools to receive increased compensation, adjusting transportation costs . . .
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/15/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 49th Legislature: redistricting the State into Senatorial and Representative Districts agreeably to the provisions of Sections 25, 26, 26a, and 28 of Article III of the Texas Constitution
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/10/1945 (49th R.S.) |
49th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 49th Legislature: appropriation for Texas Liquor Control Board, letter from Administrator Bert Ford
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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04/29/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 48th Legislature: permitting taxation of certain real property owned by the United States and exempting all fixtures, machinery, and equipment owned by the United States from taxation, defining the term "real property"
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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04/01/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 48th Legislature: appointment of Notaries Public for each county of the state of Texas
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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03/29/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 48th Legislature: Departmental Appropriation bill; Eleemosynary Appropriation bill; Judiciary Appropriation bill; Educational Appropriation bill
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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02/10/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 48th Legislature: prohibit adulteration or misbranding of insecticides and fungicides; prohibit sale of anti-freeze solutions for use in water-cooled engines
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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02/08/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 48th Legislature: conducting affairs of public offices by first assistants or chief deputies, in the case of vacancies, until the office shall be filled by qualification under appointment or election
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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01/13/1943 (48th R.S.) |
48th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 48th Legislature: authority of Comptroller to withold five percent victory tax from salary payments; emergency appropriation for Adjutant General's Department; enlarging use of State Confederate Home at Austin, prescribing authority of State Board of Control, and emergency appropriation for improvement and maintenance
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Coke R. Stevenson |
Legislative message
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06/24/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Resubmitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 611, federal matching funds for old age assistance after July 1, 1941
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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06/12/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 454 and HB 611, Social Security merit system and old age pensions
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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06/12/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: recent disastrous floods in Shackleford County (SB 502)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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06/05/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: old age assistance division of the Department of Public Welfare and pension checks (SB 490)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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06/04/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 1073, national defense program, recommended by War Department in Washington, D.C.
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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05/28/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: return of Texas Rangers (Texas Ranger Force) to the Adjutant General's Department; proposed bill (HB 1072)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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05/26/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: old age pension checks and necessary change to "joker" provision in HB 8; proposed bill (SB 490)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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05/26/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 611, federal matching funds for old age assistance after July 1, 1941, conforming state law to Federal Social Security Act of 1939
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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05/21/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: prevention of liquor sales near military training camps, discussing veto of emergency liquor enforcement appropriation bill (HB 567); proposed bill (HB 1055, SB 485)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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05/19/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: old age pension checks
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/30/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: urging legislation to prevent cut in old age pension checks in May, June, July, and August 1941; proposed bill
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/29/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: activities of public utility corporations in bond elections; proposed bill (HB 983, SB 446)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/28/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 454, creating Merit Council to administer personnel standards on a merit basis for Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission and State Department of Public Welfare
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/16/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: Board of Control handling of eleemosynary system; proposed bill (HB 917, SB 438)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/15/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature, at the request of Representative Lon Alsup: creation of Legislative Investigating Committee on school district expenditures and selling of jobs (HB 912)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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04/03/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: HB 824, to set up a system of compulsory arbitration where labor disputes are threatened
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/24/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Relating to labor strikes and lockouts in national defense industries, submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: substitute for HB 746, making unlawful the use of force or violence or threats to prevent any person from engaging in any lawful vocation . . . and defining "labor dispute"
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/17/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: qualifications to vote in all governmental and primary elections (poll tax receipt, registration receipt); proposed bill (HB 761, SB 400)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/13/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Address to Joint Session on labor strikes or lockouts in national defense industries during time of national emergency; submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: requiring national defense industries to file notice of intended strike or lockout, declaring certain strikes and lockouts illegal . . .; proposed bill (HB 746, SB 339)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Speech
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03/04/1941 |
