Legislation authored by Charles Richard Floyd
Includes legislation with Charles Richard Floyd as the primary author for the 35th through 49th 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.
| 49th Regular Session | |
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| HB 87 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for the appropriation and allocation of funds from the clearance Fund to (1) the Blind Assistance Fund, (2) the Children Assistance Fund, and (3) the Old Age Assistance Fund; appropriating said funds for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1945, and beginning with the first day of the month after the effective date of this Act. |
| HB 145 | Caption: Relating to and regulating fireworks; defining fireworks; prohibiting the sale, offering or exposing for sale and use of fireworks, except in certain cases; providing penalties. |
| HB 198 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for a poll tax of $1.00, etc. |
| HB 520 | Caption: Relating to providing that all Notary Fees collected by any Notary Pubic who is also one of the public officials named in Chapter 465, Acts of the 44th Legislature, Second Called Session, as amended, shall be deemed and accounted for as fees of office and shall be deposited in the Officers' Salary Fund of his respective County, where said public official receives an annual salary as compensation for his official services. |
| HJR 19 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51b of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to substitute the word "security" for the word "assistance" therein, and providing for the payment of Old Age Security by the State of not exceeding Twenty-five ($25) Dollars per month per person. |
| 40th Regular Session | |
| SB 30 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of a junior college in any independent district or city that has assumed control of its schools in the State of Texas, having taxable values of property for school purposes not less than twelve million dollars. |
| SB 54 | Caption: Relating to the appointment and compensation of County Auditors in counties containing a population of thirty-five thousand, or over. |
| SB 80 | Caption: Relating to changing the year upon which is based the assessed valuation of Taxable properties affected by the Act to be amended; relating to the compensation of County Commissioners. |
| SB 108 | Caption: Relating to intoxicating liquors and to distilled, malt, spirituous, vinous fermented or alcoholic liquids, compounds and preparations, patent and proprietary medicines or preparations or solutions; prescribing necessary penalties and defining necessary offenses. |
| SB 124 | Caption: Relating to making accountable as fees of office, all fee earned by officers mentioned in Title 61 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925, for services relative to delinquent taxes earned pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 10, Title 122 of said Statutes. |
| SB 152 | Caption: Relating to granting an extension of time for the payment of 1927 County and State taxes in Delta County, of ninety days after such taxes become delinquent under present laws so that no penalties or interest shall accure on non-payment of such taxes until after the expiration of said ninety days. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of Local Mutual Aid Associations and other associations paying a death benefit, comprehending and including all societies of any kind operating an insurance business and paying death benefits, where funds are provided by assessments on members. |
| SB 212 | Caption: Relating to granting an extension of time for the payment of 1927 State and County taxes in this State of ninety days after such taxes become delinquent under present laws so that no penalties or interest shall accrue on non-payment of such taxes until after the expiration of said ninety days. |
| SB 254 | Caption: Relating to relieving the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, and the executor, devisees and estate of W.J. McDonald, deceased, from the payment of and liability for inheritance taxes with respect to the W.J. McDonald Observatory Fund bequeathed by the will of said McDonald to such regents as trustees. |
| SB 272 | Caption: Relating to permitting cities and towns to regulate traffic of certain commercial motor vehicles and charge a fee sufficient to pay the expense of such regulation. |
| SB 273 | Caption: Relating to prescribing who may be licensed as agent of any insurance company or association engaged in the business in Texas of insurance of any kind other than life. |
| SB 274 | Caption: Relating to requiring all motor vehicles, tractors, trailers, semi-trailers and motorcycles operating on the public highways of this State to have attached to the rear, or rear and front of same, License plates secured by locking type bolts; prescribing a penalty. |
| SB 292 | Caption: Relating to intoxicating liquors and to distilled, malt, spirituous, vinous fermented or alcoholic liquids, compounds and preparations, patent and propriety medicines or preparations, or solutions; providing for better control, prohibition and regulation of traffic in intoxicating liquors; prescribing necessary penalties. |
| SB 294 | Caption: Relating to intoxicating liquor; limiting the amount of intoxicating liquor that may be sold by druggists on prescriptions of physicians, and regulating the price that druggists may charge for such liquor. |
| SB 357 | Caption: Relating to providing a method by which any bank or bank and trust company incorporated under the laws of this State may change its name. |
| SB 384 | Caption: Relating to regulating and limiting the questioning of jurymen on voir dire; declaring the rule as to reversal of cases by the Court of Criminal Appeals for failure to permit questions on such voir dire. |
