Legislation authored by Alvin Jacob Wirtz
Includes legislation with Alvin Jacob Wirtz as the primary author for the 38th 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 | |
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| SB 62 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Hays County, Texas. |
| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to providing that private corporations may be formed for any lawful purpose. |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of oil and gas in and on University lands. |
| SB 109 | Caption: Relating to the licensing of motor vehicle Operators and Chauffeurs and to the liability of certain persons for negligence in the operation of motor vehicles; providing for issuance of licenses, revocation thereof, forbidding driving by persons without licenses; providing penalties. |
| SB 110 | Caption: Relating to providing that private corporations may be formed for any lawful purpose or purposes. |
| SB 111 | Caption: Relating to providing that liens for street improvements created by written contract of the owner or owners of land, or any interest therein, shall be superior liens upon such improvements and providing for the enforcement thereof. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to the Collateral security to be pledged by depositories for securing County Funds. |
| SB 113 | Caption: Relating to the investment of the permanent school fund by the State Board of Education by providing for the purchase by said board of bonds of the United States, the State of Texas, the bonds of counties of the State of Texas, the bonds of the independent school districts of Texas, and of the common school districts of said State, and the bonds of any incorporated city or town, and the bonds of road precincts of any county of the State of Texas, and the bonds of any drainage, irrigation, navigation and levee districts of any county or counties of Texas, and the obligations and pledges of the University of Texas. |
| SB 114 | Caption: Relating to the collateral security to be pledged by depositories for securing state funds, by depositing a depository bond with the state treasurer or by pledging with the State Treasurer bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the United States, obligations of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas issued under authority of Article 2529 Revised Civil Statutes of Texas 1925, bonds issued by banks or organized under the Federal Farm Loan Act located in Texas, Bonds of Counties, independent school districts and common school districts located in Texas, and bonds issued by municipal corporations in Texas. |
| SB 115 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation all obligations and pledges of the University of Texas. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of architecture; creating a Board of Architectural Examiners. |
| SB 252 | Caption: Relating to creating an advisory civil judicial council of the continuous study, investigation and report upon the civil judicial system of the State, its administration, procedure and functioning gathering of civil judicial statistics. |
| SB 253 | Caption: Relating to defining blacklisting, defining discrimination against persons seeking employment, requiring statements in writing from corporations and receivers to employees voluntarily leaving their employment, and requiring further that copies of statements shall be given to employees who have lost or are otherwise deprived of the use of the originals, prescribing what facts shall be set out in all such statements. |
| SB 263 | Caption: Relating to creating the State Labor and Industrial Commission of Texas. |
| SB 294 | Caption: Relating to defining group life insurance. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to making better provision for the regulation of the sale and dealings in stocks, bonds and securities in the State; prescribing penalties and making appropriations. |
| SB 396 | Caption: Relating to granting permission to H.E. Crofts to bring suit against the State of Texas for damages for the loss of 101 head of cattle. |
| SB 446 | Caption: Relating to extending oil and gas permits and combinations thereof issued on University lands. |
| SB 504 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing that political parties shall have power to prescribe qualifications of its own members and determine who shall be qualified to vote or otherwise participate in such political party. |
| SB 517 | Caption: Relating to appropriating to the University of Texas all inheritance taxes to be assessed against the Estate of E.D. Farmer to be held and administered by said Board of Regents as a special fund to be known as the E.D. Farmer International Scholarship Fund. |
| SB 572 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Governor to deposit certain funds held by him as trustee for the National Guard of Texas with the State Treasurer, and authorizing the expenditure of such fund by the Adjutant General. |
| SB 583 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to provide more fully the method and form of submitting causes upon special issues. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Adopting the Joint Rules of the 41st Legislature. |
| SCR 40 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return House Bill No. 556 to the Senate for further consideration. |
| SCR 44 | Caption: Granting Harrison Engineering and Construction Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SJR 7 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the Permanent University Fund shall be invested in bonds of the United States, the State of Texas or Counties of said State. |
| SR 1 | Caption: Providing the seats and desks for the Senators. |
| SR 2 | Caption: Adopting the Rules of the 40th Legislature as the temporary rules for the 41st Legislature. |
| SR 3 | Caption: Directing the creation of committees to notify the Governor and the House that the Senate is organized. |
| SR 10 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to plan a Memorial Service for the late State Senators I. D. Fairchild and H. F. Triplett. |
| SR 13 | Caption: Adding Senator Gainer to the Committee on Highways and Motor Traffic. |
| SR 37 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to make an investigation of new text books set to be adopted by the State Textbook Commission. |
| SR 65 | Caption: Memorializing the former State Senator I. D. Fairchild. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the Administrative Judicial Districts. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to service of process when sheriff is an interested party; amending a certain Statute. |
| SB 52 | Caption: Relating to creating an advisory Civil Judicial Council for the continuous study and investigation of and report upon the Civil Judicial System of the State, its administration, procedure and functioning. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to accept and hold in trust for the University a gift form the Executor of the will of E.D. Farmer, Deceased, for the purpose of establishing an international scholarship fund; appropriating certain funds to the University of Texas. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Authoring the Legislature to adjourn from April 24 to April 29, 1929. |
