Legislation authored by George Clarence Moffett
Includes legislation with George Clarence Moffett as the primary author for the 42nd through 58th 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.
| 58th Regular Session | |
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| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to regulating the distribution, sale, or transportation of insecticides, fungicides, rodenticides, defoliants, desiccants, plant regulators, nematocides, and other economic pesticides and devices; imposing penalties. |
| SB 126 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to determine the amount of land excess to the needs of the operation of the Wichita Falls State Hospital; to sell and convey the same. |
| SB 224 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes by redefining the term "exceptional children" so as to include emotionally disturbed children; defining "emotionally disturbed children". |
| SB 316 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities to refund their outstanding waterworks revenue bonds and sewer revenue bonds into refunding bonds which will be secured by and payable from a pledge of both waterworks and sewer revenues. |
| SB 367 | Caption: Relating to authorizing a permanent statutory revision program for the State of Texas. |
| SB 374 | Caption: Relating to protecting the flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, the State of Texas or the Confederate States of America; providing a penalty. |
| SB 375 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance and sale of Veterans' Land Bonds. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to prepare for the gubernatorial inauguration. |
| SCR 2 | Caption: Inviting the Governor to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| SCR 4 | Caption: Designating March 4 through March 8, 1963 as Public Schools Week in Texas. |
| SCR 26 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to review the Federal subsidies program for cotton growers. |
| SCR 68 | Caption: Authorizing the State Building Commission to erect on the Capitol Grounds a historical marker telling the story of the Texas Secession Convention and the part played by Texas in the Confederate States Government. |
| SJR 16 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment so as to authorize an increase in the total amount of bonds or obligations that may be issued by the Veterans' Land Board to Three Hundred Fifty Million Dollars (350,000,000.00); providing for the issuance of said bonds or obligations and the conditions relating thereto and the use of the Veterans' Land Fund. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Welcoming Frank Wood to the State Capitol. |
| SR 177 | Caption: Welcoming E. R. Howard, Ed Meharg, Jr., Sammie D. Grange, Jack McMichael, and Tommie Duffie to the State Capitol. |
| SR 206 | Caption: Welcoming Jack Meharg and B. G. Watson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 225 | Caption: Welcoming the students of McAdoo High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 362 | Caption: Extending good wishes to Texas' Secretary of State Crawford C. Martin as he recovers from a automobile accident. |
| SR 379 | Caption: In memory of Leslie Burrow Finnell. |
| SR 435 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Goree High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 618 | Caption: In memory of Albert Ellis. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act correcting the description of property to be transferred to Midwestern University; providing for the termination of the effectiveness of the Act if such properties are not so conveyed prior to September 1, 1961. |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles in the Texas Penal Code relating to the regulation of the manufacture, sale, or distribution, of commercial fertilizer. |
| SB 93 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain junior college districts to give, donate and convey property to certain state colleges or universities; authorizing such junior college districts to sell and convey encumbered property to such state colleges or universities. |
| SB 121 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide for an additional member of the State Seed and Plant Board. |
| SB 434 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Midwestern University at Wichita Falls, Texas, and its Board of Regents to issue revenue bonds and notes, and also authorizing the collection and pledge of revenues and use fees to the payment of bonds and notes at said institution; providing certain limitations. |
| SCR 4 | Caption: Designating the week of March 6 through March 10, 1961 as Public Schools Week in Texas. |
| SCR 13 | Caption: Commending the Texas Civil War Centennial Commission for their work in preparation for the commemoration of the anniversary in Texas. |
| SCR 46 | Caption: Recognizing the alumni of Texas A&M College during their celebration of "Muster Day" on April 21, 1961. |
| SCR 56 | Caption: Designating the week of March 5 through March 9, 1962 as Public Schools Week in Texas. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Recognizing the Midwestern University Choir for their participation in the Governor's Inaugural Program. |
| SR 39 | Caption: Welcoming John McKee to the State Capitol. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Welcoming H.T. Melton, T. W. Bullington, and John A. Smith to the State Capitol. |
| SR 59 | Caption: Welcoming Pete Spoonts and Harold Story to the State Capitol. |
| SR 148 | Caption: In memory of Ben G. O'Neal |
| SR 164 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Woods. |
| SR 169 | Caption: Extending good wishes to Johnnye Ruth Weinert as she recovers from illness. |
| SR 175 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Martin Dies, Sr. to the State Capitol and inviting Martin Dies, Sr. to address the Senate. |
| SR 194 | Caption: Welcoming Jack A. Atwood, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 237 | Caption: In memory of H. Bruce Street. |
| SR 244 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. James B. Temple and Mrs. Robert Last to the State Capitol. |
| SR 310 | Caption: Welcoming R. H. Nichols to the State Capitol. |
| SR 317 | Caption: Welcoming Claude Calloway to the State Capitol. |
| SR 323 | Caption: Welcoming Kenneth Johnson, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 353 | Caption: In memory of Georgia Gayle Rogers. |
| SR 410 | Caption: Extending good wishes to Mrs. W. J. Higgs as she recovers from her illness. |
| SR 412 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Goree High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 427 | Caption: Welcoming John E. Morrison, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 439 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Sagerton Public Schools to the State Capitol. |
| SR 445 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Haskell High School Band to the State Capitol. |
| SR 446 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Holiday High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 470 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Seymour High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 486 | Caption: Welcoming Jack Lacy and Rex Sullivan, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 493 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Guthrie High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 500 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Throckmorton High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 538 | Caption: Recognizing the officers of the Texas-Oklahoma Fair for their selection of Sam Rayburn to be their honored guest on Pioneer Day. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to applying Midwestern University authorizing the governing board thereof to discontinue the charging and collection of tuition fees for a certain time and to charge students certain building-use fees; authorizing the pledge of the income of such building-use fees and the issuance of bonds, warrants, or notes payable therefrom; providing and prescribing certain terms and conditions relating to such bonds, warrants, or notes. |
| 57th 2nd Called Session | |
| SR 13 | Caption: Welcoming Betsy and Sharon Davis to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Boards of Education of Public Schools of Texas and the Governing Boards of state-supported institutions of higher education to purchase annuities for their employees. |
| SCR 10 | Caption: Recognizing the Wichita Falls High School football team for winning the 1961 4-A State Championship. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Welcoming E. H. Howard, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 15 | Caption: Welcoming Merick McGaughey, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Inviting State Senator Dorsey B. Hardeman to address the Senate on Robert E. Lee's birthday. |
