Legislation authored by John W.E.H. Beck

Includes legislation with John W.E.H. Beck as the primary author for the 41st through 44th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
Please note author information is not complete for the 43rd through 45th Legislatures or for sessions prior to the 30th.

44th Regular Session
SB 84	Caption: Relating to providing for the prevention and control of disease; defining certain terms; giving the State Health Officer and the State Board of Health authority to promulgate orders, rules and regulations for the protection of the public health.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to providing that the scholastic census of Texas shall be taken annually upon a prescribed form by a census trustee whose duties are specific in defining and controlling the taking of census in county line districts.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to providing for the taking of the school census of Texas upon prescribed forms by census trustees for the year 1935-36 and providing that said census shall be added to and deducted from by the names of children who have moved in and are born into the different communities of Texas and deducting therefrom names of children who have moved out or who have died in said communities in texas.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to providing for the grouping of counties which have a small number of common school district scholastics.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to appointment of deputy sheriffs in certain counties.
SB 146	Caption: Relating to creating the Department of Public Safety of the State of Texas; and the Public Safety Commission.
SB 159	Caption: Relating to providing all persons, firms and corporations who are required under existing laws to pay a tax to the State shall keep books and records of such business, and open for inspection by the tax collection officials of the State, and providing a penalty for a refusal to permit an inspection by the tax collection officials of such boards and records.
SB 160	Caption: Relating to penalties for pool selling, bookmaking, or betting on horse racing.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to removal from office of county officers convicted of a felony, or for a misdemeanor involving official misconduct, in any district court of this State, or in any United States court.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to requiring all State officials and employees to make bond payable to the State, and providing the Board of Control shall determine what officials and employees shall make bonds and amounts of such bonds, and providing the Attorney General shall approve such bonds as to form and financial responsibility.
SB 163	Caption: Relating to providing for a surety on a bail bond fo file with the county clerk a sworn inventory setting up certain information concerning his financial responsibility, and requiring the sheriff and constable to carefully examining such inventory filed by such surety, and providing that the sheriff and constable shall be liable on their official bond if a surety is accepted who is not financially responsible for such bond.
SB 164	Caption: Relating to providing for the removal of county and district officers.
SB 220	Caption: Relating to contents of birth certificates.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the State of Texas to notify, immediately, and thereafter, when a new Federal Census is published by the United States Census Bureau, every fee officer in Texas at the beginning of each calendar year the population or voting strength of the county of such officer.
SB 222	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be the duty of the county and district attorney to represent the State in all bond forfeiture cases, and providing that any county and district attorney who does not prosecute such proceedings shall be liable on his official bond, and providing that suit shall be filed against the county and district attorney in such cases in any district court of Travis County, Texas.
SB 384	Caption: Relating to regulating the business of migratory shows; providing that all such shows and/or the persons engaged in such business shall comply with certain standards of health requirements; defining certain words and terms.
SB 432	Caption: Relating to providing for relief for the Hooks Independent School District of Bowie County, Texas, in order to aid said District in rebuilding its properties and equipping its school which was destroyed by fire on the 11th day of February, 1935.
SB 433	Caption: Relating to providing that any member of the State Highway Patrol of the State of Texas is authorized to arrest without warrant any person committing a violation of any of the motor bus, motor truck, highway or registration laws and that any member of the State Highway Patrol shall have authority to weigh a loaded vehicle or any empty vehicle that he has reasons to believe is not properly registered.
SB 458	Caption: Relating to fees of district clerks.
SR 34	Caption: Recommending Jean Vaughn for Circuit Judgeship in Honolulu.
SR 77	Caption: Granting citizens of Rockwell privileges of the floor.
