Legislation authored by Thomas Jefferson Holbrook

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45th Regular Session
SB 7	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute giving the State the right to file land suits in Travis County instead of the county where the land is situated, and requiring that suits already filed but not tried to be transferred or moved to the proper court in the county where the land is situated, providing that such suits must hereafter be brought in the county where the land involved or any part thereof may lie.
SB 8	Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of court reporters in certain Judicial Districts.
SB 9	Caption: Relating to providing that all policies of Workmen's Compensation Insurance shall contain endorsement as to the method of determining dividends and assessments, if any, prohibiting more than one plan of operation by any one company or association, prohibiting discrimination between policyholders, and providing for invalidity of agreements made contrary to the terms hereof and that violation of the terms hereof shall be cause for revocation of license to write Workmen's Compensation Insurance.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to empowering the Rehabilitation Division of the State Department of Education to take census, make surveys, and establish permanent records of crippled children.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act aiding the City of Galveston in elevating and raising said city by extending the provision of said Act for a period of five years from September 1, 1938.
SB 40	Caption: Relating to creating a State Bar, defining the powers thereof, constituting it an administrative agency of the judicial department of the State.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to providing for rural school supervisors in certain counties.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to defining indigent and non-indigent patients in State and psychopathic hospitals.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) out of any funds in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of erecting a suitable Mausoleum or Monument for the remains of the heroes of the Alamo.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of private corporations for the purpose of producing, mining, manufacturing, buying and selling of building materials of all kinds.
SB 183	Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of corporations organized and incorporated under pre-existing law, the charters for which corporations have expired, and to extend for a period of fifty years the charters of such corporations which were operating on December 31, 1935, and filed an annual financial statement with the Board of Insurance Commissioners.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to providing that county courts, without the necessity of trial by jury may temporarily commit persons alleged to be mentally ill who are not charged with a criminal offense to State hospitals for the mentally ill not exceeding ninety days for observation and/or treatment.
SB 218	Caption: Relating to providing that bonds issued by navigation districts for building bridges on designated state highways shall be redeemable in the same manner provided for redemption of county and road district bonds.
SB 306	Caption: Relating to the powers of railroad corporations, enlarging their charter powers, and empowering them to transport persons, property, goods, ware, merchandise, mail, and any valuable thing by highway, air pipeline, and water.
SB 307	Caption: Relating to providing for the use of State convict labor by the Board of Directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in connection with the operation of Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations.
SB 357	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court in certain counties to allow each County Commissioner certain expenses for traveling and in connection with the use of his automobile on official business.
SB 400	Caption: Relating to adverse possession.
SB 410	Caption: Relating to providing for a Rural School Supervisor in certain counties.
SB 504	Caption: Relating to creating a Board for the lease of the land composing the permanent encampment for the Thirty-sixth Division, Texas National Guard, known as Camp Hulen, situated at or near Palacios in Matagorda County, Texas, and providing for the lease or sale of oil and gas and sulphur and other minerals therein and defining the duties and powers of said Board.
SCR 10	Caption: In memory of James Quayle Dealey.
SCR 15	Caption: Urging the Senate of the United States to oppose the ratification of the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes Waterway Treaty.
SCR 54	Caption: Declaring Legislative Intent regarding the inscription of certain names on memorials and building constructed for the Texas Centennial Celebrations.
45th 1st Called Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act validating the creation of Road District No. 2 of Chambers County by validating Road Bond election held on June 12, 1937, and further prescribing the duty of the Commissioners' Court in reference to the issuance of such bonds.
SCR 5	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to make use of the space in the Hall of State Building recently constructed in Dallas.
SCR 7	Caption: Directing the State Board Control to allocate more storage space to certain archival records belonging to the Texas State Library.
44th Regular Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to defining public utilities, and providing for their regulation; creating the Public Utilities Commission of this State, and fixing their qualifications and compensation, and prescribing their duties and powers, and the manner in which the jurisdiction herein conferred shall be exercised; providing penalties for the violation of this Act.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating practice of dentistry in the State of Texas; providing for the creation of the State Board of Dental Examiners and prescribing their powers and duties; defining certain unlawful acts and practices taking place in connection with the practice of dentistry, and prescribing penalties thereof.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to requiring a Resident Fishing License of residents of this State who catch or attempt to catch any fish from any fresh waters in this State; providing a penalty.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to requiring a resident hunting license of residents of this State who hunt with a fun and providing certain exemptions; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to authorizing building and loan associations that may now or hereafter own bonds or securities to exchange same to their shareholders.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to the lease and sale of unsurveyed public free school lands and authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to ascertain what vacancies exist between surveys in this State.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to more clearly defining "adverse possession."
SB 43	Caption: Relating to creating the State bar, defining the powers thereof, constituting it an administrative agency of the judicial department of the State.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to prohibiting issuing, signing or delivering of certain insurance policies except through regularly licensed local recording agents, and requiring notice of inability to insure to be filed with the Board of Insurance Commissioners but exempting companies not operating through local recording agents.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the reinsuring of the liability of a company not licensed to transact business in the State of Texas by a company licensed to transact business in the State of Texas.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to regulating licensing of Agents of Fidelity and Surety Companies.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to providing that persons acquiring title by limitations to lands in Texas shall in addition to the requirements of the law as provided in certain statute, pay the taxes on said land, if any, as the same accrue and prior to the time such taxes become delinquent.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to examination of records of insurance companies of Texas.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to deposits with the State Treasurer by insurance companies.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to defining advisory rating corporation and/or insurance counselor, providing for the obtaining of license, contents of applications, examinations of insurance counselor, fees to be paid and renewals, prohibiting certain persons from holding same, and from obtaining fee from unlawful company, providing for misrepresentations, expiration and revocation of certificate of authority, notice, appeal from order, exempted and providing penalty.
SB 247	Caption: Relating to providing for interest at the rate of 6% per annum on all moneys or royalties payable or deliverable on account of the production of oil, gas or other minerals from lands within this State when said moneys or royalties are not paid within thirty days from the production of said minerals and providing for the calculation of said interest on royalties payable in minerals.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to providing that rate of premiums to be charged or collected by all companies transacting the business of fire and/or tornado insurance in this State shall be exclusively fixed and determined and promulgated by the Board of Insurance Commissioners, and providing that no insurance company shall charge or collect any premium or other compensation for any policy of fire and/or tornado insurance other than at the rate as herein provided for.
SB 273	Caption: Relating to providing that any Life Insurance Company of the State, for the purpose of investing its funds, or any part thereof, may purchase and hold as collateral security, or otherwise, and sell and convey the capital stock, bonds, bills of exchange or other commercial notes or bills and securities of any solvent dividend paying corporation which has not defaulted in the payment of any of its obligations for a period of five years, the current market value of which such stock, bonds, bills of exchange, or other commercial notes and securities shall be at all times during the continuance of such loan at least fifty percent more than the sum loaned thereon.
SB 369	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Six Thousand One Hundred Forty-eight Dollars and Eighty Cents ($6,148.80) not otherwise appropriated to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to the Sugar Land Independent School District covering the years from 1918 to 1927, inclusive.
SB 421	Caption: Relating to requiring a radio broadcasting station or stations to file semi-annual reports with the State Comptroller, designating what shall be included in said reports; providing a penalty.
SB 452	Caption: Relating to providing that all policies of Workmen's Compensation Insurance shall contain endorsement as to the method of determining dividends and assessments, if any, prohibiting more than one plan of operation by any one company or association, prohibiting discrimination between policyholders, and providing for invalidity of agreements made contrary to the terms hereof, and that violation of the terms hereof shall be cause for revocation of license to write Workmen's Compensation Insurance.
