Legislation authored by Joseph Washington Burkett, Sr.
Includes legislation with Joseph Washington Burkett, Sr. as the primary author for the 37th 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 | |
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| SB 67 | Caption: Relating to requiring the teaching of vocational studies in the public school of Texas such as agriculture, horticulture, stock raising, home economics and kindred studies, and requiring the President of A & M College and the State Commissioner of Agriculture formulate courses of study in the Department herein created. |
| SB 73 | Caption: Relating to repealing chapter 5 and all sections thereof as passed by the Fourth Called Session of the 36th Legislature. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hiring, employing, or commissioning by any State or county officer, or State Adjutant General any person who is in the employment of any person, firm or corporation whose salary or any portion thereof, is paid by such person, firm, or corporation when such person, firm, or corporation is interested in any dispute or disagreement with his, her, its or their employees. |
| SB 157 | Caption: Relating to creating the Rankin Independent School District in Upton County, Texas; enlarging and defining its boundaries, including the present Rankin Independent School District. |
| SB 158 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act creating the Ninety-first Judicial District and fixing its jurisdiction. |
| SB 167 | Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the Rochester Independent School District in Haskell County, Texas, and defining the boundaries thereof. |
| SB 168 | Caption: Relating to requiring all secret organizations to make public a list of their membership by filing a printed or typewritten list of same with the county clerk of each and every county of the State of Texas. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to preventing the selling of bass, perch, or crappy, or catfish, taken from the fresh waters in the county of Comal, State of Texas. |
| SB 201 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 42nd Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to providing for and increasing the annual license fees on motor vehicles. |
| SB 242 | Caption: Relating to providing that the separate property of the wife may be mortgaged, pledged or encumbered for any purpose. |
| SB 244 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the State of Texas into Supreme Judicial Districts, for the purpose of constituting and organizing courts of civil appeals therein. |
| SB 311 | Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining a Horticultural and Agricultural Experiment Station in Gaines County, Texas. |
| SB 329 | Caption: Relating to fixing the rate of speed for motor vehicles upon the public highways of the State and within the corporate limits of any incorporated or not incorporated city or town. |
| SB 331 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Supreme Court to exempt graduates of approved law schools from the necessity of taking examinations as to pre-legal or legal studies and attainments for license to practice law in this State. |
| SB 348 | Caption: Relating to defining certain terms, authorizing the State Railroad Commission to curtail the construction of railroad grade crossings and to provide for the elimination of grade crossings already constructed. |
| SB 362 | Caption: Relating to creating Desdemona Independent School District in Eastland and Erath Counties, Texas, including the present Desdemona Independent School District of Eastland County. |
| SB 363 | Caption: Relating to amending and revising the metes and bonds of the Moran Independent School District in Shackleford and Callahan counties, Texas. |
| SB 366 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute which relates to the allotment of highway funds in road construction so as to provide for the authority to increase the allotment of such funds to aid in the construction of highways in the different counties, and to use said funds for maintenance purposes under certain conditions. |
| SB 426 | Caption: Relating to redefining the boundaries of the Baird Independent School District in Callahan County, Texas; validating all tax levies now in force. |
| SJR 4 | Caption: Relating to the amendment of Article XVI, Section 11, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, with reference to the prohibition of usurious interest, and fixing the legal rate of interest that may be charged at not exceeding eight percent per annum. |
| SJR 5 | Caption: Relating to the amending of Article XVI, Section 44, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, abolishing the Office of County Treasurer. |
| SJR 6 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1, Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for a graduated land tax and exempting homestead improvements of less than $2500 in value from taxation. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, authorizing the State of Texas to appropriate money from the general revenue and issue bonds and to lend its credit for the purpose of constructing and maintaining terminal fire-proof warehouses and grain elevators at the ports of Texas. |
| SJR 8 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Texas abolishing the poll tax qualification of electors. |
| SJR 9 | Caption: Proposing to amend Section 50, Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so that hereafter the Legislature shall have power to give or lend the credit of the state for the purchase and improvement of rural and urban homes. |
| SJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, which relates to taxation and revenue, by adding thereto a new section directing the Legislature to provide for the construction, operation and maintenance, under state control, of a State system of public highways. |
| SR 7 | Caption: Creating the position of Third Assistant Mailing Clerk. |
