Legislation authored by Searcy Bracewell

Includes legislation with Searcy Bracewell as the primary author for the 50th through 55th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

55th Regular Session
SB 69	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to redefine the words "mentally retarded children."
SB 71	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act, so as to strike the word "knowingly" from the provisions thereof relating to the sale of liquor and beer to persons under the age of 21 years.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to recognizing liability on the part of the State of Texas or any of its political subdivisions for the negligent or wrongful acts of its officers and employees in the same manner as private persons, firms or corporations.
SB 130	Caption: Relating to establishing and providing for a State Mental Hospital.
SB 165	Caption: Relating to repealing Chapter 7 of the Insurance Code relating to fidelity, guaranty and surety and trust companies.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas; re-defining the offense of bribery and offering a bribe; prescribing a penalty for violation.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to adopting and establishing general statutory provisions applicable to non-profit corporations.
SB 218	Caption: Relating to permitting the governing body of any city to regulate, by ordinance, the hours which minors under the age of eighteen years may be on the public streets and thoroughfares of such city, when not accompanied by his or her parent or guardian or an adult authorized by such parent or guardian.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to liens on oil land mineral property.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay judgment of United Gas Pipe Line Company against the State.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay judgment of Dow Chemical Company against the State.
SB 267	Caption: Relating to defining the offense of encouraging or contributing to child delinquency and prescribing the punishment therefor, etc.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas to regulate the computation of reserves on policies and contracts issued by Life Insurance Companies authorized to transact business in this State and to provide for certain non-forfeiture benefits in certain insurance policies.
SB 399	Caption: Relating to jury service, amending certain Statutes by providing for exemption of school teachers from jury service during teaching periods.
SB 415	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to Inheritance Tax on Bequests to Charitable Organizations to clarify decedents and application of Act.
SB 447	Caption: Relating to limiting the filing fees of candidates for office in counties of eight hundred thousand (800,000) or more; providing for the time of payment of filing fees for State Senator and State Representative.
SB 448	Caption: Relating to the salaries of certain precinct and county officials.
SB 474	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Commissioners Court of Harris County, Texas, the governing body of the Harris County Flood Control District, to provide for and administer a retirement, disability, and death compensation fund for the appointive officers and employees of the District.
SCR 15	Caption: Authorizing buildings and equipment for M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute.
SCR 16	Caption: Continuing the existence of the Harris County home Rule Commission.
SCR 17	Caption: Granting Russ Mitchell et al. permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 69	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to enter into a contract with the San Jacinto Museum of History Association.
SCR 74	Caption: Granting John E. Cannon and Nancy Ellen Cannon permission to sue the State of Texas.
SJR 7	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas fixing the term of office of the Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Commissioner of Agriculture at four years.
SR 7	Caption: In memory of Jesse Holman Jones.
SR 87	Caption: Recognizing W. Louis Lotspeich on being named "Most Representative Hobbs Knight of the Road".
SR 120	Caption: Recognizing Lola P. Lawrence for her service as Postmistress.
SR 141	Caption: Welcoming Ransom Bill, George M. Reeves and Volunteer Mercy Corps of Harris County to the State Capitol.
SR 153	Caption: Welcoming students of Pershing Junior High School and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 213	Caption: Welcoming Boy Scout Troop 300 to the State Capitol.
SR 215	Caption: In memory of W. W. Turner.
SR 262	Caption: Welcoming students of Henderson School and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 318	Caption: Welcoming the Southern States Apprenticeship Conference to the State Capitol.
SR 334	Caption: Welcoming students of Ridgecrest Elementary School and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 335	Caption: Welcoming students of Bellaire High School and their sponsors to the State Capitol.
SR 337	Caption: Welcoming Agustin Alva Cejudo and Jack Claitor to the State Capitol.
SR 414	Caption: Welcoming the Key Club of Stephen F. Austin High School to the State Capitol.
SR 416	Caption: Welcoming students of E. O. Smith Junior High School to the State Capitol.
SR 488	Caption: Welcoming the Student Council of Aldine Junior High School and their sponsor to the State Capitol.
SR 559	Caption: In memory of Harry G. Knowles.
SR 572	Caption: Welcoming students of Ridgecrest Elementary School and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 579	Caption: In memory of Thomas Hughes Cody, Sr.
SR 586	Caption: Providing for a portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower to be hung in the Senate.
