Legislation authored by Bill D. Wood
Includes legislation with Bill D. Wood as the primary author for the 50th through 56th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
56th Regular Session | |
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SB 72 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles dealing with inspection of Nurseries, Florists, Florist items, Nursery Stocks, Nursery products, cut flowers, and allied products. |
SB 239 | Caption: Relating to regulating the importation of camellia plants and flowers into the State of Texas. |
SB 363 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the deposit to local funds of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to the credit of Substation No. 2, Smith County, to be expended for the restoration, operation and improvement of said Substation No. 2, the monetary consideration received by the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the transfer to the State Highway Commission, the use of, and jurisdiction over, 39.09 acres of land, transferred pursuant to authority of Chapter 300, Acts 55th Legislature, Regular Session, 1957. |
SB 364 | Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, or to use fire or smoke in any manner in, on, or around, any den or hollow tree within any woods or forest, or upon any cutover land, brushland, rangeland, or grasslands for the purpose of driving or smoking out game animals or bird from such den or hollow tree; declaring violation of this Act to be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, and prescribing a penalty for the violation thereof. |
SB 365 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to declare to be ex-officio the duties of the legislative members and the Board of Directors of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College System member in serving on the advisory committee therein mentioned, as well as to declare that their serving as committee members shall not be construed as holding an office or position of honor, trust or profit under this State or a civil office of emolument. |
SB 366 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the deputies of Assessors and Collectors of Texas. |
SB 383 | Caption: Relating to establishing and providing for a State mentally retarded school. |
SB 385 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relative to use of state water to provide permits for dam or reservoir on own property of 200 acre-feet. |
SB 386 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to create the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District, comprised of the counties of Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Anderson, Houston, Freestone, Cherokee, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Angelina, Hunt, Rains, San Augustine, Sabine, Wood, Upshur, Kaufman, Navarro, Leon and Trinity, and to locate the Court of Civil Appeals thereof in the City of Tyler. |
SCR 75 | Caption: Granting permission for District Judges to leave the State during the years 1959 and 1960. |
SR 122 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Eustace High School of Henderson County to the State Capitol. |
SR 331 | Caption: Recognizing State Senator William T. Moore on the occasion of his birthday. |
SR 371 | Caption: In memory of T. B. Lewis. |
SR 458 | Caption: In memory of Mrs.. S. S. McGinnis. |
56th 1st Called Session | |
SB 3 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the deposit to local funds of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to the credit of Substation No. 2, Smith County, to be expended for the restoration, operation and improvement of said Substation No. 2. |
56th 2nd Called Session | |
SB 27 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the deposit to local funds of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to the credit of Substation No. 2, Smith County, to be expended for the restoration, operation and improvement of said Substation No. 2, the monetary consideration received by the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the transfer to the State Highway Commission, the use of, and jurisdiction over, 39.09 acres of land. |
55th Regular Session | |
SB 215 | Caption: Relating to branch banking. |
SB 246 | Caption: Relating to petit jurors in counties using jury wheel system to permit drawing of additional list of petit jurors. |
SB 247 | Caption: Relating to petit juries in counties using jury wheel system, preparation and delivery of list of petit jurors, disposition of cards, etc. |
SB 248 | Caption: Relating to jurors in counties using jury wheel system, to provide qualifications of jurors, expenses thereof in certain counties (150,000 or more inhabitants). |
SB 363 | Caption: Relating to granting the Commissioners Court of Henderson County permission to pay out of the General Fund of said County bounties for the destruction of wolves and predatory animals. |
SB 364 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal due thereon of a certain judgment obtained against the State of Texas by Delta Gulf Drilling Company. |
SB 365 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to inspection and classification of sweet potatoes, so as to make inspection and classification discretionary with the seller. |
SB 366 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to provide for tax exemptions and refunds in certain instances, methods of payment and making an appropriation. |
SB 368 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to creating a shooting resort; providing a penalty. |
