Legislation authored by Walter Calisto Woodward

Includes legislation with Walter Calisto Woodward 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
SB 28	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of law in Texas; creating the State Bar of Texas.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the sale of fish taken from fresh water streams of certain named counties, and also providing means and methods of taking and possessing of fish from fresh waters of said counties, and by adding the name of the county of Tom Green to said list of counties.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to permitting citation to be served and return to be made by registered mail.
SB 52	Caption: Relating to further regulating and providing a means and method of securing service of process on foreign corporations hereafter seeking a permit to do business in Texas and those doing business in Texas on the effective date of this Act; affixing penalties for a violation hereof.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to preserving filed pleadings by making just and convenient regulations to such end.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to empowering the judge to change venue on his own motion.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to withdrawing from appearing party review in Court of Civil Appeals by means of writ of error.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to fixing the time for filing the Transcript in the Court of Civil Appeals and providing for an extension of such time for cause shown.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to giving further certainty to appellate jurisdiction by providing for waiver and cure of objection as to the various notices and bonds required for its perfection.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to confine reversals of errors of substance and merit, by adding thereto certain provisos to the effect that the Courts of Civil Appeals shall not reverse a judgment for errors not calculated to cause and which probably did not cause rendition of an improper judgment, or probably prevented appellant from making a proper presentation of the case on appeal.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to providing that the equalization of the business of the Courts of Civil Appeals shall be made by the Supreme Court as of the close of business in said Courts of Civil Appeals on December 31st and May 31st of each year.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating nominations of candidates for District Judges, Criminal District Judges, Justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals, Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and Justices of the Supreme Court by political parties casting one hundred thousand votes or mroe for their candidates for Governor at the next preceding general election, making this Act take precedence over and repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 62	Caption: Relating to defining the meaning of practicing law and prohibiting corporations and all other persons, firms, or associations from practicing law in Texas except licensed attorneys of the bar, and prohibiting attorneys from splitting fees with others than attorneys, and providing a violation of this Act may be enjoined, and providing penalties for violations of this Act.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to withdrawing exemption of bar examination from graduates of law schools.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to providing that attorneys from other jurisdictions shall be required to pass the examination given to other applicants, with exception respecting participation by such attorneys in the trial or hearing of any particular case wherein a resident practicing attorney of texas is actually employed, associated and personally participating.
SB 172	Caption: Relating to the service of process on the State Highway Commissioner and designating said officer as the agent for such purposes in suits against non-residents for injuries inflicted within this State by non-resident operators of motor vehicles or motorcycles, so as to extend, cover and include not only the owners of said motor vehicles but likewise their agents, servants or employees operating the same.
SB 173	Caption: Relating to providing for the certification of questions of law by trial courts to Courts of Civil Appeals and by such Courts to the Supreme Court, and for the appeal by litigants from orders of trial courts overruling or sustaining general or special exceptions involving the constitutionality or validity of laws, orders, rules and regulations of State officers, boards and other commissions.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the County Court of Sterling County, to conform to the jurisdiction of the District Court thereof.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to making appropriations to pay past due rent on Armories, from March 1, 1932, to August 31, 1932, under lease to the National Guard of the State of Texas, and authorizing payment of said rent on taking effect of this Act.
SB 346	Caption: Relating to providing for the preparation of briefs in the Courts of civil Appeals and in the Supreme Court, setting forth the basic elements to be embraced in such briefs.
SB 347	Caption: Relating to authorizing water improvement districts to complete, repair, extend and improve its system and in order to pay for such completion, repairs, extension and improvements, to borrow money and issue negotiable bonds or notes as permitted by this amendment and regulating the elections to be held for such purposes and for the levying of a tax for such purposes.
SB 348	Caption: Relating to providing for evidence of handwriting by comparison.
SB 356	Caption: Relating to providing that when a penalty of death or life imprisonment has been assessed, and a defendant escapes pending appeal, the Court of Criminal Appeals may reinstate the appeal under certain conditions; providing that this Act shall take immediate effect and govern cases now pending and not finally disposed of in said Court.
SB 475	Caption: Relating to providing means and methods whereby suits and causes of actions pending on the effective date hereof or which may be filed within one hundred and eighty days from the effective date hereof, may be postponed or continued, and orders of sales and executions may be stayed by complying with the conditions as provided in this Act.
SB 494	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land office to sell the west 3/4 of the west 1/2 of Section 40, Block M-15, in Swisher County, Texas, to T. H. Love, under the provisions of certain statute.
SB 495	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in Swisher County where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon the Hutchinson Iron Pipe Survey."
SB 561	Caption: Relating to declaring that all bonds, debentures, notes, collateral trust certificates, and other evidences of indebtedness, which have been, or which may be, issued by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, or by any Federal Land Bank or any other entity, corporation or agency now created, or hereafter to be created, by any Act or Acts of the Congress of the United States in connection with legislation for the relief of owners of mortgaged or encumbered homes, farms, ranches and other real estate, shall be lawful investments for all fiduciary and trust funds, and may be accepted as security for all public deposits where deposits of bonds or mortgages are authorized by law to be accepted.