SR 592	Caption: Welcoming students of Holy Ghost School and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 593	Caption: Welcoming students of Zion Lutheran School and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 602	Caption: Providing for a committee composed of the Lieutenant Governor and four members to arrange the space available for the Senate.
SR 603	Caption: Recognizing A. T. Roland and staff for maintaining the Capitol Grounds.
55th 1st Called Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to the regulation of certain persons who undertake to promote or oppose the passage of legislation by the Legislature or its approval or veto by the Governor, or who attempt to influence the Governor with respect to appointments to office, or submission of messages to the Legislature.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to any county having a population of three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) or more according to the last preceding Federal Census; providing for the appointment of a Board of Park Commissioners.
SR 28	Caption: Welcoming Senator Elmer R. Porter and C. J. McNeill to the State Capitol.
SR 30	Caption: In memory of R. Emmett Morse.
SR 35	Caption: In memory of A. J. Shudde.
SR 44	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. H. M. Grice and Mrs. H. H. High to the State Capitol.
SR 47	Caption: In memory of Hugh Roy Cullen.
SR 65	Caption: In memory of Gaius G. Gannon.
SR 129	Caption: In memory of John Drennan.
SR 130	Caption: In memory of C. E. King.
55th 2nd Called Session
SCR 4	Caption: Granting Thelma Jean Evans, and et al., permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 9	Caption: Recognizing November 22 through 28, 1957, as Farm-City Week in Texas.
SR 23	Caption: In memory of Jasper Arthur Neath.
SR 38	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Price Daniel, and et al., to the State Capitol.
SR 55	Caption: Recognizing Goodwill Industries of Houston, Inc.
54th Regular Session
SB 12	Caption: Relating to making certain adjustments in the incorporation, organization, regulation, and operation of life, health or accident insurance companies and accomplishing this purpose by: amending the Insurance Code by precluding life, health or accident insurance companies from utilizing the provisions of said article and requiring such companies to comply with the requirements of Chapter 3 of the Insurance Code as amended by this Act; repealing conflicting laws and parts of laws to the extent of such conflict; providing for a severability clause.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties and parts thereof composing the same, and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United State from each district, repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to strike the word "knowingly" from the provisions thereof relating to the sale of liquor and beer to persons under the age of 21 years.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to revising certain portions of the Workmen's Compensation Insurance Laws of this State; providing that beneficiaries under the law may, in cases appealed to the courts, contract for attorneys fees of such amount only as may be allowed by the Court in which the matter may be heard, the fee allowed by the Court not to exceed twenty-five per cent (25%) of the amount recovered, or $2,000.00 whichever is less; increasing the maximum weekly compensation payable to injured employees in certain cases; providing a method for calculating weekly compensation in all cases of partial incapacity, whether resulting from general injuries or the specific injuries scheduled under the law; providing that in cases of multiple injuries weekly compensation shall not exceed the maximum cases involving pre-existing disability or infirmity; requiring that compromise settlement agreements include a statement of the extent and duration of the incapacity upon which such settlements are based; excluding from coverage injuries occurring in the course of travel under certain conditions; providing for self-insurance, qualifications of self-insurers, and certain fees and expenses in connection therewith; prescribing certain powers and duties of the Board of Insurance Commissioners relative to self-insurers; preserving prior law with respect to claims originating prior to the effective date hereof; providing a savings clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts requiring petitions and cross-petitions for divorce to contain information relative to children of the parties to the marriage; making provisions relative to custody and support of children under 18 years of age in event divorce is granted; providing for further proceedings relative to custody and support and fixing venue of such suits; authorizing inquiry into surroundings and circumstances affecting custody and support; providing for testimony by parents; authorizing appointment of next friend to investigate and report on conditions concerning children, and allowing a fee therefor; authorizing enforcement of court orders by contempt proceedings after notice.
SB 138	Caption: Relating to setting forth the manner and form in which stock certificates shall be issued by any corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas and how such stock certificates shall be signed, whether by officers of such a corporation or by a transfer agent or assistant transfer agent, and providing for the use of a facsimile or printed corporate seal, and facsimile signature of officers of such corporations; and providing for the use of a facsimile or printed corporate seal and the use of facsimile signatures by certain officers of such a corporation on bonds, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness when such securities are authenticated by the manual signature of an officer of the corporate or other trustee appointed or named by the indenture or trust or other agreement under which such securities are issued.
