Legislation authored by Benjamin Grady Oneal

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45th Regular Session
SB 20	Caption: Relating to providing that no person shall inherit or take any property either under the laws of descent and distribution or under a will or testament, who as the principal or as an accomplice willfully brings about the death of the owner of such property.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to aiding the Pease River Flood Control District, a State agency, in carrying out the purposes for which it was created, including the acquiring of the lands, leases, easements and acquittances, rights-of-ways, structures, buildings and equipment, and including the operation of structures, dams, reservoirs and canals, suitable, insofar as practicable, for the control of the flood waters of the Pease River watershed, declared to be a public calamity, granting and donating, with certain limitations, to said District for a period of two years all of the State ad valorem taxes in the following counties, which otherwise would go into the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas, namely: Cottle, Foard, Hardeman and Wilbarger.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the building or erecting within five hundred (500) feet of the central line of any designated state highway or federal highway in the State of Texas, a line to carry or transmit electric power or energy in excess of thirty thousand (30,000) volts; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act and providing for the enjoining of any person, association or corporation in suit brought by the Attorney General or by the district or county attorney of any county in which such violation or violations may occur.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to establishing an unpaid commission on Inter-Governmental Cooperation.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns and governing authorities thereof to regulate places of business where beer is sold in connection with a cafe, sandwich stand or other similar business, to be drunk on or off the premises in such cities, and where beer is not the principal business, and to prescribe for such places of business opening and closing hours.
SB 207	Caption: Relating to defining the phrase, "Served by the Sheriff to appear and report for jury service," so as to authorize the Judge drawing the jury to direct that said service may also be made by sending each juror a letter by United States registered mail, notifying him of his jury service.
SB 208	Caption: Relating to providing that the sheriff may summons jurors in capital cases in counties having a city with a population of twenty thousand (20,000) or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census, either in person, verbally, or by registered United States mail, as the trial judge in his discretion may order.
SB 214	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of goods, wares and merchandise manufactured, produced or mined, wholly or in part in a mill, cannery, workshop, factory or manufacturing establishment in which within thirty (30) days prior to the production of such goods, wares or merchandise, a person under sixteen years of age was permitted to be employed, or a person between the ages of sixteen years and eighteen years was so permitted to work more than eight hours a day or more than six days in a week, or to work after the hour of seven o'clock post-meridian or before the hour of seven o'clock ante-meridian; providing a violation of such provision shall be a misdemeanor, and fixing the punishment of such violation.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to the qualifications and terms of members of the Texas Planning Board.
SB 268	Caption: Relating to providing that counties having a population of more than seventy-four thousand (74,000), according to the last Federal Census, and containing one or more cities or towns, other than the county seat, which has in excess of one thousand (1,000) inhabitants, according to the last Federal Census, the Assessor and Tax Collector, with the consent and approval of the Commissioners' Court, may maintain a branch office and appoint a Deputy Tax Collector from each such town or city to perform the duties of deputy tax collector.
SB 269	Caption: Relating to providing that the two additional deputies known as traffic officers, shall have the same right and duty to arrest violators of laws that other deputy sheriffs have.
SB 282	Caption: Relating to providing that in counties having a population of than seventy thousand (70,000) or more and less than seventy-seven thousand (77,000), according to the last Federal Census, and containing one or more cities or towns other than the county seat, which has in excess of one thousand (1,000) inhabitants, according to the last Federal Census, the Assessor and Collector of Taxes, with the consent and approval of the Commissioners' Court, may appoint a Deputy Assessor and Collector of Taxes in each such city or town.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to providing for the refunding of license fees paid on motor vehicles which are subsequently destroyed or demolished; providing that where a refund has been made under the provisions of this Act for a demolished or destroyed motor vehicle, such motor vehicle shall not again be operated and used upon the highways of this State; prescribing a penalty for violation of the provision against use of such vehicles.
SB 364	Caption: Relating to providing that children under sixteen years of age shall not hereafter be employed in or about certain establishments; providing that children under eighteen years of age shall not be employed in mines, quarries or other places where explosives are used.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to the administration of private corporations in receiverships and providing for the extension of time of such receiverships.
