Legislation authored by Penrose Blakely Metcalfe

Includes legislation with Penrose Blakely Metcalfe as the primary author for the 41st through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
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49th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to amending statute relative to the purchase and distribution of free textbooks.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay A.R. Eppenauer the sum of $5,021.20 in refund of down payments and delay rentals paid by him for State mineral leases Nos. 20,683, 20694, 20685, and 20,057, covering claimed vacant public school lands locate in Pecos County, Texas, adjudged to be in appropriated land not belonging to the State.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, offering to sell and labeling of livestock remedies; providing for registration with State Health Officer; providing penalties.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to providing for certain photographed or microphotographed or filmed records of the State Highway Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety; authorizing the State Highway Department and the Texas Department of Public Safety to photograph, microphotograph or film certain of its records.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts permitting the State Highway Department to issue for the 1946, 1947, and 1948 registration years single plate or plates of metal or other material, symbols, tabs, or other devices, in connection with or in lieu of the motor vehicle license plate or plates; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to acknowledgment or proof of an instrument of writing for record by members of Armed Forces.
SB 89	Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring issuance of certificate of service to any fireman who has completed twenty years service, notwithstanding he may not have reached the age of fifty-five years.
SB 119	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in conjunction with any political subdivision of this State to offer two-year terminal courses in agriculture, the mechanic arts and classical and scientific studies related thereto.
SB 125	Caption: Relating to aeronautics; providing for the development thereof within this State; creating a State Aeronautics Commission and the office of Director of Aeronautics; making an appropriation; prescribing penalties, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts, whether organized under general or special laws, which have certain scholastic population; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 307	Caption: Relating to authorizing pharmacists duly licensed in another State to practice in Texas.
SB 347	Caption: Relating to amending law relative to medicines for livestock.
SCR 3	Caption: Inviting National Commander of the American Legion to address a joint session.
SCR 7	Caption: Appointing committee of Senate and House Members to attend ceremony of flag to Two Hundred First Aviation Squadron of the Mexican Army.
SCR 32	Caption: Providing for a joint committee to supervise enrollment of H.J.R. No. 13.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51 of Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas by changing the tax levy for aid to Confederate Veterans and their widows from seven cents to two cents on the one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation, and authorizing the Legislature to levy an ad valorem tax not to exceed five cents on the one hundred dollar ($100.00) valuation for the purpose of creating a special fund for the construction of permanent improvements at the state supported institutions of higher learning, exclusive of the Main University of Texas, the State Medical Branch, and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; providing for the necessary proclamation, form of ballot, publication, and date of election, and making an appropriation to defray the necessary expenses of proclamation, publication, and holding the election.
48th Regular Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide any person who for four years or more has been the holder of a state first grade certificate shall under certain conditions receive permanent certificate.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to change the method of filing application for admission to State Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
SB 93	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts donating state ad valorem taxes for a period of 20 years to certain counties in the Upper Colorado River Authority.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the granting of telephone, telegraph, electric transmission and/or power line right of ways and/or easements, or leases of sites for electric sub stations and the easements thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, on and across public lands of Texas.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, so as to include cattle, cows, calves, bulls, steers, hogs, sheep, goats, jacks, and jennys, or any of them and requiring a description thereof; prescribing a penalty for violation thereof by the auctioneer, salesman, or party offering such animal or animals for sale.
SB 168	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing the number of employees in the textbook division shall never exceed the number fixed in the departmental appropriation bill.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by changing the time for holding District Court in the counties of McCulloch, Brown and Coleman, comprising the 35th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to creating the Conservation Commission of Texas; providing the qualification, terms of office, method of appointment, and powers and duties of said Commission; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to reducing fees charged applicants for licenses to operate motor vehicles.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative examination of insurance companies by Insurance Commissioner.
SB 337	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to change the time and length of the terms for holding court in the 119th District Court in the counties of Coleman, Concho, Tom Green and Runnels constituting the 119th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to permitting any county with a population of not more than 5,000 people according to the last Federal census to adopt by a majority vote of such county a county unit system to the extent provided in this act.
