Legislation authored by Jesse Eugene Martin

Includes legislation with Jesse Eugene Martin as the primary author for the 46th through 49th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.

49th Regular Session
SB 28	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for and authorizing the State Highway Department of the State of Texas to grant permits limited to ninety (90) days, or less, for the transportation over state highways of the State of Texas and county roads of the State, bulk cement to be used in cementing oil well casings and gas well casings and in cementing oil wells and gas wells, etc.; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a saving clause.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to appeals from rules, orders, or decisions of administrative bodies; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to giving County Surveyors and Licensed State Land Surveyors the right of ingress and egress on privately owned lands for the purpose of locating the lines, boundaries and corners of lands in which the State may have an interest; providing for penalties.
SB 194	Caption: Relating to providing for and fixing the salaries of the members of the Supreme Court of Texas and the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Judges of the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals and the Judges of the Commission in Aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Judges of the Courts of Civil Appeals; repealing all laws in conflict with this Act; providing a saving clause.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall not be necessary for soldiers, sailors, marinas, members of the air corps, coast guard, nurses in military service, and women in the auxiliary services, and those honorably discharged therefrom, to hold poll tax receipts to vote at all elections,
SB 344	Caption: Relating to clarifying and amending the statute regulating the practice of dentistry.
SCR 37	Caption: Placing H.B No. 849 into immediate effect upon its Resolution being passed by a two-thirds vote of the Senate and House of Representatives.
48th Regular Session
SB 96	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to the revocation of licenses issued by the State Board of Embalming.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by fixing the powers and duties of the State Board of Embalming so as to prescribe and maintain a standard of proficiency as to the qualifications of those engaged and who may engage in the practice of funeral directing in connection with the care and disposition of dead human bodies by providing that said State Board of Embalming shall adopt rules, regulations, and by-laws for the examination and licensing of funeral directors and the practice of funeral direction.
SB 278	Caption: Relating to clarifying and amending laws regulating the practice of dentistry, to increase protection of the public; providing fees and penalties and repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 284	Caption: Relating to appeals from rules, orders, or decisions of administrative bodies; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to granting permission to M.C. Parrish & Company, a corporation chartered under the laws of Texas, to bring suit against the State of Texas and the State Board of Control, together with any and all other parties who may be proper or necessary in the prosecution of said suit, to ascertain and fix the amount, if any, due said M.C. Parrish & Company, by reason of the shipment, and delivery to, and acceptance by the State Tuberculosis Hospital, at Sanatorium, Texas, of 60.7725 tons of No. 2 alfalfa hay, at a total price of One Thousand One Hundred Forty-two and 42/100 ($1,142.42) Dollars growing out of a contract between the State of Texas and Ross-Hicks Grain Company.
SCR 9	Caption: Inviting Mark McGee, Director of OPA in Texas, to address a joint session of the Legislature on February 1, 1943.
SCR 43	Caption: Memorializing Congress to continue the functions of the Texas Headquarters of the OPA.
47th Regular Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of certain Insurance Agents; providing for two classes of Insurance Agents.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to creating a Commission to be known as Oil and Gas Commission of Texas; providing for the appointment of the members of such Commission by the Governor.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to providing for the granting and issuance of easements or surface leases to the United States of America by the School Land Board on any island, salt water lake, bay, inlet, or marsh within tidewater limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas, for any purpose essential for the National Defense.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Revised Civil Statutes permitting free railroad transportation of families of retired employees.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to providing a special fishing license for those who fish in the waters of Lake Worth and Eagle Mountain Lake, or either of them; providing for deposit of funds from the sale of such licenses and of any funds collected as fees or penalties for violations of this Act.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for condemning land in fee simple for the purpose of acquiring the necessary lands to construct airports thereon, and other buildings or structures to be used in connection with such airports, for the purpose of building and assembling various types of aircraft.
SB 144	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing when a town or village may be incorporated as a town or village in the manner prescribed in Chapter 11, Title 28, of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925.
SB 262	Caption: Relating to authorizing independent school districts to refund delinquent tax notes or certificates of indebtedness.
