Legislation authored by James Monroe Alderdice
Includes legislation with James Monroe Alderdice as the primary author for the 30th through 36th 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.
| 36th Regular Session | |
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| SB 148 | Caption: Relating to accepting the benefits of an Act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled for the promotion of vocational education; making an appropriation. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to creating a common county line school district to be known as the Lone Cedar District, to be under the jurisdiction, management and control of the county school board of Ellis County, Texas, to be composed of the territory described in this Act and defining the rights, powers and privileges of such district. |
| SB 196 | Caption: Relating to permitting garages, automobile supply stations and gasoline and filling stations to remain open and transact business within certain hours on Sunday. |
| SB 201 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing that, wherever practiceable, counties hitherto served by ex officio county superintendents, shall be combined into convenient groups with other counties, each group to be served by one school superintendent. |
| SB 202 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the employment of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction by the County School Trustees. |
| SB 233 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to official short hand reporters' compensation in certain counties. |
| SB 294 | Caption: Relating to providing for a general educational survey of the State of Texas, creating a committee, prescribing their duties, making appropriations to carry out the provisions of this Act. |
| SB 320 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to prohibit the sale or offering for sale of road vehicles of certain carrying capacity with tires of less than the prescribed width within the State of Texas, fixing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| SB 333 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the creation of Conservation and Reclamation Districts, so as to make certain that the reassessment of benefits permitted by said section shall not render insecure any indebtedness of any district availing itself of the benefits of such sections. |
| SB 389 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to pay warrants. |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Providing for an investigation of the State Highway Department and an auditing of the books of that department. |
| SCR 19 | Caption: Requesting permission from the Federal board to make plans for State use of certain funds for vocational education. |
| SJR 18 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to the power of the Legislature to grant or authorize the making of any grant of public money to any individual or association except in aid of indigent and disable Confederate soldiers and sailors. |
| SJR 22 | Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to authorizing a county school tax. |
| SR 13 | Caption: Instructing the Committee on Public Printing to make inquiry of Secretary of State as to why journals of the 35th Legislature, R.S., have not been distributed. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 32 | Caption: Relating to adding territory to the Irene Independent School District in Hill and Navarro Counties |
| SB 40 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Hill County. |
| SB 53 | Caption: Relating to more particularly defining the metes and bounds of the Ferris Independent School District in Ellis County. |
| SB 99 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws in regard to salaries of public school teachers. |
| SB 100 | Caption: Relating to shorthand reporters compensation in Dallas and other counties. |
| SB 101 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws by raising the age limit of compulsory attendance to fifteen years and raising the grade of exemption from the fourth to the seventh grade; fixing penalties. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing that counties hitherto served by ex-officio county superintendents shall be combined into convenient groups with other counties to be served by one school superintendent. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to levying a State ad valorem tax for school purposes; making an appropriation. |
| SB 141 | Caption: Relating to the adding to and making part of the Covington Independent School District in Hill County, Texas of certain lands. |
| SB 166 | Caption: Relating to creating a common county line school district to be known as the George District, to be under the jurisdiction, management and control of the county school board of Dallas County, Texas. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws regulating teachers' certificates and arranging for reasonable reciprocity with other states. |
| SB 29 | Caption: Relating to providing for a general education survey of the State. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws by making an appropriation for salaries of assistants in State Reclamation Department. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| SB 87 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to official acts of district judges during vacation. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to requiring adequate fire escapes for all buildings three or more stories in height when used as a hospital, seminary, college, academy, schoolhouse, hotel, etc. |
| SB 140 | Caption: Relating to creating a common county line school district to be known as the Auburn District, to be under the jurisdiction, management and control of the county school board of Ellis County, Texas, to be composed of the territory described in this Act and defining the rights, powers and privileges of such district. |
| SB 143 | Caption: Relating to providing for the election of county school trustees. |
| SB 163 | Caption: Relating to creating the office of State Commissioner of Education, fixing term of office, salary, etc. |
| SB 230 | Caption: Relating to amending civil statutes relating to gross receipt tax on the production of oil. |
| SB 289 | Caption: Relating to providing for a permanent Textbook Commission and Board of Revisions; making an appropriation. |
| SB 296 | Caption: Relating to amending an act to authorize commissioners courts of several counties to create and establish levee improvement districts so as to provide manner of posting election notices. |
| SB 301 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to pleadings of defendants. |
| SB 302 | Caption: Relating to regulating the business of making abstracts to land titles; requiring the execution of bonds by persons, firms and corporations engaging in such business; prescribing a punishment. |
| SB 375 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Seventh, Fourteenth, and Fortieth Judicial Districts and to create the Eighty-sixty Judicial District of the State of Texas, and providing for the appointment of the district judge for said Eighty-sixth Judicial District, and providing for holding the district courts and the terms thereof in the said Seventh, Fourteenth, Fortieth and Eighty-sixty Judicial District, and providing that all process, recognizances, bail bonds, appeal bonds, and jurors heretofore selected are valid and returnable to first session after this Act takes effect and validating all judgments and decrees of the said courts, and providing for the continuation of any district court mentioned to the end of this term. |
