Legislation authored by William Lucius Hall
Includes legislation with William Lucius Hall as the primary author for the 33rd through 37th 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.
| 37th Regular Session | |
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| SB 71 | Caption: Relating to creating a local road law for Brazoria county. |
| SB 113 | Caption: Relating to regulating and controlling the business or occupation and those engaged in the business, occupation or employment of caring for, dressing, adorning and beautifying the human hair, face, scalp, hands and skin, including barbers and barber shops and beauty shops and those connected therewith. |
| SB 119 | Caption: Relating to providing for survey and marking of the Texas coast line within tide water limits, etc. |
| SB 137 | Caption: Relating to granting to J.J. Kane, of the city of Galveston, Texas, his heirs and assigns, an extension of time in which the sum of not less than $150,000.00 should be expended in the construction of a dry-dock or marine railway on certain submerged flats or lands on the shore of Galveston Bay. |
| SB 166 | Caption: Relating to establishing a Texas Industrial School and Workshop for the adult blind of the State. |
| SB 190 | Caption: Relating to amending the present law by giving cause of action where injuries resulting in death are caused by negligence - referring to various corporations, etc.; making receivers thereof liable, etc. |
| SB 198 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Health to secure certain antitoxins and vaccine for the free distribution to citizens of the State where parties are not able to purchase, etc. |
| SB 225 | Caption: Relating to providing for the trial and investigation of matters in suits brought by quo warranto proceedings and providing for appeals in such cases. |
| SB 257 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code, Art. 640b, upon the petition of the complainant in regarding deserted families, etc. |
| SB 259 | Caption: Relating to providing that all bonds heretofore authorized to be issued to a county, town or incorporated city, or road district, may be sold for 90 cents of their par value, etc. |
| SB 269 | Caption: Relating to providing for an increase in salary of County Superintendents in counties having ten-thousand or more scholastics; providing for travel expenses, etc. |
| SB 290 | Caption: Relating to define and regulate the practice of professional nursing. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to rights of depositors. |
| SB 50 | Caption: Relating to the regulation of the practice of optometry. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to an amendment to the Dean liquor law; relating to the sale and purchase of intoxicating liquors, etc. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing that any citizen possessing the other qualifications of an elector under the Constitution and laws of this State, who was engaged or enlisted in the military or naval force of the United States during the period of time between the first day of October, A.D. 1918, and the first day of February, A.D. 1919, shall have the right to vote in all primary elections and nominating conventions in Texas from and after the passage of this Act until the first day of January, 1920, and providing that the payment of a poll tax shall in no case be required of such person. |
| SB 192 | Caption: Relating to requiring the filing with the clerks of district and county courts of copies of all petitions, answers, motions, notices or other instruments pertaining to suits in such courts; prohibiting the removal of original papers from the offices of such clerks, and providing a penalty for such removal. |
| SB 245 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute empowering the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station to adopt standards or definitions for concentrated feeding stuffs and such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of the law, providing that such standards and definitions shall not be of a higher grade or standard than that adopted by the feed control officials of the United States. |
| SB 252 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute requiring persons driving motor vehicles on the public highway to stop before crossing railway tracks under certain conditions. |
| SB 302 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide for the election of a depository for the funds of levee improvement districts. |
| SB 319 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to injuctions to prohibit drilling or mining operations on adjacent land. |
| SB 347 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to conservation and reclamation districts by providing in substance that districts created under the provisions of said statute are empowered to own and construct reservoirs, dams, wells, canals, etc., and to acquire the necessary right-of-way for same, by purchase, gift, grant of condemnation. |
| SB 370 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Stowell Independent School District in Chambers County, Texas; defining its boundaries; providing for a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools within said district. |
| SB 383 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Mont Belvieu Independent School District in Chambers County, Texas, defining its boundaries, etc. |
| SB 384 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating the Cedar Bayou Independent School District in the counties of Harris and Chambers, State of Texas by prescribing its bounds. |
| SJR 23 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the City of Galveston and County of Galveston to issue bonds for protective works, irrespective of Constitutional limitations. |
| 36th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 8 | Caption: Instructing the Committee on Privileges and Elections to immediately report SB 3 back to the Senate. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 76 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the sale of certain lands and flats and under the waters of Matagorda Bay, belonging to the State of Texas, to provide the conditions and terms of purchase thereof and for the issuance of permits and patents therefor. |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to creating Gulf Independent School District in Matagorda County. |
| SB 113 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that sand, gravel and marl taken from beneath the waters of Galveston Bay for the reconstruction and repair of Galveston Causeway shall be exempt from its provisions. |
| SB 150 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the Blessing Independent School District in Matagorda County. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to creating the Hahn Prairie Independent School District in Wharton County, Texas. |
| SB 65 | Caption: Relating to aiding the city of Freeport in raising, strengthening and enlarging existing levees. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| SB 71 | Caption: Relating to creating and providing for the enforcement of liens for material, machinery or supplies furnished to, or for labor performed for, to owners of land, mines, etc., and prohibiting the sale or removal of property subject to such liens without the consent of the lien holders and providing for a penalty therefor. |
| SB 122 | Caption: Relating to requiring the filing with the Clerks of District and County Courts copies of all petitions, answers, etc. |
| SB 136 | Caption: Relating to providing a more adequate system of irrigation laws; defining water rights, etc., and creating the office of water commissioner. |
| SB 137 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the commissioners courts of several counties to create and establish water improvement districts to construct reservoirs, dams, canals, etc. |
| SB 145 | Caption: Relating to permitting S.S. Perry of Brazoria County to bring suit against the State of Texas for an alleged breach of contract entered into and between the said S.S. Perry and the Board of Prison Commissioners. |
| SB 165 | Caption: Relating to amending "An Act to aid the City of Galveston in elevating and raising said city so as to protect it from calamitous overflows by donating and granting to it the State ad valorem taxes and a part of the occupation and poll taxes collected on property and from persons in Galveston County for a period of fifteen years, and to provide a penalty for their misapplication", by extending the provisions of said Act for a period of ten years from September 1, 1918. |
| SB 186 | Caption: Relating to more clearly defining some of the duties of the Attorney General, district and county attorneys of this State, and imposing other and additional duties upon such officers, and prohibiting the Attorney General from giving counsel and advice; except to certain public officers named. |
| SB 190 | Caption: Relating to providing a systematic method of eliminating and cancelling obsolete or abandoned marks and brands now on record and providing for a systematic method of recording and indexing marks and brands. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to providing for private corporations for purpose of building dry docks and marine railways. |
| SB 220 | Caption: Relating to remitting all State ad valorem taxes in Chambers County for a period of five years beginning the first day of October 1917, and all state poll taxes collected from persons in the County of Chambers, except that portion belonging to the public school fund. |
| SB 246 | Caption: Relating to conveying to the United States all right, title and interest of the State of Texas in and to certain land in the City of Galveston. |
| SB 271 | Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation of the city of Texas City. |
| SB 272 | Caption: Relating to taking certain counties from the counties exempting by Article 7184 of the Revised Statutes. |
| SB 273 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale and possession of certain fish of certain sizes and prohibiting use of seins and nets for certain periods; providing a penalty. |
| SB 325 | Caption: Relating to changing the time of holding the terms of the District Court in the Twenty-third Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 326 | Caption: Relating to aiding the county of Chambers in rebuilding roads and bridges destroyed by a flood and storm in said county on August 16, 1915 by granting to said County of Chambers the State ad valorem taxes collected on property and from persons in Chambers County for a period of ten years; providing a penalty. |
| SB 387 | Caption: Relating to creating the Criminal District Court of Galveston County and defining the jurisdiction thereof. |
| SB 388 | Caption: Relating to creating the Wharton Independent School District in Wharton County, Texas. |
| SB 395 | Caption: Relating to an Act authorizing the County of Galveston to build and construct a causeway and to issue bonds therefor. |
| SJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for the payment of the salary of the Governor of the State. |
| SR 73 | Caption: Directing the Secretary's attention to the pronunciation of the name of the Senator from Dallas. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to granting certain State taxes to Chambers County for a period of ten years to aid in construction of roads and bridges. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Providing that not legislation be considered except appropriation bills and military or defense bills. |
| 35th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to regulating the business of emigrant agents. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to regulating the business of Emigrant Agents; creating and defining offenses for violations of this Act, and prescribing the punishment therefor. |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to creating the Anahuac Independent School District in Chambers County. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 86 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Winnie Independent School District in the counties of Chambers and Jefferson, State of Texas. |
| SB 97 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to A.E. Masterson to bring suit against the State of Texas in the District Court of Travis County, Texas, for rents claimed to be due the said A.E. Masterson for rents on lands situated in Brazoria County, Texas, which lands were cultivated during the year 1917 by the Board of Prison Commissions. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure permitting bail bonds in misdemeanor cases to remain in force where motion for a new trial has be filed until judgment has been rendered by the Court upon the motion. |
