Legislation authored by Pearce Johnson
Includes legislation with Pearce Johnson as the primary author for the 50th through 54th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 54th Regular Session | |
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| HB 476 | Caption: Relating to allowing independent school districts to enter into contracts with any attorney of this State for the collection of delinquent taxes; providing for his compensation; making this Act cumulative of all other laws. |
| HB 477 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to fees of clerks of the District Courts; containing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 478 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes as to fees of County Clerks relating to Transfers of Judgments; containing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 479 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes as to the fees charged by County Clerks for recording licenses issued by State Board of Naturopathic Examiners; containing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 480 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to fees which the clerks of the County Courts shall receive for their services; containing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 481 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes as to fees charged by County Clerks for recording certificates of registered nurses; containing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 641 | Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain amount of money out of the State Building Fund to the State Building Commission for erection of a memorial at the Vicksburg battlefield in Mississippi to the Texans who served in the Armed Forces of the Confederate States of America. |
| HB 642 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of one Adult Probation Officer if such an Officer has not been assigned to a court and/or district in Travis County; to provide for the appointment of a secretary; to provide for the payment of such salaries of such officer and one secretary and all reasonable and necessary expenses of such officer out of the general fund of the county; to provide qualifications and outline the authority of probation officer; to authorize the Commissioners' Court to amend the county budget for fiscal year of 1955 to provide for the salaries and expenses of such probation officer and his secretary. |
| HB 666 | Caption: Relating to providing for coverage of State Employees under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance provisions of the Federal Social Security Act; defining terms; providing for the administration of this act; providing for contributions and payroll deductions; making allocations and appropriations; creating a special fund to be known as the State Social Security Administration Fund and providing a severability clause. |
| HB 701 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to authorize the Lower Colorado River Authority to issue bonds in the total amount of Sixty-five Million Dollars ($65,000,000). |
| HB 707 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to gross receipts tax on telephone services and providing that no city or political subdivision of this State shall impose an occupation tax or charge of any sort, upon any person, or corporation required to pay an occupation tax under this Article. |
| HB 726 | Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, confirming and approving certain contracts, scrip and time warrants authorized by counties and cities of this State since the approval by the Governor of Texas on May 3, 1947, upon certain specified conditions, but excepting from the validating provisions all contracts, scrip and time warrants of counties of more than three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) population according to the last preceding Federal Census, and all contracts, scrip and time warrants the validity of which is involved in litigation upon the effective date of this Act. |
| HB 727 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund to the Texas Education Agency. |
| HB 817 | Caption: Relating to creating a Conservation District comprising certain territory contained within Travis County, Texas, and is empowered to acquire, purchase, or construct sanitary and storm sewer system or systems and additions, extensions or improvements thereto and to acquire or purchase all equipment and facilities necessary therefor, and to develop, acquire, purchase, and contract for the purchase necessary water to be used in connection therewith and to purchase or acquire all necessary lands, easements or rights-of-way for any and all the foregoing purposes; providing for a Board of Directors for the government of said District. |
| HB 818 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas so as to allow an appeal from an order granting a peace bond. |
| HB 819 | Caption: Relating to defining Radar; requiring the adoption by the Texas Highway Department of Uniform Signs, giving notice that radar is being used in the enforcement of speed regulations; requiring the erection and maintenance of such signs at certain locations by The Highway Department and all counties, precincts and municipalities where radar is being used in the enforcement of speed regulations; providing uniform procedures for the testing of radar equipment; providing for the admissibility in criminal proceedings of evidence of the speed of motor vehicles derived from the use of an electronic device which uses radio microwaves in measuring such speed. |
| HB 820 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the Texas Commission on Alcoholism. |
