Legislation authored by Willard Arnold Johnson
Includes legislation with Willard Arnold Johnson as the primary author for the 32nd through 35th 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.
| 35th Regular Session | |
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| SB 7 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial districts: to specify the county to which returns of an election shall be sent, on which the county Judge shall issue certificates of election. |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal code of the state relative to card playing |
| SB 9 | Caption: Relating to providing for the granting of teacher's certificates. |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to amending a law to provide for the notice of sale of real estate under execution. |
| SB 54 | Caption: Relating to creating the 81st Judicial District composed of the counties of Hall, Donley, Armstrong and Carson. |
| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the maintenance and operation of pool halls within the State; creating and defining offenses in violation of the act and providing the punishment therefor. |
| SB 80 | Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of the Penal Code so as to prohibit the opening of places of amusement on Sunday. |
| SB 107 | Caption: Relating to restoring and conferring upon the county court of Hansford county the civil and criminal jurisdictions belonging to said court under the constitution and general statutes of Texas. |
| SB 141 | Caption: Relating to requiring the publication, in some newspaper, all legal notices now authorized by law or contract to be made by posting notices in one or more public places; fixing the time of such publication. |
| SB 164 | Caption: Relating to amending the law validating the Wichita Falls Independent School District by repealing the clause limiting the powers and discretion of the Board of Equalization of said Independent School District. |
| SB 177 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Pampa Independent School District in Gray County. |
| SB 214 | Caption: Relating to making emergency appropriation for the support and maintenance of West Texas State Normal College to augment the money heretofore appropriated for the regular term of 1917. |
| SB 223 | Caption: Relating to granting the power to purchase, lease, or acquire by condemnation, for certain public purposes, to County School Trustees of common school districts, having less than 150 scholastics, Trustees of Independent School Districts having 150 or more scholastics and to Cemetery Associations, incorporated or unincorporated. |
| SB 257 | Caption: Relating to revising certain statutes so as to make privileged, without proof of actual malice, true accounts of legislative and executive proceedings. |
| SB 304 | Caption: Relating to creating the Turkey Independent School District in Hall County, Texas. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to issuance of bonds of cities and towns and to the payment and satisfaction of outstanding judgments against such cities and towns. |
| SB 337 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Wheeler Independent School District in Wheeler County, Texas. |
| SB 352 | Caption: Relating to creating the Estelline Independent School District in Hall County, Texas. |
| SB 383 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that any incorporated city, town or village containing 750 inhabitants or over may accept certain provisions in lieu of any existing charter by two-thirds vote of the council. |
| SB 405 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company to purchase, own and operate the railroad of South Plains and Santa Fe Railway Company with its franchise and appurtenances, now and hereafter owned. |
| SB 415 | Caption: Relating to fixing the time of holding the courts in the Sixty-Fourth Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 444 | Caption: Relating to establishing Common School District No 10 in Dickens County, Texas. |
| SB 461 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the City of Plainview, Hale County, Texas and to grant it a charter. |
| SB 471 | Caption: Relating to creating the Lelia Lake Independent School District of Donley County, Texas. |
| SB 485 | Caption: Relating to creating Lodge Independent School District in Hall County, Texas. |
| SR 20 | Caption: Inviting former Senator John W. Veale to address the Senate. |
| SR 22 | Caption: Expressing sympathy for Senator Westbrook on the death of his mother. |
| SR 46 | Caption: Directing that the block picture of the 26th Senate be replaced in the Senate Chamber by the picture of the 34th Senate. |
| SR 67 | Caption: Inviting former Senator W.N. Adams to address the Senate. |
| SR 76 | Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate certain charges made against Governor Ferguson. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 56 | Caption: Relating to creating an Independent School District to be know as "Stratford Independent School District". |
| 35th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to creating the Alanreed Independent School District in Gray County, Texas. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to amending the Act creating the Estelline Independent School District in Hall County by changing the boundaries thereof. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to permitting the organization or re-organization of unorganized or disorganized counties upon a petition expressing such desire, signed by not less than seventy-five qualified voters, residing in such unorganized or disorganized county. |
| SB 60 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code, defining rape. |
| SB 78 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain laws and to create a Supreme Court of Civil Appeals, making an appropriation. |
| SB 109 | Caption: Relating to Amarillo Independent School District in Potter County. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Senatorial district to specify the county to which returns of an election shall be sent and which County Judge shall issue certificates of election. |
| SB 22 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the granting of teacher's certificates. |
| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to compelling equipage of all section cares with gasoline or electric motors. |
| SB 24 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to gaming with cards. |