SB 174	Caption: Relating to repealing the Stock Transfer and Sales Tax.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to mentally retarded persons and their diagnosis, admission, special training, education, supervision, treatment and maintenance under State auspices; giving certain duties and powers to the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools and the State Department of Public Welfare.
SB 236	Caption: Relating to making the 151st and 152nd District Courts, composed of Harris County, permanent District Courts; describing the jurisdiction and terms of said Courts; providing for the appointment, election and compensation of the judges of said Courts; providing a repealing clause; providing a severability clause.
SB 248	Caption: Relating to amending and revising the Laws of Texas relating to Architects and the Practice of Architecture.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to approve admission of West Virginia and Delaware to membership in the Southern Regional Education Compact on certain conditions.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to architects and the practice of Architecture.
SB 277	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the Republic to charge admission fees to all state property under the custody and control of such organizations, except the Alamo, and to maintain and operate concession stands in all State property under the custody and control of such organizations; providing that money obtained from the admission fees and the operation of concessions shall be used for the maintenance and repair of the State property and furnishings under the custody and control of such organizations.
SB 278	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the State Board of Control to be used in repairing and remodeling of the Old Land Office Building property placed under the custody and control of the Daughters of the Republic and the Daughters of the Confederacy; providing that the money expended and contracts entered into for the repairs and remodeling of such property shall be by and under the direction of the State Board of Control; directing the State Board of Control to consult and obtain the advice of the Daughters of the Republic and Daughters of the Confederacy concerning the repairing and remodeling.
SB 301	Caption: Relating to establishing a Port Area in the Harris County Houston Shipping Channel Navigation District; describing the boundaries of such area; defining the powers of railroads to exercise the right of eminent domain in such Port Area; requiring railroads to obtain a permit from such Board of Navigation and Canal Commissioners to construct all tracks in such area not coming under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission; and providing a penalty for violation thereof.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to require that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to abutting property owners and to provide for a trial de novo on appeal to any court of jurisdiction and further to provide that failure to give such notice shall be a defense in a suit to enforce any such assessment.
SB 368	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relative to the creation and organization of the Board of Insurance Commissioners, the terms of office of the Commissioners, and their duties; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith; providing a savings clause.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts extend the duration of the 151st District Court and the 152nd District Court.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to authorizing and providing a method for the Commissioner of the General Land Office to lease to the Houston Yacht Club certain submerged lands in Galveston Bay adjacent to certain tract of land conveyed to San Jacinto Bay Corporation, in deed recorded in Vol. 697, page 460, Deed Records of Harris County, and prescribing the terms and conditions of said lease.
SB 416	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the purchase of anti-poliomyelitis (Salk) vaccine to be administered to dependent children who are wards of the State in special schools, hospitals, and similar institutions; prescribing a method for procuring and administering such vaccine.
SCR 14	Caption: Granting Tennessee Gas Transmission Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 22	Caption: Granting United Gas Pipe Line Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 23	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Joint Rules of the Legislature.
SCR 29	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to transfer the custody and maintenance of the San Jacinto Memorial Tower to the San Jacinto Museum of History Association.
SCR 43	Caption: Granting Frank M. Hill permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 46	Caption: Directing the creation of the Harris County Home Rule Committee.
SCR 49	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return H. B. No. 153 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections.
SCR 54	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow each house to consider S. B. No. 263 at any time.
SCR 65	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S. B. No. 236 to the Senate in order to make certain corrections.
SR 36	Caption: Recognizing former Governor William P. Hobby and The Houston Post on the occasion of the Post's 70th anniversary.
SR 59	Caption: Proposing certain amendments to the Senate Rules.
SR 114	Caption: Welcoming the students of Saint Agnes Academy of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 119	Caption: Welcoming the students of Katy High School to the State Capitol.
SR 208	Caption: Welcoming the students of C. E. King Junior High School of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 318	Caption: Welcoming the students of Milby and Stephen F. Austin High School of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 328	Caption: Recognizing Bernard Andrews for winning the Houston Public Schools Spelling Bee and welcoming him to the State Capitol.
SR 360	Caption: Recognizing State Senator Phillips on the occasion of his birthday.
SR 423	Caption: Welcoming the students of Robert E. Lee High School of Baytown to the State Capitol.
SR 439	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Senate Rules.
SR 443	Caption: Recognizing Jimmy Phillips, Jr. for winning the Austin Public Schools Declamation Championship.