SR 81	Caption: Recognizing Vernon A. McGee on his promotion within the United Press Bureau.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 41	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Department, in conjunction with the Bureau of Public Roads, to expend, for a period of two years from and after the effective date of this Act, upon roads not a part of the system of State highways, funds specifically appropriated for expenditure on such roads under the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed by 73rd Congress June 16, 1933 Act of Congress June 18, 1934, (H.R. No. 3781), and Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, passed by 74th Congress on April 8, 1935.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to permitting the State Highway Department to expend upon roads not a part of the system of State highways, funds specifically appropriated for expenditure upon such roads under the National Industrial Recovery Act passed by the Seventy-third Congress, June 16, 1933, Act of Seventy-third Congress, June 18, 1934 (H. B. 8781), and Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, passed by the Seventy-fourth Congress, April 8, 1935.
SR 9	Caption: Inviting Wright Patman to address the Senate.
SR 14	Caption: In memory of Thomas L.L. Temple.
SR 23	Caption: Relating to the installation of a broadcasting system in the Senate.
44th 2nd Called Session
SCR 5	Caption: Directing State Departments to give preference to disabled and aged war veterans in State employment.
SCR 6	Caption: Directing the Board of Control to ascertain the cost of a radio broadcasting system in the Senate.
SR 11	Caption: Directing the Board of Control to ascertain the cost of radio broadcasting system for the Senate.
43rd Regular Session
SB 80	Caption: Relating to demanding and collecting illegal fees.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to repayment of moneys to the State by officers.
SB 82	Caption: Relating to summoning a Grand Jury.
SB 83	Caption: Relating to fees of Sheriff or Constable.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to fees of Sheriff or Constable.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to fees to be paid by the State to officers in examining trials and inhibiting the paying of additional mileage to sheriffs and constables for subsequent arrests of the defendant in the same case, or in any other case in an examining court or in any district court based upon the same charge or upon the same criminal act or growing out of the same criminal transaction.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to the prosecution and removal of officials.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to the prosecution and removal of officials.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to additional duties of the State Auditor.
SB 115	Caption: Relating to the removal of prisoners to the penitentiary.
SB 116	Caption: Relating to vital statistics.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person in using a seine or net for the taking of any fish in Cass or Bowie Counties to disturb, agitate, or beat upon, or in, the waters at the time of using said seines or nets; fixing a penalty.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to reducing the amount appropriated by the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature in 1931, for hte payment of salaries of officers and employees of this State other than such salaries the amount of which is fixed by the Constitution, and more than 1,800 dollars per year; prohibiting the Comptroller from paying in excess of the amount fixed herein.
SB 209	Caption: Relating to providing the maximum and excess fees which all officers named herein shall be entitled to receive and retain and the disposition to be made of the remainder; fixing the maximum compensation to be paid deputies assistants and clerks and the manner in which same may be appointed and paid; providing that ex officio shall only be allowed after public hearing and upon the affirmative vote of at least three members of the Commissioners' Court; providing that this Act shall become effective on and after January 1, 1934
SB 210	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum annual fees of office authorized to be retained by certain district, county and precinct officers named in certain statute.
SB 268	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay taxes for the years 1928 to 1932, inclusive, due certain Counties on lands owned by the Texas Prison System.
SB 296	Caption: Relating to regulating the production, sale, dispensation and other traffic in narcotic drugs as defined herein; prescribing offenses, fines, penalties and punishment.
SB 311	Caption: Relating to validating, confirming and approving the action of the governing bodies of all cities and towns of five thousand (5000) inhabitants or less in the addition or attempted addition of any territory adjoining the limits of any such city or town under and by virtue of certain statute.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to changing the budget by the Legislature or the county commissioners court.
SB 423	Caption: Relating to claim against the State of Texas arising by reason of mileage purported to have been traveled by fee officers and/or other persons traveling on State expense.
SB 435	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide that no officer shall collect any fees from the State of Texas, in any case, except murder, where a defendant may, under the indictment, be convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony with punishment assessed at a fine, jail sentence, or both such fine and imprisonment in jail, until after the case has been finally disposed of.
