Legislation authored by Edgar Earnest Witt

Includes legislation with Edgar Earnest Witt as the primary author for the 34th 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 173	Caption: Relating to authorizing every private corporation to increase or diminish by vote of its stockholders cast as its by-laws may direct, the number of its Directors or Trustees, such number however, to be not less than three.
SB 198	Caption: Relating to establishing and maintaining an agricultural experiment station in the Blacklands region of Texas, authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and mechanical College of Texas to select a suitable location for said station.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of official shorthand court reporters in Judicial Districts in counties which alone constitute two or more Judicial Districts, in addition to transcript fees which such reporters receive under the Law.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of the county tax collector for his services in connection with the registration of motor vehicles and issuing licenses therefor.
SB 201	Caption: Relating to the bond of the county tax collectors; making better provision for such bonds; requiring the county to pay a reasonable amount as the premium on such bonds.
SB 202	Caption: Relating to better providing for confederate and other pensions as provided for in the recent constitutional amendment.
SB 220	Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of Local Mutual Aid Associations paying a death benefit operating an insurance business and paying benefits, where funds are provided by assessments on members.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to and regulating the furnishing of free textbooks for the public free schools of this State.
SB 222	Caption: Relating to weights and measures.
SB 256	Caption: Relating to fixing compensation for County Tax Assessors in certain counties.
SB 273	Caption: Relating to providing better rules in reference to the findings of fact and conclusions of law in the District or County Court.
SB 274	Caption: Relating to providing for applications for writs of error to be referred to a section of the Commission of Appeals, to be reported in writing to the Supreme Court.
SB 307	Caption: Relating to providing for the conducting of the business of public warehousemen and warehouses defining the same; providing for penalties.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to making better provisions for free text books to be used in the public schools of this state.
SB 348	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles making it unlawful to buy, sell, possess or transport any fresh water crappie or bass within the state; prescribing penalties.
SB 349	Caption: Relating to financial management and control of any incorporated city or town that has or may hereafter default in payment of bonds or other obligations.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to defining building and loan associations, providing for their incorporation and prescribing the terms, conditions and regulations upon which such companies may carry on their business in Texas; prescribing penalties.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to allowances for Federal prisoners.
SB 384	Caption: Relating to validating organization of certain independent school districts and validating the board of trustees of same, and providing that they shall have the powers conferred by the laws of this State applicable to such Districts.
SB 402	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws defining an attempt at arson and providing a penalty.
SB 403	Caption: Relating to providing that no action shall be brought in any court to charge a person upon a promise or agreement to pay a debt which has been discharged in bankruptcy.
SB 404	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Limestone County to issue bonds of said county for the purpose of funding and refunding indebtedness incurred for Road and Bridge purposes and to levy a tax in payment thereof, providing limitations upon the issuance of warrants for road and bridge purposes and exceptions therefrom.
SB 421	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of official bonds by a married woman holding public office.
SB 427	Caption: Relating to establishing an Art Commission for the State of Texas.
SB 441	Caption: Relating to prescriptions of physicians for intoxicating liquor and records of druggists relating thereto.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to authorizing banks to pay out of funds of deceased persons funereal and burial expenses under certain circumstances.
SB 490	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for incorporation for the establishment, support and maintenance of automobile clubs.
SB 494	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws and authorizing the Board of Insurance Commissioners to prescribe the maximum rates of commission which shall be payable by any stock fire insurance company; prescribing penalties.
SB 496	Caption: Relating to authorizing incorporated cities and towns to levy a street tax.
SB 514	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws for the purpose of fixing adequate compensation of the members of the State Board of Water Engineers and of the Reclamation Engineer of the State of Texas.
SB 561	Caption: Relating to requiring boards, commissions and governing or administrative bodies in this State to hold their sessions or meetings open to the public when attending to public business.
SB 604	Caption: Relating to granting W.C. Davis permission to sue the State for certain injuries perceived while employed by the State Highway Commission.
SCR 22	Caption: Memorializing Congress to include oil in its rescheduling of tariffs.
SCR 33	Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to adjourn Sine Die.
SCR 43	Caption: Granting W. C. Davis permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 16	Caption: Providing for an increase in the salary of the Assistant Journal Clerk.
