Legislation authored by Preston Smith
Includes legislation with Preston Smith as the primary author for the 49th through 57th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 57th Regular Session | |
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| SB 19 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain counties and cities jointly to own, construct, equip, enlarge and maintain a building to be used for city, county and other public purposes. |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways; relating to maximum and minimum speeds of vehicles; providing for an effective date. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to provide for the allocation of professional units to districts reporting increases on the basis of current average daily attendance. |
| SB 56 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to funeral directing and embalming so as to authorize the State Board of Morticians to provide for a license for funeral establishments to operate; providing a license fee. |
| SB 58 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to provide that the annual compensation of the stenographer of the District Attorney of the 121st Judicial District of Texas shall be increased from a maximum of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum to a maximum of thirty-three hundred dollars ($3,300) per annum. |
| SB 62 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority; providing that a majority in number of the Authority's Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any and all business. |
| SB 99 | Caption: Relating to providing for reinstatement of service credits for waiver teachers and for teachers who have withdrawn deposits; providing for purchase of out-of-state teaching service; providing for teacher retirement credit for teaching service. |
| SB 158 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to counties with population above thirty-five thousand (35,000) or with tax evaluation above Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000); providing that it shall not be compulsory for certain counties to have a county auditor. |
| SB 161 | Caption: Relating to establishing a juvenile board in Dawson County. |
| SB 201 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to authorize the governing board of any junior college district or union junior college district to acquire land for buildings and other structures and for additions to existing buildings and other structures by eminent domain. |
| SB 207 | Caption: Relating to provide for the conservation and prevention of waste of underground water and to protect underground water from pollution by registering water well drillers and providing for administration and enforcement. |
| SB 299 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Probate Code relative to testimony taken in open court upon the hearing of an application to probate a will. |
| SB 304 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the execution and delivery of a right-of-way easement to certain lands in Lubbock county, Texas, by the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College acting by its Chairman, to the City of Lubbock, a municipal corporation of Lubbock County, Texas, for the construction, reconstruction, operation, maintenance and repair of underground and surface electric line and emergency fire alarm signal units in, under and across the Campus of Texas Technological College. |
| SB 317 | Caption: Relating to authorize certain counties to borrow money; and to authorize such counties to issue time warrants, or other obligations of such counties as evidence of such loans and to levy and pledge taxes in payment therefor. |
| SB 392 | Caption: Relating to the appointment, qualifications, duties and compensation of official shorthand reporters for the District Courts of the 72nd, 140th and 99th Judicial Districts of Texas, and for County Court at Law No. 1 and County Court at Law No. 2 of Lubbock County, Texas, fixing maximum salaries to be paid, in addition to compensation for transcripts, statements of facts and other fees. |
| SB 407 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to bring Cochran County within the regulatory authority of the Game and Fish Commission. |
| SB 429 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to allow the Commissioners Court of a county to compensate the board of managers of county hospitals by furnishing hospitalization insurance. |
| SB 477 | Caption: Relating to authorizing eligible counties to issue certificates of indebtedness for a stated purpose. |
| SCR 22 | Caption: Granting W. R. Hall permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 89 | Caption: Instructing the Senate Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 51. |
| SJR 1 | Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the Legislature may delegate authority to zone public highways, roads, streets, and alleys or portions thereof; relating to and regulating the speed at which any motor vehicle may be operated thereon. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Vance Singleton to the State Capitol. |
| SR 126 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Otha Denny to the State Capitol. |
| SR 132 | Caption: Welcoming Glenn Thompson, George Boring, Leonard Coleman, Leland Seifers, and Bill Eubanks to the State Capitol. |
| SR 165 | Caption: Recognizing the Texas Technological College men's basketball team for winning the 1961 Southwest Conference Championship. |
| SR 174 | Caption: Welcoming the members of Sands Basketball team of Ackerly to the State Capitol. |
| SR 182 | Caption: Recognizing the Sundown Highschool girls' basketball team of Hcckley County for winning the Class A state championship. |
| SR 330 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor to former New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Ed Mead. |
