Legislation authored by Samuel Jackson Isaacks

Includes legislation with Samuel Jackson Isaacks as the primary author for the 30th through 53rd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
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53rd Regular Session
HB 25	Caption: Relating to establishing and adopting a probate code for the State of Texas by revising and rearranging the statutes of the State which pertain to descent and distribution, wills, administration of decedents' estates and guardianship; fixing the effective date of the code.
HB 133	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing for the retirement of all commissioners, judges, and justices of Appellate Courts, judges of district courts and criminal district courts of this State.
HB 134	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that certain corporations may make provision for employees to purchase or take option to purchase shares of stock issued or unissued of such corporation at a price or prices equal to or less than the market value thereof at the time of such sale or the granting of such option.
HB 144	Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of the District Attorney, First Assistant District Attorney, Assistant District Attorneys and Investigators of the 34th Judicial District, and authorizing the Commissioners Court of El Paso County, Texas, in said 34th Judicial District, to pay the salaries of the said Assistants and Investigators and to supplement the salary of the District Attorney paid by the State of Texas.
HB 182	Caption: Relating to improvement districts heretofore created, or attempted to be created, by the governing body of cities operating under home-rule or special charters; validating the creation of such districts and the elections and proceedings relative to bonds voted for off street parking purposes for motor vehicles in said improvement districts.
HB 317	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes concerning the extension of terms of district courts, so as to provide for the extension of the term of any trial court of record, and providing the procedure for extension and adjournment.
HB 546	Caption: Relating to appropriating money for expenses of prosecution of State of Texas vs. State of New Mexico, et al, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
HB 780	Caption: Relating to establishing in the Texas Western College, a branch of the University of Texas, located at El Paso, a School of Nursing, providing for supervision of said School and authorizing the conferring of appropriate degrees; and making an appropriation for said School for the years beginning September 1, 1953, and September 1, 1954.
HB 902	Caption: Relating to authorizing the expenditure of a portion of the funds in the Professional Engineers' Fund for the benefit of the Texas Engineers Library at College Station, Texas, during the biennium ending August 31, 1955; appropriating funds for this purpose.
HCR 101	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. B. No. 25 at any time.
HCR 102	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the House to consider H. B. No. 133 at any time.
HR 294	Caption: Commending the U. S. Senator from Texas, Price Daniel, for his work to restore control of the submerged lands to the State.
52nd Regular Session
HB 290	Caption: Relating to providing a method by which a corporation may adopt and carry out a plan for the allotment and sale of shares of stock to its employees, including officers of such corporation, or of subsidiary corporations, at a price equal to or less than the market value thereof, upon such terms and conditions and under such restrictions as its directors may prescribe.
HB 321	Caption: Relating to the construction, acquisition and operation of automotive parking stations by cities and towns of not less than 50,000 population, (herein called "Eligible Cities") and providing for the financing thereof.
HB 385	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Liquor Control Act so as to provide that any person may bring into this State from any other State not more than one quart of liquor for his own personal use if the required State tax thereon is paid and stamp affixed; and prohibiting any person from importing or bringing in or causing to be brought in any liquor from without the United States unless he is the holder of a permit authorizing him to do so.
HB 462	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that in any County containing a home rule city the Commissioner's Court and City Council may cooperate in forming a City-County Health Unit and combined health units of any political subdivision appropriate funds to the combined unit.
HB 482	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation by the State, County, Municipalities, and all other taxing units, property owned by garden clubs incorporated as educational institutions used only for the purpose of a home or clubhouse or other purposes strictly for use under their charters which said garden clubs are incorporated for any educational purposes, and without profit.
HB 740	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell to R.C. Ivey School Section 14, Block A, Certificate 7036, T.& P. Ry. Co. Survey in Hudspeth County, at a price of $7.25 per acre under the terms and conditions and limitations provided by Statute for the sale of Surveyed Public Free School Lands, and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
HCR 111	Caption: Granting Hope M. Smith, et al., permission to sue the State of Texas.
HJR 29	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that in redistricting the Senatorial Districts that it be done on the population instead of the qualified electors.
HJR 34	Caption: Proposing an amendment to provide for the selection, tenure, retention, and removal of members of the appellate courts of Texas, and providing relevant changes and additions.
HR 20	Caption: Urging the Senators and Representatives from Texas in Congress to institute impeachment proceedings against Justice William Douglas.
HR 228	Caption: In memory of Judge Ballard Coldwell of El Paso.
HR 231	Caption: In memory of former Representative Ben H. Sharpe of Paris.
HR 246	Caption: Amending Section 1 of Rule 2 of the 51st House so that Members may not receive compensation other than their salary and that the Enrolling Clerk, Engrossing Clerk, and Sergeant-at-Arms are selected by the Speaker and subject to the rules of other employees of the House.
51st Regular Session
HB 83	Caption: Relating to defining mobs and lynching and defining lynching in the first degree and lynching in the second degree; prescribing penalties therefor; providing the duties of the District Attorneys with respect to the Act; providing that this Act shall not repeal existing laws relating to unlawful assemblies, rioting, and offenses against the person.
HB 135	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Livestock Sanitary Commission for the enforcement of House Bill No. 19 of the Fiftieth Legislature, entitled "Livestock - Foot and Mouth Disease - Quarantine."
HB 261	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to exemptions of jurors who are liable to jury services in district and county Courts.
HB 262	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide for a more efficient legal method of arbitration, providing the necessary procedure therefor, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 263	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, further regulating the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages by providing incorporated cities and towns with the power to levy and collect license fees, in the exercise of their police powers, for the regulation of persons holding certain types of permits to sell alcoholic beverages; providing penalties for the sale of alcoholic beverages without the payment of such licence fee; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause.
HB 265	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to the selection of jurors for services in the districts and county courts; providing for the appointment of jury commissioners; providing for the excuse of jurors in certain instances.
HB 328	Caption: Relating to providing procedure by summary sale for enforcement and foreclosure of tax liens on real property by the State, county, cities, towns, districts and all other subdivisions of government with taxing power, eliminating the necessity of foreclosure of tax liens by suits in courts; appealing all laws in conflict; providing that if any part of this law be held unconstitutional, then the remaining shall be unaffected.
HB 784	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation, and authorizing the Advisory Judicial Council of the State of Texas to employ experts and clerical help for the purpose of studying and investigating the various administrative agencies, bureaus and commissions of the State of Texas and preparing a Uniform Procedure Act for such administrative agencies to be submitted to the legislature for consideration.
HB 870	Caption: Relating to amend certain Act relative to "Employees' Retirement System of Texas" by including therein District Offices and providing for any ten (10) consecutive years of service.
HB 879	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Executive Secretary-Director of the State Commission for the Blind to approve payrolls and other evidences of indebtedness for payment after policies covering such indebtedness have been authorized by the State Commission for the Blind; repealing all laws and parts of laws only to the extent of the conflict with the provisions of this Act.
HB 913	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, prescribing standards of accreditation for Professional Schools of Nursing, qualifications for registration by examination, annual renewal license fees, practicing without a license; providing a saving clause.
HB 916	Caption: Relating to accepting title to land in El Paso County, tendered to the State of Texas for use by the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas as Agricultural Experimental Station, Substation No. 17.
HJR 11	Caption: Proposing an Amendment to Section 2 of Article VI of the Constitution, repealing the provision making the payment of a Poll Tax a qualification of an elector; providing for the necessary election, proclamation and publication by the Governor.
HJR 30	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article Five (5) of the State Constitution relating to powers of the State judicial branch; providing for the issuance of a proclamation thereof by the Governor.
HJR 46	Caption: Amending certain Joint Resolutions so that the election to be held thereon shall be on November 8, 1949.
HR 30	Caption: In memory of former State Representative John E. Quaid.
HR 95	Caption: In memory of Haymon Krupp of El Paso.
HR 268	Caption: Congratulating State Representative Read Granberry on his 50th birthday.
51st 1st Called Session
HB 12	Caption: Relating to providing procedure by summary sale for enforcement and foreclosure of tax liens on real property by the State, county, cities, towns, districts and all other subdivisions of government with taxing power, eliminating the necessity of foreclosure of tax liens by suits in courts; providing that all taxes collected before the effective date of September 1, 1955 be allocated to a building fund for State Hospitals; providing for repeal of all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing that if any part of this Act or any section thereof shall be held unconstitutional, then the remaining part shall be unaffected thereby and shall remain in full force and effect as the express intent of the Legislature of Texas.
