Legislation authored by Isaac Edgar Clark

Includes legislation with Isaac Edgar Clark as the primary author for the 33rd through 38th 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.

38th Regular Session
SB 94	Caption: Relating to appropriating $6,000,000.00 out of the State Treasury to aid all the public schools for the scholastic years beginning September 1, 1923, and ending August 31, 1925, the same to be distributed as the available school fund is now distributed.
SB 126	Caption: Relating to creating the Weimar Independent School District in Colorado County, Texas.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to repealing certain law appropriating $1,350,000 for the purchase of additional lands adjacent to the present campus of the University of Texas for the use of the University of Texas.
SB 202	Caption: Relating to amending certain law relating to the power of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission to require the dipping of cattle and other animals in an arsenical solution for removing a fever-carrying tick.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to the qualification of teachers in the law department of the State University of Texas.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to the public roads in Fayette, Colorado, Lavaca and Austin Counties; exempting all volunteer firemen, who serve without pay, employed by any municipality in such counties, from road or street duty or the payment of any money in lieu thereof.
SB 255	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Health through the State Health Officer to prevent materials subject to infections disease being used in the making or remaking of bedding and to prevent the sale of bedding so made.
SB 282	Caption: Relating to appropriating five million dollars out of the State Treasury to aid all the public schools for the scholastic year.
SB 293	Caption: Relating to repealing all statutes passed by the Legislature of the State of Texas authorizing and providing for the furnishing of free textbooks or textbooks purchased out of public funds to school children.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, corporation or company engaged in the manufacture or sale of electicity, water or gas, or officer or employee thereof, to knowingly permit or cause any light, water or gas meter to register greater than the true amount of light, electricity, water or gas sold or furnished any customer.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to creating the Nada County Line Common School District, composed of territory in Colorado and Wharton counties, to be under the jurisdiction of Colorado county for all school purposes.
SB 349	Caption: Relating to providing that all fees remitted by County Superintendents to the State Department of Education for teachers' examinations authorized in the General Laws of Texas, shall be paid to the State Treasurer, and providing that such fees shall be appropriated and expended by the Legislature from time to time.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to declaring the male, or pollen bearing mountain cedar tree a public nuisance and menace to the public health, and especially to the health of those in the State educational and eleemosynary institutions.
SB 405	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Colorado County, making the county commissioners of said county ex-officio road supervisors, prescribing their duties as such, and providing for their compensation as such road supervisors.
SB 428	Caption: Relating to fixing the time for holding court in the Twenty Second Judicial District, and changing the time of holding the District Courts in Austin, Hays, and Caldwell Counties.
SCR 12	Caption: Directing a Joint Meeting of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Appropriations Committee to discuss the feasibility of passing an appropriations bill during the Regular Session.
SJR 17	Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to Section 3, Article 7 of the Constitution of Texas, repealing the constitutional provision authorizing the State Board of Education to set aside funds to provide free textbooks for the use of children attending the public free schools of this State.
SR 37	Caption: Providing renovations for the Secretary of the Senate's office.
SR 44	Caption: Appointing Senator Stuart to the Finance Committee.
38th 2nd Called Session
SB 6	Caption: Relating to appropriating $6,000,000.00 out of the State Treasury to aid all the pubic schools for the scholastic years beginning September 1, 1923 and ending August 31, 1925, the same to be distributed as the available school fund is now distributed.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to providing that all fees remitted by county superintendents to the State Department of Education for the teachers examinations authorized under the General Laws of Texas.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act requiring the Board of Water Engineers and the State Reclamation Engineer to make, and cause to be made, and report to the Governor, an adequate topographic and hydrographic survey of the stream watersheds of the State, to the end that food control, water conservation and economic utilization in reclamation development may be made practiceable.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to creating the Bernardo Independent School District in Colorado County, Texas, defining its boundaries, providing for the election of a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools within said district.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to creating the Velehrad County Line Common School District composed of territory in Lavaca and Fayette Counties, to be under the jurisdiction of Lavaca County for all school purposes, defining its boundaries, providing for the election of a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools within its boundaries.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to providing that all fees remitted by county superintendents to the State Department of Education by conductors of summer normal institutions, and also any other fees collected by the State Department for any purpose whatsoever, shall be paid to the State Treasurer, and providing that such fees shall be appropriated and expended by the Legislature from time to time.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act requiring the Board of Water Engineers and the State Reclamation Engineer to make, and cause to be made, and report to the Governor, an adequate topographic and hydrographic survey of the stream watersheds of the State.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the State Board of Health and the State Health Department; providing for the State Board of Health to be composed of seven licensed physicians, which Board shall have power to appoint the State Health Officer.
