Legislation authored by John William Hornsby

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

44th Regular Session
SB 90	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000) of Texas Relief Bonds, Fourth Series, under Section 51-a, of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas; prohibiting the misappropriation of relief funds, the making of false reports concerning such funds, or knowingly and unlawfully distributing or expending any of said funds, defining such act as a felony and prescribing a penalty; prohibiting the willful making of a false statement in order to procure relief funds, defining such act as a misdemeanor and prescribing a penalty; authorizing the members of the State BOard of Control, the Director and Assistant Director to administer oaths relative to discharge of their duties, or in inquiry thereto; providing that false swearing in connection therewith shall be punishable under the provisions of the Penal Law applicable to false swearing.
SB 125	Caption: Relating to providing for the authorizing of the county commissioners' court in each county of the State of Texas to purchase machine guns, submachine guns, riot guns, tear gas bombs and other paraphernalia of like character for the use of the sheriff.
SB 126	Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of an officer or person executing a fugitive warrant beyond the limits of the State of Texas.
SB 127	Caption: Relating to providing compensation of the sheriff for removing or conveying prisoners.
SB 128	Caption: Relating to fees of sheriffs or constables for conveying attached witnesses.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to collection of excess fees of officers.
SB 144	Caption: Relating to amending certains statute relating to providing the conditions upon which a common, or independent, school district shall be eligible to receive aid from State appropriations for aid of rural schools and schools in small towns, as provided in said statute, so as to authorize such aid to schools in both common and independent districts where there is contribution to said schools otherwise than by taxation, an amount not less than a tax of seventy-five cents on the hundred dollars valuation on property within the district would produce.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to checks or drafts returned unpaid when given the tax collectors or the assessors and collectors of taxes in payment of the registration license fees and number plates on any motor vehicle, truck, tractor, trailer, motorcycle or motorcycle side car.
SB 155	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to judgments and providing that where same has been recorded and indexed it shall constitute a lien against all real estate which defendant may thereafter acquire in said county.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to increasing the powers and duties of the State Board of Embalming so as to prescribe and maintain a standard of proficiency as to the qualifications of those engaged, and who may engage, in the practice of funeral directing in connection with the care and disposition of dead human bodies by providing that said State Board of Embalming shall adopt rules, regulations and by-laws for examination and licensing of funeral directors and the practice of funeral direction; prescribing a penalty.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of the members of the State Board of Embalming so as to create a rotating Board and to enlarge the term of office to six (6) years.
SB 262	Caption: Relating to fees to be charged by its clerk for services not specifically provided by statute.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to defining "transportation agent"; providing certain exceptions; regulating the business of transportation agents; prescribing the duties of the Railroad Commission with relation to transportation agents; fixing a penalty for violations of this Act.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to the discharge of fines and costs in misdemeanor cases.
SB 293	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used by the State Depository Board to pay rent for safety deposit boxes rented by the Board from any bank located in the City of Austin for the purpose of depositing securities, where such obligations for rent have been incurred by the State Depository Board.
SB 300	Caption: Relating to providing that the judges of election shall number any accepted ballots which may have been challenged.
SB 301	Caption: Relating to providing for and requiring that agents for Statewide mutual assessment life insurance companies, Statewide mutual assessment health and accident insurance companies, local mutual aid associations and fraternal benefit societies shall become subject to this Act and licensed by the Insurance Department of the State of Texas.
SB 302	Caption: Relating to defining abstacters and the abstract business; requiring all abstracters to apply for and receive from the Board of Insurance Commissioners a certificate of authority to engage in the abstract business.
SB 362	Caption: Relating to further regulating and providing a means and method of securing service of process on Federal Relief Agencies operating and doing business in the State of Texas, including Federal Housing Administration, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, any National Mortgage Association, any National Mortgage Savings and Loan INsurance Corporation, created and/or to be created by or under authority of an Act of Congress of the United States of America.
SB 363	Caption: Relating to exempting the State of Texas, any county in the State, any State department or the head of any State department and corporations created and/or to be created by or under authority of any Act of Congress of the United States of America as a national relief organization from giving security for costs or the posting of bond or bonds in securing any extraordinary writs in any action brought in their official capacity in the courts of this State.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to requiring permits for the erection or construction of buildings or improvements on real estate or installation of mechanical equipment placed on lease or lease contract within any county in this State where the value of such improvement or installation exceeds $300.00 or more, providing that the Assessor and Collector of Taxes shall administer oaths, issue permits, make inspections and together with the Comptroller of Public Accounts shall carry out the provisions of this Act; making it a misdemeanor for violation of the terms hereof and fixing penalties therefor.