| SB 385 | Caption: Relating to adding a provision for the use of the testimony of a witness whose attendance can not be secured by the state at the trial of criminal case. |
| SB 386 | Caption: Relating to prescribing proper rule for the reversal of criminal cases by the Court of Criminal Appeals. |
| SB 387 | Caption: Relating to regulating and restricting the granting of continuances in criminal cases for the testimony of absent witnesses; providing that no new trial shall be granted and no case reversed where the testimony of absent witnesses may or can be reproduced. |
| SB 388 | Caption: Relating to making it the duty of the State Health Department to analyze any liquor or liquid to ascertain its alcoholic content when requested to do so by any county attorney, district attorney, or the Attorney General and furnish a written report of such analyses. |
| SB 440 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Highway Commission to employ a chief auditor of accounts and expenditures, three engineer accountants or inspectors and two equipment inspectors, fix their compensation and pay for the same out of the State Highway Fund. |
| SB 441 | Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum fees and excess fees that may be retained by the county attorney of any county having a population of as many as 25,000 and not more than 37,500 in which county there is no city containing over 35,000 inhabitants, and such county attorney performs the duties of a district attorney and where there is no district attorney provided by law to perform such duties. |
| SB 445 | Caption: Relating to eliminating from Article 1929 of the Revised Civil Statutes of 1925 the provision requiring the county judge to get permission from the commissioners court to leave the county or state, and so as to change the provisions of said article relative to the county judge attending to his duties and being absent. |
| SB 446 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Penal Code so as to provide that any county judge in this state who shall practice or offer or attempt to practice as an attorney at law in any county court or court of a justice of the peace, except in cases where the court over which he presides has neither original nor appellate jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollar. |
| SJR 20 | Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that the former owner of land or lots sold for taxes may redeem the same by paying within one year after such sale the taxes and accrued interest. |
| SR 8 | Caption: Providing for employees of the Senate. |
| SR 24 | Caption: Complimenting the Governor's desire for cooperation with the House and Senate. |
| SR 32 | Caption: Appointing Hannah Joseph to the position of Assistant Engrossing Clerk after the resignation of Kathleen Martin. |
| SR 54 | Caption: Instructing the Committee on State Affairs to report on SBs 292, 293, and 294 within the next three days. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 100 | Caption: Relating to creating Lamar-Delta County Levee Improvement District Number Two, in the Counties of Lamar and Delta, State of Texas. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to providing for a minimum salary to be paid county auditors in counties with a population not less than 35,000, nor more than 37,500, inhabitants. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to appropriating two million dollars ($2,000,000) out of the general funds of the State to aid all the public schools for the scholastic year beginning September 1, 1925, and ending August 31, 1926, and two million dollars ($2,000,000) out of the general funds of the State to aid all the public schools for the scholastic year beginning September 1, 1926, and ending August 31, 1927, the same to be distributed a the available school fund is now distributed. |
| SB 63 | Caption: Relating to promoting the public school interests of rural schools and those of small towns, of aiding the people to provide adequate school facilities for the education of their children, by the appropriation of One and a Half Million ($1,500,000) Dollar per year, or o much thereof as may be necessary, for the next two fiscal years, ending August 31, 1926, and August 31, 1927. |
| SB 126 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to insurance. |
| SB 138 | Caption: Relating to providing that money loaned upon the security of real estate shall constitute the sole security for such loan and that no deficiency judgment shall be recovered and that any such judgment so recovered shall be wholly void. |
| SB 139 | Caption: Relating to providing for the regulation of the practice of chiropody; fixing a penalty. |
| SB 145 | Caption: Relating to authorizing certain independent school districts to establish and maintain junior colleges offering two years of instruction beyond the high school grades; making an appropriation. |
| SB 229 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Act creating a permanent Textbook Commission for the State of Texas. |
| SB 267 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Health Commissioner to prevent materials subject to infectious diseases; providing for the regulation, sterilization and disposal of second hand bedding for the prevention of infectious disease. |
| SB 279 | Caption: Relating to preventing the stealing and disposal of motor vehicles; providing certificates of title to owners of motor cars. |
| SB 292 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to mutual life insurance companies so as to provide that there shall not be more than 2000 members in any one class or group, and further providing that the Insurances Commissioner shall require every mutual aid association doing business in this State to execute a bond; providing for penalties for violations of the provisions of this Act. |