SB 436	Caption: Relating to providing that the bail bonds of an accused shall be conditioned that the principal and sureties will pay all expenses incurred by peace officers in re-arresting the principal in the event the conditions of the bond are violated and he fails to appear before the court or magistrate on the day stated.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to the duties of county attorneys; prescribing their compensation for representing the State, either alone or aiding the district attorney in the prosecution of felony cases, including habeas corpus hearings, where the realtor is charged with an offense of the grade of felony, in the district court.
SB 438	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide that when a district clerk fails, neglects or refuses to make any report required of such officer by the Attorney General, that the Attorney General shall notify in writing the Comptroller of Public Accounts of such failure, neglect or refusal, whereupon the Comptroller shall refuse to issue any warrant which may be due to such district clerk until such report is made.
SB 492	Caption: Relating to permitting the organization of fraternal benefit societies on a limited basis.
SB 517	Caption: Relating to prescribing the authority and duties of the county auditor with reference to books, accounts, reports, vouchers and other records of funds of common school districts of this State the disbursement of such funds.
SB 535	Caption: Relating to the removal of prisoners to the penitentiary.
SB 536	Caption: Relating to fees of sheriff or constable.
SB 572	Caption: Relating to the control and suppression of typhus fever, prescribing the duties of the State Department of Health and of counties, towns, and cities in reference thereto, making an appropriation.
SCR 41	Caption: Recalling SB 85 from the Governor.
SCR 68	Caption: Memorializing Congress and the President to liberalize regulations concerning benefits due Spanish-American War veterans and their dependents.
SR 54	Caption: Inviting L.L. Lumsden, doctor at the US Public Health Service, to address the Senate.
SR 77	Caption: Inviting ex-Senator John M. Henderson and Col. F.M. Witherspoon of the Gulf-Pacific Highway Association to address the Senate.
SR 79	Caption: Endorsing the Gulf-Pacific Highway movement.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 10	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of certain Act relating to an appropriation for the Livestock Sanitary Commission.
SCR 15	Caption: Granting Ben Sira & Company permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission.
SCR 16	Caption: Authorizing the Adjutant General to pay the premium on the official bond of the United States Property and Disbursing Officer for the State of Texas.
SCR 19	Caption: Authorizing the Adjutant General to pay veterans' claims.
SCR 30	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the Senate might reconsider HB 119.
SR 18	Caption: Inviting Major Johnson Hagood and his staff to address the Senate.
43rd 3rd Called Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of State Relief Bonds to be designated as Texas Relief Bonds, Third Series, in the sum of Nine Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($9,500.00), under Section 51-a, Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas; providing for penalties for making false statements or misrepresentation in order to secure money for relief.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of the general revenue of the State of Texas for certain State Eleemosynary Institutions for providing enlarged facilities for the care of additional patients and inmates and the maintenance and support in said institutions.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of Barbituric Acid (Diethylbarbituric Acid) or derivatives and compounds thereof under any copyrighted or chemical names except to wholesale drug houses, chemical houses, hospitals and dispensing pharmacies or practicing physicians, dentist or veterinarian; prescribing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the continuation of malaria control by the State Board of Health.
SCR 15	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the Senate might consider certain House bills.
SR 14	Caption: Providing for additional copies of the session laws of the 43rd Legislature.
43rd 4th Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Fifteen Hundred ($1500.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used by the State Depository Board to pay rent for safety deposit boxes rented by the board from any bank located in the City of Austin for the purpose of depositing securities, where such obligations for rent have been incurred by the State Depository Board pursuant to certain statute.
42nd Regular Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Two Hundred Thousand ($200,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable out of the General Revenue and not otherwise appropriated, to pay the mileage of members, their per diem, and to pay the salaries and per diem of officers and employees of the 42nd Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas, to pay the Contingent expenses of the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature of the State of Texas, providing how accounts may be approved.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay salaries of Judges, and the support and maintenance of the Judicial Department of the State Government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1931, and ending August 31, 1933.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to admittance of veteran's wives to confederate soldiers home.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to require applicants for registration of vehicles subject to registration to exhibit to the Tax Collector receipts for ad valorem State and County and City taxes.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the State Government for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1931.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to making appropriation to cover deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Judiciary Department of the State Government of Texas.