SCR 10	Caption: Inviting James A. Farley, former Postmaster General and National Democratic Chairman, to address a joint session of the Legislature.
SCR 25	Caption: Inviting Fulton Lewis, Jr. to address a joint session of the Legislature.
SCR 27	Caption: Rescinding S.C.R. No. 25.
SCR 28	Caption: Granting S.J. Lane permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
SCR 30	Caption: Providing for joint session to hear the address of Fulton Lewis, Jr.
SCR 35	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 237 from the Governor.
SCR 39	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate to make certain corrections to S.B. No. 237.
SCR 44	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 564 from the House.
SCR 53	Caption: Expressing opposition to the Department of Agriculture on the marketing of wool.
SCR 61	Caption: Relating to expenditures by the State Commission for the Blind.
47th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing that the governing boards of the several institutions of collegiate rank supported in whole or in part by public funds, are authorized and directed to exempt five students annually from each of the other nations of the American continents from the payment of tuition fees.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article extending the time for the payment of all notes or obligations executed by purchasers of school land for the unpaid balance of principal due the State until November 1, 1951.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of State Auditor.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of Commissioner of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to providing for a supplemental scholastic census in School Districts where there is an unusual increase in population due to proximity of National Defense Agencies.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the annual registration and prescribing licensing fees of commercial motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers; requiring drivers of commercial motor vehicles to carry certificates; providing penalties.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for operating expenses of the Wool Scouring Plant at said College.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article liberalizing act permitting donation of state taxes to Upper Colorado River Authority.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act prescribing the procedure to be followed by the Assessor and Collector of Taxes of Coleman County in paying over to the Central Colorado River Authority the moneys granted said Authority under the provisions of certain section.
SB 138	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the use of the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority, the Upper Colorado River Authority, the Lower Concho River Water and Soil Conservation Authority, etc.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to validating notices to bidders on certain county projects and notices of intention to issue time warrants.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Coke County, Texas; providing that said County may fund or refund into coupon bonds the scrip and time warrants outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of the 28th day of February, 1941.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Brown County, Texas; providing that said County may fund or refund into coupon bonds the scrip and time warrants outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of the 28th day of February, 1941.
SB 224	Caption: Relating to conferring additional powers on the Board of Trustees in certain independent school districts; providing for the pledging of funds for school purposes not to exceed Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars for a period not to exceed three (3) years.
SB 225	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing that no one shall act as chairman or as member of any District, County or City Executive Committee who has not paid his poll tax, or who holds any office of profit or trust in either the United States or Texas.
SB 242	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing for the appointment of a Special Commissioner to serve with and assist a Court of Civil Appeals where a member thereof is called or ordered into active military service.
SB 243	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of minnows beyond the borders of Concho County for the purpose of sale; providing penalties.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act prohibiting the taking of fish in Menard County under certain circumstances; providing size limits and bag limits; providing a penalty.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act making plain the law directing the withholding of school apportionment to school districts in default on their bonds held by the school fund.
SB 284	Caption: Relating to taxes in Common and Independent School Districts; authorizing Districts to increase tax levies for debt service to One ($1.00) Dollar, in some instances, and total tax for maintenance and bonds to not more than One and 50/100 ($1.50) Dollars under the circumstances prescribed in this Act.
SB 313	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking or hunting of wild deer, buck, doe, fawn and wild turkey for a period of five (5) years in Coke County; providing penalties.
SB 314	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of minnows beyond the borders of Coke County for the purpose of sale; prohibiting the use of trot trot-lines or throw-lines containing more than 25 hooks; providing penalties.
SB 315	Caption: Relating to requiring a resident hunting and fishing license of any residents of this state hunting or fishing in the County of Tom Green, with certain exemptions; providing penalties.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act awarding permanent teachers' certificates to persons who taught for four or more years and who can furnish evidence of successful experience in teaching in the public schools for six or more sessions subsequent to September 1, 1910.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act which became effective on March 7, 1941 for the purpose of correcting a clerical error made during passage of the bill validating notices for contracts.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the cooperation of this State with the United States Department of Agriculture in destroying certain predatory animals and rodent pests in the interests of livestock, crops and ranges, be carried on through the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
SB 331	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing that the Commissioners Courts in certain counties may fix the salaries of the county officers between certain amounts.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by authorizing each commissioners court to levy a tax for the purchase and improvement of lands for use as county parks.