| SB 333 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to county auditors so as to make the provisions of said statute apply in all counties of 34,000 population or more, according to the last United States census. |
| SB 413 | Caption: Relating to fixing the terms of court for the Sixth Judicial District in Fannin and Lamar Counties. |
| SB 414 | Caption: Relating to creating the Ben Franklin Independent School District in Delta County, Texas; confining its boundaries; providing for a board of trustees for said district; conferring upon said district and its 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 the board of trustees thereof. |
| SCR 30 | Caption: Granting leave of absence from state to district judges during the months of July and August. |
| SJR 16 | Caption: Proposing an amendment creating the office of assessor and collector of taxes and abolishing the office of Assessor of Taxes. |
| SR 3 | Caption: Relating to separation of the Committee on Banking and Insurance and making two different committees, one on banking and one on insurance. |
| SR 11 | Caption: Inviting authors of the Texas State Song to perform in front of the Senate chamber. |
| SR 18 | Caption: Relating to name of Committee on Roads, Bridges and Ferries to be changed to Committee on Highways and Motor Traffic. |
| SR 22 | Caption: Relating to pay raise for the clerks of the Enrolling and Engrossing Committee. |
| SR 58 | Caption: Relating to per diem of Engrossing and Enrolling Committee Clerk. |
| SR 82 | Caption: Relating to retention of certain clerks for the enrolling room. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. Seventeen (17), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 106 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. Sixteen (16), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 107 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. Fifteen (15), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 108 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. Fourteen (14), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 109 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. Thirteen (13), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 110 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Twelve (12), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 111 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eleven (11), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Red River County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 285 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Hopkins County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 310 | Caption: Relating to validating the authorization, issuance and sale of certain road bonds of Justice Precinct Number 1 of Lamar County, Texas and providing for their payment by the annual levy, assessment and collection of general ad valorem taxes. |
| 38th Regular Session | |
| SB 39 | Caption: Relating to requiring teaching of the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Texas in the public schools and private schools of the State. |
| SB 149 | Caption: Relating to the meaning and beginning of a fiscal year. |
| SB 231 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the manufacture, sale, barter, exchange, transportation, receipt, or possession of all alcoholic preparations of ginger. |
| SB 232 | Caption: Relating to promoting the public school interests of rural schools and those of small towns, and aiding the people to provide adequate school facilities for the education of their children, by an appropriation. |
| SB 250 | Caption: Relating to appropriating the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars to supplement the amount of One Million Dollars appropriated for the aid of the rural schools for the scholastic year ending August 31, 1923. |
| SB 251 | Caption: Relating to amending certain law forbidding trustees or teachers to be interested in the sale of textbooks. |
| SB 367 | Caption: Relating to providing for protection to public roads and highways of Texas by prohibiting persons, firms or corporations from making or causing to be made, any excavations under or across any public highways of Texas. |
| SB 413 | Caption: Relating to permitting majority of board of trustees of independent school districts to select as depository of such independent school district a bank of which not more than two members of such board of trustees are officers or stockholders. |
| SR 21 | Caption: Inviting Burke Culpepper of Tennessee to address the Senate. |
| SR 29 | Caption: Inviting Leila Khayat to address the Senate. |
| SR 41 | Caption: Inviting former State Senator R. P. Dorough to address the Senate. |
| SR 53 | Caption: Granting certain members of the press the privileges of the Senate floor. |
| SR 79 | Caption: Approving of the "gentleman's agreement" regarding the appointment of new members of the Railroad Commission. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 9 | Caption: Relating to promoting the public school interests of rural school and those of small towns, and aiding the people to provide adequate school facilities for the education of their children, by the appropriation of two million dollars per year, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the next two fiscal years, ending August 31, 1924, and August 31, 1925, respectively. |
| SB 10 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Article of the Penal Code of the State of Texas by adding a provision permitting majority of board of trustees of independent school districts to select as depository of such independent school district a bank of which not more than two members of such board of trustees are officers of stockholders. |
| SB 19 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the manufacture, sale, barter, exchange, transportation, receipt, or possession of all alcoholic preparation of ginger. |
| SB 53 | Caption: Relating to the signing and execution of bonds and coupons of any county, city, political subdivision, defined district, or school district of the State of Texas. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to defining what shall constitute a unit of weight or measure of all commodities purchased or sold by length, weight or measure; providing for the sale of commodities by state standards of weight or measure. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Inviting former State Sen. B. B. Sturgeon to address the Senate. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain Act requiring the Board of Water Engineers and the State Reclamation Engineer to make, cause to be made, and report to the Governor an adequate topographic and hydrographic survey of the stream watersheds of the State, to the end that flood control, water conservation and economic utilization in reclamation development may be made practiceable. |
| SB 29 | Caption: Relating to changing the name and title of the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking to "Commissioner of Insurance," and providing that the Department administered by such officer shall be known as the "Department of Insurance" instead of the "Department of Insurance and Banking". |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the purchase of Block No. 109 in the City of Austin, Texas, by the State of Texas and Travis County, Texas, and the erection thereon of a building for the use of the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, certain other appellate courts of Texas, and the Supreme Court Library, and for the use of the courts of Travis County, Texas, and the offices of the officials of said county. |
| SR 5 | Caption: Expressing the priority of the legislature to reduce appropriations as opposed to raising taxes to solve the current budgetary crisis. |
| SR 29 | Caption: Inviting Governor Pat M. Neff to address the Senate. |
| SR 30 | Caption: Inviting former State Rep. Z. B. Moon to address the Senate. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to separating the Department of Banking and Insurance and creating a Banking Department and a Department of Insurance |
| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to fixing a uniform date on which county and precinct officers shall qualify and take over the duties of their respective offices, following their election. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to amending the Dean Act by providing for conviction on unsupported evidence of an accomplice and providing that the suspended sentence shall not apply in such cases of violation. |
| SB 146 | Caption: Relating to give aid to the rural schools of the State; providing an appropriation; providing rules and regulations, etc. |
| SB 193 | Caption: Relating to giving aid to the rural schools of the State; providing an appropriation; rules and regulations, etc. |
| SB 212 | Caption: Relating to repealing Section 31 of Chapter 78, of the Second Called Session of the 36th Legislature, and providing a new section, all of which relates to exceptions in the trial of felony cases. |
| SB 247 | Caption: Relating to regulating the manufacture and sale of ice cream. |
| SB 296 | Caption: Relating to providing that when any bank which is a county, city or district depository for public funds under the laws of this State, suspends business, or is taken charge of by the Comptroller of the Currency or the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking, that the lawful county, city or district authorities authorized to select a depository in the first instance shall have the discretion and authority to select by contract a special depository for the public funds in suspended bank. |
| SB 303 | Caption: Relating to the salaries of the members of the Highway commission, fixing such salary at $1,500 per year per commissioner. |
| SB 304 | Caption: Relating to amending present law regarding pay for animals condemned on account of disease, etc. |
| SB 344 | Caption: Relating to provide for the appointment of commission to revise the laws of the State. |
| SB 345 | Caption: Relating to the creation of a more efficient road system in Delta County. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 19 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the purpose of promoting the public school interests of rural schools and small towns. |
| SB 41 | Caption: Relating to proposing the establishment of a rate to be charged for all legal publications required by law. |
| SB 81 | Caption: Relating to amending the Red River County local road law. |
| SB 100 | Caption: Relating to creating Cooper Independent School District in Delta County. |
| 36th Regular Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the maintenance and operation of pool halls within the State of Texas; defining the term pool hall as used in this Act; creating and defining offenses in violation of the act and providing the punishment therefor. |
| SB 58 | Caption: Relating to making provision for the erection by the State of Texas of a monument on the Capitol grounds at Austin, Texas, in honor of those in the military service of the United States who gave their lives in the late war between the United States and Austria-Hungary; constituting the Governor, Attorney General and Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds a board to carry out the purposes of the Act; making an appropriation of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars to carry out the purpose of this Act |
| SB 86 | Caption: Relating to creating a legislative drafting bureau; providing for a legislative drafting board, and appointment of said board, and defining their duties and powers; providing for the filling of vacancies of the board and for the choosing of a chairman and assistants and defining their duties. |
| SB 106 | Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person, persons, firm, troupe, company, corporation or aggregation of persons traveling from place to place, composed in whole or in part of women to show or exhibit in any dancing performances or as dancers in a tent or other temporary enclosure, structure, or any place whatsoever; providing penalties for violation of the Act. |
| SB 143 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute authorizing the levying and collection of an occupation tax on every menagerie, wax works, side show or exhibition whether connected with a circus or not, where a separate fee for admission is demanded or received, $10.00 for every performance or exhibition in which fees for admission are received. |
| SB 224 | Caption: Relating to providing for the relief of the heirs of Charles Broach and validating a survey of 320 acres of land in Franklin County, made by virtue of certificate granted to William Lane, and authorizing the Commissioner of the Land Office to issue patents thereto. |
| SB 344 | Caption: Relating to creating the Annona Independent School District in Red River County, Texas. |
| SB 367 | Caption: Relating to fixing a uniform date on which county and precinct officers shall qualify and take over the duties of their respective office following their election. |
| SB 386 | Caption: Relating to establishing and designating Frances Willard Day in the public schools of the State, and requiring instruction and appropriate exercises upon said day relative to the history and benefits of the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating Liquors. |
| SB 398 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Delta county; providing for levying and collecting taxes, etc |
| SCR 16 | Caption: Authorizing the engrossing clerk to correct certain error in SB 14. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Recognizing US Senator Morris Sheppard upon his success in putting into effect moral legislation. |
| SR 61 | Caption: Inviting former Senator C.O. James to address the Senate. |
| SR 87 | Caption: Inviting former Senator John L. Ratliff to address the Senate. |
| SR 103 | Caption: In memory of Texas soldiers killed in war. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to creating the Enloe Independent School District in Delta County, Texas including the present existing Enloe Independent School District, defining its boundaries, vesting said Enloe Independent School District as created by this Act with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties exercised by the independent school districts incorporated under the general laws of the State. |
| SB 90 | Caption: Relating to fixing a uniform date on which County and Precinct officers shall qualify and take over the duties of their respective offices following their election. |
| SB 110 | Caption: Relating to increasing the salary o fhte official court reporter for the Sixth Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 111 | Caption: Relating to increasing the salary of the official Court Reporter for the Seventy-sixth Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 161 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Red River County, Texas, prescribing ways and means of conducting and supervising the construction of roads in said county, or any political subdivision or defined district thereof. |
| SB 163 | Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Delta County. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain articles so that as to allow certain citizens to petition the Commissioners Court to order an election to determine whether the county shall take up and prosecute the work of Tick Eradication. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| SB 39 | Caption: Relating to enforcing hire, tenant and share farming contracts when money or goods are obtained therein; creating penalties. |
| SB 57 | Caption: Relating to regulating the taking of pelts of fur-bearing animals, providing an open season for the killing of fur-bearing animals and making a penalty for the violations thereof. |
| SB 88 | Caption: Relating to establishing a State Teachers' Employment Bureau. |
| SB 116 | Caption: Relating to providing for creation of the office of assistant district attorney for the Sixth Judicial District of Texas, defining the duties and qualifications of said office, fixing the bond and salary. |
| SB 244 | Caption: Relating to establishing a State Normal College; providing for the location and control of same. |
| SB 266 | Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Delta County, Texas. |
| SCR 19 | Caption: Inviting W.J. Bryan to address the Legislature. |
| SCR 28 | Caption: Providing for a committee to arrange for the reception of W.J. Bryan. |
| SJR 14 | Caption: Proposing an amendment defining qualified electors of the State and where such electors must vote. |
| SR 39 | Caption: Inviting former Senators C.M. Chambers to address the Senate. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 52 | Caption: Relating to creating the Annona Independent School District in Red River County, Texas, including the present existing Annona Independent School District and certain other territory in said County. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Act creating the Junior Agricultural College east of the ninety-sixth meridian and north of the thirty-first parallel. |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Act creating the West Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College. |
| SB 35 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Act establishing the Northwest Texas Insane Asylum. |
| SB 36 | Caption: Relating to creating the Oakland Independent School District of Red River county. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to directing the Board of Prison Commissioners to reimburse the general fund of the State for amount paid on debts of the system. |