SB 371 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to remove the disabilities of minority of underage males, as well as females, who are or have been lawfully married. |
SB 382 | Caption: Relating to professional sanitarians; providing a penalty for violation. |
SB 383 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to classes of group life insurance policies that may be delivered in this state by adding a class of policy issuable to certain associations. |
SB 395 | Caption: Relating to creating a conservation district comprising certain territory contained in Henderson County, Texas, to be known as "Athens Municipal Water Authority," for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic, and industrial use and processing, transporting, and distributing the same and providing plants and facilities for the collection, transportation, processing, disposal and control of all domestic, industrial and communal wastes. |
SCR 61 | Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to study the agricultural economy of Texas. |
SR 339 | Caption: Welcoming students of Eustace Independent High School and their teacher to the State Capitol. |
55th 1st Called Session | |
SR 85 | Caption: Inviting Orval E. Faubus to address the Senate. |
55th 2nd Called Session | |
SCR 6 | Caption: Granting D. P. Scritchfield permission to sue the State of Texas. |
SCR 7 | Caption: Granting L. A. Norris permission to sue the State of Texas. |
SR 8 | Caption: Requesting additional space for the Game and Fish Commission in state building plans. |
54th Regular Session | |
HB 11 | Caption: Relating to requiring approval by the Board of Water Engineers, or its successors, of certain Federal projects affecting public waters of the State of Texas; defining terms; requiring the Governor to submit to the Board all engineering plans for a Federal project when executive approval thereof is sought; providing for public hearings to be held and notice thereof issued and published; providing for the Board to determine if a federal project is feasible and setting standards for such determination; requiring approval or disapproval by the Board of reasonable or unreasonable projects; providing that the findings of the Board shall be final; exempting the State Soil Commission Board from the provisions of this Act under certain conditions. |
HB 63 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to declare as abandoned all certified filings heretofore filed with and permits heretofore issued by the Board of Water Engineers and permits heretofore issued by the Board of Water Engineers and permits hereafter issued by the Texas Water Commission, which certified filings and permits authorize the appropriation of public waters, when no part of the waters authorized to be appropriated has ever been put to beneficial use at any time during a ten-year period preceding the effective date of this Act or the date of cancellation proceedings authorized hereby. |
HB 130 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to add the additional requirement that everyone desiring to store, impound or retard the storm and flood waters of the State shall obtain a permit from the Board of Water Engineers, or its successors, before commencing construction of such water projects; exempting structures impounding two hundred (200) acre feet of water or less under certain conditions and for certain purposes. |
HB 689 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to enlarge the purpose for which a surplus in the sinking fund for county road bonds may be used; repealing conflicting laws. |
HB 803 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Gregg County, Texas, for laying out, opening, widening, grading, draining, constructing, building and repairing the public roads of Gregg County other than designated State highways in Gregg County. |
HB 804 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relative to selecting qualified jurors; providing that officers write the names of qualified jurors under the law and deposit the names in a circular hollow wheel. |
HB 959 | Caption: Relating to creating a Court of Domestic Relations for Smith County, Texas; providing its jurisdiction; conforming the jurisdiction of other Courts thereto; providing its terms; providing for the qualification, selection, tenure and compensation of the Judge of said Court; providing for transfer of cases between the Court and other Courts. |
HJR 10 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas adding a section to be known as Section 49c of Article III, authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds by the State of Texas to create the Texas Water Development Fund to provide financial assistance to certain political subdivisions or bodies politic and corporate of the State of Texas in the conservation and development of the water resources of the State; providing for the levying of a state ad valorem tax of not to exceed three cents on the one hundred dollars ($100) valuation as security for such state obligations; providing for the termination of such tax levy; providing for the calling of an election and the publication and issuance of the proclamation therefor. |
53rd Regular Session | |
HB 367 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide for current operating cost to be allotted to "exceptional children teacher units." |
HB 380 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by authorizing persons eighteen (18) years of age and over who are licensed as chauffeurs to drive school buses for junior colleges. |
HB 660 | Caption: Relating to providing for establishing a permanent institution at the East Texas State Tuberculosis Hospital, near Tyler, Smith County, Texas; making the necessary appropriations for such purposes. |
