Legislation authored by V.E. 'Red' Berry
Includes legislation with V.E. 'Red' Berry as the primary author for the 57th through 61st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 61st Regular Session | |
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| SB 3 | Caption: Relating to retirement benefits for State peace officers. |
| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to creating the 190th Judicial District and the 191st Judicial District and the 190th District Court of Bexar County and the 191st District Court of Bexar County; providing for the courts' jurisdiction, terms, personnel, administration, practice. |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to repealing provisions that increase the assessment of property values in certain hospital districts. |
| SB 18 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act: (1) hours for possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages in a public place; (2) hours for selling beer or offering same for sale; (3) hours for permitting the service or consumption of alcoholic beverages on private club premises; (4) creation of a Retail Dealer's On-Premise Late Hours License; (5) creation of a Private Club Late Hours Permit. |
| SB 426 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation, licensing, and taxing of horse racing and parimutuel wagering in this state. |
| SB 453 | Caption: Relating to the discharge or retirement of employees of the Texas Department of Public Safety by reason of age. |
| SB 454 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relative to assessment of candidates in primary elections in certain counties and refund of those assessments in certain circumstances; prescribing a penalty for illegal refunds. |
| SB 455 | Caption: Relating to permanent improvements erected at Hemisfair 1968; transferring jurisdiction and control to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System. |
| SB 456 | Caption: Relating to amending various sections of the Texas Liquor Control Act, and adding certain sections relating to: (1) the definition of "open saloon"; (2) Package Store Permits; (3) Retail Drink Permits in certain counties; (4) the meaning of an "all alcoholic beverages" local option status; (5) local option elections and submission of issues; (6) certain taxes. |
| SB 762 | Caption: Relating to the creation and organization of the Public Safety Commission. |
| SCR 27 | Caption: Commending Frank E. Rouse, Major General of the U.S. Air force, for his service to the State and Nation. |
| SJR 2 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in certain counties after local option elections providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and counties, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators, and maximum admission taxes; permitting distributing one-half (1/2) of the State parimutuel tax revenue among the several counties; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties. |
| SJR 18 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be lawful throughout the state as a whole. |
| SJR 19 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to prohibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages in this state and to require the Legislature to provide by law for the enforcement of this provision. |
| SJR 22 | Caption: Relating to proposing amending the Constitution of the State of Texas to create out of the territory in Texas a new sovereign state of this Republic to be known as the State of South Texas. |
| SJR 24 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in certain counties after local option elections providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and counties, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators, and maximum admission taxes; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties; permitting the Legislature to enact supplementary laws which may be anticipatory. |
| SJR 33 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas authorizing the legislature to exempt from taxation property of any corporation or other organization formed fro the prevention of cruelty to animals. |
| SR 893 | Caption: In memory of Leonard Brown, Sr. |
| 61st 1st Called Session | |
| SB 2 | Caption: Relating to creating the 186th Judicial District and the 186th District Court of Bexar County and the 187th Judicial District and the 187th District Court of Bexar County and providing for the courts' jurisdiction, terms, personnel, administration, and practice. |
| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to creating the 190th Judicial District and the 191st Judicial District and the 190th District Court of Bexar County and the 191st District Court of Bexar County; providing for the courts' jurisdiction, terms, personnel, administration, practice. |
| 61st 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 3 | Caption: Relating to creating the 186th Judicial District and the 186th District Court of Bexar County and providing for the court's jurisdiction, terms, personnel, administration, and practice. |
| 60th Regular Session | |
| SB 50 | Caption: Relating to the exemption from taxation of certain non-profit corporations formed to prevent cruelty to animals and to promote humane treatment of animals. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act; regulating the hours of sale and delivery of liquor. |
| SB 52 | Caption: Relating to regulating trading stamp companies; providing a penalty. |
| SB 53 | Caption: Relating to providing that a trading stamp company's reserves for unclaimed trading stamps shall escheat to the state; requiring a trading stamp company to post a bond; providing for enforcement of the Act; providing a penalty. |
| SB 54 | Caption: Relating to electioneering, loitering, and use of sound trucks near the polls; amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code so as to require a voter's residence telephone number to be shown on the voter registration certificate and on the list of registered voters. |