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Submitting emergency matters to the 47th Legislature: education system and public schools; Exhibit A: report of Educational Commission of Texas, October 30, 1940; Exhibit B: letter from State Superintendent of Public Instruction, November 19, 1940; Exhibit C: letter from President of State Board of Education, December 20, 1940; 12 proposed bills: setting of ad valorem tax rate (SB 394), Texas State Textbook Committee (SB 298), Teacher Tenure Act for Texas (SB 388), State Board of Education membership (SB 387), school curriculum (SB 389), uniform Child Accounting system (SB 386), State Superintendent of Public Instruction election (SB 385), college entrance requirements (SB 393), financial record and accounting system for public school system (SB 383), reorganization of school districts within a county (SB 390), teacher certification in public schools and junior colleges (SB 384), State Board of Education (SB 391)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/27/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Address to Joint Session on agriculture and the Texas prison system; submitting emergency matters to the 47th Legislature: use of convicts as guards; Texas Prison Board contracts; prison escape; convicts self-mutilation; agency purchasing from prison system; State Board of Agriculture
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Speech
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02/24/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: effective budget and audit system (State Auditor, SB 20)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/17/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: lands acquired by the United States of America from the United Mexican States, and jurisdiction of the State of Texas over certain parcels or tracts; Public No. 413, H.R. 6124, 76th Congress; U.S. Department of State No. 1006; proposed bill (SB 156 and HB 406)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/10/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: Social Security, appropriation of $26,820,000 from general fund annually for teacher retirement, old age assistance, aid to blind and destitute children; proposed bill (HB 322, HB 941, SB 124)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/04/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: building large pleasure pier into waters of Gulf of Mexico in Galveston (SB 13 and HB 2)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/27/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: truck load limits; proposed bill (HB 19)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/23/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: School Land Board issuance of easements or surface leases along Gulf Coast for national defense; proposed bill (HB 134)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/21/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: creation of Texas Defense Guard (HB 45, SB 37)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/17/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Address to Joint Session on Social Security, submitting emergency matters to the 47th Legislature: raising necessary revenue to finance Social Security, including old-age pensions, aid for dependent children, aid for the blind, and teacher retirement; and raising revenue to meet other necessary obligations of the state
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Speech
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01/17/1941 (47th R.S.) |
47th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 47th Legislature: taxing provisions of Texas Unemployment Compensation Act; proposed bill (HB 61, HB 62, SB 29, SB 326)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/17/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: enabling legislation for Texas Constitution, Article 8, Section 20, authorizing discounts for prompt payment of ad valorem taxes (relating to adoption of HJR 23, 45th R.S. by voters)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/15/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: resolution pertaining to SB 330, introduced in the U.S. Congress; HSR 172, memorializing Congress in regard to passage of SB 330, O'Mahoney-Borah Federal Licensing bill, relating to interstate commerce and increasing power and duties of Federal Trade Commission
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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03/01/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: land purchase of 800,000 acres for Big Bend National Park; Letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 4, 1939
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/21/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: abolishing all unnecessary state fund accounts, including lists of "State Funds Now in Existence" and "State Funds Which Should be Retained"
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/13/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: Department of Agriculture and Livestock; discussing agriculture, stock raising, fruit growing, land, and game as vital problems of state interest to handle under one single department in state government
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/09/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: repeal of death penalty
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/07/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: study of prison system from a business standpoint, including convict labor and business management
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/01/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: SB 142, withdrawal of public free school lands from sale or lease
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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02/01/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: HB 373, withdrawal of public free school lands from sale or lease
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/23/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 46th Legislature: State Budget Law, State Auditor's Law
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Legislative message
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01/17/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Address to Joint Session on payment of old age pensions; submitting emergency matters to the 46th Legislature: old age pensions, aid for dependent children, teacher retirement; proposed joint resolution (HJR 31, SJR 11) and bill (HB 277)
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W. Lee O'Daniel |
Speech
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01/16/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: ratifying Rio Grande Compact, signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 18, 1938 (HB 152)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/12/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 46th Legislature: custody and care of records, Article 1901, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas (HB 2, district courts)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/11/1939 (46th R.S.) |
46th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 46th Legislature: refund of Texas relief bonds (SB 25); special district court for Montgomery, San Jacinto, and Polk Counties (HB 3), and for Rusk County
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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04/09/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: Interstate Oil Compact Act (HB 511)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/31/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: Uniform States Narcotic Act (HB 440, narcotic ring at Alamo Downs horse race track, marijuana)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/22/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 45th Legislature: old age assistance (HB 8, 44th 3rd C.S.) and public health program (SB 159, 45th R.S.); Texas Old Age Assistance Commission letter and computation
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/18/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: emergency appropriation for Attorney General's Department for prosecuting suit for recovery of transfer, succession, and inheritance tax against Estate of Edward H.R. Green (SB 435)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/11/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: transfer of Texas Employment Service to State Unemployment Compensation Commission and emergency appropriations; State Unemployment Compensation Commission letter