| SR 16 | Caption: Commending Louisiana Governor J. M. Parker and his efforts against "the rule of hooded mobs and masked political organizations". |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the State of Texas into supreme judicial districts for the purpose of constituting and organizing Courts of Civil Appeals therein; creating the Eleventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas, with Eastland as the site of said court. |
| SB 83 | Caption: Relating to creating the Parks Independent School District in Stephens County, Texas; defining its boundaries. |
| SB 84 | Caption: Relating to creating the Roscoe Independent School District in Nolan County, Texas, including the present Roscoe Independent School District; providing a board of trustees therefor. |
| SB 85 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to include among the purpose for which the city council or governing body of any city or town in this State having a population of 5,000 or less may levy, assess and collect taxes, the following: construction or the purchase of public buildings, water works, sewers, electric lights, gas lights, gas mains, parks, market squares, and other permanent improvements, within the limits of such city or town, and for the construction and improvement of the roads, bridges and streets of such city or town within its limits. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to defining certain terms, authorizing the State Railroad Commission to curtail the construction of railroad grade crossings and to provide for the elimination of railroad grade crossings already constructed, in certain cases. |
| SCR 5 | Caption: Accepting an invitation from several Chambers of Commerce to visit the oil fields in Eastland and Stephens Counties. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating the McCaulley County Line Independent School District in Fisher and Jones counties. |
| SB 24 | Caption: Relating to creating the Sylvester Independent School District in Fisher County, Texas, including the present Sylvester Independent District of said county, providing a board of trustees therefor, vesting said independent school district and board of trustees with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties conferred upon independent school districts incorporated under the General Laws of Texas; providing that the board of trustees of the present Sylvester Independent District shall continue to act as such until their successors are elected in accordance with the General Laws of Texas, providing for the assumption of any outstanding bonded indebtedness created by the present Sylvester Independent District. |
| SCR 7 | Caption: Authorizing the legislature to adjourn Sine Die. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Inviting former State Sen. H. P. Brelsford to address the Senate. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| HB 48 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act on the apportion of the State into senatorial districts. |
| HB 137 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act permitting the filing of typewritten court briefs. |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding a law relating to peaceable and adverse possession of land. |
| HB 190 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act requiring holders of vendor's lien notes, etc., to register the amount of indebtedness in county clerk's office. |
| HB 279 | Caption: Relating to a certain Act validating all sales of Deaf and Dumb Asylum land made on April 6, 1903. |
| HB 415 | Caption: Relating to declaring mineral substances floating upon public waters property of the State. |
| HB 426 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into congressional districts. |
| HB 546 | Caption: Relating to amend a certain Act regarding the manufacture, sale, etc., of liquors. |
| HB 569 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the official shorthand reporters in the eighty-eighth and ninety-first judicial districts, Eastland County, Texas, prescribing the method of payment. |
| HCR 21 | Caption: Requesting the Attorney General of Texas to investigate certain oil and pipe line companies relating to oil storage. |
| HCR 31 | Caption: Granting certain district judges permission to leave the State on absence. |
| HJR 10 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act increasing the members of the Supreme Court of Texas. |
| HR 44 | Caption: Relating to dilatory tactics in the House. |
| HR 58 | Caption: Inviting former State Representative W.Y. Bagby to address the House. |
| HR 89 | Caption: Inviting former Governor W.P. Hobby to address the House. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to redistricting the State into Senatorial districts. |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to an amendment to the present State prohibition law. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to providing for the removal of public officials who willfully and knowingly refuse to enforce the law. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to creating the McCaulley County Line Independent School District in Fisher and Jones Counties, Texas. |
| SB 29 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the State Mining Board, conferring duties upon Commissioner of Labor Statistics. |
| SB 67 | Caption: Relating to an act validating certain attempted incorporations in cities and towns so attempting. |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to creating the Ector Independent School District in Ector County |
| SB 71 | Caption: Relating to proposing to give authority to use natural gas for the manufacture of Carbon Black. |
| SB 90 | Caption: Relating to redefining the boundaries of the O'Donnell Independent School District. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to creating the Ranger Independent School District. |
| 37th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 7 | Caption: Relating to appropriation made for the purpose of creating the Kerrville Sanitorium. |