SB 571	Caption: Relating to abolition of corporate existence of cities and towns.
SCR 1	Caption: Adopting joint rules.
SCR 21	Caption: Granting G.B. White and B. White permission to sue the State of Texas and the State Highway Commission.
SCR 36	Caption: Granting J.B. Dunlap permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 37	Caption: Granting E.G. Powell permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 44	Caption: Recalling SB 52 from the Governor.
SCR 52	Caption: Recalling SB 412 from the House.
SCR 67	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a joint committee to settle appropriations reductions in the judiciary bill, the eleemosynary bill, the educational bill, and the department bill.
SJR 12	Caption: Proposing to amend Sections 1, 2, 6 and 7 of Article V, of the Constitution of Texas, the same being the article creating the Judicial Department of Texas, so as to reorganize said Judicial Department.
SJR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 3 of Article VIII of the Constitution of the State of Texas, and providing for the levying and collection of taxes by general laws, and fixing the total amount of revenue which may be collected during each biennium, and the total amount of funds which may be expended during each biennium.
SJR 30	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas to be known as Section 51a, providing that the Legislature may authorize by law the issuance and sale of bonds of the State of Texas, not to exceed the sum of twenty million ($20,000,000.00) dollars, bearing interest not to exceed four and one-half (4 1/2%) per centum per annum, and to mature not to exceed ten (10) years from their date, to be used for relieving the hardships of unemployment.
SR 2	Caption: Providing for seat assignments.
SR 3	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to notify the Governor that the Senate is ready to transact business.
SR 4	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to notify the House that the Senate is ready to transact business.
SR 5	Caption: Adopting temporary Rules of the Senate.
SR 6	Caption: Adopting recommendations set out in caucus report.
SR 33	Caption: Fixing Senate meeting times during the second 30 days of session.
SR 70	Caption: Inviting former Senator W.H. Bledsoe to address the House.
SR 87	Caption: Recalling HB 231 from the House for further consideration.
SR 94	Caption: Requesting that the Secretary of Senate furnish a list of bills and resolutions filed in his office.
SR 125	Caption: Inviting former Senator Claude B. Hudspeth to address the Senate.
43rd 1st Called Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to declaring the economic conditions and policy of this State concerning cooperation with the National Government in authorizing and providing for action by trade groups, labor and management of industry, eliminating unfair competition, promoting the proper productive capacity of industry, increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products by increasing purchasing power, reducing unemployment, improving standards of labor and otherwise rehabilitating industry and conserving natural resources, as announced in the National Industrial Recovery Act.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to validating all ad valorem tax levies heretofore made by incorporated cities and towns in the State of Texas which levies are unenforceable because of the failure of the governing bodies of such respective incorporated cities and towns to make such levy or levies by ordinance, and which are unenforceable because of the failure of such governing bodies to appoint the statutory board of equalization, and where the city council, city commission, or other governing body of such incorporated city or town have acted as a board of equalization in the fixing of the valuation of taxable property for ad valorem taxes within any such incorporated city or town.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to providing for the enforcement of liens upon realty owned by deceased persons or in which the estate of deceased persons may be interested.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing an official public agency of the State of Texas, the official title of which shall be "Texas Employment and Relief Commission" and designating the membership thereof and prescribing the duties of said commission, authorizing the issuance of $7,500,000.00 in bonds under authority of Section 51a, Article 3, of the Constitution of the State of Texas and providing the method of issuance, the sale and distribution of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof.
SB 82	Caption: Relating to the time for holding court in the several counties constituting the 119th Judicial District of Texas, composed of the counties of Coleman, Concho, Runnels and Tom Green, fixing the terms for holding court in each county.
SB 106	Caption: Relating to providing for monthly payment of tax levied on production of oil and prescribing the date upon which tax shall be paid and by whom it shall be paid; providing penalties for the failure to pay the tax imposed upon the production of oil and six percent interest on delinquent penalties and interest.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to authorizing municipal corporations and political subdivisions of the State of Texas to apply for and secure grants and loans from the Federal Government for the construction, repair, improvement and financing of public work projects as defined herein.
SCR 13	Caption: Authorizing the State Superintendent to pay certain sum to the Coleman Independent School District.
SR 1	Caption: Adopting Rules of the Senate.
SR 2	Caption: Providing for seat assignments.
SR 6	Caption: Providing for copies of the Laws of the 43rd Regular Session for each Senator.
SR 9	Caption: Requesting information from Governor Ferguson and former Governor Sterling.
SR 14	Caption: In memory of W.L. Dean.
SR 24	Caption: Authorizing printing of testimony in investigation of the Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission.
43rd 2nd Called Session
SB 56	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to severance in criminal cases, by omitting therefrom certain clause extending the privilege of testifying only to the party on trial.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute which permits defendants jointly indicted or defendants indicted for offenses growing out of the same transaction the right to apply for severance and ask for a separate trial, by leaving the action thereon to the sound discretion of the trial court, and regulating the procedure in reference thereto.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to authorizing the judge of the court upon the trial of a person charged with a criminal offense to conduct the examination of jurors himself and to test the qualification of jurors.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to further regulating continuances in criminal cases in respect both to the application filed in behalf of the State or in behalf of the defendant.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to providing for the filing of records in the order received in the Court of Civil appeals, and for setting of cases for submission in said court and for notice thereof to the parties of the receipt of the record and instruments by the clerk and the date set for submission.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to providing that no new election shall be had within two years of the date of an election whereby a town or village is incorporated under the General Laws of the State of Texas.
