Legislation authored by Charles Clinton Small

Includes legislation with Charles Clinton Small as the primary author for the 41st through 46th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

46th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to extend oil and gas conservation laws which expire on September 1, 1939.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of a certificate of title for each motor vehicle registered or licensed or to be hereafter registered or licensed within this State.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum daily volume of sweet gas which may be withdrawn from any common reservoir in this State producing sweet gas; directing the Railroad Commission of Texas to inquire into the production of sweet gas to determine whether or not drainage is taking place.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Potter County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund designated interest-bearing time warrants in an amount of not exceeding Forty-two Thousand ($42,000) Dollars outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of January 1, 1939.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Randall County, Texas, validating an order heretofore passed by the Commissioners' Court of Randall County authorizing the issuance of certain Road and Bridge Funding Bonds.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of shorthand reporting in the State of Texas; providing for examination and licensing of shorthand reporting; providing that violation of the terms of this Act shall constitute a misdemeanor, and prescribing a penalty.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation of hairdressers and cosmetologists to create a State Board of Examiners for the licensing of persons to carry on and to teach such practices to insure the better training and education of such practitioners and instructors; providing penalties for the violation thereof.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to permitting trustees of school districts in certain counties to issue time warrants.
SB 138	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute pertaining to weights and measures, providing for the promulgation of specifications and tolerances for commercial weighing and measuring devices.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute requiring commodities to be sold by weight, measure, or numerical count; regulating the packing and marking of packages and containers; providing standards for the sale of butter, bread, milk, and meat and meat food products; providing penalties for the enforcement of the act.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act; providing that recoveries under a motor fuel distributor's bond shall not exceed the penal sum thereof; providing that such bonds, if continuous in form, may be continued in effect by renewal certificates.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute by providing for the method of reducing the amount of bonds required of executors and administrators and for service of citations by mail upon parties in interest not residents in a county.
SB 163	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of corporations for the purpose of maintaining, constructing, and operating landing fields for airplanes and depots, terminals, machine shops and hangers to accommodate aircraft, and conferring upon such corporations the right of eminent domain.
SB 164	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Coronado Quarto Centennial Commission, prescribing the duties and responsibilities of such Commission.
SB 165	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to eligible obligations of the counties or Road Districts of the State to participate in County and Road District Highway Fund.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Carson County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of January 31, 1939, by the issuance of funding bonds.
SB 241	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the use of sweet gas under certain conditions for the manufacture of carbon black; and providing for the used of sweet gas for the extraction of natural gasoline therefrom when the residue is returned to other oil or gas bearing horizons.
SB 242	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the "Upper Red River Flood Control and Irrigation District"; designating who shall have authority to execute vouchers; limiting the purposes for which the money may be spent.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Randall County, Texas, validating an order passed by the Commissioners' Court of Randall County authorizing the issuance of certain road and bridge funds.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute by empowering all cities and towns including Home Rule Cities operating under this title to have the power to build, improve, and purchase, to mortgage and encumber their light systems, water systems, sewer systems, or sanitary disposal equipment and appliances, or natural gas systems, parks and/or swimming pools.
SB 298	Caption: Relating to setting out the authority of the Texas State Parks Board in all matters pertaining to land titles and interests, authorizing the acceptance, rejection, conveyance, or reconveyance of park sites.
SB 306	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act regulating fishing in Dallam and other Counties in the Panhandle region of this State.
SB 322	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Funding Bond Commission and prescribing its duties; authorizing the issuance of seventeen million ($17,000,000.00) Dollars of State of Texas funding bonds for the purpose of funding a like amount of legally outstanding general revenue fund warrants.
SB 323	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of a Statute relating to indemnity contracts by reciprocal or inter-insurance exchanges; fixing the extent of liability of subscribers at such exchanges.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to public lands; providing for the creation of a Public Land Board to have control of sale and leasing of school and public lands.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of public lands along the eastern boundary of the State of Texas and the western boundary of the State of Oklahoma.
SB 374	Caption: Relating to appropriating $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of defraying expenses incident to cooperating with the Federal Government in the extermination of migratory grasshoppers.
SCR 40	Caption: Recalling SB 117 from the House for further consideration.
45th Regular Session
SB 91	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of dentistry.
SB 92	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act regulating barbers by changing the renewal fee for certificate of registration from $2.50 per year thereof to $3.50 per year; providing for stricter regulations with reference to health regulations; providing for an annual license fee on barber shops, providing for a fee as a prerequisite to opening and operating a barber ship, defining the barber school and providing for a fee for an inspection thereof.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of West Texas State Teachers College and for the erection of permanent improvements at the West Texas State Teachers College.
SB 136	Caption: Relating to providing a quorum for the Board of Cosmetology and that said Board may prescribe necessary rules and regulations for its own conduct and for the enforcement of the provisions of certain Act, authorizing said Board with the approval of the State Board of Health to prescribe sanitary rules to prevent the spread of contagious diseases.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to levying a tax upon foreign assessments life and casualty companies and providing that foreign assessments life and casualty companies admitted to do business in Texas under certain statute, shall pay taxes under, and in accordance with, the provisions of said statute.
