Legislation authored by Robert Lee Proffer

Includes legislation with Robert Lee Proffer as the primary author for the 48th through 51st Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

51st Regular Session
SB 37	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for multiple list of free textbooks in public schools.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to transfer of land from North Texas State Teachers College to State Highway Commission for relocation of U.S. Highway 77.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to enacting the Uniform Teacher Contract Law specifying persons entitled to the benefits of the Act; providing that if any provisions of this Act shall be deemed unconstitutional or void it shall not affect the other provisions of the Act.
SB 98	Caption: Relating to making appropriation for an increase in salaries and/or wages of state officials and state employees for the period beginning with he effective date of this Act and ending on August 31, 1949, supplementing the salaries and/or wages designated and/or provided for in House Bill NO. 246, Acts of the Regular Session of the 50th Legislature; providing a savings clause.
SB 104	Caption: Relating to validating certain consolidation of Rural High School Districts, Common School districts, and independent School Districts; enacting other provisions related to the subject.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of money of the General Revenue Fund of the state to supplement the regular appropriation for the State Department of Education totaling two-thousand one-hundred and twelve dollars ($2,712.00) for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1949.
SB 222	Caption: Relating to granting the consent of the State of Texas to the acquisition by the United States of land in the State needed for programs and works of improvement in the interest of flood control.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to authorizing rural high school districts, common school districts and independent school districts, including county line districts of any type, and including, under certain conditions, elementary school districts which, without a separate majority vote therein, were annexed to or grouped with other districts, to be consolidated; enacting other provisions relating to the subject.
SB 243	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, concerning the salaries of elective County Superintendents and assistants in counties having a population of more than 100,000; providing a saving clause; repealing all General Laws in conflict herewith except such General Laws as provide for a part of the general office expense to be paid out of the general revenue of the county.
SB 244	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.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to and providing for the transfer of title to certain educational equipment held by the State Board for Vocational Education; suspending conflicting prior Statutes.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Legislative Council; providing for the appointment of its members and for the filing of vacancies in its membership; prescribing its powers and duties; declaring the invalidity of any part of this Act shall not invalidate the remainder thereof.
SB 347	Caption: Relating to creating a co-educational institution of higher learning in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas, to be known as North Texas State College; providing a repealing clause and a savings clause.
SB 348	Caption: Relating to provide for the accreditation of nursery and kindergarten schools; providing a repealing clause; providing a savings clause.
SB 349	Caption: Relating to providing for the changing of a common school and other types of school districts to an independent school district.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to provide that appontments to certain boards shall give more equal geographical representation.
SB 418	Caption: Relating to authorizing and instructing the Board of Regents of North Texas State College to sell and convey two (2) tracts of land in the City of Denton, Denton County, Texas, at public sale.
SCR 24	Caption: Authorizing the disposal of a certain property of the Texas State Teacher's College.
SCR 30	Caption: Granting T. E. Hall permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 62	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study possible improvements to the Higher Education system of the State.
SCR 68	Caption: Recognizing the children participating in Boys State and Girls State.
SCR 76	Caption: Designating delegates to a meeting of the Council of State Governments in Chicago, Illinois.
SCR 85	Caption: Recognizing the employees of the 51st Legislature for their work during the Session.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas providing that the Legislature shall have the power to provide assistance and to provide for the payment of same to needy aged persons over the age of sixty-five (65) years, who are citizens of the United States and are residents of the State of Texas; providing for the proclamation and publication thereof.
SJR 15	Caption: Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Texas authorizing legislative approval to that certain Compact entered into by the State of Texas and other Southern States by and through their respective Governors on February 8, 1948, as amended, relative to the development and maintenance of regional educational services and schools in the Southern States in the professional, technological, scientific, literacy and other fields, so as to provide greater educational advantages and facilities for the citizens in the several States who reside in such region.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas so as to provide that any person who shall be convicted of the offense of murder shall be precluded from inheriting from the person so murdered and from whom he would inherit under the laws of descent and distribution of this State.
SR 7	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Mr. C. D. Allen.
SR 78	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to John E. Ivey.
SR 83	Caption: Welcoming the students of North Texas State Teachers College to the State Capitol.
SR 107	Caption: Inviting Congressman Ed Gossett to address the Senate.
SR 112	Caption: Welcoming the students of North Texas State teachers College to the State Capitol.
SR 134	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for the day to Otis Fowler.
51st 1st Called Session
SB 23	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, including Weatherford Junior College in provisions of H.B. No. 11, 51st Legislature, appropriation supplementing local funds for the support, maintenance, etc. of Public Junior Colleges.
