Legislation authored by Frank Owen III
Includes legislation with Frank Owen III as the primary author for the 52nd through 58th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 58th Regular Session | |
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| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salaries of the official shorthand reporter for the 34th, the 41st, the 65th, and the 120th Judicial Districts of Texas. |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salaries of the official shorthand reporters in each of the county courts at law, civil and criminal in El Paso County, Texas; providing for additional duties of the shorthand reporters as may be assigned. |
| SB 78 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the offices of county superintendent and county school boards in all counties in this state having a population of not less than three hundred thousand (300,000) nor more than three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000); providing that the duties of county superintendents and the county school boards on the effective date of this Act shall be performed by the county judges of such counties. |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to creating Permian State College of Technology at Odessa, Texas. |
| SB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes relative to the production and sale of gas from a common reservoir where demand is seasonable. |
| SB 119 | Caption: Relating to amending to Statutes so that in the Thirty-fourth Judicial District of Texas the maximum salary of the District Attorney shall be fixed at not to exceed Fourteen Thousand ($14,000) Dollars, and the maximum salary of the Assistants and Investigators shall not exceed Eleven Thousand ($11,000) Dollars for the First Assistant District Attorney and Eighty Five Hundred ($8,500) Dollars for other Assistant District Attorneys and Investigators in said District. |
| SB 120 | Caption: Relating to tuition rates at State institutions of higher education for alien Latin-American students. |
| SB 225 | Caption: Relating to preservation of political rights of teachers and other employees of state institutions of higher education. |
| SB 226 | Caption: Relating to increasing the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court, the Judges and Commissioners of the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals, and the Judges of the District Courts and Criminal District Courts of this State. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to sabbatical leaves of absence for faculty members of state-supported colleges and universities. |
| SB 230 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to display the flag or emblem of the United Nations on any property owned or leased by the state, or owned or leased by any city, county or political subdivision of the state; providing penalties for violations. |
| SB 253 | Caption: Relating to creating an additional District Court in Midland County, Texas, to be known as the 165th Judicial District. |
| SB 254 | Caption: Relating to changing the terms of office of members of Boards of Regents of Junior College Districts to six years; providing for the filling of vacancies. |
| SB 266 | Caption: Relating to establishing depository libraries with authority in the Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library; requiring certain acts to be performed to facilitate distribution of state documents. |
| SB 288 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Commissioners Court of any county may appoint in said county a minimum of seven (7), but not more than twenty-one (21), persons to serve as a Child Welfare Board. |
| SB 289 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to appeals from orders of the advisory board of the State Department of Public Welfare, providing that the hearing shall be held in the county of the residence of such person desiring a hearing; relating to suits filed as a result of final action of revocation or denial of a license by the State Department of Public Welfare, so as not to change jurisdiction and venue on such suits. |
| SB 290 | Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of vehicles and the movement of machinery on highways. |
| SB 308 | Caption: Relating to creating a Court of Domestic Relations for Midland County, Texas. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to the specification in election proceedings of the amount of School District Bonds which are to mature each year, to provide that the petition, election, order and notice of election for the authorization of School District Bonds shall mature serially or otherwise in such installments as are fixed by the Board of Trustees if for an Independent School District, or by the Commissioners Court if for a Common School District. |
| SB 314 | Caption: Relating to providing for fixing the compensation of the District Judge in the 109th Judicial District, providing for a limitation on the amount of the annual compensation and providing that the compensation shall be within the discretion of the Commissioners Court of each county. |
| SB 315 | Caption: Relating to the Firemen and Policemen pension fund in cities of more than two hundred seventy-five thousand (275,000) and less than three hundred thousand (300,000) inhabitants; providing for enlarging the membership in the board of trustees; increasing the maximum deductible; making participation compulsory within specified age limit. |
| SB 321 | Caption: Relating to the licensing of certain child-care institutions by the State Department of Public Welfare, to provide that certain child-caring facilities as defined in the Act shall not be required to obtain a license to operate from the State Department of Public Welfare. |
| SB 511 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the School Land Board to exchange certain state-owned school land for privately-owned land, and authorizing the Land Commissioner to issue patents to private individuals covering said state-owned school land. |
