Legislation authored by Allan Shivers

Includes legislation with Allan Shivers as the primary author for the 44th through 49th 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.

49th Regular Session
SB 334	Caption: Relating to repealing certain sections of the local road law for Jefferson County.
SCR 21	Caption: Granting Mrs. M.E Thomason, Mrs. Louise Thomason, and Marion Thomason to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 34	Caption: Granting J. I. Case Company to sue the State of Texas.
48th Regular Session
SB 35	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of an agreement to extend the Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Three Thousand Five Hundred ($3,500.00) Dollars to the Attorney General for the purpose of printing the Attorney General's Annual and Monthly Opinion Reports.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall hereafter be lawful to use dogs for the purpose of hunting and trailing deer in the Counties of Orange, Liberty, and Hardin.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall hereafter be lawful to use one dog for the purpose of trailing a wounded deer in the County of Jefferson.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall hereafter be lawful to use one dog for the purpose of trailing a wounded deer in the county of Hardin.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to providing that in all general and special elections for candidates for constitutional or statutory offices, which elections are held in this State under authority of State law, the voter shall indicate his choice by placing a check mark (V) or an "X" (X) in a square or box on the official ballot to the left of the candidate's name.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes giving the Supreme Court authority or jurisdiction to issue the writ of mandamus or any other mandatory or compulsory writ or process against the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness.
SB 262	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of certain designated county officers in certain counties; prescribing a penalty for the violation of this Act; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 357	Caption: Relating to permitting insurance carriers organized and licensed under the laws of the Republic of Mexico, or any state thereof, to underwrite in the State of Texas automobile coverage, accident and other insurance risks upon persons and personal property while in the Republic of Mexico.
SCR 5	Caption: Providing that the Regular Session of the Forty-eighth Legislature shall adjourn sine die at 12 o'clock noon on Monday, March 15, 1943.
SCR 41	Caption: Providing that the Legislature shall adjourn sine die at 12:00 o'clock noon on Tuesday, May 11, 1943.
SCR 42	Caption: Approving the proposal submitted by the American Association of State Highway Officials to make provision for State and Federal toad building, etc.
SCR 45	Caption: Memorializing Congress to return control of the Texas Unemployment Commission to the State of Texas after the end of the war emergency.
SCR 51	Caption: Granting M.E. Thomason permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
SCR 64	Caption: Memorializing Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution of the United States relative to taxes on income, gifts, and inheritances, and to repeal the 16th amendment of the Constitution.
47th Regular Session
SB 29	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for determining the amount of contributions by employers regarding unemployment compensation; providing for the effective date of the Act.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to declaring the sovereignty of Texas along its seacoast; fixing its present seacoast boundary and ownership.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles by providing for the acceptance of applications and bids for the leases upon certain public lands and for the term of said leases.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of all Junior College Districts and Union Junior College Districts, created in any manner under the provision of the Acts of the 41st Legislature, 1929, and under any amendments thereof.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to defining publication, newspaper, political sub-division and certain mandatory expressions; providing for the publication of notices, proclamations, advertising, and citations in newspapers; repealing conflicting provisions of certain Articles.
SB 198	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing for the use of the letters "R.N.", and providing for the operation of Registration Bureaus by Registered Nurses.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Penal Code making it unlawful for any person, at any time, to set a trap for or trap or kill any muskrat upon any land of another or be in possession of a muskrat without the consent of the owner or lessee of such land; specifying a penalty.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article authorizing the husband or wife to obtain a divorce where either spouse has been adjudged insane by a court of competent jurisdiction and has been confined in a public institution for a term of not less than five (5) years.
SB 325	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing that water control and improvement districts may purchase, own and operate fire engines and all necessary fire-fighting equipment and appliances.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act by providing for determining the amount of contributions by employers for unemployment benefits, and defining certain terms; providing for the effective date of this Act.
SB 327	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act declaring the policy of the State with reference to building, maintaining and financing State designated roads.
SB 364	Caption: Relating to providing the manner and terms for selling or trading real estate or interests therein or personal property of a city or town; specifying penalties.
SB 365	Caption: Relating to providing the manner and terms for selling or trading real estate or interests therein or personal property of a county; providing for penalties.
SB 406	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the establishment of the Unemployment Compensation Fund; setting forth the manner in which funds may be deposited and withdrawn from said fund.