HB 921 | Caption: Relating to removing the closed season on wild pheasants in Smith County but continuing in effect the general law prescribing the bag limit on the number of pheasants which may be taken, killed, or possessed. |
HB 924 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the propagation of pen-raised pheasants; defining the term "pen-raised pheasant"; requiring that the carcasses of pen-raised pheasants be marked with the name and address of the raiser before they are sold or offered for sale; providing a penalty for violation of the provisions of this Act. |
HB 926 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to permitt the Commissioner of Agriculture to enter into reciprocal agreements with responsible officers of other states. |
HCR 107 | Caption: Granting the City of Tyler and Smith County permission to sue the State of Texas. |
HR 64 | Caption: Inviting Lieutenant Governor C. E. "Cap" Barham of Louisiana to address the House. |
53rd 1st Called Session | |
HB 90 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money received from the Federal Government in reimbursement for Moore Army Air Field. |
HCR 27 | Caption: Granting Lola Ann Bland permission to sue the State of Texas. |
HCR 65 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow both houses to consider H. B. No. 90 at any time. |
HR 125 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
52nd Regular Session | |
HB 2 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, approving and confirming certain proceedings and bonds heretofore had or authorized by cities for the purpose of purchasing a park and recreational facilities and the construction and improvement of parking area and streets adjacent thereto, either or both; providing that this Act shall not apply to any proceedings or bonds the validity of which has been contested in any pending suit or litigation. |
HB 175 | Caption: Relating to the education of exceptional children, adding the education of mentally retarded children to the present program. |
HB 305 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the presumption of death after the absence of seven years, so as to make liable only the persons who received such estate by virtue of such presumption, in the event that the person presumed to be dead is found to be alive and demands his estate. |
HB 627 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the time of collecting taxes in Junior College Districts whose boundaries are not coterminous with an Independent School District; providing for the repeal of all laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict. |
HB 628 | Caption: Relating to regulating, conserving and protecting the wildlife of all counties affected by the Tidal Waters of this State. |
HB 649 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by establishing and constituting a Juvenile Board in certain counties to be composed of the county judge and district judges; designating a chairman and administrative officer therefor; providing that such Board shall be established and constituted in each county having therein two (2) district courts wherein one of said judicial districts includes two (2) counties; and in which such one-county judicial district there is located a city with a population of more than 24,000 according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
HB 764 | Caption: Relating to providing for a period of limitation of four (4) years within which to present to the Legislature claims against the State or for consent to sue the State upon such claims, and providing that failure to present a claim to the Legislature for payment within such time or to apply for consent to sue upon such claim within such time shall forever bar such claim. |
HCR 77 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H. B. No. 638. |
HCR 183 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules in order to consider S. B. No. 48 at any time. |
HR 165 | Caption: Naming Patricia Adele Yezak Mascot of the House. |
51st Regular Session | |
HB 55 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in certain counties based on population size to lease or sell any County Hospital belonging to said County upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by the Commissioners Court of such County and providing that no sale of such Hospital shall be confirmed by the Commissioners Court of such County until such sale be approved by a majority vote of the property tax paying citizens of such County and providing for the manner of conducting such election. |
HB 676 | Caption: Relating to authorizing any city having less than sixty thousand (60,000) population which is operating under a home rule charter, and which city on January 1, 1949, owned and was operating a public parking lots, to issue revenue bonds for permanent improvements to such lots; containing a severability provision. |
HB 704 | Caption: Relating to providing a minimum one-eighth royalty on oil and gas; declaring the act to be severable. |
HJR 27 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas authorizing the Legislature to provide for the creation and establishment of rural fire prevention districts. |
HR 140 | Caption: Inviting the Governor of Arkansas, Sidney J. McMath to address the House. |
HR 279 | Caption: Expressing good wishes to Sate Representative D. D. Gathings as he recovers from illness. |
50th Regular Session | |
HB 680 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the reorganization and continuation of the Special District Court of Smith and Wood Counties, Texas. |