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/08/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: emergency appropriation for Adjutant General's Department for general maintenance, etc., related to organization of Texas National Guard Regiments 133rd and 111th and Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects at Camp Mabry, Camp Hulen, and Camp Wolters (SB 425)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/04/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: operation of race tracks or horse racing as specifically set out in HB 167 and proposed amendment before the Senate (Senate Journal, p. 432); Committee Substitute for HB 167 on passage to third reading (Ch. 166, HB 167, 43rd R.S.; Ch. 10, HB 12, 43rd 1st C.S.)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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03/03/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: ratification of agreement between Texas and New Mexico involving the Pecos River (HB 973, SB 416)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/23/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: establishment of Board of Pardons and Paroles (expiring furloughs, clemency, relating to Constitutional amendment, SJR 26, 44th R.S., adopted by voters; HB 1045, SB 1, and SB 116, 45th R.S.)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/16/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 45th Legislature: Unemployment Compensation System created by Ch. 482 (SB 5), 44th 3rd C.S., and authorization for Commission to make reciprocal arrangements with respect to wages and benefits (Acting Governor Walter F. Woodul, HB 586)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/09/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 45th Legislature: revenue and taxation (old age assistance, salary increases, state budget, natural resource and franchise taxes), repeal of race track gambling law (HB 12, 43rd 1st C.S.)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/25/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 45th Legislature: emergency appropriations for eleemosynary institutions (insane asylums, homes for feebleminded, epileptics, and state orphans' homes) and court costs and traveling expenses of the Attorney General's Department; calling attention to earlier emergency matter of clemency, submitted in first message to the Legislature
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/13/1937 (45th R.S.) |
45th R.S. |
State of the State, submitting emergency matters to the 45th Legislature: Social Security program, utility regulation, safety program (traffic accidents, uniform drivers license law), Constitutional amendments legislation (power of clemency with Board of Pardons and Paroles, probation, legislative redistricting, salaries of state officials, teachers retirement, temporary confinement of mentally ill persons without jury trial), workmen's compensation insurance for state employees, child labor, revenue and taxation (old age assistance), natural resource tax, franchise tax
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James V Allred |
Speech
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04/18/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: revenue bill to bring in $400,000-$700,000 to the State Treasury (HB 223, occupation tax upon coin-operated vending machines, Acting Governor K.M. Regan)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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04/16/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: legislation to minimize disaster of extremely dry conditions in the western portion of the state, soil destruction, wind erosion, drought (drouth), and dust storms, arguing for legislative branch to set up agencies under Section 59a, Article XVI of the Texas Constitution authorizing creation of necessary agencies for conservation of natural resources (Acting Governor Walter F. Woodul, HB 978 and SB 515, wind erosion conservation districts)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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04/04/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: creation of Texas Gas Conservation Corporation (natural gas, HB 933, SB 487)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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04/03/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters relating to banks and banking to the 44th Legislature: authorization for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to be appointed receiver of closed state banks; authorization for state banks to issue capital notes and debentures, subject to approval of the Banking Commissioner; and exemption for banks from furnishing security for public deposits (HB 929-931, SB 484-486, noting SB 361)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/25/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: appropriation for maintenance of state parks system, relating to federal allotment for Civilian Conservation Corps camps (HB 527)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/22/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 44th Legislature: ten proposed measures dealing with public works projects and procedure with reference to loans, grants, contracts, and other desirable proceedings (HB 630-632 and 634-639, SB 342-351)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/21/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Address to Joint Session in accordance with HCR 38, submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: Ratification of Interstate Oil Compact; Letter from Railroad Commission, February 21, 1935 (HB 720, HCR 26)
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James V Allred |
Speech
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02/21/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: conservation of natural gas (HB 266)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/04/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: establishment of system of public employment offices in this state (accepting benefits of Wagner-Peyser Act enacted by Congress and approved June 6, 1933, HB 407)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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02/01/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: authorization for Governor to discsus and negotiate Interstate Oil Compact with Governors of other oil producing states (HB 720, HCR 26), conservation of natural resources
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/22/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: emergency appropriation for Attorney General for defending numerous suits against the State of Texas and State Highway Department, and for enforcement of oil and gas laws (HB 249, SB 136)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/18/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting emergency matters to the 44th Legislature: creation of special temporary district courts for Rusk County (HB 69, SB 28) and Gregg County (HB 445), 124th District Court in Gregg County (HB 226)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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01/16/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
State of the State, submitting emergency matters to the 44th Legislature: relief program, old age pensions, planned recovery, Texas Planning Board (federal aid), housing program, prohibition (liquor laws), oil and gas conservation, lobby laws
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James V Allred |
Speech
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01/16/1935 (44th R.S.) |
44th R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 44th Legislature: creation of Special District Court of Smith County (SB 68)
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James V Allred |
Legislative message
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05/23/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: levying tax upon intangible values upon all corporations not now paying gross receipts tax
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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05/13/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: elimination of payment of poll tax for 1933, and providing for payment of registration fee . . .