SB 446	Caption: Relating to making better provision for the regulation of the sale and dealings in stocks, bonds, and securities in this State, including any share, stock, treasury stock, stock certificate under a voting trust agreement, collateral trust certificate, preorganization certificate or receipt, subscription or reorganization certificate, note, bond, debenture, mortgage certificate or other evidence of indebtedness.
SB 455	Caption: Relating to giving authority to the Fitzpatrick Construction Company to sue State and State Highway Department of Texas.
SB 461	Caption: Relating to appropriating Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of fire insurance on the State Capitol Building.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the teaching of any political, economic or social doctrines opposed to or destructive of the Constitutional System of Government of the United States, by any teacher, lecturer or instructor of any school, public or private, in the State of Texas, and further providing for the taking of an oath by any such instructor, lecturer or teacher, to be filed in the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the faithful performance of his or her duties and to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Texas; and providing penalties for the violation of this Act for the excluding of citizens of foreign countries from the necessity of taking such oaths.
SB 490	Caption: Relating to regulation of disputes arising from contracts awarded by the State Highway Commission.
SB 499	Caption: Relating to granting permission to the International-Great Northern Railroad Company, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company to sue the State and State Highway Commission.
SB 505	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Lower Colorado River Authority to issue Bonds not to exceed Twenty Million ($200,000,0000) Dollars in aggregate principal amount, repealing that portion of the Colorado River Authority Act limiting the amount of Bonds which may be issued by such District to Ten Million ($10,000,000.00) Dollars, and all other laws in conflict herewith.
SB 518	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation institutions or organizations such as Texas Federation of Women's Clubs of Texas or local organizations of such a body.
SB 519	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Courts to purchase out of the general fund half-ton trucks to be used by the respective commissioners in the discharge of their duties.
SB 526	Caption: Relating to transferring the use and possession of 16.66 acres of land out of the George W. Spear Headright League adjoining Camp Mabry in Travis County, Texas, title to which is now in the State of Texas, authorizing the Highway Department to pay to the Adjutant General's Department the sum of Thirty-two Hundred ($3200.00) Dollars, making an appropriation to the Adjutant General's Department of such sum so received, and authorizing the Adjutant General's Department to purchase for the State of Texas a suitable right-of-way and entrance to Camp Mabry.
SB 528	Caption: Relating to providing for an additional Assistant District Attorney for the 53rd Judicial District of Texas, prescribing his qualifications, who shall be authorized to perform any official act devolving upon or authorized to be performed by the District Attorney of such District, requiring him to take the oath of office, and who shall hold office subject to the will of the District Attorney, making an appropriation for his salary for the ensuing biennium.
SB 529	Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Travis County, Texas; defining the jurisdiction of said court; regulating practice therein; prescribing the terms of said court.
SCR 1	Caption: Providing for a committee to count the votes for the recent election of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
SCR 5	Caption: Accepting the invitation from the Llano Chamber of Commerce to attend an honorary barbeque.
SCR 8	Caption: Inviting Hal H. Sevier to address the Legislature.
SCR 16	Caption: Providing for a joint session of the Legislature to hear the address of Hal H. Sevier.
SCR 24	Caption: Inviting Hugh Johnson to address the Legislature.
SCR 28	Caption: Recognizing April 19 through 26, 1935 as Conservation and Beautification Week in Texas.
SCR 36	Caption: Granting C.R. Miller permission to sue the State Highway Department.
SCR 39	Caption: Authorizing the purchase of land for use by Camp Mabry.
SCR 58	Caption: Recognizing May 11, 1935 as the date for final adjournment.
SCR 59	Caption: Suspending joint rules 22, 24, and 32 to consider S.B. Nos. 526, 181, 182, 265, 533, 466, 340, 14, 454, and 355.
SCR 60	Caption: Suspending joint rules 22, 23, 24, and 32 to dispose of S.B. Nos. 526, 181, and 182.
SJR 11	Caption: Ratifying an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, passed by the Sixty-eighth Congress of the United States of America at its first session, which amendment empowers the Congress to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen (18) years of age.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas by adding to Article 16 another section, Section 16, providing for four year term for all elective State, District, County and Precinct Officers, except where otherwise provided in the Constitution the term of office is fixed at more than four years.
SR 8	Caption: In memory of Alice Littlefield.
SR 17	Caption: Relating to child labor.
SR 21	Caption: Expressing gratitude to Senator Holbrook, et al.
SR 31	Caption: Providing for the purchase of a portrait of John N. Garner.
SR 42	Caption: Providing for a committee to attend the funeral of Thomas Finley Hughston.
SR 43	Caption: Providing for a funeral offering to the family of Thomas Finley Hughston and for the expenses of the committee.
SR 69	Caption: Granting Herbert Ames privileges of the floor.