53rd Regular Session
SB 19	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties composing the same and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United States from each district.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to recognizing liability on the part of the state of Texas or any of its political subdivisions for the negligent or wrongful acts of its officers and employees in the same manner as private persons, firms or corporations; authorizing suit against the state and providing for jurisdiction and venue in such suits; limiting the liability of the State of Texas or any of its political subdivisions to the same extent as the liability of persons, firms or corporations; and prohibiting agreements waiving defensive rights; providing for settlement of claims of less than five hundred ($500.00) dollars.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to providing that vehicles used exclusively to transport ready-mix concrete may be operated upon the public highways of this State with a tandem axle load not to exceed thirty-six thousand (36,000) pounds by first filing with the State Highway Department a properly conditioned surety bond.
SB 69	Caption: Relating to adopting and establish general statutory provisions applicable to business corporations (Corporation Code).
SB 91	Caption: Relating to re-enacting certain Acts authorizing governing boards of State Institutions of higher education to require and collect a student activity and service fee, to be effective until October 31, 1957.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to raise the age from sixteen (16) to eighteen (18) years for which the court may require a parent to contribute to the support of a minor child upon the granting of a divorce.
SB 186	Caption: Relating to permitting the establishment of a period of time, preceding the regular hunting season, for the hunting of deer and turkey exclusively with bows and arrows; authorizing the Game and Fish Commission to prescribe rules and regulations in connection therewith and to prescribe a license therefor.
SB 189	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide six (6) months instead of four (4) as the filing time limit for original contractors, prescribe information to be contained in affidavit for lien, and provide for conclusive presumption of furnishing under a single contract under certain circumstances.
SB 196	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that upon a majority vote of the Board of Trustees the maximum monthly pensions of regular organized full paid Fire Department employees may be increased to One hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars per month.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes by exempting from State Bar examinations by adding the graduates of University of Houston, South Texas College, Saint Mary's University and Texas Southern University under certain conditions.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas Prison Board to purchase for the use and benefit of the Texas Prison System any or all of sixteen small tracts of land, or only the surface rights thereto, containing approximately 1710 acres situated in Brazoria County, Texas, and located either wholly within the outer boundary of the Ramsey State Prison Farm or have one more common boundary lines therewith; making an appropriation of $150,000 for such purposes out of the Prison Board Special Mineral Lease Fund in the State Treasury.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to financing the completion of construction of buildings and other permanent improvements for the M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research, and to the equipment and furnishing of such buildings.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas to be used for the purpose of constructing, equipping and furnishing buildings and other permanent improvements at the Dental College of the University of Texas at Houston.
SB 305	Caption: Relating to defining the offense of encouraging or contributing to child delinquency and prescribing the punishment therefor.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes so as to provide that when real estate is sold by a guardian partly on credit, the cash payment shall be not less than thirty per cent (30%) of the purchase price.
SB 335	Caption: Relating to creating a Court of Domestic Relations for Harris County, Texas; fixing its jurisdiction.
SB 338	Caption: Relating to providing that, in certain independent school districts, the Business Manager shall prepare and submit estimate of receipts and expenditures to board of trustees for approval prior to each school year.
SB 339	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain school districts to increase taxes for maintenance and bond purposes.
SB 344	Caption: Relating to creating the Harris County Sanitation District.
SCR 2	Caption: Granting permission for both houses to adjourn for a period longer than three days from Wednesday January 14, 1953 to Monday January 19, 1953.
SCR 7	Caption: Recognizing President Eisenhower for his appointment of Oveta Culp Hobby as Federal Security Administrator.
SCR 46	Caption: Directing the State Board of Control to transfer control of the San Jacinto Memorial Tower to the San Jacinto Museum of History Association.
SCR 72	Caption: Suspending the Joint rules of the Legislature in order to allow the Senate to consider H. B. No. 571 at any time.
SJR 5	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment permitting the Legislature to fix the salary of the Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commissioner of the General Land Office and Secretary of State; and fixing the per diem of the members of the Legislature.
SR 15	Caption: Inviting Wright Morrow to address the Senate.
SR 23	Caption: Welcoming Morris Frank to the State Capitol.
SR 93	Caption: Welcoming John Bennett to the State Capitol.
SR 94	Caption: Recognizing Governor Allan Shivers and Mrs. Shivers on the occasion of the birth of their son Brain McGee Shivers.