SB 454	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Courts to provide for offices in the courthouse for use of the District Judges and District Attorneys; to contract for and purchase office furniture, office supplies and equipment, legal blanks and stationery; to contract for and purchase, with or without competitive bids, books, and cases therefor, for the use of the District Courts.
SB 498	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the taking, removing and carrying away of sand, marl, shell, gravel, or other material from land located between any seawall and waters edge or from any beach or shore line within one half mile of the end of any seawall for any purpose other than that necessary or incident to navigation or dredging under State or Federal authority; fixing a penalty for any violation of the provisions of this Act.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, to be known as Section 51B; providing that the Legislature of said State may authorize the levying of a two percent sales tax on all sales at retail of tangible personal property within the State, wither for cash or credit, made by those engaged in the business of selling such property at retail in due course of business.
SR 1	Caption: Causus Report.
SR 11	Caption: In memory of W.O. Huggins.
SR 44	Caption: Requesting a certain reporter from the Houston Press to appear before the Senate.
SR 45	Caption: Relating to rules applicable to executive sessions.
SR 55	Caption: In memory of Stockton Axson.
SR 56	Caption: In memory of E.H. Beck.
SR 76	Caption: Relating to the Attorney General's issuance of opinion on the Motor Carrier Act.
SR 79	Caption: In memory of George E. Bethel.
SR 90	Caption: Providing a floral offering to the Pierson funeral.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 17	Caption: Relating to providing a lien for taxes which have become delinquent since December 31, 1919, and forever barring taxes returned delinquent prior to that date.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to aiding Wharton County comprising one district and that portion of Matagorda County embraced in commissioners' precincts numbers one, two and four as described in the minutes of the commissioners' court of said county, comprising another district for the remaining portion of the period of time covered by the release of taxes of said district as made by certain statute, by donating and appropriating to said districts all the State ad valorem taxes levied and collected in said districts for general State purposes on all property, both real and personal, in said districts for the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of interest upon and creating a sinking fund for that certain issue or issues of bonds that were voted and issued under the authority of certain statute.
SR 1	Caption: Providing for a caucus report.
SR 12	Caption: In memory of Edward J. Hussion.
SR 17	Caption: In memory of Jacob F. Wolters.
44th 2nd Called Session
SB 26	Caption: Relating to providing that the Board of Insurance Commissioners shall require any corporation, person, firm, association, local mutual aid association, or any local organization, company or organization to have a permit or certificate of authority in order to carry on any insurance business.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to reappropriating an appropriation of Seventy-five Thousand ($75,000.00) Dollars made by certain statute, for the purpose of remodeling and re-equipping hospital building at the State Hospital for Crippled and Deformed Children at Galveston, Texas.
SR 1	Caption: Relating to the Caucus report.
SR 8	Caption: Inviting H.C. Burke, Jr. to address the Senate.
44th 3rd Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to authorizing water control and improvement districts to borrow money and receive grants from federal agencies.
SCR 3	Caption: Inviting Paul Whiteman and his band to address the Legislature.
SR 7	Caption: In memory of Robert Studert.
SR 9	Caption: In memory of former Senator Ernest Fellbaum.
SR 12	Caption: Welcoming S.T. Bledsoe to the State Capitol.
43rd Regular Session
SB 2	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 Forty-Third Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 3	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 Forty-Third Legislature of the State of Texas, providing how accounts may be approved.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to providing that corporated may be created for, or after being created, charters may be amended to include the construction, maintenance, and operation of radio broadcasting equipment and stations.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to providing that private corporations may be formed for any lawful purpose or purposes, except as specified in this Act.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay the Presidential-electors of Texas, providing how it shall be made.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, and credited to the Sand, Shell, and Gravel Fund to the State Treasury, as an emergency to cover refund of State tax on mudshell due the city of Texas City, Texas.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, and credited to the Sand, Shell, and Gravel Fund in the State Treasury, as an emergency to cover refund of State tax on mudshell due Galveston County.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to providing for liens in favor of hospitals and other institutions furnishing care, treatment, and maintenance of persons injured in accidents, upon the rights of action, claims and demands of such injured persons against other persons or corporations for damages on account of negligence causing the injuries, and upon the proceeds of the settlements of any such claims or demands.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of texas the sum of Three Hundred and Twenty-one Dollars ($321.00), not otherwise appropriated, to cover refund due the Clark Dredging Company of Galveston, Texas, by the State of Texas for over franchise tax paid by the said company to the State of Texas.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-three ($3,843.00) Dollars, not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to the Sugar Land Independent School District covering the years from 1928 to 1932, inclusive.
SB 71	Caption: Relating to providing that the salaries of district judges, judges of the Courts of Civil Appeals, judges of the Courts of Criminal Appeals, judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the Commissions of Appeals of both the Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals, all other State officers, escept the Attorney General and those whose salaries are fixed absolutely and specifically by the Constitution of this State, and all State employees shall, beginning with September 1, 1933, bs such sums or amounts as may be provided by the Legislature in the general appropriation bills.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay deficiency claims approved by the Governor during the fiscal years ending August 31, 1931, and August 31, 1932, respectively.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the State Government for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1933, and ending August 31, 1935, and for other purposes; and prescribing certain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of judges, and the support and maintenance of the Judicial Department of the State Government for the two-year period beginning September 1, 1933, and ending August 31, 1935.
SB 98	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to cover deficiencies in appropriations heretofore made for the support of the Judiciary Department of the State Government for the fiscal years ending August 31, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay blanket warrants issued by the Comptroller in accordance with certain statute to Court Reporters for fees for making transcripts in cases in which pauper's oaths are filed.
SB 102	Caption: Relating to permitting notices given to parties to suits pending in the Courts of Civil Appeals to be sent by the clerks of said courts, by first class mail not registered.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of taxes assessed against The University of Texas lands from the Available University of Texas Fund.
SB 104	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to hunt, take or pursue any wild deer in the County of Galveston for a period of five years following the pasage of this Act; providing a suitable penalty.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of judges of the Supreme Court, Court of Criminal Appeals, judges of the Supreme Court, Commission of Appeals, judges of the Commission in Aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals, judges of the Courts of Civil Appeals, and district courts, including criminal district courts of this State.
SB 135	Caption: Relating to the salaries of all state officers and all state employees, except judges of the district and all appellate courts, judges of the Supreme Court Commission of Appeals, judges of the Commission in aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals, Attorney General and those Constitutional state officers whose salaries are specifically fixed by the Constitution.
SB 136	Caption: Relating to making appropriations out of the Sand, Shell and Gravel Fund of this State to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission on sand, shell and gravel used by Counties, Cities and Towns for constructing streets and roads.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to reducing the pay of the officers and men of the State Ranger Force, and eliminating longevity pay.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to pay the per diem provided for District Attorneys in judicial districts composed of two or more counties, for the balance of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1933.
SB 234	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Twelve Thousand Twelve Dollars and seventy-nine cents ($12,012.79), not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to Fort Bend County, covering the years 1929 to 1932, inclusive.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Eleven Hundred Seventy and 20/100 ($1170.20) Dollars, not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to the Brazoria Independent School District covering the years from 1929 to 1932.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to title insurance business and the capital stock of corporations doing such a business, and prohibiting such corporations guaranteeing mortgages.
SB 287	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of One Thousand, Three Hundred, Thirty-two and 42/100 ($1,332.42) Dollars, not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas to the Freeport Independent School District covering the years from 1928 to 1932, inclusive.