SR 51	Caption: Commending. Archer M. Huntington for donation of land for a museum on the campus of the University of Texas.
SR 96	Caption: Postpone indefinitely H. B. No. 495.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 9	Caption: Relating to validating the sale of real estate by Executors and Administrators in certain circumstances.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to discrimination and other practices in connection with the sale of life insurance policies so as to better regulate the sale of stock, bonds and other securities in connection with life insurance policies; providing for a penalty for the violation thereof.
SB 105	Caption: Relating to the selection of jurors in certain counties.
SB 106	Caption: Relating to regulating commercial aircraft and airmen in connection therewith; requiring commercial aircraft to be licensed and registered under Federal laws and regulations; prescribing penalties.
SB 115	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for McLennan County, Texas, defining certaom powers and duties; providing penalties.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to enacting proper provisions for the making of transcripts in civil cases without cost where the appellant or plaintiff in error has made the proof required to appeal his case without bond.
SCR 11	Caption: Granting W. C. Davis permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 13	Caption: Providing for the purchase of new flags, bunting, and draperies to display over the Senate Rostrum.
SR 27	Caption: Providing for post-session employment of certain employees.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 31	Caption: Relating to financial management and control of any incorporated city or town that has, or may hereafter, default in payment of bonds or other obligations lawfully issued thereby; prescribing powers and duties of receiver.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to requiring the owner of every motor vehicle to acquire certificate of title; imposing penalties.
SB 111	Caption: Relating to defining building and loan associations, providing for their corporation and prescribing the terms, conditions and regulations upon which such companies may carry on their business in Texas.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to require County School Trustees to abolish Rural High School districts when petitioned so to do by a majority of the voters residing in such Districts.
SB 188	Caption: Relating to repeal of certain road law.
SCR 5	Caption: Granting W. C. Davis permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 9	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to attend the funeral of Maurice Barker McFarlane.
SR 22	Caption: Providing for the purchase of suitable frames for the paintings of "The Siege of the Alamo" and "The Battle of San Jacinto" which hang at the back of the Senate Chamber.
SR 32	Caption: Providing post Session work for certain employees of the Senate.
41st 3rd Called Session
SCR 6	Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to adjourn Sine Die.
SR 7	Caption: Providing post Session work for employees of the Senate.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to providing for the reorganization of the penitentiary of the State of Texas; making an appropriation.
SCR 13	Caption: Directing the Governor and appropriate State Agencies to utilize prison labor in the construction of roads leading to a future state park in the Davis Mountains.
SR 26	Caption: In memory of J. M. Alderdice.
SR 30	Caption: Discharging H. B. No. 2 from Conference Committee.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 69	Caption: Relating to giving borrowers full credit for all payments made on stock and preserving the contract time for payment of all loans.
SCR 7	Caption: Congratulating the city of Waco on the construction of the Bosque River Dam.
SR 2	Caption: Inviting J. G. H. Buck to address the Senate.
40th Regular Session
SB 32	Caption: Relating to fix the number of members composing the governing bodies of the higher educational institutions in Texas and their terms of office, fixing the number of each said bodies at ten, by whatever name called whether regents, trustees, directors or otherwise and the term to b served at ten years, prescribing the qualifications of such members and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to the State Board of Education, providing for the appointment of the members of said board, prescribing their qualifications, term of service and duties.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to require each county in this State to levy a county school tax in such sum as the State Board of Education may require, not to exceed fifty cents on the Hundred Dollar taxable property valuations in such county; requiring said board of education of fix and certify such rate and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to the creation of the Free Textbook Commission and defining its powers, now constituting Articles 2843 and 2860 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to requiring the State Board of Education and the board of trustees of each school district in the State, to provide sufficient funds to pay current expenses and obligations incurred in the operation of the public free schools under their jurisdiction.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to providing for the apportionment and distribution of the public free school funds; requiring the same to be so apportioned as to maintain at least six months school in every public free school of the State.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to authorize the establishment and operation of junior colleges, under certain limitations, prohibiting the use of funds received from the State available school fund for such purposes, prohibiting the use of other state funds for such purposes unless specifically appropriated therefor.
SB 39	Caption: Relating to authorizing trustees of common school districts and of independent school districts having fewer than five hundred scholastics, according to the last preceding census in a year ending in 0 or in a 5 to make contracts with teachers upon nominations made by the county superintendent.