SR 133	Caption: Welcoming the students of Spring Branch High School of Harris County to the State Capitol.
SR 134	Caption: Welcoming the students of Katy High School.
SR 152	Caption: Recognizing Mr. and Mrs. S. M. McAshan, Jr. for their contributions to Texas Southern University.
SR 153	Caption: Recognizing Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clayton for their contributions to Texas Southern University.
SR 189	Caption: Directing the committee to arrange for the bock portrait of the Senate.
SR 192	Caption: Welcoming the Boys Scout Troop of La Porte to the State Capitol.
SR 202	Caption: Electing the children of all Members of the Senate to the offices of Mascot and Sweethearts.
SR 214	Caption: Welcoming the Key Clubs of Milby and Stephen F. Austin High Schools of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 222	Caption: Recognizing Hope Harrison Turner on the occasion of her birthday.
53rd 1st Called Session
SB 50	Caption: Relating to creating two (2) additional District Courts in Harris County, Texas, to be known as the 151st and the 152nd; providing that the courts created herein shall be temporary; appropriating certain moneys.
SCR 7	Caption: Congratulating the congregation of Beth Israel of Houston synagogue on its 100th anniversary.
SCR 19	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 50.
SR 31	Caption: Naming Jerry Secrest an Honorary Page for a day.
SR 43	Caption: Welcoming the students of Katy High School to the State Capitol.
SR 73	Caption: Welcoming the students of Spring Branch High School to the State Capitol.
SR 74	Caption: Welcoming the Key Clubs of Milby High School and Stephen F. Austin High School of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 98	Caption: Directing the creation of an addendum to the Senate block picture and recognizing a child of a Senator as Sweetheart of the Senate.
SR 105	Caption: Recognizing Carl Hardin, Jr. for his service as Reading Clerk during the Session.
52nd Regular Session
SB 23	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State of Texas into Congressional Districts, naming the Counties composing the same, and providing for the election of a member of the Congress of the United States from each district.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to the education of exceptional children; adding the education of mentally retarded children to the present program.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to exemptions of jurors who are liable to jury services in District and County Courts.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to provide that notice relating to raising the assessment of property shall set forth the value the Board of Equalization intends to place on property.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts defining the term "taxing units" and providing a method of trial in cases involving such taxing units, by adding thereto a new section providing protection to purchasers at void or defective tax foreclosure sales; providing for subrogation to the rights of the taxing units; providing for the right of re-foreclosure.
SB 114	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that no motor fuel used by a municipal corporation for any municipal purpose within its corporate limits shall be subject to the motor fuel tax; providing for refund of any tax actually paid.
SB 204	Caption: Relating to making unlawful the sale in Texas of certain defined dangerous drugs, except by drug stores licensed by the State Board of Pharmacy, and upon written prescriptions by persons licensed in this State to practice medicine by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners, and to practice dentistry by the State Board of Dental Examiners, and to practice veterinary medicine by the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, and to practice chiropody by the State Board of Chiropody Examiners.
SB 223	Caption: Relating to fixing the term of office of School Trustees of Independent School Districts, whether created under General Law or by Special Act of the Legislature, having one hundred thousand (100,000) or more scholastics according to the last official scholastic census and wherein there may be situated a City having a population of five hundred or more according to the 1950 Federal Census, and having a board of seven (7) trustees.
SB 241	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to the crime of burglary, so as to provide that any person who shall commit burglary by use of any acetylene torch or electric arc or nitroglycerin, dynamite, gunpowder or other high explosive shall be confined in the State penitentiary for any term of years not less than five (5).
SB 242	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by authorizing the State Treasurer to exchange cigarette tax stamps of the old denomination representing taxes paid at the new rate which are presented to the Treasurer for exchange within 30 days from the effective date of this Act for stamps of the new denomination.
SB 295	Caption: Relating to regulating the possession, handling, sale and distribution of barbiturates, amphetamine, and desoxyephedrine, or any compound, manufacture mixture, or preparation thereof, except those preparations intended for nasal or other external uses; providing penalties for violations of this Act.
SB 296	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to authorize life insurance companies organized under the laws of this State to invest in bonds or notes of any educational or religious corporation where provision has been made for the payment of a sufficient amount of the first weekly or monthly revenues thereof to an interest and sinking fund account in a bank or trust company as an independent paying agent.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to amending articles the Penal Code regulating the sale of pistols; making it unlawful to sell, rent, lease, lend or give any pistol to any minor, any person under the heat of passion, or any person who has been convicted of a felony.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to requiring the district attorney or criminal district attorney in all counties having a population of eight hundred thousand (800,000) or more inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to represent the county and all political subdivisions of the county in all legal matters.