SB 334	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the Commissioners Courts in certain counties may fix the salaries of the county officers between certain sums.
SB 371	Caption: Relating to creating the McCulloch County Flood Control District and defining its powers; designating the Commissioners Court as the governing body of such district and defining the powers of such Court in connection therewith.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to declaring the floods in McCulloch County to be a public calamity; donating and granting by the State of Texas to the McCulloch County Glood Control District for a period of twenty (20) years all state ad valorem taxes collected in McCulloch County for general revenue purposes.
SB 439	Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners' court of any county in this State to call an election for the purpose of issuing bonds or warrants for the purpose of acquiring tracts of land and constructing certain buildings and improvements.
SB 444	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, not a member of the Texas Defense Guard, to wear the shoulder patch, the arm brassard, or the collar ornaments duly prescribed as a part of the uniform of said Defense Guard; providing the punishment for offenses against such provisions.
SB 480	Caption: Relating to authorizing applicable water improvement districts, in which there may be located a United States military camp or base, to issue bonds without the necessity of an election to provide funds for constructing and acquiring equipment or facilities for supplying water to military camps or bases.
SCR 11	Caption: Adopting joint rules.
SCR 24	Caption: Commending Governor O'Daniel and the people of Eldorado for their work establishing the West Texas Woolen Mill.
SCR 34	Caption: Suspending Joint Rules.
46th Regular Session
SB 12	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to require every person having certain livestock to brand or earmark the same and to register each brand or earmark with the county clerk on or before January 1, 1940.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to validating certain transfers of land between the Evans Common School District No. 7 to the Mullin Independent School District and the Jones Valley Common School District in Mills County, Texas.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute making Comptroller's report or audit of natural gas and casinghead gas tax liability prima facie evidence of certain facts.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute declaring it unlawful to remove crude oil from a lease if operator has failed or refused to file production reports.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute making Comptroller's report or audit of crude oil production tax prima facie evidence of certain facts.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute making it unlawful for any person to remove any natural and/or casinghead gas from any lease in this State whenever the owner or operator of said lease has failed to file reports as required under the provisions of this Act after notice from the State Comptroller.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute authorizing and directing the governing boards of the several institutions of collegiate rank, supported in whole or in part by public funds appropriated from the State Treasury, to except and exempt certain students from other nations in this continent from the payment of all dues, fees and charges.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act empowering Central Colorado River Authority to enter into contracts with the governing boards of other governmental agencies for the purpose of supervising construction and other operations of said agencies.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide for the election of two Justices of the Peace in Justice Precincts containing a city of eight thousand (8,000) inhabitants or more, upon petition of five hundred (500) qualified voters residing within such precinct to the Commissioners' Court of the County in which such precinct is located.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of an agreement to extend the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas two years from September 1, 1939.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for refund of tax upon motor fuel used for purposes other than use in a motor vehicle operated upon the public highways, roads, or streets of the State of Texas, and requiring any person who sells motor fuel upon which a refund of the tax is authorized to secure license from the Comptroller before making sale of such refund motor fuel.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to creating the Lower Concho River Water and Soil Conservation Authority as a body politic and corporate, defining its boundaries.
SB 287	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide for the funding of certain outstanding road and bridge obligations of McCulloch County, Texas, not to exceed a total principal amount of Sixty-nine Thousand ($69,000.00) Dollars.
SB 337	Caption: Relating to prohibiting catching and retaining perch or catfish of less than certain specified lengths.
SB 468	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the registration and licensing of Registered Tuberculosis Nurses (R.T.N.), who are graduates of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium School of Nursing, requiring three years' training for future graduates.
SB 491	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to aid and facilitate the work to be performed by the Upper Colorado River Authority.
SB 493	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act extending the time within which Upper Colorado River Authority may qualify for Federal assistance.
SCR 23	Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol.
SCR 26	Caption: Endorsing John Nance Garner as candidate of the National Democratic Party for President of the United States.
SCR 73	Caption: Approving the suspension of certain Joint Rules in order to consider HB 545.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the qualification of no person to serve as juror shall be denied or abridged on account of sex.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment repealing a certain Section of the Constitution authorizing the Legislature to provide by law for the registration of all Voters.
SJR 9	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Commissioners' Court of each county to levy annual taxes on all property subject to taxation in such county, not exceeding Ten (10) Cents on the One Hundred ($100) Dollar valuation for the purpose of creating a fund for the relief of poor and indigent persons who are bona-fide residents of the county.
SJR 13	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that all revenues in excess of the cost of collection accruing to the State from charges or taxes with respect to the operation of motor vehicles or the sale or consumption of motor vehicle fuels shall be used exclusively for the construction and maintenance of public highways.
45th Regular Session
HB 149	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for the appointing of and sitting as a Board of Equalization for cities and towns of the state of Texas, so as to allow members of the City Council to sit on the board of Equalization.
HB 224	Caption: Relating to validating all ad valorem tax levies heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in the State of Texas which levies are unenforceable because of failure of the governing body of each respective incorporated city and town to make such levy by ordinance, and which are unenforceable because of the failure of such governing bodies to appoint the Statutory Board of Equalization, or where the City Council, City Commission, or other governing body of such incorporated city or town has acted as a Board of Equalization in the fixing of the valuation of taxable property for ad valorem taxes within any such incorporated city or town.
HB 258	Caption: Relating to creating Firemen's Relief and Retirement Fund in the State of Texas and in all cities, towns, and villages thereof having a regularly organized fire department with fire fighting equipment or apparatus of the value of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or more therein.
HB 395	Caption: Relating to authorizing elections to determine whether livestock shall run at large in Irion County.
HB 412	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute governing the creation of Junior Colleges by providing that a proposed district may have less than seven thousand (7,000) scholastic enrollment but not less than five thousand (5,000), provided the site of such college is more than seventy-five (75) miles from any other Junior or Senior College supported by public taxes, and provided that the State Board of Education finds that the proposed district is in a growing section and that there is a public convenience and necessity for such Junior College.
HB 511	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of an agreement to extend the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas.
HB 526	Caption: Relating to providing that offenses committed or prosecutions begun under pre-existing laws may be conducted under the law as it existed at the time the offense was committed.
HB 527	Caption: Relating to permitting sale of gasoline for domestic purposes, similar to kerosene and distillate.
HB 740	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the Treasury of the State of Texas from any funds, not otherwise appropriated, to the Upper Colorado River Authority.
HB 817	Caption: Relating to providing the maximum and excess fees which all officers named herein shall be entitled to receive and retain, and the disposition to be made of the remainder.
HB 842	Caption: Relating to requiring every person having cattle, hogs, sheep or goats to brand or earmark the same and to register such brand or earmark with the County Clerk of the county where such cattle, hogs, sheep or goats shall be and in certain other counties, on or before January 1, 1938, and every five (5) years thereafter.
HB 974	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Sterling County, conferring upon said Court civil and criminal jurisdiction, and increasing the criminal and civil jurisdiction of said Court.
HB 1087	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in certain independent school districts.
HB 1166	Caption: Relating to changing the terms of court of Sterling County.
HCR 5	Caption: Authoring the Legislature to adjourn from Thursday, January 14 to Monday, January 18, 1937.
HCR 6	Caption: Providing for the payment of expenses from the inauguration ceremonies for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
HCR 8	Caption: Providing a Joint Session of the Legislature in order to inaugurate the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
HCR 27	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate certain facts regarding crude oil prices within the State.
HCR 159	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 138.
HJR 36	Caption: Proposing to amend Article V of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by repealing the Sections creating and organizing the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Courts of Civil Appeals of this State, and adopting new sections in lieu thereof, reorganizing the Supreme Court, and the court of Criminal Appeals; and abolishing the Courts of Civil Appeals.
HJR 44	Caption: Proposing to amend Section 3 of Article VII of the Constitution of Texas by providing that certain revenues derived from State Occupation and poll taxes shall be set apart for the available school fund, and for the permanent school fund.
HJR 45	Caption: Proposing to amend Section 9 of Article VIII of the Constitution by authorizing the commissioners court of each county to levy annual taxes on all property subject to taxation in such county, not exceeding ten (10) cents on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollar's valuation for the purpose of creating a fund for the relief of poor and indigent persons who are bona-fide residents of the county.
HR 5	Caption: Extending good wishes to State Rep. Walter E. Jones as he recovers from illness.
HR 54	Caption: Inviting former State Rep. Jacob Leonard Goodman to address the House.
HR 123	Caption: Inviting former Speaker of the House H. M. Ewing Thomason to address the House.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 36	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the selection of qualified jurors in certain counties as shown by the tax lists in the Tax Assessor's office for the current year, by providing that after the effective date of this Act, the provisions of said statute shall not apply to counties containing, according to the last preceding Federal Census, a population of not less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) and not more than thirty-seven thousand and five hundred (37,500) and containing a city with a population, according to the last preceding Federal Census, of more than twenty-five thousand (25,000).
HB 76	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and legalizing all Time Warrants heretofore authorized by the governing bodies of Independent School Districts in the State of Texas having a scholastic enumeration of not less than 769 and not more than 775 according to the last preceding scholastic enumeration, validating all proceedings heretofore had in connection with the issuance of such Time Warrants, including the levy of and provision for a tax for the payment of principal and interest on said Time Warrants as the same mature, and authorizing such governing bodies of said Independent School Districts to do any and all things necessary and requisite in the issuance, sale and delivery of said Time Warrants.
HCR 23	Caption: Urging Congress to pass Senate 602 which remedies certain errors in the Army's promotion list.
HCR 28	Caption: Memorializing the Federal Communications Commission to increase the allotment to a certain radio station.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 53	Caption: Relating to levying a tax on persons, firms, associations and corporations authorizing or issuing licenses, or agreements, for the public rendition of copyrighted musical numbers.
HB 84	Caption: Relating to diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Glasscock County, to conform to the jurisdiction of the District Court thereof.
HB 133	Caption: Relating to amending the rural aid and equalization fund law by reallocating the moneys appropriated in said law, including specified amounts to match Federal Funds appropriated for the purpose of conducting work in Vocational Agriculture, Home Economics, Trades and Industries, General Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation for Crippled and Defective Children, attaching conditions, regulations and limitations relative thereto.
43rd Regular Session
HB 66	Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season in Glasscock County, upon quail, doves, and pheasants, for a period of three (3) years.
HB 98	Caption: Relating to adding to amending certain statute prohibiting sale of fresh water fish in certain counties so as to add Tom Green County.
HB 176	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to reimburse persons, firms and corporations for losses sustained during the years of 1929 through 1932 by reason of the establishment by the State of Texas of regulated and restricted zones in certain areas of the State requiring such persons, firms and corporations to pay money for the sterilization of seed and the fumigation of cotton.
HB 224	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the counties composing the same, and providing for the election of a Member of the Congress of the United States from each district, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 247	Caption: Relating to providing and imposing an occupation tax on the first sale, distribution or use of motor fuel in this State, defining certain words, terms and phrases for the purpose of this Act; providing and imposing certain penalties against and upon persons failing to comply with the terms of this Act.
HB 260	Caption: Relating to the speed of motor vehicles, shall not apply to fire patrols or motor vehicles operated by the fire department of any city, town or village responding to calls, nor to police patrols or physicians and/or ambulances responding to emergency calls.
HB 301	Caption: Relating to providing that in all suits, whether civil or criminal, or in matters of probate, pending in any court of this State at any time the Legislature is in session, it shall be sufficient grounds for continuance in such cause, if it shall appear to the court, by affidavit, that any party applying for such continuance, or any attorney for any party to such cause is a Member of either branch of the Legislature and is in actual attendance on a session of the same, and that the presence of party or attorney is necessary to a fair and proper trial of the cause.