SB 288	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Twelve Thousand, Eight Hundred and Ninety-six Dollars and eleven cents ($12,896.11), not otherwise appropriated, to cover taxes due by the State of Texas, to Brazoria County, covering the years 1929 to 1932, inclusive.
SB 289	Caption: Relating to making appropriations out of the Sand, Shell and Gravel Fund of the State to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission on sand, shell and gravel used by Counties, Cities and Towns for constructing streets and roads.
SB 329	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay miscellaneous claims against the State of Texas and authorizing payment of said miscellaneous claims on taking effect of this Act.
SB 363	Caption: Relating to authorizing the board of trustees of the public free schools of the state of Texas to make appropriations of funds and/or other property, heretofore donated or which may hereafter be donated to them and not heretofore appropriated for any specific purpose.
SB 364	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay balances due for the publishing of Senate Joint Resolution No. 26 and House Joint Resolution No. 1, passed by the Regular Session of the Forty-second Legislature.
SB 409	Caption: Relating to and creating the "County Court of Galveston County at Law"'; transferring the jurisdiction of this Court to the District Court of the Tenth Judicial District of Texas.
SB 414	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute authorizing the payment of longevity pay to the ranger force.
SB 420	Caption: Relating to providing that when the Banking Commissioner of Texas finds certain facts to exist he shall, by decree or proclamation, prohibit or limit withdrawals by investing shareholders; providing for the cancellation of withdrawal notices.
SB 433	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for the construction of a fireproof and burglar-proof vault in the State Treasury Department, and the installation of a burglar alarm systen in said department.
SB 434	Caption: Relating to providing additional purposes for which corporations may be formed under the laws of the State of Texas.
SB 441	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 Forty-third Legislature of the State of Texas, providing how accounts may be approved.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Two Hundred Thousand ($200,000) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable out of the General Revenue Fund, to pay the mileage and per diem of members, and the salaries and per diem of officers and employees, of the Forty-third Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 456	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of warrants for United States postage stamps to be used by boards or departments of the State government, and providing for the payment of such warrant irrespective of the serial number thereof or the priority of the issuance thereof.
SB 468	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to be paid out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas the sum of Five Hundred and Sixty-six Dollars and Sixty-five Cents ($566.65), not otherwise appropriated, to cover rental for vault space in the Austin National Bank, of Austin, Texas, from March 9, 1933 to August 31, 1933.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to making appropriations for the support and maintenance of summer schools during the summer of the year 1933, at the several State Institutions of Higher Learning in the State of Texas, authorizing the expenditure by said institutions of certain additional amounts from fees collected from summer school students.
SB 479	Caption: Relating to transferring the unexpended and unappropriated balances in certain funds in the State Treasury to the General Revenue Fund at the biennium ending August 31, 1935.
SB 501	Caption: Relating to permitting expenditure of a part of the University Available Fund for the salaries of officers, teachers and employees and for general maintenance of the University of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical College, same to be in addition to the purposes for which expenditure of said fund has been heretofore authorized.
SB 529	Caption: Relating to providing for the validating of assessments of taxes heretofore levied and assessed on territory within the boundaries of the Markham Independent School District in Matagorda County, Texas, as set out in the original bill.
SB 550	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the general revenue fund of the State to the Secretary of State to be used in having the general and special laws of the Forty-third Legislature compiled, edited, indexed, printed, bound and distributed.
SB 553	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of One Thousand Five Hundred ($1,500.00) for postage to be used by the State Department of Education during the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1933.
SB 557	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Twenty-five-Thousand ($25,000) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the general revenue of the State of Texas, to pay contingent expenses of the Regular Session of the Forty-third Legislature of the State of Texas, providing how accounts may be approved.
SB 558	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable out of the General Revenue Fund, to pay the mileage and per diem of members, and the salaries and per diem of officers and employees, of the Forty-third Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 569	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of providing postage insurance, stamps and other expenses, necessary in performing the duties required of the State Treasurer in the administration of the provisions of certain statute, during the fiscal years of 1933-1934 and 1934-1935, to be paid out of interest earned on the daily balances of "Paying Fund of the Board of County and District Indebtedness."
SB 570	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of providing postage, insurance, stamps and other expenses, necessary in performing the duties required of the State Treasurer in the administration of the provisions of certain statute, up to August 31, 1933, to be paid out of interest earned on the daily balances of "Paying Fund of the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness."
SB 573	Caption: Relating to aiding the City of Palacios, Texas, situated in Commissioners Precinct No. 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, in constructing and maintaining sea walls, breakwaters and share protection in order to protect said city from calamitous overflows, by donating to it eight ninths (8/9ths) of ad valorem taxes collected on all property, both real and personal, in Commissioners Precinct No. 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, for a period of twenty years, providing a penalty for misapplication of the monies thus donated.
SCR 39	Caption: Granting A.A. Ostermayer permission to make the State of Texas a party defendant in a legal suit.
SCR 47	Caption: Recalling HJR 32 from the House.
SCR 52	Caption: Recalling SB 412 from the House.
SCR 63	Caption: Opposing the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty.
SR 16	Caption: Fixing per diem of certain Senators at $8.
SR 47	Caption: In memory of Allie Gaines Deberry, mother of Senator Tom Deberry.
SR 64	Caption: In memory of former Representative and Mayor of San Antonio C.M. "Mac" Chambers.
SR 69	Caption: In memory of former Representative Cone Johnson.
SR 84	Caption: In memory of Luther Nickels.
SR 116	Caption: In memory of former Senator Homer Platt Brelsford.
SR 118	Caption: Wishing Mrs. Cousins, wife of Senator Cousins, a speedy recovery from illness.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) 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 First Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature of the State of Texas.
SB 2	Caption: Relating to appropriating 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 First Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature,of the State of Texas.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to prohibiting inquiry concerning the religion or religious affiliations of persons seeking employment or official position in the public schools, providing a penalty.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to aiding the city of Palacios and the village of Collegeport, both situated in Commissioner's Precinct Number 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, in constructing and maintaining sea walls, break-waters and shore protection, in order to protect said city and village from calamitous overflows by donating to them eight-ninths (8/9) of the ad valorem taxes collected on all property, both real and personal, in Commissioner's Precinct Number 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, for a period of thirty (30) years; providing a penalty for misapplication of the moneys thus donated.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of providing postage, insurance, stamps and other expenses, necessary in performing the duties required of the State Treasurer in the administration of the provisions of certain statute, during fiscal years of 1933-34 and 1934-35, to b e paid out of interest earned on the daily balances of "Paying FUnd of the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness."
SB 67	Caption: Relating to validating the organization and creation of all school districts, including common school districts, independent school districts, consolidated common school districts, consolidated independent school districts, county line school districts, and rural high school districts, whether created by general or special law or county boards of trustees and boards of such districts.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute which permits certain refunding bonds to be issued by the Commissioners' Court of Shelby County to participate in and be paid from the "county and road district highway fund."
SCR 4	Caption: Granting H.J. Hetkes Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 20	Caption: Granting H.J. Hetkes Company permission to sue the State Highway Department and the State of Texas.
SR 18	Caption: In memory of Dick O. Terrell.
SR 19	Caption: In memory of Barry Miller.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 31	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering any water control and improvement district in this State, to borrow money and to receive grants or other aid from the Government of the United States or any lending agency thereof.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of any funds remaining to the credit of the Mileage, Per diem and Contingent Expense Funds of the Regular Session of the Forty-third Legislature, to pay the contingent expense and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Second Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature.
