Legislation authored by Joe Neil Russell

Includes legislation with Joe Neil Russell as the primary author for the 52nd through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

53rd Regular Session
SB 45 Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing body of any incorporated city or town (including home rule cities) having a population of 25,000 inhabitants or less, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to lease any city-owned hospital or part thereof to be operated by the lessee as a public hospital under such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by such governing body and lessee.
SB 162 Caption: Relating to authorizing all cities and towns, including home rule cities, to use for general municipal purposes revenues received from waterworks or sewer, or waterworks and sewer systems.
SB 229 Caption: Relating to amending and codifying Statutes relating to securities under the subject of "The Securities Act".
SB 230 Caption: Relating to prescribing what labels shall be printed in textbooks.
SB 315 Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of minnows from the streams and rivers in Collin and Rockwall Counties; providing a penalty.
SCR 10 Caption: In memory of William Perry Abernathy.
SR 13 Caption: Welcoming Jerry Parkhouse to the State Capitol.
SR 29 Caption: Welcoming former State Senator Joe Carter to the State Capitol.
SR 42 Caption: In memory of former State Senator Joe M. Moore.
SR 52 Caption: Welcoming Frank Lane to the State Capitol.
SR 68 Caption: Welcoming Joe Dan Boyd and Donald Stodghill to the State Capitol.
SR 85 Caption: Welcoming Ralph Hall, W. J. Price, Vera Haynes, and Mrs. Newt Burton to the State Capitol.
SR 99 Caption: Welcoming Mayor and Mrs. Amon Burton to the State Capitol.
SR 115 Caption: Welcoming Lee Simmons to the State Capitol.
SR 145 Caption: Recognizing the Whitesboro High School women's basketball team for winning runner up in the Class AAA state championship.
SR 154 Caption: In memory of Jim Reece.
SR 294 Caption: Welcoming the students of Wylie High School to the State Capitol.
SR 309 Caption: Recognizing Stephen L. Haley for his service as Sergeant-at-Arms.
53rd 1st Called Session
SB 22 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the East Texas State Teachers College for the purpose of repairing and/or replacing its refrigeration and slaughter house and the equipment therein, which was damaged by fire on September 25, 1953.
SB 53 Caption: Relating to ratifying, confirming and validating the creation and organization of The Grayson County Water Improvement District No. 1.
SR 12 Caption: Welcoming Ralph Hall and the visitors from Rockwall County to the State Capitol.
SR 15 Caption: In memory of roger Mills Carter.
SR 80 Caption: Recognizing the citizens of Rockwall on the occasion of their city's 100th anniversary.
52nd Regular Session
SB 53 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing that the Board of Insurance Commissioners shall not make, prescribe or promulgate any regulation or rule that will make any form of deductible clause mandatorily applicable to windstorm, hurricane and hail insurance on all buildings and structures.
SB 63 Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of State supported institutions of higher learning to procure insurance on any or all structures and buildings and the contents thereof under their management and control against all or any of the risks of fire, lightning, wind storms, hail storms, tornadoes, cyclones, floods, and explosions; authorizing the use of local funds of such institutions and any other funds appropriated to such institutions for insurance premiums to pay premiums on insurance to cover such risks.
SB 183 Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways so as to require that certain vehicles be equipped with signal lamps or mechanical signal devices; requiring the giving of stop or turn signals in operation of certain motor vehicles.
SB 194 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing for the creation of a Board of Barber Examiners, consisting of three members to be appointed by the Governor, and providing for their qualification and appointment and terms of office, and for their removal by the Governor for causes enumerated in the Act.
SB 282 Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer of title to certain lands to the State Highway Commission containing 49.059 acres of land and conveying unto said State Highway Commission the free and uninterrupted use, liberty and privilege of the passage in, along, upon and across 12.221 acres of land for the purpose of opening, constructing and maintaining channels and a borrow source with the right and privilege at all times of the grantee herein, his or its agents, employees, workmen and representatives having ingress, agress and regress to said premises
SB 283 Caption: Relating to giving Dudley Ames and wife, Maud Ames, their administrators, executors, heirs and assigns consent of the Legislature to sue the State of Texas for damages resulting from the construction of U.S. Highway 67 through Hunt County, Texas.
SB 323 Caption: Relating to defining a slot machine; providing a penalty for the manufacture, ownership, storing, keeping, sale, renting, leasing, letting on shares, landing or giving sway, transportation or possession of a slot machine.
SB 409 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to transport or remove minnows taken from the fresh waters of Collin and Rockwall Counties, including Lake Lavon, beyond the boundaries of said waters; prescribing penalties for violation of this Act.
SCR 61 Caption: In memory of J. C. Erwin, Sr.
SCR 73 Caption: Recalling S. B. No. 409 from the Governor's Office.
SR 69 Caption: Welcoming R. M. Hall to the State Capitol.
SR 81 Caption: Proposing a special Senate committee to investigate the case near Quinlan and the prevailing conditions in all private and public orphanages in Texas.
SR 132 Caption: In memory of Alexander Asa Duncan.
SR 160 Caption: Inviting H. Miller Ainsworth and Audie Murphy to address the Senate.
SR 186 Caption: Welcoming Homer Stinson and John Tisdale and his wife to the State Capitol.
SR 274 Caption: Welcoming Lannie Stimson to the State Capitol.