| SB 521 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain state agencies to enter jointly into a contract or lease for a term of twenty (20) years, for land and a building thereon located or to be located in El Paso County, to be used for regional or district offices. |
| SCR 35 | Caption: Granting W. J. Holliday permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 38 | Caption: Granting Elgean Shield permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 58 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S. B. No. 315 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections. |
| SR 12 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Robert Dooley and Mrs. Bedford Fancher to the State Capitol. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Welcoming Juan Fernandez-Montreal, Salvador Beltran, David Navarro-Martinez, and Aurelio Navarro-Martinez to the State Capitol. |
| SR 62 | Caption: Recognizing the National Cotton Council on the occasion of their 25th anniversary. |
| SR 163 | Caption: Welcoming Henry C. Summerford, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 171 | Caption: Welcoming Señora Garcia Roel to the State Captiol. |
| SR 190 | Caption: Welcoming Jewell M. Ellis, Bill Ellis, and Dorothy Vannerson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 232 | Caption: Welcoming Cyrus H. Lambert to the State Capitol. |
| SR 249 | Caption: Welcoming Charles Henderson and W. L. Watson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 417 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Norris E. Hammond to the State Capitol. |
| SR 418 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Flowers to the State Capitol. |
| SR 434 | Caption: Welcoming Susan Torrey and Karen Weber to the State Capitol. |
| SR 453 | Caption: Welcoming Hugh McMillan to the State Capitol. |
| SR 496 | Caption: Welcoming the members of the Lydia Patterson Institute Choir of El Paso to the State Capitol. |
| SR 563 | Caption: In memory of S. McIntosh Murchison. |
| SR 569 | Caption: Recognizing the children of a Member of the Senate as Mascots of the Senate. |
| SR 617 | Caption: Recognizing Virginia Stoddard on the occasion of her retirement. |
| 57th Regular Session | |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to select and convey to the County of El Paso, Texas, a tract of land upon the campus of Texas Western College as a stadium site. |
| SB 32 | Caption: Relating to validating all acts and proceedings of the Commissioners Court of Hudspeth County, Texas in creating the Fort Hancock Municipal Water District of Hudspeth County, Texas. |
| SB 44 | Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code to permit the use, in cities of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants in which voting machines are used, of paper ballots under certain conditions. |
| SB 60 | Caption: Relating to certain mortgages, deeds of trust and other security instruments covering both real and personal property and machinery affixed to realty located in the same county; and providing that where such an instrument is deposited for filing and recordation in any such county as a mortgage or deed of trust on real property an affidavit descriptive of such instrument may be filed and indexed in the Chattel Mortgage Records and registered in the book of Chattel Mortgage Records on Realty. |
| SB 63 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas for an on behalf of Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas, to acquire by purchase, exchange or otherwise tracts of land in El Paso County, Texas, contiguous and/or adjacent to the campus of Texas Western College when deemed necessary by the Board of Regents. |
| SB 100 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Accountancy Act of 1945 relating to the regulation and licensing of persons to practice public accountancy in this state. |
| SB 126 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Midland County to pay the District Judge of the 142nd Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the state. |
| SB 180 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code to empower the State Board of Insurance to regulate the writing of insurance against loss by hail on farm crops. |
| SB 230 | Caption: Relating to the conservation, storage and ownership of natural gas, and granting the right of eminent domain in underground reservoirs for the injection and storage of natural gas therein and the withdrawal of natural gas therefrom by any natural gas public utility or natural gas pipeline engaged in either or both the transportation or distribution of natural gas. |
| SB 238 | Caption: Relating to extending the time for payment of all notes or obligations executed by purchasers of school land for the unpaid balance of principal due the state thereon which are due or will become due prior to November 1, 1966, and providing for a further extension thereon under certain conditions. |
| SB 275 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the county board of school trustees of any county over 100,000 population according to the most recent Federal Census to create a separate independent school district to contain the same territory then contained in any city assumed or controlled school district in the county where such district extends beyond the city limits. |
| SB 360 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the fireman and policemen pension fund. |
| SB 361 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that the rules of excluding testimony be changed so that husband and wife can more fully testify and be subject to broader rules of cross-examination when used as a witness for the other. |