SB 341	Caption: Relating to amending article entitled "Bond for Wages," providing for the payment of claims of those who furnish to contractors or sub-contractors equipment on a rental basis or services in the construction or repair of any public building.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to lease to George A. Andlauer, his heirs and assigns a spoil bank, known as Red Fish Reef; prescribing the terms and conditions of said lease; providing for the use of the spoil bank, authorizing the encumbrance of the lease; reserving the minerals to the State of Texas; providing for the forfeiture and re-instatement of the lease; providing for the removal of all improvements made thereon.
SB 343	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the inclusion of additional persons and interests within pooled units; providing for the enlargement of pooled units to include additional lands.
SB 378	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide for the organization of the Battleship Texas Commission and certain conditions relating thereto.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to provide that streets upon or along a boundary of any city referred to in said Act may be improved by such city whether lying wholly within its limits, partly within and partly without its limits, or wholly without its limits, and that the assessments provided in such Act may be levied against the abutting property outside of the limits of the city initiating the improvement, subject to approval thereof by the governing body of any other city within which such abutting property lies.
SB 387	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to Width of Motor Vehicles and Farm Tractors by exempting certain motor buses operating in a city of 590,000 inhabitants and areas contiguous thereto under certain conditions.
SB 404	Caption: Relating to amending the Securities Act so as to add the words "or association" in subdivision (n); to clarify the provisions of Sec. 24 affecting the power of the Secretary of State to issue cease and desist orders in certain cases.
SB 431	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to provide for the payment of the cost of publishing citations and notices of sheriff's sale in newspapers when the State of Texas or other taxing unit is purchaser at the sale.
SB 436	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to clarify the salute to the Texas Flag.
SB 460	Caption: Relating to amending and re-enacting certain acts so as to clarify the intention of the Legislature and authorize the Texas Southern University to offer courses of instruction offered at the University of Texas and authorize Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College to offer courses of instruction offered at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas.
SCR 6	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution relating to terms of office of the President.
SCR 19	Caption: In memory of Vincent John Lucia.
SCR 23	Caption: Providing for the acceptance of a portrait of Former Governor James Stephen Hogg.
SCR 43	Caption: Providing for the San Jacinto Museum of History.
SCR 46	Caption: Requesting the Texas legislative Council to study the Uniform Commercial Code.
SCR 56	Caption: Granting O. S. Bishop et al. permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 69	Caption: Providing for a committee to make arrangements for a Joint Session to hear Douglas MacArthur.
SJR 9	Caption: Ratifying House Joint Resolution No. 27 of the Eightieth Congress of the United States of America at the First Session, begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, the Third day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-seven, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, relating to the terms of office of the President.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing an amendment so as to provide for apportionment of the State of Texas into judicial districts by the Legislature at its first regular session after the adoption of this amendment and thereafter at each regular session after the publication of the United States decennial census.
SR 48	Caption: In memory of Mary Ann Polglass.
SR 60	Caption: In memory of Edward Thomas Branch.
SR 63	Caption: Inviting Walter F. Woodul to address the Senate.
SR 82	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. T. R. Hackett and her school class to the State Capitol.
SR 84	Caption: Welcoming students of Houston Heights Seventh Day Adventists Parochial School to the State Capitol.
SR 92	Caption: Recognizing the Medical Branch of University, Senator Phillips and the citizens of Galveston for their hospitality.
SR 111	Caption: In memory of John T. Moore.
SR 129	Caption: Recognizing J. William Fulbright and Estes Kefauver for their work on the Kefauver committee.
SR 135	Caption: Recognizing students and faculty of Texas State University for their art exhibit in the State Capitol.
SR 139	Caption: In memory of M. S. Johnson.
SR 166	Caption: Welcoming the Civic Department of the Heights Women's Club of Houston to the State Capitol.
SR 180	Caption: Welcoming students of Spring High School and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 242	Caption: In memory of Charles Timothy Parker.
SR 279	Caption: In memory of Walter Henry Scherer.
SR 301	Caption: Welcoming a group of boys from Houston enroute to Camp Stewart and their sponsor to the State Capitol.