| SR 543 | Caption: In memory of Forrest Weimhold. |
| SR 558 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Whitharrell High School of Hockley County to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 16 | Caption: Relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salary of the official shorthand reporter for the 109th Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act (being the law creating the White River Municipal Water District) by adding a provision with reference to annexation of additional territory. |
| SB 43 | Caption: Relating to White River Municipal Water District; relating to naming the persons to constitute the Board of Directors of said District; validating acts performed by such directors and by the persons who served before them as such directors. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to establishing the extraterritorial jurisdiction of cities and towns, authorizing the exercise of certain powers by cities and towns in such extraterritorial jurisdiction, and regulating annexation by cities and towns both within and without such extraterritorial jurisdiction; invalidating certain annexations; providing for the disannexation of certain annexed by cities and towns after the effective date of this Act under certain conditions; providing cities and towns having conflicting claims over annexed territory may seek a declaration of lawful jurisdiction over same under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to study the operation of utilities. |
| SR 73 | Caption: Welcoming Ruth D. Puchek, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns in this state, regardless of how incorporated, but which are located within or which have contracted or may hereafter contract with any Municipal Water Authority or other District, for a supply of untreated water, to acquire either separately or jointly by gift, dedication, purchase, condemnation or otherwise, property located inside or outside such cities and towns for the purpose of providing water purification and treatment facilities. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to establishing the extraterritorial jurisdiction of cities and towns, authorizing the exercise of certain powers by cities and towns in such extraterritorial jurisdiction, and regulating annexation by cities and towns both within and without such extraterritorial jurisdiction; invalidating certain annexations; providing for the disannexation of certain areas annexed by cities and towns after the affective date of this Act under certain conditions; providing cities and towns having conflicting claims over annexed territory my seek a declaration of lawful jurisdiction over same under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act; amending a certain Statute providing that the provisions of this Act shall be cumulative of all laws and parts relating to this subject. |
| SB 96 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act changing the name and designation of County Court at Law of Lubbock County to County Court at Law No. 1 of Lubbock County. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Andrews County Juvenile Board. |
| SB 49 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Hockley County Junior College District, established in Hockley County, Texas, and enlarged by annexation into Cochran County, Texas, to the "South Plains Junior College District." |
| SB 50 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conservation and prevention of waste of underground water and to protect underground water reservoirs from pollution; prescribing penalties. |
| SB 66 | Caption: Relating to requiring all meetings of all boards, commissions, committees of the Legislature, and all other agencies of the State, City, County, or other political subdivision of the State to be open, with certain exceptions; prescribing a penalty. |
| SB 67 | Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the further maintenance of public highways, by authorizing the Commissioners Court of Gaines County to expend proceeds of road bonds heretofore and hereafter voted by said county for the purpose of providing for drainage of state highway rights-of-way and adjacent lands where such drainage is made necessary by the construction, widening or improvement of such highways. |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to authorize the Livestock Sanitary Commission to adopt and issue rules and regulations for the control and eradication of infectious, contagious and communicable diseases of livestock and domestic fowls. |
| SB 139 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by authorizing an Independent School District or Districts, a Common School District or Districts to be annexed to adjacent Junior College District for Junior College purposes only. |
| SB 352 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing for the creation of Union Junior College Districts. |
| SB 353 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College, in consideration of the payment to it of the appraised value, to convey to the Texas Tech Inter-Fraternity Housing Corporation, certain land in the City of Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, for the purpose of constructing thereon Fraternity and Sorority Lodges. |
| SB 375 | Caption: Relating to enacting the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code. |
| SCR 56 | Caption: Directing the State Board of Education to study the ways conservation of natural resources may be incorporated into school curricula. |
| SCR 66 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of the evaluation process of property for purposes of taxation. |
| SJR 12 | Caption: Proposing an amendment giving the Commissioners Court in all counties with less than twenty thousand (20,000) population authority to call an election on question of retention or abolition of the office of constable in such county. |
| SR 77 | Caption: In memory of Leonard M. Lang. |
| SR 82 | Caption: In memory of Jess S. Smith. |
| SR 95 | Caption: In memory of B. D. "Doc" Cooksey. |
| SR 149 | Caption: Welcoming Charles A. Guy to the State Capitol. |
| SR 229 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Macdowell to the State Capitol. |
| SR 255 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Montana State University to the State Capitol. |
| SR 275 | Caption: In memory of William E. Marquam. |
| SR 279 | Caption: In memory of W. F. McMillan. |
| SR 337 | Caption: Welcoming former State Representative Alvin Allison and his daughter |
| SR 493 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mmes. Tie Davis and Edwin Beran. |
| SR 515 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Lubbock High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 564 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to former State Senator Kilmer Corbin. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 23 | Caption: In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Frank John Polansky. |
| SR 27 | Caption: In memory of Henry Joe Vykukal. |
| SR 63 | Caption: Recognizing E. N. Jones on the occasion of his retirement and extending good wishes as he recovers from illness. |
| SR 67 | Caption: In memory of Jacob John Schweda. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| SR 85 | Caption: Welcoming the members of the Crosby County FFA to the State Capitol. |
| SR 104 | Caption: Welcoming the members of the O'Donnell High School FFA to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| SR 46 | Caption: Welcoming the members of the Babe Ruth Baseball Club of Brownfield to the State Capitol. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| SB 45 | Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine, for any male minor between 14 and 17 years of age or any female minor between 14 and 18 years of age to drive or operate a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or in such a way as to violate any traffic law of this state. |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to increase the punishment for violations of the Act on the basis of the number of previous convictions for a "moving violation"; defining "moving violation". |
| SB 47 | Caption: Relating to providing for fixing the compensation of judges of district courts in districts consisting of three or more counties; providing for the manner of payment. |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to defining the duties of public officers in regard to the publication of statements and notices required or authorized by law; providing for forfeiture of salary and removal from office for violation thereof and providing the procedure therefor. |
| SB 147 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act authorizing cities having more than 250,000 inhabitants to issue Airport Revenue Bonds; revising the minimum population limit for the issuance of such bonds. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to providing that any person employed as a private investigator or confidential investigator for the purpose of determining or attempting to determine the attendance or number of paid admissions at any motion picture theater performance in this state shall furnish the owner or general manager of such theater, or theaters, checked, a report of his findings on the next succeeding day and within three (3) days after such check, a written copy of his finding or report; providing penalties. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to repealing a Statute that prohibits executive heads or the administrative staff of higher education agencies of this State from being reimbursed for official travel expenses to Austin during sessions of the Texas Legislature without certain advance approval. |
| SB 196 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conservation and prevention of waste of underground water and to protect underground water reservoirs from pollution. |
| SB 221 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the discontinuance and abolition of an elementary school district and the annexation of the same with another elementary school district within a rural high school district, under certain conditions, and the moving or other disposition of the buildings and other property of the district. |
| SB 255 | Caption: Relating to the prescribed Studies of the Texas Public Schools; removing exemptions provided for certain children whose religious beliefs are in conflict with certain prescribed courses. |
| SB 256 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the White River Municipal Water District; abolishing White River Municipal Water Control and Improvement District. |
| SB 260 | Caption: Relating to amending the Driver's License Law so as to provide that no other license shall be issued to a person whose license has been suspended during the period of suspension. |
| SB 279 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to school terms and attendance, to provide that trustees of school districts of 10,000 scholastics or more may provide for late afternoon and evening school programs. |
| SB 300 | Caption: Relating to providing Workmen's Compensation Insurance for certain employees of the institution and agency under the direction or government of the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College; prescribing penalty for failure to perform such duties. |
| SB 439 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes authorizing Commissioners' Courts to fill vacancies in certain offices, if not filled in 60 days, Governor to appoint. |
