Legislation authored by Jim Bates

Includes legislation with Jim Bates as the primary author for the 53rd through 62nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

61st Regular Session
SB 26	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes to prevent tuition charge on certain resident children; to delete residential requirement of parent or guardian of handicapped children; to provide eligibility for and allotment of vocational teacher units and other special education personnel to rehabilitation districts; providing an effective date for the amendatory provisions of this Act.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to amending, revising, and repealing parts of the Texas Liquor Control Act, to improve its administration and enforcement.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to providing for mandatory inspection and regulation of the slaughter of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, equines, poultry, domestic rabbits, and domesticated game birds, and the preparation and sale of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat, and food products of such animals and birds solely for distribution in this state; for the regulation of related industries; for penalties for violations, detention, seizure, and other enforcement authority.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the issuance or renewal of Private Club Registration Permits in certain areas and providing for cancellation of such permits under certain circumstances.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties and financing of Cameron County Hospital District of Cameron County, Texas.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act, so as to reduce the hours when it shall be unlawful to consume alcoholic beverages or possess for the purpose of consuming alcoholic beverages in counties of certain populations, and giving the governing bodies of certain incorporated cities or towns and the Commissioners' Courts of certain counties the right to adopt the hours prescribed for the more populous counties of this State, and making the violation of such order or ordinance a violation of this act; extending the legal hours of sale of beer according to the populations of such counties, and giving to the governing bodies of incorporated cities and towns and the Commissioners' Courts in the less populous counties the right to adopt legal hours of sale prescribed herein for the more populous counties.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to Teacher Contracts with School Districts to further define Board of Trustees, etc.
SB 82	Caption: Relating providing for the payment of relocation expenses and assistance in acquiring right of way on all highways designated by the State Highway Commission as a part of the State Highway System.
SB 124	Caption: Relating to limiting the rule making and disciplinary power of the Board of Optometry Examiners.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation, charter and charter amendment proceedings of certain cities and towns heretofore incorporated or attempted to be incorporated under the general laws; validating certain proceedings relating to the authorization and issuance of bonds and providing for their submission to the Attorney General of Texas.
SB 478	Caption: Relating to providing alternative disclosure requirements in coordination with federal law and providing for administrative enforcement and criminal liabilities; providing for regulation of consumer protection on home solicitation sales.
SB 715	Caption: Relating to the creation, establishment, maintenance and operation of Hidalgo County Drainage District Number Two.
SB 716	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Conservation and Reclamation District comprising all the territory and property of Long Island, situated in Laguna Madre, immediately adjacent to the City of Port Isabel, Texas, to be known as "Long Island Utility District".
SB 720	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to writs of habeas corpus; defining duties of arresting officer and magistrate; relating to bail bonds; relating to compensation of court appointment of counsel; relating to the charge of the court; relating to special requested charges; relating to notice of appeal; relating to the time for giving appeal bond; relating to the collection of costs; relating to trial of causes; relating to verdicts; relating to motions for new trial; relating to judgments in open court; relating to judgments.
SB 750	Caption: Relating to creating the Rio Grande Valley Municipal Water Authority, a conservation district, comprising the territory contained in certain cities and towns of the counties of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy, as of the 1st day of January, 1969, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and diverting, impounding, storing, treating and transporting the same.
SB 777	Caption: Relating to providing for the operation of non-English speaking children programs for a period of time not to exceed four and one-half months; to provide the formula for determination of salary or classroom teachers for program cost purposes of this Act.
SB 778	Caption: Relating to the composition of the State Board of Health; defining qualifications and term of office.
SB 818	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns having a toll bridge between the State of Texas and the Republic of Mexico located within, or within fifteen (15) miles of, their corporate limits, subject to outstanding covenants relating to outstanding bonds, to appropriate or pledge to revenue bonds issued hereunder, all or any part of any revenues derived by such cities and towns from or on account of any such toll bridges, including revenues derived under any contracts with other cities or towns covering or relating to the operation of any such toll bridges.
SCR 24	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the Senate to make certain corrections in S.B. No. 90.
SCR 70	Caption: Authorizing the Senate Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S.B. No. 26.
SCR 90	Caption: Requesting each political party holding a primary election to submit a proposition relating to "daylight savings time" to the qualified electors.