| SR 23 | Caption: In memory of L. A. Hankins. |
| SR 25 | Caption: In memory of Ben G. Yeager. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Welcoming the family of former State Representative Jack Hightower to the State Capitol. |
| SR 65 | Caption: Welcoming Herbert Partridge to the State Capitol. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| SB 6 | Caption: Relating to creating Midwestern University at Wichita Falls, Texas, and providing for instruction at said University suitable to a University of higher learning teaching liberal arts and sciences of the first class. |
| SB 18 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to provide for the control and eradication of vesicular exanthema in swine; providing a penalty for violations. |
| SB 32 | Caption: Relating to the enrichment of corn meal and corn grits by the addition of certain vitamins and minerals thereto; providing a penalty for violations. |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the manufacture, possession, distribution, sale or use of live hog cholera virus vaccine in the State of Texas; providing a penalty for violation. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation and Reclamation District, comprising certain territory contained within Wichita County, to be known as the "Wichita County Water Control and Improvement District No. 6." |
| SB 291 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Wichita County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1 to extend its boundaries to include the total area of a city or town when the total area of such city or town, or a portion thereof, is included within the boundaries of the District. |
| SB 325 | Caption: Relating to creating a Pest Control Division in the Department of Agriculture; providing a penalty for the violation of the Act. |
| SB 380 | Caption: Relating to Livestock Auction Markets; fixing a penalty; making an appropriation. |
| SCR 7 | Caption: Designating the week of March 2 through March 6, 1959 as Public Schools Week in Texas. |
| SCR 23 | Caption: Authorizing the acceptance of a gift of a Statue of Sam Houston from The Great Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. |
| SCR 50 | Caption: Recognizing the students and alumni of Texas A&M College during their celebration of Muster Day. |
| SR 16 | Caption: Recognizing the Midwestern University Choir for their participation in the Inaugural Program. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Recognizing the Wichita Falls High School football team for winning the Class AAAA state championship. |
| SR 41 | Caption: Welcoming W. W. Walker, Jr., J. W. Martin, and Price Lowry to the State Capitol. |
| SR 89 | Caption: Welcoming Byrd F. Thorp, R. V. Pirtle, and Walter Merriman to the State Capitol. |
| SR 90 | Caption: Welcoming J. C. Randel, Rex Sullivan, Sr., E. l. Grimes, and Rex Felker to the State Capitol. |
| SR 101 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to locate at least one proposed water desalination research facility in the State of Texas. |
| SR 109 | Caption: Welcoming Chris Jensen, Murry Johnson, Howard Shubert, and Bob Lyons to the State Capitol. |
| SR 120 | Caption: Welcoming Louis Pitcock, Sr., Ruby A. Graham, and Mrs. Barlo Bryan to the State Capitol. |
| SR 139 | Caption: Welcoming James L. Henry, W. R. Gaston, and William H. Harrison to the State Capitol. |
| SR 150 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Eckelkamp, Ruth Guard, Terry Brogdon, Ed Foster, Carl Moeller, Frank Krajka, gene Stephens, Leroy Wilkins, Bob Seabury, Loys Barbour, David Clinton, Mary Bradshaw, Jack Atmore, Charlie Gibson, and Hoyle Fitzgerald to the State Capitol. |
| SR 171 | Caption: Welcoming R. C. Rancier, Anthony Rancier, and W. R. Gaston to the State Capitol. |
| SR 190 | Caption: Welcoming M. J. Weaver and Luren Campbell to thee State Capitol. |
| SR 206 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Jack Story, Mrs. Phil Menke, Mrs. Dell Newell, Maude Stonecipher, and Mrs. A. D. McDuffie to the State Capitol. |
| SR 252 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. and Mrs. William S. Shirley to the State Capitol. |
| SR 259 | Caption: Welcoming R. H. Peterson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 263 | Caption: Recognizing the Texas-Oklahoma Fair for its recognition of the oil industry's 100th anniversary. |
| SR 287 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Zundelowitz Junior High School and Barwise Junior High School of Wichita Falls to the State Capitol. |
| SR 295 | Caption: Welcoming Clyde Whiteside and Gene Carter to the State Capitol. |
| SR 469 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Iowa Park High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 533 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Newcastle High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 541 | Caption: Welcoming Mmes. W. W. Price, and Ione Harwell, and Messrs. Bill Price and Ernest Horany to the State Capitol. |
| SR 550 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McClesky and Brenda Walser to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 50 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wood. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Welcoming E. Bruce Street to the State Capitol. |
| SR 53 | Caption: Welcoming D. E. Holder, O. G. Pennartz, and Mr. Stone to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to empowering any city which heretofore has held an election authorizing the sale of its natural gas system to lease such system and to grant to the lessee or to others an option to purchase such system. |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a county Probation Department in and for Wichita County, Texas. |
| SR 23 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Lynn Pace, Jr. and her son Stephen to the State Capitol. |
| SR 24 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. Harry Joiner and J. W. Rutledge to the State Capitol. |
| SR 46 | Caption: Welcoming Alan and Ronnie Berry, and E. E. and Danny Voyles to the State Capitol. |
| SR 54 | Caption: Welcoming former State Senator Ben G. Oneal and Mrs. Oneal to the State Capitol. |
| SR 57 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to support the "Smith Bill" currently under consideration as it secures the "rights of the states" in their relationship with the Federal Government. |
| SR 66 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hightower. |
| SR 91 | Caption: Welcoming Earl Sargent to the State Capitol. |
| SR 94 | Caption: Welcoming Buford Comstock, Jimmy Thomas, and Noel King to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| SR 20 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hancock to the State Capitol. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| SB 18 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale and distribution for sale of commercial feed as defined in this Act in this state. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, acting by the Executive Director thereof, to execute and deliver to the State Highway Commission of Texas a right-of-way easement to certain land in Wilbarger County, Texas, for the reconstruction and maintenance of a State highway extending along or across certain State property known as Vernon State Hospital, Branch of Wichita Falls State Hospital. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to defining offenses in connection with the furnishing of alcoholic beverages, narcotic drugs, barbiturates, and other drug stimulants to inmates of the Texas Prison System and the taking of these articles into the confines of Texas Prison System property, and prescribing a penalty for violation. |
| SB 96 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that the Veteran's Land Board shall be a State Agency; providing for the duties and functions of the Chairman of the Board. |
| SB 258 | Caption: Relating to creating Midwestern University at Wichita Falls, Texas, and providing for work at said University suitable to a University of higher learning teaching the liberal arts and sciences of the first class. |
| SB 259 | Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district comprising the territory contained within the cities of Seymour, Knox City, Munday, Goree, Haskell, Rule and Rochester, to be known as the "North Central Texas Municipal Water Authority". |
| SB 308 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes to include Agricultural Protective Act in all counties of State, in sale of agricultural commodities, fees deposited to Special Department of Agriculture Fund. |
| SB 324 | Caption: Relating to providing that no person shall acquire by descent or distribution, or by will, any interest in the estate of another for whose death such person has been convicted of murder with malice aforethought. |