| SB 36 | Caption: Relating to creating the Seventy-eighth Judicial District, to be composed of Wichita County; to prescribe its jurisdiction and fix its terms. |
| SB 37 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the appointment of official stenographers for District and county Courts. |
| SB 75 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale and vending of merchandise on railway trains. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the notice of sale of real estate under execution. |
| SB 121 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act declaring what counties shall compose the Forty-sixth Judicial District; to fixing the time of holding court in the various counties of said district. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation to cover the cost of temporary buildings for the use of the West Texas State Normal College at Canyon, Texas, built in June, 1914. |
| SB 151 | Caption: Relating to prescribing additional duties and conferring additional power and authority upon the Board of Warehouse Supervisors; making an appropriation. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to increasing the civil jurisdiction of the county court of Hemphill and Collingsworth Counties. |
| SB 239 | Caption: Relating to providing for the making of plats of land or lands which shall hereafter be laid off into town lots or blocks for the purpose of sale by any person, firm or corporation; providing for the filing of such plats in the offices of the County Clerk and County Tax Assessor; providing a penalty for failure to comply. |
| SB 240 | Caption: Relating to creating the Hedley Independent School District in Donley County, Texas, providing for a board of trustees in said independent school district, and conferring upon said district and its board of trustees all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General Laws of the State upon independent school districts and the board of trustees thereof. |
| SB 281 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the filing in the General Land Office of chains of transfer to lands in cases where such transfers have been executed by heirs, executors, administrators or survivors in community of deceased persons or by the guardian of persons of unsound mind or minors. |
| SB 291 | Caption: Relating to requiring the publication in some newspaper of general circulation all notices now required by law or contract to be posted in public places. |
| SB 292 | Caption: Relating to creating the Spur Independent School District, in Dickens County, Texas. |
| SB 293 | Caption: Relating to creating the Happy Independent School District in Swisher and Randall counties, Texas, defining its metes and bounds. |
| SB 311 | Caption: Relating to repealing a General Law creating a state bonded warehouse system. |
| SB 318 | Caption: Relating to simplifying and regulating the procedure in suits for the collection of delinquent taxes and to regulate the costs of appeals therein. |
| SB 362 | Caption: Relating to exempting all buffalo and catalo from taxation. |
| SB 377 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Special Law authorizing and permitting the territory situated within Claude, in the County of Armstrong to be incorporated as an independent school district; providing for the appointment of a Board of Equalization for the Claude Independent School District and for the valuation of property therein. |
| SB 382 | Caption: Relating to requiring the owners or managers of pool halls or pool rooms to close at 9:30 pm each weekday; providing a penalty. |
| SB 397 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for payment for the wings of the permanent fire-proof building to replace the main building of the West Texas State Normal College at Canyon, Texas. |
| SB 413 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Clarendon Independent School District in Donley County. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment requiring that each Federal census shall be re-districted for Congressional and Senatorial purposes. |
| SR 3 | Caption: Providing newspapers for the members of the Senate. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Providing for a Senate post office porter. |
| SR 20 | Caption: Appointing Senator Hunt to Judiciary Committee No. 2. |
| SR 22 | Caption: Inviting former State Sen. John W. Veale to address the Senate. |
| SR 57 | Caption: Providing for the Oath of Office to be administered to Senator-elect A. R. McCollum. |
| SR 61 | Caption: Providing copies of the daily calendar of the Senate to the members of the Senate. |
| SR 80 | Caption: Requesting the Committee on Senatorial Districts to report out a bill in the next three days. |
| SR 87 | Caption: Inviting former State Senator B. B. Sturgeon. |
| SR 108 | Caption: Inviting Chimmie McFadden to address the Senate. |
| SR 135 | Caption: Providing for an executive session of the Senate in order to confirm the Governor's nominations of notaries. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act creating the Happy Independent School District in Swisher and Randall counties, Texas, defining its metes and bounds; providing for a board of trustees therefor; vesting it with the rights and duties of districts incorporated for school purposes only under the General Laws. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to extending the time for the payment of principal that has become due on former sales of lands belonging to the public free school fund, University fund and the several Asylum funds. |
| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to creating the Dumont Independent School District No. 1 in Cottle, Dickens, King and Motley counties. |