SB 40	Caption: Relating to providing for the separation of all public free school affairs in cities or towns from the municipal government therein; providing for the election of seven trustees to constitute the Board of Education.
SB 41	Caption: Relating to changing the name of the college of Industrial Arts to "Texas State College for Women" and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to authorizing and limiting the power of the trustees of common school districts to contract for the erection of school buildings.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to create a State Board of Higher Education, to consist of eight members; fixing their term of office; prescribing their qualifications and duties.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to the election of county school trustees, fixing the terms of such trustee at five years; prescribing their duties; defining their territorial jurisdiction and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to the duties of the county board of trustees of the public schools of this State, authorizing them to condemn land for school purposes; to subdivide their respective counties into convenient school districts.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to providing for the election of county superintendents of public education by the county boards of trustees; prescribing the duties and qualifications of county superintendents.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to the election of trustees in all independent school districts in this State; fixing the number of trustees in each of such districts at five; prescribing their qualifications and duties.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of the trustees of common school district and of independent school districts having fewer than five hundred scholastics, according to the last proceeding census in a year ending in 0 or in 5.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to providing that incorporated school districts having fewer than five hundred scholastics, according to the last preceding census in a year ending in 0 or in 5, shall be governed in the general administration of their schools by the laws applying to common school districts.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to providing for the election of trustees in common school districts; fixing their term of office at three years; prescribing their qualifications and duties and repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to formation of independent school districts.
SB 148	Caption: Relating to providing for the election of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction by the State Board of Education to serve for a term of five years.
SB 191	Caption: Relating to improvement, navigation, drainage, road or irrigation districts, and other character of districts, having for their purpose the expenditure of public funds for improvement purposes or for improvements of any kind.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to prescribing that physical education courses approved by the State Department of Education shall be taught in the public schools of Texas.
SB 208	Caption: Relating to the creation of the office of county superintendent of schools and providing salary and office and traveling expenses.
SB 209	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of fees and compensation to the District and County Attorneys and other Officers, for services rendered in the trial and disposition of cases arising under the Juvenile laws relating to "Dependent" and "Neglected" children as provided in Title 43 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925.
SB 210	Caption: Relating to providing that no property or any interest therein shall be subjected to any further inheritance tax as provided in Chapter 5 of Title 122 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 within five years after such property has become subjected to such tax.
SB 211	Caption: Relating to prescribing that physical education courses approved by the State Department of Education shall be taught in the public schools of Texas; providing for the certification of teachers of physical education.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of McLennan County, defining the jurisdiction of said Court.
SB 240	Caption: Relating to providing for the manner of rendition of real estate for taxes, giving a description of the value of the land and improvements separately.
SB 255	Caption: Relating to the Workmen's Compensation Law, by adding thereto an additional section, to be entitled Section 6, said additional section providing that municipal corporations within this State shall be entitled to become subscribers under the terms and provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Law.
SB 256	Caption: Relating to provide for the organization or admission and the regulation and taxation of Incorporated Mutual Insurance Companies.
SB 257	Caption: Relating to public lands and amending Articles 5338 and 5310 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, the former so as to include unsurveyed public school, university and asylum lands, as well as all lands sold in which the State owns the minerals.
SB 258	Caption: Relating to free textbooks for the public free schools of this State; providing for the setting aside of funds for free textbooks used in the public free schools of this State.
SB 329	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Cleo Fletcher to bring suit against the State of Texas, in the district court of Coryell County, Texas, or McLennan County, Texas, for injuries received and the loss of a leg while attending the State Juvenile Training School at Gatesville, Texas, prescribing the rule of procedure.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to compensation of deputies and assistants of certain district and county officers.
SB 333	Caption: Relating to providing that the State of Texas shall be entitled, as an employer of labor, to become a subscriber under the Workmen's Compensation Act.
SB 334	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of public shorthand reporting, creating an examining board, defining its powers.
SB 362	Caption: Relating to public lands. placing under the terms and provisions of the Permit Law for the development of oil and gas all public free school lands recovered from the Capitol Syndicate and heretofore sold and providing for the payment to the purchaser or owner ten cents per acre, and in addition a royalty equal to the market value of 1/64th of the gross production of oil and gas as an equivalent for his interest therein.