SCR 23	Caption: Requesting that the Governor issue a proclamation for the first anniversary of the Roosevelt administration.
SCR 27	Caption: Clarifying legislative intent regarding administrators of county relief.
SCR 36	Caption: Suspending Joint Rule #11 so that the Senate might consider HB 163.
SR 9	Caption: Wishing Senator Fellbaum a speedy recovery from illness.
43rd 3rd Called Session
SB 13	Caption: Relating to granting to G.B. White and B. White and each of them, and to the heirs and legal representatives of each of them, the right and authority to sue the State of Texas for a settlement of all rights, claims and demands of the said G.B. White and B. White, and each of them, arising out of or incident to the execution of and the performance under the certain contract made between G.B. White and B. White under the name of White Brothers and the State of Texas by its State Highway Engineer and State Highway Commission, of date January 7, 1931, under which contract the said White Brothers agreed to do the grading and to construct the small drainage structures in Coleman and Runnels Counties, Texas, under what was known as Job No. 200-K, Federal Aid Project 600-B.
43rd 4th Called Session
SR 3	Caption: Inviting citizens of West Texas to attend the Texas Centennial.
42nd Regular Session
SB 53	Caption: Relating to authorizing defendants in felony cases less than capital offenses, upon entering a plea of guilty and with the consent and approval of the Court and the State's Attorney, to waive the right of a trial by a Jury and to be tried by the Court.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to the method of determining the issue of insanity after a defendant has been convicted of crime.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of Law in Texas, to create the State Bar of Texas.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to corporations acting as trustees.
SB 59	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by permitting the filing of Statements of Fact in duplicate, either in narrative or question and answer form.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by providing for the filing of records in the order received, for setting the cases for submission, and the notification of parties of the receipt and the date set for hearing.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article by dispensing with the necessity of a File Docket, and providing for docketing all causes on the Trial Docket.
SB 62	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article so as to provide for the filing of findings of fact and conclusions of law by the trial judge in cases where a peremptory instruction is given.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by fixing the time for filing the transcript in the Court of Civil Appeals and providing for an extension of such time for cause shown.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article by fixing the time for filing Statements of Facts and Bills of Exception, and providing for the extension of time where good cause is shown.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to allowing assignments of Error and cross assignments of Error in Briefs instead of the Record.
SB 66	Caption: Relating to regulating nominations of candidates for certain judges by political parties casting one hundred thousand votes or more for their candidates for governor at the last general election.
SB 67	Caption: Relating to extending the period of limitation because of filing of any action in the wrong Court, unless opposite party shows intentional disregard of jurisdiction.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to saving amendments in legal action from limitation.
SB 69	Caption: Relating to extending time for filing findings of fact and conclusions of law and in such respect to amend Revised Statutes, Article 2247.
SB 93	Caption: Relating to providing for the uses and priorities of uses for which appropriations of public water may be granted.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to authorizing courts to render judgments non obstante verdicto and disregard special jury findings.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relative to submission of cases upon special issues.
SB 115	Caption: Relating to the organization of the Fifty-first (51) Judicial District of the State of Texas; reorganizing the same.
SB 255	Caption: Relating to providing for the trial of misdemeanors upon complaint, without an information, provided, however, in counties having one or more criminal district courts an information must be filed in each misdemeanor case, in counties having no county attorney.
SB 256	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide for the payment of ex-officio County School Superintendents and expenses of such offices of the Available School Fund.
SB 338	Caption: Relating to providing for the formation of private corporations to develop and market certain minerals.
SB 357	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relative to the wages of an employee who was a minor when injured.
SB 358	Caption: Relating to acts or decisions of the Industrial Accident Board and the admission as evidence of its proceeding when duly attested and sealed.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to the administrative authority of the Industrial Accident Board.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to the review of awards made by the Industrial Accident Board upon a change of condition, mistake or fraud within the compensation period.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to compensation to an employee who has been hired in this State and sustains an injury outside of the State.
SB 371	Caption: Relating to providing for and directing the taxation of mineral rights in public school lands sold by the State with a mineral reservation against the owner while said lands are under lease by the owner of the soil for himself or as the State's agent, providing the means and manner thereof, and for back assessments and collections.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to providing that attorneys' fees recoverable for the prosecution and collection of unpaid losses under life and accident, health and accident, and life, health and accident insurance policies shall be taxable as costs in suits filed thereon.
SB 396	Caption: Relating to declaring the public policy of this state with reference to the business of transporting property for hire by means of motor vehicles over the highways of this State.
SB 397	Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of vehicles other than devices moved by human power or used upon stationary rails.
SB 498	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person to possess, transport, sell or have in his possession any machine gun or any other rapid firing gun of any description.
SB 531	Caption: Relating to providing the method by which Building and Loan Associations of this State may dissolve the corporation and liquidate the affairs of the Association.