SB 100	Caption: Relative to amending certain Acts relative to charging the Board of Control with the building, establishing, and maintaining of the institution for the treatment of persons afflicted with cancer or pellagra.
SB 101	Caption: Relative to authorizing the State to compensate employees engaged in hazardous employment for injuries and injuries resulting in death received in the course of employment.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to validating, ratifying and approving the acts and proceedings of the County Board of School Trustees relating to consolidation of Common School Districts in certain counties.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to making certain appropriations out of the General Revenues of the State of Texas for the several Institutions and Departments of the State Government.
SB 167	Caption: Relative to making certain emergency appropriations out of the State Treasury for certain departments of the State of Texas.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to providing for the location, establishment and maintenance of an institution for the examination, care, treatment, and incarceration of insane, mentally deficient persons who have been indicted or convicted of a felony, and defining conditions of admission thereto.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to regulating the production, sale, dispensation and other traffic in narcotic drugs as defined herein.
SB 186	Caption: Relating to making certain emergency appropriations out of any money in the State Treasury for the several departments of government.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to creating the Dallas State Hospital.
SB 246	Caption: Relating to appropriating certain sum of money to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions.
SB 259	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the State Government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1931, and ending August 31, 1933.
SB 287	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay miscellaneous claims against the State.
SB 415	Caption: Relating to providing One Hundred Forty-five Thousand ($145,000.00) Dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation made by Acts of the 41st Legislature, Third Called Session, Chapter 14, to be used for the payment of tuition of Rural High School pupils.
SB 509	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that certain appropriations made therein may be used for support and maintenance and miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the operation of the Texas Prison System for hte balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1931.
SB 518	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to validation of school district consolidation.
SB 524	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Two Hundred Thousand ($200,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable out of the General Revenue and not otherwise appropriated, to pay the per diem of members, and to pay the salaries and per diem of officers and employees of the 42nd Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 525	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas, to pay the contingent expenses of the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature of the State of Texas; providing how accounts may be approved.
SB 571	Caption: Relating to validating the extension of the corporate limits of cities having a population of not less than 15,000 and not more than 20,000.
SB 577	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars to be used by the Leasing Board of Eleemosynary and State Memorial Park lands to be used for advertising for bids of mineral leases on lands owned and held by the State as State Eleemosynary and State Memorial Park lands for oil and gas leases.
SB 621	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State for the purposes named herein, for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1931.
SB 623	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of money to the State Treasurer.
SB 624	Caption: Relating to re-appropriating certain unexpended balances for mileage and per diem.
SB 626	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to supplement appropriations heretofore made for the Judiciary Division of the State Comptroller's Department for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1931.
SR 18	Caption: Authorizing the Contingent Expense Committee to provide the necessary payments for repairs of Senate Chamber and quarters of the Lieutenant Governor.
SR 66	Caption: Inviting William C. Harlee to address the Senate.
SR 83	Caption: Inviting R. F. Lindsay to address the Senate.
SR 123	Caption: Appointing a committee to investigate irregularities regarding finance matters within certain State Departments.
42nd 1st Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars to pay the per diem and mileage of members, the salaries and per diem of officers and employees, and the contingent expenses of the First Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature..
SR 1	Caption: Inviting W. R. Holsey to address the Senate.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SB 21	Caption: Relating to requiring that all ginners, cotton yard operators and public warehousemen shall upon request draw samples of said cotton and send same to the State Department of Agriculture for classification; authorizing the Commissioner of Agriculture to employ public cotton classers; making an appropriation; providing penalties.
SCR 3	Caption: Relating to the reduction of State Salaries.
41st Regular Session
SB 262	Caption: Relating to making it the duty of all persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of selling dynamite to keep books showing the disposition of said dynamite, the person to whom it is sold, etc; fixing a penalty.