| SB 49 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to grounds for divorces. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| SB 7 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the incorporation of mutual hail insurance companies, regulating the business of such companies, providing for the investment of reserve fund, requiring annual reports and fixing the fees to be paid by such companies. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the formation of corporations for irrigation and development purposes for farming under irrigation, and permitting the acquisition of land for such purpose; providing the manner of such development for irrigation and restricting the ownership of such land further, that no corporation thus formed shall own any land under and by virtue of this Act for a period of more than fifteen years from and after the date of the acquisition of same, requiring said corporation to alienate all land owned by it, within the said fifteen years, to bona fide purchasers for value, and providing for the organization of said corporations under Chapter 2, Title 21, of the Revised Civil Statutes of the state. |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to judicial districts by detaching Bailey County from Castro County, to which it is attached for judicial purposes in the sixty-fourth judicial district, and attaching it to Parmer County for judicial purposes, within the sixty-ninth judicial district. |
| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Statutes by adding thereto articles providing for a better protection of the fish and oyster industry, prescribing riparian rights, the prerequisites to the issuance of license to catch fish, oysters, etc; providing for examination of location, surveys, etc., and permit to gather seed oysters; providing for appointment of Deputy Fish & Oyster Commissioners. |
| SB 57 | Caption: Relating to validating incorporations of towns and villages heretofore attempted to be made, but which failed. |
| SB 74 | Caption: Relating to validating all sales made out of leases of un-surveyed school lands that may have been erroneous by reason of a lack of definiteness of lease-holds and unmarked survey lines, and all sales made on lines of four-section counties, and eight-section counties, and sales as may have been erroneous on account of lack of clearness in the statute, and sales of school lands to actual settlers in such cases as the applicant did settle on the land within the time required by law, but did not file in the General Land Office the affidavit of settlement within the time required by law. |
| SB 148 | Caption: Relating to allowing certain counties to be organized or reorganized. |
| SB 186 | Caption: Relating to increasing the civil jurisdiction of the county court of Armstrong County. |
| SB 220 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the qualified voters of any county or political subdivision thereof in this State to determine, by an election to be held for that purpose, whether or not pool rooms or pool halls shall be prohibited in such county or subdivision thereof; providing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| SB 233 | Caption: Relating to adding to and making part of the the Slaton Independent School District of Lubbock County certain lands and territory adjoining thereto situate in Lubbock County, and adding thereto and making a part thereof certain lands and territory adjoining thereto situate in Lynn County all for school purposes. |
| SB 243 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the state into senatorial districts; to specify the county to which returns of an election shall be sent, on which the county judge shall issue certificates of election. |
| SB 244 | Caption: Relating to creating additional territory for Floydada Independent School District. |
| SB 281 | Caption: Relating to establishing a quarantine line across the state identical with that now or hereafter prescribed by law for the prevention of Texas Fever in cattle, for the prevention of the spread of contagious diseases in hogs except under specified conditions, prohibiting shipment into that portion of the state lying north and west of such line, providing that the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of Texas shall prescribe rules governing such shipment, providing penalty. |
| SB 310 | Caption: Relating to amending the law creating the Lakeview Independent School District. |
| SB 311 | Caption: Relating to creating the Roaring Springs Independent School District, in Motley County, Texas. |
| SB 312 | Caption: Relating to amending an act to regulate elections and provide penalties for violation. |
| SB 341 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Wichita County, in the State of Texas, and making county commissioners of said county ex-officio road commissioners, and prescribing their duties as such, and providing for their compensation as road commissioners and defining the powers and duties of the commissioners courts of said county, and fixing a penalty for the violation of this Act. |
| SB 353 | Caption: Relating to fixing the time for holding the terms of the District court in the Forty-seventh Judicial District. |
| SB 373 | Caption: Relating to amending articles 5174, 5175 and 5180 of the Revised Statutes (1911). |
| SB 399 | Caption: Relating to placing the Lubbock Independent School District under the general laws, relating to incorporated school districts, with all the powers given under such general laws. |
| SB 404 | Caption: Relating to providing for a High School to be located at Hale Center in Hale County, Texas, giving it boundaries and defining the duties and privileges of same, and giving authority to levy taxes to maintain said High School. |
| SB 442 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Hemphill County, Texas, to lay out, construct and maintain roads, and bridges. |
| SB 457 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and fiftieth judicial districts and creating the seventy-sixth judicial district. |
| SB 469 | Caption: Relating to amending Slaton Independent School District law of Lubbock County, Texas. |
| SB 482 | Caption: Relating to legal holidays, making every Saturday, from 12 (twelve) o'clock noon until 12 (twelve) o'clock midnight, a legal half-holiday. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to adding and making part of the Memphis Independent School District in Hall County, Texas, certain lands and territory adjoining thereto situate in Hall County, and adding thereto and making a part thereof certain lands and territory adjoining thereto situate in the County of Collingsworth, all for school purposes; giving the Board of Trustees of said district power and jurisdiction over said lands and territory and the inhabitants thereof. |
| SB 22 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Hall County, Texas, and making the Commissioner's Court of said County ex-officio road commissioners in their respective precincts, and providing for and fixing their compensation as such road commissioners. Prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act. |