| SB 144 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code to eliminate both the party loyalty pledge on the primary election ballot and the stamping of party affiliation on the registration certificate. |
| SB 154 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act relative to local option extension of hours for the sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in places where on-premises consumption is permitted; prescribing penalties. |
| SB 155 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relative to assessment of certain candidates in primary elections in certain counties and refund of those assessments in certain circumstances; prescribing a penalty for illegal refunds. |
| SB 563 | Caption: Relating to providing that the judges of the County Courts at Law Nos. 1, 2, and 3, and the County Civil Court at Law of Bexar County, Texas, shall each receive an annual salary of not less than Sixteen Thousand Dollars ($16,000) nor more than Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($18,500) to be determined and fixed by the Commissioners Court of Bexar County, Texas, and when thus determined and fixed such annual salary shall be paid in twelve (12) equal monthly installments by warrants drawn upon the County Treasurer of Bexar County, Texas, upon orders by the Commissioners Court. |
| SB 564 | Caption: Relating to providing maximum compensation for assessor-collectors of taxes for all counties having a population of not less than 600,000 nor more than 900,000 according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
| SB 567 | Caption: Relating to creating the 149th, 181st, 182nd, 183rd, and 300th Judicial Districts; providing an effect date. |
| SB 598 | Caption: Relating to providing for an expression of public opinion on the question of legalized pari-mutuel wagering on horse races in Texas. |
| SJR 25 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to prohibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverages in this state and to require the Legislature to provide by law for the enforcement of this provision. |
| SJR 26 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be lawful throughout the state as a whole. |
| SR 133 | Caption: Granting permission for the pages of the Senate to attend the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo. |
| SR 276 | Caption: Commending the students of Marshall High School of San Antonio for their interest in State Government. |
| SR 282 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Alamo Heights School of San Antonio to the State Capitol. |
| 60th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to the authority of certain counties to enlarge, furnish, equip, operate, and lease parking stations. |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain independent school districts to issue time warrants. |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to reject proposed legislation relating to the registration of firearms. |
| SR 139 | Caption: In memory of Mrs. Zeno Smith. |
| SR 245 | Caption: Congratulating all the students who were selected to the "1968 Pop Warner All-American Team of Little Scholars". |
| 59th Regular Session | |
| HB 258 | Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code so as to delete the provisions which restrict voting by persons in military service to the county of their residence at the time of entering service. |
| HB 259 | Caption: Relating to reapportioning the Texas House of Representatives. |
| HB 349 | Caption: Relating to providing a maximum salary for county treasurers in certain counties. |
| HB 468 | Caption: Relating to filing fees for candidates for State Representative or State Senator in primary elections in certain counties; amending the Texas Election Code. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: In memory of Dr. Virgil T. Blossom of Bexar County. |
| HJR 38 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to omit the requirement that members of the armed services vote only in the county in which they resided at the time of entering the service. |
| HJR 39 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to remove the restriction requiring any member of the Armed Forces of the United States or component branches there of to vote in the county in which he resided at the time he entered the service. |
| HJR 40 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas so as to lower the minimum age required for voting to 19 years. |
| HJR 45 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the yeas and nays of the members of the House of Representatives shall be entered on the house Journal at the request of 15 members. |
| HJR 50 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be lawful throughout the state as a whole. |
| HJR 61 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas abolishing the office of county treasurer in Bexar County and transferring the duties of that office to the county clerk. |
| HJR 63 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in certain counties after local option elections providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and counties, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators, and maximum admission taxes; permitting distributing one-half of the State parimutuel tax revenue among the several counties; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties. |
| HR 70 | Caption: Granting permission for pages of the House to attend the San Antonio Livestock Show. |
| HR 254 | Caption: Commending the students of Alamo Heights High School for their interest in state government. |
| 59th 1st Called Session | |
| HR 52 | Caption: In memory of Morris Kallison of San Antonio. |
| 58th Regular Session | |
| HB 118 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to allow later sales and consumption of beer and liquor. |