SR 71	Caption: Inviting Ralph H. Durkee to address the Senate.
SR 78	Caption: Nominating for the position of "Head Brain Truster".
SR 85	Caption: Granting Don Cude and his government class privileges of the floor.
SR 94	Caption: Inviting M.S. Sloan to address the Senate.
SR 101	Caption: Inviting King George of England, et al, to attend the Texas Centennial.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 13	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the General Revenue Fund in the sum of Two Hundred Thousand ($200,000.00) Dollars, to be used in the building of a Texas Supreme Court Memorial Building at Austin, Texas, on the tract of land heretofore appropriated by the Legislature for such purpose, said tract being located on the corner of Congress Avenue and Eleventh Street, in the City of Austin, Texas.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to appropriating money to pay judgment for the sum of Twelve Hundred ($1200.00) Dollars against the State of Texas in favor of R. D. Winder in cause No. 52982 in the 126th District Court of Travis County.
SB 39	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of district attorneys in certain judicial districts in counties containing a population of not less than 77,777 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants, as shown by the last preceding Federal Census, which such counties comprise within themselves two or more judicial districts.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Lampasas County, Texas, authorizing the court to require surety bonds of road overseers, validating the proceedings heretofore had by the County, and by its officials in reference to the issuance of warrants for the purchase of right of way, and validating the proceedings and other actions taken by the County and its officials in reference to the issuance of funding bonds in lieu of certain warrants.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending Section 3 of the Lower Colorado River Authority Act, so as to provide that Directors of the Lower Colorado River Authority shall receive fees and expenses for attending meetings of the board and attending to other business of the authority.
SCR 3	Caption: Providing for a joint session of the Legislation to dedicate the painting of Jesse Holman Jones.
44th 2nd Called Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to providing for licensing operators of motor vehicles; defining certain terms; providing a penalty for violation of this Act; imposing a fine and jail sentence for driving while suspended.
SCR 3	Caption: Granting Elias and Mary Crem Philgreen to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 24	Caption: Directing educational authorities in the State to provide suitable programs for Texas history to children in lower grades.
SR 15	Caption: Expressing approval for a proposed memorial for Will Rogers.
SR 21	Caption: Inviting the wives of H.B. Ritchie and John B. Cochran to address the Senate.
SR 22	Caption: Inviting the teachers and students of C.I.A. to address the Senate.
SR 24	Caption: Inviting Frank Hawks and Tom Miller to address the Senate.
SR 25	Caption: Inviting C.O. Britt and Camilla Oden to address the Senate.
SR 26	Caption: Inviting Roberta Campbell Lawson to address the Senate.
44th 3rd Called Session
SR 1	Caption: Relating to the printing of an "In Memoriam" in the Journal.
SR 13	Caption: Welcoming W.J. Cunningham to the State Capitol.
SR 18	Caption: Granting the wife of W.A. Poage, wife of Jno. Bell, and Margaret Sheldon privileges of the floor.
SR 20	Caption: Accepting the invitation to visit the Memorial Museum.
43rd Regular Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to bonds given by the commissioners court so that the requirements and provisions of said statute shall remain and be the same as to the present, except that it shall provide that funds provided by the tax collector of each county shall bear interest on daily balances at the rate, of any, fixed for such deposits of the tax collector by the commissioners court in its order designating such depository or depositories.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to fixing the time for making election returns by presiding judges in general and special elections, and amending Article 3123 so as to fix the time for making precinct and county election returns in party primary elections; fixing a penalty for the failure to make such returns within the time prescribed by this Act.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to providing for storage of wild game birds, or wild game animals in public cold storage plants; providing suitable penalties.
SB 160	Caption: Relating to changing the compensation of district attorneys form a salary basis to a fee basis in certain judicial districts.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to providing that the license fees on motor vehicles imposed by certain statute will not become delinquent until on and after April first of the calendar year for which the license fee is imposed; and prescribing a penalty for failure to comply with the terms of this Act.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment or both, for removing books, pamphlets, manuscripts, or newspapers from the State Library or Supreme Court Library without permission or without having the books, pamphlets, manuscripts, or newspapers charged out.
SB 245	Caption: Relating to designating and fixing the Third day of November as "Father of Texas Day" in memory of Stephen F. Austin, the real and true Father of Texas.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to requiring moving picture machines or projectors operating in this state to be provided with equipment to be approved by the State Fire Insurance Commissioner of Texas and the Underwriters Laboratories of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, affording the utmost possible means of automatically and instantly preventing fires resulting from the explosion or igntion of motion picture films, and such equipment shall be constantly maintainedi n an efficient working condition; providing a penalty for the violation of this Act.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to changing the manner and amount of the salary of official shorthand reporters in each judicial district in any county which alone constitutes two or mroe judicial districts.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Republic Bank & Trust Company of Austin, Texas, and the First National Bank of DeKalb, Texas, at DeKalb, Texas, as innocent purchasers of certain deficiency certificates issued by the Comptroller of the State of Texas, to sue the State of Texas on said deficiency certificates.