| SB 380 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the payment of salaries of the citizen board members of the Veterans' Land Board; providing the method of payment and the effective date of the salaries. |
| SB 426 | Caption: Relating to creating a permanent historical committee to be known as the Texas State Historical Survey Committee; providing powers, duties and organization, and term of office of the Texas State Historical Survey Committee. |
| SCR 3 | Caption: Recognizing March 4 through 9, 1957, as Public Schools Week. |
| SCR 58 | Caption: Recognizing students and ex-students of Agricultural and mechanical College of Texas on Muster Day. |
| SCR 75 | Caption: Recognizing March 3-8, 1958, and March 2-7, 1959, as Public Schools Week. |
| SCR 84 | Caption: Recognizing the 75th Anniversary of the organization of Wichita County. |
| SR 9 | Caption: Welcoming Fred Parkey and his wife, and Jack Connell and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 14 | Caption: Welcoming Senator Ben G. Oneal to the State Capitol. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Welcoming Jack Hightower, his wife, and their children to the State Capitol. |
| SR 67 | Caption: Recognizing David Rubinoff for his contribution to "March of Dimes". |
| SR 81 | Caption: Requesting the School Land Board of the State Board of Education to study policy relating to the Permanent School Fund. |
| SR 82 | Caption: Welcoming R. H. Lyon and J. A. Jameson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 91 | Caption: Welcoming Marvin C. Culbertson and N. K. Hughes to the State Capitol. |
| SR 94 | Caption: Welcoming R. L. Daily and Mark E. Huff to the State Capitol. |
| SR 110 | Caption: Welcoming J. P. Coleman to the State Capitol. |
| SR 111 | Caption: Welcoming Claude Calloway, Dan Callaway, Ray Shirley and J. C. Jones to the State Capitol. |
| SR 132 | Caption: Welcoming Clyde Smith to the State Capitol. |
| SR 144 | Caption: Welcoming Merritt Faulkner, Murry E. Johnson and Howard Shubert to the State Capitol. |
| SR 171 | Caption: Welcoming Oral Jones, J. R. Drummon, Fred Parkey and Jack Connell to the State Capitol. |
| SR 176 | Caption: Welcoming Lennis Smith, B. L. Smith, Jr., and Scott Jolly to the State Capitol. |
| SR 184 | Caption: Extending sympathy to Senator Crawford C. Martin and wishing him a speedy recovery. |
| SR 196 | Caption: Welcoming Jesse Owens to the State Capitol. |
| SR 208 | Caption: Welcoming Jack Martin, and et al., and Fred Park and et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 230 | Caption: Welcoming Clark Gresham, E. E. Voyles and Kelley Gilbreath to the State Capitol. |
| SR 252 | Caption: Welcoming D. G. Smith et al., Glenn Jones, Leonard Wall et al., Morgan Price et al. and Cecil Larimore et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 260 | Caption: Welcoming Tom Craddock, Henry Arledge, Orel Patterson, August Schumacker and John Grindstaff to the State Capitol. |
| SR 268 | Caption: Welcoming Jonnie Green Heatly et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 269 | Caption: Welcoming Roy Felty and other teachers to the State Capitol. |
| SR 286 | Caption: Welcoming V. Y. Graham and Wayne Hales to the State Capitol. |
| SR 308 | Caption: Welcoming Clyde Whiteside and Walter Miller to the State Capitol. |
| SR 323 | Caption: Welcoming Travis White, D. L. Ligon, and Killen Moore and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 357 | Caption: Welcoming Henry Anderson and W. R. Hardy to the State Capitol. |
| SR 365 | Caption: Welcoming students of Midwestern University and their teacher to the State Capitol. |
| SR 374 | Caption: Welcoming students and Megargel High School and their principal to the State Capitol. |
| SR 381 | Caption: Welcoming J. O. Rouse, Mrs. D. J. Brewer, and W. B. Martin and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 430 | Caption: Welcoming students of Guthrie High School, their teachers and their sponsors to the State Capitol. |
| SR 490 | Caption: Welcoming L. A. Parker, Tom Bullington and Jack Q. Neal to the State Capitol. |
| SR 508 | Caption: Welcoming Paul Wylie and Royce Adkins to the State Capitol. |
| SR 522 | Caption: Welcoming students of Newcastle High School, their teacher and their sponsors to the State Capitol. |
| SR 560 | Caption: Recognizing Charles E. Steward for his service to the State of Texas. |
| SR 598 | Caption: In memory of Thomas E. Ramsey. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 6 | Caption: Relating to creating the Law Enforcement Study Commission. |
| SCR 3 | Caption: Urging Congress to amend the Income Tax Code. |
| SCR 19 | Caption: Directing H. B. No. 5 to take effect after its passage by the Legislature and approval by the Governor. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Welcoming V. O. Rosser, et al., to the State Capitol. |
| SR 67 | Caption: Welcoming J. C. Davis to the State Capitol. |
| SR 95 | Caption: Welcoming John McKelvey to the State Capitol. |
| SR 102 | Caption: Welcoming Gene R. Ritchie, et al., to the State Capitol. |
| SR 116 | Caption: Welcoming Charles P. McGaha to the State Capitol. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing that the Veteran's Land Board shall publish notices of bond sales not less than ten (10) days before the date of a sale. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Inviting all public officials of Texas to the laying of the cornerstone ceremonies of the Supreme Court Building. |
| SR 4 | Caption: In memory of Walter Nelson. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Welcoming A. A. Payne to the State Capitol. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| SB 134 | Caption: Relating to declaring the State Building Commission to be a State agency for the purpose of performing the governmental functions outlined therein, with powers of eminent domain, and empowering the Commission to promulgate all necessary rules and regulations for the administration of this Act; providing a severability clause. |
| SB 135 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, and distributing for sale of commercial feed in this State; containing a short title; defining terms; prescribing unlawful acts; providing for the registration of commercial feed; exempting products of custom milling, custom mixing, and toll milling; levying an inspection fee; creating the Feed Control Fund; requiring labeling of commercial feed; defining adulteration of commercial feed; defining misbranding of commercial feed; providing for inspections and analyses of commercial feed; providing for the detention, seizure, condemnation and sale of commercial feed which does not conform to the provisions of the Act; providing for the enforcement of the Act and for the promulgation of regulations pertaining thereto; defining the power and authority of the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in the administration and enforcement of the Act; providing criminal penalties for violations of the Act and for conspiring to perform, performing, or causing to be performed acts declared to be unlawful; vesting discretion in the Director with respect to minor violations. |
| SB 296 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the sale of two hangars at Vernon State Home; stating the consideration; appropriating the proceeds. |
| SB 320 | Caption: Relating to creating a conservation district comprising the territory hereinafter described and situated within Haskell County, Texas, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic, and industrial use and processing and transporting the same; providing for the annexation of additional territory thereto; providing for a Board of Directors for the government of said district; authorizing the district to do all things necessary to make available for municipal, domestic and industrial uses, the water from underground sources, and water it may obtain by purchase, lease and operation contracts with cities, persons, firms, corporations and public agencies; authorizing the issuance of bonds and providing for the payment and security thereof. |
| SB 350 | Caption: Relating to establishing a State Senior College at Wichita Falls, Texas, accepting the assets and liabilities of Midwestern University and Wichita Falls Junior College District, assuming the liabilities and maintaining the said institutions as first-class senior colleges. |
| SCR 9 | Caption: Granting W. C. Frey permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Designating "Texas Schools, Great and Glorious" as the official theme song for Texas public schools. |
| SCR 38 | Caption: Recognizing the students of Texas A & M College on "Muster Day". |