SB 380	Caption: Relating to savings banks; authorizing the investment of the savings deposits of such banks in additional classes of securities.
SB 400	Caption: Relating to amending Articles 3170 and 3171, of the Revised Civil Statutes, 1925, etc.
SB 436	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of fish taken from fresh water streams of certain named counties, and also providing means and methods of taking and possessing fish from fresh water streams in said counties by omitting name of the County of Milam from said list of counties.
SB 465	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain a horticultural and agricultural experiment station at some point within the limits of McLennan County in the State of Texas for the purpose of making scientific investigation and experiment in the growing of truck and other agricultural products.
SB 467	Caption: Relating to validating school districts heretofore created under general laws, local or special Acts, validating proceedings in connection with formation of such districts or relative to bonds thereof; validating bonds issued thereby.
SB 474	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from sale the oil and gas in University land until such time as the Legislature may enact laws deemed adequate to protect the interest of the University in its available and permanent funds, on the condition only that the University mineral lease or sales Act of March 10, 1925, Chapter 71, Acts of Regular Session, 39th Legislature, shall be held invalid or ineffective by the Supreme Court of Texas in suits now pending or that may hereafter be filed.
SCR 5	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Tax Survey Committee.
SCR 7	Caption: Requesting that the district judges of Texas reset all cases in which any member of the Legislature is counsel.
SCR 39	Caption: Expressing appreciation toward the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their gift of a commemorative boulder at Brownsville.
SJR 5	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the term of all offices of the public free school system including State institutions of higher education may be fixed at not to exceed ten years; authorizing the appointment of a State Board of Education.
SR 12	Caption: Inviting contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink to speak or sing before the Senate.
SR 28	Caption: Appointing Senators Floyd and Greer to the Committee on Educational Affairs.
SR 56	Caption: Inviting Lieutenant Governor Lynch Davidson to address the Senate.
SR 79	Caption: Proposing to amend Senate Rule #37.
SR 80	Caption: Inviting Tom Pollard, Jr. to address the Senate; placing him on exhibition.
SR 81	Caption: Inviting the Governor to address the Senate on the good of the State.
40th 1st Called Session
SB 42	Caption: Relating to free textbooks for the public free schools of this State; providing for the setting aside of funds for free textbooks used in the public free schools of this State.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to better providing for the collection of delinquent taxes by providing more adequate compensation for county and district attorneys in connection with delinquent tax suits and delinquent tax collections.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to including independent school districts having not to exceed 250 scholastics within the provisions of Chapter 59, General Laws, Regular Session, 39th Legislature relating to school districts and schools; authorizing such independent school districts to be grouped into and made a part of rural high school districts.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to providing for a system of public education in the State of Texas including the establishment, government, operation, maintenance, management and control of a University and all matters incident thereto.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to providing that no property or any interest therein shall be subjected to any further inheritance tax as provided in Chapter 5 of Title 122 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 within five years after such property has become subjected to such tax.
SCR 4	Caption: Expressing appreciation toward the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their gift of a commemorative boulder at Brownsville.
SCR 5	Caption: Denying heirs of Jose Pablo del Rio and Gregorio Jose del Rio permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 32	Caption: Inviting Congressman Tom Connally to address the Senate.
39th Regular Session
SB 155	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for the election of a county board of trustees in each county of the State.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to what cases the courts of civil appeals shall deliver written opinions in cases pending in such courts.
SB 184	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by providing that all written contracts which may stipulate for a greater rate of interest than 10 per cent per annum shall be void.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to inheritance of property by either husband or wife where either causes the death of the other.
SB 198	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of Superintendent of Public Instruction of McLennan County, and providing for the payment thereof.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to authorize the formation of private corporations with the power to design, purchase and sell building material products and furnishings.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to enlarge and define the rights of a defendant in a writ of sequestration whose goods have been replevied.
SB 224	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute regulating the fees allowed county officers in certain counties in this State.
SB 225	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for a uniform system of textbooks.
SB 234	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating and pertaining to assignments, mortgages and power of attorneys to collect salaries and wages, and requiring such assignments, mortgages or power of attorneys to be signed and acknowledged by the employer.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to increasing and providing for the salary of the superintendent of public instruction of Limestone County, Texas.