SR 14	Caption: Inviting Robert J. Cohen, Jr., president of the Galveston Merchants Association, to address the Senate.
SR 15	Caption: In memory of Melvin Traylor of Chicago.
43rd 3rd Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the contingent expenses and to pay the mileage and per diem of members and the per diem of employees of the Third Called Session of the Forty-third Legislature.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to declaring it unlawful to take any wild duck, wild geese, wild brant, wild snipe or wild coot at any time other than during the open season; providing a suitable penalty.
SCR 11	Caption: Urging Congress to repeal the Bankhead Act.
SCR 20	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the Senate might consider HB 22.
SR 10	Caption: In memory of former Senator W.E. Doyle.
SR 11	Caption: Recognizing George W. Truett on the occasion of his retirement from the First Baptist Church.
SR 12	Caption: Inviting George B. Terrell to address the Senate.
SR 24	Caption: Providing for the organization of the Senate into a committee of the whole to hear testimony regarding the Texas Centennial Celebration.
SR 27	Caption: Requesting that the Governor immediately reconvene the Legislature upon adjournment sine die.
SR 31	Caption: Recalling HB 110 from the House for further consideration.
43rd 4th Called Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of money fo the State Treasurer.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to aiding the city of Palacios and the village of Collegeport, both situated in Commissioner's Precinct No. 3 of Mataogorda County, Texas, in constructing and maintaining sea walls, break-waters and shore protection, in order to protect said city and village from calamitous overflows by donating to them eight-ninths (8/9) of the ad valorem taxes collected on all property, both real and personal, in Commissioner's Precinct Number 3 of Matagorda County, Texas, for a period of thirty (30) years.
SR 2	Caption: In memory of Robert J. Cohen, Sr.
SR 10	Caption: Urging the President to lower import tariffs which restrict the foreign sale of Texas cotton.
SR 14	Caption: In memory of former Representative R.M. Hubbard.
42nd Regular Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to minimizing the fire hazard in the operation of the dry cleaning and dry dyeing business; fixing a penalty.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that private corporations may be formed for any lawful purpose.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain Charitable and Eleemosynary Institutions incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas to exercise the right of Eminent Domain and Condemnation within the confines of any incorporated city in this State having more than 43,000 inhabitants according to the United States Census of 1920, which city is in a county having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants according to said Census.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to providing that there shall be constructed a Texas State Museum Building located in the City of Austin; making an appropriation.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to remove the remains of certain heroes and providing for monuments for such heroes.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to the control of savings departments.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to preventing the loan of Trust funds by a State bank, State Bank and Trust Company, or other corporation doing a Trust business, to any Director, Officer or employee thereof, and to provide a penalty therefor.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to providing that no revocation, countermand or stop payment order relating to the payment of any check or draft against an account of a depositor in any State Bank shall remain in effect for more than ninety days after the service thereof on the bank.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind or character, directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas, except the mineral rights herein, in and to certain abutting property known as the Texas City or Government Dike, to the City of Texas City in Galveston County, Texas.
SB 91	Caption: Relative to authorizing the acquisition by the government of the United States of American of land, water or land and water within the State of Texas, for migratory bird reservations authorized by Act of Congress February 18, 1929.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to prescribing the venue and jurisdiction of offenses committed by convicts who are serving sentences under which they have been committed to the State Penitentiary.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Articles providing for the lease of oyster reefs or bottoms of the public waters of the State of Texas to citizens of the United States for the exclusive purpose of cultivating oysters.
SB 160	Caption: Relating to regulating the registration of motor vehicles in this State.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to governing liability of directors in corporations and fixing liability upon stockholders.
SB 162	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the State Treasury to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission on sand, shell and gravel used by counties and cities or towns for constructing streets and roads.
SB 163	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of corporations for the purpose of insuring titles, lending money, etc., approved February 27, 1929; by fixing the liability of stockholders under certain circumstances.
SB 164	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that where a testator having a child or children leaves a surviving wife, who is the mother of all his said children, and the principal beneficiary in said last will and testament to the entire exclusion of all his said children, that said articles 8291 and 8292 shall not apply.
SB 173	Caption: Relating to providing an Old Age Relief System for resident citizens over the age of seventy years.
SB 184	Caption: Relating to validating the surveys of lands heretofore and hereafter made and returned to the General Land Office and all valid grants by former governments, which surveys are located in whole or in part within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village withing this State.
SB 193	Caption: Relating to defining public utilities and providing for their regulation, creating the Public Utilities Commission of this State, providing penalties.
SB 194	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Texas Prison System, by and with the consent of the Governor and the Attorney General, to grant and lease to districts, companies, firms, and individuals carrying on, or formed for the purpose of carrying on, an irrigation business, rights-of-way for irrigation canals, laterals, flumes, and ditches, not over 150 feet in width along, across and over lands owned by the State as a part of the Penitentiary System.
SB 216	Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of trucks, trailers and semi-trailers upon the highways, prescribing additional lights for such vehicles requiring flares while standing on highways, requiring license for the operators of such vehicles; providing penalties.
SB 217	Caption: Relating to changing the time of holding the terms of the District Court in the 23rd Judicial District of Texas.
SB 218	Caption: Relating to designating the securities in which the funds of Life Insurance Companies may be invested.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the powers of the Board of Directors of any State Bank, Savings Bank or Bank and Trust Company.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to providing for the formation of Consolidated County-Wide Independent School Districts in certain Counties upon majority vote of the qualified voters of such counties.
SB 339	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for the exemption of property from taxation.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to providing for certificates to be issued by the Collector of Taxes of the State or of any political subdivison in the State showing payment of taxes.
SB 394	Caption: Relating to authorizing Counties and the State Highway Commission and other bodies to condemn land, earth, stone or other material convenient or necessary for the laying out, opening and/or maintaining and constructing of roads and for the drainage of the same.
SB 404	Caption: Relating to taxes on certain gasoline distributors.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to revalidating State Normal School diplomas and permanent certificates.
SB 572	Caption: Relating to making better provisions for public parks and playgrounds outside the limits of incorporated cities.
SB 582	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Treasurer to employ four extra clerks instead of three as authorized by House Bill 398, passed at the Regular Session of the 42nd Legislature.
SB 583	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay miscellaneous claims against the Treasury Department, and authorizing payment of said claims on the taking effect of this Act.
SCR 10	Caption: Thanking Governor R. S. Sterling, J. M. West, and Houston Salesmanship Club for the entertainment.
SCR 38	Caption: Recalling H.C.R 50 for further consideration.
SCR 45	Caption: Creating a monument in memory of the first three judges of the Supreme Court.
SJR 7	Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing the office of county treasurer.
SJR 24	Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the Legislature to grant aid and to authorize counties to assist and aid in caring for their aged citizens in indigent circumstances who have resided in the State more than fifteen years.
SJR 26	Caption: Proposing an amendment striking out the provision authorizing the Permanent University Fund to be invested in bonds or obligations and pledges issued by the Board of Regents of the University.
SR 56	Caption: In memory of Wm. Keihler.
SR 80	Caption: Inviting Thomas P. Magruder to address the Senate.
SR 135	Caption: Recalling H.B. 536 for further consideration.
SR 144	Caption: In memory of Mrs. John A. Lomax of Dallas.
SR 152	Caption: Inviting J.B. Shannon to address the Senate.
42nd 1st Called Session
SCR 5	Caption: Requesting harmony among members of Texas Railroad Commission.