| SB 362 | Caption: Relating to amending Title 10 entitled Appeal and Writ of Error of the Code of Criminal Procedure providing the time, contents, and rules for the filing of briefs in the Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| SB 363 | Caption: Relating to amending the Adult Probation and Parole Law of 1957 by providing that probated sentences may be granted in all felony cases and providing that juries in the trial of all criminal felony cases on a plea of guilty or not guilty may recommend probation of any sentence in such felony criminal action where the defendant has not therefore been convicted of a felony in this or any other state. |
| SB 364 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas so as to change the minimum penalty for murder from two to five years in the penitentiary. |
| SB 365 | Caption: Relating to providing that defendants may put up cash money or the equivalent thereof in approved securities in lieu of a bond or recognizance in all cases before District or County Courts where bail is allowed under existing law; providing for a forfeiture, the safe keeping and return of same, the procedure and construction in regard thereto. |
| SB 386 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide for dividing Water Improvement Districts organized and operated, when such Districts are operated under contract with the Department of the Interior of the Government of the United States, into divisions for the election of Directors thereof. |
| SB 387 | Caption: Relating to the taking of a statement from an injured person; relating to the negotiation of a settlement from an injured person. |
| SB 397 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute exempting certain property from taxation. |
| SB 463 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a conservation and reclamation district known as El Paso County Water Control and Improvement District-Westway. |
| SB 474 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to making bonds issued by any city having a population of 275,000 or more for airport purposes eligible as security for public funds and as investments for certain funds. |
| SCR 87 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either chamber to consider H. B. No. 1135. |
| SR 14 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Dennis S. Wagner to the State Capitol. |
| SR 74 | Caption: Welcoming Jack White, Phil Kessel, Ted Voegel, Roy Shanks, and Gene Adams to the State Capitol. |
| SR 123 | Caption: Directing the creation of The Cost of Government Study Committee. |
| SR 249 | Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Otis Baker, Jr., et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 360 | Caption: Welcoming E. M. Syverson, E. M. Schur, Vern De Bolt, Don Klein, Lee Philips, Jay Alvey, C. M. Hardy, and John Ben Shepperd to the State Capitol. |
| SR 365 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Toyah High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 436 | Caption: Welcoming Sandra Manning, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 530 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kessel to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to creating El Paso County Water Authority, a Conservation Authority comprising certain territory contained within El Paso County, Texas, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and processing, transporting, and distributing the same, providing drainage and sanitary sewers and facilities. |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute, relating to the Special Fuels Tax Law, providing for the collection and payment of taxes by suppliers, dealers, and users with exceptions, relating to permits to sell or use special fuels; prescribing records to be kept and invoices to be issued, relating to the reporting and payment of taxes to this state and authorizing a credit for tax paid on special fuels thereafter used in other states; to make statutory and civil penalties uniform with other tax laws. |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to and fixing the minimum and maximum salaries of the official shorthand reporters for the 109th, 83rd, and 143rd Judicial Districts of Texas. |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act granting the Colorado River Municipal Water District the power and authority to study, correct, prevent, control, regulate and eliminate artificial and natural pollution, including oil field brine pollution, of the Colorado River and its tributaries upstream from the north boundary line of Coke County, Texas, and to acquire sources of salt water by any means, and to sell salt water and fresh water for mining, oil field flooding and repressuring, industrial, manufacturing or other purposes. |
| SB 57 | Caption: Relating to enabling any city or town to enter into a contract or contracts with corporations operating without profit for the acquisition or construction of public buildings or other public improvements. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Directing the creation of a Electronic Computer Coordinating and Use Committee. |
| SCR 24 | Caption: Granting James W. Butler permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SR 31 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Horner, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 34 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the State Board of Insurance. |
| SR 56 | Caption: Recognizing the heroic actions of law enforcement, the passengers, and crew of Continental Air Lines Flight 707 during an attempted hijacking. |
| SR 59 | Caption: Inviting Chill Wills to address the Senate. |
| SR 74 | Caption: Welcoming the family of captain and Mrs. Carl Heis to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 2nd Called Session | |
| SR 8 | Caption: Welcoming Cleofas Caleras, et al. to the State Capitol. |