SB 275	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Article providing that said locomotives may be equipped with air siren, stream whistle or air whistle, and providing that the governing bodies of certain cities and towns may by ordinance regulate the ringing of said bells and the sounding or blowing of said whistles or sounding of sirens within the corporate limits.
SB 276	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Thomas H. Fort to file and prosecute suit against the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission for damages.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article authorizing independent school districts of the class defined in this Act to expend local school funds in paying part of the premiums on group life insurance policies insuring teachers and other employees of such school districts.
SB 431	Caption: Relating to face-amount certificate companies and face-amount certificates as those terms defined in the Act of Congress known as the Investment Company Act of 1940.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the filing of a birth record in the county where the birth occurred or where the parents resided at the time of the birth of such child, or where such child now resides; providing for the registration of a birth that has not been previously registered.
SB 462	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Mount Olivet Cemetery Company, a private corporation chartered under the laws of this State, and to bring and prosecute suit against the State of Texas in any court of competent jurisdiction in Tarrant County, Texas, to ascertain the amount, if any, due the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company for damages alleged to have been sustained by reason of the construction and maintenance of the State Highway and the overpass on said State Highway which runs in a general easterly and westerly direction on the north side of the cemetery belonging to and operated by the Mount Olivet Cemetery Company in Tarrant County, Texas, said Highway being known as State Highway No. 15, and providing that said suit shall be tried according to the rules of law and equity and procedure as would be applicable if the suit were one by and between citizens of the State of Texas or by and between private corporations.
46th Regular Session
SB 98	Caption: Relating to providing for the licensing of certain Insurance Agents; providing for two classes of Insurance Agents; making it a misdemeanor for any person or member of any firm who violates certain sections of the Act named; providing a penalty.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to creating the office of County Purchasing Agent in all counties in this State having a population of more than 140,000 inhabitants and less than 290,000 in habitants.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to creating a lien upon the recovery to guarantee to an attorney at law the payment of his fees in cases prosecuted on a contingent basis; authorizing contracts by attorneys for not to exceed fifty (50%) per cent of recovery for services rendered or to be rendered.
SB 205	Caption: Relating to insurance and making it unlawful to engage in the insurance business in Texas unless authorized by law.
SB 256	Caption: Relating to authorizing towns and villages heretofore incorporated under certain Chapter and having an assessed valuation for taxable purposes of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars or more to adopt the powers of cities and towns in the manner prescribed in Article 961 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Mount Olivet Cemetery, a private corporation, the right to bring and prosecute suit against the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission in any court of competent jurisdiction in Tarrant County, Texas.
SB 276	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a State Board of Embalming, providing for the appointment and terms of the members thereof and for their removal, granting powers and imposing duties upon said Board.
SB 277	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the powers of the State Board of Embalming so as to provide for refusal to issue or renew licenses and for the revocation or cancellation of licenses and the causes for which the same may be refused and revoked or cancelled.
SB 291	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of a Statute to further define and regulate the practice of veterinary medicine, surgery and dentistry; creating a Board of Veterinary Examiners for examining, licensing and registering of veterinary physicians; fixing a suitable penalty for the violation of this Act.
SB 321	Caption: Relating to providing funds and revenues for the policemen's relief and retirement fund to cities of Texas having a population in excess of 75,000 according to the last preceding Federal Census.
SB 339	Caption: Relating to amending certain Articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure by providing that where two or more persons are charged, either as principals, accomplices, or accessories, with the same offense or offenses, any two or more of such defendants may be tried jointly before one jury, at one and the same time.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to granting permission to I.H. Mitchell and wife, Mrs. I.H. Mitchell, to bring suit against the State of Texas and the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas in a court of competent jurisdiction.
SB 419	Caption: Relating to conferring additional powers on school districts having a relatively large percentage of delinquent taxes, including power to borrow money and issue obligations secured by such taxes and to make supplementary pledges of taxes hereafter becoming delinquent to secure the release of funds pledged for such obligations.
SB 429	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the appointment of a county Purchasing Agent whose term of office shall be for two (2) years; fixing the salary of said purchasing agent in certain counties.
SCR 23	Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol.