Legislation authored by Ed Westbrook

Includes legislation with Ed Westbrook as the primary author for the 31st through 41st 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.

41st Regular Session
SB 129	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities, providing for the regulation of rates to be charged by public utilities for services rendered.
SB 130	Caption: Relating to providing for nine members of the Board of Regents of the State Teachers Colleges instead of six members.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, his assistants, deputies and inspectors.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to better regulating the making of returns and canvassing the result in primary elections.
SB 235	Caption: Relating to providing that at least one-half of all taxes levied for the State, County, common school Districts, road districts or political subdivisions of the county upon an ad valorem basis for the year of 1929 and every year thereafter shall become due on the 31st day of December of the year for which the same are levied.
SB 308	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to provide for the immediate construction of one fireproof library building at the East Texas State Teacher's College of Texas.
SB 418	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws requiring lis pendens notices to be filed upon the filing of any suit or action involving the title to real estate.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to requiring trustees of public school districts to provide a suitable United States flag for each school building in the district; prescribing a penalty.
SB 511	Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an agricultural experiment station in the ninth Senatorial District of Texas, authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to select a suitable location for said station, and empowering said Board of Directors to establish and maintain the same, to accept donations of land, water, and money for the establishing of said station, and for the operation of same.
SB 512	Caption: Relating to requiring the collection of statistical information through the county tax assessors relating to agriculture.
SB 592	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation and fees of the office of the Tax Assessor and of the Tax Collector in Fannin County, Texas.
SCR 49	Caption: Requesting the House to return H.B. No. 736 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections.
SR 11	Caption: Providing the appointment of the members of the enrolling and engrossing departments.
SR 43	Caption: Directing the transfer of personnel to the enrolling and engrossing room.
SR 79	Caption: Amending the Senate Rules to limit speeches to 20 minutes.
SR 82	Caption: Inviting James D. Buster to address the Senate.
SR 107	Caption: Providing for additional post Session employment of the Sergeant-at-Arms and adding Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to requiring trustees of public school districts to provide a suitable United States flag for each school building of the district; providing a penalty.
SB 40	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; requiring lis pendens notices to be filed upon the filing of any suit or action involving the title to real estate or seeking to establish any interest or right therein.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to school teachers and teacher's certificates.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to regulating the compensation of guardians; amending a certain Statute.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to regulating the compensation of executors, administrator and testamentary trustees; amending a certain Statute.
SR 22	Caption: In memory of in memory of Frank P. Smith.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 58	Caption: Relating to school teachers and teacher's certificates; amending a certain Statute.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to requiring trustees of public school districts to provide a suitable United States flag for each school building of the district; prescribing a penalty.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to requiring lis pendens notices to be filed upon the filing of certain suits or actions; amending a certain Statute.
41st 3rd Called Session
SR 9	Caption: Inviting former State Senator J. J. Strickland to address the Senate.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to increase the amount of the fee of each justice of the peace for each criminal action tried and finally disposed of before him.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to fixing certain fees of constables.
SB 13	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the county commissioners of certain counties according to the latest approved tax rolls.
SR 22	Caption: In memory of former State Senator Dan S. McMillin.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 73	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the county commissioners of certain counties according to the latest approved tax rolls of the county.
40th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to requiring all corporations, firms, dealers, and persons selling or exposing for sale, by wholesale or retail, any goods, wares, merchandise, or articles manufactured, produced or made, in whole or in part, in any penitentiary or by any convicts or prisoners or persons serving sentence to have upon the container for such goods a label clearly showing in what institution such were manufactured.
SB 69	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish, maintain and enforce quarantine regulations to protect the agricultural and horticultural interests of this State against infestation by insect pests and plant diseases; providing penalties.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to providing that no judgment of a trial court shall be reversed for any error which manifestly did no injury to defendant.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to providing that indictments or informations may be amended under Circumstances that will not surprise or injure the defendant.
SB 143	Caption: Relating to damages by libel, mitigation of damages occasioned by libel, and the defenses in causes of action for libel, and defining privileged matters.
SB 198	Caption: Relating to granting permission to A. E. Rendall and wife A. A. Rendall and minor son, Elmer Rendall, to sue the State of Texas for any damages growing out of injuries received by the said Elmer Rendall while riding on a road scraper owned and operated by the State Highway Department of Texas while operating on East Cherry Street in the city of Sherman, in Grayson County, Texas
SB 312	Caption: Relating to amending Article 6701, Revised Statutes, 1925, Section 1 to 28 passed at the regular Session of the thirty-ninth Legislature by adding a new Article to be entitled Article 6702-A.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to making invalid intrastate sales in this State of prison made goods, wares, merchandise and articles, and declaring that no action shall be brought in this State to enforce the collection or payment of money or other thing of value pursuant to any such sale, unless there is attached to the container or package thereof and upon each and every individual garment or article of such goods so sold a plain and distinct label in the English language containing the printed words "Prison Made Merchandise".