| 57th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salaries of the official shorthand reporter for the 109th Judicial District of Texas and the official shorthand reporter for the 83rd Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 27 | Caption: Relating to enabling any city or town to enter into a contract or contracts with corporations operating without profit for the acquisition or construction of public buildings or other public improvements. |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to and fixing minimum and maximum salary of the official shorthand reporter for the 142nd Judicial District of Texas composed of Midland County, and the 143rd Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 54 | Caption: Relating to repealing Statutes that created the El Paso County Water Authority. |
| SCR 19 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to study the feasibility and advisability of dividing Hudspeth County. |
| SR 68 | Caption: In memory of Louise A. Dietrich. |
| 56th Regular Session | |
| SB 69 | Caption: Relating to the firemen and policemen pension fund in certain cities. |
| SB 70 | Caption: Relating to creating a County Court at Law for Ector County, Texas, and making other provisions relative thereto. |
| SB 71 | Caption: Relating to creating an additional district court in Ector County, Texas, to be known as the 161st Judicial District. |
| SB 86 | Caption: Relating to providing for an increased membership in City Council Boards of Adjustment and for simple majority concurrence in Board actions. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of County-wide hospital districts created or attempted to be created, validating all acts of the Commissioners' Courts of such counties in ordering an election or elections for the creation of such districts and in canvassing the returns and declaring the result thereof. |
| SB 103 | Caption: Relating to providing for penalties and attorney fees recoverable for prosecution and collection of unpaid losses under any contract of insurance for which any insurer is liable thereunder. |
| SB 114 | Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of county-wide hospital districts created or attempted to be created, validating all acts of the Commissioners' Courts of such counties in ordering an election or elections for the creation of such districts and in canvassing the returns and declaring the result thereof. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying and confirming certain contracts heretofore entered into between cities and contiguous Water Control and Improvement Districts affecting the water and sewer facilities of said cities and districts and the operation thereof. |
| SB 170 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act by reducing the burden imposed by graduated license fees when any one company operates more than one licensed manufacturing location. |
| SB 186 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to permit a forfeiture of the recognizance or bail bond of a defendant who fails to appear on the day set for a pre-trial hearing on pleadings and motions or any subsequent date set for a hearing on pleadings and motions. |
| SB 187 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to change the minimum penalty for murder from two to five years in the penitentiary. |
| SB 188 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to classes of group life insurance policies that may be delivered in this state, by adding thereto a provision for an additional class of policies issuable to certain associates. |
| SB 208 | Caption: Relating to validating Hudspeth County Water Control and Improvement District Number One. |
| SB 361 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by exempting from the regulation of the Securities Act private transactions of interests in oil, gas, and mineral leases, fees, titles, contracts, pooling and unitization agreements. |
| SB 389 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and approving contracts, scrip warrants and time warrants and refunding bonds authorized by counties or cities (including home-rule cities) or towns since the approval by the Governor of Texas. |
| SB 425 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to sell an estate upon special limitation in certain Public Free School Land situated in El Paso County to the County of El Paso. |
| SB 430 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Judge of the County Court at Law of Ector County shall be the County Juvenile Judge. |
| SB 462 | Caption: Relating to providing for an emergency created by the infestation of Khapra Beetle in stored grain in counties of El Paso, Hudspeth and possibly other surrounding counties. |
| SB 468 | Caption: Relating to validating the establishment, organization, and/or creation of all school districts. |
| SCR 2 | Caption: Providing for Sine Die adjournment of the 56th Legislature, Regular Session, on Tuesday, May 12, 1959. |
| SCR 28 | Caption: Authorizing the Board of Directors for Texas A&M College to raise funds and construct certain buildings on their property. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wemple to the State Capitol. |
| SR 25 | Caption: Welcoming H. A. Davis and Roy Shanks to the State Capitol. |
| SR 55 | Caption: Welcoming Charles E. Windberg to the State Capitol. |
| SR 194 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Ray B. Ward, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Gehring to the State Capitol. |
| SR 219 | Caption: Welcoming members of the League of Women Voters from Odessa and Midland to the State Capitol. |
| SR 254 | Caption: Welcoming W. N. Agee to the State Capitol. |
| SR 280 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Bertram C. Wright to the State Capitol. |
| SR 351 | Caption: Welcoming William J. Hooten, Maurice E. Hill, Wayne L. Slaughter, and Albert Ponsford to the State Capitol. |
| SR 400 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mrs. Edmund C. Lynch. |