SB 210	Caption: Relating to the granting of injunctions and restraining orders.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to subjecting unappropriated and unsold public domain to sale and prescribing the terms, condition and manner in which said lands are to be sold.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to providing for the adoption by the State of Texas of the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, vesting power in Courts of Record in this State within their respective jurisdictions to hear proceedings to declare rights, status, and other legal relations, which judgments so declaring such relations shall have the force and effect of a final judgment and decree.
SB 327	Caption: Relating to adopting the uniform State Law for Aeronautics, declaring sovereignty in space above lands and waters in this State to be in the State of Texas.
SB 328	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment by the Governor of three commissioners as members from Texas to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, with terms of office of two years, setting forth the qualifications of such commissioners, and providing that they shall serve without compensation or expense to the State.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Castro County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund designated interest-bearing time warrants in an amount not exceeding Eight Thousand ($8,000.00) Dollars and designated scrip warrants in an amount not exceeding Fifteen Thousand Seven Hundred Forty-five and 21/100 ($15,745.21) Dollars, outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of January 1, 1937, by the issuance of funding bonds, and setting forth the method of issuing same.
SB 382	Caption: Relating to sale and lease of public school lands.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to declaring the policy of the State of Texas with reference to the production and conservation of natural gas and protection of correlative rights of owners of gas producing properties by preventing cognizable and preventable damage; prescribing the penalties for violations of this Act and authorizing suits for penalties in the name of the State and fixing the venue of such suits.
SB 384	Caption: Relating to providing and authorizing that any bonds, interest thereon, or similar obligations, issued by any municipality of political division of the State may be made payable at the office of the State Treasurer.
SB 386	Caption: Relating to creating the Panhandle Water Conservation Authority as a body politic and corporate, defining its boundaries, specifying its powers and duties, providing for its officers and the amount and manner of compensating same and their duties and powers.
SB 387	Caption: Relating to operation of pool halls.
SB 406	Caption: Relating to increasing the Civil Jurisdiction of the County Court of Collingsworth County.
SB 407	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Railroad Commission of Texas to promulgate rules, regulations and orders to prevent or lessen drainage from any developed property caused or threatened by the production of gas from any gas well in any common reservoir in this State, and to prevent or lessen the drainage of gas as between different zones in such common reservoirs; prescribing the minimum limits to which the production of any well may be restricted; prohibiting production in excess of the amount fixed by the Railroad Commission; prescribing penalties and suits for their collection.
SB 408	Caption: Relating to redefining the term "Marginal Wells."
SB 440	Caption: Relating to authorizing convictions upon the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.
SB 452	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient Road Law for Parmer County, Texas, authorizing the Commissioners' Court to require surety bonds of road overseers, validating certain time warrants and the proceedings heretofore had by the County and by its officials in reference to the issuance of certain time warrants for the purchase of rights-of-way, authorizing the Commissioners' Court of said County to issue serial coupon bonds of said County in the funding of said time warrants, and to levy all or any part of the Fifteen Cents Special Road and Bridge Maintenance Tax of said County for payment of said bonds.
SB 457	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College and the Board of Directors of Texas College of Arts and Industries and the Board of Regents of the Texas state Teachers Colleges to erect and equip and make contracts for the erection and equipping of dormitories, other buildings and improvements on the campus or other real estate purchased or leased for the purpose.
SB 486	Caption: Relating to providing for changing and prescribing times of holding Court in the 84th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 507	Caption: Relating to validating all ordinances of cities operating under the Home Rule amendment to the Constitution of this State, which have heretofore been published in accordance with the provisions of the charters of such home rule cities.
SCR 39	Caption: Directing the Comptroller of Public Accounts to transfer certain funds to the Permanent School Fund.
SCR 57	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 452.
45th 1st Called Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to providing for certain restrictions on the sale of wine and beer on premises where consumed, further providing for certain and definite penalties for violations in the traffic of alcoholic beverages and in making and keeping of records of permittees and licensees; fixing the effective date of this Act.
45th 2nd Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to providing that only one-fourth of all of the revenue derived from occupation taxes levied by the State of Texas shall be placed to the credit of the State Available School Fund.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to authorizing any city of more than 40,000 population, according to the last preceding census, to codify and adopt a code of civil and criminal ordinances without the necessity of publication.
SCR 27	Caption: Directing the Investigating Committee to make an investigation into the sale of State Land for the purpose of oil and gas leasing.
44th Regular Session
SB 38	Caption: Relating to fixing the number and length of terms of all district courts in Texas having civil or civil and criminal jurisdiction, save and except those courts now or hereafter governed by certain statute and prescribing rules and practice and procedure to be followed in such courts.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to correcting malpractice in the building construction industry by safeguarding the public against the irresponsible practice of the profession of architecture.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to authorizing governing boards of various educational institutions to pledge revenues to pay bonds and notes to Federal Agencies.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person interested in the publication of textbooks or in selling the same to be used in the public schools of this State from being eligible to hold certain positions in the public schools in this State.
SB 183	Caption: Relating to the granting of injunctions and restraining orders.
SB 184	Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation of hairdressers and cosmetologists, creating a State Board of Examiners for the licensing of persons to carry on and to teach such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners; providing rules regulating the proper conduct and sanitation of hairdressing and beauty culture establishments and school, so as to prevent the spreading of contagious and infectious diseases, and providing for violations thereof.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to repealing certain authorizing the Banking Commissioner of the State of Texas with the approval of the Governor to declare financial moratoriums for and invoking a uniform withdrawing of deposits from all banks in this State.