SB 541	Caption: Relating to the oath and bond of sheriff's so as to provide that sheriffs and their deputies shall not be responsible on their official bonds or personally because of having received or confined any prisoner delivered to them by a State Ranger.
SB 542	Caption: Relating to making it an offense to falsely assume or pretend to be a State Ranger, increasing the punishment.
SB 547	Caption: Relating to creating the Conservation Commission of Texas.
SB 555	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the throwing, casting, discharging or depositing crude petroleum, oil, salt water, sulphur water, acid or other unclean substances or things in any water course or public body of water; providing a penalty.
SB 576	Caption: Relating to repealing certain Acts reducing the scholastic age to six years.
SB 580	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to cases appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals and/or taken to the Supreme Court.
SCR 1	Caption: Relating to the adoption of joint rules.
SCR 2	Caption: Relating to rules regarding the order of business relative to introduction and consideration of bills.
SR 1	Caption: Relating to seats and desks of members.
SR 2	Caption: Relating to the adoption of rules of the 41st Legislature.
SR 3	Caption: Relating to rules regarding the order of business relative to introduction and consideration of bills.
SR 11	Caption: Relating to payment for pre-session work.
SR 19	Caption: Relating to the purchase of legal volumes.
SR 22	Caption: Commending work of American Legislative Association and the Interstate Legislative Reference Bureau.
SR 43	Caption: Relating to session scheduling during the next 30 days.
SR 59	Caption: In memory of Chas H. Jenkins of Brownwood.
SR 73	Caption: Relating to committee meetings during last 60 days of regular sessions.
SR 108	Caption: Inviting Mrs. Spencer and Mrs. Lattimore to address the Senate.
SR 111	Caption: Relating to investigation on delinquent interest on bonds owned by the Permanent School Fund.
SR 133	Caption: Inviting H.L. Bentley to address the Senate.
SR 141	Caption: Extending privileges of the floor to certain members of the senior class of Coleman Highschool.
SR 156	Caption: In memory of W.H. Doss of Ballinger.
SR 161	Caption: Relating to terms of employment during sessions.
42nd 1st Called Session
SB 6	Caption: Relating to creating the Conservation Commission of Texas.
SB 14	Caption: Relating to creating the Conservation Commission of Texas.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to oil and gas by further defining waste and further defining the powers and duties of the Commission in respect to the enforcement of the oil and gas laws.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to creating the Conservation Commission of Texas.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to statement of facts.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to governing the statement of facts.
SR 22	Caption: Expressing confidence of the Senate in Senator W. A. Williamson.
42nd 2nd Called Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to restricting cotton acreage to one-third.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by eliminating restrictions on State Auditor's use of appropriation made for oil and gas royalty audit.
SR 19	Caption: Recalling H.B. 9 from the House.
SR 36	Caption: Relating to employees for the trial of Judge J.B. Price.
42nd 3rd Called Session
SB 48	Caption: Relating to oil theft.
41st Regular Session
SB 28	Caption: Relating to the reorganization of the Fifty-First Judicial District of the State of Texas.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to citations and copy of petition when injunctions are issued.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to posting and publication of Legal Notices.
SB 31	Caption: Relating to providing that in the appropriation of waters for power purposes shall be subordinate to the rights of the state to grant appropriations for the use of such waters for municipal, domestic and irrigation purposes.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure so as to provide the examining fee of the sheriff in cases where an examining trial is held and the defendant is thereafter indicted by the grand jury.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to providing that when a person is convicted of a felony and the punishment assessed is only a fine or a jail sentence, or both, that the judgment may be satisfied in the same manner as a conviction for a misdemeanor is by law satisfied.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to concealing mortgaged property.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to making it a penal offense for any person to cause, encourage or contribute to the delinquency of any minor under the age of seventeen years.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to providing fees for the courts in misdemeanor cases, and to relieving the courts of any interest in the result of the trial.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to providing a trial fee in justice courts in misdemeanor cases.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to allowing fees to Justices of the Peace is misdemeanor cases.
SB 39	Caption: Relating to not allowing a justice of the peace any commissions on fines, thereby further relieving him of any interest in a Misdemeanor case.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to kidnapping.
SB 116	Caption: Relating to providing a means of serving civil process upon non-residents of this State in any civil action or proceeding against such non-residents growing out of any accident or collision in which said non-residents may be involved while operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle on any public highway or public street in this State.
SB 117	Caption: Relating to providing for the giving of notices to the United States Veterans Bureau of the filing of all annual and other accounts and of all applications for the expenditure and investment of funds by guardians whose wards are beneficiaries of the United States Veterans' Bureau and providing for collection of fees therefor.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to providing for the removal of guardians without notice when notices or other process of court cannot be served upon them on account of their whereabouts being unknown.
SB 119	Caption: Relating to empowering the county judge to authorize the payment of bond premiums out of the estate of the ward.