| SR 424 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to substitute the principles expressed in the McClelland recommendations in lieu of the Kennedy Bill on Labor. |
| SR 499 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to R. E. Thomas. |
| SR 532 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the Senate to the office of Mascot. |
| SR 547 | Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Thrift to the State Capitol. |
| SR 565 | Caption: Welcoming Samuel Ygantz Phillips and Marvin Boyd to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 65 | Caption: Welcoming Tom W. Roden to the State Capitol. |
| SR 74 | Caption: Welcoming the members of Boy Scout Explorer's Troop No. 5 of Fort Hancock to the State Capitol. |
| SR 79 | Caption: Welcoming Manuel Gonzalez, Sr. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 83 | Caption: Recognizing Karin Ann Smith for receiving a Fulbright Scholarship. |
| SR 98 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Henry McDonnell to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 29 | Caption: Relating to prima facie speed limits of vehicles; providing an effective date. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either house to consider S. B. No. 39 at any time. |
| SR 34 | Caption: Welcoming Elizabeth Ann McCutcheon to the State Capitol. |
| SR 49 | Caption: Recognizing Nancy Bower for being named "Miss West Texas". |
| SR 87 | Caption: Welcoming Frank Valdez, Carlos Irrobali, Angel Ortega, and R. D. Clugston to the State Capitol. |
| 56th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to the licensing and regulation of lenders engaged in the businesses of lending in amounts of less than $100 and $100 to $3,000 inclusive. |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to providing for fixing the compensation of the Judge of the District Court in the 109th Judicial District. |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to prima facie speed limits of vehicles and relating to admissibility of evidence. |
| SR 25 | Caption: Welcoming Patricia Morgan to the State Capitol. |
| SR 36 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Frank Craft to the State Capitol. |
| 55th Regular Session | |
| SB 114 | Caption: Relating to providing for non-exemption of passenger automobiles from attachment, sequestration, execution and any other species of forced sale against any valid judgment for property damage or personal injury caused by the negligent or willful operation of a motor vehicle. |
| SB 138 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Laws so as to provide that the term "State Employee" shall be redefined to exclude members of the Legislature as to Social Security coverage under such Act. |
| SB 146 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the District Attorney of the 70th Judicial District to employ stenographers, assistants and investigators. |
| SB 198 | Caption: Relating to providing that whenever any land is annexed or added to districts organized or operating under certain Statutes, the land to be annexed or added to the district shall be described by metes and bounds or by lot and block number, if there is a recorded map or plat and survey of such land. |
| SB 199 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to Water Control and Improvement Districts to increase directors' fees and limit thereon. |
| SB 214 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to clarify such Act by removing the burden imposed by graduated license fees when any one company operates more than one licensed manufacturing location. |
| SB 235 | Caption: Relating to authorizing school districts having a population of more than 100,000 according to the last Federal Census, when authorized by an election held for that purpose, to levy, assess and collect, in addition to annual ad valorem taxes for current maintenance of public free schools, as provided by law, an additional ad valorem tax for the purpose of paying current interest and maturities on bonds issued for the purchase, construction, repair or equipment of public free school buildings and the purchase of land therefor, etc. |
| SB 268 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to increase the maximum load limit on certain type commercial motor vehicles from forty-eight thousand (48,000) pounds to fifty-eight thousand (58,000) pounds where such vehicles are used for a specialized purpose and within a specified area; providing for conditional effectiveness of the Act. |
| SB 281 | Caption: Relating to amending the Adult Probation and Parole Law of 1947 so as to permit the granting of probation for sex offenses other than rape. |
| SB 282 | Caption: Relating to increasing the compulsory school attendance age to seventeen years and requiring daily attendance for the full regular school term, subject to certain exceptions and qualifications. |
| SB 283 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the employment of children of compulsory school age during school hours of the regular school year unless such children are exempt from compulsory school attendance; fixing the penalty. |
| SB 301 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and approving contracts, scrip warrants and time warrants and refunding bonds authorized by counties or cities (including home-rule cities) or towns. |
| SB 304 | Caption: Relating to requiring persons convicted of sexual offenses to register with the Chief of Police or Sheriff; prescribing a penalty for failure to register. |
| SB 305 | Caption: Relating to immoral sexual deviations; prescribing penalties. |
| SB 333 | Caption: Relating to requiring storage garages and other similar businesses to report the identity of motor vehicles remaining in storage more than thirty days where there is not a continuing contract of, or agreement for storage, parking or keeping of vehicles, with a known individual; providing a penalty for the violation of this Act. |
| SB 357 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Hudspeth, Culberson and El Paso Counties to pay the District Judge of the 34th Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the state. |
| SB 358 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of El Paso County to pay the district Judge of the 65th Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the state. |
| SB 359 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of El Paso to pay the District Judge of the 41st Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the state. |
| SB 360 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Ector County to pay the District Judge of the 70th Judicial District compensation in addition to the compensation paid by the state. |
| SB 361 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to Fresh Water Supply District to grant all districts privileges of disposing of sewage, etc. |
| SB 362 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the principal sum due on a certain judgment obtained in favor of the El Paso Natural Gas Company against the State of Texas. |
| SB 451 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act by reducing the burden imposed by graduated license fees when any one company operates more than one licensed manufacturing location. |
| SB 481 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Winkler County Juvenile Board. |
| SCR 6 | Caption: Authorizing the John W. Kidd Foundation to construct a building at Texas Western College. |
| SCR 13 | Caption: Urging Congress to condemn new policy by the United States Labor Department. |
| SCR 56 | Caption: Urging Congress to pass a law related to the Rio Grande Compact Commission. |
| SCR 91 | Caption: Applying to Congress to call a convention pursuant to Article V of the Constitution, to consider and propose an amendment granting the power to the several or individual states the right to conserve and regulate the exploration, production, and distribution of their petroleum products, water, sulphur, and all other minerals and natural resources. |
| SR 15 | Caption: Welcoming Ewell McKnight and his wife and the wife of Hal Lambert to the State Capitol. |
| SR 18 | Caption: Welcoming the Las Senoritas De Las Rosas Drill Team to the State Capitol. |
| SR 20 | Caption: Welcoming Louis J. Ivey to the State Capitol. |
| SR 22 | Caption: Welcoming Marvin Watkins and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 29 | Caption: Welcoming the Los Caballeros and Odessa College Mounted Guards to the State Capitol. |
| SR 49 | Caption: Welcoming Wm. J. Elliott to the State Capitol. |
| SR 50 | Caption: Welcoming Ray and Harry Elliott and Ira Whitt to the State Capitol. |
| SR 74 | Caption: Welcoming Louis J. Ivey and Archie Scott to the State Capitol. |
| SR 90 | Caption: Welcoming Hulon Brown, Rocky Ford, Bill Moody and Pete Snelson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 108 | Caption: Welcoming D. C. Whitehead to the State Capitol. |
| SR 137 | Caption: In memory of S. J. Isaacks. |
| SR 162 | Caption: Providing for an investigating committee to investigate Insurance Company of Texas. |
| SR 198 | Caption: Welcoming Ernest C. Hurst and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 201 | Caption: Welcoming David Waters to the State Capitol. |
| SR 202 | Caption: Welcoming the Boys Basketball Team of Pecos High School and their coach to the State Capitol. |
| SR 203 | Caption: Welcoming M. P. Spearman and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 205 | Caption: Welcoming C. C. Cragin to the State Capitol. |
| SR 209 | Caption: Welcoming the Pecos High School Basketball Team and their coach to the State Capitol. |
| SR 210 | Caption: Welcoming the Boys Basketball Team of Van Horn High School and their coach to the State Capitol. |
| SR 212 | Caption: Welcoming George Turner to the State Capitol. |
| SR 221 | Caption: Welcoming Selwyn Webber and George Fowler to the State Capitol. |
| SR 253 | Caption: Welcoming Harry Anderson, Clinton Dean and Ed Kettle to the State Capitol. |
| SR 280 | Caption: Welcoming Joe Harbin and Shirley Lee to the State Capitol. |
| SR 293 | Caption: Welcoming Kamilla H. Key et al. to the State Capitol. |
| SR 297 | Caption: Welcoming Sally and Billy Hudson, Miss McFadden and Mrs. Robertson to the State Capitol. |
| SR 304 | Caption: Naming Sara Gibbs Hudson Sweetheart of the Senate and William Parke Custis Hudson Mascot of the Senate. |
| SR 420 | Caption: Welcoming the wives of Stanley Erskine, J. J. Black and John Reid to the State Capitol. |
| SR 471 | Caption: Welcoming Sharon Watkins, Ella Jane Noyes, Janice Rabalais, Molly Stark, Sue Martin and Mrs. Bill Davis to the State Capitol. |
| SR 477 | Caption: Welcoming Harry NOrth, C. O. Allen and Charles Boyer to the State Capitol. |
| SR 481 | Caption: Welcoming Joe Mueller and his wife and daughter to the State Capitol. |
| SR 513 | Caption: Welcoming Luther L. Herring to the State Capitol. |
| SR 516 | Caption: Welcoming Albert Armendariz to the State Capitol. |
| 55th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to providing for a State Insurance Building; fixing limit on an existing indefinite appropriation; vesting authority in the State Building Commission to select and acquire a building site with advice of a Legislative Committee; providing severability. |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the execution of easements on state lands by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in connection with soil conservation and flood prevention projects. |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to validating Ward County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of County Superintendent in all counties in this state having a population of not less than twenty-five thousand, seven hundred (25,700) and not more than twenty-six thousand, seven hundred (26,700) according to the last preceding Federal Census and in which there are no Common School Districts. |