SB 425	Caption: Relating to requiring bonds to be given by all active or salaried officers and employees of State banking institutions whose duties permit or require them to handle bank funds.
SB 467	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the establishment of crematories, mausoleums or crematories, so as to provide for the establishment of same within one mile of the city limits of an incorporated city or town under certain restrictions.
SB 500	Caption: Relating to providing for the dissolution and liquidation of various types of reclamation districts.
SB 504	Caption: Relating to preventing fraud and deception in the sale, and offering for sale, of rebuilt electric storage batteries; and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
SB 512	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, delivering for sale, consigning for sale or having in his possession with intent to sell any article of bedding not properly labeled, defining terms, prescribing penalty.
SB 530	Caption: Relating to exempting all male persons not otherwise exempt between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years residing in Burnet County from the performance of road duty.
SB 531	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court to condemn land not more than one hundred feet in width for stream-bed diversion in connection with the locating, relocating or construction of a designated State highway.
SCR 24	Caption: Urging US Congressmen of Texas to initiate measures encouraging the use of Texas granite in the construction of federal buildings.
SCR 25	Caption: Granting Raymond Canion permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
SCR 77	Caption: Providing for the continuance of audits and investigations of oil royalties by the State Auditor.
SJR 28	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas by amending Article 3, by adding thereto Section 50a and Section 50b so as to permit the State to assume the indebtedness of counties, cities, towns, districts and municipalities of the State, authorized and/or existing prior to January 1, 1933, and evidenced by bonds or interest-bearing time warrants, and authorizing the issuance of State bonds to be exchanged for such bonds and warrants of such counties, cities, towns, districts and municipalities.
SR 13	Caption: Inviting Major General B. Winans and General Charles H. Danford to participate in inaugural ceremonies for Governor Miriam A. Ferguson.
SR 23	Caption: Commending House and Senate Sergeants-at-Arms for economy in handling inauguration preparations.
SR 35	Caption: Adopting Rules of the Senate.
SR 53	Caption: Welcoming Professor D.F. Cude and students of Marble Falls High School to Austin.
SR 60	Caption: Extending use of the Senate Chamber for funeral services for former US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory.
SR 74	Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to Louisianan triplets Margaret, Gladys, and Ford Ferguson.
SR 82	Caption: Welcoming Minnie Joseph, Katherine Sells, and sixth-grade students of Georgetown Grammar Schools to the Capitol.
SR 86	Caption: Inviting Mrs. Clyde Tate and the Crystal City Glee Club to sing before the Senate.
SR 106	Caption: Inviting Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, State President of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs and President of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the United States, to address the Senate.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to providing for collection of delinquent taxes and method of giving notice of delinquencies to record owners.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to regulating the business of transporting persons for hire or for compensation over the public roads, highways or bridges of the State of Texas, whether as a common carrier, contract or charter carrier; requiring an examination of the public records in order to ascertain if the owner, chauffeur, driver or operator of the motor vehicle has properly complied with the laws of this State; and making the violation of this Act a misdemeanor.
SB 41	Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries and compensation of County Commissioners in certain counties.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to creating a water conservation and reclamation district as a public corporation under Section 59, Article 16 of the Constitution of Texas, to be known as "The Colorado River Authority."
SB 79	Caption: Relating to defining the powers of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas when acting as trustees of a Trust for Scientific, Educational, Philanthropic, Charitable or other public purposes, and to confer upon them the Power of Eminent Domain.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to execute Bond in a sum not in excess of One Million Two Hundred Thousand ($1,200,000.00) Dollars, to obtain funds with which to complete the Main Building of the University of Texas.
SB 105	Caption: Relating to providing that consent to adoption of a child shall not be required of a parent who has transferred the right to and control of such child or abandoned such child, to a corporation, or other association, conducting a home or school or children, or an individual, by written instrument.
SCR 9	Caption: Inviting Postmaster General James A. Farley to be the guest of official Texas.
SCR 27	Caption: Requesting that the Highway Commission study and investigate proposed routes for a highway through Kenedy County.
SR 19	Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to certain University of Texas journalism students.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to providing the time when taxes shall become due and when they shall become delinquent; providing penalty for nonpayment of said taxes and for interest thereon.