SB 418	Caption: Relating to making appropriation out of the General Fund of the State of Texas to pay the salaries and expenses of the District Attorney of the 30th Judicial District and the Assistant District Attorney for Archer and Young Counties in the 30th Judicial District, from January 1, 1937, to the end of the fiscal year, August 31, 1937, both days inclusive.
SB 422	Caption: Relating to authorizing and validating refunding bonds issued by cities regardless of changes in assessed valuations.
SB 438	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to barter, sell or exchange any child under the age of fifteen (15) years, or to offer or advertise for barter, sale or exchange any child under the age of fifteen (15) years; prescribing penalties for a violation of this Act.
SB 449	Caption: Relating to establishing a County Law Library in counties in this State having three or more district courts sitting for all of its terms or some of its terms with both civil and criminal jurisdiction, none of which have more than four terms a year and one of which sits and has jurisdiction in not less than two other counties.
SB 467	Caption: Relating to providing that where the Trustees of an Independent School District have the County Assessor and Collector of Taxes assess and collect the taxes for said District, the property of such District may be assessed at a greater value than the property is assessed for County and State purposes.
SB 477	Caption: Relating to defining the term "taxing unit", and providing that in any suit brought by, or in behalf of, any taxing unit for delinquent taxes other taxing units having delinquent tax claims against the property, may be impleaded or may intervene.
SCR 3	Caption: Inviting the Governor to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 51	Caption: Memorializing Congress to study the issue of lost revenue in the State of Oklahoma and possible re-compensation due to the lack of an ability to tax certain Indian lands.
SCR 72	Caption: Inviting Josephus Daniels, the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 9, Article 8, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, reducing the State tax on property that may be levied by the Legislature for any one year, exclusive of the tax necessary to pay the public debt and exclusive of the tax provided for the benefit of the public free schools and exclusive of the Confederate pension tax provided for in Section 51, Article III., of this Constitution, from thirty-five cents on the one hundred ($100.00) dollar valuation to fifteen cents on the one hundred ($100.00) dollar valuation.
SJR 3	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas by adding a new section to be known as Section 9-a, providing that counties may levy a tax for purposes of charity, including the relief of the destitute.
SJR 4	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by adding a new section to be known as Section 3-a, providing how interlocutory injunctions, sustaining or restraining enforcement, operation or execution of any statute of this State or of the United States, based upon the ground of the unconstitutionality of such statute, may be issued.
SJR 15	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to provide for the reorganization of the Supreme Court of Texas.
45th 2nd Called Session
SCR 2	Caption: Granting District Judge Allan D. Montgomery permission to be absent from the State for six months.
44th Regular Session
SB 12	Caption: Relating to creating a cause of legal action against a man for support of his wife or minor child.
SB 13	Caption: Relating to regulating petitions in suits for divorce to require such petitions to state whether there are children under sixteen years of age, and if so, to give full information as to such minors, making it the duty of the courts having jurisdiction of such suits to inquire into the status of such children, if divorce be granted.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to severance in criminal cases.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to testimony of defendant on his own behalf.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to instruction of court to jury in criminal cases.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to reversal due to error on record in criminal cases.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to providing for the compulsory attendance of children in the public schools.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to providing that when a keeper, manager, or owner of certain institutions shall operate same without a license or sell or traffic in babies or permit the use of said institution for purposes other than provided in their license, they may be enjoined in a suit filed by the Attorney General, district or county attorney, or any citizen.
SB 219	Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of revenue bonds by independent, consolidated and common school districts and by cities and towns which have assumed control of the public schools within their boundaries, for the purpose of building, additions to existing gymnasia, stadia and other recreational facilities owned by the same, and purchasing additional buildings and grounds for the purpose of constructing additions to existing gymnasia, stadia and other recreational facilities.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to providing for paying by lienholders to the persons paying such taxes the taxes, cost and interest and receiving transfer to himself of the tax lien.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person from catching, retaining or having in his possession any channel catfish or blue catfish which are less than eleven inches in length or to catch or retain or have in his possession in any one day a total aggregate of more than twenty of such fish taken from any of the waters of the Big Wichita River in Wichita, Archer and Baylor counties; providing penalties.
SB 396	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, association or corporation, to charge or receive compensation for the placement of a child under fifteen (15) years of age.