| HB 821 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of $178,000 to the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to operate the General Medical and Surgical Hospital of Austin State Hospital. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Providing for the arrangement and payment of inaugural ceremonies for the Governor and Lieutenant Governor. |
| HCR 8 | Caption: Directing the closing of the Capitol Grounds to motor vehicles during the Inauguration Ceremonies. |
| HCR 45 | Caption: Granting Coleman Gas and Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 51 | Caption: Granting Sohio Petroleum Company Permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 77 | Caption: Granting Evelyn Hornsby Mims and J. L. Mims permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 130 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for street and sewer line purposes. |
| HCR 131 | Caption: Granting certain easements to the City of Austin for sewer line purposes. |
| HCR 132 | Caption: Granting the City of Austin for sewer line purposes. |
| HCR 133 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for street purposes. |
| HCR 157 | Caption: Granting Karoll's, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 161 | Caption: Granting the Texas Industrial Loan Company of Austin permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 188 | Caption: Instructing the House Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 666. |
| HR 13 | Caption: Authorizing Radio Station KTBC to broadcast a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HR 119 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 243 | Caption: Inviting actress Greer Garson to address the House. |
| HR 429 | Caption: Commending Forrest M. Cox for his interest in the State Government of Texas. |
| HR 450 | Caption: commending the employees of the House Reception Room for their service during the Session. |
| HR 451 | Caption: Commending Walter E. Long and the staff of the Texas Legislative Council for their service during the session. |
| HR 452 | Caption: Commending all employees of the House for their services during the Session. |
| HR 454 | Caption: Commending the members of the Capitol Press pool for their work during the Session. |
| 53rd Regular Session | |
| HB 233 | Caption: Relating to providing that designated beneficiaries or owners shall have an insurable interest in the life of the person who makes such designation in an application for life insurance on his life. |
| HB 281 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools, acting by the executive director thereof, to execute and deliver a release of a sanitary sewer easement on certain land in Travis County, Texas, to the owner of said land. |
| HB 282 | Caption: Relating to providing uniform methods and procedures for annexing additional territory adjacent to certain cities for general and special purposes. |
| HB 294 | Caption: Relating to providing for District Courts for Travis County; to create and establish a new judicial district and court for Travis County, fixing the jurisdiction and territorial limits thereof. |
| HB 295 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to the accounting of and responsibility for State property. |
| HB 325 | Caption: Relating to providing for licensing of veterinarians and regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine; making an appropriation. |
| HB 326 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for use by the State Departments of Agriculture to pay the salary and expenses of an inspector of prescription balances and weights in Texas pharmacies, limiting the salary and expenses of such inspector. |
| HB 373 | Caption: Relating to amending the Public Welfare Act of 1941 by clarifying the prohibition against child-placing agencies charging fees, and restricting such prohibition to fees for placement, consultation, or other child-placing activities. |
| HB 392 | Caption: Relating to providing that the State Depository Board may authorize the State Treasurer to accept securities offered for deposit or exchange by state depository banks, where such offered securities are certain obligations of the Unites States and other bonds guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States. |
| HB 393 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that the exchange or commission collected by the State Treasurer from municipalities or political subdivisions for acting as fiscal agent shall never on any interest payment date or interest-principal date be less than Two Dollars and Fifty Cents ($2.50). |
| HB 534 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas to provide a greater penalty for the violations of the laws of Texas regulating the practice of Dentistry. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to provide that physicians, dentists, and attorneys engaged in actual practice shall be exempt from jury service. |
| HB 576 | Caption: Relating to prescribing what labels shall be printed in textbooks. |
| HB 773 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to publication of notice of intention to submit charter amendments. |
| HB 801 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to exempt members of the faculty of a reputable college or school of pharmacy recognized by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy where such faculty members who are registered pharmacists, perform their services for the sole benefit of such college or school. |
| HB 805 | Caption: Relating to amending Acts relating to the Legislative Budget Board. |
| HB 806 | Caption: Relating to amending the motor fuel tax relating to liquefied gas and other liquid fuels, by providing an exemption, authorizing the Comptroller certain administrative powers. |
| HB 816 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles to allow 7ยข per mile for travel of State employees. |