SB 62	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of Travel Bureaus, prohibiting anyone from holding out to the public that such person is engaged in the business of a Travel Bureau, defining a Travel Bureau, making violations of this Act a misdemeanor, fixing penalties.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to establishing a uniform method whereby any legal subdivision of this State may effect a composition of creditors for the purpose of paying off the indebtedness incurred by it through the issuance and sale of bonds and/or warrants, and thereby providing prompt relief for those subdivisions unable to meet such indebtedness in full because of the prevailing unprecedented economic condition.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to creating a water conservation and reclamation district as a public corporation under Section 59, Article 16 of the Constitution of Texas, to be known as "The Colorado River Authority."
SCR 34	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the Senate might consider HB 105.
SR 25	Caption: Inviting Rafael De La Colina, Consul General of Mexico, to address the Senate.
SR 27	Caption: In memory of Mrs. Henry Hutchings, wife of Adjutant General Henry Hutchings.
43rd 3rd Called Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to creating Colorado River Authority, a governmental agency, body politic and corporate, as a water control and conservation district under Section 59 of Article 16 of the Constitution, for the purposes therein set out, without power of taxation, and without power to create any debt payable out of taxation, or to pledge the credit of the State.
SCR 2	Caption: Authorizing Adjutant General Henry Hutchings to place D.W. Roberts on his payroll.
SCR 7	Caption: Inviting Henry T. Hunt to address a joint session of the Legislature.
SR 4	Caption: Inviting Senator-elect Joe Hill to address the Senate.
SR 15	Caption: Inviting Beacom N. Timmons to address the Senate.
SR 18	Caption: Inviting J.W. Hall to address the Senate.
SR 29	Caption: Naming George C. Purl, Jr. Mascot of the House.
43rd 4th Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to creating a conservation and reclamation district to be known as Lower Colorado River Authority.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to providing the time when ad valorem and poll taxes shall become due and when they shall become delinquent; providing penalty for non-payment of said taxes and for interest thereon.
SCR 7	Caption: Authorizing the State Board of Control to obtain funds for a new State Courts Building.
SR 4	Caption: Inviting representatives of unemployed citizens of Travis County to address the Senate.
SR 17	Caption: Inviting former Senator Martin Faust to address the Senate.
SR 24	Caption: Inviting "Governor Jim" and "Little Jimmie" to address the House.
42nd Regular Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article relating to the collection of taxes.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to providing for the acquisition of land for and the construction of a State Office Building; making an appropriation.
SB 4	Caption: Relating to providing for the repairing and renovation of the State Capitol; making an appropriation.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes declaring the policy of the State with reference to delinquent taxes; providing for the collection of said taxes and for the installment of a tax or plat system.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to determining compensation of district attorneys in certain districts.
SB 7	Caption: Relating to adopting a general arbitration statute and making valid and enforceable written agreements and provisions in contracts for the arbitration of disputes.
SB 22	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation property owned by a church or by a strictly religious society for the exclusive use as a dwelling place for the minister and property used exclusively in conducting any association engaged in promoting the religious, educational and physical development of boys, girls, young men or young women.
SB 114	Caption: Relating to requiring all Public Cotton Classers to have a Federal Cotton Classer's License; providing penalties.
SB 137	Caption: Relating to providing for the regulations of gins, ginners and ginning; providing penalties.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to giving consent of the Legislature to Raymond Canion and his heirs to sue the State of Texas for Four Thousand Dollars on Highway contract.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to specifications and tolerances issued by the Commissioner of Agriculture for weighing and measuring devices in conformity with this Article, or any specifications or tolerances issued to protect the public from fraud, shall have the same force and effect as if enacted into Law.
SB 196	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the re-roofing, repairing, and equipping of the old Land Office Building.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to providing for the sale, development and patenting of mineral deposits, placers, veins, lodes, or any rock carrying metallic or non-metallic substances of value; providing penalties.
SB 214	Caption: Relating to providing for a permanent record of all marriages and divorces in the State of Texas; making an appropriation.
SB 344	Caption: Relating to authorizing and giving permission to Anna C. Tobin to sue the state.
SB 345	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to award and bond.
SB 373	Caption: Relating to providing for a Supervisor, or Supervisors in lieu of the County Teachers' Institute.
SB 405	Caption: Relating to repealing Section XI of Article 7152, Revised Statutes of Texas of 1924, relating to the listing or rendering of property.
SB 406	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to occupation tax on peddlers.
SB 412	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes raising the minimum and maximum amount of nursery inspection fees.
SB 456	Caption: Relating to providing that the Board, or their duly authorized agents, may, upon receiving such bodies, deliver to the State Board of Embalming such number of the same as may be necessary for the use of said State Board of Embalming in conducting its semiannual examinations.
SB 482	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to witness fees.