SB 120	Caption: Relating to providing for the removal of a guardian after being cited to answer, when he is proved to have been guilty of gross neglect or mismanagement in the performance of any of his duties as guardian and when he becomes of unsound mind or an habitual drunkard or is sentenced to imprisonment for a term of years, and when, if he be the guardian of the person, he cruelly treats the ward or neglects to educate and maintain the ward as liberally as the means of such ward and the circumstances of the case demand.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to authorizing the county judge to decrease the amount of a guardian's bond whenever in his opinion a smaller bond than the one in effect would be adequate to protect the estate of the ward.
SB 122	Caption: Relating to the discharge of guardians of incompetents or habitual drunkards where such persons have been restored to their right minds or sober habits, by adding thereto a provision authorizing the court to adjudge such persons to be of sound mind or to be no longer habitual drunkards, as the case may be.
SB 123	Caption: Relating to authorizing the county courts of this State to grant letters of administration upon the estates of certain persons without regard to the date of death when such administration is necessary in connection with the receipt or recovery of moneys due by the United States of America.
SB 124	Caption: Relating to sureties upon guardians' bonds, by adding thereto a provision authorizing the county judge to require corporate sureties on guardians' bonds in certain cases.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to repeal of law making stock brands exclusive evidence of ownership.
SB 146	Caption: Relating to providing that the Commissioners for the aid and assistance of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas shall hold office for a term of six years from their appointment, and providing for the filling of any vacancy.
SB 151	Caption: Relating to fixing the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court so as to eliminate certain articles.
SB 152	Caption: Relating to regulating the preparation and contents of statements relating to practice in district and county courts.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to regulating the time for filing motions for rehearing in Courts of Civil Appeals and petitions to the Supreme Court for Writs of Error for review of final judgments of Courts of Civil Appeals; prescribing certain requisites for said pleadings.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to prescribing certain duties of Clerks of Courts of Civil Appeals with reference to the filing, recording and preservation of the records and proceedings of said court.
SB 155	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to provide that a cause carried to a Court of Civil Appeals by direct appeal or Writ of Error shall be placed upon the trial docket in the order received, subject to be set for submission without delay.
SB 156	Caption: Relating to requiring the parties in Civil Suits in all the District and County Courts to make and file with the Clerk of the Court originals and copies thereof of all papers filed during the progress of the proceedings.
SB 159	Caption: Relating to validating an act regarding certain conservation and reclamation districts.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to requiring the labeling of mattresses and pillows sold, offered for sale, delivered, consigned or possessed with intent to sell; making appropriations.
SB 182	Caption: Relating to repealing the law fixing salaries of superintendents of eleemosynary institutions.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to defining license tax, regulate and control recreation establishments; fixing penalties for violation of said act.
SB 346	Caption: Relating to pertaining to making rules of civil practice procedure and pleading by the Supreme Court.
SB 380	Caption: Relating to protecting and securing persons, firms and corporations in connection with the drilling, re-drilling or deepening of oil or gas wells; providing penalties.
SB 413	Caption: Relating to defining motor carrier and placing such under the regulation of the Railroad Commission of Texas.
SB 465	Caption: Relating to relief of railway corporations having charters granted or amended since the first day of January, 1892, which have failed or are about to fail to construct their roads and branches.
SB 498	Caption: Relating to approving, ratifying and confirming a contract of date January 1, 1929 by and between the Board of Managers of the Texas State Railroad and Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, approved by the Governor of Texas and for the maintenance and operation of the properties of said Texas State Railroad by said Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company, providing that this Act shall be cumulative of Chapter Twenty-six of the General Laws of the Regular Session of the Thirty-seventh Legislature, approved March 12, 1921, and that said contract shall, upon the same becoming effective, supersede the contract between the same parties which was confirmed and ratified by Chapter Three of the General Laws of the Second Called Session of the Thirty-seventh Legislature approved August 25, 1921.
SB 499	Caption: Relating to validating the appointment of guardians when citation was posted and not published.
SB 515	Caption: Relating to the issuance of permits by the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner to applicants to take sand, shells, gravel, marl or mudshell from the public waters and their beds on public islands.
SB 600	Caption: Relating to providing that any claim which has been forfeited by any locator or owner by reason of the failure to pay rental or royalty may be reinstated by the locator or owner within ninety days from the date of the forfeiture upon payment of all rentals and royalties due the State.
SCR 3	Caption: Providing a Joint Session of the Legislature in order to hear an address from the Governor.
SCR 21	Caption: Providing a Joint session of the Legislature in order to welcome the "Farm Champions of the South"
SCR 29	Caption: Authorizing the Board of Control to take custody of the original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence and to create a proper display for the document within the Capitol.
SJR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for a Supreme Court of nine members and for a continuous session of that court.
SJR 19	Caption: Proposing an amendment fixing the terms for convening the Legislature of the State of Texas.
SJR 20	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing for a court of criminal appeals.
SR 21	Caption: Providing compensation for the Pre-Session duties of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
SR 22	Caption: Providing compensation for the Pre-Session duties of the Senate Porters.
SR 32	Caption: Making Jacques Darrouzet an Honorary Page of the Senate.
SR 55	Caption: Extending good wishes to Senator Neal as she recovers from illness.
SR 100	Caption: Requesting the House of Representatives to return H. B. No. 495 to the Senate for further consideration.
41st 1st Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities; providing for judicial review and penalty.