SB 202	Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating nominations of candidates for District Judges, Criminal District Judges, Justices of the Court of Civil Appeals, Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and Justices of the Supreme Court by political parties casting one hundred thousand votes or more for their candidate for Governor at the next preceding general election.
SB 203	Caption: Relating to validating all tax levies for road purposes only, made under authority of Section 9 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, where such levies apply to entire counties but which were voted by separate subdivisions of such counties.
SB 204	Caption: Relating to providing for a closed season on wild prairie chickens and pinnated grouse in the counties of Collingsworth, Wheeler, Hemphill, Lipscomb, Gray, Roberts, and Donley for a period of five years.
SB 205	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from appearing party review in Court of Civil Appeals by means of writ of error.
SB 206	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 Swisher County where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon the "Hutchinson Iron Pipe Survey."
SB 207	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to suit brought for performance of obligation, by distinctly specifying that the county which is involved in the suit, must be named by the writing expressly.
SB 208	Caption: Relating to preserving filed pleadings by making just and convenient regulations to such end.
SB 209	Caption: Relating to providing that attorneys from other jurisdictions shall be required to pass the examination given to other applicants, with exception respecting participation by such attorneys in the trial of hearing of any particular case wherein a resident practicing attorney of Texas is actually employed, associated and personally participating.
SB 210	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to take or catch any fish in the waters of any stream, lake pool, or reservoir of certain counties in this State during the months of April and May of each year.
SB 211	Caption: Relating to dispensing with bills of exception to action on written motions.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to giving further certainty to appellate jurisdiction by providing for waiver and cure of objection as to the various notices and bonds required for its perfection.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to empowering the judge to change venue on his own motion.
SB 214	Caption: Relating to providing for waiver of defects, omissions and faults in pleading.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of any county that has heretofore sold school land to discount, sell, or transfer obligations representing deferred payments on said land for less than face value and to release or transfer the lien securing such obligation on such terms as may be deemed advantageous.
SB 269	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of $2500.00 to make necessary repairs upon the Administration Building at West Texas State Teachers College, and $7500.00 for materials to construct and finish a men's dormitory now under construction.
SB 310	Caption: Relating to providing for the disposition of unclaimed deposits in the hands of the Banking Commissioner and the Banking Board and providing a mode for the distribution of such funds.
SB 353	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of shorthand reporting; creating a State Board of Shorthand Reporting, defining its powers, providing for fees and for their disbursement, and for the examination and certification of shorthand reporters, with the designation of "Certified Shorthand Reporters."
SB 364	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing qualifications prerequisite to exempt from taxation for institutions, except those owned by the State of Texas, the function of which is the care of, or ministration to sick or inform humans, by adding thereto another section wherein it is provided that this class of institutions, to claim exemption from taxation, must allow all reputable licensed physicians and/or surgeons the use of its facilities.
SB 478	Caption: Relating to changing the time of holding the terms of the District Court in the One Hundredth Judicial District, and providing that all process and writs heretofore issued and all recognizances and bonds heretofore made and executed and returned to existing terms of district court in the counties composing said district, together with jurors heretofore selected are valid and returnable to the first term of such court after this Act takes effect.
SB 487	Caption: Relating to declaring the policy of the State regarding conservation of natural gas produced in the State; defining certain terms and phrases as used in this Act.
SB 492	Caption: Relating to providing for the combining of the public welfare services now administered by the Board of Control through the Texas Relief Division, the Division of Child Welfare and the Division of Eleemosynary Institutions and for the administering of these services by the Division of the Public Welfare of the State Board of Control, which is herein created.
SB 506	Caption: Relating to authorizing the RFC Mortgage Company, or any other corporation whose stock is entirely subscribed for and owned by the United States of America, and the principal business of which is that of making loans upon mortgages, deeds of trust, or other instruments conveying or constituting a lien upon real estate, or any interest therein, to do business in the State of Texas without the payment of any filing fee, franchise tax, or other fees imposed by the State of Texas upon corporations.
SB 515	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation and incorporation of wind erosion conservation districts coextensive with the area of any county in this State.
SB 527	Caption: Relating to the payment of bonded indebtedness of counties from the County and Road District Highway Fund by the State Treasurer.
SB 532	Caption: Relating to creating the Palo Duro Canyon State Park Board; providing for the number of members of said Board, terms of office, the manner of appointment and the duties and responsibilities of the members.
SB 534	Caption: Relating to permitting trustees of Independent School Districts in certain counties to issue time warrants for the purpose of taking up, refunding, and extending indebtedness incurred for the legal maintenance of schools in said districts up to June 1, 1935.
SCR 43	Caption: Authorizing certain school districts to file claims for aid under S.B. No. 242 of the 43rd Legislature.
SCR 50	Caption: Suspending certain joint rules to dispose of S.B. No. 527.
SJR 20	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas providing for a Supreme Court of nine members.
SR 84	Caption: Relating to certain bills before the Illinois Legislature.
