Legislation authored by Nat Patton
Includes legislation with Nat Patton as the primary author for the 33rd through 43rd 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.
| 43rd Regular Session | |
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| SB 370 | Caption: Relating to promoting public health, safety, morals and general welfare by providing for the construction and supervision of safe and sanitary housing for families of low income, and for the sale or rental thereof on reasonable terms. |
| SB 528 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas Prison Board to exchange by proper deeds of conveyance 1.39 acres of land belonging to the State of Texas, a part of the Texas Prison System, situated in Brazoria County, Texas, for a 1.11 acre tract belonging to Mrs. Kate Palmer, a femme sole, also situated in Brazoria County, Texas, and adjoining lands belonging to the State of Texas. |
| SB 539 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Texas Prison Board shall have the power to insure the officers and employees of the Texas Prison System against liability to third persons arising from and out of the use and operation of automobiles, motor trucks and other motor vehicles used by the Texas Prison System for purposes legitimately connected with the operation of the Texas Prison System. |
| SB 547 | Caption: Relating to declaring that where any land was titled prior to the adoption of the Common Law and there has been a judicial finding that the original grantee abandoned said land prior tot he adoption of the Common Law, it shall be conclusively presumed that those now claiming said land under said original grantee or his heirs by conveyance or judgment is vested with all title which was originally vested in said grantee. |
| SB 549 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of personal property belonging to the State of Texas, and which is in the possession of the State Highway Department, when the same shall become unfit for use or is no longer needed wherever the same may be situated. |
| SCR 29 | Caption: Endorsing the application made by the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine Rail Co. to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for funds to extend its rail line. |
| SCR 81 | Caption: Providing for the publication of proposed constitutional amendments. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Inviting the Old Grey Mare Band to perform before the Senate. |
| SR 71 | Caption: Granting the Committee on Penitentiaries leave to visit penitentiary farms in South Texas. |
| SR 99 | Caption: In memory of Clay Stone Briggs. |
| SR 137 | Caption: Retaining librarian Theodosia H. Bell two days after adjournment so that she might gather up the books. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 104 | Caption: Relating to empowering cities having more than one hundred and sixty thousand (160,000) inhabitants to purchase or otherwise acquire water systems, and additions, extensions and enlargements thereto, and additional water powers, riparian rights, and repairs of such systems to issue bonds or notes therefor, and to secure payment thereof to mortgage and encumber the same, and the incomes thereof, and everything pertaining thereto, or any part thereof. |
| SCR 24 | Caption: Relating to employment of the wife of the manager of the Gorse State Prison Farm as matron. |
| SR 20 | Caption: In memory of W.D. Adair. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Authorizing the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to pay certain amount to the trustees of Iola Independent School District. |
| SR 11 | Caption: In memory of Henry L. Lewis. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| SR 29 | Caption: Wishing Senator Parrish a speedy recovery from illness. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to providing for the trial of insane convicts who are inmates of the Texas Prison System. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of Public Roads by the Commissioner's Court when application is made therefor by a party or parties whose land or lands are surrounded by the lands of another. |
| SB 174 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense for any employee of any State Officer or Member of State Board or Commission to distribute, write or compose circulars, placards or any kind of literature urging the candidacy of such person for election or re-election; prescribing offenses, fines, punishment and penalties; providing for an Anti-Campaign Commission. |
| SB 197 | Caption: Relating to giving W. S. Hale and wife, Mary D. Hale, consent of the Legislature to sue the State of Texas and State Highway Commission for damages resulting from construction of State Highway No. 43 through Leon County, Texas. |
| SB 205 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State to lease Red Fish Reef to C.E. Biggers of San Leon, Galveston County for a period of ten years for the purpose of making said Reef, or Island, suitable as a place for public use and recreation. |
| SB 212 | Caption: Relating to creating a Public Utilities Commission regulating cotton gins. |
| SB 238 | Caption: Relating to giving and granting to J.W. Howard and his wife, Maude Howard, leave and permission to prosecute in the proper courts of Houston County, Texas, suit against the State of Texas and SK Martin, Cone Johnson and W.R. Ely as Highway Commissioners of the State of Texas, in their official capacity only, for person injuries to the wife, Maude Howard, and damage to their automobile. |
| SB 267 | Caption: Relating to establishing an art commission for the state of Texas. |
