Legislation authored by William Elliott Doyle
Includes legislation with William Elliott Doyle 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 11 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the organization of a State Ranger Force, defining its duties, and providing for its equipment and payment. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to requiring any officer holding an office of emolument in Texas, district, state or federal, that is Congressmen and U.S. Senators, to resign the office he holds on announcing his candidacy for another office emolument, and providing penalties for its infraction. |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to inhibiting the granting of divorcees but for the cause of adultery. |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a juvenile board, and to create same, in such counties of this State as now, or may hereafter have, an oil field consisting of as many as fifty producing oil or gas wells. |
| SB 37 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act defining and proscribing Nepotism. |
| SB 38 | Caption: Relating to repealing the primary election law of the State of Texas. |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act regarding the collection of delinquent taxes. |
| SB 91 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the Department of Agriculture and the office of Commissioner of Agriculture; transferring the duties and records of said departments to the Warehouse and Marketing Department. |
| SB 97 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary out of the revenues of the State, for the erection of an administration building for the Extension Service of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. |
| SB 129 | Caption: Relating to creating the 87th Judicial District Court in the counties of Limestone and Freestone in the State of Texas, in addition to the 77th District Court now existing in said counties. |
| SB 130 | Caption: Relating to creating the Seventy-seventh Judicial District of Texas; and to continue in office the judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District. |
| SB 156 | Caption: Relating to requiring landlords of Texas to thoroughly fumigate and clean tenant houses, and clean the premises after being vacated by a tenant and before being occupied by another tenant. |
| SB 161 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the granting of divorces in certain cases. |
| SB 162 | Caption: Relating to providing that freight charges on carloads of coal delivered at any point within the State of Texas where railroad track weighing scales are owned or used or maintained at the point of delivery, or in the line of transit, shall be based upon the actual weight of said coal. |
| SB 177 | Caption: Relating to providing for revising, digesting and publishing the laws, civil and criminal, of the State of Texas; and creating a commission for that purpose. |
| SB 192 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that no person shall, while confined in any of the asylums of this State, at the expense of the State, or while confined in the State penitentiary to satisfy a judgment of conviction, receive a pension. |
| SB 215 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws regulating the fees allowed county officers in certain counties in this State so as to include in the counties of this State therein referred to, such counties in this State having a certain population according to the U.S. census of 1910. |
| SB 234 | Caption: Relating to amending certain law regulating the fees allowed County Officers in certain counties in this State so as to add to and include in the counties of this State therein referred to, counties in this State wherein certain taxable values. |
| SB 245 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide for the creation of a juvenile board, and to create same, in such counties of this State as now, or may hereafter have taxable values not less than $40,000,000.00, and not more than $60,000,000.00. |
| SB 294 | Caption: Relating to amending certain act creating the Mexia Independent School District in Limestone County, Texas. |
| SB 295 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating the Tehuacana Independent School District situated in Limestone County, Texas. |
| SB 336 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the Department of Agriculture and the office of Commissioner of Agriculture; transferring the duties to the Market and Warehouse Department. |
| SB 337 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas so as to provide for the creation of a juvenile board, and to create same, in such counties of this State as now, or may hereafter have certain taxable values. |
| SB 401 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of preserving and perpetuating memorials of the history of Texas by gathering and rescuing from oblivion the records of sailors dead or living serving in the Confederate Navy from Texas. |
| SB 407 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act creating the Mexia Independent School District. |
| SCR 4 | Caption: Directing the organization of a Constitutional Convention to amend or replace the State Constitution. |
| SCR 21 | Caption: Commending the efforts of A. O. Wright for his efforts to recover certain documents of the Confederate Navy. |
| SJR 10 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that the Legislature may grant pensions to Confederate soldiers, sailors and their widows, who have been citizens of Texas since prior to January 1, 1910. |
| SJR 14 | Caption: Relating to consideration to appellate courts by increasing the number of Supreme Court judges. |
| SJR 15 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that the tenure of office shall be four years, after the General Election of 1924. |
| SJR 16 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas exempting certain corporations and corporate property from taxation by Act of the Legislature for a term not exceeding ten years. |
| SJR 18 | Caption: Relating to proposing the repeal of so much of Section 3, Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing for the formation of school districts by the Legislature. |
| SJR 20 | Caption: Relating to providing for revenue for the support of the public schools; providing for the levying and collecting, in addition to the above, ad valorem State tax not to exceed thirty-five cents on the one hundred ($100.00) dollars valuation. |
| SR 3 | Caption: Electing the engrossing and enrolling clerks of the Senate. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Providing for the election of stenographers in the enrolling and engrossing rooms. |
| SR 12 | Caption: Inviting Congressman-elect Luther Johnson to address the Senate. |
| SR 31 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control to repaint the dome of the Capitol to match the rest of the building. |
| SR 54 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the findings of an investigation into the conditions at the State Confederate Home. |
| SR 88 | Caption: Commending the citizens of the City of Austin for their hospitality. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors to purchase additional lands adjacent to the A. & M. College of Texas, the title to said lands to be taken in the name of the Board of Directors and their successors, and said lands to be subject to the control of said Board of Directors. |
| SB 38 | Caption: Relating to extending oil and gas permits on lands which are now or have been in the possession or under the control of the Federal Receiver appointed by the Supreme Court of the United States for such periods of time respectively as such lands have been or may be in such receiver's possession or under his control. |
| SR 1 | Caption: Electing the Enrolling and Engrossing employees of the Senate. |
| SR 5 | Caption: Naming Pearl Keys as the Assistant Mailing Clerk. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to make arrangements with local banks to provide for the cashing of state warrants. |
| SR 23 | Caption: Inviting Leon Harp to address the Senate. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SR 3 | Caption: Electing the Engrossing and Enrolling Clerks of the Senate. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 32 | Caption: Relating to creating the Tehuacana Independent School District, in Limestone County, Texas, defining its boundaries. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to creating the Mexia Independent School District in Limestone County, Texas. |
| SB 96 | Caption: Relating to the creation of Thornton Independent School District in Limestone County. |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to amending the act creating the Calvert Independent School District; providing for the annexation of adjacent territory thereto. |
| 37th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to Senatorial redistricting. |
| SR 3 | Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 6 from the House. |