SR 98	Caption: In memory of Arthur C. Johnson.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 16	Caption: Relating to defining and prohibiting the open saloon and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to making emergency appropriation of $16,628.00 to the West Texas State Teachers College at Canyon, Texas, for the purpose of purchasing supplies and furnishing labor for the laying of water and gas mains and furnishing electrical wiring and appliances to the Boys Dormitory and laying water, gas and sewer mains to the student cottages, located at said college, and purchasing and installing certain fire hydrants along said water mains, and the construction of a septic tank on such college premises.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Hartley County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of May 23, 1935, setting forth the method of operation.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Swisher County, Texas, providing that said county may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of July 8, 1935, setting forth the method of operation.
SR 16	Caption: Directing the Committee of State Affairs to report on S.B. No. 1.
44th 2nd Called Session
SB 13	Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; making it unlawful for any person to operate a saloon; making it unlawful for any person to possess certain intoxicating liquor on premises where malt and vinous liquors are sold; providing penalties for the violation of this Act.
SB 14	Caption: Relating to defining the term "open saloon"; creating a Board of Liquor Control; providing for a system of permits; prescribing punishment.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to the duties and powers of administrators de bonis non.
SCR 26	Caption: Granting the Panhandle Construction Co. permission to sue the State Highway Department.
44th 3rd Called Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings heretofore had by the governing bodies of all counties in connection with the issuance of bonds for any purpose, including election orders, notices of election, returns of election, orders canvassing election returns, and bonds issued pursuant thereto, including among others, instances wherein there have been irregularities in the calling of elections and in the giving of notice of elections.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to providing an open season for hunting wild quail in Hemphill and Lipscomb Counties; providing a penalty for killing any quail except during the open season herein provided.
SCR 2	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Education on adoption of the reading of music to be taught in public schools.
43rd Regular Session
SB 92	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute prohibiting the waste of gas by escape and requiring the confinement thereof under the terms and conditions of said statute; fixing a penalty for a violation thereof and providing means for recovering such penalty.
SB 105	Caption: Relating to abolishing the 114th District Court; providing for the transfer of all cases pending on the docket of the 114th District Court,and providing for the return of process out of the 114th District Court, and validating such process.
SB 117	Caption: Relating to requiring the Land Commissioner to ascertain and determine the amount of bonus and rental money due the State and by whom due under the operation, terms and conditions of the Relinquishment Act, authorizing the Land Commissioner to settle and compromise such debts with the debtors on the basis of actual amounts found due less all just and lawful credits.
SB 130	Caption: Relating to fixing the number and length of terms of district courts in Texas and prescribing rules of practice and procedure by specifying the requisites of citations issued out of district courts.
SB 131	Caption: Relating to defining the terms "common carrier," "power unit," "light engine," "passenger train," "freight train," "motor car," "engineer," "fireman," "conductor," and "brakeman"; defining the term "competent employee," and applying such term to an engineer, a fireman, Conductor, and brakeman; prohibiting any common carrier from running over its road or part of road outside of the yard limit, any motor car, passenger train, freight train, light engine, or self-propelled machine with less than a full crew of competent employees; providing a penalty for the violation of the act, suit to recover penalty at the instance of the Attorney General or county or district attorney, and providing venue for said suit.
SB 132	Caption: Relating to providing for the continuance of the trial of civil and criminal causes and matters in probate, pending in any court in this State while the Legislature is in session, where it appears by affidavit that a party to any such cause is a member of the Legislature and is attendance thereon.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to tap or to drill into any pipeline or other conduit through which crude oil, gasoline, naptha, natural gas, casinghead gas or any of the manufactured or natural products thereof is transported, and declaring such acts to be penalties, prescribing a penalty therefor.
SB 188	Caption: Relating to providing that the owner of the surface or siol estate in land sold by the State, with mineral reservation may purchase the State's mineral estate in said land at a price of ten percent of the price for which the soil or surface estate was sold plus a free royalty to the State.
SB 196	Caption: Relating to providing that all taxes, whether ad valorem, occupation, or otherwise, shall be a lienon all property, both personal and real, providing that said lien shall continue, though said property is not assessed, and that buck assessments may be made on said property for any taxes due thereon.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the powers of a corporation engaged in the oil and gas producing business by providing that a separate corporation shall be formed to conduct the gas pipeline business in a similar manner as required for the oil pipeline business; providing that separate incorporation shall be effected not later than June 1, 1933, for issuance of permits to foreign corporations authorizing conduct of oil and gas producing business as well as gas pipeline business.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to defining "machine gun," "crimes of violence," and "person"; making it an offense to possess or use machine guns in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of crimes of violence; making it an offense to possess a machine gun for offensive or aggressive purposes; providing for the registration of machine guns by citizens with the Secretary of State and prescribing a penalty for failure to do so.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to making it an offense to manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or in any other way produce or prepare narcotic drugs except under license obtained from Comptroller of Public Accounts; defining certain terms.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of ten thousand ($10,000.000) dollars to be used by the Comptroller of Public Accounts of Texas for the purpose of paying expenses of tax supervisors to audit the accounts and records of producewrs of naturas gas, as defined in certain Act, and to enforce the further provisions of said Act.