| SB 314 | Caption: Relating to providing for the improvement and repair of Sam Houston Home and the grounds adjacent thereto in Huntsville; making appropriations therefor. |
| SB 315 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the warrant of execution where the death penalty is pronounced. |
| SB 316 | Caption: Relating to regulating county convicts; providing for their being worked upon public roads, public county farms, for the commission of misdemeanors in said county, and of petty offenses. |
| SB 390 | Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation of the City of Groveton. |
| SB 421 | Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a tuberculosis sanatorium for negroes to be known as the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Negroes. |
| SB 504 | Caption: Relating to validating all ad valorem tax levies heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in the State of Texas. |
| SR 35 | Caption: Relating to salary of Head Doorkeeper. |
| SR 55 | Caption: Relating to the necessity if additional judgeship for the southern district of Texas. |
| SR 140 | Caption: In memory of A.T. McKinney of Huntsville. |
| 42nd 2nd Called Session | |
| SR 18 | Caption: In memory of Hayne Nelms of Groveton. |
| 41st Regular Session | |
| SB 322 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to make it unlawful to hunt wild deer with dogs in Hardin, Liberty, Walker, San Jacinto, Leon and Houston counties. |
| SB 343 | Caption: Relating to giving and granting to J.W. Howard and Maud Howard leave and permission to prosecute against the state of Texas for person injuries and damage to their automobile. |
| SB 390 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be used for the erection of a monument in the City of Crockett, Houston County, in memory of David Crockett. |
| SB 423 | Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation of hairdressers and cosmetologists and to create a State Board of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists. |
| SB 429 | Caption: Relating to discharge of convicts serving indeterminate sentence. |
| SB 431 | Caption: Relating to providing for the value and classification of certain securities offered for sale to the public. |
| SB 439 | Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of certain employees of the State Penitentiary System. |
| SB 463 | Caption: Relating to suppressing mob violence and lynching; making it the duty of the Attorney General to assist in prosecuting persons participating in such crimes. |
| SB 570 | Caption: Relating to providing for the preservation of the Old San Antonio Road running through the State of Texas from Pendleton on the Sabine to Presidio in West Texas. |
| SB 571 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to W.S. Hale to sue the State for damages to his land and growing crop of cotton theron in the year 1928 in Leon County, Texas. |
| SB 612 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Banking Commissioner of Texas to refund to banks amounts of money due to them as refunds. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to the State Penitentiary and the State Prison System; making an appropriation. |
| SB 56 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Banking Commissioner of Texas to refund to banks amounts of money due them as refunds. |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to providing for a local option method of determining manner of employment of the county superintendent of schools. |
| SB 69 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for school trustees in all independent school districts at eleemosynary institutions. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to the term of office of trustees in common school districts; amending a certain Statute. |
| SB 47 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the erection of a Memorial Building in memory of David Crockett, Texas Hero of the Alamo, in a park now owned by the City of Crockett; providing for the conveyance of said park to the State. |
| SB 136 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Houston County to cooperate with the state highway department in the construction of a bridge across the Trinity River between Houston County and Madison County. |
| SB 186 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners' court of Houston County to cooperate with the State Highway department and the Federal Government in the construction of a bridge across the Trinity River between Houston County and Madison County. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to the Prison System of Texas; making an appropriation. |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to public school lands in Montgomery County, Texas. |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the benefit of Weldon Common School District No. 71 of Houston County. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to tour the State Penitentiary at Huntsville. |
| SCR 3 | Caption: Authorizing the Senate to adjourn until January 27, 1930. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to prison land subjected to School District maintenance taxes. |
| SB 78 | Caption: Relating to exempting certain State-owned prison property from taxation. |
| SCR 3 | Caption: Authorizing the construction of a monument at the grave of Kenneth L. Anderson in Grimes County. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| HB 789 | Caption: Relating to amending article 3247 of the Revised Civil Statutes so as to hereafter read as follows in all such cases the proper courts. |
| HR 51 | Caption: Recommitting H. B. Nos. 84 and 113 to the Committee on Common Carriers for further consideration. |