| SB 126 | Caption: Relating to repealing the law providing a gross receipt tax on pistols and revolvers. |
| SB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute designating the personal property that shall be reserved to every family exempt from attachment, execution or any other species of forced sale for the payment of debts. |
| SB 180 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing that road bonds issued thereunder shall mature in forty years and may, at the option of the Commissioners Court, be made to mature in serial annual installments with such options of redemption as may be fixed by the Commissioners Court. |
| SB 210 | Caption: Relating to providing a systematic method of eliminating and cancelling obsolete or abandoned marks and brands now of record; providing for a systematic method of recording and indexing marks and brands of owners of livestock. |
| SB 221 | Caption: Relating to amending the Special Road Law for Brazoria county, to provide for maturity of all road bonds to be issued by Brazoria County, or any political subdivision or defined district thereof. |
| SB 225 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and instructing the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner to execute and deliver certain properties to M. Arlla and his heirs. |
| SB 228 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute with reference to the mode of preventing horses and certain other animals from running at large in counties name, so as to include Matagorda County. |
| SB 250 | Caption: relating to amending a certain Act authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell and conditionally relinquish to purchaser, of the City of Galveston, his heirs or assigns, successors, for the purpose of constructing a dry dock or marine railways to certain flats or lands under the waters on the shores of Galveston Bay. |
| SB 327 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the winding up of the affairs of abolished drainage districts. |
| SB 329 | Caption: Relating to requiring the filing with district clerks copies of all legal instruments pertaining to suits in such courts; providing for the certification of such copies; prohibiting the removal of original papers from the offices of such clerks and providing a penalty for such removal. |
| SB 348 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute preventing horses and other livestock from running at large to include Galveston County. |
| SB 393 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for abolition of certain drainage districts. |
| SJR 5 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the homestead of a family shall be protected from forced sale for the payment of all debts, except for the purchase money thereon. |
| SJR 9 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for division of Texas into three states. |
| SR 139 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. J. G. Barbee. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 19 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Twenty-third Judicial District and to create the Eightieth Judicial District of Texas, and to fix the time of holding the courts in said districts; and providing that the grand juries drawn and selected under the existing laws in any of the counties of said judicial district in Waller County shall be considered legally drawn and selected for the term of the district court of their respective counties held after this Act takes effect, and providing that this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of September, 1915 and to repeal all laws and part of laws in conflict herewith. |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain General Law relating to the issuance of stocks and bonds by the associations and corporations brought under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission. |
| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act authorizing the sale of certain submerged flats or lands under water on the shore of Galveston Bay so as to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell and conditionally relinquish to J.J. Kane, of the city of Galveston, his heirs or assigns, for the purpose of constructing a dry dock or marine railway thereon, all rights, title and claim in the State of Texas to certain flats or land under water on the shores of Galveston Bay, and so as to provide for the sale and conveyance of said property in consideration of the erection of a dry dock or marine railway at a cost of not less than one hundred fifty thousand ($150,000.00) dollars, and the payment to the State of Texas of the price agreed upon as herein provided. |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the pay of jail guards. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| HB 127 | Caption: Relating to prescribing the conditions authorizing the sale of real estate by guardians. |
| HB 277 | Caption: Relating to requiring every individual company or association engaged as a wholesale or retail dealer of pistols to make a quarterly report to the Comptroller of Public Accounts, showing the gross amount collected and uncollected from sale of pistols and paying an occupation tax. |
| HB 750 | Caption: Relating to regulating the charges and operation of telephone companies and systems now or hereafter operated in the state, providing for the appointment and election of Telephone Commissioners and prescribing their powers and duties, providing penalties. |
| HB 759 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 4 of Code of Criminal Procedure, providing that in all cases, bail bonds and recognizances shall remain in force, until discharged from further liability thereon. |
| HB 779 | Caption: Relating to amending the General Laws of the Twenty-sixth Legislature, relating to preventing certain animals from running at large, so as to include Wharton County within the provisions of said law. |
| HB 800 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Jackson County. |
| HB 815 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 1 of the Penal Code by adding thereto Article 483-A declaring it to be an offense for any white person and negro to cohabit together or carnally know each other and prescribing a penalty. |
| HB 868 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Wharton County, Texas. |