SB 216	Caption: Relating to authorizing defendants in felony cases less than capital offenses, with the consent and approval of the Court, to waive the right of trial by jury and to be triad by the court; amending certain statutes so as to make them conform to such right; providing that when a defendant who is eligible to apply for a suspended sentence has no attorney, the Court may appoint an attorney to represent him.
SB 231	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of new independent, common school and county line districts out of parts of other school districts.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to the mode of testing jurors in criminal cases.
SB 235	Caption: Relating to providing that the State Board of Education shall perform such duties and exercise such authority as is provided by the Constitution as is now provided by law in regard to the selection and purchase of free textbooks, and shall perform no other duties and exercise no other authority.
SB 246	Caption: Relating to constituting the owner of the soil the agent of the State to institute and prosecute in his own name any suit or suits to set aside for fraud or other illegality or invalidity any sale or lease to any person, firm or corporation of the oil, gas or other minerals, on or under any such land, and to validate all suits, heretfore brought, for such purposes by the owner of the soil and authorize the continued prosecution to final judgment of any such suits in the name of said owner and to make the said judgments rendered in said causes binding upon the State.
SB 259	Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of certain colleges to retain control of fees and other local institutional income collected at said schools; providing penalties for violation of this Act.
SB 270	Caption: Relating to the election, term of office, duties and qualifications of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
SB 308	Caption: Relating to permitting a transfer of any claim held by the State of Texas or any county, municipality or taxing district thereof, and directing the issuing of a certificate evidencing such transfer, and giving to the owner or holder thereof the same priority of lien and remedies for enforcing said tax claim as where held by the State of Texas or any county, municipality or taxing district thereof prior to such transfer.
SB 345	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county, political subdivision or defined district of a county to fund, refund compromise or settle in whole or in part its valid outstanding bonded indebtedness or judgments recovered on such bonded indebtedness, both principal and accrued interest.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to authorizing W. B. Cross of Travis County, Texas, as innocent purchaser of certain deficiency certificates issued by the Comptroller of the State of Texas, to sue the State of Texas on said deficiency certificates.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to permitting appeals from orders and judgments of trial courts granting or refusing the appointment of receivers.
SB 419	Caption: Relating to providing for the repurchase of land set apart to build the Capitol that has been recovered by the State and appropriated to the Public Free School Fund, and heretofore purchased from the State, and forfeited or that should be forfeited for nonpayment of interest accrued prior to November 1, 1932, the owner of such land or part thereof at the date of forfeiture shall have a preference right for a period of ninety (90) days after the date of notice of revaluation of such land to repurchase the same upon the terms and conditions provided in certain statute.
SB 427	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the offense of assault with intent to murder by providing that upon the trial of one charged with such offense, there shall be an instruction defining malice aforethought and in a proper case, murder without malice; fixing the penalty for assault with intent to murder without malice; fixing the penalty for assault with intent to murder when committed upon any duly elected and qualified Executive, Judicial or Administrative Officer of the United States or any State thereof or upon any such person who has been duly elected to any such office and not yet qualified.
SB 476	Caption: Relating to ratifying and confirming a compact entered into by and between representatives of the State of Texas and the State of New Mexico authorized by certain Act of the Forty-second Legislature, and approved by the governor on May 27, 1931.
SB 477	Caption: Relating to repealing the law creating the County Court of Potter County at Law; transferring the causes pending on the docket of said court to the County Court of Potter County and the justice courts of Potter County.
SB 493	Caption: Relating to medical examination by mutual life insurance companies.
SB 506	Caption: Relating to protecting Texas industries; regulating a type of competition that unless it be regulated mya ultimately destroy the independent grocer, and Texas industries depending for distribution upon grocery stores; providing a penalty of not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars for each violation of any provision or provisions of this Act.
SB 527	Caption: Relating to providing for changing and prescribing times of holding court in the 84th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 532	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas State Parks Board to acquire State park sites by purchase, gift or otherwise, and to improve, beautify and equip their several State Parks and to contract with reference thereto, and in payment thereof, or to secure funds therefor, to issue evidences of indebtedness secured by the rents, revenues and incomes from such improvements and/or other fees, rents or revenues from any source other than appropriations made by the State Legislature.
SB 552	Caption: Relating to conferring additional powers on the boards of trustees of independent school districts situated in counties having a population according to the latest Federal census of more than 22,000 and less than 22,100, by providing that the boards of trustees of such districts may issue refunding warrants in lieu of eligible vouchers as defined herein, issued prior to January 1, 1932.
SB 554	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the purposes for which private corporations may be formed so as to provide that corporations may be formed for the purpose of engaging in the business of exterminating moths and termites with power to acquire and own all property necessary to conduct such business.
SCR 10	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a joint committee to settle the boundary dispute in the Oklahoma-Texas Panhandle.
SCR 19	Caption: Granting Ruth Shannon permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 22	Caption: Granting S.E. Harris permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 26	Caption: Requesting from the Collector of Internal Revenue a ninety-day extension for members of the Legislature to file their income tax returns.
SCR 64	Caption: Clarifying the meaning of "unsurveyed land" in HB 358 of the 42nd Legislature.
SCR 71	Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
SCR 78	Caption: Recalling SB 203 from the Governor.
SJR 14	Caption: Proposing and submitting to the people of the State of Texas an amendment to Section 10 of Article 1 of the Constitution of Texas, authorizing the Legislature to enact a law providing for the prosecution of felonies by information as well as by indictment, and to modify the grand jury system.