SB 359	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, barter, transport, exchange, give away, or otherwise furnish, or to possess, advertise, or solicit the purchase or sale of any malt syrup or other malt preparation that is intended for or which may be used, or primarily is used in making any alcoholic beverage; prescribing penalties.
SB 367	Caption: Relating to requiring all assignments for creditors to be recorded in the deed records of the county of the assignor's residence within three days after the execution thereof.
SB 378	Caption: Relating to requiring lis pendens notices to be filed upon the filing of any suit or action involving the title to real estate or seeking to establish any interest or right therein or to enforce any lien, charge or encumbrance against the same.
SB 379	Caption: Relating to workman's compensation; amending certain laws so as to provide for penalties and attorneys fees where there is delay in paying of awards mentioned in said article after appeal or suit brought upon same and in which there is a final decision in favor of the claimant.
SCR 2	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to count votes for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
SR 14	Caption: Providing for pre-session pay for Sergeant-at-Arms A.W. Holt.
SR 21	Caption: Appointing Senator Real of Kerr to the Committee on Labor.
SR 22	Caption: Appointing Senator Hall to the Committee of Labor.
SR 68	Caption: Appointing Audrey Wilborn to aid in engrossing and enrolling work.
40th 1st Called Session
SCR 1	Caption: Requesting that all State Departments close for the cyclone relief ball game.
39th 1st Called Session
SB 51	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three (3), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eight (8), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Nine (9), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eleven (11), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fourteen (14), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twelve (12), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Five (5), in Fannin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 301	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the fees collected on or after September 1, 1926, or to be collected from employment agencies which fees are paid under the statutes of this State upon the issuance of licenses to employment agents by the Commissioner of Labor.
36th Regular Session
SB 120	Caption: Relating to preventing the control of Primary Elections by the use of money, and to regulate and limit the expenditure of money to promote or defeat the candidacy of persons for nomination for office in primary elections in this State, and providing penalties for violation of this Act.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State Government for the fiscal years ending August 31st, 1913; August 31st, 1915; August 31st, 1916; and August 31st, 1918.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover authorized deficiencies for the fiscal years, ending August 31, 1918, and August 31, 1919, and for outstanding deficiencies prior to September 1, 1917.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to creating a State Board to be known as the State Board of control, providing that the board shall be composed of three citizens of the State, and the method of appointment, defining the method of qualifying such officers, fixing their terms of office and compensation; defining the duties and conferring authority on the board; creating and defining offenses for violations of the Act and prescribing the punishment therefor.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to providing that statement of facts in civil cases shall be filed in the Courts of Civil Appeals within ninety (90) day after an appeal has been perfected or the adjournment of the court at which the case was tried.
SB 183	Caption: Relating to prescribing that in all cases where the same is allowed, that writs of error be sued out within six months after the rendition of final judgment.
SB 217	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes providing for the appointment by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, if in session, an official to be styled the Assistant Attorney General.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to permit married women to become subscribers, stockholders, officers and directors of corporations.
SB 379	Caption: Relating to requiring all public schools in this State, in addition to the subjects required to be taught therein, to have the subject "Of the Effects of Alcoholic Stimulants and Narcotics on the Human System" taught therein regularly during each scholastic year.
SCR 18	Caption: Opposing an increase in the appropriation bill enacted by the previous Legislature.
SCR 26	Caption: Authorizing and directing the Secretary of State to dispose of surplus sets of the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas of 1911.
SJR 14	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the Legislature shall have power to give or lend or authorize the giving or lending of the credit of the state for the purpose of assisting citizens who are heads of families to acquire or improve their homes.
SR 27	Caption: Electing Annie Lee Parks assistant engrossing clerk.
SR 33	Caption: Requiring bills to be referred to proper committee regardless of requests of senators.
SR 48	Caption: Providing for payment of Ruth Nichols for 314 hours of services rendered in proofreading reports and audits of subcommittees.
SR 62	Caption: Inviting former Senator Sam D. Stinson to address the Senate.
SR 69	Caption: Inviting former Senator John G. Willacy to address the Senate.