| SCR 44 | Caption: Inviting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense R. B. Anderson to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| SJR 2 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 49-b, Article III, Constitution of Texas, so as to change the membership of the Veterans' Land Board; so that the total amount of bonds or obligations that may be issued by the Veterans' Land Board shall be increased to Two Hundred Million Dollars ($200,000,000); providing for the issuance of said bonds or obligations and the conditions relating thereto and the use of the Veterans' Land Fund; providing for an election and the issuance of a proclamation therefor. |
| SR 5 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to John J. Ballard. |
| SR 27 | Caption: In memory of former State Representative Bruce W. Bryant. |
| SR 42 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to James Castledine. |
| SR 44 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to James F. Lester, Clyde Whitesides, Wesley Styles, L. H. Parker, Tom Bullington, Homer T. Melton, and A. W. Davis. |
| SR 45 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Jack Hightower and Royce Adkins. |
| SR 48 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hightower to the State Capitol. |
| SR 49 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to James F. Lester, Don Short, and Titus T. Mitchell. |
| SR 64 | Caption: Granting the privilege of the floor for a day to former State Senator Ben G. Oneal. |
| SR 86 | Caption: Welcoming M. W. Phemister, Douglas Myers, R. L. Edwards, Clyde Mayfield, and Wilford Dutton to the State Capitol. |
| SR 87 | Caption: Welcoming J. F. Kelley, T. R. McCassling, H. D. Smith, R. L. Eidson, and R. P. Reagan to the State Capitol. |
| SR 89 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. R. D. Prichett, Mrs. Willie Dunn, Emma Lee Samford, Janice Nance, Dorothy Liggett, H. C. Marshall, and M. L. Faulkner to the State Capitol. |
| SR 100 | Caption: Welcoming Mmes. W. B. Guess, G. C. Newsom, Vern Dorr, Frank Oman, and Fred Monk to the State Capitol. |
| SR 106 | Caption: Welcoming Douglas Myers, Frank Oman, Bailey Guess, Neal Mathison, and Preston Weinert to the State Capitol. |
| SR 111 | Caption: Welcoming Guy H. McNeely, E. E. Voyles, C. F. McSpadden, Ed Hart, Ray B. Dickey, and F. V. Brasfield to the State Capitol. |
| SR 126 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Oates Golden, and Mrs. Charles Baker to the State Capitol. |
| SR 130 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Dennis P. Ratliff. |
| SR 201 | Caption: Welcoming C. T. Whitworth, Hal Dyer, and Jack Hamond to the State Capitol. |
| SR 237 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to J. C. Davis. |
| SR 259 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Chillicothe High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 282 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to O. L. Bell and John Sampley. |
| SR 308 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to W. W. Bragg. |
| SR 312 | Caption: Welcoming the students of High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 335 | Caption: Welcoming Harry Joiner to the State Capitol. |
| SR 337 | Caption: Welcoming D. C. Norwood and George W. Anderson, Jr. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 352 | Caption: Recognizing the city of Wichita Falls for the completion of a civic beautification project. |
| SR 353 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Benjamin High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 356 | Caption: Welcoming Bill Thacker of Wichita Falls to the State Capitol. |
| SR 396 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Lockett High School of Vernon to the State Capitol. |
| SR 412 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to Lloyd Morrison . |
| SR 442 | Caption: Extending good wishes to James W. McClendon as he recovers from illness. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for issuance of and requiring the securing of temporary registration permits by nonresident owners of trucks, truck-tractor, trailer or semi-trailer for the purpose of harvesting and/or transporting to market, storage or railhead only, wheat, oats, rye, barley, grain sorghums, flax, rice, vegetables in bulk, field crates, or bags; limiting the distance allowed by such special permit and providing a penalty for violation of same. |
| SB 129 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide label requirements for agricultural and vegetable seed; providing for an inspection tax and the affixing of tags to seed containers. |
| SB 167 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to feed garbage to livestock animals except under rules and regulations promulgated by the Livestock Sanitary Commission; providing a penalty. |
| SB 220 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to provide that any county having a population of thirty-five thousand (35,000) inhabitants, or over, according to the last preceding Federal Census, or having a tax valuation of Twenty Million ($20,000,000.00) Dollars, or over, according to the last approved tax rolls, shall have a County Auditor; providing for the continuation of the office of County Auditor in certain other counties under certain conditions. |
| SB 325 | Caption: Relating to amending the General Appropriation Act, by authorizing the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College to maintain and operate certain passenger vehicles. |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Recognizing the staff of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service on the occasion of their 50th anniversary. |
| SCR 29 | Caption: Recognizing all efforts in place to grant relief to the communities of Knox and Haskell Counties that were damaged by a tornado. |
| SCR 38 | Caption: Recognizing the students and alumni of Texas A & M College as they commemorate the 50th anniversary of Muster Day. |
| SJR 10 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment creating the State Building Commission and the State Building Fund; providing for the surplus in the Confederate Pension Fund to be transferred annually to the State Building Fund; providing for the expenditure of such fund under the direction of the Legislature; providing for the expenditure of a limited amount of the building fund for the erection of memorials under certain conditions and limitations. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Recognizing the National Cotton Council as they meet in Dallas. |
| SR 56 | Caption: Welcoming R. R. Donaghey to the State Capitol. |
| SR 57 | Caption: Extending good wishes to State Senator Grady Hazlewood as he recovers from illness. |
| SR 58 | Caption: Extending good wishes to State Senator John J. Bell as he recovers from illness. |
| SR 71 | Caption: Recognizing State Senator Warren McDonald on the occasion of his birthday. |
| SR 206 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Megargel High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 242 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Benjamin High School to State Capitol. |
| SR 247 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Midwestern University to the State Capitol. |
| SR 264 | Caption: Recognizing the citizens and Chamber of Commerce of the City of Corpus Christi for their hospitality during a recent visit by a number of Senators. |
| SR 279 | Caption: In memory of Ben Dobyns Donnell. |
| SR 286 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Weinert High School to the State Capitol. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to clarifying the provisions of Chapter 411, Acts of the Regular Session of the 53rd Legislature, by amending to provide that the cost of financing operations of the Texas Commission on Alcoholism shall be borne with funds as provided by Section 7 and such other funds as the Legislature may appropriate; making an appropriation to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Chapter 411, including the payment of salaries, and all necessary operating and contingent expenses. |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to provide that the biennial appropriation for the Library and Historical Commission allow for payment of salaries for book repairers and of per diem for members of the Commission. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Designating March 1 through March 6 as Public Schools Week in Texas. |
| SCR 13 | Caption: Congratulating the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas on its 78th anniversary. |
| SR 2 | Caption: Extending good wishes to State Senator R. A. Weinert a he recovers from surgery. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin P. Bryan. |
| SR 55 | Caption: Welcoming C. H. Parker o the State Capitol. |
| SR 72 | Caption: Welcoming George Humphrey and Hubert Watson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 84 | Caption: Welcoming W. S. Heatly to the State Capitol. |