51st Regular Session
SB 67	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the selling, offering, exhibiting for sale, or having in possession with intent to sell as food for human consumption horsemeat; providing a repealing clause; providing a savings clause.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to amending Subsection 2 of Section 2, Acts 1947, 50th Legislature, Workmen's Compensation Law for employees, etc., of Texas A.&M College; providing a savings clause.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to fees and costs in the Courts of Civil Appeals.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to mortgages, deeds of trust, and other security instruments executed by corporations in this State of the class designated in the Act.
SB 131	Caption: Relating to provide for the admission in evidence in all courts of the State of Texas of certified copies of all official records of the Texas Prison System; providing a saving clause.
SB 194	Caption: Relating to make permanent the 133rd and 129th District Courts of Harris County, Texas, and making same cumulative of the provisions of Chapter 308, Acts of the Regular Session of the 50th Legislature, 1947, page 525, except insofar as the provision therein for the termination of said Courts is concerned, which provision is repealed.
SB 203	Caption: Relating to empowering and directing the State Department of Public Welfare to refund to the Federal Government One-Thousand Eight-Hundred and Ninety-Four Dollars and Sixty-Nine Cents ($1,894.69) to make adjustment in amounts expended in excess of those found necessary by the Social Security Administration for the proper administration of the Civilian War Assistance Program and the Enemy Alien Program; providing for a repealing clause and a saving clause.
SB 239	Caption: Relating to providing for the fixing of compensation of Judges of District Courts and Criminal District Courts in Counties having a population of 340,000 inhabitants, or more, according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census; providing for validity of remaining portion of Act, if any part declared unconstitutional.
SB 241	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the State Highway Fund for the operation of the Texas Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety.
SB 253	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the equipment, support, maintenance, and operation of The Texas State University for Negroes for the period beginning September 1, 1948, and ending August 31, 1949.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the Board of Directors of The Texas State University for Negroes to erect or acquire and equip, and contract for the erection, acquisition and equipment of any buildings and fixtures, including, but not limited to, student dormitories, faculty dormitories, dining halls, libraries, student activity buildings, stadia, and gymnasia, and grounds therefor, as may be necessary for the moral welfare and social conduct of the students and faculty members.
SB 255	Caption: Relating to authorizing The Texas State University for Negroes to charge, use, and appropriate to its own use certain fees, receipts, gifts, and institutional funds.
SB 262	Caption: Relating to creating a Commission in the Attorney General's Department for the Re-codification of all Laws Relating to Children and Youth; making an appropriation; providing a saving clause.
SB 273	Caption: Relating to recognizing liability on the part of the State of Texas or any of its political subdivisions for the negligent or wrongful acts of its officers and employees in the same manner as private persons, firms or corporations; providing that this act shall not affect the provisions of the Workman's Compensation Law.
SB 274	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Commission to enter into contracts with governing bodies of incorporated cities, towns and villages, providing for the location, relocation, laying out, widening and establishment of designated state highways in or through such cities; repealing a previous Act; containing a savings clause.
SB 382	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the use of the State Board of Water Engineers in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey on a fifty-fifty basis for the biennium ending August 31, 1951, for topographic mapping of the State and for the construction and operation of gaging stations on small tributary streams.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to the removal of disability of married women.
SB 384	Caption: Relating to require the filing of any and all State of Texas and its Department's contracts and agreements with, by and between the United States and its various Departments, in the office of the Secretary of State, and requiring the Comptroller of Public Accounts to ascertain such filing prior to making disbursements and requiring the approval of the Governor to any and all such contracts.
SB 411	Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its Agency the Harris County Flood Control District, to which state general fund ad valorem taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters relating to the subject.
SB 433	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of pensions to indigent soldiers, volunteers and their widows of the Texas Revolution; repealing all laws in conflict herewith tot he extent of such conflict.
SCR 10	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to enter into a contract with the San Jacinto Museum of History relating to the care of the San Jacinto Memorial Tower.
SCR 15	Caption: Recognizing the Republic of Mexico for its efforts to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease from its livestock populations.
SCR 25	Caption: Inviting William Christian Bullitt to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 34	Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the Legislature to hear an address from William C. Bullitt.
SCR 41	Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to accept the gift of a portrait of Ezekiel W. Cullen.
SCR 53	Caption: Providing a Joint Session of the Legislature to accept the presentation of a portrait of Ezekiel W. Cullen.