SB 284	Caption: Relating to vesting in the University of Texas the title to the property near the intersection of the Nineteenth Street and East Avenue in the City of Austin, Texas, consisting of Outlots Nos. Sixty-four (64) and Seventy-one (71) of Division "E" of said City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, and being the property formerly occupied by the State Blind Institute, excepting all furnishings, fixtures and equipment therein and thereon situated, and authorizing the Board of Control to transfer and use all of said furnishings, fixtures and equipment in any other State institution where needed.
SB 285	Caption: Relating to creating more efficient road system for McLennan County, Texas, making county commissioners of said county ex-officio road commissioners and prescribing their duties as such, and providing for their expenses and compensation as road commissioners, and defining the powers and duties of such county commissioners.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to permit the sale of gasoline and lubricants on Sunday.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to granting power to the Railroad Commission of Texas to supervise and control the taking of natural gas from all gas wells in Texas; providing for rules and regulations for the exercise of said power; providing for the enforcement of the provisions here and any rule or regulation of said Railroad Commission made hereunder.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to granting the Railroad Commission of Texas authority to make and enforce rules and regulations for the Conservation of the oil and gas resources of the state.
SB 405	Caption: Relating to creating the Crawford Independent School District in McLennan County, Texas; defining its boundaries, including the present Crawford Independent School District; providing for a board of trustees in said district, conferring upon said district and its board of trustees all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General Laws of Texas upon independent school districts and the boards of trustees thereof.
SB 419	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the taking of the deposition of parties in civil suits.
SCR 2	Caption: Appointing a committee to count votes in the recent election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
SCR 16	Caption: Relating to the donations and maintenance of state parks.
SR 5	Caption: Appointing a committee for the purpose of informing the Governor and House that the Senate is organized and ready for the transaction of business.
SR 23	Caption: Relating to joint session for the purpose of discussing educational bills with the State Teacher's Association.
39th 1st Called Session
SB 115	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fifteen (15), in Limestone County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 116	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eighteen (18), in Limestone County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 117	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fourteen (14), in Limestone County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Thirteen (13), in Limestone County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 146	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 148	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 149	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Five (5), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 150	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Five (5), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 151	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 152	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Seven (7), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eight (8), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 155	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Nine (9), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 156	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 157	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eleven (11), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 159	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twelve (12), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 160	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fourteen (14), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fourteen (14), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fifteen (15), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 163	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Fifteen (15), in Milam County, Texas.
SB 164	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Sixteen (16), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 165	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-One (21), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Two (22), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 167	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Three (23), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 168	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Four (24), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Five (25), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Six (26), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twenty-Nine (29), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 172	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Thirty (30), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Nineteen (19), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eighteen (18), in Milam County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
38th Regular Session
SB 13	Caption: Relating to extending the term of the Commission of the Appeals of the State of Texas to the last Saturday in June, 1923, and providing for the appointment of judges for said extended term.
SB 14	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering Falls county or a political subdivision thereof, to vote bonds for the purpose of constructing permanent roads.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering The Beaumont and Great Northern Railroad to acquire, own, maintain and operate, all that certain railroad heretofore owned and operated by The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas, which railroad begins at a point in the town of Trinity, in Trinity County, Texas, and extends thence in an easterly direction through and across the counties or parts of counties, of Trinity, Polk and Tyler, to a point in the town of Colmelsneil, in Tyler County, Texas; together with appurtenant franchises and property.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Insurance Commission to give credit for a good fire record made by any city, town, village or locality, and also to authorize the said State Insurance Commission to provide a penalty for a bad fire record made by any city, town, village or locality.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to discouraging, and so far as may be, preventing fire waste in the State, and preventing loss of life through fires, and forbidding over-insurance of property or interest therein against loss by fire.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act so as to provide that aid Act hall not apply to policies of insurance covering upon personal property and to make said Act as amended read as hereinafter set out.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas so as to prevent the reversal of criminal cases by the Court of Criminal Appeals upon technicalities and irregularities.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to providing that any person, firm, corporation, limited partnership, joint stock association or association of any kind whatsoever, owning or holding a permit from the Game, Fish, and Oyster Commissioner of the State of Texas, to excavate and take from anybody of water from this State, certain geological resources, shall have the right and power to condemn land for the purpose of erecting plant sites and plants, railroad spurs, and opening roads and passageways to said plant or place of operations, and providing that the method of condemnation shall be the same as is now provided by law in case of railroads.
