Legislation authored by Cecil Murphy

Includes legislation with Cecil Murphy as the primary author for the 42nd through 43rd 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.

43rd Regular Session
SB 15	Caption: Relating to abolishing the Reclamation Department.
SB 127	Caption: Relating to providing that a judgment in courts of record will not become dormant where execution has issued on such judgment within ten years after its rendition.
SB 239	Caption: Relating to providing that the State Board of Control shall furnish proposals to those making application therefor in all cases where contracts are to be made.
SB 272	Caption: Relating to providing a judgment lien shall cease to exist if execution be not sued out within 10 years from the date of judgment, or if 10 years intervene between date of last execution issued and time of suing out another execution.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to assignments for the benefit of creditors.
SB 376	Caption: Relating to prescribing the powers and duties of the State Insurance Commission with respect to the fixing of fire insurance rates in this State; providing that the rate so fixed shall be the maximum rate; providing for the exemption of no company from the provisions of this Act.
SB 377	Caption: Relating to defining common carrier pipelines engaged, or to engage in the transportation of natural gas; providing against discrimination in favor of or against individuals, associations of persons, municipal corporations or corporations in the conduct of their business, fixing penalties for the violation of this Act, making certain violations a criminal offense and fixing a penalty therefor; providing means for the recovery of such penalties as are not made criminal, either by the State of Texas or the party aggrieved.
SB 378	Caption: Relating to defining common carrier pipelines engaged, or to engage in the transportation of natural gas; declaring all corporations, persons, partnerships, or associations of persons, now engaged or to hereafter engage in transporting natural gas from place to place in this State to be common carriers, declaring such common carriers to be public utilities and making them subject to the provisions of this Act; fixing penalties for violation of this Act, and the rules and orders of said Commission; making certain violations a criminal offense and fixing the penalty therefor; and providing means for the recovery of such penalties as are not made cerinial, either by the State of Texas or the party aggrieved by such violation, naming the tribunal in which such recovery may be had.
SB 413	Caption: Relating to regulating and fixing the rights of parties to contracts or conveyances executed by persons at the time who are of unsound mind or otherwise incompetent, where no adjudication of incompetency has been made by a court of competent jurisdiction, and, also, where such adjudication has been made but no lawful guardian of the estate of such incompetent has been appointed.
SB 543	Caption: Relating to providing that the Comptroller of Public Accounts shall not issue any warrant for the payment of the available school funds or rural aid or vocational educational funds, to or for the benefit of any school district or city or town which has assumed the control of its public schools when the interest and/or principal on any bonds owed by such school district and/or city or town belonging to the permanent school fund remain unpaid for a period of two years, and providing that such warrant shall not issue when any such school district and/or city or town prefers the claim of any other bondholder to the claims of the State Permanent School Funds.
SCR 23	Caption: Granting O.P. Bateman permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Department.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 101	Caption: Relating to granting permission to The Gainesville Red River Bridge Company to sue the State Highway Commission as such, and the State of Texas upon a purported contract; providing for appeals.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SCR 3	Caption: Granting Max Hirsch permission to sue the State Highway Commission and the State of Texas.