| HB 890 | Caption: Relating to authorizing all State departments, institutions, and agencies to grant to all employees who are paid on an hourly or daily basis and who have been continuously employed by the State of Texas for six (6) months a vacation with full pay for the same length of time as the vacation granted to employees who are paid on a monthly basis. |
| HB 895 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the transfer of certain Special Funds to the General Revenue Fund and certain other funds. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Directing the closing of the Capitol Grounds to vehicle traffic in preparation of the Inaugural festivities. |
| HCR 26 | Caption: Inviting "Captain Eddie" Rickenbacker to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HCR 37 | Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study regarding child care and juvenile delinquency laws. |
| HCR 68 | Caption: Commending the Texas Fine Arts Festival for promoting art and culture in the State of Texas. |
| HCR 81 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for street purposes. |
| HCR 82 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for street purposes. |
| HCR 83 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for street purposes. |
| HCR 84 | Caption: Granting a certain easement to the City of Austin for water main purposes. |
| HCR 122 | Caption: Commending Augusta M. Wende for her charitable actions. |
| HR 129 | Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the House to the office of Mascot. |
| HR 354 | Caption: Commending Irving Schnell and Victor Randolph for the generous supply of coffee provided to the Members of the House. |
| HR 356 | Caption: Coming the members of the Capitol Press for their service during the session. |
| HR 357 | Caption: Commending the staffs of the Legislative Audit Committee, the Legislative Budget Board, The Legislative Council, Attorney General, the Governor's Budget Office, and all other State Departments for their dutiful service during the session. |
| 53rd 1st Called Session | |
| HB 10 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for an increase in salaries of state officials and state employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1955. |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the State Highway Fund for the operation of the License and Weight Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety. |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to further defining the practice of Dentistry by adding a new Subsection in the Civil Statutes and the Penal Code. |
| HB 133 | Caption: Relating to appropriating money from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the purpose of providing curbs, gutters, fences and moving and installing electric lights along the street front of the Texas School for the Blind. |
| HB 137 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to supplement the appropriation for travel expense for Rate Inspectors, Motor Transportation Division, Railroad Commission. |
| HB 150 | Caption: Relating to regulating traffic on the Capitol grounds; providing a penalty. |
| HCR 14 | Caption: Authorizing the Texas Ranger Memorial Association to erect a monument to the Texas Rangers on the Capitol Grounds. |
| HCR 18 | Caption: Granting Ernest Loyd permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 19 | Caption: Clarifying the Legislative Policy concerning the certain course requirements of college and university students. |
| HCR 30 | Caption: Granting Joe Crow permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 49 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. B. Nos. 131, 132, and 137. |
| 52nd Regular Session | |
| HB 172 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of the District Attorney, first Assistant District Attorney, Assistant District Attorneys and Investigators of the 53rd Judicial District, and authorizing the Commissioners Court of the 53rd Judicial District to supplement the salaries of the District Attorney and first Assistant District Attorney paid by the State of Texas. |
| HB 173 | Caption: Relating to providing that a person may name beneficiaries or assignees of his choice with respect to existing and future policies of life insurance on his life, which designated beneficiaries or assignees shall have an insurable interest in the life of such insured; providing certain exceptions; providing that if the insured joins in the application, employers shall have an insurable interest in the life of their employees, that employees shall have an insurable interest in the life of their employers, and that stockholders of a close corporation shall have an insurable interest in the life of other stockholders; providing that the provisions are cumulative of existing laws; and providing invalidity hereof. |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing counties to pay their contributions to Retirement, Disability and Death Compensation Funds out of the fund from which each officer or employee is paid. |
| HB 302 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to make it possible for dishes, receptacles, or utensils to be sterilized by any chemical means approved by the State Health Officer. |
| HB 324 | Caption: Relating to amending the Motor Fuel Tax Law so as to provide for the coloring by refund dealers of motor fuel sold or appropriated upon which a refund of the tax will be made under Section 13 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law; containing a savings clause. |
| HB 472 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes authorizing the State Board of Control to establish rules and regulations for determining eligibility for interment in the State Cemetery; providing exceptions. |