HCR 25	Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the United States Constitution establishing term limits on the President.
50th Regular Session
HB 19	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Livestock Sanitary Commission of Texas to establish quarantines against other States, territories and foreign countries and portions and subdivisions of the State of Texas in order to prevent an outbreak of foot and mouth disease; prescribing penalties for a violation of quarantines; making appropriations for the enforcement of this Act.
HB 107	Caption: Relating to creating the "Texas Textbook Committee"; providing for penalty for violation of terms of Act; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict; providing that any partial invalidity of this Act shall not affect other parts hereof.
HB 156	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, in regard to apportioning the State into Representative Districts.
HB 231	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that the salary of the Judge of the County Court at Law of El Paso County shall be Fifty-five Hundred Dollars ($5500) annually.
HB 232	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide for injunctive proceedings against companies loaning money at usurious interest.
HB 233	Caption: Relating to defining mobs and lynching and defining lynching in the first degree and lynching in the second degree, prescribing penalties therefor; repealing all laws and parts of laws therewith.
HB 234	Caption: Relating to appropriating funds to the State Department of Agriculture, for the purpose of purchasing equipment, automobiles and trucks, for the Weights and Measures Division, for the payment of necessary travel and contingent expense in connection with the purchase and operation of same.
HB 262	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to create and maintain a horticultural laboratory at Texas Substation No. 17, located in Ysleta, Texas, and making an emergency appropriation for the establishment of same and its maintenance until September 1, 1947.
HB 263	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to provide that certain cities shall have the power to extend boundary limits and annex additional territory containing another incorporated city or town.
HB 292	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that Law Licenses shall be granted without requirements of passage of State Bar Examination as to any subject which the candidate has satisfactorily passed prior to entering the Military Service or Merchant Marine Service of the United States.
HB 400	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, to protect executors under certain conditions.
HB 553	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article relative to driving a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
HB 604	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the deficiency incurred by the State Board of Education in their per diem and travel expense claims for the year 1943-1944 and for which no appropriation has heretofore been made.
HB 742	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Fund to reimburse J. I. Driscoll, Clerk of the Court of Civil Appeals, 8th Supreme Judicial District of Texas, for money paid to the Comptroller of the State of Texas, properly belonging to him, through error, during the years 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946.
HB 796	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for juvenile officers in counties having a certain population; providing a repealing clause, a saving clause.
HB 802	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas, by adding a provision permitting the trial court to, within its discretion, waive the defendant's presence in misdemeanor cases when the punishment, or any part thereof, is imprisonment in jail.
HB 849	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that a juvenile appealing from a judgment to a Court of Civil Appeals shall not be required to file an appeal bond.
HB 875	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by authorizing certain school districts and cities to build or purchase buildings and grounds for the purpose of constructing gymnasia, stadia, or other recreational facilities.
HCR 33	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to amend the caption of H.B. No. 231.
HCR 94	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 292 from the Governor.
HCR 161	Caption: Directing the Engrossing Clerk of the House to prepare and deliver a copy of H.B. No. 875 to the Senate.
HCR 199	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 428 from the Governor.
HR 56	Caption: Providing for a Committee for examination in regard to secretaries and typists.
HR 223	Caption: In memory of Ray E. Sherman, former Mayor of El Paso, Texas.
49th Regular Session
HB 13	Caption: Relating to appropriating funds to the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in the sum of Thirteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty-five Dollars ($13,255.00) as an emergency appropriation to be expended before September 1, 1945, to enable said Institution to further study a plant disease known at "cotton wilt" or verticillium wilt, which is becoming prevalent in some sections of the State and is preventing the normal production to an alarming extent, in addition to its injury to the fiber and staple of cotton, and it is likely to spread over a vast area of the cotton producing area of the State.
HB 25	Caption: Relating to creating the "Texas State Textbook Committee"; providing for the qualifications and terms of office for the members.
HB 31	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that whenever any property of an estate is ordered to be sold, and a bound made by the executor or administrator therefor, that same be in an amount equal to the value totally received by said estate from said sale, if the surety of said bond is a domestic or foreign corporation permitted to do business in this State.
HB 121	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that bonds made by surety companies authorized to write such bonds in the State of Texas may be in the amount of the value of the personal property belonging to such estate, plus a reasonable amount to cover the rents, revenues and income derived from the renting or use of real estate belonging to such estate.