SCR 91	Caption: Creating the Delinquent Ad Valorem Tax Study Commission.
SCR 95	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 847 from the House of Representatives for further consideration.
SCR 102	Caption: Requesting the Parks and Wildlife Department to study the feasibility of setting aside sufficient acreage of park lands for fox hunting.
SR 146	Caption: Welcoming John Delavan Baines and Roy Baines to the State Capitol.
SR 342	Caption: Congratulating the City of Edinburg on its selection as 1968 All-America City.
SR 569	Caption: Designating "Legal Secretaries Week in Texas".
61st 1st Called Session
SB 19	Caption: Relating to creating Long Island Utility District in Laguna Madre adjacent to City of Port Isabel.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to further defining the term "inspector"; providing for certain contracting powers of the Texas State Department of Health.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to changing the name of Pan American College to Pan American University.
SCR 17	Caption: Creating the Delinquent Ad Valorem Tax Study Commission.
SCR 24	Caption: Congratulating the pistol team of the Texas Department of Public Safety on winning the Regional Police Pistol Championships.
SR 88	Caption: In memory of Richard Thomas Montgomery.
SR 126	Caption: Welcoming Bill Finck to the State Capitol.
61st 2nd Called Session
SB 28	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district comprising all the territory and property of Long Island, situated in Laguna Madre, immediately adjacent to the City of Port Isabel, Texas, to be known as Long Island Utility District.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relative to suspension or revocation of certificates of authority to transact business held by certain alien insurance companies.
SCR 4	Caption: Creating the Delinquent Ad Valorem Tax Study Commission.
SCR 9	Caption: Creating the Consumer Credit Study Committee to evaluate consumer credit codes in relation to the Federal Truth in Lending Act.
60th Regular Session
SB 7	Caption: Relating to authorizing all regional college districts which have been converted to fully state supported institutions of higher learning to transfer all assets of such districts, real, personal, tangible or intangible to the governing boards of such institutions provided that each such governing board shall continue the payment of all notes and bonds payable from revenues theretofore issued by such districts and each county in which any such regional college district is located continues to levy and collect taxes in support of all tax obligations theretofore authorized and issued by such district.
SB 8	Caption: Relating to making findings and declaring policies relating to occupational safety; providing enforcement procedures and penalties.
SB 9	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act; preserving unto licensed beer distributors and holders of Wholesaler's Permits the right to continue operating such and to engage in the business of selling and distributing beer in counties, justice precincts, or incorporated cities or towns where the sale of beer has been prohibited by valid local option election.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation, licensing, and taxing of horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in this state.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles of the Penal Code relating to the regulation or restriction of business or commerce on Sunday.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to providing for an offense for certain persons to record or willfully overhear by means of instruments telephone or telegraph communications without permission, or to obtain or divulge such communications; providing a penalty in certain instances for the use or possession of instruments commonly used for eavesdropping; providing penalties for violation of this Act.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the authorization, issuance and sale of bonds to provide funds to call, redeem and pay off outstanding bonds so as to eliminate the tolls, pledges of revenues, and covenants pertaining to the outstanding bonds, and the bridge facilities and make such bridge facilities available for free use by the public.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of assistance by the State of Texas to the surviving spouse and minor children of law enforcement officers, custodial personnel of the Texas Department of corrections or full-paid firemen who suffer violent death in the course of the performance of their duties; providing that this act shall not apply to deaths occurring before the effective date of this act.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to validating all school districts, including all types of junior and regional college districts, together with the boundaries and names thereof.
SB 315	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the prohibition of more than one remote banking facility.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to requiring depuration of shellfish in Texas, to be known as the Texas Depuration Act; providing for enforcement and penalties.
SB 365	Caption: Relating to authorizing the governing boards of Texas Technological College, Pan American College, West Texas State University, and The University of Texas System to construct, acquire, extend, improve and equip a utility plant or plants, and to issue negotiable revenue bonds for such purposes.
SB 366	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to change the method of collecting the tax on ale and malt liquor to a reporting system under bond instead of the stamp system currently in use; providing penalties for possession of ale and malt liquor on which the tax is delinquent; providing an effective date of the Act of September 1, 1967.
SB 508	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing for temporary permits of motor vehicles transporting property between Mexico and counties of this state which have a boundary contiguous with Mexico.