SB 131	Caption: Relating to providing that the provisions of certain statute entitled "Aliens" shall not apply to persons, firms, and corporations who have heretofore or who shall hereafter lease or purchase the right to prospect for, develop, and use coal, oil, petroleum, gas and other minerals.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to permitting building and loan associations organized under Chapter 33 of the First Called Session of the Thirty-third Legislature to use the word "savings" in their corporate names and advertising.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to providing for certain sanitary requirements of bottling plants and soft drink stands; prohibiting the use of saccharin in carbonated or still beverages and providing for a penalty.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to creating the West Independent School District in the County of McLennan, State of Texas.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain private corporations to issue shares of its stock without nominal or par value.
SB 186	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in commerce or aide to commerce within this State from directly or indirectly discriminating in price between different purchasers of commodities when same are sold for use.
SB 188	Caption: Relating to creating the Crawford Independent School District in McLennan County, Texas.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to creating the Ninth Supreme Judicial District of Texas, and to creating the Tenth Supreme Judicial District of Texas and to providing for the organization of a Court of Civil Appeals within said Tenth Supreme Judicial District and to repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 261	Caption: Relating to providing that when there is a defect in substance, form or parties in any petition for a writ of error pending before any of the Appellate Courts of this State, the writ of error shall not be dismissed because of such defect until after the plaintiff in error is given an opportunity to cure the same.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to requiring the erection of adequate fire escapes on certain classes of three or more story buildings now or hereafter constructed in this state.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to making unlawful the making or use of false statements in writing respecting the financial condition, or means, or ability to pay, of the person making such false statement.
SB 279	Caption: Relating to recreating the Sharp Independent School District in Milam County, Texas.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to injunctions, restraining orders and other writs.
SB 334	Caption: Relating to providing the requirements of a plea of privilege to be sued in the county of one's residence.
SB 358	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act establishing a Bureau of Vital Statistics for the State Board of Health by providing that in addition to the qualification now required of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, he shall be a thoroughly qualified statistician.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to the filling of vacancies occurring in the office Congressman, United States Senator and state and district offices which are filled by election.
SB 385	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to require the teaching of the History of Texas, the History of the United States, and the subject of Civil Government in the public schools of this State.
SB 386	Caption: Relating to providing for the exclusive use of the English language in the schools of this State as the language of general instruction, providing, however, for the teaching of languages as separate subject in said schools.
SB 387	Caption: Relating to requiring the Board of Trustees of every common, independent or municipal school district to purchase and provide a suitable United States flag and flag pole for each school building in the district.
SB 388	Caption: Relating to providing for the burial of deceased persons who were honorably discharged from the military or naval, or nursing service of the United States, and who were in active service of the United States or any nation allied or associated with the United States at any time during the late World War.
SB 398	Caption: Relating to requiring the teaching of the Constitution of the United States and of this State, including the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals in all the public schools and colleges.
SR 59	Caption: Commemorating the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln.
SR 93	Caption: In memory of former State Senator H. B. Terrell.
38th 2nd Called Session
SB 62	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities to specially illuminate districts thereof, and to construct, install, equip and maintain a system of artificial lights as a local public improvement.
SB 69	Caption: Relating to providing that, where the State of Texas, through the Game, Fish and Oyster Commssioner, has issued a permit to excavate and take from any body of water in the State, at the request of the permit holder, shall have the right and power to condemn land for the purpose of erecting dredges and necessary equipments, railroad spurs, and opening of roads and passage ways to said place of operations.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to creating a Committee on Economy to direct an inquiry into the organization, structure and the manner and methods of administration of the various executive agencies of the State Government.
SCR 19	Caption: Directing the Board of Control to study the feasibility of providing a lunch room within the Capitol Building.
SR 15	Caption: Commending the citizens of the City of Houston for their hospitality during a recent visit by Members of the Legislature.
SR 19	Caption: Inviting former Lt. Gov. Lynch Davidson to address the Senate.