SB 72	Caption: Relating amending certain articles relating to the appropriation of public waters.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 1066, Title 15, Chapter 4 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to providing trial fees in the County Courts and justice courts of misdemeanor cases; amending a certain Statute.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to fixing the fee of justices of the peace; amending a certain law.
SCR 14	Caption: Requesting the House to return H. B. No. 31 to the Senate for further consideration.
SR 12	Caption: Providing a duplicate voucher for Rev. W. H. Doss, Chaplain of the Senate.
SR 17	Caption: Inviting Attorney General Edwin Dabney of Oklahoma to address the Senate.
41st 2nd Called Session
SB 22	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; providing that no judge shall sit in any case wherein he may be interested or where either of the parties may be connected with him by affinity or consanguinity.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws so as to provide that if several obligations are secured by the vendor's lien, the same may be enforced at any time prior to four years after the note or obligation last maturing has matured.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to the issuance and use, by manufacturers and dealers, of demonstration number plates on motor vehicles.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to regulating and imposing duties and restrictions on certain public utilities; providing for judicial review and enforcement of the acts, orders and decisions of the Commission; prescribing penalties.
SB 53	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; so as to provide that in the appropriation of public waters all rights conferred by, through or in the appropriation of such waters for hydro-electric power purposes shall hereafter be subordinate to the rights of the State of grant allotments and appropriations of municipal and domestic purposes.
SB 73	Caption: Relating to validating the service of citations whether published or posted in all proceedings where guardians have been appointed, written wills probated or executors or administrators appointed and validating sale of lands under the orders of the probate courts by guardians, executors or administrators after citation was published.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of weighers for cotton compresses.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of an Agricultural Commission.
SB 196	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain counties to allow the sheriff an ex-officio salary.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to appropriation to pay salaries of certain assistant district attorneys.
SCR 17	Caption: Directing the committee created by S. C. R. 19 of the 41st Regular Session to enter into certain negotiations with the State of Oklahoma in regard to the boundary between the States.
SR 17	Caption: Requesting the San Antonio Express to print an article from "The Afro-American" newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland which details the account of the Jessie De Priest's invitation to the White House by First Lady Lou Hoover.
SR 19	Caption: In memory of former State Senator J. Herchel Boggs.
41st 3rd Called Session
SB 9	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the powers and duties of the State Tax Board in respect to calculating the ad valorem rate of taxes for state purposes.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to bonds legally issued and signed by authorized officers of any county, city, town, political subdivision, defined district, water improvement district, water control district, or any school district, providing that no such bonds shall ever be held invalid because signed and executed by different officers acting in the same capacity or when such bonds or coupons had been signed and executed by officers succeeding other officers who had executed or signed any part of said bonds and coupons prior to the actual delivery of said bonds to the purchaser, and providing for official boards and managing body of such political subdivisions or districts to select other officials or persons in whom may be vested the authority and duty of executing such bonds and coupons and of issuing the same and completing the record in respect thereto, and providing for such actions to be set forth in the records of said subdivision or district.
SR 10	Caption: Retaining the Sergeant at arms for certain post session work.
41st 4th Called Session
SB 68	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the creation of a commission of appeals to aid the Supreme Court of Texas.
SB 103	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to bounties on predatory animals.
SCR 8	Caption: Inviting Governor Holloway and Attorney General King of Oklahoma to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SR 19	Caption: Rejecting the compact offered by the State of Oklahoma in regards to the boundary between the States of Texas and Oklahoma.
41st 5th Called Session
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to the Commission of Appeals of the State of Texas.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the organization of the 51st and 35th Judicial Districts.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to granting certain rights of eminent domain to water improvement districts.
SR 31	Caption: Providing post session employment to Mrs. M. C. Mobley.
40th Regular Session
SB 17	Caption: Relating to the purposes for which private corporations may be formed so as to provide that corporations may be formed for the purpose of engaging in the poultry business and to buy and sell poultry of all kinds with the right to acquire and own all property necessary to conduct such business.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to a commission in aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas regulating their powers, duties, appointment, duration of service, compensation and providing for stenographers and making an appropriation therefor.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to amend an Act regarding the unlawful search of private residences, actual place of habitation, place of business, person or personal possession, without first having obtained a search warrant, as required by law.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to amending an Act declaring any animal, automobile, flying machine, air-plane, boat, ship or other vehicle or instrumentality used for the unlawful transportation or storage of intoxicating liquor or any equipment for the manufacture thereof to be a public Nuisance.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to amend an Act regarding the exclusion of evidence obtained in violation of the constitution and laws of the State of Texas or the United States of America.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to the erection of the Texas State Textbook Commission, the appointment of members thereof, the date and place of meetings, the qualification of the members, and providing for the installation and keeping in operation of a complete system of textbooks in all public free schools of the State of Texas.
SB 96	Caption: Relating to defining negligent assault and negligence; making it an offense to negligently injure the person or property of another, fixing a punishment therefor.
SB 97	Caption: Relating to providing that where there are two or more persons jointly charged or indicated and a severance is had, the privilege of testifying shall be extended only to the party on trial.