HB 123	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to change the bond requirements of a guardian when selling real estate of a ward.
HB 125	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so that when executors' and administrators' bonds are made by either domestic or foreign corporations permitted to do business in this State, such bonds may be in a sum of the estimated value of the personal property belonging to such estate, plus such reasonable estimated amount as may be found necessary by the court for the protection of such estate.
HB 133	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes apportioning the State into Representative Districts in accordance with the provisions of Section 25 and 26 of Article III of the Constitution of Texas.
HB 162	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes defining the term "injury" or "personal injury" so as to include occupational diseases.
HB 175	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to exempt from inheritance tax of the intangible personal property of a non-resident under certain conditions.
HB 350	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to costs in the Supreme Court.
HB 353	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that some member or employee of each District Board of Trustees enter into a bond in the sum of fifty per cent (50%) of the value of books consigned to such board.
HB 362	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation, and authorizing the creation of a Committee to be appointed by the Supreme Court from the Bench and Bar of the State for the purpose of investigating the Judicial System and thereafter reporting to the Legislature on a system of judicial reform in Texas.
HB 504	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article, providing persons serving in the armed forces of the United States shall have power to make a last will and testament, and repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 517	Caption: Relating amending certain Article relating to the extension of terms of district courts, so as to make the order of extension fairer and less subject to attack.
HB 552	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relative to injunction statutes against loan companies.
HB 667	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the filling of vacancies in the Board of School Trustees in all cities constituting independent school districts which have assumed control of their public free schools, and prescribing the term which such appointees shall serve, and requiring the filling of any such vacancy for the remaining unexpired term at the next general school election.
HCR 3	Caption: Providing a Joint Session to hear a message from Governor.
HCR 37	Caption: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the House to make corrections to H.B. No. 13.
HCR 47	Caption: Designating the week beginning February 19, 1946, as Texas Centennial Statehood Week.
HCR 116	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk to make corrections in H.B. No. 353.
HCR 119	Caption: Regarding the appointment of certain committees.
HCR 120	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 121 from Governor's office.
HJR 27	Caption: Proposing amendments repealing those parts of the Constitution making the payment of a Poll Tax a requisite for voting and authorizing the Legislature to enact laws to enforce the collection of Poll Taxes, and providing for registration of voters as a requisite of suffrage.
HR 27	Caption: In memory of Major Richard F. Burges of El Paso.
HR 61	Caption: Relating to use of rooms in Capitol building.
HR 188	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
48th Regular Session
HB 12	Caption: Relating to regulating the granting of electric power and transmission line right of way easements, or leases of sites for electric substations and the easements thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, on and across public lands of Texas.
HB 27	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to the deliberations and misconduct of jurors.
HB 34	Caption: Relating to authorizing Courts of record to declare rights, status and other legal relations, to enter declaratory judgments, to determine questions of construction or validity arising under a written instrument, Statute, ordinance, contract, or franchise.
HB 43	Caption: Relating to validating, confirming, approving and legalizing all warrants heretofore authorized and issued by any County for the purpose of constructing a livestock and agricultural exhibition building within said County where such livestock and agricultural exhibition building has been constructed.
HB 45	Caption: Relating to accepting certain parcels or tracts of land lying adjacent to the territory of the State of Texas, which were acquired by the Government of the United States of America by virtue of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States signed February 1, 1933, and ceded by the United States of America to the State of Texas by an Act of Congress approved February 9, 1940.
HB 48	Caption: Relating to appropriating from any funds of the State not heretofore appropriated the sum of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000) to pay the salary or salaries of any Special Commissioner or Commissioners of any of the Courts of Civil Appeals heretofore appointed, and who have qualified as such, and who have served and who are serving as such, and for whose salaries no appropriation has heretofore been made.
HB 59	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article, providing that there shall be taxed as costs for attorney's fee one-half of the amount of the judgment rendered under said Article, and providing for a minimum amount of said attorney's fee costs.
HB 78	Caption: Relating to amending Articles relating to the selection of jurors for service in the district and county courts.
HB 128	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by apportioning the State into Representative Districts in accordance with the provisions of Section 25 and 26 of Article III of the Constitution of Texas.