SB 468	Caption: Relating to providing for the validating and making effective, free and discharged, from the annual rental payment of certain oil and mineral leases and renewals thereof, heretofore issued on river beds and channels owned by the State of Texas.
SB 508	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court in certain counties with a certain population to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses for traveling in connection with the use of his automobile on official business; requiring each such Commissioner, to pay the expenses of operation and repair of such automobile so used by him, without further expenses to the County.
SCR 33	Caption: Authorizing the State Highway Department of Texas to loan guard wire to the Port Neches School District of Jefferson County.
SCR 40	Caption: Granting the Federal Crude Oil Company permission to sue the State.
47th 1st Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to amending the road bond service law and appropriating moneys allocated to the County and Road District Highway Fund.
46th Regular Session
SB 21	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relating to imposing a tax on employers of eight or more persons; providing for benefits; fixing benefit eligibility conditions and certain disqualifications for benefits; adding certain penalty provisions.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the State Health Department to be used for the purpose of assisting in the eradication of venereal diseases in the State on a cooperative basis with cities and counties and for carrying out venereal control programs.
SB 142	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from sale or lease all public free school lands heretofore authorized by any law of this State to be sold or leased; providing that such withdraw shall not apply to applications to purchase or lease filed prior to the effective date of this Act.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to take or kill a brown pelican; providing a suitable penalty.
SB 305	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Nine Thousand Five Hundred ($9,500.00) Dollars to be used by the Attorney General of Texas for the purpose of paying expenses and costs in enforcing the laws of Texas against trusts, monopolies, and restraints of trade, including the pending suits against various cement manufacturers, providing for the approval of vouchers against said appropriation.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to authorize the husband or wife to obtain a divorce where either spouse has been adjudged insane by a court of competent jurisdiction and has been confined in a public institution for insane for a term of not less than five (5) years.
SB 351	Caption: Relating to regulation the business of lending money without security to individuals; prescribing a penalty for violation of this Act.
SB 391	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute requiring safety devices in mine shafts, particularly salt mines; providing a penalty for mine operators for violation.
SB 392	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities eligible under the terms of this Act to fund certain indebtedness outstanding on January 1, 1939.
SB 396	Caption: Relating to declaring the sovereignty of Texas along its seacoast; fixing its present seacoast boundary and ownership.
SB 401	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure providing appearance fee for special veniremen excused or challenged, eliminating nonpayment of those residing within mile of courthouse.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that no one shall act as Chairman or as member of any District, County or City Executive Committee, who has not paid his Poll Tax, or who holds any office of profit or trust in either the United States or this State, or in any city or town in this State.
SB 438	Caption: Relating to validating, confirming, approving, and legalizing all bonds heretofore authorized by the necessary vote of the qualified voters of all cities or towns at an election, or elections, held during the year 1938.
SB 439	Caption: Relating to validating and approving all proceedings had by cities and towns in amending their corporate charters so as to eliminate any requirements in said charter that any portion of the annual ad valorem tax levied in said city or town shall be provided for or set apart for the use of the Public Free Schools in said city or town.
SB 460	Caption: Relating to validating bonds of certain cities; Port Arthur.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to validating and approving all proceedings had by cities and towns in amending their separate charters so as to eliminate any requirements in said charter that any portion of the annual ad valorem tax levied in said city or town shall be provided for or set apart for the use of the Public Free Schools in said city or town.
SB 473	Caption: Relating to providing that taxes levied by other entities under and by virtue of a certain Article of the Constitution shall never be reckoned in determining the power of any city or town to levy taxes.
SB 482	Caption: Relating to validating and approving all proceedings had by the Board of Directors of any Water Control and Improvement District situated wholly within one county and containing not exceeding three thousand five hundred (3,500) acres of land, and created for the purpose of the construction of improvements for a water purification and distribution system, together with a sanitary sewer system.
45th Regular Session
SB 83	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of the public health; authorizing the State Health Officer to define and fix the specifications for certain grades of milk and milk products as defined in the Act; providing remedies and penalties for the enforcement of this Act.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to providing, with approval of the court, for the purchase by a Guardian of life insurance and/or annuity contracts for the benefit of his or her ward or wards.
SB 122	Caption: Relating to regulating the number of hours women may be employed in Texas; providing a penalty.
SB 123	Caption: Relating to providing for the safety of employees in employment and places of employment; providing that regulations adopted hereunder shall be admissible as evidence in prosecutions for violations of this Act; providing a penalty.