SCR 11	Caption: Granting J. C. Canty permission to be absent from the State at intervals.
SR 4	Caption: In memory of John Martin of Blum.
SR 6	Caption: In memory of J. Robert Astin of Bryan.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SB 37	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the Sand, Shell and Gravel Fund of this State to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner on sand, shell and gravel used by Counties and Cities or towns for constructing streets and roads.
SR 4	Caption: In memory of Sidney Edward Mezes.
42nd 3rd Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to providing relief for the West Columbia Independent School District, Brazoria County, Texas, in order to aid said school district in rebuilding its property and equipment destroyed by the great hurricane which swept over the district on August 13, 1932; making an appropriation.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to providing for the relief of Brazoria Independent School District of Brazoria County, Texas, in order to aid the school district in rebuilding and repairing its schools destroyed by the hurricane which covered the territory in which this district is located on August 13, 1932; making an appropriation.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to providing for relief of Needville Independent School District in Fort Bend County; making an appropriation.
SCR 4	Caption: Instructing State Highway Department to loan one of its automobiles for relief operations in hurricane area.
41st Regular Session
SB 60	Caption: Relating to the mode of preventing horses, and certain other animals from running at large in the counties named, including Galveston, Harris, Refugio, Jim Wells and Duval Counties in Stock Law.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to the fees of the County Attorney in certain counties where there is no District Attorney, providing a maximum compensation payable to him out of the fees collected by such County Attorney, authorizing reimbursement out of fees collected for certain expenses and authorizing the employment of such County Attorney of assistants, investigators and stenographers, fixing their salaries and providing a method of payment thereof, and providing that such County Attorney may collect fees for services rendered in corporation courts and specifying such fees.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to place, set, use or drag any seine, net or other device for taking fish and shrimp other than the ordinary pole and line, casting rod and real, artificial bait, trot line, set line or cast net or minnow seine of not more than twenty feet in length for catching bait or have in his possession any seine, net or trawl without a permit issued by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner or by his authorized deputy in or on any of the waters of certain bays, stream, bayous, canals, lakes or passes, or within one mile of any Gulf pass in this State.
SB 90	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain incorporated cities to acquire and maintain recreational parks and playgrounds outside of the city limits.
SB 91	Caption: Relating to making better provision for public parks and playgrounds for incorporated cities and towns and counties.
SB 138	Caption: Relating to authorizing the County Judge to employ a stenographer or clerk in certain counties, said stenographer to be paid by the county.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to providing an old age relief system for resident citizens over the age of seventy years.
SB 165	Caption: Relating to creating the office of county superintendent of public schools; providing for filling the office; extending the term of office of present incumbents.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to providing an adequate method of regulating the practice of Civil Engineering in the State of Texas.
SB 186	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain incorporated cities, to dispose of property which has been designated for public park purposes and which has never been used for that purpose on account of being unsuitable.
SB 189	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishing, organization, management, direction and maintenance of a State Museum, as part of the public schools system, to be known as the Texas State Museum.
SB 190	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation out of the Sand, Shell and Gravel Fund of this State to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner on sand, shell and gravel used by counties and cities or towns for constructing streets and roads.
SB 191	Caption: Relating to providing for the separation of all public free school affairs in certain cities or towns from the municipal government therein.
SB 236	Caption: Relating to permitting the State of Texas or any Texas corporation created as an eleemosynary institution without profit, to own or acquire, and to permit counties to make grants and donations thereto, of any properties heretofore acquired by any such county for seawall purposes.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws declaring and defining the legal rights of married women.
SB 285	Caption: Relating to repealing that portion of the law which prevents unclaimed dead bodies at certain eleemosynary institutions of this State from being turned over to the Anatomical Board of Texas to be used in the advancement of medical science.
SB 342	Caption: Relating to the State Penitentiary and the State Prison System; making an appropriation.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to inspection of hides and animals in Matagorda county.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to guardian's rights to subscribe to corporation stock for ward.
SB 581	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities and counties to acquire and maintain and operate air ports.
SB 602	Caption: Relating to marks and brands of livestock.
SCR 47	Caption: Investigation of prison centralization problem by Board of Prison Commissioners.
SJR 15	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for a convention to frame a constitution for the State of Texas.
SR 4	Caption: Providing employment for Senator Triplett's former secretary, Bessie Pierce.
SR 12	Caption: Inviting State Rep. Helen B. Moore to address the Senate.
SR 48	Caption: Commending the City of Houston and the Salesmanship Club for their hospitality of the Legislators.
SR 63	Caption: Inviting Beaumont B. Buck to address the Senate.
SR 69	Caption: Accepting a painting of Beaumont B. Buck.
SR 73	Caption: Inviting former Governor B. B. Brooks of Wyoming to address the House.
SR 78	Caption: Inviting former U. S. Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey to address the Senate.
SR 81	Caption: In memory of William S. Simkins.
SR 86	Caption: Congratulating Herbert Hoover on the occasion of his Inauguration as President of the United States.
SR 89	Caption: Extending good wishes to Speaker W. S. Barron as he recovers from illness.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to the State Penitentiary and the State Prison System.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Three (3) in Brazoria County, Texas, defining its boundaries, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of Brazoria County in respect to the original organization and creation of said district as a Drainage District.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Four (4) in Brazoria County, Texas, defining its boundaries, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of Brazoria County in respect to the original organization and creation of said district as a Drainage District.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Nine (9) in Brazoria County, Texas, defining its boundaries, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of Brazoria County in respect to the orginal organization and creation of said district as a Drainage District.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to charters and shares of stock of banking corporations; amending a certain Statute.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to removing the limitation on amount of each deposit in savings banks; amending a certain Statute.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to regulating the class of securities for loans and investments of savings deposits; amending a certain Statute.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Five (5) in Brazoria County, Texas, defining its boundaries.
SB 135	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws;fixing the salary of Court Reporters in certain counties.
SCR 5	Caption: Authorizing the acceptance of a memorial to former Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey to be displayed in the Capitol or on the grounds should one be constructed.
SCR 10	Caption: In memory of former Governor Joseph B. Sayers.
SR 6	Caption: In memory of former U. S. Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey.
SR 8	Caption: Adding Senator Hardin to the Committee on Penitentiary.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 25	Caption: Relating to providing for the collection, housing and care of the historical and natural history museum materials in Texas; giving power to the University of Texas to gather such materials; making an appropriation.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of court reporters in certain counties.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the court reporter in certain judicial districts.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to providing for the Board of Prison Commissioners to make recommendations to the Legislature of the State regarding the possible concentration and relocation of the prison system of Texas, and defining the personnel, powers, and duties of said Prison Commissioners, and providing for the Publication of the findings and recommendations of said Prison Commissioners and appropriating the sum of Twenty Five Thousand Dollars for the expenses of said Prison Commissioners and for the expenses and compensations of its employes.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to banks and bank trust companies; providing for the minimum amount of capital stock to be owned by directors of such banks and bank trust companies; amending a certain Statute.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 5 in Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to pay certain refunds of the tax collected by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner on sand, shell and gravel used for constructing roads and streets.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for constructing and surfacing roads and streets on the camp site of the National Guard at Palacios, Matagorda County.
SCR 11	Caption: Condemning First Lady Lou Hoover for entertaining Jessie De Priest at the White House, as such an act condones "social racial equality as between the white and negro races".
SCR 22	Caption: Requesting the House of Representatives to return H. B. No. 79 to the Senate for further consideration.