HB 304	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to make unlawful the carrying of any chain, or links of a chain, or metal, or hard substance, or implement, or instrument of any kind which is capable of inflicting certain death or serious bodily injury, or which may be used for purposes of offense or defense.
HB 328	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide that counties having a population of more than one hundred and twenty-five thousand (125,000) according to the last Federal Census may employ a competent assistant to the County Superintendent at an annual salary not to exceed Twenty-eight Hundred Dollars ($2800), and may also employ such other assistants as necessary provided the aggregate amount of the salaries of such other assistants shall not exceed Eighteen Hundred Dollars ($1800) annually.
HB 329	Caption: Relating to creating the "Texas State Textbook Committee" providing the qualifications and terms of office for the members of said Committee, providing for meetings of said Committee, establishing and creating the duties of said Committee, providing for adoption of multiple lists of textbooks for use in the public schools of the State, providing for the selection and purchase of textbooks from the adopted multiple lists by proper school authorities, providing for the compensation of the members of said committee, providing for penalty for violation of terms of Act, repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
HB 641	Caption: Relating to amending franchise tax law relative to giving notice of liens against property.
HB 660	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities in Texas to own and operate electric properties situated in part in Texas and in part in New Mexico, and to issue negotiable revenue bonds for the purpose of acquiring such properties.
HB 676	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the annual payment from the income of any utility operated by any City or Town, including Home Rule Cities, of moneys in lieu of school taxes to any School District situated in any such City or Town.
HCR 2	Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the House and Senate to hear a message by the Governor.
HCR 23	Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the House and Senate to hear an address by James A. Farley.
HCR 118	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 660.
HCR 147	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 641 from the Governor's office.
HR 20	Caption: Inviting U.S. Congressman James A. Farley to address the House.
HR 97	Caption: Designating Belle Fenley as a Mascot of the House.
47th Regular Session
HB 65	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts agreeable to certain provisions of the State Constitution.
HB 66	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing that a defendant filing a plea of privilege shall endorse the plea with his Post Office address and that service of a copy of a controverting plea showing the date of the hearing on such plea may be had by registered mail directed to the party claiming such privilege at the Post Office address given on the plea of privilege.
HB 67	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to the extension of terms of district courts and providing for the extension of the term of any trial court of record, and providing the procedure for extension and adjournment.
HB 68	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court to establish Civil Service for certain County government employees; authorizing the election or appointment of a Civil Service Commission; providing for the adoption of a code of rules and regulations for employees subject to Civil Service.
HB 70	Caption: Relating to promoting the proper conservation and wise utilization of the State's underground waters; prescribing certain penalties for the willful taking, diversion, appropriation, or waste of public underground waters.
HB 71	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to apportioning the State into Representative Districts agreeable to certain provisions of the State Constitution.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to providing that any person who drives or operates an automobile or other motor vehicle upon any street or highway, or upon any street or alley within the limits of an incorporated city, town or village, while such person is intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating liquor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; reducing the maximum penalty provided by certain articles and increasing the minimum penalty; providing that drunk drivers causing accidents which cause the death of another person shall be guilty of a felony and providing certain penalties.
HB 175	Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes relative to providing that the governing boards of the several institutions of collegiate rank, supported in whole or in part by public funds appropriated from the State Treasury, are annually authorized and directed to exempt from the payment of tuition fees five students from certain nations.
HB 413	Caption: Relating to the granting to cities and towns the right to acquire property and business of public utilities by right of eminent domain.
HB 699	Caption: Relating to appropriating a certain amount to reimburse the growers and producers of cotton for expenses incurred during the years from 1933 through 1938 by reason of the establishment by the state of Texas of certain regulations relative to the spread of the pink boll weevil; and to pay the expenses of the Compensation Claim Board in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
HB 782	Caption: Relating to defining, regulating, licensing and taxing itinerant merchants by motor vehicle and the business conducted by them; providing criminal penalties and civil liabilities.
HB 783	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article by defining the term "injury" or "personal injury" so as to include occupational diseases.
HB 804	Caption: Relating to providing for issuing refunding bonds where the original bonds are now owned by two or more school entities.
HB 951	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by providing that whenever an incorporated city or town has qualified and operated under said Act, the power and authority given to said city or town shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any change in the population.