SB 523	Caption: Relating to defining and prohibiting criminal syndicalism and sabotage; prescribing offenses, punishment and penalties.
SB 613	Caption: Relating to imposing license fees on peddlers; prescribing offenses, fines, penalties and punishment.
SCR 12	Caption: Designating October 11,1931, as General Pulaski's Memorial Day.
SCR 25	Caption: Inviting Harry F. Byrd to address the Legislature.
SCR 53	Caption: Giving the American National Bank of Austin, Texas, permission to sue the State.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for a convention to frame a Constitution for the State of Texas.
SJR 6	Caption: Proposing an amendment combining the offices of Tax Collector and Assessor of Taxes.
SR 30	Caption: Inviting Orville Bullington to address the Senate.
SR 41	Caption: Inviting Beaumont B. Buck to address the Senate.
SR 53	Caption: Inviting M. Marietta to display oil painting.
SR 60	Caption: Relating to an invitation to the members of the Senate to "Stag Smoker."
SR 62	Caption: In memory of J. H. McLean of Llano.
SR 67	Caption: Inviting Owen P. White to address the Senate.
SR 78	Caption: Accepting invitation of University Club to attend reception
SR 84	Caption: Thanking E. E. Risien for his contributions to the Texas pecan industry.
SR 93	Caption: Inviting Luther Johnson to address the Senate.
SR 94	Caption: Relating to lecture by Sergius P. Grace.
SR 110	Caption: In memory of Charles A. Wilcox of Williamson.
SR 113	Caption: Accepting invitation on behalf of the Senate to the Austin Chamber of Commerce dance.
SR 122	Caption: Inviting Ed Westbrook to address the Senate.
SR 127	Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to the University of Texas Orange Jackets.
SR 132	Caption: Inviting members of the Arkansas Legislature to address the Senate.
SR 148	Caption: Accepting the invitation by the University Glee Club concert.
SR 155	Caption: Accepting invitation for members of the Senate and their families to dance.
42nd 1st Called Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts prescribing the kind of tackle and method of taking fish in certain fresh waters in certain counties and prohibiting all other tackle; prescribing a penalty.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to fix and define the jurisdiction of the 53rd District Court, the 98th District Court and the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth District Court.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to providing that warrants drawn on the state treasurer, if presented for payment and not paid, shall automatically bear interest until called for payment at the rate of six per cent per annum.
SCR 9	Caption: Requesting that the Highway Department to use cotton bagging to cure concrete.
SR 15	Caption: Accepting invitation of Austin Chamber of Commerce to melon feast.
SR 17	Caption: Congratulating E. M. House and his wife of Austin on the occasion of their fiftieth wedding anniversary.
SR 20	Caption: Thanking J. C. Adrian for his services to the Legislature.
SR 22	Caption: Inviting Miss Maxine Wilson to address the Senate.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by defining and regulating Public Cotton Classers.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay salaries of Judges in Judicial Districts 123, 1234, 126 and to pay salaries of Assistant District Attorney in the 47th Judicial District.
SCR 5	Caption: Relating to statement by Governor Huey P. Long of Louisiana.
SR 7	Caption: Inviting T.H. McGregor to address the Senate.
SR 20	Caption: Inviting Tom Mix to address the Senate.
SR 26	Caption: Thanking J.H. Kavanaugh for copies of his newspaper, "The Round Rock Leader."
42nd 3rd Called Session
SB 32	Caption: Relating to fixing the time for making election returns by presiding judges in general and special elections; fixing the time for making precinct and county election returns in party primary elections; fixing a penalty for the failure to make such returns within the time prescribed.
42nd 4th Called Session
SR 6	Caption: Requesting the Insurance Commission of Texas to list all claims due and unpaid to policyholders.
41st Regular Session
SB 7	Caption: Relating to repeal of all laws authorizing sale or leasing of minerals in University lands.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to regulating the slaughter and sale of the meat animals for market; providing that every person engaged in the occupation of butcher or slaughterer of cattle shall file a bond to be approved by the county judge of the county in which he desires to carry out such a business.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for the fraudulent taking of any chicken, turkey, duck, goose, guinea, or other domestic fowl, making such offense a felony, prescribing punishment therefor.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to county clerks and their compensation for ex-officio and other public services rendered.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to making valid and enforceable written provisions or agreements for the arbitration of issues and disputes.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of certain real estate located in the city of Austin, north of the capitol building and south of fourteenth street for state purposes; making an appropriation.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to acquire, operate, and manage seven boys dormitories at the University of Texas, and to furnish and equip the same, and dining hall building in connection therewith.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of gins, ginners and ginning; prescribing the conditions of a ginner's bond; providing penalties.
