Legislation authored by Gus Russek
Includes legislation with Gus Russek as the primary author for the 39th 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 | |
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| SB 23 | Caption: Relating to giving authority to executors and administrators the right to mortgage and sell the property belonging to the estate of deceased persons. |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to repealing the Prohibition Act. |
| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to an assessment of cost of improvement of property, providing for personal notice to the owner, in addition to the notice as now provided in said statute. |
| SB 114 | Caption: Relating to providing that transferors for collection of negotiable instruments shall be preferred creditors of state banks, and/or state bank and trust companies, authorized to do business under the laws of the State of Texas in certain cases. |
| SB 240 | Caption: Relating to selection of county depository by commissioners. |
| SB 297 | Caption: Relating to exempting owners of farm trucks, farm tractors, farm trailers, farm seni-trailers, and implements of husbandry from the requirement that every owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer, used or to be used upon the public highways of this State shall register the same and from the requirement that said owners obtain a chauffeur's license. |
| SB 386 | Caption: Relating to providing for the incorporation of trust companies, and providing that such trust companies shall have all the power set out in certain statute. |
| SB 389 | Caption: Relating to regulating the occupation of beauty culture and hair dressing; providing for an addition of three female members to the Board of Barber Examiners, and giving the said Board power to license and regulate persons carrying on and teaching beauty culture and hair dressing and providing rules regulating the proper conduct and sanitation of beauty culture and hair dressing establishments and schools for the protection of public health, and providing penalties for violators thereof. |
| SB 462 | Caption: Relating to 3-day notice of road duty. |
| SB 503 | Caption: Relating to providing for the erection and operation of a cement factory to belong to and be operated by the Prison System of the State of Texas, for the purpose of manufacturing cement and other road materials to be used int he construction and maintenance of State highways. |
| SR 122 | Caption: Accepting invitation to the Tom Tom celebration in Yoakum. |
| SR 124 | Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to Marvin Fertsch, Stanley Fertsch, Lucille Fertsch, and Evelyn Tinn, students at Hallettsville High School. |
| 43rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 60 | Caption: Relating to fixing the salaries of county commissioners in every county in this State having a population of not less than 30,700 and not more than 30,725, according to the last preceding Federal Census. |
| SB 85 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the temporary closing and suspension of State banks and bank and trust companies under conditions authorized. |
| 43rd 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 71 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to limiting the indebtedness of State banking corporations, so as to permit same to borrow in excess of this amount from the United States of America and from any corporation wholly owned by the United States of America, validating all such obligations heretofore incurred. |
| 42nd Regular Session | |
| SB 165 | Caption: Relating to regulating foreign and domestic corporations. |
| SB 240 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by requiring the segregation of assets by banks and trust companies; providing a penalty. |
| SB 320 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to leave the number of copies of the Banking Commissioner's report to the Governor to be printed to the discretion of the Banking Commissioner. |
| SB 321 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to require communications from the Banking Commissioner and his representatives to be filed and made permanent records of the association. |
| SB 322 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the payment of the expense of additional examination and prolonged audit and examination and reappraisement of real estate by the association. |
| SB 323 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize the Banking Commissioner or his duly appointed representatives to administer the oath therein provided for to the officers, employees, or agents of such associations. |
| SB 324 | Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to dividends and reserve so as to provide that if the reserve funds shall not equal ten per cent of the outstanding loans at the time of each apportionment of profits, the directors shall, before apportioning the profits, set aside not less than two and one-half per cent of the net profits accruing since the last apportionment. |
| SB 325 | Caption: Relating to providing for the annual meeting of stockholders of building and loan associations. |
| SB 326 | Caption: Relating to providing that the State of Texas, when it deposits its funds in a State Depository and same are secured as provided by law, shall have no prior right of payment out of the assets of such depository. |
| SB 327 | Caption: Relating to the sale of bad or doubtful debts of banks. |
| SB 328 | Caption: Relating to expense of liquidation and the approval of expense account of the Commissioner; providing for contest of Commissioner's expense account and fixing burden of proof. |
| SB 329 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to dividends and unclaimed deposits remaining in the hands of the Commissioner for six months after order for final distribution. |
| SB 330 | Caption: Relating to providing that the Banking Commissioner in charge of any State bank or bank and trust company for the purpose of liquidation may apply to the District Court in the county in which the bank is situated for authority to use the trust funds to redeem certain bills receivable. |
| SB 364 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 11 of Fayette County, Texas, conferring powers, privileges and duties generally conferred upon such Districts. |
| SB 402 | Caption: Relating to regulating the business of selling horses and mules; making an appropriation; prescribing offenses, punishment, fines and penalties. |
| SB 527 | Caption: Relating to creating the one hundred and twenty-third Judicial District Court of Texas. |
| SB 539 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 12 of Fayette County, Texas. |
| SB 540 | Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relating to game preserves by providing for the establishment of such preserves for a minimum period of two years. |
| SCR 58 | Caption: Recalling H.B. 520 for further consideration. |
| SR 104 | Caption: Appointing a committee for the purpose of investigating the cement industry. |
| SR 131 | Caption: Inviting George E. Lenart to address the Senate. |
| 41st Regular Session | |
| SB 83 | Caption: Relating to abolishing the office of Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner and creating the Game, Fish and Oyster Commission. |
| SB 183 | Caption: Relating to regulating the granting of charters to corporations. |
| SB 184 | Caption: Relating to increasing maximum number of directors certain banks may have. |
| SB 185 | Caption: Relating to banks and bank and trust companies. |
| SB 473 | Caption: Relating to State-owned and operated cement plant. |
| SB 550 | Caption: Relating to providing that the owner of any truck with a capacity of one and one half tons or less may operate the same upon the highways of this State without paying any tax or fees. |