HB 1027	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes by providing that there shall be taxed as costs for attorney's fees one-half of the amount of the judgment rendered.
HCR 41	Caption: Memorializing Congress to grant additional aid to Texas for military highways.
HCR 54	Caption: Relating to H.B. No. 108.
HCR 120	Caption: Providing for recess of the Legislature from June 2, 1941, until July 15, 1941, or subject to call of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate or the Governor.
HCR 183	Caption: Instructing Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections in H.B. 73.
HR 63	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 75	Caption: Inviting John M. Gerner of Uvlde to visit the Texas Capitol.
HR 134	Caption: Congratulating P.L. Anderson on his candidacy for Fore and Police Commissioner.
HR 164	Caption: Requesting that Attorney General, Gerald Mann, draft a bill in relation to H.B. 746.
HR 304	Caption: Granting Elizabeth Jennet extension to complete research.
HR 305	Caption: In memory of Julian P. Harrison of Marshall.
HR 351	Caption: Amending H.S.R 236.
47th 1st Called Session
HB 22	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying, and confirming elections and proceedings had in connection with the issuance of bonds by counties for the construction of Livestock and Agricultural Exhibition buildings.
HCR 11	Caption: Adjourning sine die on Friday, September 19, 1941.
HCR 16	Caption: Relating to employment of tour guides.
HR 22	Caption: Relating to a visitor folder with information about the Capitol.
HR 26	Caption: In memory of Del. W. Harrington of Illinois.
46th Regular Session
HB 75	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for a review by the District Court of primary election contests upon allegations of fraud and illegality in the nomination of state, district, county, precinct, and municipal officers.
HB 166	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the issuance of serial coupon bonds for school purposes.
HB 421	Caption: Relating to promoting the orderly conservation, development and use of the subsurface waters of this State, and to control pollution and waste; prescribing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
HB 422	Caption: Relating to providing that any person of good moral character who, on May 22, 1937, had been engaged in the practice of architecture in this State for a period for at least of six months prior to said date and who failed to obtain a registration certificate may have thirty (30) days from the date upon which to file with the Board of Architectural Examiners in order to obtain a certificate authorizing such person to practice Architecture in the State of Texas.
HB 521	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Article limiting the territory in which mutual aid associations shall be permitted to operate.
HB 522	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article to require all qualified voters not subject to payment of poll tax to procure a Certificate of Exemption in lieu of a poll tax receipt.
HB 598	Caption: Relating to the payment of the prevailing rate of wages on public works; providing a penalty.
HB 606	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article relating to the collection and apportionment of motor vehicle license fees.
HB 778	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to reimburse growers and producers of cotton for expenses incurred during the years of 1933 through 1937 by reason of the establishment by the State of Texas of regulations requiring such growers and producers to pay for fumigation of cotton and sterilization of seed.
HB 779	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing that not more than two trials shall be granted to either party in the same cause, except when the jury have been guilty of some misconduct.
HB 989	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute concerning the extension of terms of District Courts, so as to provide for the extension of the term of any trial court of record, and providing the procedure for extension and adjournment.
HCR 99	Caption: Relating to the inaccessibility of the Archives Division of the Texas State Library.
HCR 111	Caption: Recalling HB 166 from the Governor for the purposes of collecting a clerical error.
HCR 138	Caption: Providing for certain adjournment period.
HJR 15	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing for retirement at full pay of the Judges of all District and Appellate Court of this State including Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, Commissions of Appeals, and the Courts Of Civil Appeals.
HJR 18	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the constitutional limitation of two years placed on the duration of office shall not apply to appointive offices coming under the provisions of Civil Service.
HR 187	Caption: In memory of W.W. Turney of El Paso.
HR 305	Caption: Summoning Representative W.T. McDonald before the Bar of the House to explain his recent conduct.
28th Regular Session
HB 42	Caption: Relating to defining who are exempt from jury service.
HB 371	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the investment for the sinking fund of counties.
HB 372	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the issuance of bonds, and investment of the sinking fund of cities.
HB 373	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act permitting independent school districts to invest their sinking fund in bonds.
HJR 6	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the issuance of bonds and other evidence of indebtedness by corporations; provides for forfeiture of charters and permits when corporations become insolvent; prohibits the issuance of free passes by railroad companies.
HJR 23	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment relative to term of office of public free school trustees.