SJR 17	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 9 of Article 8 of the Constitution, authorizing an additional levy of taxes by political subdivisions of the State not to exceed two mills on the one ($1.00) dollar valuation.
SR 27	Caption: Endorsing Grover C. Hill for the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
SR 30	Caption: Authorizing the President of the Senate to employ a lawyer to act as Legislative Counsellor to the Senate.
SR 48	Caption: Providing for the creation of the Senate Committee on Game and Fish.
SR 72	Caption: Appointing Senator Oneal to represent the State of Texas at the Interstate Legislative Assembly in Chicago.
SR 134	Caption: Memorializing Secretary Wallace to take cotton land out of production for the current year.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of relief bonds to the extent of $7,500,000 under Section 51-A, Article III, of the Constitution of the State of Texas.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county, political subdivision or defined district thereof to hold an election for the purpose of determining whether it will repurchase any road bondes sold and outstanding at the time of the passage of this Act, out of unexpended and unpledged funds received from the original sale of said bonds, and providing that such election shall be ordered and held in the same form and manner provided for in voting such road bonds.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1934, to be used by the State Parks Board.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to authorizing the selection of school depositories for independent school districts created by the Legislature prior to January 1, 1920, in certain counties regardless of the scholastic population of said districts.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to granting to cities and towns powers in reference to the building, purchasing, improving, enlarging, extending and repairing of light, water, sewer or natural gas systems, sanitary disposal equipment and appliances, parks and/or swimming pools, either or all, and the franchise and income thereof, to secure the payment of funds therefor.
SCR 18	Caption: Inviting several Texas Centennial officials to address a joint session of the Legislature.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 70	Caption: Relating to changing and prescribing the time for holding the terms of District Court in the 108th Judicial District; to provide for the continuation of court in session in said district when this Act takes effect to the end of the term.
43rd 4th Called Session
SB 16	Caption: Relating to collection of taxes and license fees from manufacturers of beer.
SCR 10	Caption: Expressing appreciation for the Texas Centennial Commission.
SR 13	Caption: Providing for a floral offering to be sent to the funeral of R.M. Hubbard.
SR 22	Caption: Expressing appreciation of the Senate for the Texas Centennial Commission.
42nd Regular Session
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to limit the venue of suits instituted by the Attorney General for Public lands or for rents by same or damages thereto to the county of the defendant's residence or the county were the land lies.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the salary of District Attorneys.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an agricultural experiment station in the Panhandle region of Texas.
SB 310	Caption: Relating to public school and asylum lands; providing that the original sales affecting lands with mineral reservation may be enlarged to include 15/16 of the minerals in the owners of the soil, reserving to the State 1/16 interest in said minerals as royalty.
SB 337	Caption: Relating to defining marginal wells.
SB 354	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of expenses of trial by Jury in Civil cases by the counties in which said cases are filed, except when such cases are transferred upon pleas of privileges.
SB 365	Caption: Relating to creating a Court to be known as the County Court of Potter County At Law.
SB 411	Caption: Relating to levying and collecting annually a three dollar road tax against all able-bodied male citizens of Collingsworth County, Texas who are between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years.
SB 413	Caption: Relating to providing that in counties of a certain population or property valuation, the sheriff may appoint certain deputies.
SB 414	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide for the payment of costs to officers by the county in any and all cases wherein the defendant is unable to pay his fine and lays his fine out in jail.
SB 441	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of county commissioners in certain counties; providing for the payment of same out of the General County Fund and Road and Bridge Fund.
SB 461	Caption: Relating to fixing the time of holding terms of the District Courts in all of the Judicial Districts of the State of Texas.
SB 481	Caption: Relating to regulating the sale and patenting of lands formerly claimed as a part of Oklahoma but awarded to the State of Texas in the case of the State of Oklahoma vs. the State of Texas, the United States of America, Intervenor, and which are now located in the Counties of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth and Childress; providing for the effective date of sales.
SB 492	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of independent school districts by the county board of trustees and providing for the assumption of bonds or other indebtedness then outstanding against portions of the territory included in a new district.
SB 511	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsoever class, kind, or character directly of indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the "Wayside State Park, Wayside, Texas, 120 acres situated in the Palo Duro Canyon, Armstrong County, in the State of Texas, to H. G. Bowe of Swisher County, Texas.
SB 512	Caption: Relating to providing for changing and prescribing times of holding Court in the 84th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 513	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that new trials may be granted within six months from rendition of judgment where service was had by publication.
SB 514	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure to provide that either party may contest any material matter in a motion for continuance and the granting and denial of same shall be within the sound discretion of the court.
SB 519	Caption: Relating to the duties of the County Board of Trustees of public schools of this State in certain counties.
SB 520	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide the examining trial fees of the Sheriff in all felony cases where an examining trial is held and the defendant is thereafter indicted by the Grand Jury.
SB 554	Caption: Relating to the dissolution of insurance societies or associations.
SB 564	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relative to property about to be removed.
SB 565	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to bail in criminal cases pending appeal.
SB 569	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article so as to exempt officers in Counties of less than 25,00 inhabitants from requirement of making sworn reports.