| SB 551 | Caption: Relating to exempting male persons residing in Fayette County from road duty by paying to the County Tax Collector the sum of Five Dollars annually. |
| SB 552 | Caption: Relating to amending corporation law. |
| SB 553 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws regulating the class of securities for Loans and Investments of Savings Deposits. |
| SB 554 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to allow that every such corporation shall have the right to limit, refuse or return any deposit at its discretion. |
| SB 591 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the board of directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas to establish and maintain an agricultural experiment station in Lavaca County. |
| SB 594 | Caption: Relating to accepting the donation to the State of parts of a site and to purchase other parts of a site for a State Historical Park to be designated the "Stephen F. Austin Memorial Park"; making an appropriation. |
| SR 8 | Caption: Creating the position of Assistant Postmistress. |
| 41st 1st Called Session | |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to creating and defining by metes and bounds Road District Number 3 of Colorado County, Texas. |
| 41st 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 64 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District No. 1 in Lavaca County, Texas; validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said County in respect to the organization of said District, validating the authorization, issuance and sale of certain road bonds thereof. |
| SB 92 | Caption: Relating exempting male persons residing in Fayette County, Texas, from road duty by paying to the County Tax Collector of said county the sum of Five Dollars ($5.00) annually. |
| SB 162 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner to lease a portion of the Medina river for occupation for hunting, bathing and fishing purposes. |
| 41st 5th Called Session | |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to certain powers of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to better providing for the disposition of oil and gas in University lands. |
| 40th Regular Session | |
| SB 115 | Caption: Relating to repealing certain laws relating to bonds and securities deposited by state banks; assigning certain duties to the Banking Commissioner of Texas. |
| SB 179 | Caption: Relating to the creation of Road District No. 4 in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the Commissioners' Court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district, validating the authorization, issuance and sale of certain Road bonds thereof and providing for their payment by the annual levy, assessment and collection of general ad valorem taxes on all taxable property in said road district. |
| SB 180 | Caption: Relating to fixing an annual occupation tax upon loan brokers, and defining loan brokers. |
| SB 298 | Caption: Relating to granting authority to the Commissioners Court of the several Counties in Texas to establish law libraries repealing Article 1698 Revised Civil Statutes of 1925. |
| SB 339 | Caption: Relating to amending Article 5490, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, by eliminating therefrom the words "and every transfer thereof". |
| SB 366 | Caption: Relating to providing that where any truck is required to be licensed by the laws of this state while being used and operated upon highways thereof that where such truck is used exclusively by the owner thereof for the purpose of hauling and transporting his own property that the license tax payable on shall be a sum equal to one-half of what the same is now on any similar truck. |
| SB 429 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles by adding thereto by appropriate number a subdivision, section or clause authorizing the organization and incorporation of hospitals or sanatoriums for the care of, and surgery upon sick, diseased, infirm, disabled and injured persons. |
| SR 26 | Caption: Appointing Senator Westbrook to the Committee on Banking. |
| 40th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 117 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the heirs of Dr. Johnson Hunter an amount as reimbursement for cattle killed and slaughtered and corn and hogs used by the army of General Sam Houston at or about the time of the battle of San Jacinto, said property having been the property of the said Dr. Johnson Hunter and never having been paid for. |
| 39th Regular Session | |
| SB 209 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute by taking Fayette County out of the First Supreme Judicial District of Texas and placing it in the Third Supreme Judicial District of Texas. |
| SB 218 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to public roads and highways so as to except and exempt from the provisions of said chapter the county of Fayette. |
| SB 337 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Seventy-fifth, Ninth and Eightieth Judicial Districts and fixing terms of holding court in each district. |
| SB 429 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing that all policies issued by any mutual life insurance company may use any portion of the mortality savings, not to exceed fifty per centum, as a sinking fund for the repayment of any ums of money advanced for the purpose of promoting and conserving the business of the company, and further providing that the profits from reserves released on lapsed and surrendered policies may be permitted to be used for the purpose of sinking fund. |
| SB 457 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Department of Banking for enforcement of the State Banking Laws. |
| SB 464 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute making appropriations for the support and maintenance of the State Government for the two year period beginning September 1, 1925, and ending August 31, 1927, so as to reitemize the appropriations made for the Executive Department. |
| SB 465 | Caption: Relating to making a supplementary appropriation out of the General Revenue of the State of Texas, not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the State Ranger force, to be added to the appropriation as made by certain Act, for the years beginning September 1, 1925, and ending August 31, 1927. |
| 39th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 76 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 77 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Seven (7), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 78 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Eight (8), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), in Colorado County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 80 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Waller County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 81 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Six (6), in Waller County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 229 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Waller County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 233 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Nine (9), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 234 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Three (3), in Lavaca County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 235 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 267 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Four (4), in Austin County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |
| SB 268 | Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Ten (10), in Fayette County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district. |