| HB 473 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Capitol Guards as an integral part of the Public Building and Grounds Division of the State Board of Control; providing for personnel constituting the same; providing for issuance of commissions; fixing the powers and authority and prescribing the duties of persons holding commissions; providing for uniforms, badges, and carrying side arms. |
| HB 535 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the State Comptroller and the State Treasurer to invest Three and One half Million ($3,500,000.00) Dollars out of The Confederate Pension Fund, in certain State Warrants on the General Fund, and directing the reimbursement of the Confederate Pension Fund out of the General Fund, as funds are available; making the Act cumulative of other laws on the subject. |
| HB 545 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to exemptions from jury services so as to extend such exemptions to certain officers and employees of scheduled air carriers. |
| HB 546 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to require adequate records administration by the various departments and institutions; to provide controls over the disposal of records; to facilitate transfer of valuable records to the State Archives; to effect economies in the handling of records; to allow photographic reproduction of records according to certain standards; and to provide the admissibility in evidence of such photographic reproductions or copies thereof; defining terms and fixing penalties. |
| HB 566 | Caption: Relating to limiting this Act to certain lakes and portions of the Colorado River; providing means by which fish may be taken; providing penalty for violation of this Act. |
| HB 605 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relating to motor vehicles and vehicle license plates, providing for a system of permanent plates and tabs and for their design by the Department of Public Safety. |
| HB 661 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to the filing and recording of instruments of writing, maps and plats, so as to provide the prerequisites for filing, recording and approving maps and plats subdividing or re-subdividing real estate. |
| HB 724 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act relative to the laws of Texas relating to the practice of dentistry. |
| HB 727 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas so as to provide that law relating to nepotism shall not apply to persons holding office or positions for two years prior to the time an officer or board member related to them takes office. |
| HB 741 | Caption: Relating to providing Workmen's Compensation Insurance for certain employees of the institutions and agencies under the direction or government of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas; authorizing the said Board of Regents to require other employees to acquire protection under a group insurance plan; authorizing the said institutions and agencies to be self-insuring; prescribing penalty for failure. |
| HB 797 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to define and regulate the practice of Dental Hygiene, permitting such practice in School Hospitals, State Institutions and Public Health Clinics, vesting regulatory power in the Texas State Board of Dental Examiner providing for examinations; the issuance, renewal, suspension and revocation of certificates; providing for accomplice testimony and right of appeal; providing penalties for violation and certain exceptions. |
| HB 812 | Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relative to the taking of fish in certain parts of the Colorado river. |
| HCR 9 | Caption: Providing for a Joint Session to canvas votes cast for Governor and for Lieutenant Governor, and for a Joint Session for the Inaugural Ceremony. |
| HCR 12 | Caption: Granting Holland Page and Raymond H. Witte permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 17 | Caption: Inviting Edward Vernon Rickenbacker to address a Joint Session of the Legislature. |
| HCR 49 | Caption: Granting certain easement to the City of Austin for street and boulevard purposes. |
| HCR 52 | Caption: Granting certain easement to the City of Austin for street and boulevard purposes. |
| HCR 58 | Caption: Transferring a certain tract of land from the Department of Public Safety to the State Highway Department for the Interregional Highway. |
| HCR 84 | Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to study the organization, role and functioning of all law enforcement agencies in Texas. |
| HCR 99 | Caption: Requesting the Texas Legislative Council to study the maldistribution of judicial work among the District Courts. |
| HCR 141 | Caption: Authorizing expenditures out of the contingent fund for certain Texas Legislative Council purposes. |
| HCR 146 | Caption: Granting permission to the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. to sue the State of Texas. |
| HJR 36 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to provide for the expenditure of one-fourth (1/4) of the net revenue from the motor fuel tax by the Texas Highway Department, in equal portions, for the construction and maintenance of farm-to-market roads and for the construction and maintenance of expressways and streets within the incorporated limits of cities and towns, officially designated as part of the State highway system. |
| HJR 40 | Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the Legislature to provide for the establishment of cemetery districts. |
| HR 163 | Caption: Naming Wiley Lewis Cheatham, Jr., and Herbert L. Polinard, Jr., Mascots of the House. |
| HR 170 | Caption: Naming Russell Pearce Bridges and Raymond Owen Bridges Mascots of the House. |