38th 3rd Called Session
SB 37	Caption: Relating to creating the Marlin Independent School District in Falls County, State of Texas, and defining its boundaries; separating the schools from the city of Marlin and divesting the title to school property from the city of Marlin and vesting same, together with other free school property in said district in the board of trustees for said district.
SR 11	Caption: Inviting State Rep. Edith Wilmans to address the Senate.
SR 12	Caption: Inviting former State Sen. Harry Hertzberg to address the Senate.
37th Regular Session
SB 40	Caption: Relating to vehicles on public highways; providing for registration of motor vehicles; directing disposition of licenses fee collected, etc.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain officers of the University of Texas to make certified copies of public records deposited in the library of that institution, and providing that said certified copies shall be lawful and have the same force and effect as if made by the county clerks of the counties from whence the same are transferred.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to putting into effect the amendment to Section 3 of Article 7 of the Constitution, as adopted by vote of the people.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to creating the Court of Industrial Relations; providing for the supervision of public utilities; defining public utilities corporations, etc.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to the proposed amendment to civil statutes relating to trusts and conspiracies against trade.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Board of Medical Examiners of this State to cancel the license of any "Licensed Practitioner of Medicine" when the facts are made known to it that such practitioner has been convicted of the crime of the grade of a felony, and for other reasons.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to providing that freight charges on carload shipments of coal shall be based on actual weight at point of delivery.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to forbidding transactions of business in Texas under an assumed name other than the real name or names of the individuals conducting such business, unless such individuals file in the office of the clerk of the county where such business is to be conducted a certificate containing the names and addresses of such persons.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to providing a Code of Public School Administration.
SB 130	Caption: Relating to amending the present textbook laws for the purpose of securing greater efficiency in uniform text book adoptions, distribution, etc.
SB 131	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regarding the certification of teachers.
SB 132	Caption: Relating to an appropriation for the promotion of vocational Education in order to continue the benefits of the Federal appropriation for this purpose, etc.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to authorizing the bringing of a suit for divorce in this State by persons who are in the military or naval services of the State and who are citizens of the State but who have been absent from the State for more than twelve months, and from the county for more than six months.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to the appointment of a Board to co-operate with the Federal Government on Vocational Education; providing for an appropriation relating to disabled soldiers.
SB 149	Caption: Relating to trademarks on dairy milk bottles, etc; providing penalties.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to providing for the revising of the State course of study in the public schools, etc.
SB 172	Caption: Relating to amending present laws relating to the powers of school trustees; selecting depositories, etc., as well as their powers in relation to teachers' contracts.
SB 173	Caption: Relating to amending the compulsory school attendance law so as to increase requirements gradually, etc.
SB 183	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of Chiropody; providing for the establishing of a board of examiners, etc.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes on penalties subjected to fire, fire and marine, inland tornado or indemnity, etc.; issuing policies or contracts by insurance or indemnity.
SB 201	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from conducting any pharmacy or drug store, except where a licensed pharmacist is employed; exempting towns of 2,000 or less.
SB 220	Caption: Relating to creating the Hewitt Independent School District in McLennan County, Texas.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to permit corporations, chartered under the present laws, to acquire, hold and operate motor vehicles, with or without tracks, for transportation purposes, from and to any point through which they may be operating, etc.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that a person convicted of a felony and serving as a convict in the penitentiary may be qualified to testify in court without being pardoned; placing the right hand and power with the Governor to restore such authority without issuing a pardon, etc.
SB 248	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the establishment, location and maintenance of a colony for the treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to amending the present law relative to issuing certificates of incorporation by the Secretary of State.
SB 253	Caption: Relating to amending the present law relating to the recording resolutions authorizing mortgage by railroads.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to amending the present law relative to the filing of chattel mortgages; providing a fee.
SB 286	Caption: Relating to preventing any person, firm, association or persons, or corporations from furnishing impure water for domestic use.
SB 308	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment and maintenance of a State Training School for dependent and delinquent girls.
SB 319	Caption: Relating to amending the act creating a special road system for McLennan County.
SB 339	Caption: Relating to picture shows and making it unlawful to exhibit certain kinds of pictures.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to certain kinds of business on Sunday.
SCR 12	Caption: Relating to arrangements for Members of the Legislature visiting Denton, Texas.