HB 478	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the district court of the Thirty-second Judicial District so as to change the dates of convening the district court in the counties of the Thirty-second Judicial District of Texas.
HB 486	Caption: Relating to speeding up the disposition of claims filed with the Industrial Accident Board; giving the injured employees the right of appeal if the Board should fail or refuse to pass on claims within ninety days after they are filed with said Board; providing that failure to so appeal from such failure or refusal to act shall not prevent an appeal from a subsequent award.
HB 598	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the district court for the Thirty-second Judicial District so as to change the dates of convening the district court in the counties of the Thirty-second Judicial District of Texas; abolishing the Special District Court of the Thirty-second Judicial District of Texas; amending certain statute relating to the district court for the Seventieth Judicial District of the State of Texas so as to include Howard County in the Seventieth Judicial District, and to change the dates of convening of the district court in the counties of the Seventieth Judicial District.
HCR 23	Caption: Protesting the discontinuance of the air mail route from San Antonio to Big Spring.
HCR 28	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in HB 98.
HCR 31	Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
HCR 71	Caption: Granting John Minica permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 105	Caption: Granting the Independent Oil Company and J.W. Belcher permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 16	Caption: Endorsing Miller M. Brister for the position of First Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
HR 36	Caption: Authorizing the Speaker of the House to appoint a delegate to the Interstate Conference of Legislators.
HR 120	Caption: In memory of Elizabeth Tilghman, mother of Representative Sarah Tilghman Hughes.
HR 160	Caption: Inviting Merwin Haag, son of Representative B. Frank Haag, to address the House.
HR 177	Caption: Inviting former Representative Claude Hudspeth to address the House.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 39	Caption: Relating to validating all ad valorem tax levies heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in the State of Texas which levies are unenforceable because of the failure of the governing bodies of such respective incorporated cities and towns to make such levy or levies by ordinance, and which are unenforceable because of the failure of such governing bodies to appoint the statutory board of equalization.
HB 143	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Highway Commission to institute condemnation proceedings on behalf of the State.
HB 181	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the One Hundred and Twelfth and One Hundred and Nineteenth Judicial Districts.
HCR 1	Caption: In memory of Daniel Franklin Bobbitt.
HCR 61	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider SB 65.
HR 15	Caption: Inviting former Representative R.E. Thomason to address the House.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HB 76	Caption: Relating to conferring authority on the State Highway Commission and/or County Commissioners' Court to purchase or condemn land for any new or wider right-of-way or for materials necessary or convenient to any highway in connection with the locating, relocating, maintenance, or construction of such highway and/or to acquire by purchase or by condemnation the use or acquisition of land not more than one hundred feet in width for stream bed diversion in connection with the locating, relocating, or construction of a designated state highway.
HB 135	Caption: Relating to the granting of relief in certain cases during the emergency declared to exist, from inequitable sales under deeds of trust and inequitable foreclosures of vendors' liens and execution sales of real estate by providing that any bank, corporation, or joint stock association, doing business in this State, shall be required to accept at par value bonds issued by said bank, corporation, or joint stock association as payment on any debt owed said bank, corporation, or joint stock association; providing that the terms and provisions of this Act shall be of no further force and effect after May 1, 1935.
HR 10	Caption: Providing for investigation into the sale of certain land to the City of Port Isabel.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 42	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Legal Examiners with the approval of the Supreme Court to appoint an assistant to serve during the months of February and March, June and July, October and November, prescribing a salary for same, authorizing payment of said assistant out of the fees of office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court.
HB 84	Caption: Relating to the official bond of the State Treasurer, and providing that the State Treasurer shall enter into such bond as may be required by an Act of Congress to protect any Federal funds which shall have been received or which may hereafter be received by the State of Texas and deposited with the State Treasurer.
HCR 31	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider HB 84.
HR 16	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to arrange for a picture of certain members to be hung in the Hall of the House.