SB 98	Caption: Relating to regulating the time for preliminary pleadings in capital cases, such as motions for change of venue, applications for severance, and motions to quash.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to amending Articles 650 and 651 of the Code of Criminal Procedure allowing defendants jointly indicted or defendants indicted for offenses growing out of the same transaction the right to apply for severance and ask for a separate trial, regulating the procedure under such application and leaving the action thereon to the sound discretion of the trial court.
SB 100	Caption: Relating to providing a salary for the superintendent of the state tuberculosis sanatorium.
SB 126	Caption: Relating to making effective the provisions of Section 5, Article 5, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, wherein it is declared that under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the judges thereof may issue such writs as may be necessary to enforce the jurisdiction of said court, and to empower said court and the judges thereof to issue writs of mandamus and certiorari, and to enforce obedience thereof.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to actions begun during the lifetime of the decedent in which executors, guardians or heirs of the decedent have been substituted as parties Plaintiff and in which such actions either plaintiff or defendant has testified, the testimony so given may be admitted in evidence upon any subsequent trial of the same issues.
SB 207	Caption: Relating to providing for the office of Marshall and Librarian of the Supreme Court; prescribing his duties and fixing his compensation; making an appropriation.
SB 247	Caption: Relating to the relief of railway corporations having charters granted or amended since the first day of January 1892, and which have failed or are about to fail, to construct their roads and branches, or any part thereof, within the time required by law.
SB 248	Caption: Relating to providing that all conservation and reclamation districts under the name of Water Improvement Districts and in the organization of which petitions were signed by more than fifty persons owning land within the boundaries of such district and said petitions were filed in the month of September, 1926 that the organization of such districts and the authorization for the issuance of notes by such districts are hereby ratified, validated and approved.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to fixing the fees of district attorneys, county attorneys, county judges, sheriffs, justices of the peace in examining trials in felony cases and fixing fees allowed sheriffs and constables in felony cases for executing all criminal process after indictment is returned.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to making certain laws applicable to all cities and towns and, extending the privileges and rights granted under said article to public utilities corporations and associations operating under a franchise granted by such cities and towns engaged in the business of supplying cities and towns with water.
SB 415	Caption: Relating to changing and prescribing the time for holding District Court of the Fifty-First Judicial District of the State; and to conform all writs and process from such court to such changes and to make all writs and processes issued or served before this Act takes into effect returnable to the terms of Court in the several counties in said District.
SB 416	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Sterling County, conferring upon said court civil and criminal jurisdiction.
SB 417	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Irion County, conferring upon said court civil and criminal jurisdiction of said court.
SB 453	Caption: Relating to providing for preservation and protection of the Public Free School Fund and of the University Fund and of the Asylums Fund, and for recovery by the State of Texas of any and all lands rightfully belonging to the State of Texas or to any of said funds but which are now or may be held in possession of or claimed adversely to the State of Texas or to the fund to which such land belongs.
SB 462	Caption: Relating to authorizing steam or electric railway companies, street railway companies, interurban railway companies or other chartered transportation companies, to issue free passes and franks to the members of the State Highway Commission and the State Highway Engineer, repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SCR 14	Caption: Recalling SB 17 from the Governor for certain correction.
SR 17	Caption: Electing James Thornhill as temporary Assistant Secretary.
SR 23	Caption: Furnishing the Mailing Department with 2000 copies of the Senate Journal.
SR 27	Caption: Appointing Senator McFarland to the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence.
SR 40	Caption: Withdrawing SB 21 from the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and re-referring to the Committee on Judicial Districts.
SR 49	Caption: Authorizing the Secretary of the Senate to reissue a warrant to W.H. Doss, chaplain, for the sum of twenty dollars.
SR 51	Caption: Recalling SCR 14 from the House.
SR 87	Caption: Authorizing the Secretary of the Senate to reissue a warrant to Randolph Clark, chaplain.
SR 91	Caption: Directing the State Board of control to have the ceiling, furniture, and balcony of the Senate Chamber and committee rooms cleansed and refinished, and the floors in the balcony recovered.
40th 1st Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to amending certain sections of the General Laws of the Regular Session of the 40th Legislature so as to insert therein a saving clause in reference to offenses committed before this act takes effect; making it the duty of the court to define "malice aforethought."
SB 23	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Menard County, conferring upon said court civil and criminal jurisdiction and increasing the criminal and civil jurisdiction of said court.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of Sterling County, conferring upon said court civil and criminal jurisdiction and increasing the criminal and civil jurisdiction of said court; conforming the jurisdiction of the District Court of said County to such change.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to the jurisdiction of the County court of Irion County, conferring upon said court civil and criminal jurisdiction and increasing the criminal and civil jurisdiction of said court, conforming the jurisdiction of the District Court of said county to such change.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to changing and prescribing the time for holding District Court of the Fifty-First Judicial District of the State.
SB 39	Caption: Relating to amend Article 651, Title 8, Chapter 5 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas.