SB 422	Caption: Relating to providing that water improvement districts, water control and improvement districts, incorporated as public municipal corporations under the laws of the State of Texas, be exempted from the payment of all registration fees on motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers owned by such districts and used exclusively in the service of such districts, provided that the districts owning such motor vehicles shall apply annually to register such motor vehicles and that affidavit be made at the time of registration by the person who has the proper authority that such motor vehicles are owned by such districts and are exclusively used in the service of such district.
SB 423	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the building or erecting within five hundred (500) feet of the center of any designated public highway, a line to carry or transmit electric power or energy, and prohibiting the operating or maintaining of such line built or erected after the effective date of this Act; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act.
SB 489	Caption: Relating to providing rules of practice and procedure in District Courts sitting for all of their terms of for only some of their terms in a county where three District Courts, both civil and criminal jurisdiction, sit and have jurisdiction, none of which has more than four terms a year, and one of which sits and has jurisdiction in not less than two other counties.
SB 533	Caption: Relating to providing that refunding bonds may be issued as term or as serial bonds, maturing in either case within forty (40) years from date of issue and may be made optional on any interest payment date as the governing board shall direct.
SCR 4	Caption: Providing for a joint session of the Legislature for the inauguration of Governor James V. Allred and Lieutenant Governor Walter E. Woodul.
SCR 11	Caption: Directing the Board of Control relative to traffic in the Capitol grounds.
SCR 30	Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 324 from the Governor's office.
SCR 33	Caption: Authorizing the erasure of certain signatures from S.B. No. 324.
SCR 51	Caption: Memorializing Congress to abolish the Federal gasoline sales tax.
SCR 64	Caption: Suspending joint rules to consider S.B. No. 533 and H.B. No. 1001.
SJR 4	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas by adopting a new section to be known as Section 51-b, which shall provide that the Legislature shall have the power to cooperate with the United States of America in providing for an paying an old age pension to actual bona fide citizens of Texas over the age of sixty-five years who have not been convicted of a felony within ten years next prior to the granting of such pension and who have never been convicted of being an habitual criminal, and providing that an habitual drunkard shall not be eligible for such pension, and that the State of texas shall never pay more than Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per month on any such pension, and shall never issue bonds to provide funds for the payment of such pension and shall never increase the maximum ad valorem tax rate as fixed by other provisions of the Constitution.
SJR 5	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article III of the Constitution of the State of Texas by adopting a new section to be known as Section 51-b, which shall provide that the Legislature shall have the power to provide for an old age pension and for the payment of same not to exceed Fifteen ($15.00) Dollars per month for actual bona fide citizens of Texas who are over the age of sixty-five years and who have been actual residents of the State of Texas continuously for five years prior to their filing application for a pension.
SJR 9	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
SJR 19	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to provide that the Supreme Court shall consist of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices with power to call in not more than six Court of Civil Appeals Judges or district court judges to assist in the work of the Supreme Court if the docket of said court should at any time become congested.
SJR 23	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 5 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, by adding a new section to be known as Section 3-a, providing how interlocutory injunctions, sustaining or restraining enforcement, operation or execution of any Statute of this State or of the United States, based upon the ground of the unconstitutionality of such Statute, may be issued.
SJR 27	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 11 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to provide that the Governor of the State shall have the power on the recommendation and advice of a majority of the Board of Pardons and Paroles to grant reprieves, commutations of punishment and pardons and to remit fines and forfeitures.
SR 57	Caption: Providing for a Committee on Interstate Cooperation.
44th 1st Called Session
SB 62	Caption: Relating to creating the Pease River Flood Control District, a conservation and reclamation district, to be a governmental agency, body politic and corporate.
44th 3rd Called Session
SB 24	Caption: Relating to validating all Consolidated Rural High School Districts created or attempted to be created by County Boards of Trustees.