SB 124	Caption: Relating to regulating the number of hours women may be employed in Texas
SB 190	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation any admission all proceeds of which inure exclusively to the benefit of State, religious, educational or charitable institutions, organizations, or societies.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of a site and for the establishment, location, and construction of a hospital for the white mentally ill, naming the same, and providing for the care, treatment and support of white mentally ill persons.
SB 209	Caption: Relating to providing that the Board of Control through the Division of Child Welfare shall cooperate with the Federal government in the administration of Title 4, of the "Social Security Act".
SB 228	Caption: Relating to providing for the erection and construction of a State office building.
SB 229	Caption: Relating to amending civil statutes to permit use of 1/10 of 1 per cent benzoate of soda or equivalent in food and beverages if so labeled.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to amending criminal statutes to permit use of benzoate of soda in certain cases.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to better safeguarding the health of the people of the State of Texas by making it unlawful to sell, offer or expose for sale adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, cosmetics or devices; providing penalties for violating the provisions of this Act.
SB 270	Caption: Relating to permitting fiduciary bond premiums for deputy county officers to be paid from fees of office.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commission to make reciprocal arrangements with other states and the Federal Government with respect to wages earned and benefits accumulated by employees in other states.
SB 295	Caption: Relating to authorizing judges of district and county courts to grant a severance in suits where two or more causes of action are combined in one suit, and authorizing such courts, in cases where the suit is prosecuted to final judgment, to enter separate final judgments so as to permit of appeal from one without affecting the status of the other or others.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of fish and shrimp in the tidal waters of this State, providing that it shall be lawful to use strike nets, gill nets, trammel nets or shrimp trawls in the open waters of East Galveston Bay in the Counties of Galveston and Chambers except during the period beginning May 15, and ending August 15 of each year.
SB 335	Caption: Relating to workmen's compensation.
SB 336	Caption: Relating to fixing pay of chief deputies in county offices in counties of less than 20,000 population.
SB 417	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or clerk in any county having a population of not more than fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty (15,160) and not less than fifteen thousand one hundred and forty (15,140) inhabitants according to the last preceding census.
SB 451	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act aiding the City of Port Arthur, Texas, in constructing and maintaining sea walls, breakwaters and shore protection in order to protect said city from calamitous overflows, by extending the provisions of said Act for a period of ten years.
SB 488	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all independent school districts which include within their limits two counties or portions thereof one of which counties according to the latest Federal Census had a population of not fewer than fifteen thousand one hundred and forty (15,140) and not more than fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty (15,160) inhabitants, whether organized under General or Special Laws.
SJR 6	Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America, at its first session, which amendment empowers the Congress to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.
45th 2nd Called Session
SCR 17	Caption: Suspending the Senate Rules in order to consider H. B. Nos. 161, 167, and 151.
44th Regular Session
SB 89	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of the public health; authorizing the State Health Officer to define and fix the specifications for certain grades of milk and milk products as defined in this Act; providing remedies and penalties for the enforcement of this Act.
SB 131	Caption: Relating to the wages paid on public work.
SB 132	Caption: Relating to providing for notices of sale of real estate under deeds of trust, manner of giving notice, contents of same, affidavit of mailing notice, place of sale.
SB 133	Caption: Relating to giving to interested parties dissatisfied with the ruling and decision of the Board of Water Engineers with respect to the charge of canal companies for water for irrigating crops the right to litigate the matter in the district court of the county in which the canal company has its principal office and place of business.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to providing that liens created by the abstracting and recording of judgments shall exist as long as the judgment is alive.
SB 135	Caption: Relating to providing for appointment of Assistant County Attorneys and other employees of the County Attorney in all Counties in the State having a population of over 125,000 inhabitants according to the latest preceding Federal Census and in which there is no District Attorney or Criminal District Attorney and wherein the County Attorney performs the duties of County and District Attorney.
SB 187	Caption: Relating to providing for a period of redemption for two years on real estate foreclosures.