41st 3rd Called Session
SCR 4	Caption: Directing the Board of Control to clear the Capitol Building of certain abandoned and unused furniture.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 17	Caption: Relating to amending the law which provides for courses in government and the Constitution in public supported colleges.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be unlawful to use shrimp trawls of certain specified size for the purpose of taking shrimp of any size for bait in any of the tidal waters of this State.
SB 88	Caption: Relating to providing a daily bag limit and a possession limit on wild ducks and wild geese that are killed, taken or possessed during the open season and repealing any provision of the law in conflict with this Act; providing a penalty.
SB 89	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Eight (8) in Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 90	Caption: Relating to creating Brazoria County Drainage District Number Six (6) in Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 91	Caption: Relating to creating Velasco Drainage District of Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 92	Caption: Relating to creating the Angleton Drainage District of Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 93	Caption: Relating to creating San Bernard Drainage District No. 10 of Brazoria County, Texas.
SR 14	Caption: In memory of the mother of State Senator Benjamin Berkeley.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain cities and counties, or either of them, to acquire property within any incorporated city to be used for hospital purposes, and authorizing such cities and counties to donate same to the State of Texas for hospital purposes.
SCR 8	Caption: In memory of former President of the United States William H. Taft.
SR 29	Caption: Memorializing Congress to take actions regarding certain reports of the President of the United States nominating "a negro judge to serve in the District of Columbia".
SR 33	Caption: Commending Estelle Gardner and her children for their gifts of bluebonnets to the Members of the Senate.
40th Regular Session
SB 60	Caption: Relating to exempting from the inheritance tax provided for in said chapter bequests, devises, gifts, grants, conveyances and transfers of any kind or character whatsoever passing to or for the use of religious, educational or charitable organizations or institutions located within this State, to be used within this State.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to provide for the establishment, maintenance, organization, and management of a Texas State Museum; appropriating the sum of five hundred thousand dollars for the erection of a monumental fire-proof building for said museum to be dedicated to the memory of the great men and women of Texas History.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to the filing and recording of instruments of writing, heretofore and hereafter recorded, and the effect thereof, and validating defective certificates of acknowledgement.
SB 166	Caption: Relating to enacting a new section or subdivision of Article 1302 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, relating to private corporations.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to Primary Elections.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to provide an old age relief system for resident citizens over the age of seventy years.
SB 183	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Matagorda County, Texas.
SB 188	Caption: Relating to authorizing the employment and compensation of a stenographer, clerk or assistant to the county judge in any county having a city of forty thousand inhabitants or more.
SB 227	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county in this State upon a vote of two-thirds majority of the resident tax paying voters therein, in addition to all other debts, to issue bonds or warrants, or otherwise lend its credit in an amount not to exceed one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such county for the purpose of navigation and in aid thereof.
SB 235	Caption: Relating to providing that any county or city authorized by Title 118 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 to construct, extend, protect and maintain any seawall or breakwater, levee, dike, floodway, and drainway may take any material from certain waters for use in any such work without payment therefor.
SB 243	Caption: Relating to private corporations, providing for the formation of private corporations, to own, operate and maintain amusement parks, theatres and recreation grounds, with the power to maintain, conduct and operate theatrical performances, shows, enterprises and devices for amusement and recreation.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to empowering the State Highway Commission to adopt safety devices to be erected at railroad and interurban crossings and to contract for same.
SB 354	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 26 in Brazoria County, Texas.
SB 355	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number twenty-five in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said county in respect to the organization of said district, validating the authorization, issuance and sale of certain road bonds thereof.
SB 356	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Nine (9) of Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said County, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 370	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing for the manner of issuing charters by the State to private corporations; providing that such may be formed under general law for all purposes not in contravention of the Constitution of Texas or the United States, or inconsistent with provision of general law or the public policy of the State.
SB 431	Caption: Relating to extending Oil and Gas Permit Number 10199 covering about 243 acres in the bed of the San Bernard River, issued on December 11, 1925, such extension to be for a period of two years from the present date of expiration of said Permit.
SB 432	Caption: Relating to extending Oil and Gas Permit Number 9892 covering about 540 acres in the Bed of the San Bernard River, issued on September 22, 1925, such extension to be for a period of two years from the present date of expiration of said Permit.
SB 434	Caption: Relating to repealing the special road law for Brazoria county.
SB 457	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county in this State upon a vote of two-thirds majority of the resident property tax payers voting thereon, in addition to all other debts, to issue bonds or warrants, or otherwise lend its credit in an amount not to exceed one-fourth of the assessed valuation of the real property of such county for the purpose of navigation and in aid thereof.
SB 461	Caption: Relating to the appointment by the Board of Trustees of Bay City Independent School District of a tax assessor and collector.
SB 464	Caption: Relating to the security required of State Depository Banks and fixing the interest rate to be paid by said banks; amending Article 2533, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, providing for the waiving of the payment of interest on such funds by Reserve Depository Banks under certain circumstances.
SB 484	Caption: Relating to providing that any county, city or town authorized by Title 118 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 to construct, extend, protect, strengthen, maintain, keep in repair, and otherwise improve any seawall or breakwater, levee, dike, floodway, and drainage may take any marl, gravel, sand or mudshell from any of the waters, reefs or bars included in Title 67, Chapter 3, Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 for use in any such work without payment therefor by such county, city or town to the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner, or to the State of Texas.
SCR 23	Caption: Recalling SB 60 from the Governor for certain correction.
SCR 24	Caption: Clarifying intent in SB 60.
SR 53	Caption: Recalling SB 183 from the House for certain correction.
SR 78	Caption: Disapproving of any attempt by a Senator to seek employment for close relatives.
40th 1st Called Session
SB 32	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria County under Section 59 Article 16 of the Constitution of Texas.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to providing for the separation of all public free school affairs in cities or towns from the municipal government therein; providing that all the power and authority over such schools shall be exercised by such cities or towns through their boards of education.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to providing that every political part in this State shall have the power to prescribe the qualifications of its own members and shall in its own way determine who shall be qualified to vote or otherwise participate in such political party.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending Article 5347 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 so as to make proper disposition of certain funds mentioned therein and particularly certain funds that under present laws go to the Game Fund.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 3107 of Chapter 13 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, and substituting in its place a new Article providing that every political party in this State through its State Executive Committee shall have the power to prescribe the qualifications of its own members and shall in its own way determine who shall be qualified to vote or otherwise participate in such political party.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Brazos River Harbor Navigation District of Brazoria County for the purpose of making improvements for the navigation of inland and coastal waters and for the preservation and conservation of inland and coastal waters for navigation and for control and distribution of storm and flood waters of rivers and streams in aid of navigation.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to providing for the investment of State funds in Government bonds; creating and providing for the functioning of a rate making board; abolishing the definition of Rate Board.
SCR 7	Caption: Endorsing pilgrimage of Texas businessmen.
39th Regular Session
SB 46	Caption: Relating to authorizing any private corporation for profit, hereafter or heretofore organized under the laws of this State, other than corporations authorized to conduct a banking or insurance business, to issue shares of its stock without nominal or par value, in such classes, with such preferences and for such considerations as may be prescribed and specifying the form of certificate for such stock.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to drive or propel any automobile, automobile truck, or other motor driven vehicle upon the track of any railroad, operated by a steam railroad company or the receiver thereof, or operated by an interurban railroad company or the receiver thereof, without stopping at a distance of not less than twenty feet nor more than fifty feet from the nearest rail, and looking and listening; making it a misdemeanor to violate any of the provisions of the Act, and prescribing punishment therefor.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to operating and establishing Alvin Independent School District in Brazoria County, Texas, defining and describing it by metes and bounds, providing for the government thereof.