43rd Regular Session
SB 12	Caption: Relating to providing that no water improvement district, water control and improvement district, nor drainage district, shall be required to give bond on any appeal or writ of error taken by it, or either of them, in any civil case.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act validating the Wichita Falls Independent School District in Wichita County, Texas, by providing that all taxes of said district for the calendar year 1933 and subsequent years shall become due on the first day of october of each year, respectively, and that unless one-half of such taxes are paid on or before the 31st day of the month in which such taxes become due, the entire taxes for that year shall become delinquent, and a penalty of ten per centum on all of said taxes shall accrue thereon.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to providing when, how and in what manner any water improvement district or water control and improvement district or conservation and reclamation district, or irrigation district, may refund any of its outstanding bonds or any of its valid outstanding notes, warrants or other obligations (other than bonds).
SB 253	Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of corporations organized and incorporated under a pre-existing law in this State without capital stock and not for profit, which law has been amended or repealed or re-enacted, and which were operating and carrying on in this State immediately prior to January 1st, 1933, the statewide business of mutually protecting or insuring the lives of their members by assessments made upon their members; and providing penalties for the violations of this Act.
SB 262	Caption: Relating to releasing interest and penalties on all delinquent ad valorem and poll taxes that were delinquent before February 1, 1931, due the State, any county, special school district, school district, road district, levee improvement district and water control improvement district and water control and improvement district, irrigation district and other defined subdivisions of the State.
SB 313	Caption: Relating to providing that the proprietors of public garages shall have a special lien on all automobiles, motor trucks, buses and trailers placed with them for storage.
SB 314	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the hunting, taking, shooting, or killing of any game bird or any game animal, as defined in the laws of the State of Texas, in that part of Wichita County included within specified territory.
SB 333	Caption: Relating to repealing the cotton acreage reduction law.
SB 371	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment to Mrs. J. D. Skelton, daughter of Colonel William Fitzhugh, deceased, the amount due the said Colonel William Fitzhugh and remaining unpaid by the State of Texas, for the purchase by the State of Texas, from colonel William Fitzhugh, of mules for the Ranger Service, prior to 1860.
SB 449	Caption: Relating to reversal of judgments on immaterial errors.
SB 451	Caption: Relating to testimony of joint defendants for selves or against each other.
SB 457	Caption: Relating to severance of trials.
SB 458	Caption: Relating to request of jury for further instructions from the judge after the jury retires.
SB 513	Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer of the lien for taxes that the State, county or defined subdivision thereof, has upon any real property.
SB 567	Caption: Relating to reorganizing and changing the time and terms of holding the terms of District Court in Wichita, Archer and Young counties, constituting the Thirtieth Judicial District of Texas; validating and continuing all processes issued or served before this Act takes effect.
SCR 17	Caption: Endorsing "The Texans" as the official band to accompany the Texas Special Train to Washington to attend the Democratic Inaugural Ceremonies.
SCR 40	Caption: Memorializing Congress to end federal taxation of gasoline.
SCR 48	Caption: Recalling HB 845 from the House.
SCR 60	Caption: Proposing cooperation between Texas and other states regarding enforcement of tax laws.
SCR 82	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to designate a poet laureate of Texas.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 9 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that for all years after 1934 the State tax on property, exclusive of the tax necessary to pay the public debt and the taxes provided for the benefit of public free school, and of taxes for the Confederate Pension, shall never exceed fifteen cents on the one hundred dollar valuation, and providing for Municipal taxation as is now provided for in said Section.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 1 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that taxation of real property shall be equal and uniform.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to providing for the transfer of the lien for taxes that the State, county or defined subdivision thereof, has upon any real property; providing by whom and under what conditions such transfer may be made.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to anti-trust laws so as to provide for and authorize an additional defense in all suits, actions or prosecutions under said statutes; and providing for the additional remedy of injunction by the State for violations of the provisions of such statutes in addition to all other penalties now provided by law.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to providing an open season or period of time for taking wild ducks, geese and/or brant; providing a bag limit and possession limit; providing a penalty for violation.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to providing that no contract, bond or note, or other evidence of indebtedness authorized to be issued under certain statute shall be issued or executed after May 13, 1935.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to providing for the Agricultural and Mechanical College Substation No. 12, located in Hardeman County, Texas, in order to provide material and labor to reconstruct buildings destroyed by fire on January 18, 1934.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to appropriating the proceeds of the tax derived by the provisions of certain statute to the Railroad Commission of Texas and the Attorney General of Texas for the enforcement of the oil and gas laws of this State.
