Legislation authored by Clyde Bradford

Includes legislation with Clyde Bradford as the primary author for the 44th through 45th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
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45th Regular Session
HB 113 Caption: Relating to providing for a local option election in counties having ten thousand (10,000) or more cattle, sheep, and goats rendered for taxation to determine whether or not the qualified voters of such county desire to authorize the levy, assessment, and collection of an annual tax on cattle, sheep, and goats.
HB 114 Caption: Relating to regulating the transportation by motor vehicle for compensation or hire of cattle, sheep, goats, hogs or domestic fowls upon any public street, thoroughfare, or any land of which the driver of the motor vehicle is not the owner, lessee, renter, or tenant.
HB 115 Caption: Relating to increasing the maximum penalty for the theft of sheep or goat from four (4) years to ten (10) years.
HB 116 Caption: Relating to increasing the maximum penalty for the theft of cattle or hog from four (4) years to ten (10) years.
HB 140 Caption: Relating to providing that a deplorable condition existing in that area of the State included in the Counties of Loving, Reeves, Ward and Pecos, has produced a condition which is declared to be a public calamity and making a grant of funds to Red Bluff Water Power Control District to pay principal and interest on bonds issued to provide funds to construct a large storage reservoir on the Pecos River for irrigation of the lands within such District and the construction of a hydroelectric plant and providing electric distribution system.
HB 337 Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of taxes to be levied for school purposes and all independent school districts whether organized under general or special laws.
HB 338 Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of Fourteen Thousand Fifty ($14,050.00) Dollars to the Sul Ross State Teachers College, Alpine, Texas, for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1937, provided, however, the Sul Ross State Teachers College shall be governed by the general provisions of the appropriation bill in the expenditures of the amounts appropriated.
HB 402 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Twelve Hundred Thirty-seven ($1,237.00) Dollars to the Crane County Independent School District in order to refund to said district over payment of interest on school bonds made by said District on bonds held by the State Permanent School Fund.
HB 465 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 517 Caption: Relating to amending certain Act prescribing additional powers and duties of the Commissioners' Court in counties having a population of not less than seven thousand eight hundred (7,800) and not more than eight thousand (8,000) by changing the classification of counties eligible under said Act, by enlarging the duration of the period during which county-wide taxes may be levied hereunder.
HB 528 Caption: Relating to authorizing private corporations heretofore incorporated for the purpose of operating street or interurban railways to amend their charters so as to include as an additional purpose of the corporation the acquiring, owning, and operating of motor vehicles and motor buses for transportation of passengers for hire upon the public streets and public ways of cities and towns and upon the public ways of the adjacent unincorporated territory within five miles from the limits of such cities and towns, under such reasonable regulations and requirements as to rates and service and as to franchises or permits as may be legally imposed from time to time by such cities and towns within the limits thereof and by the Commissioners' Courts of counties as to operations outside of the limits of such cities and towns.
HB 794 Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Pecos County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund designated interest-bearing time warrants in an amount not exceeding Fifty Two Thousand ($52,000.00) and designated scrip warrants in an amount not exceeding Fifty Six Thousand ($56,000.00) outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of February 20, 1937, by the issuance of funding bonds and setting forth the method of issuing same.
HB 931 Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of warrants and vouchers issued by towns and cities in a sum not to exceed Eight Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00) prior to June 1, 1932, and applying to such warrants and vouchers issued as renewals of such original warrants and vouchers.
HB 932 Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensation of County Commissioners in counties with a taxable valuation of not less than Forty Seven Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($47,100,000) nor more than Forty Eight Million, One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($48,100,000) taxable valuation according to the valuation as shown on the County Tax Assessor's rolls for county purposes, and providing for payment of such salaries and the funds from which such salaries shall be paid.
HB 946 Caption: Relating to regulating the transportation by motor vehicle of cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, hogs or domestic fowls upon any public highway, public street, thoroughfare, or any land of which the driver of the motor vehicle is not the owner, lessee, renter or tenant.
HB 955 Caption: Relating to creating County Wide Equalization School Districts in certain counties.
HB 973 Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming, subject to the consent and approval of the Congress of the United States, an agreement and compact between the States of New Mexico and Texas, pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the Alamogordo Reservoir upon the Pecos River in the State of New Mexico, and providing for agreement on the part of the State of New Mexico pertaining to the use of the waters of the Pecos River.
HB 1000 Caption: Relating to creating County Wide Equalization School Districts in certain counties.
HB 1014 Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Consolidated School District No. 2 of Ward County, Texas, made necessary by the fact that a number of additional students have enrolled in said school upon which the district receives no State apportionment.
HB 1023 Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Jeff Davis County, Texas.
HB 1041 Caption: Relating to validating all elections and proceedings had in connection with the formation of Andrews Independent School District of Andrews County, Texas.
HB 1107 Caption: Relating to declaring a closed season on the killing of quail and bobwhites in Andrews County for a period ending January 15, 1942; prescribing a penalty therefor.
HB 1113 Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of County School Superintendent in certain counties.
HCR 140 Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 113.
HR 34 Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot.
45th 1st Called Session
HB 43 Caption: Relating to providing for the validation of the organization of and establishment of water improvement districts situated within a water power control district.
HR 3 Caption: Directing the creation of a Committee of the whole in order to consider certain legislation.
45th 2nd Called Session
HB 113 Caption: Relating to granting Frank Dees and Mrs. George Armstrong and husband, George Armstrong, of Brewster County, Texas, permission to bring suit against the State of Texas and the State Highway Department, in the District Court of Brewster County, Texas, for damages sustained to their property.
44th Regular Session
HB 486 Caption: Relating to providing for the construction of a storage reservoir on the Pecos River for the irrigation of lands.
HB 614 Caption: Relating to providing for renewal and extension of oil and gas permit No. 11,752 on a portion of the Pecos River bed, providing for the placing of all income therefrom, and for all income from oil and gas development from river beds in Texas, in the Permanent School Fund.
HB 615 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take, hunt, trap, shoot or kill any wild quail of any species, for a period of three (3) years in Ector County, Texas; fixing a penalty.
HB 626 Caption: Relating to creating the "Workmen's Compensation Fund of the State Highway Department," for the purpose of compensating employees of the State Highway Department for injuries received in the course of their employment.
HB 732 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 40th Legislature (1st C.S.); proceedings in adoption of children.
HB 827 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the 1925 Revised Civil Statutes; authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds and warrants to refund any legal outstanding maintenance obligations of independent school districts and consolidated school independent districts by canceling evidence thereof and issuing to the holders or creditors notes, bonds, or warrants, with or without coupons, bearing interest payable annually.
HCR 17 Caption: Providing consent for the Federal Government to purchase land in the State of Texas for park and forest purposes.
HJR 21 Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Texas so as to authorize the taxation of lands belonging to the University of Texas for county and school district purposes.
44th 3rd Called Session
HB 78 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Twelve Hundred-Thirty-seven ($1237.00) Dollars to the Crane County Independent School District in order to refund to said District over payment of interest on school bonds made by said District on bonds held by the State Permanent School Fund.