| HR 272 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to employees of the Legislative Audit Committee, the Legislative Budget Board, the Legislative Council and other State employees for their assistance to the House of Representatives. |
| HR 273 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to officers and employees of the House for their service. |
| HR 274 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to members of the press for their service. |
| HR 277 | Caption: Congratulating "Uncle" Henry Blair on his 77th birthday. |
| 51st Regular Session | |
| HB 101 | Caption: Relating to amending the "Lower Colorado Authority Act" so as to authorize the District to issue bonds for the purposes set out in the Act and providing that the aggregate principal amount of bonds outstanding at any one time shall not exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000). |
| HB 169 | Caption: Relating to enacting the "State Tort Claims Act"; providing for definition of terms; providing that subject to the provisions of the Act, the State of Texas is liable for torts committed by the negligent or wrongful acts or omissions of any officer or employee of the State acting within the scope of his office or employment; providing that all laws in conflict with this act are suspended to the extent of the conflict. |
| HB 198 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making appropriation for an increase in, and supplementing, the amounts of moneys set out and appropriated for the Educational Institutions of Higher Learning of the State of Texas for traveling expenses provided for in House Bill No. 246, Regular Session of the 50th Legislature, beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1949; and limiting the travel expenses of all State employees for meals and lodging to a certain amount. |
| HB 199 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in, and supplementing, the amounts of moneys set out and appropriated for the various Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions for traveling expenses, beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1949. Relating to amending a previous Act providing a limit of spending expenses for meals, lodgings and mileage allowance. |
| HB 200 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1949, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided for in House Bill 244, 50th Regular Session. |
| HB 202 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending on August 31, 1949, supplementing the salaries designated and/or provided from a previous Act. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making certain provisions for payment of traveling and other necessary expenses of State officers and employees incurred in discharge of duties. |
| HB 238 | Caption: Relating to providing for leaves of absence without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating of all officers and employees of the State of Texas, any county, or political subdivision thereof, including municipalities, who are members of the National Guard of Texas or members of any of the Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, providing that the limitation as to the number of days allowed shall not apply to members of the Legislature. |
| HB 239 | Caption: Relating to changing the name "Eleemosynary Institutions," given to various state institutions, to "Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools", and providing a changed meaning in the name "Eleemosynary Institutions" |
| HB 240 | Caption: Relating to appropriate $70,000 to the Texas Library and Historical Commission, State Library, for the purpose of performing the duties required in respect to the Records Administration Division. |
| HB 241 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners Courts in counties having a population of not less than one hundred and ten thousand (110,000) nor more than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, and in which there is located a Court of Civil Appeals, to provide for, maintain and establish a County Law Library and repealing a previous Act. |
| HB 242 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to the disposition of bodies of legally executed convicts. |
| HB 243 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, concerning the Veterans County Service Officer-Salaries. |
| HB 244 | Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the Board of Barber Examiners Fund to the State Board of Barber Examiners. |
| HB 245 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, so as to be hereinafter known as the Texas School for the Deaf. |
| HB 246 | Caption: Relating to providing workmen's compensation insurance for employees of the Texas Highway Patron Division of the Department of Public Safety; declaring the provisions of this Act to be severable; suspending all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict. |
| HB 370 | Caption: Relating to defining the qualifications of the Superintendents of the Texas School for the Blind and the Texas School for the Deaf. |
| HB 371 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the appointment and method thereof of Probation Officers and Assistant Probation Officers; providing a savings clause. |
| HB 435 | Caption: Relating to and providing for the transfer of title to certain educational equipment held by the State Board for Vocational Education; authorizing the State Board for Vocational Education to specify terms for transfer of titles to equipment acquired for operation of programs of Vocational Training for War Production Workers, Food Production War Training Program, and other emergency programs; suspending conflicting prior Statues. |
| HB 489 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, fixing the compensation of the Judge of the County Court at Law of Travis County. |
