Legislation authored by Galloway Calhoun
Includes legislation with Galloway Calhoun as the primary author for the 57th through 59th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 59th Regular Session | |
|---|---|
| SB 2 | Caption: Relating to conferring on the Railroad Commission of Texas authority to provide for the pooling of mineral interests into proration units for an oil or gas well under certain conditions. |
| SB 62 | Caption: Relating to certain ratemaking procedures for carriers under the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas. |
| SB 85 | Caption: Relating to providing for the annexation of common and/or independent school districts to certain Junior College Districts for Junior College purposes only. |
| SB 113 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Probate Code by permitting the proceeds from an insurance policy that is community property to be distributed as community property. |
| SB 114 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Uniform Gifts to Minors Act by providing for the donation of life or endowment insurance policies and annuity contracts to a custodian for the benefit of a minor, under the Texas Uniform Gifts to Minors Act; making the acquisition of life or endowment insurance policies and annuity contracts an authorized investment of custodial property under this Act. |
| SB 326 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the construction, acquisition, and equipment of buildings and other structures and additions to existing buildings and other structures acquiring land therefor by the governing boards of the several junior college districts heretofore or hereafter organized; providing for the securing and payment of such obligations by the use and pledge of a certain part of student tuition charges. |
| SB 383 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and approving contracts and time warrants issued by Home Rule Cities having a population of not less than 50,000 and not more than 60,000 according to the United States census for the year 1960. |
| SB 415 | Caption: Relating to establishing The University of Texas System and naming the institutions of which it shall consist. |
| SB 416 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Board of Regents of the State Teachers' Colleges to "Board of Regents, State Senior Colleges"; enlarging the jurisdiction of the present Board. |
| SB 420 | Caption: Relating to the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| SB 421 | Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts. |
| SCR 87 | Caption: Granting John Horn, Sr., permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 88 | Caption: Granting Carroll L. Thompson permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 89 | Caption: Granting E. P. Jones permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 90 | Caption: Granting Dewey Hitt permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 91 | Caption: Granting Joe B. Cameron permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SJR 10 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas requiring automatic retirement of District and Appellate Judges at age seventy-five or such earlier age, not under seventy, as may be provided by law; creating a State Judicial Qualifications Commission and providing for its composition and the qualifications, methods of selection and terms of office of its members. |
| SR 556 | Caption: In memory of Wayne Powell Dawson. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| SB 52 | Caption: Relating to operation of commercial motor vehicles by persons other than the owner thereof; providing penalties. |
| SB 59 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to more clearly define "for hire transportation" and to increase the minimum penalty for a violation of such Act. |
| SB 97 | Caption: Relating to creating the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District, comprised of the counties of Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Anderson, Houston, Freestone, Cherokee, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Angelina, Rains, San Augustine, Sabine, Wood, Upshur, Kaufman, Leon and Trinity, and to locate the Court of Civil Appeals thereof in the City of Tyler; providing for jurisdiction of cases. |
| SB 129 | Caption: Relating to the regulation and sale of pre-need funeral merchandise and service contracts; providing for an effective date of this Act. |
| SB 193 | Caption: Relating to the allocation of funds for public junior colleges and providing an audit thereof. |
| SB 223 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Workmen's Compensation Insurance Laws relative to to liability of association. |
| SB 236 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relative to insurance requirements relating to authorized loans on real estate. |
| SB 432 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a County Court at Law for Smith County. |
| SB 508 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas National Guard Armory Board to convey certain lands in Wood County, Texas. |
| SCR 42 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider the Local and Uncontested Bills Calendars. |
| SCR 72 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S. B. No. 432 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections. |
| SCR 95 | Caption: Declaring H. B. No. 1075 to be effective immediately upon passage. |
| SCR 96 | Caption: Instructing the Senate Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 129. |
| SCR 98 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B No. 1075 at any time. |
| SR 25 | Caption: Directing the creation of the Senate General Investigating Committee. |
| SR 159 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. J. C. Wynne to the State Capitol. |
| SR 179 | Caption: Providing for the creation of Local and Uncontested Bill Calendars. |
| SR 280 | Caption: In memory of William Nathan Wilks. |
| SR 359 | Caption: Welcoming Morris Brin to the State Capitol. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to create the Twelfth Supreme Judicial District, comprised of the counties of Smith, Van Zandt, Henderson, Anderson, Houston, Freestone, Cherokee, Rusk, Nacogdoches, Shelby, Panola, Angelina, Hunt, Rains, San Augustine, Sabine, Wood, Upshur, Kaufman, Navarro, Leon and Trinity, and to locate the Court of Civil Appeals thereof in the City of Tyler. |
| SB 229 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide for the creation of a County Junior College in certain counties of this State under certain conditions. |
| SB 240 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute authorizing the governing bodies of counties, cities, towns and trustees of school districts to invest their respective sinking funds for the redemption any payment of outstanding bonds of such bodies and adding a new alternative investment by authorizing such bodies to invest such monies in interest-bearing time deposits in any bank doing business in Texas, where the payment of such time deposits is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. |
| SB 241 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute authorizing an increase in the number of assistants, stenographers, and clerks in the office of the Criminal District Attorney of Smith County, Texas. |
| SB 306 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Workmen's Compensation Insurance Laws of this state relative to clarifying Damages and Compensation for Personal Injuries. |
| SB 312 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the Athens Municipal Water Authority, providing that the territory comprising the Authority shall be confined to that which was embraced within the corporate limits of the City of Athens, Henderson County, Texas, on the 2nd day of May, 1957 until hereafter enlarged as provided for in this Act. |
| SB 324 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to annexation of common and/or independent school districts to certain Junior College Districts so as to change the term of office of trustees elected for said Junior College Districts. |
| SB 341 | Caption: Relating to providing for fixing the compensation of the Judge of the District Court in the 86th Judicial District, and authorizing the Commissioners Courts of Van Zandt, Kaufman and Rockwall Counties to pay the District Judge of the 86th Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the State. |
| SB 400 | Caption: Relating to providing necessary authority and responsibility for the Commissioner of Agriculture to prescribe rules, regulations, conduct inspections, establish grades, classify rose plants, cuttings, bushes and shipments thereof sold or offered to be sold within the State of Texas; providing for a penalty. |
| SCR 78 | Caption: Instructing the Governor to return H. B. No. 1095 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections. |
| SR 112 | Caption: Welcoming Charlance Tunnell and Lana Bradshaw to the State Capitol. |
| SR 201 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Eustace High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 222 | Caption: In memory of Samuel Ashbury Lindsey. |
| SR 503 | Caption: Designating William Farrier Owen as an Honorary Page of the Senate. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State of Texas through and by the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to convey the waterworks and sanitary sewer system together with the land and easements on which they are situated, located in Smith County, Texas, to Smith County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 (Owentown), a political subdivision of the State of Texas duly created and acting under the laws of the State of Texas. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to validating the action of certain Junior College Districts relating to the conduct of bond elections, validating bonds issued and to be issued, bond taxes and maintenance taxes and providing this Act shall have no application to litigation now pending questioning the matters hereby validated, providing such litigation or proceedings are ultimately determined against the validity of matters hereby validated. |
| SB 67 | Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as the "Wood and Upshur Counties Water District" for the purpose of providing or acquiring a source or sources of water supply for municipal, domestic, industrial, and mining uses and processing and transporting the same and for the purpose of providing or acquiring storm sewers. |