| HB 130 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Horse Race Board; creating the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, and setting forth its powers and duties; setting an effective date. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to submitting the question of legalized parimutuel wagering in Bexar County to the voters in the first Democratic primary in 1964 for an expression of public opinion. |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code to provide for the holding of the first and second primary elections on the last Saturday in May and the last Saturday in June, respectively, in every even-numbered year. |
| HB 596 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Horse Race Board; prescribing certain offenses and penalties; creating the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau. |
| HB 605 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to allow later sale of beer by changing the hours of the day during which the sale of beer is prohibited; and to allow later consumption of alcoholic beverages by changing the hours of the day during which the consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in public places, and to apply this prohibition to private clubs. |
| HB 1084 | Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code relative to filing fees for candidates for State Representative or State Senator in primary elections in certain counties. |
| HJR 12 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to lower the minimum age required for voting to twenty (20) years and to exempt persons under twenty-two (22) years of age from the operation of any provision imposing a poll tax or any type of registration fee as a prerequisite to voting. |
| HJR 16 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide for parimutuel betting at horse races in Bexar county after local option election and prescribing powers, duties and procedure. |
| HJR 28 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment repealing the provisions making the payment of a poll tax a qualification of an elector; requiring the Legislature to pass a general registration law for voters. |
| HJR 36 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to create out of the territory in Texas a new sovereign state of this Republic to be known as the State of South Texas. |
| HJR 56 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the sale of alcoholic beverages shall be lawful throughout the state as a whole. |
| HJR 57 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic beverage in this state and to require the Legislature to provide by law for the enforcement of this provision. |
| HR 27 | Caption: In memory of Owen William Kilday of Bexar County. |
| HR 299 | Caption: In memory of McCollum Burnett of San Antonio. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| HB 75 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board; levying certain taxes; providing penalties; setting an effective date. |
| HB 274 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that persons exempted from paying the poll tax living in a county of three hundred thousand (300,000) inhabitants or more shall before the first day of February of the year when such voter becomes entitled to such exemption obtain from the Tax Collector of his county a certificate showing such exemption. |
| HB 275 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regulating appeals under the Liquor Control Act. |
| HB 276 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regulating appeals from decisions of Firemen's and Policemen's Civil Service Commissions in cities having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more inhabitants. |
| HB 310 | Caption: Relating to liability insurance for peace officers and firemen of certain cities. |
| HB 344 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for an appeal from suspension of beer licenses in certain cases and regulating the procedure for such appeal. |
| HB 544 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of Vernon's Texas Penal Code extending the hours for the lawful sale of beer and to increase the hours for lawful consumption of beer in public places. |
| HB 777 | Caption: Relating to submitting the question of legalized parimutuel wagering on horse races in Dallas, Tarrant, Harris, Galveston, Bexar, Hidalgo, Cameron, Webb and Midland Counties to the voters in the General Election to be held in November, 1962, for an expression of public opinion. |
| HJR 4 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in certain counties after local option elections providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and counties, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators, and maximum admission taxes; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties. |
| HJR 31 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the Legislature may provide by law for the registration of all voters in counties containing a population of three hundred thousand (300,000) inhabitants or more. |
| HJR 53 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in certain counties after local option elections; providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and counties, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators, and maximum admission taxes; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties. |
| HJR 61 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas legalizing parimutuel betting at horse races in Bexar County after local option election; providing for maximum parimutuel taxes by the State and County, and for maximum deductions from parimutuel pools by owners or operators; providing for the creation of the Texas Horse Racing Board to supervise such races and betting; providing for the creation of the Texas Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and declaring its duties. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| HB 76 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code to provide for special elections for State Representative and State Senator; to increase the filing fee of candidates in special elections for the office of Representative and Senator of the Legislature, and Congressman-at-Large, determining the number of signatures required for referendum in certain instances. |