SR 82	Caption: Endorsing actions of the Governor, commercial organizations, organized farmers, bankers, and others to reduce cotton acreage and to increase food and feed acreage.
36th 1st Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to amend Section 16 of the Act which was passed at the Regular Session of the Thirty-sixth Legislature known as the Board of Control Act so as to provide that it shall become effective Jan. 1, 1920, and not prior to that time.
36th 2nd Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the per diem and mileage of members and per diem of officers and employees of the Second Called Session of the Thirty Sixth Legislature.
SB 2	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the contingent expenses of the Second Called Session of the Thirty Sixth Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay salaries of judges and for the support of the Judicial Department of the State Government.
SB 4	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the salaries of officers and employees at certain Eleemosynary Institutions of the State and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them.
SB 7	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the general revenue for the payment of additional salaries in conformity with the laws passed by the 36th Legislature increasing the salaries of certain judges.
SB 8	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover authorized deficiencies for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1919.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the salaries of Judges of the Commission of Appeals of the State of Texas.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the General Revenue for the several institutions and departments of the Government for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1919.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain Educational Institutions and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the State Government for two years beginning September 1, 1919, and ending August 31, 1921, and for other purposes and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto.
SB 156	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay miscellaneous claims against the State, authorizing the payment of said miscellaneous items on the taking effect of this Act, making additional appropriations for the support of the State Government, for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1920 and August 31, 1921.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment ratifying the Federal Equal Suffrage amendment proposed by the Sixty-sixth congress of the United States, May 19, 1919.
36th 3rd Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the contingent expenses of the Third Called Session of the Thirty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 2	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the per diem and mileage of members, officers and employees of the Third Called Session of the Thirty-sixth Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover authorized deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State government for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1919 and August 31, 1920.
SB 4	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay deficiencies for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1918 and August 31, 1919.
35th Regular Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to defining the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to providing that all persons desiring to marry shall procure a license, and declaring all other marriages null and void.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to the employment of child labor in Texas; providing penalties for violations of the Act and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the Act.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to practice law without license in any court in the State; prescribing a penalty.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to providing that the penalty for the charge or collection of usurious interest shall be the forfeiture of principal as well as interest.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to regulating the hours of service of section men and other persons engaged upon the construction or maintenance of railway tracks or road beds; providing penalties.
SB 231	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Normal School Board of Regents to purchase the properties of the East Texas Normal College located at Commerce in Hunt County, Texas.
SCR 25	Caption: Authorizing correction be made to H.B. No. 502.
SR 47	Caption: Requesting the Comptroller submit to the Senate and itemized statement of all appropriations of each State department from 1915-1916.
SR 49	Caption: Inviting former Senator H.L. Darwin to address the Senate.
SR 57	Caption: Providing for a night session of the Senate for the consideration of local bills.
35th 1st Called Session
SB 76	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Asa Walker County Line Common School District No. 15, in Collin, Grayson and Fannin Counties, Texas.
SR 7	Caption: Inviting former Senator W.J. Townsend to address the Senate.
SR 23	Caption: Inviting Tom W. Perkins to address the Senate.
35th 4th Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from soliciting any person engaged, employed or enlisted in the military or naval service to meet with any lewd woman for the purpose of prostitution and making such offense a felony.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to creating a State Board of control and fixing its duties, etc. and consolidating various departments of government.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that no candidate at a primary election for a State or District office shall be declared the nominee of any political party unless he is legally qualified to hold such office, has complied with all requirements of law and received a majority of the votes cast at such primary election.
34th Regular Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to requiring the chairman of the county executive committee of any political party in the state to make due returns of the canvas of any election held to nominate party candidates; fixing the time in which such returns shall be made; providing penalties.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to requiring hotels, cafes, restaurants and all public eating houses in this State to sterilize in hot boiling water, all plates, cups, saucers, knives, forks, spoons and such other utensils as may be used in serving meals and drinks, after being used and before permitting them to be used again.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for a Senator or Representative in the Texas Legislature to receive employment, fees, gifts, loans or compensation as officer, agent, representative or attorney from certain corporations or persons; prescribing penalties.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute with reference to the qualification of County judges in the State.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that the penalty for the charge or collection of usurious interest shall be the forfeiture of principal as well as interest.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that all persons desirous of marrying shall procure a license and declaring all marriages contracted, entered into or celebrated in any other manner null and void.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to creating a special and more efficient road system for Collin county, in the State of Texas.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of the Penal code to provide that the age of consent on the part of the female in cases of rape shall be raised from fifteen to sixteen years.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to amending the special road law of Hunt County to authorize the Commissioners' Court to sell bonds issued thereunder for less than par and accrued interest if, after the exercise of reasonable diligence, same cannot be sold for par and accrued interest.