SB 67	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes remitting to Galveston state taxes to aid the building of sea walls by extending the provisions of said statute for a period of ten years from September 1, 1928.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to amemending certain statute relating to the judges of the district courts and county judge of counties of certain population a juvenile board of such county and prescribing the powers and duties of such board, including the appointment by it of probation officers and providing for the payment of compensation for the payment of compensation for such officers and allowing the said district judges an additional salary to be paid out of the general fund of such county; providing for the fixing of such additional salary by the commissioners' court of such counties.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to providing an old age pension system for resident citizens over the age of seventy years.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to providing for the development and improvement of navigation of the inland and coastal waters of this State pursuant to the State Constitution.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to provide that the city council or commission of any city or town shall have power to levy and collect an annual poll tax, not to exceed one dollar, of every person between the ages of twenty-one and sixty year, resident within such city or town on the first day of January of each year (Indians not taxed, and persons insane, bind deaf or dumb, or those who have lost one hand or foot, excepted).
SB 112	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to providing for the regulation and supervision of banking corporations, providing that State banks or State bank and trust companies that have elected to do business under the Guaranty Fund Law, as provided for under said statutes, to cease doing business as guaranty fund banks and thereafter to do business and come under the provisions of the Bond Security System.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute with reference to fraud in teachers' certificates so as to make it a felony to violate said statute.
SB 114	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing for regulation and supervision of banking corporations.
SB 167	Caption: Relating to creating the Matagorda Independent School District in Matagorda County, Texas, defining its boundaries, dividing said district into two wards and dividing the boundaries of each ward, providing for the election of a board of trustees to manage and control the public free schools within said district.
SB 176	Caption: Relating to making it a felony to withdraw of collateral pledged to a bank on trust, or other form of receipt, and when so withdrawn to use, sell, re-pledge or otherwise dispose of same for any other purpose than that of paying the indebtedness; providing penalties.
SB 203	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute pertaining to the payment of county taxes on lands acquired and owned by the State for the purpose of establishing State farms employing convict labor on State account so as to provide for the payment of taxes on such lands levied and assessed for the purposes of paying the interest on and creating a sinking fund to redeem at maturity bonds voted and approved by the Attorney General prior to the acquisition of such land by the State.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Alvin Independent School District, in Brazoria County, Texas, defining and describing it by metes and bounds, providing for the government thereof, providing for it to assume the outstanding school contracts and indebtedness applicable to the territory so included, vesting in it the title to all school property situated in the territory so included, ratifying and continuing in force the school taxes heretofore voted in said territory.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to exempt from the inheritance tax therein provided bequests and devices passing to public charities.
SB 273	Caption: Relating to creating the Tavener Independent School District in Fort Bend County, Texas; defining its boundaries; providing for a board of trustees in said independent district and conferring upon aid district and its privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General Laws of the State upon independent school districts and the board of trustees thereof.
SB 274	Caption: Relating to appropriating one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to pay in full the surviving heirs at law of General T.J. Chambers for 5,004 acres of land condemned by the Republic of Texas for the purpose of establishing a seat of government, upon which the city of Austin now stands and upon a part of which the State Capital is built.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute pertaining to the business of private banks so as to eliminate the retroactive feature of said Act.
SB 291	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to drive or propel any automobile truck, or other motor driven vehicle upon the track of any railroad, operated by a steam railroad company or the receiver thereof, or operated by an interurban railroad company or the receiver thereof, at the place of the crossing of any public road or streets at grade, without stopping at a distance of not le than twenty feet or more than fifty feet from the nearest railroad and looking and listening; providing that the Act shall not apply in certain cases, making it a misdemeanor to violate any of the provisions of the Act, and prescribing punishment therefor.
SB 296	Caption: Relating to authorizing judges to appoint a receiver or receivers of any defunct or disorganized church or congregation; authorizing the management and sale of all such properties.
SB 304	Caption: Relating to providing for publicity as to the membership and official connection with fraternal, benevolent or other societies, organizations, lodges, or orders; requiring the filing with the county tax collector of signed and sworn statements disclosing membership or official connection, either present or within two years next preceding, with any such society, organization, lodge or order, and making such statements public records subject to the inspection of any such citizen; prescribing penalties for false statements and violation or failure to comply with this Act or any provision hereof.
SB 305	Caption: Relating to prohibiting going masked or disguised in or near a public place, private house or church; prohibiting gatherings of masked or disguised persons.
SB 321	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Richmond Independent School District in Fort Bend County, Texas, including therein the territory of the present Richmond Independent District as incorporated under the General Laws.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to providing that the fact that any juror who is a member of and belongs to any secret organization which conceals or attempt to conceal the identity of its membership from the public at large, whether said organization be fraternal, political, or otherwise, shall hereafter be a sufficient and lawful ground for challenge for cause for any such juror when made by any party to any lawsuit, civil or criminal.
SB 328	Caption: Relating to creating the Rosenberg Independent School District in Fort Bend County, Texas; defining its metes and bounds; including the territory of the former Rosenberg Independent School District heretofore created under the General Law of this State, and that certain territory added thereto by special Act of the Thirty-fifth Legislature.
SB 365	Caption: Relating to extending the boundaries of the Markham Independent School District, enlarging the same and defining its boundaries, and providing that the management and control of all public free schools within said enlarged district shall be vested in the present board of public school trustees of the Markham Independent School District and their successor in office as now provided in the General Laws of the State of Texas governing independent school districts.
SB 366	Caption: Relating to extending the boundaries of the Blessing Independent School District, enlarging the same and defining its boundaries, and providing that the management and control of all public free schools within said enlarged district shall be vested in the present board of public school trustees of the Blessing Independent School District and their successor in office as now provided in the General Laws of the State of Texas governing independent school districts.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to amending and providing for the redemption by the owner of land or land lots heretofore sold, or that may be sold, to the State, city or town for taxes.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to depositories.
SB 397	Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Wharton County by permitting the issuance of bonds by Wharton County for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for road and bridge purposes.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing the Sweeney Independent School District in Brazoria County, Texas, defining and describing it by metes and bounds, providing for election of trustees thereof.
SB 428	Caption: Relating to providing that all bonds executed under a certain Article shall become void and of no force and effect upon the filing and approval of a new annual bond, as provided for by Article, and providing that the forms of bonds so provided shall be prepared by the Banking Board of the State of Texas.
SB 434	Caption: Relating to the protection of the property and lives of citizens in a part of Brazoria County and conserving and increasing Harbor Facilities at the mouth of the Brazos River in Brazoria County and preventing the shoaling of the waters on the bar of the Harbor caused by deposit of silt from the floodwaters of the Brazos River by granting and donating for a term of 25 years a portion of the State ad valorem tax levied and collected in this portion of Brazos County to provide for the construction of the necessary breakwaters, levees, dikes, floodways and diversions and providing for the diversion of the channel of said Brazos River near its mouth.
SB 460	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the State Health Officer of the State of Texas and making appropriation to pay such salary.
SCR 22	Caption: Relating to pink boll worm losses.
SCR 26	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S.B. 113 for further consideration.
SCR 38	Caption: Relating to the payment of county taxes on lands owned by the State.
SJR 9	Caption: Proposing an amendment abolishing the Board of Prison Commissioners and providing for the supervision and management of the Prison System.
SJR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the levy and collection of a special road tax.
SR 1	Caption: Expressing regret at illness of John H. Bailey and providing for the acceptance of his oath of office as Senator.