SCR 6	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a Legislative Centennial Committee.
43rd 3rd Called Session
SCR 13	Caption: Relating to delinquent ad valorem taxes.
43rd 4th Called Session
SCR 1	Caption: Providing for adjournment sine die.
42nd Regular Session
SB 8	Caption: Relating to postponing the collection of State, County, Special School, School District, Road Districts, Levee Improvement District, Irrigation District Taxes and any other defined taxing sub-divisions of the County other than incorporated cities and towns, levied and assessed for the year 1930, other than poll taxes, until October 15, 1931.
SB 9	Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings heretofore had and taken to organize, create or establish any and all Drainage Districts within this State.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending law validating the Wichita Falls Independent School Districts, in Wichita County, Texas.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to providing for the nomination of Directors of Water Improvement Districts to serve under the provisions of Chapter 2, Title 128, of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, and to repeal all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to split payment of taxes; providing for method of tax collections in Water Improvement Districts, and penalties for delinquency.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to change the time and terms of holding the terms of District Court in Wilbarger, Hardeman and Foard Counties.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the payment of taxes in certain Water Improvement Districts.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to deferring the ten per cent penalty on the State and County taxes and deferring the ten per cent penalty on Common School Districts.
SB 132	Caption: Relating to the rights of a defendant in a tax suit; prohibiting pleading statutes of limitations in tax matters.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide that is shall be the offense of bigamy for any person who has a former wife or husband living to marry another person in the State of Texas.
SB 189	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide for a license for non-residents of Texas and aliens who shall fish in the waters of the State of Texas, providing penalties for the failure of persons to procure a license to fish.
SB 236	Caption: Relating to levying drainage district taxes on a benefit basis.
SB 241	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing for cancellation and withdrawal of obsolete brands and trademarks.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to providing no motion, suit, action, defense or appeal of any party to a suit shall hereafter be sustained or maintained in any of the trial or appellate courts of this state on account of any defection citation or defection issuance or service unless such motion, suit, action, defense or appeal is duly verified.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to making citations directory instead of mandatory.
SB 295	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the right of a defendant in a criminal action to testify as a witness in his own behalf.
SB 311	Caption: Relating to providing for collectors of taxes to mail notices of tax delinquencies to record owners of lands and lots situated in the county, showing the amount of taxes delinquent on said property.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing when registration fees required upon motor vehicles shall become delinquent; providing a penalty.
SB 346	Caption: Relating to fixing the time when the sentence of a convict, sentenced to the penitentiary, who has appealed his case to the Court of Criminal Appeals and said case has been affirmed, shall begin.
SB 458	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to allow a lien in favor of any person, firm or corporation who may furnish any material, apparatus, fixtures, machinery, labor, supplies, repairs or render any service to contractors or persons making public improvements.
SB 532	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for school purposes in all Independent School Districts which include within their limits a city which had more than forty thousand population and fewer than fifty-two thousand population, according to the last Federal Census.
SB 552	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by authorizing and empowering towns or villages in this State to condemn the right of way and road bed of railway companies running through the corporate limits thereof provided there are less than six railway tracks.
SCR 35	Caption: Relating to Legislative Tax Survey Committee.
SCR 36	Caption: Suspending joint rule 23.
SJR 23	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for a Supreme Court of not less than three or more than nine members.
SJR 25	Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to grand and petit juries in district courts by providing that an extra juror may be called in felony cases.
SR 99	Caption: In memory of J.W. Cantwell of Wichita Falls.
SR 124	Caption: Inviting W. P. Sebastian to address the Senate.
42nd 1st Called Session
SCR 6	Caption: Relating to the Tax Survey Committee.
SR 14	Caption: Inviting Joe Witherspoon to address the Senate.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SB 18	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain counties to purchase the property of those against whom they have claims for money.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to authorizing counties to buy property of debtors.
SCR 13	Caption: Relating to adjournment sine die on Tuesday, September 29,1931.
SR 12	Caption: In memory of P.P. Holbrook of Vernon.
42nd 3rd Called Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to releasing the interest and penalties on taxes delinquent up to December 31, 1932.
42nd 4th Called Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to empowering certain water control and improvement districts to refund oustanding indebtedness.