| HB 490 | Caption: Relating to provide for applications of any District, County, or Precinct Officer for authority to appoint deputies, assistants, or clerks in his office, stating the number needed, and the total annual appropriation requested with which to pay the salaries of such deputies, assistants, or clerks authorized to be appointed in his office; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 510 | Caption: Relating to providing for the re-appropriation of money heretofore appropriated by the 49th Legislature, Acts of 1945, Page 455, Chapter 296, concerning purchase of French Embassy. |
| HB 538 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, changing the tenure of office for the State Board of Barber Examiners; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 606 | Caption: Relating to selling Austin Independent School District a tract of twenty-five and 69/100 (25.69) acres of land, owned by the State in the James P. Wallace league, survey No. 57, situated in Travis County, Texas. |
| HB 647 | Caption: Relating to the appointment of guardians for persons for whom it is necessary to appoint guardians to collect funds for the State and/or Federal Government; providing a repealing clause and a saving clause. |
| HB 670 | Caption: Relating to directing the Comptroller of Public Accounts on the first day of September, 1949, and the first day of March, 1950 and on each succeeding first day of September and the first day of March thereafter, to determine by any proper method or formula the amount of gasoline used in aircrafts and on which no application for refund of the tax has been made by any person or corporation and against which limitation has run for the period of six months next preceding the dates September 1, 1949 and March 1, 1950 and each six months thereafter. |
| HB 683 | Caption: Relating to amending the Laws of Texas relating to dentistry to provide clarification; so as to provide for revocation, cancellation, or suspension of licenses; repealling all laws in conflict; providing for the possible legal construction and declaring the Legislative intent with respect to this Act. |
| HB 705 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Youth Development Council for the protection, care, and training of children and youth of the State, and, among other things, defining its powers, duties, functions, and relations with other agencies, officers, and courts and their corresponding duties and powers; containing a severability provision as to validity; repealing certain Statutes; fixing its effective date. |
| HB 723 | Caption: Relating to amend certain Act so as to exclude State recreational parks from the terms of said Act. |
| HB 724 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of oil and/or gas in and under certain State park lands; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 725 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, defining the term "mentally ill." |
| HB 733 | Caption: Relating to amend certain Act so as to include any wild or native plant, or any part thereof; making it unlawful to willfully take, injure, or destroy plants on the enclosed land of another, or on certain land maintained for specific purposes by the State; prescribing penalties for violation thereof; making certain exceptions. |
| HB 844 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to reduce the amount of contractor's bond, relating to textbooks. |
| HB 882 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Judge of the County Court at Law of Travis County, Texas, with the approval of the Commissioners' Court, to appoint an official court reporter for said court; and providing for the compensation of such official court reporters. |
| HB 883 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to repeal a provision imposing a ten-year limitation upon the collection by suit of delinquent taxes of school districts and read districts. |
| HB 984 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the appointment for County Auditors in certain counties; providing for a saving clause. |
| HB 985 | Caption: Relating to validating all citations and notices heretofore issued in Lunacy, Guardianship or Probate Proceedings; providing that this Act shall not apply in certain cases. |
| HCR 4 | Caption: Congratulating Governor Beauford Jester on his birthday. |
| HCR 6 | Caption: Directing the closure of the Capitol Grounds to vehicle traffic for the during the Inaugural Ceremonies. |
| HCR 7 | Caption: Providing for the payment of the Inaugural Ceremonies. |
| HCR 48 | Caption: Memorializing Congress to advocate for certain amendments to the United Nations Charter regarding "the enforcement of world law". |
| HCR 99 | Caption: Granting D. D. Clarke permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 125 | Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in H. B. No. 683. |
| HCR 138 | Caption: Granting the legal representative of A. F. Martin permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HCR 142 | Caption: Authorizing the Legislature to adjourn from Thursday, June 16 to Monday, June 20, 1949. |
| HCR 146 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 985. |
| HCR 155 | Caption: Granting the City of Austin permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| HR 3 | Caption: Providing for certain temporary committees. |
| HR 4 | Caption: Providing the salaries for certain Officers of the House. |
| 51st 1st Called Session | |
| HB 62 | Caption: Relating to making a supplemental appropriation for the Fire Insurance Division of the Board of Insurance Commissioners. |
| HB 83 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that certain county officers in certain counties shall receive a salary of not less than $7400.00 per annum from the Officers Salary Fund; providing that this Act is not intended as repealing and lay now on the Statue books except those in conflict herewith, and to the extent of the conflict only, but in other respects shall be constructed as being cumulative law. |