SB 40	Caption: Relating to providing for an increase of punishment on second and subsequent convictions of misdemeanor and felonies, to provide for the admission of testimony of such prior convictions and the charge of the court relative thereto, and provide other matters necessary and incidental to the main purpose.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to repealing Article 650 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas 1925 permitting defendants jointly prosecuted to sever upon the request of either and amending Article 651 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas of 1925, so as to provide that defendants jointly or separately indicated may upon request ask for a severance and giving to the trial judge the right to order a severance, if in his discretion the ends of justice require a severance and repealing Article 711 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of Texas of 1925.
SB 58	Caption: Relating to providing that where there are one or more felony charges against one or more persons for the same act or transaction, or for two or more actions or transactions connected together, or for two or more acts or transactions of the same class of crimes of offenses which may be properly joined, the whole may be joined in one indictment in separate counts, charging separate offenses and a conviction may be secured for each offense on the same trial under the same indictment.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to the actual, threatened or contemplated use of any premises, place or building, or part thereof for gaming or keeping or exhibiting games prohibited by the Penal Code or for keeping, being interested in, aiding or abetting the keeping of a Bawdy or Disorderly house as those terms are defined in the Penal Code, or for carrying on bucket shops as defined in the Penal Code.
SB 89	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Revised Civil statues so as to provide that in actions begun during the lifetime of the decedent in which executors, administrators, guardians or the heirs or legal representatives of the decedent, have been substituted as parties Plaintiff or Defendant and in which such actions either the original Plaintiff or Defendant has testified in open Court or by deposition and has been subjected to cross examination by the other party, the testimony so given in open Court or by disposition by either party may be admitted in evidence upon any trial of the same issues between the surviving party and the executors, administrators, guardians, heirs or legal representatives of the deceased party.
SR 40	Caption: Providing for post-session work for Sergeant-at-Arms A.W. Holt.
SR 46	Caption: Requesting that the Free Conference Committee on SB 75 strike out the $31,875.52 item for the American National Bank.
39th Regular Session
SB 151	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to liens reserved in deeds of trust by proposing a limit.
SB 152	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to persons exempt from jury service by omitting therefrom all persons over sixty years of age and road overseers.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to defining negligent assault and negligence; making it an offense to negligently injure the person or property of another, affixing a punishment therefor.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute providing that where there are two or more persons jointly charged or indicted, and a severance is had, the privilege of testifying shall be extended only to the person on trial.
SB 161	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the testimony of principals, accomplices and accessories.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to regulating the method of taking or catching fish in the public fresh waters of Tom Green County; providing penalties for violation.
SB 219	Caption: Relating to enlarging and re-establishing the limits and defining the territory of the Theny Independent School District in Comanche County, Texas.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to amending the Negotiable Instrument Act by exempting banks from liability for any loss occasioned by the negligence of the drawer of a check so drawn in a manner to be easily changed and difficult to detect.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to granting to every person against whom any judgment of conviction has heretofore been rendered by the Senate of the State of Texas in any impeachment proceeding, a full and unconditional release of any and all acts and offenses of which any such person was so convicted under and by virtue of any such judgment, and to cancel and remit any and all punishment fixed or assessed by any such judgment of said Senate, including that of disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under the State of Texas.
SB 261	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to vest in a trial judge authority to determine whether severance shall be granted in cases where defendants are jointly or severally indicted, and repealing certain statute of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
SB 308	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes of the Penal Code relating to punishment for entering on the enclosed land of another without consent of the owner for the purpose of hunting.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to limiting the issuance of notes to four per cent of the proposed cost of improvements to be made in creating water improvement districts.
SB 330	Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Thirty-fifth Judicial District of Texas, naming the counties composing such Thirty-fifth Judicial District of Texas, and fixing the time of holding court in the counties composing said district.
SB 370	Caption: Relating to creating a commission in aid of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, regulating their powers and duties, appointment, duration of service, compensation, and providing for stenographer and making an appropriation therefor.
SB 386	Caption: Relating to requiring all public works authorized to be done by the State, or by any county, city or town incorporated under General or Special Law, or school district created by General or Special Law, to be done under contract and contracts by competitive bidding.
SB 410	Caption: Relating to extending the term of office of the Educational Survey Commission, created by Act of the Thirty-eighth Legislature, to provide of the completion of the work of the said Commission, including the preparation of a report embodying therein bills and resolutions for presentation to the Legislature.
SB 411	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation of county commissioners in certain counties.
SB 421	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute incorporating the Comanche Independent School District in Comanche County, Texas, so that it shall be the duty of the board of trustee of said district to order an election to determine whether there shall be levied, assessed and collected upon all taxable property within said district a tax not to exceed the rate of one dollar and fifty cents on the one hundred dollar valuation of such property in such district for the purpose of supplementing State school funds apportioned to said district.
SB 422	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute providing what persons are exempt from the provisions of the law prohibiting the unlawful carrying of weapons, and defining the term "peace officer."
SR 65	Caption: Providing for post-session clerical work.
SR 68	Caption: Retaining Joe Erwin as messenger to the Lieutenant Governor.
39th 1st Called Session
SB 138	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 3, in Coleman County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number Two (2), of Brown County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number 1, in Coleman County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to creating Road District Number One (1), in Brown County, Texas, validating and approving all orders made by the commissioners' court of said county, in respect to the organization of said district.