| 32nd Regular Session | |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act creating the Sixth Supreme Judicial District of Texas, and to create the Seventh and Eighth Supreme Judicial Districts of Texas, and to provide for the organization of a Court of Civil Appeals within the Seventh Supreme Judicial District of Texas, and to providing for the organization of a Court of Civil Appeals within the Eighth Supreme Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation, establishment, and maintenance of a special University Fund; providing that a certain part of the ad valorem tax rate shall be levied, assessed, and collected for said purpose. |
| SB 29 | Caption: Relating to the relief of Railway companies who fail to construct their roads and branches within the time required by law. |
| SB 38 | Caption: Relating to requiring butchers of Karnes County to give bond as required by law and exempting Archer county from the operation of the same law. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to providing for the filing in the General Land Office of chains of transfer of title to portions of the sold Public Free School Lands, University and Asylum Lands of this State. |
| SB 49 | Caption: Relating to establishing a State Free Employment Bureau to be conducted by the Superintendent who shall be appointed by and under the direction of the Commissioner of Labor. |
| SB 53 | Caption: Relating to regulating private employment agencies; defining penalties. |
| SB 70 | Caption: Relating to making it lawful for railway, express, railway companies and telegraph companies to contract and enter into agreements with each other for the exchange of services, and for transportation of officers, agents and employes of such companies, requiring such contract or agreement to be filed with the Railroad Commission of Texas. |
| SB 80 | Caption: Relating to providing that purchasers of free school land in certain counties may transfer same in forty-acre tracts or multiples thereof. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to creating the Electra Independent School District in Wichita county, Texas, and to provide for the election of trustees, raising revenue by taxation, issuing bonds, building school houses and maintaining public free schools therein. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 64th (sixty fourth) Judicial District of Texas ; providing for the return of all process to each of the counties in said District; providing for the attachment of the unorganized county of Bailey to Castro County. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to Normal School and Summer Normal Certificates. |
| SB 118 | Caption: Relating to regulating and granting of license to practice as Attorney and Counselor at law in all the Courts of the State. |
| SB 152 | Caption: Relating to creating the Seventy-first Judicial District of the state of Texas; attaching the unorganized counties of Cochran and Hockley to Lubbock county for judicial and other purposes; reorganizing the Thirty-second, Fiftieth and Sixty-fourth Judicial Districts; attaching the unorganized county of Bailey to Castro county. |
| SB 276 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and permitting the territory situated within the town of Crosbyton in the County of Crosby to incorporate as an independent school district for free school purposes only. |
| SB 291 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act defining what shall be a full crew upon passenger trains to exempt from the provisions of the act any railroad company whose line is less than fifty (50) miles in length. |
| SB 292 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act so as to exempt from the provisions of said Act, any railroad company whose line is less than fifty (50) miles in length. |
| SB 302 | Caption: Relating to requiring railroad companies to maintain crossing in fenced enclosures so as to make a separate offense each day's failure to maintain such crossings. |
| SB 319 | Caption: Relating to creating the Tell Independent School District in Childress and Hall counties, Texas, defining its metes and bounds; providing for a Board of Trustees therefor. |
| SB 355 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Jack county, Texas, and making the county commissioners of said county ex officio road overseers [commissioners] and prescribing their duties as such and providing for the compensation as such road commissioners; and fixing a penalty for the violation of this Act. |
| 32nd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to apportioning and dividing the state of Texas into congressional districts, fixing the number of Congressmen. |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to defining the original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and to provide for the disposition of the causes now pending therein. |
| SB 19 | Caption: Relating to further empowering the Live Stock Sanitary Commission to protect livestock against contagious infections or communicable diseases and to provide penalties. |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to creating the Lakeview Independent School District in Hall county, Texas, providing for a board of trustees in said independent school district and conferring upon said district and its board of trustees all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General Laws of the State upon independent school districts and the board of trustees thereof. |
| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and permitting the Crosybton Independent School District to increase its territory and to incorporate the whole thereof as an independent school district for free school purposes only. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering Wichita county, or any political subdivision of said county by a vote of two-thirds majority of the resident property taxpayers, qualified voters of such county or political subdivision thereof, voting thereon, to issue bonds to any amount, not exceeding one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such county, or of such political subdivision of such county, and to levy and collect taxes to pay the interest on such bonds and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof, for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operating macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes, and prescribing ways and means of conducting and supervising said work |