| SB 470 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College to rent or lease not to exceed four acres, a part of the campus and a building thereon, to the City of Lubbock for the sole purpose of maintaining a history and art museum for a sum of money to be determined by the Board of Directors. |
| SJR 16 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas providing that a home rule city may provide by Charter Provision and a general law city operating under the general laws may provide by majority vote of the qualified voters voting at an election called for that purpose, for a longer term of office than two years for its officers, both elective and appointive, but not to exceed four years. |
| SR 32 | Caption: In memory of C. E. Luce. |
| SR 70 | Caption: Recognizing Bobbie Sale on winning the Grand Championship of the Junior Steer Show at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show. |
| SR 99 | Caption: In memory of the wife of Irving L. Jones. |
| SR 115 | Caption: In memory of Joseph Marion Parker. |
| SR 172 | Caption: In memory of Harry K. Benton. |
| SR 179 | Caption: In memory of A. J. Kitten. |
| SR 193 | Caption: Welcoming the basketball team of Terry County and their coach to the State Capitol. |
| SR 199 | Caption: Welcoming members of the Morton High School Treble Choir of Cochran County and their teachers and sponsors to the State Capitol. |
| SR 216 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. Dobson et al. and Danton Elam et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 224 | Caption: In memory of Howard B. Walters. |
| SR 234 | Caption: Welcoming Ropesville High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach to the State Capitol. |
| SR 298 | Caption: In memory of the wife of Tom Cobb. |
| SR 301 | Caption: Recognizing the Ropesville Eaglettes for winning a championship. |
| SR 302 | Caption: Recognizing the Roosevelt Eaglettes for winning a championship. |
| SR 310 | Caption: Welcoming students of Round Top-Carmine Rural High School and their teachers to the State Capitol. |
| SR 313 | Caption: Welcoming students of Flatonia High School and their teacher to the State Capitol. |
| SR 358 | Caption: Welcoming students of Lubbock High School and their teacher to the State Capitol. |
| SR 476 | Caption: Inviting Randolph Scott to address the Senate. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to permit the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College to convey to the City of Lubbock land upon which the city proposes to build and maintain a museum. |
| SB 35 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by making more adequate provision for maintenance and operation of county-owned parks in certain counties which have voted and issued bonds for park purposes. |
| SR 9 | Caption: In memory of Sterling J. Parrish. |
| SR 21 | Caption: In memory of David Hand. |
| 55th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to repealing Statutes closing the season on wild quail in Andrews County. |
| SR 12 | Caption: In memory of R. L. Elms. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 341 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for leasing of certain county hospitals. |
| HB 342 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties to lease their county hospital, provided the Commissioners Court of such county, by order entered in the minutes, finds that it is to the best interest of the county to lease such hospital; enacting provisions incident and relating to the subject; providing that if any provision of this Act shall be held invalid or unconstitutional the other provisions shall not be affected; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict. |
| HB 428 | Caption: Relating to require all State Boards, agencies and bureaus that spend State money, all policy forming Boards, and all boards created or provided for by the Legislature to hold open meetings at all times, except where otherwise expressly provided by law, and to permit representatives of the press to attend such meetings, and requiring notice of all regular and special meetings to be given to the press and to all newspapers located in the city or town at which said meeting is held, said Act to apply to all meetings, whether regular or special, and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing for forfeiture of office for violation; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 654 | Caption: Relating to regulating the length of vehicles and combination of vehicles and providing an exception; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to amend certain Act by including within the provisions of said Act the counties of Cochran, Hockley, Lubbock, Crosby, Lynn, Dawson, Terry, and Garza (relative to Panhandle Water Conservation Authority), and retaining therein the counties of Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Cottle, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Floyd, Gray, Hale, Hall, Hansford, Harley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lamb, Lipscomb, Moore, Motley, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher and Wheeler. |
| HB 892 | Caption: Relating to provide for re-adoption with written consent of foster parents and upon compliance with the General Laws of this State relating to adopting proceedings; providing for inheritance. |
| HB 948 | Caption: Relating to providing for the investment of certain State money by the State Treasurer at the direction of the State Comptroller in securities of the United States government, appropriating the earnings therefrom to the construction of permanent eleemosynary buildings and facilities. |
| HCR 43 | Caption: Directing the custody of all museums, monuments, and markers constructed on state-owned property for the Texas Centennial Celebration be allocated to the relevant parties. |
| HR 79 | Caption: Inviting the Governor, Lt. Governor, and all Members of the Senate to attend a ceremony honoring former Speakers of the House. |