37th 1st Called Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to reversal of criminal cases upon technicalities.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to conferring certain authority upon cities in relation to rates of public utility concerns.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person or persons employed by an eleemosynary institution to own or operate any place of business located less than ten miles from such institution.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to providing for the uniform date for the qualification of county officers.
SCR 8	Caption: Providing for Enoch Morris and his wife to enter the Confederate Home.
37th 2nd Called Session
SB 10	Caption: Relating to cooperation with the Federal Board of Vocational Education.
36th Regular Session
SB 56	Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of the clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals of the Third Supreme Judicial District, the appointment of a deputy and the disposition of the costs to be collected by said clerk.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles by defining the term railroad station with obligations incident thereto, and providing that station limits now existing or hereafter established shall not be changed except on order of the Railroad Commission.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relating to regulating the sale of cocaine and other drugs; regulating the issuance of prescriptions for such drugs; requiring persons selling such drugs upon prescriptions to file same; prohibiting fraudulent representation, and providing that nothing in this Act shall prevent the sale of certain proprietary preparations containing not more than two grains of opium, one-eighth grain of morphine, two grains of chloral hydrate and one-sixteenth grain of cocaine, in one fluid ounce, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by increasing salaries of Judges of Districts Courts of this State from three thousand dollars a year to three thousand five hundred dollars a year.
SB 304	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to writ of garnishment by providing that from and after the service of such writ of garnishment, it shall not be lawful for the garnishee to pay to the defendant any debt or to deliver to him any effects.
SB 327	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by changing one limit of meeting, by providing that teachers of State institutions may serve on the Text-Book Commission, that further contracts shall be so arranged that contracts for not more than one-sixth of the total number of different adopted books shall expire in any year, that not more than one-sixth of the total number of different adopted books can be changed in any on e year, and providing a reasonable bond for supplementary books.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to prescribing the parties to and venue of suits against foreign corporations, assignees, trustees and receivers, and providing additional means of obtaining service on non-resident railroad corporations in this State, and defining who are agents of such foreign railway corporations or companies.
SB 399	Caption: Relating to providing who have the power to administer oaths for the purposes of the administration of military justice and for other purposes of military administration; providing that same,in foreign places where the army may be serving shall have the general powers of a notary public or of a consul of the United States in the administration of oaths, the execution and acknowledgment of legal instruments, the attestation of documents, and all other form of notarial acts to be executed by persons subject to military law.
SR 9	Caption: Adjourning in memory of Senator A.R. McCollum; providing for the appointment of a committee to draft resolutions in honor of him and to arrange for memorial services in the Senate.
SR 41	Caption: Providing that no bills except local bills be considered until printed and on the desks of Senators for 24 hours.
SR 68	Caption: Inviting former Senator E.G. Senter to address the Senate.
SR 88	Caption: Inviting members of the House to attend Senate memorial service in honor of Senator A.R. McCollum.
SR 93	Caption: In memory of Senator A.R. McCollum.
SR 101	Caption: Providing for convening of the Finance Committee 15 days prior to called session.
36th 2nd Called Session
SB 78	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to regulating the sale of cocaine and other drugs.
SB 92	Caption: Relating to amending general game laws.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to creating the Moody Independent School District in McLennan County, Texas.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Revised Civil Statutes which provides for the issuance of bonds for taking up bonds previously issued by counties; providing that said article shall apply also to cities and towns.
36th 3rd Called Session
SB 28	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the appointment and compensation of county auditors in certain counties.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the adoption of a child where the parent or parents have voluntarily abandoned such child.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to amending the law creating the Moody Independent School District in McClennan County.
SB 69	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide for the exemption of cotton mills.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to creating the San Gabriel Common School District No. 8 of Milam County, Texas.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to creating the Sharp Independent School District in Milam County, Texas.
34th Regular Session
HB 385	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for a tax on every person, firm or association of persons selling intoxicating liquors.
HB 546	Caption: Relating to amending and repealing a certain Statute prescribing the fees to be paid to the secretary of state by mutual building and loan companies and foreign corporations.
HR 50	Caption: Inviting Congressman R. L. Henry to address the House.
HR 124	Caption: Inviting former Governor T. M. Campbell to address the House.