43rd 4th Called Session
HB 5	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Secretary of the Board of Legal Examiners with the approval of the Supreme Court to appoint an assistant to serve during the months of February and March, June and July, October and November.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to providing for an open season for taking pelts of fur-bearing animals in Tom Green, Irion, Sterling, and Reagan Counties, shall be during the months of December, January, and February of each year, excepting muskrats, the open season for which shall be from the first day of November to the first day of April, both days inclusive.
HCR 13	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the House might consider HB 73.
HR 22	Caption: Providing for an increase in expense accounts for members of the House.
42nd Regular Session
HB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to authorize corporations organized thereunder to also act as trustee under any lawful express trust committed to them by will and to act as guardian and/or executor under the terms of any will.
HB 43	Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of an investigator in Tom Green County, Texas, by the District Attorney of the Fifty-first Judicial District.
HB 45	Caption: Relating to creating the 92nd Judicial District of Texas.
HB 185	Caption: Relating to apportioning the state of Texas into Congressional Districts.
HB 434	Caption: Relating to fixing pay of deputies and assistants to county and district officers.
HB 467	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in certain counties.
HB 468	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide for the trial of misdemeanors upon complaint, without an information, in counties having no county attorney.
HB 469	Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season in Howard County, upon quail, doves and pheasants for a period of three (3) years.
HB 470	Caption: Relating to authorizing County Board of School Trustees, in certain counties of Texas, to employ Rural School Supervisors in lieu of holding Teachers' Institutes, defining their duties and qualifications, and fixing their compensation.
HB 471	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain land suits.
HB 521	Caption: Relating to declaring the lands set apart for the endowment of the University of Texas to be subject to taxation for county purposes.
HB 598	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into representative districts.
HB 858	Caption: Relating to providing for the right to petition that the county be redivided into commissioner's precincts in certain counties.
HB 878	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner's Courts of certain counties to annually levy, assess and collect a tax to be used for the support of paupers, idiots and lunatics.
HB 1020	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to grant to incorporated cities and towns authority and power to regulate the rate of speed of ambulances over public streets and alleys.
HB 1048	Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment of an investigator in Tom Green County, Texas, by the District Attorney of the 51st Judicial District.
HCR 59	Caption: Relating to H.B. 470.
HCR 70	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk of to make corrections to H.B. 434.
42nd 1st Called Session
HB 46	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to change the dates of convening the district court in Mitchell County of the 32nd Judicial District of Texas.
HB 55	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties composing the same and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United States from each district.
HR 6	Caption: Congratulating Will H. Scott and his wife on the occasion of their marriage.
42nd 2nd Called Session
HB 2	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties composing the same and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United States from each district.
HB 10	Caption: Relating to prohibiting bucket shops; defining "Bucket Shops", "futures", "dealing in futures" and "future contracts"; prescribing penalties.
HCR 2	Caption: Relating to the planting of cotton on State operated farms.
HCR 30	Caption: Relating to the sale of property for colonization purposes.
HCR 40	Caption: Suspending Section 11 of the Joint Rules for the purpose of considering S.B. 51.
HR 4	Caption: Providing postage for members.
42nd 3rd Called Session
HB 9	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by fixing the amount of fees to be paid by the State to certain officers.
HB 21	Caption: Relating to amending stock law for certain counties, including Reagan County.
HB 22	Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season in Glasscock County upon quail, doves and pheasants for a period of three years.
HB 94	Caption: Relating to releasing the interest and penalties on all delinquent ad-valorem and poll taxes due the State or defined subdivisions of the State.
HCR 10	Caption: Granting D. N. Brooks permission to sue the State.
HCR 12	Caption: Authorizing the correction of the caption of House Bill No. 22.
HCR 16	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make corrections to H.B. 22.
HR 11	Caption: In memory of Phil H. Clements of Goldthwaite.
HR 14	Caption: Requesting the Federal Farm Board to withhold cotton from the market for a certain period of time.
42nd 4th Called Session
HR 15	Caption: Appointing a committee of three members for the purpose of assisting the current committee investigating the State Governmental Bureaus and Departments.