SR 39	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 113 from Governor's office for the purpose of considering a House amendment.
SR 71	Caption: Requesting that the House return S.B. 302 for further consideration.
39th 1st Called Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. One (1) in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 4, in Chambers County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eight (8), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Seven (7), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 22	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 24, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 10, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 9, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 11, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 23, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 20, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 19, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 8, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 14, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 6 in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 5, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 4, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 2, in Brazoria, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 204	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Chambers County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 217	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 218	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three (3), in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 219	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 3, in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Sixteen (16), in Brazoria County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Matagorda County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to the creation of Road District Number Nine (9) in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 253	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eleven (11), in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eight (8), in Fort Bend County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 270	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of Insurance Claims.
SB 271	Caption: Relating to relieving the Sealy and Smith Foundation for the John Sealy Hospital, the estate of John Sealy, and the legatees in and under his will, from payment of inheritance taxes.
SB 281	Caption: Relating to making appropriation to the Live Stock Sanitary Commission of the sum of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary out of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, to pay the State of Texas one-half of such claim or claims as may be due for the loss or destruction of hay in Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris Counties during the hoof and mouth epidemic of 1925, after same have been approved.
SCR 9	Caption: Appointing a committee for the purpose of reading and correcting the Civil and Criminal Statutes.
38th Regular Session
SB 29	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company to purchase, own and operate the railroad and other property, with its franchise and appurtenance, now or hereafter owned by Galveston and Western Railway Company of the City of Galveston, State of Texas.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to requiring the Board of Water Engineers and the State Reclamation Engineer, in conformity to the statutes determining their powers and duties, to make, and cause to be made, and report to the Governor, an adequate topographic and hydrographic survey of the steam watersheds of the State.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to regulating the business of banking in this State when conducted by concerns operating under charters obtained in Texas prior to adoption of the Constitution of 1876, and placing them under the provisions of Chapter I to VI, inclusive, Title XIV, of Revised Civil Statutues of Texas, as amended; fixing penalties.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to creating the Freeport Independent School District in Brazoria county, Texas; defining its boundaries, including the present Freeport Independent School District; providing for a Board of Trustees in said District, conferring upon said District and it Board of Trustees, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the general laws of Texas upon Independent School Districts and Boards of Trustee thereof, providing that the present Board of Trustees continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to providing an old age pension system for resident citizens over the age of seventy years.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to the filing and indexing of chattel mortgages.
SB 104	Caption: Relating to providing that State banks, or State bank and trust companies, organized under the General Laws of the State of Texas, desiring to convert to any other system of banking, shall give notice to the public by advertisement in a newspaper of such change.
SB 105	Caption: Relating to amending certain act providing for the creation of a State banking board, fixing the number of members thereof, and defining the duties and powers of said board.
SB 106	Caption: Relating to authorizing banks closed by order of State Banking Department to enjoin such Department.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of the Banking Commissioner of Texas.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to providing that the Banking Commissioner of Texas may take possession of any bank or trust company under the provisions of the bank deposit guaranty law of the State of Texas.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to providing that all State banks or State bank and trust companies provided for in said Act shall have the right to use any truthful method of advertising; prohibiting the use of any untruthful statements of advertising as to the guaranty fund system of the State banks of Texas.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to providing for the amount of capital stock of State banks or State bank and trust companies that may be hereafter organized.
SB 111	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing that all banks and trust companies mentioned in Article 445 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Texas, shall have the right to secure its depositor under the terms, provisions and regulations set forth in said Act.
SB 219	Caption: Relating to the pollution of water courses and other bodies of water.
SB 220	Caption: Relating to authorizing Galveston & Western Railway Company to abandon a portion of its track and line of railroad in the City of Galveston, Galveston County, Texas, and to relinquish its rails and track material to the City of Galveston.
SB 271	Caption: Relating to the business of co-operative savings and contract loan companies, and providing for liquidation of corporations operating thereunder.
SB 276	Caption: Relating to aiding and relieving the City of Palacios in Matagorda County, Texas; from the devastating gulf storms and tidal waves of the Gulf of Mexico.
SB 308	Caption: Relating to providing that if any person shall establish or operate a lottery or be employed therein or receive either as principal or as agent any money, for any chances or interest or contract in any lottery, he shall be punished by two (2) years imprisonment confinement in the penitentiary.
SB 314	Caption: Relating to authorizing Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe Railway to purchase, own and operate the railroad and other property with its franchises and appurtenances, now or hereafter owned by Galveston and Western Railway Company in the City of Galveston, State of Texas.
SB 325	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of fish and other marine life, changing certain penalties therein, repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to providing for refund of taxes paid on marl, gravel, sand, shell or mudshell, by any county, city or town; making an appropriation for said purpose out of the fish and oyster fund.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to providing that the city council of any city or town shall have power to levy and collect an annual poll tax.
SB 394	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for printing to the State Department of Education to print the necessary blanks and bulletins pertaining to the scholastic year 1922-1923.
SCR 11	Caption: Endorsing certain statements of the State Democratic Party Platform relating to the promotion of States' Rights.
SCR 15	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S. B. No. 52 to the Senate for further consideration.
SCR 17	Caption: Authorizing the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate to remove their names from S. B. No. 52.
SR 68	Caption: Requesting the Senate to return S. B. No. 52 in order to make certain corrections.
SR 76	Caption: In memory of former State Senator W. L. Hall.
SR 92	Caption: Inviting State Rep Ike Looney to address the Senate.
38th 2nd Called Session
SB 34	Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Brazoria County, by adding Section 22a; which provides for the construction of roads designated as State Highways either within the district or without the district furnishing the money.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to re-defining and adding to the Anahuac Independent School District certain territory now embraced in Common School District No. 20, of Chambers County, Texas, and divesting the said Common School District No. 20 of the control of the public free schools within the limits of the territory herein added to said Anahuac Independent School District with full control of the public free schools within the limits of said independent district as herein defined.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any political party in this State to hold a primary election for the nomination of a candidate for the office of a judge of any district court, criminal district court, Court of Civil Appeal, Court of Criminal Appeals or Supreme Court of Texas.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of County Tax Collectors for the collection of license fees on Motor Vehicles, Tractors and Trailers; exempting said fees from fee bill.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to releasing the inhabitants of and property in Wharton County, comprising one district, and that portion of Matagorda County embraced in Commissioners' Precincts Nos. one, two and four as described in the minutes of the Commissioners' Court of said county, comprising another district, for a period of twenty-five years, from the payment of taxes levied for State purposes.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by providing for ordering of elections by the commissioners' court for the organization of water improvement districts.
SB 82	Caption: Relating to creating and providing for a Department of Banking for the State of Texas separate from the Department of Insurance of this State, to provide for the appointment, term of office, official name, compensation and to prescribe the qualifications, powers and duties of the head of such Department.
SR 35	Caption: Inviting George Sealy to address the Senate.
38th 3rd Called Session
SB 25	Caption: An act creating the West Columbia Independent School District in Brazoria County, Texas; defining its boundaries, including the present Common School District No. 16 in Brazoria County, Texas; providing for a board of trustee in said district, conferring upon said district and its boards of trustees all the rights, powers, privileges and duties now conferred and imposed by the General Laws of the State of Texas upon independent school districts and the boards of trustees t hereof.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to creating the Roscoe Independent School District in Nolan County, Texas, including the present Roscoe Independent School District; providing a board of trustees therefor.
SR 8	Caption: Expressing the priority of the legislature to reduce appropriations as opposed to raising taxes to solve the current budgetary crisis.