| SR 90 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to former State Representative R. R. Donaghey. |
| SR 97 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Alan B. Haley. |
| SR 109 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Megargel High School to the State Capitol. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| SB 2 | Caption: Relating to protecting the blind and incapacitated pedestrians on public streets and highways; requiring vehicles to come to a full stop in certain cases; restricting the use of certain canes by other pedestrians; imposing penalties. |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to commercial fertilizer; defining certain terms. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating the restoration to employment of certain state employees now serving or who may serve in the armed forces of the United States in time of war or during the national emergency. |
| SB 398 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Boards of Directors of Water Control and Improvement Districts to adopt resolutions for the collection of taxes of districts by the county assessor and collector or by the city assessor and collector of an incorporated city or town in which the district is located. |
| SB 470 | Caption: Relating to declaring that the disastrous and destructive tornado that occurred at the City of Olney on the afternoon of May 18, 1951, constitutes a public calamity in the City of Olney and in the Olney Independent School District; granting and appropriating the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000) for the purpose of aiding and assisting the City of Olney and the Olney Independent School District in the repair and replacement of public buildings destroyed by said tornado. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Recognizing the citizens of Newburgh, New York, for a picture of William S. Belknap. |
| SCR 36 | Caption: Recognizing the citizens of Electra for the city's fortieth anniversary. |
| SCR 44 | Caption: Recognizing Texas A. & M. College on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. |
| SJR 11 | Caption: Proposing an Amendment to provide for a Court of Criminal Appeals of Five members; prescribing their qualifications, election, tenure of office and compensation; and prescribing the term of court of said Court. |
| SR 86 | Caption: Welcoming Jim McCormick, James Barnett, Elmer Parrish and Joe Long to the State Capitol. |
| SR 107 | Caption: Welcoming Frank Ikard, James McCormick, H. W. Fillmore and William Smith to the State Capitol. |
| SR 198 | Caption: Welcoming students of Knox City High School and their superintendent to the State Capitol. |
| SR 226 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. George Nokes, Sr., to the State Capitol. |
| SR 235 | Caption: Welcoming B. C. Robertson and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 236 | Caption: Welcoming Kaye Robertson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 259 | Caption: Welcoming students of Odell High School and their teacher to the State Capitol. |
| SR 276 | Caption: Welcoming students of Chillicothe High School and their sponsors to the State Capitol. |
| SR 297 | Caption: Welcoming J. H. Allison to the State Capitol. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| SB 24 | Caption: Relating to providing that, subject to the approval of the Railroad Commission, persons owning or controlling production, or other interests in separate properties in the same oil field, gas field, or oil and gas field may voluntarily enter into and perform agreements necessary to effect secondary recovery operations for oil or gas or for the conservation and utilization of gas, or both, including certain specified operations; repealing all laws in conflict to the extent of the conflict only; declaring the severability of all parts of this Act. |
| SB 25 | Caption: Relating to transferring to the Texas Highway Fund from the General Revenue Fund the sum of Twenty Million ($20,000,000.00) Dollars and authorizing the Texas Highway Commission to use such money for the purpose of continuing its program of constructing farm-to-market roads so as to best serve the rural areas of this State; providing a repealing clause; providing a savings clause. |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, payment for improvement and erection of State buildings. |
| SB 75 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing issuance by the Department, and to require the securing by non-resident owners, of sixty (60) day temporary registration permits for any truck, truck-tractor, trailer, or semitrailer which is being temporarily operated by non-resident owners thereof in Texas for the purpose of harvesting and/or transporting wheat and/or other similar grains to markets, storage or rail head only; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish an adjunct to the College in Kimble County, Texas, authorizing said Board to provide at the adjunct any services which conform to the leading object of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. |
| SB 99 | Caption: Relating to provide motor vehicle license registration for church buses, and for other purposes, providing a penalty for violation of its provisions. |
| SB 187 | Caption: Relating to providing that this Act shall be cited as the County Agricultural Statistics Law, reciting the legislative determination as to the needs for county agricultural statistics, declaring the purpose of the Legislature to provide a means whereby such statistics shall be made available regularly. |
| SB 374 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, creating and establishing a Cotton Research Committee and providing for the membership of said Committee; authorizing continuing appropriations. |
| SB 457 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, approving and confirming certain proceedings and bonds heretofore had or authorized by cities for purchasing fire trucks and equipment. |
| SCR 20 | Caption: Directing the creation of a State Capitol Planning Commission to investigate the need for office space for State Agencies. |
| SCR 45 | Caption: Directing the creation of a State Board of Dairying. |
| SR 5 | Caption: In memory o f L. A. Kelley. |
| SR 19 | Caption: In memory of Sam K. Horany. |
| SR 133 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Hardin College to the State Capitol. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to providing for the organization of cooperative, non-profit, membership corporations for the purpose of furnishing telephone service; declaring the terms and provisions of this Act to be severable. |
| SB 28 | Caption: Relating to authorizing independent school districts in counties of more than 18,975 and less than 19,025 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, under certain conditions to issue time warrants for certain purposes; providing that no such warrants shall be issued or executed after the expiration of two (2) years from the effective date of this Act. |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to making an additional appropriation to the state Department of Agriculture for the biennium ending August 31, 1951, from the Special Pure Seed Fund and out of Seed Laboratory Fees. |
| SB 40 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the State Hospital Fund. |
| SR 7 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Claude Callaway. |
| SR 46 | Caption: Welcoming the citizens of Wichita Falls to the State Capitol. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| SB 43 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the biennium ending August 31, 1949 out of the General Revenue Fund to the Texas Library and Historical Commission for the purpose of repairing, remodeling and equipping the quarters of the Texas State Library and for the purchase of microfilm and equipment. |
| SB 104 | Caption: Relating to appropriating funds to the State Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of purchasing and assembling equipment, and including trucks, for the Weights and Measures Division. |
| SB 414 | Caption: Relating to requiring any person hunting upon the private lands of another person in Hardeman County or Wilbarger County, to first obtain and have in his possession a written permit; providing a suitable penalty for violation of any provision of this Act; repealing all laws in conflict with any provisions of this Act. |
| SCR 21 | Caption: Providing for a joint committee to investigate student demonstrations at A&M College. |
| SCR 35 | Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to enter into contract with the San Jacinto Museum of History Association relating to the care, custody, and control over the San Jacinto Memorial Tower. |
| SCR 51 | Caption: Suspending all necessary joint rules to permit the Senate and the House to consider S.J.R. No. 2 and H.J.R. No. 6 at any time. |