| HCR 26 | Caption: Granting the legal representative of A. F. Martin, deceased, permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| 50th Regular Session | |
| HB 100 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the Commissioners Courts of certain counties to fix the salaries of the County Treasurer of such county; providing that all laws in conflict with this Act are repealed. |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, so as to permit mutual insurance companies organized or licensed to do business in Texas to write fidelity and surety bonds. |
| HB 174 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees for the period beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1947. |
| HB 175 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in, and supplementing, the amounts of money set out and appropriated for the various Educational Institutions for traveling expenses beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1947. |
| HB 176 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries of State officials and State employees beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1947. |
| HB 177 | Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in, and supplementing, the amounts of money set out and appropriated for the Judiciary of the State of Texas for traveling expenses beginning with the effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1947. |
| HB 251 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to the issuance of temporary registration of passenger cars owned by nonresidents of Texas; providing a saving clause; repealing all other laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 304 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for duplication of public records by photostatic and other medium of copying and reproducing, for the preservation of such duplicate records; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a severability clause; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 362 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, clarifying and amending the laws relating to dentistry; providing fees and penalties; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict. |
| HB 401 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting secondary strikes, secondary picketing and secondary boycotts; providing a penalty; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause. |
| HB 413 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to the appointment of the Assistant Adjutant General. |
| HB 414 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to the strength of the Texas National Guard. |
| HB 415 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that the Adjutant General shall be head of the Adjutant General's Department, and shall have the rank of Major General. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to providing for leaves of absence without loss of pay, time, or efficiency rating of all officers and employees of the State of Texas who are members of the National Guard of Texas or of the National Guard Reserve of Texas or of the Organized Reserves of the United States Army or of the Naval Reserves of the Navy of the United States or of the Officers' Reserve Corps; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict. |
| HB 522 | Caption: Relating to prescribing methods and means permitted to be used or set up for use in fishing in certain portion of Colorado River and certain of its lakes; providing penalty for violation of provisions of this act; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 677 | Caption: Relating to transferring control and management of certain property in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, from the State Board of Control to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas; providing that such property shall be used for the purposes and activities of The University of Texas. |
| HB 740 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, clarifying and fixing the fees for the Clerk of the Supreme Court and for the Clerks of the Courts of Civil Appeals. |
| HB 741 | Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to unemployment compensation; and relating to the changing of the name of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission to Texas Employment Commission; providing that this Act shall be severable; providing for the effective date of this bill; providing for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith. |
| HB 884 | Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of District Attorneys in certain Judicial Districts; repealing all laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act; providing that if any part of this statue is declared unconstitutional or void the entire Act shall be void. |
| HB 885 | Caption: Relating to providing for workmen's compensation insurance for employees of the Texas Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety; prescribing penalty for failure of clerks of courts in compensation cases under this law to perform duties prescribed by this law; declaring that provisions of this Act to be severable; suspending all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of the conflict. |
| HCR 205 | Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider S.B. Nos. 427, 242, 294, 363, and 441. |
| HR 41 | Caption: Commending the wife of Paul D. Baker for her contributions to the Inaugural Ball. |
| HR 50 | Caption: Commending radio station KTBC for their service to the State. |
| HR 55 | Caption: Commending Harry M. Moffett on his service as Acting Chaplain. |
| HR 205 | Caption: In memory of Lloyd D. Mann of Austin, Texas. |