SB 311	Caption: Relating to providing a closed season on all kinds of fresh water fish during March and April; providing penalties.
SB 314	Caption: Relating to providing for the location, establishment and maintenance of an institution for the treatment of persons suffering from Cancer or Pellagra and to provide for the care and treatment of indigent persons suffering from Cancer or Pellagra, and defining the conditions of admission thereto.
SB 330	Caption: Relating to establishing a State Sanitary Code which provides for the prevention and control of disease.
SB 331	Caption: Relating to fees of non-residents for hunting in Texas.
SB 363	Caption: Relating to provide for the eradication of contagious, infections and communicable disease in stock animals; providing for the establishments of necessary quarantines; providing penalties.
SB 399	Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Morris County.
SB 400	Caption: Relating to requiring every company writing casualty insurance, when held liable on a claim, to pay attorneys fees.
SB 481	Caption: Relating to accepting the benefits and provisions of the Act of Congress authorizing the extension of Federal Aid for construction of toll bridges on the highways included in the Federal System, under certain conditions and limitations, 44 United States Statute 1398, approved March 3, 1927, to empower the Highway Commission of Texas to cooperate with the Federal Bureau of Roads in the Construction of such toll bridges under the provisions of said Act of Congress, including inter-state bridges, to appropriate and use State Highway Funds for such purpose and to levy and collect such tolls and to authorize the Highway Commission to cooperate and join with the appropriate authorities of an adjoining state in the construction of such bridges and in levying and collecting tolls and in carrying out the provisions of this Act and the said Act of Congress.
SB 545	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Titus County, Texas.
SB 546	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Bowie County, Texas.
SB 589	Caption: Relating to requiring every person, association or corporation who shall own, conduct or manage a day nursery, childrens' boarding home or child-placing agency or other place for the care or custody of children under fifteen years of age to obtain an annual license from the State Board of Health.
SR 92	Caption: Inviting former State Senator R. P. Dorrough to address the Senate.
SR 93	Caption: In memory of former State Senator A. C. Oliver.
SR 106	Caption: Thanking Worth Ray for copies of Ray's Session Laws.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to a system of Vital Statistics, and formation of Registration Districts and Local Registrars of Birth and Deaths and for Deputy-Registrars for the duties of such officers and their compensation.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to providing for the eradication of contagious diseases among livestock; providing for the establishment of quarantines by the Live Stock Sanitary Commission; providing penalties for violation of said quarantines.
SB 22	Caption: Relating to establishing a State Sanitary Code; prescribing a penalty.
SR 2	Caption: Urging Congress to support certain measures meant to assist the agricultural industry.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 68	Caption: Relating to establishing a State Sanitary Code; prescribing a penalty.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to setting forth the policy of the State to use the funds derived from the lease and sale of the American Legion Memorial Sanatorium of Texas in building Memorial Armories for the Texas National Guard; making an appropriation.
41st 3rd Called Session
SCR 3	Caption: Directing the Board of Control to close the cold drink and lunch stand located on the first floor of the Capitol.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 55	Caption: Relating to validating the extension of corporate limits of certain cities and towns.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to providing for an open season on squirrels in Marion, Cass and Bowie Counties, Texas, providing penalty.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to repealing certain laws prohibiting the sale of fresh water fish during the months of March and April in Cass, Bowie, Morris and Titus counties.
SR 20	Caption: Inviting Pat O'Keefe to address the Senate.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to providing for the reorganization of the penitentiary of the State of Texas; making an appropriation.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to providing for workmen's compensation for employees of the State Highway Department.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to providing for and authorizing the exchange between the State of Texas and The Concho, San Saba and Llano Valley Railroad Company of certain lands belonging to them, respectively, situated in Tom Green County, Texas, and the execution of deeds of conveyance effecting such exchange, placing the land to be so acquired by and conveyed to the State in and under the possession, control and management of the State Board of Control and constituting the same a part of the grounds of the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium.