June 3, 1929 - July 2, 1929

Leadership

Governor: Daniel J. Moody, Jr. -  Vetoes

Lieutenant Governor: Barry Miller

Speaker of the House: Wingate Stuart Barron 

Special Session Topics

 Proclamations   Messages

• Amendments to the statutes prescribing judicial procedure obtaining in this State. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Appropriations for the support of the Departments and Institutions for the ensuing biennium. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Formation of companies for the sale of stock and shares therein, and with the sale of stock, shares and securities. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Priority rights in public waters. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Public education. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Regulation of public utilities. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Revenue for the support of the Highway Department. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Taxation and revenue. [Thu May 30, 1929]
• Amending Article 5172 of the Civil Statutes and Article 1571 of the Penal Code, where the caption of these Acts mentions matters not in the body of the bills, to correct these defects. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amending Article 6221, Title 109, Revised Civil Statutes 1925, and prescribing certain rules with reference to the payment of pensions. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amending H. B. 178 of the First Called Session, Forty-first Legislature, to clarify language regarding the due date of payment of automobile license fees. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amending S. B. 55 regarding voiding sale of lands set aside by the Board of Control for use of the Rusk State Hospital to L. P. Featherstone. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amending S. B. 62 which authorizes the Board of Regents of the College of Industrial Arts to make contracts for the erection of dormitories, contemplating the construction of dormitories at the College of Industrial Arts to be paid for out of the earnings of such dormitories and authorizing the issuance of obligations for the construction of such dormitories. Eliminating authorization of the State Board of Education to invest the permanent public free school fund of Texas in these obligations. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amending the act of the Forty-first Legislature creating the State Board of Education, to include reference in the body of the bill to appointing a State Superintendent of Public Instruction. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Providing that inspection of barber shops with regard to sanitary conditions should be conducted by the Board of Health, rather than by a board appointed by the Governor as earlier proposed in S. B. 104. [Mon Jun 3, 1929]
• Amendment of Article 388, Revised Civil Statutes, to prescribe the qualifications of directors in banking corporations. The amendment of this statute is made necessary by reason of the bill passed by the last session of the Legislature prescribing the amount in which certificates of stock in banking corporations might be issued. [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Amendment of Chapter 208, page 449, Acts of the Forty-first Legislature, to correct defects in said bill [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Amendments of the statutes to adjust the compensation of public officers. [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Enactment of a local bill to protect wild game in Denton County. [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Enactment of amendments to the present State Sanitary Laws to make needed changes and to properly protect public health. [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Enactment of statutes giving the Department of Agriculture power to enforce quarantine and other rules. [Wed Jun 5, 1929]
• Correcting defects in H. B. 207 passed at the First Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature. [Fri Jun 7, 1929]
• Enacting laws to provide for the concentration and modernization of our Texas Prison System. [Wed Jun 12, 1929]
• Amendment of Article 1265, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925, to make it conform with the recent holding of the Supreme Court of Texas. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of Chapter 314, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-first Legislature, to correct defects therein, and the enactment of laws to control the issuance of passes by persons, firms and corporations engaged as common carriers in transporting passengers and freight by motor vehicles [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of H. B. No. 159, Acts of the Forty-first Legislature, First Called Session, to correct defects therein. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of H. B. No. 180, passed at the First Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature, to correct defects therein. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of S. B. No. 37, Acts of the First Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of Section 1, Chapter 55, Acts of the Regular Session of the Fortieth Legislature, to correct defects therein. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Amendment of Section 1, H. B. No. 196, passed at the First Called Session of the Forty-first Legislature, to correct defects therein. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Dealing with conservation of wild game and fish in the counties of your respective districts. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Dealing with the filing of liens. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Enactment of statutes to give further effect to Section 50, of Article 16 of the Constitution in the formation of conservation and reclamation districts. [Thu Jun 13, 1929]
• Affecting public lands and to protect the public interest in any excesses which may be developed by the resurvey of University lands, which resurvey is now being conducted, or is soon to be conducted by the University of Texas. [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Amendment of Section 83, Article 199, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Amendment of Senate Bill No. 172, Chapter17, page 46, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-first Legislature, to correct defects therein and to make provisions for the payment of the expense of the examinations required by the Bill. [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Amendment of Senate Bill No. 60, Chapter 5, page 9, Acts of the Regular Session of the Forty-first Legislature, so as to make said article apply to Liberty County [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Authorize the Board of Directors of the A. & M. College to contract for the construction of dormitories under terms similar to those fixed in Bills passed with reference to the University of Texas and the College of Industrial Arts. [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Better provide for the printing of the Acts of the Legislature following each Regular and Special Session. [Fri Jun 21, 1929]
• Extending one of the leases on University lands in Hudspeth County. [Fri Jun 21, 1929]

Journals

The House Journal and Senate Journal for the 41st 2nd Called Session are available from the Legislative Reference Library.

Rules
House Rules (41st R.S.)
Joint Rules (41st R.S.)

Bill statistics for the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session

Status	HB	HCR	HJR	HR	SB	SCR	SJR	SR	Total HB & SB	Total
Filed	212	30	0	37	201	27	0	33	413	540
Passed	54	11	0	33	84	9	0	24	138	215
Vetoed	9	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	26	26