SB 509	Caption: Relating to providing procedures for the abolition of cities and towns, and towns and villages, incorporated under the general laws, and cities and towns of ten thousand inhabitants or less chartered under special law.
SCR 84	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections on S. B. No. 145.
SCR 88	Caption: Granting J. W. Luttes, et al. permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 45	Caption: Welcoming Andres J. Escoruela to the State Capitol.
SR 357	Caption: Directing the Parks and Wildlife Commission to make available to the public certain information regarding Lyndon B Johnson State Park.
SR 679	Caption: Welcoming the students of Olmito School in Cameron County to the State Capitol.
SR 720	Caption: Welcoming the students of Austin State School to the State Capitol. .
60th 1st Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act to prohibit the issuance of Private Club Registration Permits in certain areas.
SCR 17	Caption: Memorializing Congress to reject proposed legislation relating to the registration of firearms.
SR 140	Caption: Congratulating Rostom Kavoussi on being elected to the Student Body President of The University of Texas.
SR 265	Caption: Congratulating the Edinburg High School band on its accomplishments.
59th Regular Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act relative to provision and requirements for a Restaurateur's Permit to make it unlawful to sell any liquor the containers of which contain less than one-tenth of a pint..
SB 21	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that construction of a new reservoir on that portion of a stream over which a water master has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, appointed shall not void such appointment nor restrict the authority of such water master to act both upstream and downstream from such new reservoir; providing for the retention by the Trial Court to allocate and distribute water in its judicial custody during appeal and until entry of final judgment.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to abolishing Regional College Districts which have conveyed all or substantially all of their property to a state-supported Senior College or University and which have no outstanding bonded indebtedness.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by conferring on the board of Regents of Pan American College the power of eminent domain.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act to except from the definition of "Motor Carrier" and "Contract Carrier" and to exempt from the provisions of the Act any person transporting fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, or flax straw to points of first processing within certain areas upon the filing of certain insurance.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of motor transportation brokers by the Railroad Commission of Texas.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to clarify the territory in the state subject to certain provisions of the Article and to provide that the performing or failing to perform any act, which act or failure is in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commissioner of Agriculture, shall constitute a complete defense to any alleged violation thereunder.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation of all cities and towns of five thousand inhabitants or less, heretofore incorporated or attempted to be incorporated under the General Laws of Texas; validating the boundary lines thereof.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to validating all school districts, including all types of junior and regional college districts, together with the boundaries and names thereof.
SB 136	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide that orphans of members of the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard killed since January 1, 1946, while on active duty may receive benefits by way of exemption from certain fees at state-supported institutions of higher learning.
SB 137	Caption: Relating to the application of pesticides and licensing commercial applicators; providing a penalty.
SB 234	Caption: Relating to amending certain Laws so as to redefine the term "permanently and totally disabled"; concerning the allocation of State moneys to the "Disabled Assistance Fund".
SB 235	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools or such Board's successor in function to grant such easements and rights-of-way as shall be necessary to construct, improve, renovate, use and operate institutions under its control and management.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to the creation of a conservation and reclamation district to be known as the Lower Rio Grande Water Conservancy District, and providing for its administration, rights, powers, duties, and operating procedures.
SB 268	Caption: Relating to creating Cameron County Conservation and Reclamation District, consisting of that part of the State of Texas which is known as and included within the boundaries of Cameron County, Texas.
SB 285	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by adding thereto a new Article; defining and concerning Mortgage Lenders and Borrowers.
SB 295	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by terminating discounts allowed on the purchase of tax stamps for distilled spirits.
SB 307	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to reduce the opportunity for a monopoly in the ownership of package stores.
SB 386	Caption: Relating to fixing a maximum rate of interest and other charges on certain types of installment loans in principal amounts of $15,000.00 or less; prohibiting loan fees or charges with certain exceptions.
SB 387	Caption: Relating to temporary registration permits for trucks, trailers, and similar vehicles to expedite and facilitate the harvesting and marketing of cotton.
SB 432	Caption: Relating to providing that liens on real property created by virtue of paving assessments shall be enforced by suit only in a court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such property is located, or by sale of such property in the manner as provided for sale of property for ad valorem city taxes.