SR 12	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Evelyn Blagg.
SR 13	Caption: Electing the children of a Member of the Senate to the office of Mascot.
SR 19	Caption: Recognizing William Travis White for being selected as president of the American Association of School Administrators.
SR 52	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Fred Brown.
50th Regular Session
SB 30	Caption: Relating to empowering and directing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish and maintain a school to be known as "the Graduate School of Social Work;" making an appropriation.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to appropriating $40,242 for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 21, 1947 from the State Treasury supplementing regular appropriation of State Department of Education for school lunch fund.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to defining teacher tenure, teacher and full time basis; the "Teacher Tenure Act."; providing that if any provision of this Act shall be held unconstitutional, it shall not affect the other provisions.
SB 151	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, pertaining to the salaries of elective county superintendents and to office and travelling expenses.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to providing for the dissolution of consolidated county line school districts under certain conditions.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the changing of a common school district to an independent school district.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment, maintenance, operation and expansion of non-profit school lunch programs in public and non-profit private generally recognized schools of high school grades or under; making an appropriation.
SB 199	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for a more efficient public school system in Texas; containing a repealing clause; containing a saving clause.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by extending the authority of the field workers of the Department of Public Welfare in administering oaths and taking acknowledgements; providing a repealing and a saving clause.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the adoption of textbooks for use in the public schools of the state on the subject of driver education and safety; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing that any partial invalidity of this Act
SB 221	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of county-wide independent school districts.
SB 222	Caption: Relating to establishing the state committee on classification and accreditation of schools; repealing all conflicting laws.
SB 228	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the governing boards of the various state institutions of higher learning to charge certain fees from all students to cover the costs of student services; limiting the effective date of this Act; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 261	Caption: Relating to providing for a more efficient public school system in Texas and equalizing educational opportunities; making an appropriation of twenty-three million dollars for each year of the biennium ending August 31, 1949; providing for repeal of all laws in conflict with this Act; containing a saving clause.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts related to forfeited lands, delinquent interest on lands which have been occupied and improved in good faith.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to fees of non-resident students in various State-supported colleges.
SB 341	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing the creation of Rural High Schools, under certain conditions; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to providing for vocational education.
SB 343	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the State Board of education to allocate funds to be used in the purchase, distribution and supervision of the use of instructional aids and materials; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act; providing that any partial invalidity of this Act shall not the other parts hereof.
SB 355	Caption: Relating to defining the State Department of Education; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act; providing that if any section of this Act is held unconstitutional it shall not affect the other sections thereof.
SB 356	Caption: Relating to creating a committee to study and recodify the school laws of the State of Texas; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by including rural high school districts, and all other school districts within the provisions of the Act.
SB 421	Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Forty-third Judicial District of the State of Texas; providing for holding the District Courts and terms in said Judicial Districts; providing that partial unconstitutionality of this Act shall not affect the remainder thereof; repealing all conflicting laws.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to facilitating the acquiring of surplus war property from the United States Government, and to assure the most effective distribution of such property for the use of Texas tax-supported higher educational institutions; making appropriations; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause; providing for termination of this Act.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to erect a monument on the field of the "Battle of the Knobs."
SCR 7	Caption: Memorializing the Congressional Representatives of Texas to request additional revenues for the Department of Education to finance the school lunch fund from Texas.
SCR 56	Caption: Designating the 7th of March as Friendship Day.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the Legislature shall have the power to provide, for assistance to physically or mentally handicapped individuals and their dependents who are not eligible for other assistance; making an appropriation.
SJR 12	Caption: Proposing an amendment changing the method of distribution of available school funds.
49th Regular Session
HB 3	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to state aid to public schools; making an additional appropriation and allocation of One Million Five Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand and Eighty-two Dollars ($1,575,082).
HB 164	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the government of the University of Texas by a Board of Regents, a President, and a Faculty; providing for possession and use of a common seal.
HB 168	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the Powers of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas.
HB 292	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes pertaining to the salaries of elective County Superintendents and to office and traveling expenses.
HB 304	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to the several educational institutions for the purchase of lease of surplus war materials and/or equipment from the United States Government and/or its agencies; appropriating any unexpended balance remaining at the end of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1946.
HB 374	Caption: Relating to providing for a more efficient public school system in Texas.
HB 585	Caption: Relating to defining the State Department of Education, defining the nature of the functions of the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, defining scholastic population, a minimum program of education, and the State Available School Fund.
HB 599	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment by the district judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Texas, composed of the counties of Cooke and Denton, or the Judge of the Judicial District of which the counties of Cooke and Denton are a part thereof, of an official shorthand reporter for such district.