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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04/24/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: transferring operation of theDepartment of Pardons and Paroles to the Secretary of State; proposed bill to amend Article 6203 of Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, providing for change in present system of recommending to the Governor what persons shall be granted pardons, paroles, and furloughs . . .
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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04/20/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: an Act to define and limit the jurisdiction of courts, and their purposes (at the request of Hon. Pat Jefferson, member of the House of Representatives, and members of the Brotherhood of Railway Employees, HB 898)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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04/20/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: aid for the unemployed and those in economic distress, creation of a proper agency for the State of Texas to confer and negotiate with the federal government in the distribution of various funds, and Reconstruction Finance Corporation relief activities in Texas; Letter dated April 19, 1933, from Hon. Aubrey Williams, American Welfare Officials Association (HB 897, Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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04/13/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: an Act to repeal Articles 153 and 155, of Title 4, Chapter 7, of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, adopted at the Regular Session of the 39th Legislature, 1925 (Offenses against the state, disloyalty in writing and disloyal language; at request of Hon. Rolland Bradley, Representative from 19th District of Texas, HB 888)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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04/03/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: taxation of oil production and serious condition in East Texas oil fields (HB 154)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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03/13/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: moratorium on foreclosure of mortgages on real estate and other property in Texas (HB 231)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message
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03/03/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Relating to official proclamation of financial moratorium, issued by Governor March 2, 1933, until and including March 7, 1933, declaring all state and national banks and trust companies prohibited and enjoined from paying to any depositor or creditor upon any account or deposit liability any amount of money during the period of time covered by said proclamation; submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: providing that Banking Commissioner is authorized and empowered to declare financial moratoriums for and invoke uniform limitation withdrawals of deposits . . . (SB 416)
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Miriam Ferguson |
Legislative message General proclamation
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01/11/1933 (43rd R.S.) |
43rd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 43rd Legislature: special election to fill prospective vacancies in the U.S. House of Representatives, District 15 (John Nance Garner, elected Vice President of the United States) and District 8 (passing of Dan Garrett) (SB 1)
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Ross S. Sterling |
Legislative message
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03/16/1931 (42nd R.S.) |
42nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 42nd Legislature: creation of the Conservation Commission of Texas and transfer of all jurisdiction, powers, rights, and authority from the Railroad Commission of Texas (oil industry, overproduction and depressed prices of crude oil, Oil States Advisory Committee recommendations for Oklahoma, Texas, California, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, and Wyoming, March 9, 1391; HB 975, SB 547)
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Ross S. Sterling |
Legislative message
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01/27/1931 (42nd R.S.) |
42nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 42nd Legislature: applications for admittance to the Confederate Women's Home and possibility of using empty beds in Confederate Soldier's Home for Confederate widows (communication from Senator Beck, SB 27)
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Ross S. Sterling |
Legislative message
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01/23/1931 (42nd R.S.) |
42nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 42nd Legislature: tax collections in water improvement districts (upon request of Senator Ben G. Oneal and numerous other citizens of Wichita County, SB 19)
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Ross S. Sterling |
Legislative message
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01/15/1931 (42nd R.S.) |
42nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 42nd Legislature: mileage and per diem bill at 42nd Legislature, Regular Session, and statutes fixing compensation of members of the Legislature conformed to recently adopted constitutional amendment (SJR 19, 41st R.S.; HB 1, HB 19, HCR 6, SB 524, SB 624, 42nd R.S.); Ruling by Attorney General, January 19, 1931
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Daniel J. Moody, Jr. |
Legislative message
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01/14/1931 (42nd R.S.) |
42nd R.S. |
Submitting an emergency matter to the 42nd Legislature: payment of state and county taxes, to the end that the same may be paid in semiannual installments (requested via telegram from Governor-elect R.S. Sterling, SB 8)
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Daniel J. Moody, Jr. |
Legislative message
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02/24/1923 (38th R.S.) |
38th R.S. |
Relating to financial condition of prison system, submitting an emergency matter to the 38th Legislature: financing of about $900,000 for penitentiary
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Pat M. Neff |
Legislative message
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01/22/1923 (38th R.S.) |
38th R.S. |
Relating to prison system, submitting an emergency matter to the 38th Legislature: emergency appropriation for penitentiary system; related contents: approving opinions, minutes of Board, certificate of Secretary of Board of Prison Commissioners, signature and non-litigation certificates, statements of indebtedness, assets and valuation of state prison system and state of Texas, and receipt of Treasurer of Texas
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Pat M. Neff |
Legislative message
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