SB 574	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to qualifications for voting.
SB 619	Caption: Relating to the pay of certain District Attorneys.
SB 622	Caption: Relating to authorizing any corporation owning or operating oil pipe line or lines in this State to lease or attache to their line or lines other pipe line or lines, by lease or purchase, and to join with any other corporation authorized to own and/or operate an oil pipe line or lines.
SCR 26	Caption: Recalling H.B. 656 for further consideration.
SCR 60	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make corrections to H.B. 251.
SR 63	Caption: Inviting J.D. Hamlin to address the Senate.
SR 154	Caption: Requesting statement by Attorney General's Department concerning oil legislation.
42nd 1st Called Session
SB 13	Caption: Relating to joint construction and operation of new pipe lines in Texas.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to conserving the oil and gas resources of the State of Texas; declaring unlawful and prohibiting the production, storage or transportation of crude petroleum oil or of natural gas in such manner, amount or under such conditions as to constitute waste; defining waste.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to making provisions for the enforcement of tax liens certain subdivisions, where taxes are unpaid and delinquent on real property by eliminating the foreclosure thereof by suits in Court; providing for notice, advertisement, sale, execution and delivery of deed by Collector.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to authorizing the assignment and transfer of any tax liens levied by any county, municipality, school district or any other political subdivision of the State.
SCR 4	Caption: Relating to the sale of public school lands to present occupants.
SCR 8	Caption: Withdrawing all mineral deposits, other than oil and gas, in University lands from sale or lease.
SCR 13	Caption: Appointing a committee to investigate judicial districts and district courts of Texas.
42nd 3rd Called Session
SB 19	Caption: Relating to repealing certain section of an Act creating the Spearman Independent School District in Hansford County relating to the beginning of the fiscal year.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing that the failure to pay any portion of the interest on the unpaid purchase money of lands sold by the State shall subject the sale of said land to forfeiture.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to confirming and validating repurchases of public, free school and asylum lands by forfeited land owners; defining the rights of the State and the repurchasing land owners in respect to the ownership of the oil and gas and other minerals therein.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to requiring the Land Commissioner to ascertain and determine the amount of bonus and rental money due the State under the Relinquishment Act.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the production and use of gas from wells producing gas only.
SCR 10	Caption: Relating to adjournment sine die on Monday, September 21, 1932.
41st Regular Session
SB 103	Caption: Relating to providing that the venue of all suits instituted by the Attorney General for the recovery of any public lands for and on behalf of the State as against any defendant in actual possession of such land claiming the same under grant or sale from the State.
SB 104	Caption: Relating to requiring the Land Commissioner to ascertain certain facts before granting application for oil permits.
SB 150	Caption: Relating to confirming and validating all patents and awards issued on lands lying across or partly across water courses or navigable streams or the beds or abandoned beds thereof, or parts thereof, and to relinquishing, quit-claiming and granting to patentees and awardees and their assignees all of such lands and minerals therein contained.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to extending the existence of the 84th Judicial District and also relating to the Thirty-First District.
SB 231	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Railroad Commission of Texas or any member or designated employee thereof to hold joint or co-operative hearings with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles relating to wherever the line or lines of any survey of land heretofore may cross a stream.
SB 270	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Childress County to issue bonds of said County for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for road and bridge purposes and to levy a tax in payment thereof, and providing that if the validity of the indebtedness to be funded by such bonds is not questioned in any suit or proceeding within sixty days from the adoption of the order of the Commissioners' Court authorizing the issuance of such bonds, then such indebtedness shall be conclusively presumed to be valid.
SB 271	Caption: Relating to giving any person, association or corporation in the actual possession of any unsold school or asylum lands a preference or prior right to purchase the same under any laws in force at the time of such purchase.
SB 296	Caption: Relating to providing that in the event there should be awarded to the State of Texas by the final decree of the United States Supreme Court at Washington, D. C., in its final judgment in the suit of the State of Oklahoma against the State of Texas, the United States Intervenor, any area of land along the 100th degree west longitude adjacent to the east side of the Panhandle of Texas and the west side of the State of Oklahoma.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Hemphill County, Texas.
SB 321	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from lease or sale or mineral permit all oil and gas upon and under any river beds and channels belonging to public lands.
SB 356	Caption: Relating to providing for the Continuance of cases in courts where members of Legislature are parties or counsel.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to providing for oral arguments of transferred cases in Courts of Civil Appeals at the place to which such cases are transferred.
SB 388	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to shot at, or kill any wild deer in Hemphill or Roberts or Hutchinson Counties, and providing a penalty.
SB 432	Caption: Relating to providing a refund of the tax paid by any person or firm on gasoline to be used for agricultural purposes; providing a penalty.
SB 433	Caption: Relating to providing for a five year closed season on wild turkey and prairie chickens in Hutchinson, Wheeler and Collingsworth Counties.
SB 450	Caption: Relating to validating the service of citation and the probating of wills.
SB 471	Caption: Relating to providing for the levying of an ad valorem tax by Counties for the purpose of raising funds to advertise such counties.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to providing for the levying of an ad valorem tax by certain cities for the purpose of advertising such cities.
SB 487	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking from public lands in this State of the remains or bones of prehistoric animals or fossils except pursuant to a permit.