HB 604	Caption: Relating to regulating College entrance requirements in all colleges and universities supported in whole or in part by funds of the State of Texas.
HB 717	Caption: Relating to providing for a more efficient system of governing boards for the Texas School System; appropriating $25,000.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary.
HB 721	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of an adequate modern, comprehensive, uniform financial record and accounting system for the Public School System of Texas.
HB 732	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for purchase of books and library materials by State Department and Institutions, etc.
HB 733	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and/or his duly appointed assistants in the State Department of Education to fix and control the school curriculum in all public schools in Texas which are supported in whole or in part by funds provided by the State of Texas and which are within the lawful jurisdiction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction; providing for a savings clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws which are in conflict with this Act.
HB 741	Caption: Relating to providing a uniform Child Accounting System for the school system of the State of Texas.
HB 745	Caption: Relating to the Teacher Tenure Act of Texas, defining teacher tenure, teacher and Board of Education.
HB 754	Caption: Relating to creating a physical restoration service for crippled children in the State Department of Education, providing definition of crippled children.
HB 757	Caption: Relating to making it lawful to kill any number of squirrels in Denton County, Texas, at any time; repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
HB 758	Caption: Relating to providing assistance for military personnel returning from the armed forces of World War Number Two, who served in the military or naval program of the United States; appropriating funds.
HB 759	Caption: Relating to declaring open season on fox in Denton County, Texas, and making it lawful to kill any number of fox in Denton County, Texas, at all times.
HB 782	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to make the provisions of the county unit system law applicable to all counties in Texas; containing a repealing clause.
HB 783	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to create a Legislative Audit Committee, etc.
HB 846	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by changing the name of the College of Industrial Arts, at Denton, in Denton County, to the "Texas State College for Women."
HCR 14	Caption: Instructing the enrolling clerk of the House to make corrections in H.B No. 3.
HCR 16	Caption: Inviting the Choir of Texas State College For Women to give concert.
HJR 41	Caption: Proposing an Amendment to reallocate certain funds to institutions of higher learning for building purposes.
HJR 50	Caption: Proposing an Amendment to provide a change in the method of distributing the available school fund.
HR 34	Caption: Providing for a Committee on Veteran's Affairs.
HR 105	Caption: Commending Harry P. Jordan for being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
HR 123	Caption: Extending appreciation of the House of Representatives to H. V. Haddock.
HR 152	Caption: Inviting Commander R.M Armstrong to address the Legislature on March 13, 1945.
HR 161	Caption: Inviting Boyce House to address the House of Representatives on March 28, 1945.
HR 196	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 201	Caption: Electing the children of House members to the office of mascot.
HR 214	Caption: Relating to program for for children with disabilities.
HR 244	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 6a, Rule 28, of the House Rules.
HR 259	Caption: In memory of J.F. Emma McCullough of Mesquite.
HR 276	Caption: Expressing appreciation of services to Joe C. Humphrey.
48th Regular Session
HB 132	Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Board of Regents of the Texas State College for Women of Texas the power of eminent domain to acquire land for the use of the College.
HB 420	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of One Million, Six Hundred and Sixty-two Thousand, Six Hundred and Seventy dollars ($1,662,670.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas, not otherwise appropriated, to be used for increasing the salaries of teachers in state-aid schools for the rest of the school year 1942-43, providing a schedule of increases in salaries, prescribing the duties of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
HB 426	Caption: Relating to making it the duty of the County Superintendent to deduct from the salary of each teacher or other employee of common school districts or other school districts under his jurisdiction the so-called Federal Victory Tax and/or other taxes levied by the Federal Government upon salaries, such deductions to be made from the per capita apportioned moneys or from other funds available for payment of such salaries and to be placed in a common fund in the county depository, and to be forwarded to the proper Federal authorities when the tax or taxes are due.
HB 746	Caption: Relating to authorizing all political subdivisions of this State to invest balances remaining in their accounts at the end of any fiscal year in Defense Bonds or other obligations of the United States of America; providing, however, that whenever such funds are needed the bonds of the United States in which said balances are invested shall be sold or redeemed and the proceeds deposited in the funds from which they were drawn.
HB 747	Caption: Relating to providing that no teacher shall be certified to teach in the public schools of Texas after the effective date of this Act until he has either taken an examination on the Constitution of the United States or Texas or has to his credit six (6) hours studying a government course covering the subject matter of Constitution of the State of Texas or the United States of America.
HB 763	Caption: Relating to providing an open season for the hunting of wild red fox and gray squirrels in Denton County; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.