| SCR 4 | Caption: Providing for bound editions of the Legislative Manual be printed and distributed to certain members of the press. |
| SR 1 | Caption: Adopting and amending the Senate Rules. |
| SR 18 | Caption: Directing the transmission of a report b the Text Book Investigating Committee to the office of the Attorney General. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to making better provision for the regulation of the sale and dealings in stocks, bonds and securities; prescribing penalties and making appropriations. |
| SB 95 | Caption: Relating to providing that the compensation of the Tax Commissioner of the State of Texas shall be such amount as may be provided for by the legislature in appropriation bills. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the official court reporter in certain judicial districts; prescribing the manner of payment of such salary. |
| SB 103 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the court reporter in certain Judicial Districts. |
| SB 104 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the court reporter in certain judicial districts. |
| SB 124 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in certain districts. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in each judicial district in this State containing five or more counties having a combined population, according to the Fourteenth Census of the United States, of the year 1920, of not less than 98,740 nor in excess of 98,750. |
| SB 174 | Caption: Relating to providing for changing terms and times of holding courts in the 22nd Judicial District of Texas |
| SB 187 | Caption: Relating to providing for the determination of the taxable value of property. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Condemning the Republican Party for its failure to enact adequate federal farm relief. |
| 41st 3rd Called Session | |
| SR 5 | Caption: Directing the Board of Control to admit Fannie Russell Dunlap to the State Home for the Widows of Confederate Soldiers. |
| 41st 4th Called Session | |
| SB 6 | Caption: Relating to exempting estates of minors in certain cases from all fees, charges, costs and commissions allowed by law. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for changing and prescribing terms and times of holding courts in the 22nd Judicial District of Texas. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Requesting the House to return S. B. No. 33 to the Senate for further consideration. |
| SR 2 | Caption: In memory of former State Senator Quintus U. Watson. |
| 40th Regular Session | |
| SB 218 | Caption: Relating to providing that all policies hereafter written by any fraternal benefit society doing business in this State shall provide that no change thereafter made in any of the by-laws of the constitution of such society shall in any way affect the liability of such society under its policy and the constitution and by-laws as they existed at the time such policy was issued. |
| SB 281 | Caption: Relating to regulating the election of trustees in independent school districts heretofore created by special act of the Legislature, prescribing their number, the method of their election, their terms of office and duties, the method of filing vacancies in the school board. |
| SB 301 | Caption: Relating to providing for the introduction in evidence of the originals or certified copies of recorded instruments which have been proved or acknowledged in accordance with law without proving their execution. |
| SB 302 | Caption: Relating to providing that where a plea of not guilty is followed by a special plea, this shall in no case confine the proof to the matters specifically pleaded. |
| SB 303 | Caption: Relating to providing that a person having peaceable and adverse possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments, the title to which has passed out of the State, using and enjoying the same under deed duly recorded constituting a regular chain of title shall have a good marketable title thereto by the Statutes of limitation. |
| SB 344 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns to require a license fee for the use of Motor vehicles for hire within the corporate limits. |
| SB 413 | Caption: Relating to providing for the refund by tax assessors of money paid to tax assessors for assessments of property that are cancelled, or credit secured for same, on account of erroneous assessments, extending the provisions of assessors' bonds to include the performance of said duty, providing for the manner of refunding said money. |
| SB 439 | Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of Chapter Ten, Title 28 of Codes and Statutes and extending the provisions thereof to permit all cities and towns operating under said title to mortgage and encumber sewerage systems, sewerage disposal plants and other accessories and lands and rights of way in connection therewith. |
| SB 443 | Caption: Relating to ratifying and validating an election heretofore held in and throughout Guadalupe County, Texas, upon the question of authorizing the issuance of $752,000.00 Special Road Bonds of said County, and levying a tax in payment thereof. |
| SB 475 | Caption: Relating to providing the force and effect as evidence of instruments conveying or purporting to convey real estate, or any interest therein. |
| SB 477 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Caldwell County, Texas, requiring surety bonds of road overseers, containing provision that said county may fund the legal indebtedness outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of January 1, 1927, setting forth the method of said operation. |
| SCR 1 | Caption: Adopting temporary Rules of the Senate. |
| SR 4 | Caption: Providing for the adoption of temporary Senate Rules. |
| SR 29 | Caption: Establishing with certain addition the permanent rules of the Fortieth Legislature. |
| SR 31 | Caption: Providing for extra compensation for elevator operators for their work on Sundays. |
| SR 71 | Caption: Recalling SB 273 from the House for further consideration. |
| SR 95 | Caption: Appointing Senator Gus Russek to the Finance Committee. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 87 | Caption: Relating to vesting in the State Board of Water Engineers the administration of the laws heretofore administered by the State Reclamation Engineer. |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to creating the State Labor and Industrial Commission of Texas to take over and be vested with the powers, duties, privileges, rights and functions of the Industrial Accident Board and the Industrial Commission of Texas and thus consolidating said Departments into one Commission. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to providing respectively for the selection of County Executive Committees and County Chairman of political parties in Texas whose nominee for the Governor in the preceding General Election received as many as ten thousand votes and less than one hundred thousand votes. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Inviting J.A. Woodward, jurist and father of Senator Woodward, to address the Senate. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| SB 119 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the taking of depositions. |