SB 433	Caption: Relating to making findings and declaring policies relating to occupational safety.
SB 505	Caption: Relating to authorizing the McAllen Trade Zone, Inc., to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone at McAllen, Hidalgo County, Texas, and other sub-zones.
SB 513	Caption: Relating to permitting certain water control and improvement districts to adopt the precinct method of election of directors.
SB 529	Caption: Relating to the salary of the Judge of the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County.
SB 543	Caption: Relating to validating orders passed by certain water control and improvement districts excluding land from the district and annexing land to the district.
SB 585	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Harlingen Trade Zone, Inc., to establish, operate and maintain a foreign trade zone adjacent to Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas and other sub-zones; authorizing the Harlingen Trade Zone, Inc., to apply to the Foreign Trade Zone Board, Washington, D.C. for a grant to permit the establishment, operation and maintenance of the foreign trade zone and sub-zone in accordance with federal laws and the regulation of the Federal Trade Zones Board.
SR 66	Caption: Recognizing Praxedis Balboa.
SR 163	Caption: Providing for a General Investigating Commitee.
SR 713	Caption: Inviting Roy Porter and officials of the Disabled American Veterans to attend the Senate session honoring Senator Criss Cole.
59th 1st Called Session
SR 92	Caption: Recognizing Romero M. Lopez for his service to the State.
58th Regular Session
SB 7	Caption: Relating to creating Pan American College as a state-supported institution of higher education.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to requiring identification signs on vehicles hauling citrus fruit in bulk and requiring that drivers of such vehicles have papers concerning the citrus fruit being hauled; providing penalties for violations; providing an effective date.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of clinical laboratories and clinical laboratory directors through the Texas State Health Department; providing for penalty for violation of this Act.
SB 91	Caption: Relating to authorizing establishment of Rehabilitation districts to provide education, training, special services and guidance for handicapped persons.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to the establishment and operation of the Texas Commercial Applicator's Pest Control Board and prescribing the powers and duties thereof, including licensing of commercial applicators of pesticides, defoliants, and other agricultural chemicals, licensing of operators of equipment used in such applications, and registering of such equipment; providing for revocation of license; providing for exemptions; providing penalties for violations.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statutes, which require the treasurers of certain political subdivisions to make annual reports to the Comptroller showing the condition of the interest and sinking fund for the indebtedness of such subdivision, and which provide a penalty for failure to make such report.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to lending companies to define interest and provide maximum rates; providing that all installment certificates hypothecated to secure a loan shall yield not less than one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) interest per annum.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering municipal corporations and political subdivisions, including conservation and reclamation districts, to enter into contracts and agreements with the owners of land relating to the development of such land.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to providing that any district court may, in a case involving water rights to which the state or Texas Water Commission is a party, determine, cancel or declare inoperative, in whole or in part, any claimed appropriative water rights of a party to such suit on petition of the state, Texas Water Commission or any party at interest in said suit.
SB 296	Caption: Relating to the bonding and licensing of dealers in citrus fruit in the State of Texas; prescribing penalties for the violation of this act.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to permitting examination and copying of original instruments filed for record.
SB 330	Caption: Relating to motor carriers and regulations by the Railroad Commission, excepting from the definition of "Motor Carrier" and "Contract Carrier", and exempting from the provisions of such Acts, any person transporting fresh fruits or fresh vegetables in bulk from the point of harvest, production, picking or cutting to points of first processing, not in excess of seventy-five miles from point of origin to point of destination, upon the filing of certain insurance.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to livestock auction Commission Merchants to increase the amount of the bond required for a license to operate as a dealer.
SB 354	Caption: Relating to providing for the limiting of hours of labor and the prescribing of wages for overtime labor for certain female employees including employees of banking institutions.
SB 358	Caption: Relating to providing for the limiting of hours of labor and prescribing of wages for overtime labor for certain female employees including employees of banking institutions.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to providing that children of members of the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard killed on active duty may receive certain benefits.
SB 459	Caption: Relating to the appointment, qualification, duties and compensation of official shorthand reporters for the District Courts of the 92nd, 93rd, 111th, and 139th Judicial Districts of Texas.
SB 460	Caption: Relating to expanding the Good Neighbor Scholarship Program and making available a larger number of exemptions, providing for the administration thereof and limitations therein.
