Legislation authored by Sterling J. Parrish

Includes legislation with Sterling J. Parrish as the primary author for the 49th through 50th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

50th Regular Session
SB 164	Caption: Relating to releasing interest and penalties on ad valorem and poll tax delinquent on or prior to January 31, 1947 if paid on or before February 1, 1949; suspending all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving and severable clause.
SB 184	Caption: Relating to creating county-wide equalization school districts, for tax purposes, in certain counties.
SB 185	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or secretary in any county having a population of not more than five thousand eight hundred seventy-five (5,875) and not less than five thousand five hundred seventy-five (5,575) inhabitants.
SB 201	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, increasing the pay for jury commissioners.
SB 202	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide for increasing the number of clerks permitted in elections in large precincts.
SB 203	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing that when there is a surplus remaining in the Sinking Fund, not in excess of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars, after the principal and interest is fully paid on courthouse and jail bond and bridge or road and bridge bond, it may be used by the county for the purpose of maintaining and repairing the courthouse and jail and roads and bridges of the county as may be determined by the Commissioners Court.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to carrying into effect certain constitutional amendment; creating a personnel department composed of State officers and employees and establishing a Retirement System for aged and incapacitated employees of the State; containing a saving and a repealing clause.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, allowing additional compensation for deputies, clerks, and assistants of public officials in counties of this state having a population of not less than fifty-one thousand seven hundred eighty-two (51,782) inhabitants and not more than fifty-two thousand five hundred (52,500) inhabitants.
SB 351	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by increasing the salary of the Assistant District Attorney in the 72nd Judicial District of Texas and authorizing same to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the state.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to pay the salary of the Assistant District Attorney in the 72nd Judicial District of Texas.
SCR 8	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to select and designate a Poet Laureate.
SCR 12	Caption: Welcoming the Red Raiders from Texas Tech to the State Capitol.
SCR 15	Caption: Setting the hour for a joint session to hear the address of U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark, and providing for a joint committee to escort him to the Joint Session.
SJR 7	Caption: Proposing an amendment creating a permanent University Trust Fund Commission and authorizing the issuance of bonds not to exceed Thirty-seven Million Dollars.
49th Regular Session
SB 86	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide exemption from tax on motor fuel used for certain non-highway purposes; containing a saving clause; repealing conflicting laws and fixing the effective date of this Act.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to fixing the length of the terms of the 99th District Court in and for Lubbock County, Texas, and the time of holding the terms of said 99th District Court.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take or kill wild quail or doves of any species for a period of three years in Garza County, Texas; fixing penalty.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to providing the method of receiving and disposing of all trust and suspense moneys and other securities by the State Treasurer.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take or kill wild quail or prairie chickens of any species for a period of five years in Terry County, Texas; fixing penalty.
SB 231	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article pertaining to granting of suspended sentence, so as to provide that suspension of sentence shall not be granted until a finding has been made by the trial judge that the defendant's bertillion measurements and/or fingerprints have been taken.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to amending statute pertaining to granting of suspended sentence by requiring applicants to have their bertillion measurements and/or fingerprints taken.
SB 240	Caption: Relating to permitting any county containing a population of not less than three thousand seven hundred and twenty (3,720) nor more than three thousand eight hundred and fifteen (3,815) according to the last preceding Federal Census, or any future Federal Census, to adopt by a majority vote of qualified voters of such county a county unit system to the extent provided in this Act.
SB 241	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all county line independent school districts embracing parts of two or more counties, whether organized under general or special laws, and which, according to the last preceding approved original Scholastic Census, had a scholastic population of not less than seven hundred (700) and not more than twelve hundred (1,200) scholastics, and located in counties with a population of not less than five thousand (5,000) and not more than twelve thousand (12,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 267	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to duties of conductors of passenger trains, street cars, or commercial motor vehicles, provided with separate coaches.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Lubbock County, Texas, and making County Commissioners ex-officio precinct road commissioners of their respective precincts.
SB 321	Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 6 of Lamb County, Texas, under authority of Article 3, Section 52, of the Constitution of Texas, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes, or in aid thereof.
SB 337	Caption: Relating to changing the boundaries of the Shallowater Rural High School District No. 5, of Lubbock County, Texas, so as to include certain territory now embraced exclusively within Lubbock County, Texas, and now embraced in the Abernathy County Line Consolidated Independent School District located in Hale and Lubbock Counties, Texas.
SJR 10	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section II of Article VII of the Constitution of Texas by providing for the participation of all State supported colleges and universities in interest to be derived from the "Permanent University Fund" on a pro rata basis.