SB 163	Caption: Relating to prohibiting railroads from allowing the use of locomotives which produce sufficient steam to obscure the vision of those employed around them.
SB 201	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code providing that if any officer, agent, clerk of any incorporated company or institution, or any clerk, agent, servant, employee, or tenant of any private persons, co-partnership or joint stock association or any consignee or bailee of money or property shall embezzle, misapply or convert to his own use without consent of his principal, employer or landlord; prescribing penalty.
SB 211	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the use of locomotives on railroads allowing sufficient steam to escape to obscure the vision of those operating same or employed around such locomotive; providing penalties.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to requiring railroads to allow at least four days rest in each calendar month to certain employees; providing penalties.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to fixing the time of holding the courts in the Sixty-second Judicial District of Texas, to validate all process, bonds and recognizances heretofore taken in the courts of said district, and all judgments therein rendered, or to be rendered.
SB 333	Caption: Relating to amending a certain General Law providing that all appointments made by the Board of Supervisors of warehouses shall be made by and with the consent of the state.
SB 421	Caption: Relating to creating the Prosper Independent School District in Collin and Denton Counties.
SCR 5	Caption: Condemning the practice of Legislative junketing trips.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for allowing a public officer to be recalled by the electors qualified to vote for his election.
SJR 4	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for initiative and referendum.
SR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Senate Rules.
SR 23	Caption: Endorsing the administration of President Woodrow Wilson.
SR 30	Caption: Appointing State Sen. William Townsend, Jr. to Judiciary Committee No. 2.
SR 47	Caption: Directing that the secretary of each committee make daily reports to the Journal Clerk relating to the action of certain bills.
SR 58	Caption: Recalling S. B. No. 163 from the Committee on Internal Improvements in order to make certain corrections.
SR 68	Caption: Directing the Sergeant-at-arms to detail any person who is loitering in certain privileged locations of the Capitol.
SR 149	Caption: Commending Lieutenant Governor William P. Hobby for his service during the session.
34th 1st Called Session
SB 51	Caption: Relating to creating the Point Independent School District of Rains County.
SCR 2	Caption: Expressing confidence in the abilities of President Woodrow Wilson to respond to the sinking of the Lusitania and the Gulflight.
SR 5	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate the appropriation of certain funds to the Health Department.
SR 17	Caption: Inviting former Speaker of the House John Marshall to address the Senate.
SR 18	Caption: Requesting the Governor to add the issue of anti-lobbying legislation to the Call of the Special Session.
33rd Regular Session
SB 41	Caption: Relating to providing that the penalty for the charge or collection of usurious interest shall be the forfeiture of principal as well as interest.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to amending statutes, providing for the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, and party political electors, and the election of delegates to the National convention of the respective political parties of this State, to be chosen by a direct preferential primary.
SB 71	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for a Senator or Representative to receive employment, fees, gifts, loans or compensation as officer, agent, representative, or attorney from certain corporations or persons and prescribing penalties therefor.
SB 193	Caption: Relating to limiting the amount that may be spent by candidates for nomination to any public office; to provide that no candidate shall expend more that 25% of the first year's salary of the office for which he is a candidate, in his campaign for the nomination to such office; fixing penalty.
SB 279	Caption: Relating to requiring persons, firms, corporations and associations of persons engaged in compressing cotton in this State to so bind and tie all bales of cotton so that no bale of cotton by them compressed, recompressed, baled or rebaled shall be delivered to any railroad company or other common carrier, unless the same is free from dangerously exposed ends of bands, buckles or splices and to provide penalty.
SB 280	Caption: Relating to providing for the referendum to qualified voters, whereby the members of any political party residing therein may express their choice for a candidate to be recommended for appointment as postmaster.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to amending article 4610 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, providing that all persons desirous of marrying shall procure a license authorizing its celebration, and declaring all marriages contracted, entered into or celebrated in any other manner null and void.
33rd 1st Called Session
SB 27	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of attachments in suits founded in tort and upon un-liquidated demands.
33rd 3rd Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to establishing "The Bank of Texas," and defining its purpose and method of organization; defining the powers and authority and providing that it shall be the fiscal agent of the state.
SB 7	Caption: Relating to bringing about a reduction in the cotton acreage for the year 1915; prescribing certain duties for the attorney general and district and county attorneys; prescribing penalties.