SB 78	Caption: Relating to permitting certain counties to remove, by a majority vote, the County Seat from any point in the county located more than five miles from the geographical center of the country to another point.
SB 89	Caption: Relating to better defining the Fraternal Benefit Societies and providing and defining a Lodge System for each; requiring a representative form of government.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to employ additional clerks from February 1st, 1929 until September 1, 1929; making an appropriation.
SB 102	Caption: Relating to the practice of barbering.
SB 132	Caption: Relating to preventing fraud in the purchase of gasoline and oil and to assure correct measurement; providing for the licensing of operators of pumps or devices for the measurement of gasoline and oil; prescribing penalties.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to making it lawful to kill squirrels at any time in the Counties of Travis, Williamson, San Saba, Llano, Lampasas, Burnett, Goliad, Blanco and Hays.
SB 204	Caption: Relating to industrial accident insurance.
SB 228	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws and providing that a majority of the directors or trustees of the corporation shall constitute a quorum.
SB 229	Caption: Relating to empowering the State Highway Commission to adopt safety devices to be erected at railroad and interurban crossings.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of Burnet County to issue bonds of said county for the purpose of funding or refunding indebtedness incurred for road and bridge purposes and to levy a tax in payment thereof, and providing that if the validity of the indebtedness to be funded by such bonds is not questioned in any suit or proceeding within sixty days from the adoption of the order of the Commissioners' Court authorizing the issuance of such bonds, then such indebtedness shall be conclusively presumed to be valid.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to compensation of deputies and assistants of certain District and County officers.
SB 269	Caption: Relating to creating a State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation.
SB 282	Caption: Relating to providing for penalties and Attorneys Fees in unsuccessful suit to set aside final order of industrial accident board.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to maximum compensation to be paid Pres. Texas Employers' Insurance Association.
SB 287	Caption: Relating to confederate pensions.
SB 288	Caption: Relating to providing that district judges and district attorneys shall enter upon and assume the duties of their respective offices on the first day of January following the last general election.
SB 289	Caption: Relating to providing that the number of days for which compensation is allowed a district attorney shall be based upon the calendar year and not the fiscal year of the State.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to providing for the sale, development and patenting of mineral deposits in public land.
SB 340	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to killing, taking or possessing for barter or sale within a certain period and in certain areas any wild beaver, otter or fox or the pelts thereof.
SB 362	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the removal and disposition of mortgaged personal property.
SB 369	Caption: Relating to suits against corporations for property.
SB 371	Caption: Relating to authorizing fraternal benefit societies with a lodge system and representative form of government to incorporate as stock companies to do a life insurance business.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to provide the amount of bond of the State Highway Engineer.
SB 426	Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Criminal District Court of Travis County, fixing and defining the jurisdiction of the 53rd District Court and said Criminal District Court with its name changed, to fix the terms in each of said courts, to provide for grand and petit juries in both of said district courts, for a clerk and for a district attorney for said district courts, for continuance in office of the respective judges of said district courts, for appointment of court reporters by the judges of each of said courts, for transferring of both civil and criminal cases, to continue in effect writs, process, bonds, recognizances and orders, enacting proper provisions to continue any term of court that may be in session when this Act takes effect and to preserve grand and petit juries that may be drawn or selected when this Act takes effect.
SB 436	Caption: Relating to granting to the city of Austin the north half of block ninety-four in said City and authorizing the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of Austin, known as the Wesley Chapel, to convey or sell same to the said city.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to providing for the execution of prisoners at the State penitentiary by the sheriff or his chief deputy.
SB 452	Caption: Relating to relinquishing and dedicating to all incorporated cities and towns the beds, banks and abandoned beds, banks and land adjacent to rivers and streams reserved to the State for the purposes of removing therefrom menaces to public health and beautifying same for park and other purposes.
SB 464	Caption: Relating to abolishing the Texas Employers' Insurance Association and provide for the organization and incorporation of a private association.
SB 478	Caption: Relating to authorizing the refunding of county road bonds and road district bonds.
SB 486	Caption: Relating to providing for legal method of abolishing Water Control and irrigation districts.
SB 492	Caption: Relating to authorizing the transfer of territory from one school district to another.
SB 500	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to legal method for abolishing water control and improvement districts in certain counties.
SB 521	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws making it mandatory to pay the registration fee of a motor vehicle used on the public highways.
SB 533	Caption: Relating to granting permission to Maud Reichaw and Mrs. C. Olson to sue the State of Texas in the District Court of Travis County.
SCR 9	Caption: Inviting former Congressman Murray Hulbert to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 20	Caption: Relating to authorizing the University Land Acquisition Board to return to the University desks, records, etc.
SJR 14	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the State Board of Education is authorized to and may create new school districts at some of the eleemosynary institutions of the state; making an appropriation.