| HR 104 | Caption: In memory of Jack M. Randal of Lubbock. |
| HR 260 | Caption: Congratulating S. Agatha Turner for being the first woman to win the prestigious LeBrun Travelling Scholarship. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 38 | Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Lubbock County, Texas. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to The Texas Technological College, at Lubbock, Texas, and the West Texas State Teachers College at Canyon, Texas. |
| HB 296 | Caption: Relating to creating County-wide Equalization School Districts, for tax purposes, in certain counties; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 419 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain counties to sell or lease their county hospital, provided the Commissioners Court of such county, by an order entered in the minutes, finds that it is to the best interest of the county to sell or lease such hospital. |
| HB 533 | Caption: Relating to creating County-wide Equalization School Districts, for tax purposes, in certain counties; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 618 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the City Commission of all Home Rule Cities in this State having a population of more than thirty-one thousand (31,000) inhabitants and not more than thirty-two thousand, five hundred (32,500) inhabitants, an easement on and over all public highways and county roads in the county in which such Cities are situated, for the purpose of constructing, laying and maintaining water pipe lines, which constitute a part of the water supply system operated by such Cities. |
| HB 659 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to increase the salary of the Assistant District Attorney in the 72nd Judicial District of Texas and authorizing same to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State. |
| HB 721 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of Texas Technological College to lease not exceeding three (3) acres of land, a part of the campus of said College, to the United States Government, the Army, Navy or other department or agency thereof for the purpose of erecting and maintaining on said land an armory building or other buildings for military instruction. |
| HB 778 | Caption: Relating to enabling Home Rule cities of a certain population to establish two corporation Courts; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 888 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that certain school districts shall be entitled to receive State aid. |
| HCR 206 | Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 250 from the Governor. |
| HJR 8 | Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to create a permanent University Trust Fund Commission and authorizing the issuance of bonds for the purpose of constructing, equipping, or acquiring buildings and permanent improvements for the State owned schools of higher learning. |
| HR 131 | Caption: In memory of Mark Halsey of Lubbock, Texas. |
| HR 171 | Caption: Designating Betty Sterling Williams and Roger Knox Williams as Mascots of the House. |
| HR 180 | Caption: Designating Suzanne Harris as a Mascot of the House. |
| HR 192 | Caption: Congratulating Eloise Woodruff for her accomplishments in 4-H Club. |
| 49th Regular Session | |
| HB 436 | Caption: Relating to fixing the length of the terms of the 99th District Court in and for Lubbock County, Texas, and the time of holding the terms of said 99th District Court; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 557 | Caption: Relating to make it unlawful to take or kill wild quail or prairie chickens of any species for a period of five (5) years in Terry County, Texas; fixing a penalty. |
| HB 614 | Caption: Relating to permitting any county containing a population of not less than three thousand, seven hundred and twenty (3,720) nor more than three thousand eight hundred and fifteen (3,815) according to the last preceding Federal Census, or any future Federal census, to adopt by a majority vote of qualified voters of such county a county unit system to the extent provided in this Act. |
| HB 615 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in certain county line independent school districts, etc. |
| HB 670 | Caption: Relating to make it unlawful to take or kill wild prairie chickens of any species for a period of five (5) years in Cochran County, Texas; fixing a penalty. |
| HB 852 | Caption: Relating to changing the boundaries of the Shallowater Rural High School District No. 5, of Lubbock County, Texas, so as to include certain territory now embraced exclusively within Lubbock County, Texas, and now embraced in the Abernathy County Line Consolidated Independent School District located in Hale and Lubbock Counties, Texas. |
| HB 883 | Caption: Relating to providing that in all cities and towns heretofore incorporated, or attempted to be incorporated, under the provisions of Chapter 12, Title 28, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, which have functioned as incorporated cities and towns since the date of incorporation, or attempted incorporation, and the boundaries of which have been defined by the Board of Commissioners of such cities and towns, by ordinance duly adopted and placed in the Minutes of such Board of Commissioners, the incorporation of such cities and towns to include the exact territory described in said ordinance so adopted, be and the same is hereby validated, ratified, approved, and confirmed. |
| HCR 91 | Caption: Inviting Corporal "Hop" Halsey to address a Joint Session of the Legislature Wednesday, May 16, 1945. |
| HJR 36 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for the participation of all State supported colleges and universities in interest to be derived from the "Permanent University Fund" on a pro rate basis. |