SB 508	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in certain counties.
SB 525	Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an agricultural experiment station in the North Plains Region of Texas; making an appropriation.
SB 532	Caption: Relating to the Texas School for the Deaf at Austin; providing better regulations in reference to conducting said school; placing said school on an equal and educational basis with the public schools of Texas.
SB 544	Caption: Relating to regulating the taxing of costs in partition suits and providing for the taxing of an attorneys fee.
SB 558	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Hutchinson County to employ not more than two persons to be known as Investigators to assist the district attorney of said county.
SB 559	Caption: Relating to prescribing conditions upon which forfeitures of public lands for non-payment of interest to the state shall take place.
SB 562	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to compensate John W. Hornsby for legal services.
SB 578	Caption: Relating to ratifying and adopting in principle the Canadian River Compact between the States of New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
SB 606	Caption: Relating to ratifying and validating the creation and consolidation proceedings creating Carey Consolidated Rural High School District No. Ten of Childress County, Texas, by consolidating Purple Hill Common School District No. 14, Prairie Hill Common School District No. 4, Carey Common School District No. 10 and Valley View Common School District No. 28, all in Childress County, Texas.
SB 609	Caption: Relating to creating the 113th Judicial District Court for Hutchinson County.
SCR 19	Caption: Directing the creation of a joint committee, which committee is authorized and directed to confer with a like committee to be appointed by the Legislature of the State of Oklahoma, to inspect a strip of land that in all probability will be awarded to the State of Texas by a Decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in a case styled Oklahoma vs. Texas, filed December 8, 1919 and to confer with the State of Oklahoma with the view to settling and adjusting property rights of persons affected by the decree of said Court, and to make such recommendations to the Legislature as they may deem wise and proper for the solution of this controversy.
SCR 34	Caption: Requesting the House to return H. B. no. 686 to the Senate for further consideration.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in certain districts.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to renewing and extending oil and gas permits Number 8852, 8854 and 8859, issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas on the 16th day of October, 1924, covering University Lands in Pecos County, Texas, for an additional period of three years from and after the present date of expiration of said permits.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to compensate John W. Hornsby for legal services, said services having been rendered the State of Texas in the case of State of Texas vs. Hoffman Construction Company, No. 42197 in the District Court of Travis County, 53rd Judicial District, in which case judgment was obtained for the State against the defendant for the sum of $412,000.00 and costs of suit.
SB 143	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the fees of deputy sheriffs.
SR 15	Caption: Inviting Emma Cobb Evans to address the Senate.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; withdrawing from lease or sale or mineral permit all oil and gas upon and under any river beds and channels belonging to the public school, University, asylum land or other public lands within the State.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to surveys whose lines cross streams.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in each Judicial District composed of two or more counties.
SB 122	Caption: Relating to authorizing Independent School Districts in certain classes of counties to dispose of real property not needed for school property.
SB 148	Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to oil and gas permits.
SB 149	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of expenses of trial by jury in Civil cases by the counties in which said cases are filed.
SB 157	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer and clerk in any county of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, in which there is a city having an actual population of 38,489 inhabitants or more.
SB 175	Caption: Relating to the extension of terms of certain oil and gas permits.
SB 178	Caption: Relating to taxing certain attorneys fees.
SR 7	Caption: Inviting Mrs. Ross to address the Senate.
41st 3rd Called Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from sale or lease the surface and the minerals therein of all unsurveyed public free school land, all river beds and channels, and portions of same, until otherwise provided by law, and providing that such withdrawal shall not apply in cases where applications of inquiry have been heretofore filed and on which suit is now pending.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of county commissioners in every county having a population of not less than 7395, and not more than 7410, according to the 1920 United States Census, and having taxable values as shown by the approved 1929 Tax Roll amounting to as much as $8,145,000.00 and not more than $8,150,000.00.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for the purpose of maintaining the public schools and issuing bonds in school districts in all counties which, according to the Federal Census of 1920, have a population of not fewer than 720 and not more than 750.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Collingsworth County.
SCR 9	Caption: Inviting A. F. Whitney and G. W. Anderson to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SR 24	Caption: Memorializing Congress to implement a tariff on imported crude oil.
SR 25	Caption: Commending State Auditor Lynn for his service and dismissing him from being engaged by the Senate.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to granting and selling to S.E. Damon certain land with reservation to the State of an interest in the minerals therein.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to creating the 113th Judicial District of Texas and giving such Court concurrent jurisdiction with the District Court of Gray County, Texas, in and for the 31st Judicial District of Texas, and concurrent jurisdiction with the District Court of Hutchinson and Carson Counties, in and for the 84th Judicial District of Texas, in all civil and criminal cases.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to authorizing the county board of trustees of any county in this State to incorporate a common school district into an independent school district for school purposes only upon petition of a majority of the legally qualified property tax paying voters, together with a majority of the trustees residing in the territory affected.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to granting and selling to S.E. Damon certain land with reservation to the State of an interest in the minerals therein.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any practicing lawyer to become surety upon the bail bond or recognizance of any person charged with a crime and held in custody when such lawyer is representing the person so charged.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to the special road law for Childress County.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in each county in Texas having a population of not less than 4,660 nor more than 4,700 according to the Federal Census of 1920.