| SCR 8 | Caption: Requesting a study by the United States Department of the Interior relating to importing crude oil into the United States. |
| SR 10 | Caption: Welcoming United Carbon Company, El Paso Natural Gas Products Company and General Tire and Rubber Company to the State Capitol. |
| SR 48 | Caption: Welcoming Ken England and his wife to the State Capitol. |
| SR 84 | Caption: Welcoming Kay Kelly and Bunny Payne to the State Capitol. |
| 54th Regular Session | |
| SB 59 | Caption: Relating to the salary of the Judge of the El Paso County Court at Law; amending certain Acts. |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the unexpended balance of money appropriated to the Governor by the provisions of House Bill 546, Acts of the 53rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1953, to be disbursed by him to defray the expenses incurred in the prosecution of the State of Texas v. State of New Mexico for the enforcement of the Rio Grande Compact; providing an operative date. |
| SB 151 | Caption: Relating to providing for the employment of a manger, tax assessor and collector, and other employees, by the directors of water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States and by using water from Elephant Butte Dam Project; defining the powers and duties of such employees; limiting the term of employment of such employees to two years; providing that the salaries or compensation of such employees shall be fixed at the time of their employment |
| SB 152 | Caption: Relating to defining the qualifications of electors in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| SB 163 | Caption: Relating to salaries of District Attorneys; authorizing the Commissioners' Courts of the counties comprising the 70th Judicial District to supplement the salary of the District Attorney of that district; authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Midland County to supplement the salary of the District Attorney of the Special Judicial District of Midland County. |
| SB 173 | Caption: Relating to making permanent the Special 142nd District Court created by certain Acts, such permanent court to be known as the 142nd District Court ; providing for the selection, qualifications and tenure of the Judge of said Court and for payment of his salary and expenses. |
| SB 182 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment by the District Attorney of the 109th Judicial District of Texas, of not more than two (2) Assistant District Attorneys or Investigators; fixing the compensation and expenses of said Assistant District Attorneys or Investigators and providing the method of payment therefor. |
| SB 199 | Caption: Relating to conferring powers and authority contained in certain Acts upon El Paso County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4; making a finding of benefits and excepting certain properties therefrom; and providing that no election on confirmation of the organization of the District and no exclusion hearing shall be held in said District; providing for an election for the authorization of bonds of the District; conferring all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the General Laws on said District; validating, ratifying and confirming all acts and proceedings heretofore had and taken in connection with the creation of said District. |
| SB 210 | Caption: Relating to authorizing district attorneys in judicial districts containing two (2) or more counties to employ a stenographer or clerk; prescribing the compensation of such stenographer or clerk; repealing all laws in conflict herewith. |
| SB 295 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the State of Texas to sell Public Free School Land situated in El Paso County, Texas, to the City of El Paso, Texas. |
| SB 345 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money for expense of prosecution of State of Texas vs. State of New Mexico in the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| SB 378 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to remove the limitation on the period of time for which county hospitals may be leased. |
| SB 406 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the office of county school superintendent in certain counties, by changing the population figure therein from thirty thousand (30,000) to twenty-five thousand (25,000). |
| SB 412 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to clarify the powers and authority therein conferred on El Paso County Water Control and Improvement District No. 4. |
| SB 445 | Caption: Relating to the district courts in El Paso, Hudspeth and Culberson Counties; creating the 144th Judicial District in El Paso County and defining its jurisdiction and terms; providing for selection of the judge of the 144th Judicial District; providing for other officers of the 144th Judicial District; providing for transfer of cases to and from other district courts in El Paso County; changing the terms of court in the 34th, 41st and 65th Judicial Districts; fixing the effective date of the Act. |
| SCR 21 | Caption: Granting the El Paso Natural Gas Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SR 60 | Caption: Paying tribute to S. J. Isaacks. |
| SR 85 | Caption: Requesting and urging that "The Cowboy Hall of Fame" be located in Pecos. |
| SR 117 | Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to former State Senator Hill D. Hudson. |
| SR 177 | Caption: Welcoming the members of the League of Women Voters of Odessa and Midland to the State Capitol. |
| SR 192 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Odessa High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 262 | Caption: Welcoming Mmes. Douglas Boren, Si Capps, and Jan Dunn and Frazee Capps to the State Capitol. |
| SR 263 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Bowie and Crockett Junior High School to the State Capitol. |