SCR 18	Caption: Suspending certain Joint Rules in order to consider SB No. 61.
SR 21	Caption: Accepting the portrait of John A. Hulen to be placed in the Senate Chamber.
SR 42	Caption: Removing the disqualifications from holding public office for former Gov. James E. Ferguson which came as the result of his impeachment and removal from office.
38th 3rd Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on physicians, surgeons, medical doctors, lawyers, attorneys, dentists, civil engineers, consulting engineers, architects, bacteriologists, nurses and other specialists and those engaged in other professions in this State; exempting judges of courts and State, county, and city employees and employees of governmental subdivisions or agencies.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to providing for the supervision and regulation of the transportation of persons and property for compensation or hire over any public highway by motor propelled vehicles; defining auto transportation companies as common carriers and providing for their supervision.
37th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to repealing Chapter 18 of the Acts of the 31st Legislature relative to fire insurance companies.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to repealing chapter 6, Title 65, Revised Statutes 1911, relative to the election of a Commissioner of Agriculture.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the private use of any automobile, truck or other motor vehicle owned by the State of Texas and in the custody of the State, or any department, board or official of the State for official use.
SB 7	Caption: Relating to providing that all automobiles, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by the State of Texas, or any department thereof, shall have printed in letters on each side thereof, the word "Texas," followed by the name of the department of the State Government controlling such vehicle; providing a penalty.
SB 114	Caption: Relating to prescribing the duties, powers and authority of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission.
SB 151	Caption: Relating to re-defining the boundaries of the Eagle Lake Independent School District; the said amendment providing for re-defining the boundaries of said district, and providing for the extension of said district and the annexation of adjacent territory thereto.
SB 159	Caption: Relating to amending the present law relative to the health, comfort and safety of employees, and the Board of Labor Statistics.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to requiring an annual license for the conduct or management of maternity homes, or so called "Baby Farm"; providing for the inspection of such places.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to providing that all doctors, physicians, midwives, nurses or those in attendance at child birth, shall use prophylactic drops in the eyes of the new born to prevent opthalmia neonatorum; affixing a penalty for violations of this Act.
SB 301	Caption: Relating to proposing the repeal of the free textbook law of the State.
SB 302	Caption: Relating to amending the present law on workmen of various kinds where charge is made for labor and material not performed or used, etc.
SB 328	Caption: Relating to amending the act creating the Garwood Independent School District in Colorado County.
SCR 28	Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Home for Dependent and Neglected Children at Waco.
37th 1st Called Session
SB 30	Caption: Relating to amending the act re-defining the boundaries of the Columbus Independent School District in Colorado County.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to creating the Altair Independent School District in Colorado County, Texas, and defining its boundaries.
37th 2nd Called Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to the authorization of a University of Texas land purchase.
36th Regular Session
SB 116	Caption: Relating to levying and collecting annually a Five Dollar road tax against all able-bodied citizens of Fayette County, who are between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years; providing the manner of assessment and collection of said tax and further providing for a penalty for failure or refusal to pay such tax.
SB 177	Caption: Relating to authorizing towns and villages incorporated under the general law to construct at each residence therein, or any other place therein, sanitary closets of such type as will receive the approval of the Texas Senate Board of Health; empowering the Board of Alderman of such town or village to assess the cost of such improvement on the real estate or lot or lot upon which such expense is incurred and providing that lien may be fixed upon such lot or lots, etc.
SB 243	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for the election of a Commissioner of Agriculture, prescribing his qualifications, duties and location and term of his office; providing that all duties, functions and services required by said statute to be performed and rendered by the Commissioner of Agriculture shall from and after the taking effect of this Act, be rendered and performed so far as may be practical and necessary by the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to creating the Garwood Independent School District in Colorado County, Texas, and defining its boundaries, and providing for the election of a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools within said district.
SCR 9	Caption: Inviting Clarence Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, to address the Legislature.
SR 51	Caption: Requesting that the Adjutant General submit a list of names of all Rangers appointed since November 5, 1918.
SR 59	Caption: Requesting that the Adjutant General submit a list of names of all Rangers appointed under his administration.
SR 84	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to audit the State Treasury.