| SB 150 | Caption: Relating to preventing peculation by public printers, and to prevent public printers from reproducing and disposing of matter printed under public contract and profiting thereby without the consent of the State; defining necessary offenses and fixing the penalty. |
| SB 172 | Caption: Relating to providing the method of preparing statement of facts in all cases appealed or taken up on writ of error, and for the consideration of same by the appellate courts, and for the inclusion therein of bills of exception. |
| SB 174 | Caption: Relating to making the people secure in their persons, homes, papers and possessions, from all unlawful and unreasonable seizures or searches, making it unlawful for any person, or peace officer, or State Ranger to search the private residence, actual place of habitation, place of business, person or possessions of any person without having first obtained a search warrant as required by law. |
| SB 221 | Caption: Relating to providing that no life insurance company shall be required to invest, or keep invested, in Texas securities, any part of the aggregate amount of the legal reserve required by the laws of the State of its domicile to be maintained on account of its policies of insurance in force, written upon the live of citizens of this State, and which reserve I denominated as its Texas reserve. |
| SB 276 | Caption: Relating to providing for male persons under the age of seventeen at the time of commission of a felony to be prosecuted as juvenile delinquents. |
| SB 277 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to highway officers so as to require the wearing of uniform and badges, and requiring such officers to patrol the public highways in the performance of their duties. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to providing for the fees of district attorneys in certain judicial districts in this State. |
| SB 349 | Caption: Relating to the appropriation and use of water and providing that such water may, in addition to other uses, be appropriated and used for purposes of public parks, game preserves, recreation and pleasure resorts, power and water supply for industrial purposes and domestic use. |
| SB 387 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing that employees designated may hear the evidence adduced at a hearing upon the establishment of rates under said statute, and for such purpose hall have the power to administer oath to the witnesses, compel their attendance, and the production of papers, waybills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony; providing that in the trial of such cause the findings and order of the commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. |
| SB 388 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so that the provisions of said statute apply to and effect the transportation of passengers and freight by gasoline or electric motor cars over steam railroads between points within this State. |
| SB 462 | Caption: Relating to making a supplementary appropriation to pay for work to be carried on in the Engineering Experiment Station at the University of Texas for the years beginning September 1, 1925, and ending August 31, 1927. |
| SJR 17 | Caption: Proposing an amendment eliminating the provision that the State Board of Education shall set aside a sufficient amount out of the State Taxes to provide for free text books for the use of public schools; providing that the Commissioners' Courts of the several counties may provide free text books. |
| SR 44 | Caption: Relating to portrait of General Beaumont B. Buck. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Relating to making the necessary arrangement for stenographers to report to the hearings of the Penitentiary Investigating Committee. |
| SR 69 | Caption: Inviting Colonel Simpkins to address the Senate. |
| SR 79 | Caption: Relating to the report of the Senate committee on the penitentiary hearing. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 7 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Guadalupe County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Guadalupe County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 9 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three (3), in Guadalupe County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Guadalupe County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Five (5), in Guadalupe County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three-B (3-B), in Hays County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), of Blanco County, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), of Blanco County, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 3, of Blanco County, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 16 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 4, of Blanco County, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 5, of Blanco County, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 302 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute creating Smiley Independent School District in Gonzales County, Texas. |
| SB 312 | Caption: Relating to providing for exemption from taxation lands and other property used exclusively for the purpose of operating and maintaining demonstration farms, when such property is not used for profit and the net income thereof is used for charitable purposes; amending certain acts. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 6 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to investigate certain allegations made by Hull Youngblood. |
| SCR 10 | Caption: Expressing opposition to the release of the annual cotton crop report by the Dept. of Agriculture at an irregular time. |
| SR 25 | Caption: Accepting the resignation of Anne Allen as postmistress of the Senate; appointing Reese Williamson as the new postmistress. |
| SR 30 | Caption: Inviting C. F. Richards to address the Senate. |
| SR 32 | Caption: Directing that certain state officials follow the orders laid out in the committee recommendations relating to the awarding of contracts for educational textbooks within the State; requesting the opinion of the Attorney General on certain issues of compliance. |
| SR 33 | Caption: Inviting former State Sen. James A. Harley to address the Senate. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Protesting the passage of the bill passed by the Second Called Legislature relating to the execution of inmates using electrocution. |
| SCR 13 | Caption: Recommending that the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Texas be taught in every school within the state. |