Legislation authored by Pinkney L. Parrish

Includes legislation with Pinkney L. Parrish as the primary author for the 41st through 42nd 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.

42nd Regular Session
SB 28 Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles relating to the filing of an application for license to marry and for the production of a certificate from a licensed physician.
SB 71 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to the appointment of an Assistant District Attorney in the 72nd Judicial District.
SB 90 Caption: Relating to changing and prescribing the terms and time for holding District Courts of the 92nd Judicial District of the State of Texas.
SB 177 Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to the subdivisions of surveys.
SB 198 Caption: Relating to regulating the driving of a motor vehicle by a person while intoxicated or while under the influence of intoxicating liquors or narcotics.
SB 286 Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an agricultural experiment station on the South Plains of Texas.
SB 294 Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns under 5,000 inhabitants to establish and maintain municipal chambers of commerce or boards of city development.
SB 307 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Cottle County to issue bonds of said County for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for road and bridge purposes.
SB 308 Caption: Relating to requiring the county boards of various counties to notify the State Superintendent as to the amount to be set aside annually for the administration fund.
SB 343 Caption: Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Board for Lease of University Lands to employ a geologist for the purpose of investigating the mineral bearing possibilities and potential value of the lands belonging to the public free school fund.
SB 389 Caption: Relating to providing a more efficient road law for Dickens County, Texas, authorizing the Commissioners' Court to refund that part of the principal and interest of its County wide road bonds which will mature in March and April, 1931.
SB 444 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to money collected paid to a county treasurer.
SB 445 Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to setting aside forfeiture.
SB 462 Caption: Relating to authorizing suits to be brought and maintained against persons owning or claiming any interest in lands in certain cases.
SB 463 Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to attorney's fees for representation.
SB 469 Caption: Relating to providing that the open season for fur-bearing animals shall be extended fifteen (15) days in Cottle County.
SB 470 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to confessions.
SB 471 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to authorization to administer oaths.
SB 472 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to orders transferring cases to such inferior court as may have jurisdiction.
SB 473 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues relating to the exemption of certain counties from hide laws by adding Garza county.
SB 478 Caption: Relating to extending the boundaries in the Counties in Texas, adjacent to the State of New Mexico, so as to include within said Counties that part of what was formerly a part of the State of New Mexico, as fixed by the survey of John H. Clark, which was approved by the Acts of Congress, 61st Congress, Third Session, S.J.R. No. 124.
SB 479 Caption: Relating to regulating the installation and keeping of records by gas companies furnishing gas to any incorporated city or town; prescribing penalties.
SB 480 Caption: Relating to regulating the rates of gas utilities which furnish gas to schools of the State; prescribing offenses and penalties.
SB 487 Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to compensation.
SB 505 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Stonewall County to issue bonds of said County for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for Road and Bridge Purposes and to levy a tax in payment thereof.
SB 517 Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles relating to the designation of banks as state depositories.
SB 535 Caption: Relating to providing for making and preserving records of delinquent and unpaid taxes of independent school districts.
SB 536 Caption: Relating to providing for the extension of the benefits of Senate Bill No. 310, passed by the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature, to persons who have previously made leases and for the refunding to them the money heretofore paid.
SB 610 Caption: Relating to providing that oil, gas and mineral leases heretofore or hereafter granted on the public lands of the State, in which the State retains a royalty of the portion of the gross production of the oil, gas and other minerals or of the value thereof, shall not be subject to income or other taxed levied by the United States.
SB 615 Caption: Relating to giving consent of the Legislature to Mrs. Claudie Eubanks and others to sue the State of Texas and/or Highway Commission for damages resulting in the death of Fletcher S. Eubanks.
SCR 17 Caption: Appointing a committee for the purpose of investigating charges against certain public utilities.
SR 26 Caption: Memorializing Congress to pay Adjusted Service Certificates to ex-service men of the World War.
SR 61 Caption: Relating to the excessive profits of eggs by restaurants.
SR 76 Caption: Excusing Senate Pages to attend the Longhorn Giant game.
SR 79 Caption: Inviting Jesse Jones to address the Senate.
SR 85 Caption: In memory of Andrew L. Randell of Sherman.
SR 86 Caption: Commending William E. Easterwood, Jr.
SR 117 Caption: Recalling S.B. 595 for further consideration.
42nd 1st Called Session
SCR 18 Caption: Appointing a committee to investigate unemployment within the state.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SCR 9 Caption: Extending Permit No. 14662 to A.B. Bauchmann.
41st Regular Session
SB 76 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to Public Weighers.
SB 85 Caption: Relating to creating the 110th Judicial District of Texas, to be composed of the counties of Briscoe, Floyd, Motley and Dickens and prescribing the time for holding court in the 50th Judicial District and the Sixty-fourth Judicial District, and in the district hereby created, and providing that all process heretofore issued in said districts shall be returnable to the proper terms created by this Act in each of said Districts, and making the necessary provisions for all writs, records and papers issuing out of said courts.
SB 157 Caption: Relating to repealing certain sections of Chapter 3 of the 1925 Revised Statutes of the State of Texas.
SB 160 Caption: Relating to qualifying the kind of pink boll worms that may be declared to be a menace.
SB 205 Caption: Relating to repeal part of the headlight Device law.
SB 206 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Lamb County, Texas.
SB 266 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Dickens County, Texas.
SB 306 Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road law for Crosby County, Texas, requiring surety bonds of road over-seers, containing provision that said county may fund the legal indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of January 1, 1929, setting forth the method of said operation.
SB 361 Caption: Relating to repealing House Bill No. 573, Chapter 96, Page 388 of the local and special laws of the regular session of the 35th Legislature
SB 364 Caption: Relating to increasing the pay of the officers and men of the State Ranger force.