| SCR 59 | Caption: Suspending the twenty-four hour rule to permit consideration of S.B. No. 406. |
| SJR 2 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to provide for a Board for apportioning the State into senatorial districts and representative districts in the event the Legislature fails to make such apportionment. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| SB 2 | Caption: Relating to requiring the State Highway Department to employ a Civil Engineer, registered under the laws of this State, experienced and skilled in design and location of highways, airports, airparks, etc., to counsel and advise the State Highway Engineer and municipal and county governments on the suitability of locations and extensions of airports, airparks, etc., to be constructed, reconstructed or extended with public funds after September 1, 1945; providing a saving clause; and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict. |
| SB 3 | Caption: Relating to providing for the acceptance of applications and bids for leases covering islands, salt water lakes, bays, the bed of the sea, inlets, marshes and reefs, river beds and channels, and unsold surveyed school lands; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to creating the office of Veterans County Service Office. |
| SB 62 | Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay miscellaneous claims out of any moneys in the Confederate Pension Warrant Fund and the Motor Fuel Tax Fund not otherwise appropriated. |
| SB 109 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing another means of receiving permission to take a driver's license examination other than by permission of the County Judge of the county in which such person resides. |
| SB 181 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by authorizing the creation and operation of charitable corporations for the purpose, or purposes, or owning and operating non-profit cooperative hospitals, and for the purpose of providing medical, dental, health, surgical, nursing, hospitalization and related services and benefits, for the members and families of the members of such corporations. |
| SB 182 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that in all counties now or hereafter having the office of County Superintendent where the scholastic population, according to the last preceding scholastic census, in less than three thousand (3,000) but more than two thousand (2,000), that the office shall continue until a majority of the voters at an election shall vote to abolish such office.. |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Recommending election of W. J. Danforth as National Commander of the American Legion. |
| SCR 25 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to restore normal standard time throughout the entire country except in such small zones or areas. |
| SCR 27 | Caption: Relating to accomplishments of the Texas Cotton Research Committee. |
| SCR 28 | Caption: Commending the A & M College of Texas, governing authorities, faculty, students, and former students for the musters on San Jacinto Day. |
| SCR 31 | Caption: Relating to expense of sending certificates for members of the armed forces who lose their lives while in service. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an Amendment to Section 2 of Article VI of the Constitution of Texas so as to provide that members of the Army, Navy, or other branch or component part of the Armed Forces of the United States during any nationally declared emergency, or during any time when the United States is at war with another country, who would otherwise be eligible to vote under the laws of Texas to vote without the requirement of having paid any poll tax assessed against them or of holding a receipt therefor. |
| 48th Regular Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to preventing fraud in the sale of agricultural insecticides and fungicides by providing for the branding or labeling of such products sold under this Act. |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to authorizing appeals in certain cases direct from trial courts to the Supreme Court. |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt a multiple list of not fewer than three nor more than five textbooks for use in the last two grades in the public high schools in teaching certain subjects. |
| SB 67 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to annul the exceptions wherein no record need be kept by such persons of the narcotic drugs so administered, dispensed or professionally used. |
| SB 117 | Caption: Relating to further regulating the traffic in alcoholic liquors in this state by amending the Texas Liquor Control Act. |
| SB 118 | Caption: Relating to appropriating to the State Soil Conservation Board monies for payment of mileage claims of District Supervisors for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1942, and August 31, 1943. |
| SB 140 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to changing the time and term of holding the 50th Judicial District Court in Baylor, Knox, King, and Cottle Counties, constituting the 50th Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 233 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of orders of sale of real estate belonging to wards by their guardians and the confirmation thereof by the Probate Courts. |
| SB 244 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the use of the Pease River Flood Control District. |
| SB 322 | Caption: Relating to providing the organization and coordination of defense activities in Texas. |
| SB 364 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by changing the time and terms of holding the 50th Judicial District Court in Baylor, Knox, King and Cottle Counties, constituting the 50th Judicial District of Texas. |
| SCR 6 | Caption: Providing for the Governor to send a delegate to the Council of State Governments. |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to facilitate the construction of grain alcohol synthetic rubber plants for Texas. |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Directing the Adjutant General of Texas to issue specific service medals and ribbons for Texan servicemen. |
| SCR 26 | Caption: Relating to increasing cotton quotas. |
| SCR 49 | Caption: Recognizing the ex-students of Texas A&M College on the observance of San Jacinto Day. |
| SCR 58 | Caption: Directing the Governor to create certificates honoring Texans who died in the war to present to their families. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an amendment adopting a new section, which shall provide that the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas may sit at any time during the year for the transaction of business, and that its term shall begin and end with each calendar year. |
| 47th Regular Session | |
| SB 2 | Caption: Relating to providing for an appeal directly to the Supreme Court of Texas from any order of any district court granting or denying an injunction on the ground of the constitutionality of any State statutes. |
| SB 63 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to the formation of private corporations to organize laborers, working men, wage earners, and farmers, to protect themselves in their various pursuits; vesting authority in the Commissioner of Labor Statistics to make investigation for charters and amendments to charters for laborers, working men, and wage earners. |
| SB 70 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to Narcotic Drug Regulations; providing for the exemption for prescribing, administering, dispensing or selling at retail, certain specified medicinal preparations containing small amounts of certain named drugs. |
| SB 143 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure vesting in trial judges discretionary authority to credit defendants in criminal cases with the time spent in jail awaiting trial. |
| SB 174 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act describing the consequences of soil erosion and the depletion of the fertility of soil; reciting appropriate corrective methods; providing for the creation of the 'State Soil Conservation Fund." |
| SB 398 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act by providing that cities and counties may acquire land for airport purposes without limitation on size; that cities and counties may acquire such land within their respective counties by gift, purchase, or condemnation. |
| SB 403 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State policy regarding the activities of the various agricultural agencies of the State, especially as they affect cotton and cotton products and the increased use and consumption of same; directing that the heads of the State's various agricultural agencies shall take due notice of said policy. |