41st Regular Session
HB 44	Caption: Relating to changing and prescribing the terms and time for holding district courts of the 32nd Judicial District of the State, composed of Nolan, Scurry, Mitchell, Howard and Borden Counties, giving additional time to Howard County, and to conform all writs and process from such courts to such changes and to make all writs and process issued or served before this Act takes effect.
HB 88	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article of the Revised Statute and repealing a certain Article of the Penal Code regulating the slaughter and sale of the meat of animals for market and providing that every person engaged in the occupation of a butcher or slaughterer of cattle in this State shall file a bond, to be approved by the county judge of the county in which he desires to carry on such business, setting out the terms of said bond, and providing penalties for violation thereof.
HB 275	Caption: Relating to providing that any city which has once acquired the right to levy, and has exercised the right of levying taxes not to exceed for any one year two and one-half per cent of the taxable property of such city for current expenses and for the purpose of construction or the purchase of public buildings, waterworks, sewers and other permanent improvements.
HB 364	Caption: Relating amending certain statute so as to eliminate unnecessary duplicating and expense in the filing and preserving of charters of corporations.
HB 365	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the superintendent of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium of the State of Texas at $5,000 per year, and also fixing the salary of the storekeeper of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at $3,500 per year.
HB 606	Caption: Relating to the relief of railway corporations having charters granted or amended since the first day of January, 1892, and which have failed or are about to fail, to construct their roads and branches, or any part thereof, within the time required by Law.
HB 613	Caption: Relating to the water laws of Texas; removing restrictions on the right of owners to construct dams and reservoirs on their own land.
HB 663	Caption: Relating to the issuance of permits by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner to applicants to take sand, shells, gravel, marl or mudshell from the public waters and their beds.
HCR 30	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 699 to the House for further consideration.
HJR 11	Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the taxation of lands belonging to the University of Texas for all except State purposes; making an appropriation.
HJR 18	Caption: Proposing an amendment fixing the compensation and mileage to be paid members of the legislature; making an appropriation.
HR 7	Caption: In memory of former State Rep. William J. Carson.
41st 1st Called Session
HB 76	Caption: Relating to providing for the eradication of contagious diseases among certain live stock, domestic animals and domestic fowls; also other diseases; providing for the establishment of quarantines by the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, providing penalties for violation of said quarantines, and penalties for other violations of provisions of this act.
HB 77	Caption: Relating to tick eradication law; providing penalties.
HR 9	Caption: Providing the salary of the Enrolling Clerk.
41st 2nd Called Session
HR 16	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the feasibility of constructing a Memorial for the Veterans of the World War on the Capitol Grounds.
HR 20	Caption: In memory of State Rep. J. Herschel Boggs.
41st 4th Called Session
HB 16	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Prison Board composed of three members, providing for the appointment of the members of the Board, prescribing certain qualifications of such appointees, fixing the term of office and providing for the filling of vacancies.
HB 89	Caption: Relating to wolf scalps in Sterling County, Texas.
HR 21	Caption: Inviting former State Rep. Benjamin Woodall to address the House.
41st 5th Called Session
HB 1	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Prison Board.
HB 51	Caption: Relating to providing for and authorizing the exchange between the State of Texas and the Concho, San Saba and Llano Valley Railroad Company of certain lands belong to them, respectively, situated in Tom Green County, and the execution of deeds of conveyance effecting such exchange, placing the land to be so acquired by and conveyed to the State in and under the possession, control and management of the State Board of Control and constituting same a part of the grounds of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
HB 55	Caption: Relating to amending Article 6214 of Title 109, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, relating to defining indigency.
HB 69	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws of the 41st Legislature Second Called Session relating to the destruction of wolves, wild cats and other predatory animals.
HB 70	Caption: Relating to enlarging the powers and duties of the Railroad Commission of Texas with reference to conservation, transportation, storage and purchase of petroleum and its products in this State; prescribing penalties.
HB 141	Caption: Relating to better providing for the disposition of oil and gas in University lands; providing better means and regulations to accomplish said purpose.
HB 158	Caption: Relating to the organization of the Fifty-first Judicial District of the State of Texas.