SJR 18	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the Legislature shall have power to enact laws under which Employers' Liability Insurance and Workmen's Compensation shall be provided for and administered by the State; making an appropriation.
SJR 24	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that all property of the American Legion from which no profits, rents or revenues are derived is exempt from all taxation; making an appropriation.
SR 47	Caption: Providing for a Joint Session of the Legislature.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending stock laws for certain counties.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to lodges of fraternal benefit societies.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to taxation of public and church property.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to providing for the assessment and collection of taxes by Independent School Districts.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to district attorneys in certain districts; amending certain laws.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to more accurately defining the term "Motor Bus Company" and better defining the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to the compensation of deputies and assistants of certain district and county officers; amending a certain Statute.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to better defining Fraternal Benefit Societies and defining a lodge system for such.
SB 116	Caption: Relating to General Arbitration Statute.
SR 3	Caption: Providing compensation for certain pre-session work of Senate employees.
SR 9	Caption: Granting Don H. Cud the privileges of the floor.
SR 23	Caption: Extending the privileges of the floor to W. E. Marshall and the students of Buda High School.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 35	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the shooting or discharging of any gun, pistol or firearm in or along or across any public road in this state; prescribing a penalty.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to adopting a general arbitration statute.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to providing for the purchase of certain real estate located in the City of Austin north of the Capitol Building and south of Fourteenth Street.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to amending the Road Law of Llano County.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of County Commissioners in each county having a population of not less than 5300 and not more than 5375 according to the latest United States Census.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of one deputy sheriff in each county containing a population of not less than 10,040 nor more than 10,050 as shown by the preceding Federal Census and authorizing the payment of salary out of the general fund of the county.
SB 98	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of the court reporter in certain judicial districts.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to placing certain common and independent school districts under the general law.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to providing for school trustees in all independent school districts at eleemosynary institutions.
SB 126	Caption: Relating to providing that in all counties where the county Attorney performs the duties of the County Attorney and District Attorney, the County attorney may appoint one or more assistants who need not possess the qualifications provided for County Attorneys.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners' Courts of the several counties in Texas to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of refunding road bonds that have been issued by authority of certain statutes and authorizing the Commissioners' Courts to pass all appropriate orders to carry out such refunding.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to permitting the catching of suckers, buffalo, carp, shad and gar, in certain counties during the months of June, July and August, by the use of a seine of any size mesh, or by the use of wire, rope or grab hooks.
SCR 23	Caption: Requesting the Governor to return S. B. No. 154 in for further consideration.
SR 2	Caption: Providing compensation for pre-session work by certain Senate Employees.
SR 4	Caption: Granting the Lions Club of Austin permission to use the Senate Chamber for their Convention.
SR 6	Caption: In memory of Elbridge Lee Rector.
SR 13	Caption: In memory of former State Rep. William Dickey Cowan.
SR 20	Caption: Inviting former Congressman Thomas H. Ball to address the Senate.
41st 3rd Called Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to relinquishing to owners of abutting land the fee title to the streets, alleys or highways in the city of Austin, Texas, but perpetually reserving and retaining therein the easement now existing for public purposes.
SR 1	Caption: Inviting Mark L. Goodwin to address the Senate.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 54	Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Board of Regents of the University of Texas authority in the leasing of certain University lands; making an appropriation.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to canceling and annulling the lease which Travis County holds against the courthouse and jail property owned by the State of Texas, the same being North half of Block No. (123) one hundred twenty-three, in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to providing a period of time when continuity of failure to render land for taxes or otherwise exercise dominion over it shall prima facie prove title in persons paying taxes or exercising dominion over such land.
SR 1	Caption: Providing employment for Mary Mobley.
SR 4	Caption: Providing compensation for pre-session work of certain Senate employees.
SR 16	Caption: Authorizing the State Democratic Executive Committee permission to use the Senate Chamber.
SR 16	Caption: Directing the printing of a resolution adopted by the Annual Council of the Diocese of Texas of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Senate Journal.
SR 27	Caption: In memory of former State Senator John Davis.
SR 28	Caption: Accepting the invitation of The University Club to host the Members of the Legislature.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 37	Caption: Relating to cancelling and annulling the lease which Travis County holds against the courthouse and jail property owned by the State of Texas.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to surplus county funds.
SR 5	Caption: Accepting the invitation to attend the unveiling of the display of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas in the Capitol.
SR 6	Caption: Accepting the invitation to a ceremony of the Knights of Pythias.
SR 10	Caption: Inviting former President of the United States Calvin Coolidge to address the Senate.
SR 11	Caption: Granting the New York Giants baseball team the privileges of the Senate floor.