| SCR 5 | Caption: Requesting the Federal Government to give financial assistance to school districts near defense centers. |
| SCR 6 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of guard wire to the city of Vernon. |
| SCR 7 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of guard wire to the Iowa Park Independent School District. |
| SCR 15 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of guard wire to the City of Seymour. |
| SCR 20 | Caption: Memorializing the Federal Government to establish powder and national defense munition plants in Texas. |
| SCR 49 | Caption: Relating to the enforcement of Emigrant Agency Act. |
| SCR 55 | Caption: Relating to the observance of National Cotton Week. |
| SCR 66 | Caption: Relating to additional office of space for State departments. |
| SCR 79 | Caption: Relating to federal cooperation in cotton research. |
| SJR 2 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the lending of Two Million ($2,000,000.00) of the Permanent School Fund for the construction of a State office building, or buildings. |
| SJR 3 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas may sit at any time during the year for the transaction of business, and that its term shall begin and end with each calendar year. |
| SJR 6 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting the assessment and levying of ad valorem taxes for the general fund of the State to twenty ($.20) cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of property; authorizing counties to levy up to fifteen cents ($.15) to take care of indigents not eligible or pensions. |
| 46th Regular Session | |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the Pease River Flood Control District. |
| SB 25 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the refunding of Texas Relief Bonds, First Series, prescribing the duties and authority of the Texas Bond Commission in connection with the calling and refunding of said bonds at a lower interest rate; making an appropriation for the payment of principal and interest of said refunding bonds for the biennium ending August 31, 1941.. |
| SB 144 | Caption: Relating to validating all ordinances of home rule cities in Texas incorporated under and operated under the provisions of the Home Rule Amendment. |
| SB 150 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act creating and providing a uniform budget system for the State. |
| SB 167 | Caption: Relating to creating a School Land Board, defining its powers and prescribing its duties; abolishing the Board of Mineral Development, transferring to and vesting the functions in the School Land Board. |
| SB 311 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State policy regarding the activities of the various agricultural agencies of the State, especially as they affect cotton and cotton products, and the increased use and consumption of same; providing for the establishment of a cotton research laboratory and making an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 338 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts in certain towns and cities. |
| SB 370 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute designating the securities in which the funds of life insurance companies may be invested. |
| SB 376 | Caption: Relating to requiring school buses to carry fire extinguishers as regular equipment. |
| SB 447 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State policy regarding the encouragement and stimulation of new uses for cotton; making an appropriation. |
| SB 469 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Hardeman County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of May 1, 1939, by the issuance of funding bonds. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Memorializing the State Highway Department and the State Board of Control to promote the use of cotton in their contracts for supplies and materials. |
| SCR 22 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of certain discarded guard wire to the School Board of Vernon Independent School District. |
| SCR 23 | Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol. |
| SCR 26 | Caption: Endorsing John Nance Garner as candidate of the National Democratic Party for President of the United States. |
| SCR 30 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of certain discarded guard wire to the School Board of the Archer City Independent School District. |
| SCR 31 | Caption: Granting Judge C.T. Welch of the 46th Judicial District permission to be absent from Texas during the years 1939 and 1940 for not more than four weeks of any one year. |
| SCR 50 | Caption: Authorizing the loan of certain discarded guard wire to the School Board of Holliday Independent School District. |
| SCR 51 | Caption: Granting Mrs. Harvey Sharp and her husband T.J. Sharp permission to sue the State of Texas and/or the Highway Department. |
| SCR 67 | Caption: Urging the Secretary of Agriculture to put into operation a plan for the distribution of cotton-based goods similar to that of the food stamps program. |
| SJR 3 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment adopting a new section, which shall provide that the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, may sit at any time during the year for the transaction of business, and that its term shall begin and end with each calendar year. |
| SJR 4 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment to a certain Article giving the Legislature authority to provide for appeal direct to the Supreme Court in cases involving injunctions granted or denied as the grounds of constitutionality or unconstitutionality of any state or on validity or invalidity of administrative orders. |
| 45th Regular Session | |
| HB 81 | Caption: Relating to aiding the Pease River Flood Control District, a State agency, in carrying out the purposes for which it was created by Senate Bill No. 62, Forty-fourth Legislature, First Called Session, including the acquiring of the lands, leases, easements and acquittances, rights-of-way, structures, buildings and equipment, and including the operation of structures, dams, reservoirs and canals, suitable, in so far as practicable, for the control of the flood waters of the Pease River watershed, declared to be a public calamity. |
| HB 215 | Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for Hardeman County, Texas, authorizing the funding and refunding of items of indebtedness, outstanding on December 14, 1936, against the Road and Bridge Fund of said County, into time warrants, prescribing the terms and conditions in reference to said time warrants, and the duties of the officers in the issuance thereof. |
| HB 321 | Caption: Relating to creating the Office of the Veterans' State Service Office attached to the Adjutant General's Department; providing for the appointment of a Veterans' State Service Officer and certain Assistant Veterans' State Service Officers, and other necessary personnel. |
| HB 547 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State Policy regarding the activities of the various agricultural agencies of the State, especially as they affect cotton, and the increased use and consumption of same. |
| HB 840 | Caption: Relating to creating a governmental agency known as The Texas Planning Board. |
| HB 870 | Caption: Relating to providing for the Agricultural and Mechanical College Experimental Substation No. 12, now located in Hardeman County, Texas, whereby the directors of said College are authorized to purchase additional land for the use of said Substation. |
| HB 1185 | Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Sunset Rural Consolidated High School District, Knox County, Texas, in order to aid said school building destroyed by fire. |
| HCR 105 | Caption: Authorizing the legislature to consider H. B. No. 547 early in order to accommodate certain groups about to travel to Washington D. C. |
| HCR 109 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H.B. Nos. 58, 144, 547, and 581. |
| HCR 126 | Caption: Directing the establishment for the Texas Council of Interstate Cooperation. |
| HR 209 | Caption: In memory of former State Rep. John Calvin Marshall. |
| HR 210 | Caption: Providing for the consideration of H.B. Nos. 547 and 144. |
| 45th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 8 | Caption: Relating to providing that in all cases of delinquent taxes for the year 1936 and all prior years where it appears that an assessment has been made at a valuation excessive and unreasonable the Commissioners Court shall be authorized to correct or reduce such values on the request of the tax collector. |
| HB 37 | Caption: Relating to re-appropriating the unexpended balance of the Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars appropriation made to the Pease River Flood Control District. |