SR 95	Caption: Granting committee formed by SR 84 authority given to investigating committees of the Legislature.
SR 102	Caption: Inviting Hortense Ward to address the Senate.
SR 109	Caption: Inviting Representative King to address the Senate.
36th 2nd Called Session
SB 44	Caption: Relating to regulating and making sanitary buildings and rooms used and occupied as bakeries; prohibiting the use of impure materials in bread; providing for enforcement; fixing a penalty.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to exempting Colorado County from the provisions of certain laws and to postpone the eradication of ticks in said county until January 1st, 1922.
SB 83	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery, and dentistry; creating a Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners for the examining and licensing of veterinary physicians and surgeons, dentists, and prescribing their powers, duties and qualifications.
SB 89	Caption: Relating to creating the Calhoun Independent School District in Colorado County.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to regulating and controlling the sale, distribution, handling, use and administration of anthrax vaccines and virus, veterinary tuberculin and hog cholera virus; fixing a penalty.
36th 3rd Called Session
SB 36	Caption: Relating to repealing special road laws for Fayette County; authorizing Fayette County to issue road bonds under the provisions of the general law.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws authorizing the State Board of Medical Examiners.
36th 4th Called Session
SB 24	Caption: Relating to amending the law creating the Eagle Lake Independent School District.
35th Regular Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to the creation of a State Highway Commission; providing for a tax on motor cycles and motor vehicles.
SB 2	Caption: Relating to giving assent of State providing for Federal aid in construction of post roads; authorizing Texas State Highway Commission to co-operate with the United States Secretary of Agriculture.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to a repeal of State Fire Insurance Commission; prescribing conditions for transacting business.
SB 4	Caption: Relating to providing that physicians who are owners of drug stores and pharmacies may compound prescriptions and dispense medicine.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of Dentistry or Dental Surgery; providing penalties.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to permitting Insurance Companies to invest in stocks of Banks and Trust Companies organized under the laws of the State.
SB 67	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to District Attorneys whose districts are composed of two or more counties.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of an asylum in South Texas for the care, treatment and support of negro insane persons; making an appropriation.
SB 135	Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of and defining agricultural seeds and mixed seeds; requiring proper labeling, and creating penalties.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to conferring power upon the Railroad Commission to require non-grade crossings at crossings of the lines of certain railways.
SB 236	Caption: Relating to amending the penal code relating to shooting in public places.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to the authority of commissioners courts to create county line school districts; so as to authorize boards of county school trustees to create such districts and prescribing the manner in whereby such districts may be created.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to amending local road law for Fayette County.
SB 376	Caption: Relating to amending "An Act to create a more efficient road system for Fayette County, Texas."
SB 432	Caption: Relating to prescribing the fees that may be charged by the Texas Board of Pharmacy.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to empowering cities and towns incorporated under General Law to make rules and regulations by ordinance and order effecting the control and elimination of contagious and infection diseases and proscribing rules of health as a prerequisite for admission to institutions of learning.
SB 447	Caption: Relating to the compensation of road commissioners of Colorado County, Texas.
SB 460	Caption: Relating to fixing a speed limit for automobiles and motor vehicles on the public road; creating a misdemeanor and providing penalties.
SCR 17	Caption: Providing for the abolition of the Texas standard fire insurance.
SCR 18	Caption: Inviting Joseph W. Bailey to address the Legislature.
SR 2	Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrange the seats as they were during the 34th Legislature.
SR 8	Caption: Providing for the election of utility stenographers and clerks.
SR 19	Caption: Directing the Board of Prison Commissioners to submit an itemized statement of indebtedness prior to Jan. 1, 1915 to the Senate Finance Committee.
SR 50	Caption: Providing for the election of T.H. Yarbrough as Journal Clerk.
SR 56	Caption: Relating to an invitation from the Hancock Opera House to the lady stenographers of the House to see "Bohemian Girl".
SR 103	Caption: Providing for the purchase of a new carpet for the Senate Chamber.
SR 106	Caption: Providing for adjournment for the Legislature to visit San Antonio.
SR 112	Caption: Providing for the printing of certain accounts of expenditures by the Commissioner of Agriculture in the Senate Journal.
SR 125	Caption: Directing the Secretary of the Senate to furnish to the House for the publication in the Journal the vote in the Senate on H.B. No. 227.
SR 133	Caption: Providing for the disinfecting of the Senate floor prior to laying new carpet.
