Legislation authored by Leroy Saul
Includes legislation with Leroy Saul as the primary author for the 53rd through 55th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 55th Regular Session | |
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| HB 138 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the Water Resources Committee. |
| HB 144 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by requiring written notice to the Board of Water Engineers and the district's board of directors of any substantial alteration in plans and specifications of district projects approved by said Board; authorizing inspection by the Board during construction. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to declare as presumably abandoned all certified filings heretofore filed with and permits heretofore issued by the Board of Water Engineers and permits hereafter issued by the Board of Water Engineers or its successor, 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 the Act or the date of cancellation proceedings authorized hereby. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to prescribe those who may appear and contest the creation of a water control and improvement district; prescribing the procedure for appealing from an order of the Commissioners' Court or Board of Water Engineers granting or refusing a petition for the creation of a water control and improvement district. |
| HB 147 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by removing the authority of the board of directors of a water control and improvement district to enter into contracts for the construction of works of improvement by private negotiation; reducing the amount of expenditure for contracts made by the Directors of said districts; making provision for publication of notice in districts of more than four counties. |
| HB 148 | Caption: Relating to requiring that no person shall be a member of the governing body of any type of water district or water authority providing a waterworks system supplying water for municipal and domestic use and sanitary sewer service, unless he shall be an actual resident in and a bona fide inhabitant of such water district. |
| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to requiring persons to obtain permits to drill injection wells, or to convert existing wells into injections wells, for the disposal of industrial and municipal waste. |
| HB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize a water control and improvement district to have a wider and more descriptive choice of name to designate it. |
| HB 151 | Caption: Relating to authorizing all persons, firms, associations, corporations, and all municipalities, counties and other political subdivisions of the State, all State Departments, and State Agencies and boards, and all public officials to use certified mail with return receipt in lieu of registered mail. |
| HB 152 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Water Development Board and prescribing its composition, powers and duties. |
| HB 153 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to prescribe the procedure for granting or refusing a petition for the organization of a water control and improvement district. |
| HB 154 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide for an appeal to the proper District Court of any decision made by the Board of Directors of a water control and improvement district excluding or failing to exclude lands from the district. |
| HB 155 | Caption: Relating to adding with certain qualifications the purpose of recharging of underground water reservoirs to those purposes for which the public waters of the State may be appropriated. |
| HB 161 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Water Development Board and prescribing its composition, powers, and duties; authorizing the issuance by the Board of One Hundred Million Dollars in state bonds to create the Texas Water Development Fund. |
| HB 955 | Caption: Relating to granting and appropriating Ten Thousand Dollars to the City of Silverton, Texas, to be used for rehabilitating, repairing and rebuilding the City's street and public utility systems, which were damaged in a recent tornado. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Providing that the Capitol grounds be closed to motor vehicles on Inauguration Day. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Providing for a Joint Session for inauguration ceremonies and payment of certain expenses incurred for inauguration. |
| HCR 40 | Caption: Granting Hale Center Cooperative Gin of Hale County permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 61 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 145 for certain corrections. |
| HCR 131 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules in order to consider S. B. No. 17 at any time. |
| HJR 3 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas providing for the issuance and sale of bonds of 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. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Granting permission for a test period concerning the televising of proceedings of the House. |
| HR 158 | Caption: Naming Candace Suzzane Walling Mascot of the House. |
| HR 218 | Caption: In memory of Carroll C. McGlasson, Sr., of Plainview. |
| HR 279 | Caption: Granting privileges of the floor of the House to Brian Beedham. |
| HR 307 | Caption: Commending the Hutcherson Flying Queens on winning the National Women's AAU Basketball Championship. |
| HR 499 | Caption: Welcoming the Poet Laureate of Texas to the State Capitol. |
| HR 500 | Caption: Extending sympathy to the city of Silverton. |
| HR 524 | Caption: In memory of M. C. Formby, Sr., of McAdee. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 36 | Caption: Relating to providing for suit for custody and support of child or children under 18 years of age against a parent when said parent was granted a divorce decree in a foreign jurisdiction and the granting court was silent as to custody and support of such children; providing for process, hearing and orders; providing further for punishment as for contempt for violation or failure to obey orders; providing for payment to the district clerk. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Granting Thomas Evans and Raymond Evans permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Extending best wishes to Edward L. Felder. |
| HR 85 | Caption: Urging the Governor to make adopting the Sabbath Day preventing the sale of alcohol on such day part of his platform. |
| HR 97 | Caption: Congratulating the Lockney High School Football Team for winning the District AA and Bi-District titles. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| HB 27 | Caption: Relating to requiring every water district, created pursuant to the Constitution of Texas, to file with the Board of Water Engineers or its successor a certified copy of the Act or order creating same or altering its boundaries, as well as such information necessary to maintain an up-to-date list of its officers; providing penalties for violations. |
| HB 453 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the consolidation of rural high school districts with independent school districts by election by a majority vote in each district; classifying rural high school districts as common school districts for certain purposes; providing that school districts formed under the provisions of this Act shall be independent school districts; making provision for the names of and trustees for such school districts; providing invalidity of a portion of this Act shall not invalidate any other part of the Act. |
| HB 473 | Caption: Relating to requiring certain inspections and permits concerning livestock and fowl; providing for the collection of fees and charges for required permits, certifications and inspections of livestock and fowl; fixing penalties; creating a special fund; containing a separability clause; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 571 | Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the maintenance of the public roads and highways in Hale County by authorizing the County to issue certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring right of way for designated State Highways or Federal Highways when the acquisition of such right of way is approved by the State Highway Commission. |
| HB 610 | Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming, and validating the designation of Subdivision Number Two of the Underground Water Reservoir in the Ogallala formation North of the Canadian River in Texas, dated August 16, 1954, and of the creation and establishment of Ground Water Conservation District Number Two, North of the Canadian River. |
| HB 719 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected filed notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board; providing that said resurveys shall not shift the lines of any survey where the lines of said surveys have been fixed by a court decree or by contract in writing between the parties; providing that deeds of acquittance so issued shall inure to the benefit of all holders of a portion of a survey, and that said deeds of acquittance shall not disturb the divisional or partitioning lines of surveys where said surveys are divided into smaller tracts. |
| HB 827 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of standards of quality in marketing of eggs, for the grading of eggs, that the Commissioner of Agriculture be designated the official responsible for establishing and enforcing the regulations, authorizing an inspection fee for penalties and violations of regulations and providing for certain exemptions and the initial financing of the program. |
| HCR 67 | Caption: Granting Gerald B. Phipps permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 47 | Caption: In memory of William Stanford Heatly of Mart. |
| HR 101 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 165 | Caption: Congratulating the Plainview High School men's basketball team for winning the district championship. |
| HR 194 | Caption: Congratulating the Abernathy High School women's basketball team for winning 4th place in the Class AA state championship. |
| HR 195 | Caption: Congratulating the Cotton Center High School women's basketball team for winning the Class B state championship. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 613 | Caption: Relating to repealing Acts relative to salary of certain ex-officio county superintendents of public instruction. |
| HB 649 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to permits for heavy trucks on highways, so as to eliminate the requirement for a bond and to increase the fees for permits; prescribing an offense and providing the penalty therefor. |
| HB 749 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected field notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board. |
| HB 751 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by prohibiting lenders from requiring borrowers to purchase credit life insurance or credit health and accident insurance when such insurance is not necessary as security for the loan. |
| HCR 103 | Caption: Granting Claude Burnett and his heirs and signees permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 54 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HR 21 | Caption: In memory of Ora Ramey Hilburn of Hale County. |