| SB 451 | Caption: Relating to repealing a special road law for Johnson County, Texas. |
| SCR 22 | Caption: Providing for an educational survey of the State of Texas. |
| SR 52 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of Lavina Harvill as an assistant in the mailing room. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 22 | Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of conservation and reclamation districts within this State, to be known as Levee Improvements Districts, for the purpose of reclaiming lands from overflow from rivers, creeks and streams, by systems of levees, drainage and other improvements; making penal interference with or injury to their works or improvements, and fixing penalties and punishment to be imposed on persons offending in those regards, as well as building levees without lawful authority. |
| SB 40 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of Commissioner of Pensions and conferring all powers heretofore exercised by that office upon the Comptroller of Public Accounts; annulling and repealing all appropriations for the Pension Department for the years 1918 and 1919 with certain exceptions. |
| SB 69 | Caption: Relating to providing that those engaged in any business within the State required by law to pay tax on gross receipts must obtain a permit to transact such business. |
| SB 73 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain laws providing for a State Tax Board and devolving duties heretofore placed upon such Board upon the Railroad Commission of Texas. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to repealing Statutes creating the office of State Revenue Agent, the bill to become effective January 15, 1919. |
| SB 101 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws creating the Venus Independent School District in Johnson County. |
| 30th Regular Session | |
| HB 146 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act requiring the election of a white board of trustees and a colored board of trustees for each district, having jurisdiction of the schools respectively of each race. |
| HB 147 | Caption: Relating to creating the office of county superintendent in certain counties. |
| HB 148 | Caption: Relating to requiring the teaching of elementary agriculture in all public schools of this State, except independent school districts containing a scholastic population of three hundred or more. |
| HB 149 | Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be the duty of the county commissioners court of all organized counties in this State to subdivide their respective counties into convenient school districts by the first day of September, 1907. |
| HB 155 | Caption: Relating to providing for the collection of succession duties on estates passing upon the death of any resident of this State having property in this State at the time of his or her death, or of any non-resident having property within the jurisdiction of this State at the time of his or her death, whether such property pass by will or by the laws of descent and distribution of this State, or by those of any other State in which a non-resident may have his or her domicile at the time of his or her death, provided, such non-resident have property within the jurisdiction of this State. |
| HB 240 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the transportation of Johnson grass or Johnson grass hay along the public highways, except by railroads, or across the lands of another without his consent, in certain counties of this State, and providing penalties for violation of the same. |
| HB 292 | Caption: Relating to creating Midlothian Independent School District so as to more clearly define the boundaries of said district, and validating all acts of said incorporation. |
| HB 302 | Caption: Relating to regulating the transportation of Johnson grass hay along the public highways or across the lands of another in this State, and providing penalties for the violation thereof. |
| HB 390 | Caption: Relating to the reserve fund to be kept by the State banks. |
| HB 464 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking of fish from the fresh waters and streams of this State otherwise than by means of the ordinary hook and line and trot line; fixing a penalty for the use of poison, dynamite or other explosives in killing, catching and taking fish. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to providing for appointment and qualification of a county Auditor in certain counties; providing for the manner of appointment. |
| HB 675 | Caption: Relating to incorporating the Milford School District in Ellis County as an independent school district, and providing for the election of trustees, raising revenue by taxation, issuing bonds and maintaining public free schools therein. |
| 30th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 79 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Textbook Board, and procuring for use in the public free schools of the State of Texas a series of uniform textbooks; defining certain misdemeanors; providing penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. |
| 29th Regular Session | |
| HB 163 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the inclosing of the timbered lands of another in this state so as to exclude the owner thereof from free access to such lands. |
| HB 254 | Caption: Relating to placing the scholastic age from seven to seventeen years. |
| HB 352 | Caption: Relating to providing for the opening of a third class road from the nearest public road to the land or lands or another included within an enclosure. |
| 28th Regular Session | |
| HB 33 | Caption: Relating to preserving and protecting the wild game, wild birds and wild fowl of the State, to provide adequate penalties for the unlawful taking, slaughter, sale or shipment thereof. (HB 33, 37, 61, 1765, 232, and 277 combined.) |
| HB 35 | Caption: Relating to preventing certain amusements on Sunday. |
| HB 40 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain act relating to the Scholastic Age. |
| HB 206 | Caption: Relating to requiring all transportation companies and telegraph and telephone companies doing business in the State of Texas to adopt the name of the postoffice at any station along their lines as the name of such station, provided there be such postoffice |
| HB 320 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act pertaining to attorneys at law, by permitting a clerk or deputy clerk of a court of record, who is an attorney, to appear as such in any court of record, except in cases in which he may have appellate or revisory jurisdiction. |
| HB 321 | Caption: Relating to levying and collecting an annual tax from the owner or proprietor of any cold storage in this State. |
| HB 436 | Caption: Relating to taxing the gross receipts of pipeline system for handling oil, or in the refining and sale of coal oil, gasoline, benzine, naptha or other mineral oils refined from petroleum. |
| HB 522 | Caption: Relating to to authorize persons indicted for felony, whose pleas is insanity to me admitted into the State Insane Asylum at Austin. |