SR 136	Caption: Directing the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds to keep the reception and other Senate rooms locked during the interim between sessions.
35th 1st Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to enlarging the Columbus Independent School District, in Colorado County, Texas.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to extending the boundaries of the Rock Island Independent School district.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to amending Article 6086, Revised Statutes, increasing the salary of members of the Board of Pardon Advisers.
SCR 11	Caption: Memorializing Congress relating to placing "America's Roll of Honor" in all post offices and Federal buildings.
SCR 12	Caption: Memorializing Congress relating to having Roosevelt to lead a division of American volunteers in France.
SR 13	Caption: Requesting the Governor to submit the matter of an appropriation of $1,000,000 for the use of the Texas National Guard.
SR 20	Caption: Providing for the removal of the old carpet and disinfection of the Senate floor.
SR 27	Caption: Providing for the placing of the names and statement of services of persons underneath the pictures on the Senate walls.
SR 34	Caption: Providing that the Senate stand at recess on at 1:30 pm, May 10, to hear the address of Charles Pergler.
SR 46	Caption: Providing for the payment of $129.95 balance due on the draperies for the Senate Chamber.
SR 47	Caption: Directing the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to keep the Senate reception room and the Sergeant-at-Arms room locked during the recess of the Legislature.
35th 3rd Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to amending Section One of the Act, Creating the Rock Island Independent School District.
35th 4th Called Session
SB 19	Caption: Relating to creating the Bellville Independent School District in Austin County, Texas
SB 100	Caption: Relating to permitting all applicants for registration as nurses, who shall be otherwise properly qualified and may pass a satisfactory examination, to practice professional nursing.
34th Regular Session
SB 10	Caption: Relating to fire insurance companies; prescribing conditions for transacting business.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to District Attorneys whose districts are composed of two or more counties.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the position of fees of Road Commissioners of Fayette and Atascosa Counties.
SB 196	Caption: Relating to encouraging and improving the breeding and developing of highly bred horses, providing for the appointment of a commission for the regulation of races and laying wagers thereon; providing for the payment of certain revenue derived therefrom to the State Commissioner of Agriculture for the use of live stock division of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
SB 204	Caption: Relating to appropriating out of the general revenue not heretofore appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the expenses of the department of the State Health Officer of the State of Texas in preventing an outbreak of the bubonic plague or the spread thereof in Texas.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to amending the nepotism law.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to re-organizing and conferring additional powers, duties and authority on the State Board and Department of Health.
SB 391	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the practice of medicine, so as to increase the fees charged applicants for license to practice medicine.
SB 427	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of making repairs on and the rearrangement of the State Capitol Building in Austin.
SJR 20	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment appropriating twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) to employ an expert engineer and architect to make a report to the Joint Committee as to the exact amount of the cost of repairing the Capitol.
SR 46	Caption: Providing for the election of a President Pro Tempore for the remainder of the session.
SR 70	Caption: Directing committees to not hold meetings in the Senate Chamber.
SR 81	Caption: Providing drinking water for the Senators from the artesian well on the Capitol grounds.
SR 85	Caption: Setting S. B. No. 196 as a special order for Monday, February 22.
SR 86	Caption: Requesting the Attorney General to issue an opinion on whether Senators are able to access certain records of the Secretary of State.
SR 110	Caption: Employing a stenographer in the role of Enrolling Clerk.
SR 122	Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-arms to distribute copies of the Senate Journal and bills to representatives of the press.
SR 133	Caption: Directing the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds to keep the Senate Reception Room locked while not in session.
SR 142	Caption: Directing the Notary Clerk to send the list of notaries to the Governor.
SR 148	Caption: Providing that the Senate pass no more bills for the remainder of session.
34th 1st Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to making a certain appropriation for the purpose of making repairs on and rearrangements of the State Capitol Building in Austin; creating a board to have general supervision of the making of such repairs and the expenditures of such moneys.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United States from each district.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Local and Special Law authorizing and empowering Fayette County to issue bonds and to levy and collect taxes for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating the paved roads of said County.
SR 2	Caption: Providing for the election of Senate officers and staff.
SR 9	Caption: Requesting the Governor to not call another Special Session of the Legislature.
SR 43	Caption: Providing additional support for the enrolling staff and stenographers.
33rd 2nd Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person, firm or association of persons, operating a cotton seed oil mill from owning, operating or holding any character of interest in a public cotton gin, fixing penalties.