SB 223	Caption: Relating to providing that any person driving or operating an automobile or other vehicle upon any street or alley or other place within the limits of any incorporated city, town or village or upon any public road or highway in this State while intoxicated or in any degree under the influence of intoxicating liquor shall be confined in the penitentiary for not more than two years or be confined in jail for not more than ninety days or fined not more than $500.00 or be punished by both such fines and imprisonment in jail and providing that the suspended sentence law shall not apply to such offenses.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to giving to Mrs. Lillian Hargraves, for herself and as next friend of Orin Hargraves, Edith Hargraves and Ed Harold Hargraves, minors, of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, consent of the Legislature to file and prosecute suit against the State of Texas and/or the State Highway Commission in a court of competent jurisdiction in order to determine what compensation, she and the surviving children of the said Lillian Hargraves and O. K. Hargraves are to receive by reason of the death of the said O. K. Hargraves, received while an employee of the State Highway Commission.
SB 319	Caption: Relating to granting to Dr. N.T. Anders and wife, Mrs. Hattie Anders, of Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, the permission to bring suit against the State of Texas and the Highway Department.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to the salary to be paid the Deputy Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson County at Law.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to dissolution of any corporation, co-partnership, or association of persons.
SB 327	Caption: Relating to increasing the penalty for cutting merchantable timber from a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, to confinement in the jail for not less than three nor more than twelve months or in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years.
SB 336	Caption: Relating to providing the amount to be collected as registration fees for certain motor vehicles.
SB 392	Caption: Relating to authorizing B. H. Willis of Jefferson County, Texas, to institute and maintain a suit against the State of Texas, in the District Court of Liberty County, Texas.
SB 393	Caption: Relating to making the appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas for the State Board of Water Engineers to pay the salary of two (2) Assistant Engineers for certain supplies, travel expenses and auto maintenance.
SB 406	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute deeming it fraudulent and void to sell certain goods in order to obtain a continuance in the possession of said goods in the event of a mortgage or lien, by excepting Farm Products when offered for sale by the Producer from the operation of said statute.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to providing that all claims and demands secured by deed of trust or mortgage on real estate to be construed real property for the purpose of taxation; providing for a penalty for contracting to pay taxes other than as set out in this Act; providing for the effective date of this Act.
SB 468	Caption: Relating to fixing the fees and salary of the official shorthand reporter of the County Court of Jefferson County at Law, Jefferson County, Texas, and providing the manner of payment.
SCR 6	Caption: Memorializing Congress relative to the payment of ex-service men's certificates.
SCR 14	Caption: Granting Senator J.D. Campbell permission to be absent from the Senate.
SCR 32	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 135 from the Governor's office.
SCR 74	Caption: Suspending joint rules to take up H.B. No. 155.
SR 9	Caption: In memory of W.R. Cousins.
SR 35	Caption: Relating to including pages and messengers in the Senate picture.
SR 89	Caption: Relating to the Canada-to-Gulf Military Highway.
SR 93	Caption: In memory of Jefferson D. Campbell.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 22	Caption: Relating to providing for the general welfare by establishing a system of Old Age Assistance; providing the qualifications for recipients, methods of raising certain revenue, appropriating funds for such assistance, describing penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to granting aid to the property in and inhabitants of Orange County, Texas, made necessary by reason of the location of Orange County on the Gulf Coast and by reason of the calamitous overflows, floods and storms which caused great destruction of property and loss of life in said county.
44th 2nd Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to creating a fund for Old Age Assistance; creating a Division of Public Welfare as a part of the Board of Control; granting Old Age Assistance to resident citizens of the State of Texas over the age of sixty-five years and prescribing the qualifications prerequisite to such assistance.
SCR 2	Caption: Providing for the appointment of one House and Senate Member to confer with the Federal Social Security Board.
SCR 9	Caption: Providing that the Members of the Legislature attend the reinternment services of James Austin Sylvester at the State Cemetery.
SCR 23	Caption: Requesting the suspension of constitutional rules and declaring H.B. No. 26 in full effect.
SCR 27	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate to make certain changes to the conference report of S.B. No. 5.
44th 3rd Called Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to creating an unemployment insurance system for the State of Texas; creating an Unemployment Compensation Fund; providing duties of employers and employees, and prescribing penalties.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to making it lawful to hunt wounded wild deer with one dog in the counties of Liberty and Hardin, Texas, during the Open Season of each year for a period of five (5) years.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to relinquishing to the City of Port Arthur, Texas, all right and title and interest of the State of Texas in and to certain lands described in Section 1, H.B. No. 66, Chapter 22, Acts Fifth Called Session, Forty-first Legislature, and ratifying their validated patent issued by the State of Texas under and by virtue of said Act, and repealing Section 4a of said House Bill No. 66.
SR 17	Caption: In memory of W.H. Stark.