SB 464	Caption: Relating to giving any drainage district in Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron Counties, in this state, which district has heretofore or shall hereafter be converted into a conservation or reclamation district, the right to enter into contracts for the construction of improvements with the Government of the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, providing that it may then execute contracts and providing for payment of obligations incurred thereunder by providing a severability clause.
SB 466	Caption: Relating to providing that any person certified to teach in the public schools of Texas who holds a bachelor of laws degree shall have his minimum salary calculated on the basis of a master's degree.
SB 471	Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of motor transportation brokers by the Railroad Commission of Texas; providing an effective date.
SCR 40	Caption: Granting J. W. Luttes and Shell Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 76	Caption: Authorizing the Board for State Hospitals and Special Schools to negotiate for certain property from Harlingen Air Force Base.
SR 103	Caption: Welcoming Jack Drake to the State Capitol.
SR 108	Caption: Welcoming Richard McDonald, Ann Williams, Marshall Crouch, and Bob Hunt to the State Capitol.
SR 113	Caption: Welcoming Sally St. John to the State Capitol.
SR 150	Caption: Welcoming Renato Cuellar to the State Capitol.
SR 272	Caption: Recognizing the Pan American College men's basketball team of Edinburg for winning the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship tournament.
SR 440	Caption: Welcoming Magnus F. Smith to the State Capitol.
56th Regular Session
HB 4	Caption: Relating to repealing certain acts establishing a comprehensive code regulating the liquefied petroleum gas industry; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act.
HB 53	Caption: Relating to stating the information the Comptroller of Public Accounts is required to furnish the Legislature and the Governor.
HB 148	Caption: Relating to confirming the existence of the Constitutional Office of Criminal District Attorney of Hidalgo County, Texas and insuring the continuance thereof.
HB 199	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the tenure of office of persons who have served one or more Courts of this State to be changed from twenty-four (24) years to twenty (20) years or more, so that such persons will be entitled to retirement pay under the provisions of this Act.
HB 390	Caption: Relating to permitting school districts in counties having in excess of 150,000 population according to the last preceding Federal Census, and having or acquiring authority to levy a tax for maintenance purposes of not more than $1.75 per $100 of assessed valuation, to levy, allocate and expend 50 cents per $100 of assessed valuation of such maintenance levy for construction, repair, renovation, or equipment of public free school buildings and purchase of sites therefor.
HB 568	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing that if a trustee shall unlawfully and with intent to defraud any beneficiary or settlor of a trust, convert the same or any part thereof to his own use, he shall be punished as provided in cases of theft.
HB 569	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by extending its terms to include a trustee and by providing that an indictment for theft or conversion of any estate by a trustee with intent to defraud any beneficiary or settlor of a trust may be presented within ten (10) years from the time of the commission of the offense.
HB 729	Caption: Relating to amending the Liquor Control Act, to more clearly define the term "Premise."
HB 730	Caption: Relating to amending the Liquor Control Act, providing for delivery of illicit alcoholic beverages to the State; providing for the disposal thereof by the State.
HB 731	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be lawful for any railway company or motor carrier of property for hire, at its discretion, and within the scope of its operating authority, to transport, store or otherwise handle property free or at reduced rates for the State of Texas, or any agency thereof, or any county, city or town government.
HB 756	Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act to increase the minimum penalty for selling or offering to sell narcotic drugs as prohibited by such Act.
HB 779	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by exempting from the regulation of the Securities Act private sales of securities.
HB 781	Caption: Relating to providing for an offense for certain persons to record or willfully overhear by means of instruments telephone or telegraph communications without permission, or to obtain or divulge such communications; providing a penalty in certain instances for the use or possession of instruments commonly used for eavesdropping; providing penalties for violation of this Act.
HB 887	Caption: Relating to making a supplemental appropriation out of the Real Estate License Fund in the State Treasury of the State of Texas to the Texas Real Estate Commission for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1959 in the sum of $5,900.00.
HCR 110	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider S. B. No. 436 at any time.
HJR 3	Caption: Proposing an amendment allowing an annual salary of not to exceed Four Thousand, Eight Hundred Dollars ($4,800) per year and a per diem allowance of not to exceed Twelve Dollars ($12) per day for the first one hundred and twenty (120) days only of each Regular Session and for thirty (30) days of each Special Session of the Legislature as the maximum compensation for Members of the Legislature; limiting the Regular Session to one hundred and forty (140) days; and prescribing the form of ballot and providing for the necessary proclamation and publication.