| HB 50 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State Policy regarding the activities of the various agricultural agencies of the State, especially as they affect cotton, and cotton products, and the increased use and consumption of same. |
| HB 72 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State policy regarding the activities of the various agricultural agencies of the State, especially as they affect cotton, and cotton products, and the increased use and consumption of same. |
| HB 158 | Caption: Relating to providing that the State Seed and Plant Board shall certify to the Commissioner of Agriculture the names of persons, firms, associations or corporations who are eligible to qualify as Registered Plant Breeders, and names of persons, firms, associations or corporations who are eligible to qualify as Certified Seed Growers. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Urging President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call a special session of Congress. |
| HCR 50 | Caption: Urging Congress to establish a cotton research institute in the State of Texas. |
| HCR 52 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to repeal the Federal gasoline tax. |
| 44th Regular Session | |
| HB 16 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State to compensate employees engaged in hazardous employment for injuries, and injuries resulting in death, received in the course of employment of such employees. |
| HB 197 | Caption: Relating to promoting and making practical the conservation and timely utilization of the natural resources of the State, by creating a governmental agency to be known as "The Texas Planning Board." |
| HCR 1 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass the Patman Bill relating to the payment of adjusted service certificates for World War veterans. |
| HJR 9 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 26 of Article III of the Constitution of Texas, providing that under no apportionment shall any County be entitled to more than Seven Representatives unless the population of such county shall exceed Seven Hundred Thousand. |
| 44th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 3 | Caption: Relating to intoxicating liquors; providing for the regulation and control of and traffic in alcoholic beverages; establishing a Board to administer this Act and defining the duties thereof, and making an appropriation therefor; defining certain offenses and the punishment therefor. |
| HB 137 | Caption: Relating to creating the Pease River Flood Control District, a conservation and reclamation district, to be a governmental agency, body politic and corporate. |
| 44th 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 83 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation and control of and traffic in alcoholic liquors, establishing a board to administer this Act, and defining the duties and powers thereof. |
| HB 128 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Section of the Acts of the 41st Legislature (2nd C.S.); defining "Implements of Husbandry" as used in said Act. |
| 44th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 56 | Caption: Relating to validating all Consolidated Rural High School Districts created or attempted to be created by County Boards of Trustees, validating acts of County Boards of Trustees in creating or attempting to create Consolidated Rural High School Districts out of a district or districts that had been theretofore a Consolidated Common School District or Districts. |
| HR 59 | Caption: Inviting William C. Repass to address the House. |
| 43rd Regular Session | |
| HB 9 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute regulating tuition fees and charges at State educational institutions for resident and non-resident students; limiting the amount of same. |
| HB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to ascertaining tax rate. |
| HB 629 | Caption: Relating to registration fee on motor vehicles. |
| HB 667 | Caption: Relating to defining from what fund the compensation of County Commissioners may be paid in counties having a population of not more than six thousand, three hundred and twenty (6,320) and not less than six thousand, three hundred and ten (6,310), according to the most recent United States Census. |
| HB 747 | Caption: Relating to requiring interstate motor carriers for hire, and interstate motor carriers for profit, who transport property from another State or from other States to points in the State of Texas or through the State of Texas over highways to make application for license plates and pay an annual license therefor, in accordance with certain statutes; defining certain terms. |
| HB 845 | Caption: Relating to authorizing independent school districts to build or purchase buildings and grounds for the purpose of constructing gymnasia, stadia, or other recreational facilities, and to encumber the same and the income thereof to secure the payment of the purchase price to evidence the indebtedness created thereby by the issuance of bonds, notes or their evidences of indebtedness. |
| HCR 113 | Caption: Approving the suspension of Joint Rule No. 11 so that the House might consider SB 515. |
| HJR 2 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 26, of Article III, of the Constitution of Texas, by adding thereto Section 26-a, providing that in no apportionment shall any county be entitled to more than six Representatives unless the population of such county shall exceed six hundred thousand people. |
| HR 172 | Caption: Granting use of the Hall of the House for the purpose of nominating candidates to vote against the repeal of the 18th Amendment. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 53 | Caption: Relating to reducing registration license fees on commercial motor vehicles, without trailers or semi-trailers, when same are used exclusively by the owner thereof, in the transportation of his poultry, dairy, livestock and farm products, grown or produced by him, to market or to other points for processing, and for the transportation of supplies by the owner of such commercial motor vehicle from place of purchase to his own farm or ranch for his exclusive use; prescribing penalties for violation thereof. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| HB 45 | Caption: Relating to providing for the Agricultural and Mechanical College Sub-Station No. 12 located in Hardeman County, Texas, in order to provide material and labor to reconstruct buildings destroyed by fire on January 18, 1934. |
| HR 21 | Caption: Wishing the wife of Representative Bob Alexander a speedy recovery from illness. |
| 43rd 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 12 | Caption: Relating to extending the time for the payment of notes or obligations executed prior to November 1, 1901, by purchasers of school land for the unpaid balance of principal due the State thereon, such extensions to be for a period of ten (10) years from and after the passage of this Act. |
| HR 29 | Caption: Granting the American Legion permission to use certain quarters. |
| 43rd 4th Called Session | |
| HB 39 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain independent school districts to construct gymnasia. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing a penalty on state and county taxes if not paid by the 31st day of January next succeeding the return of the assessment rolls of the county. |
| HB 551 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes providing for Collectors of Texas to mail notices of tax delinquencies to record owners of lands and lots situated in the County. |
| HB 739 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of County Commissioners in counties having a population of not more than six thousand three hundred twenty (6,320), and not less than six thousand three hundred ten (6,310) according to the most recent United States Census. |
| HB 881 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes, authorizing and empowering towns or villages in this State to condemn the rights of way and roadbed of railway companies running through the corporate limits thereof provided there are less than six railway tracks. |
| HB 944 | Caption: Relating to declaring a State Policy affecting the increased use and outlet for agricultural products, especially cotton; making an appropriation. |
| HJR 31 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that under no apportionment shall any County be entitled to more than five representatives unless the population of such a county shall exceed five hundred thousand. |
| 42nd 1st Called Session | |
| HCR 4 | Caption: Relating to cotton production. |
| 42nd 2nd Called Session | |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Relating to the discontinuance of appropriations by the U.S. Government to reclaim arid lands for the purpose of growing cotton thereon. |