| SR 279 | Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Pyle to the State Capitol. |
| SR 289 | Caption: Welcoming W. E. Whitfield to the State Capitol. |
| SR 344 | Caption: Welcoming Tad Smith and Joe Worsham to the State Capitol. |
| SR 362 | Caption: Welcoming Douglas Soper to the State Capitol. |
| SR 363 | Caption: Welcoming Joe A. Morgan to the State Capitol. |
| SR 385 | Caption: Welcoming George Finley, W. E. Cook, and J. A. Scroggins to the State Capitol. |
| SR 419 | Caption: Recognizing former State Representative R. E. Thomason for his lifetime of service of democracy in the United States. |
| SR 424 | Caption: Welcoming the students of Sierra Blanca School of Hudspeth County to the State Capitol. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 387 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for refund claims for motor fuel under specified conditions. |
| HB 390 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing for the holding of elections in counties, cities or towns for the issuance of bonds of same or of any political subdivision or defined district thereof and the levy of taxes therefor. |
| HB 391 | Caption: Relating to providing that bonds issued by the governing bodies of certain cities on behalf of city improvement districts may be submitted to the Attorney General for approval; providing for the registering thereof by the State Comptroller. |
| HB 462 | Caption: Relating to mineral leases heretofore issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas covering rivers, channels, unsold school lands, both surveyed and unsurveyed, or any area within tidewater limits, including islands, lakes, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, the bed of the sea, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico now or hereafter within the jurisdiction of Texas, providing that in the event production of oil or gas shall cease from any cause, such lease shall not terminate if additional drilling or reworking operations are conducted. |
| HB 618 | Caption: Relating to defining the qualifications of electors in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| HB 619 | Caption: Relating to providing for the election of directors for a term of four years in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States; providing for staggered terms of office for such directors. |
| HB 620 | Caption: Relating to providing for the employment of a manager, tax assessor and collector, and other employees, by the directors of water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| HB 728 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by requiring the Department to use permanent identification numbers instead of motor numbers as the major identification of motor vehicles, at such time as the permanent identification number is universally adopted as the major identification of a motor vehicle by Motor Vehicle Manufacturers; providing for Texas license number to be shown. |
| HB 729 | Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code, prohibiting loans and investments by officers, directors, stockholders or their families of life, health and accident insurance companies from investing or loaning funds in any corporation or company in which they have an interest or to certain individuals; and providing penalty. |
| HCR 64 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass legislation to support the gold mining industry and remove the prohibition on U. S. citizens from buying or selling gold. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 82 | Caption: Relating to establishing in the Texas Western College, a branch of the University of Texas, located at El Paso, a School of Nursing; and making an appropriation for said school. |
| HCR 62 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow both houses to consider H. B. No. 82 at any time. |
| HR 39 | Caption: Honoring former State Representative S. J. Isaacks for his 50 years of service in the State Legislature. |
| HR 162 | Caption: Commending the telephone company employees for their work during the Special Session. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 354 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles by defining the territory which may be annexed by cities operating Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution, providing that annexation shall be accomplished in accordance with such provisions as may be contained in the charter of such city, and providing that the procedure prescribed by such charter shall afford reasonable public notice and hearing; setting a limit upon the time within which the validity of an annexation proceeding had by any city may be attacked. |
| HB 494 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by providing for certain presumptions which shall arise from the amount of alcohol in the defendant's blood at the time of the alleged offense as shown by chemical analysis of the defendant's blood, urine, breath, or bodily substance. |
| HB 819 | Caption: Relating to defining the qualifications of electors in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| HB 820 | Caption: Relating to providing for the election of directors for a term of four years in water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States; providing for staggered terms of office for such directors. |
| HB 821 | Caption: Relating to providing for the employment of a manager, tax assessor and collector, and other employees, by the directors of water improvement districts operating under contract with the Department of the Interior of the United States of America, the major portion of the irrigation works for which district shall have been constructed under authority of the United States. |
| HR 5 | Caption: Adopting Temporary Rules. |
| HR 82 | Caption: Congratulating S. J. Isaacks on his 82nd birthday. |