SJR 18	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas creating the Texas Building Commission; providing a method of retirement for such bonds; providing for an election thereon and prescribing the form of ballot.
SR 25	Caption: In memory of George W. Cottingham.
SR 37	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to certain members of the press.
SR 38	Caption: Recognizing Ed and Edith Rider on the occasion of their marriage.
SR 56	Caption: Welcoming the students of Katy High School to the State Capitol.
SR 60	Caption: In memory of Elvis Abner Calvin.
SR 73	Caption: In memory of Stephen L. Pinckney.
SR 80	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to "Andy" Anderson.
SR 95	Caption: In memory of former Governor Ross Shaw Sterling.
SR 102	Caption: Recognizing the City of Galveston, the Medical Branch of the University of Texas, and the Galveston Chamber of Commerce for their hospitality during a recent visit by Members of the Senate.
SR 122	Caption: inviting former State Senator Maribelle Stewart Mills to address the Senate.
51st 1st Called Session
SB 6	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas for buildings and equipment at the M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research of the University of Texas.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, increasing the purposes for which money appropriated to the San Jacinto State Park, may be used.
SCR 19	Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study of certain issues regarding "mentally retarded" children accessing educational programs in the State.
SR 50	Caption: In memory of George Alfred Hill, Sr.
SR 67	Caption: Recognizing Carl C. Hardin, Jr. for his service to the Senate during the 1st Called Session of the 51st Legislature.
50th Regular Session
HB 53	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to require the County Clerk to require from persons desiring to marry and making application for a license therefor an affidavit stating under oath that such applicant have never previously married or that the immediate former spouse of such applicant is dead or that the applicant has been divorced from the immediate former spouse, the grounds therefor and the date thereof; prohibiting the County Clerk from issuing a marriage license to persons granted a divorce on the grounds of cruel treatment within twelve (12) months from date of such divorce decree; excepting persons previously married to each other; requiring the County Clerk to maintain a record of such affidavits.
HB 98	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to perpetual care cemetery laws.
HB 119	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the creation of private corporations for the purpose of operating a general commissary business and to buy, sell, and otherwise deal in goods, wares, merchandise, and equipment incident to such business.
HB 146	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles which required that acknowledgments of married women be taken privily and apart from their husbands.
HB 190	Caption: Relating to amending previous Acts, relative to providing for closing the guardianship when disabilities of minority are removed.
HB 191	Caption: Relating to amending previous Acts, relative to the execution of deeds by corporations, by including trust officers in the enumeration of corporate officers authorized to execute conveyances of lands.
HB 310	Caption: Relating to creating two (2) additional District Courts in Harris County, Texas, to be known as the 133rd and 129th District Courts; amending previous Acts; repealing all laws in conflict only to the extent of the conflict herewith.
HB 494	Caption: Relating to amending Article 5535 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas of 1925, by omitting married women therefrom, except as to pending actions, and by suspending the effect thereof for one year from passage as to causes of action which may have arisen in favor of a married woman more than six months next before the passage thereof.
HB 517	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing that certain trailers and semi-trailers which are used by water carriers as a part of such water carrier's regular and accessorial facilities and equipment, shall pay the registration fees as herein fixed and provided; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing that if any section, subsection, phrase, clause, or sentance hereof shall be held invalid, the same shall not affect the remaining portions or provisions of this Act without such portion that may be held invalid.
HB 718	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by providing for a mechanic's and materialman's lien for the security and payment for labor, material and supplies furnished for and in the construction of vessels of any nature and character whatsoever in the State of Texas.
HCR 37	Caption: Granting S.J. Weber and others permission to sue the State of Texas.
HCR 40	Caption: Granting K.C. Jones and other permission to sue the State.
HJR 50	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that the Legislature shall pass appropriate legislation to create aviation districts having all the power and authority heretofore granted to conservation and reclamation districts.
HR 12	Caption: Inviting Parks Johnson and his Vox Pop Program to put on their show for the House of Representatives.
HR 29	Caption: Commending the Texas A&M College Band and other Aggie cadets for participating in the Governor's Inauguration.
HR 156	Caption: Providing for a committee to investigate certain incidents that occurred at Texas A&M College.
HR 213	Caption: Commending Alvin S. Romansky for presenting the Vox Pop Program to Texas.
HR 251	Caption: Commending the services of Harry H. Johnson.