SB 382 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to procure sites and erect monuments on certain historical spots.
SB 389 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Motley County, Texas.
SB 408 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing that the Secretary of State shall distribute judicial reports to the Supreme Court Library and to State Institutions of higher learning giving law or pre-law courses.
SB 428 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws and providing that such penalty shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation operating during the month of January any motor vehicle that has been duly registered for the next preceding year.
SB 438 Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to enter upon the land and premises of another for the purpose of making a geological survey of said land without first having procured a permit in writing; prescribing punishment.
SB 462 Caption: Relating to authorizing the District Attorney of the 72nd Judicial District to appoint one Assistant District Attorney for a term of two years prescribing the qualifications and duties of such assistant and fixing his salary.
SB 493 Caption: Relating to providing for subpoenas, writs, process, bonds and recognizances issued prior to the taking effect of this Act and validating and continuing the same.
SB 501 Caption: Relating to exempting Garza County from cattle inspection law.
SB 509 Caption: Relating to establishing and maintain an agricultural experiment station on the South Plains of Texas, in the region occupied by the counties of Cochran, Yoakum, Gains, Andrews, Terry and portions of Lynn and Dawson counties; making an appropriation.
SB 582 Caption: Relating to authorizing certain organized counties in this State to refund the legally outstanding warrants and scrip indebtedness of such counties incurred prior to January 1st, 1929.
SB 585 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to delinquent taxes and the fees of officers in connection with same.
SCR 42 Caption: Requesting the House to return S. J. R. No. 17 to the Senate for further consideration.
SCR 46 Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the amounts earned and retained by certain officers of the State.
SJR 16 Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing the office of County Treasurer.
SJR 17 Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing the fee system of compensation of the offices of County Judge, County Attorney and sheriffs.
SR 33 Caption: Inviting former State Senator W. H. Bledsoe to address the Senate.
SR 35 Caption: Memorializing Congress to give careful attention to products of farm and ranch in making tariff rate.
SR 74 Caption: Adding Q. E. Terrell to pay roll of Senate as Sergeant-at-Arms of the Highway Investigating Committee.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 41 Caption: Relating to placing under the provisions of the general law certain school districts, common or independent, in the levy and collection of local school taxes and in the issuance of bonds.
SB 42 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the re-purchase of public school land forfeited under certain circumstances.
SB 61 Caption: Relating to providing a maximum amount of compensation, salary, fees and commissions for county officers.
SB 87 Caption: Relating to deputy sheriffs in certain counties.
SR 11 Caption: Inviting J. D. Henderson to address the Senate.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 67 Caption: Relating to providing a maximum amount of compensation which certain officers may retain; fixing an effective date of the Act.
SB 82 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Texas Technological College to acquire, operate and manage three boys dormitories and two girls dormitories at the School and to furnish and equip the same.
SB 83 Caption: Relating to appointment of deputy sheriffs, so as to correct the figures in describing the population of certain classes of counties.
SCR 20 Caption: Directing the creation of a legislative committee to investigate the salaries of State officers who are paid in fees.
SR 12 Caption: Inviting W. H. Fuqua to address the Senate.
SR 33 Caption: Inviting Rev. Forbes to address the Senate.
41st 3rd Called Session
SB 17 Caption: Relating to authorizing Lubbock County to convey to the United States of America title to land to be designated as the courthouse square.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 10 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to fees and compensation of county officers.
SB 19 Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to the bonds of county commissioners.
SB 20 Caption: Relating to further regulating the registration of motor vehicles.
SB 21 Caption: Relating to requiring certain independent school districts to contribute to the expense of the county superintendent's office.
SB 22 Caption: Relating to providing for a county depository for trust funds in the possession of County and District Clerks, providing the manner of selection and designation of same and paying out said funds and liability of depository for failure to pay checks drawn on said funds, requiring depositories to receive deposits of said funds and pay checks on same at the county seat, authorizing the Commissioners' Court to require a new bond of depositories, relieving County and District Clerks from liability for said funds upon deposit of same in the depository, making the County liable for the loss of any funds placed in the depository, requiring County and District Clerks having custody of money for more than three days deposited in Court to abide the result of any legal proceeding to deposit same in the depository, providing manner of carrying accounts in the depository and withdrawing same, providing manner of holding trust funds in counties not having a depository for trust funds, prescribing penalties for violation of the Act; providing that the same shall become effective February 10, 1931.
SB 25 Caption: Relating to regulating the compensation of county auditors.
SB 26 Caption: Relating to authorizing a certain portion of the salary of county judges and county commissioners to be paid out of the road and bridge fund and the remainder out of the general fund of the county.
SB 29 Caption: Relating to leasing oil and gas in State prison lands.
SB 30 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide for and regulate applications for parole.
SB 57 Caption: Relating to limiting the power of the Commissioners' Court in making contracts in connection with the collection of delinquent taxes.
SB 58 Caption: Relating to compensation of tax valuation experts.
SCR 4 Caption: Authorizing the Members of the Legislature to attend the reinternment of former Governor Peter Hansborough Bell and his wife at the State Cemetery.
SR 9 Caption: Providing for an increase in the salary of the Senate Doorkeeper.
SR 15 Caption: Inviting Mrs. James H. Goodman to address the Senate.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 5 Caption: Relating to amending the law in regard to applications for parole.
SB 6 Caption: Relating to further regulating the registration of motor vehicles.
SB 7 Caption: Relating to providing that when any insurance company shall fail or refuse to pay losses within a certain time after demand has been made therefor, the person entitled to receive such insurance shall be entitled to recover twelve per cent damages on the amount.
SB 44 Caption: Relating to salaries of county judges and county commissioners.
SB 74 Caption: Relating to validating all elections, election orders, election proceedings and city ordinances annexing certain territory.