HR 609	Caption: Commending the staff at the Hospital and Clinic Foundation of Columbus for their excellent service and care for State Representative Homer Koliba.
56th 1st Called Session
HB 6	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles by providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat under certain provisions, for examination of records, for penalties, and other related procedure and purposes.
HB 66	Caption: Relating to making a supplemental appropriation out of the Real Estate License Fund in the State Treasury of the State of Texas to the Texas Real Estate Commission for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1959, in the sum of Five Thousand, Nine Hundred Dollars ($5,900).
HCR 37	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider H. B. No. 62 and H. B. No. 66 at any time.
56th 2nd Called Session
HB 4	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to escheat; providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat for examination of records, for penalties and other related procedure and purposes.
56th 3rd Called Session
HB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to escheat; providing for the making of reports by persons holding personal property subject to escheat; providing penalties.
HB 35	Caption: Relating to exempting from registration any farm trailer or farm semi-trailer when the gross weight is under 10,000 pounds.
HR 95	Caption: Directing the Banking Commissioner, Governor, and Attorney General make a review of existing escheat laws in the State.
53rd Regular Session
HB 67	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture for the operating expenses of the Citrus Division for the remainder of the calendar year of 1953.
HB 112	Caption: Relating to amending Article 1034 of the Texas Penal Code relating to the Pink Bollworm laws.
HB 172	Caption: Relating to providing that motions to set aside indictment, exceptions to indictments, motions to set aside or quash a jury panel or special venire because not summoned according to law, and motions for change of venue shall in all felony prosecutions, be filed and disposed of before trial or will be waived.
HB 173	Caption: Relating to authorizing a defendant in a criminal case charged with commission of a felony classified as less than capital, to waive a trial by jury and be tried by the court.
HB 242	Caption: Relating to directing the Comptroller of Public Accounts on the first day of September, 1953, and the first day of March, 1954, and on each succeeding first day of September and the first day of March thereafter, to determine by any proper method or formula the amount of gasoline used in aircraft and on which no application for refund of the tax has been made by any person or corporation and against which limitation has run for the period of six months next preceding the dates September 1, 1953, and March 1, 1954, and each six months thereafter; and determining the amount of tax that would have been refunded had claims been filed according to law; to place the amount determined by the Comptroller herein in the Treasury in a special fund for the use and benefits of the Aeronautics Commission in the State of Texas.
HB 558	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for continuance of certain court proceedings when a party or his attorney is a member of the Legislature.
HR 337	Caption: Congratulating State Representative Eligio de la Garza and his wife, Lucille, on their marriage.
53rd 1st Called Session
HB 138	Caption: Relating to permitting the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas to enter into a cooperative agreement, for the certification of grades of fruit and vegetables other than citrus fruit and potatoes, with any Texas firm, corporation or association organized for that purpose, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture.
HB 139	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to permit the organization of associations to engage in inspection of agricultural products and citrus fruits and to make, enter into and fulfill cooperative agreements for the purpose of making available the inspection of agricultural products and citrus fruits and financing thereof.
HB 140	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to empower the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas to enter into a cooperative agreement, for purposes relative to contributions for inspecting and grading services in regard to inspection of cabbage, with any Texas firm, corporation or association organized for that purpose, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture.
HB 141	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to empower the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas to enter into a cooperative agreement, for purposes relative to amounts of contributions for inspecting and grading services in regard to tomatoes, with any Texas firm, corporation or association organized for that purpose, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture.
HB 142	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to permit the making, entering into, and fulfilling cooperative agreements for the purpose of making available the inspection of agricultural products and citrus fruits and financing thereof.
HB 143	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to make available inspection of agricultural products and citrus fruits.
HB 144	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to permit the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Texas to enter into a cooperative agreement, for purposes of inspection of citrus fruit, with any Texas firm, corporation or association organized for that purpose, and/or the United States Department of Agriculture.
HR 143	Caption: In memory of Conrad R. Roitsch of McAllen.
HR 145	Caption: In memory of Vannie Eugene Cook of McAllen.