Legislation authored by Robert Lee Carlock

Includes legislation with Robert Lee Carlock as the primary author for the 35th through 37th 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.

37th Regular Session
SB 22	Caption: Relating to regulating the business of banking in this State with reference to private banks, and providing that all private banks shall cease to operate after January 1, 1922, etc.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to preventing fraud in the sale and disposition of stocks and bonds and other securities, known as the "Blue Sky" Act.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to providing that in certain cases the Court of Civil Appeals or Supreme Court shall render judgment against the party appealing.
SB 65	Caption: Relating to the giving of additional supersedeas bond in cases pending on writ of error in Supreme Court or Court of Civil Appeals, etc.
SB 70	Caption: Relating to the nomination of candidates for judicial offices by convention plan.
SB 78	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regulating certain classes of indemnity contracts, by such corporations or associations doing business under plan of operation known as Lloyds.
SB 91	Caption: Relating to prohibiting practicing attorneys at law in this State from being surety on any appearance bond, etc.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regarding personal injuries; amending so said act shall not apply to actions to recover damages for personal injuries, nor for death resulting from personal injuries sustained by ranch laborers.
SB 258	Caption: Relating to making it discretionary on part of the trial judge with reference to submitting a case to a jury on special issues of fact in all cases tried before a jury in district or county courts.
SB 270	Caption: Relating to providing regulation for driers of motor vehicles with reference to railway crossings; providing for such vehicles to come to a full stop when approaching such crossing; providing for certain exemptions.
SB 276	Caption: Relating to requiring the giving of additional supersedeas bonds in cases pending.
SB 277	Caption: Relating to fixing the compensation and salary of the Superintendent of the Confederate Woman's Home.
SB 280	Caption: Relating to authorizing County Commissioners Courts to erect homes for dependent and delinquent boys and girls.
SB 281	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regarding motion for a new trial in certain cases and certain motions.
SB 337	Caption: Relating to creating the "County Court at Law" for Tarrant County, Texas, to define the jurisdiction thereof, and to conform to such change the jurisdiction of the County Court of Tarrant County.
SCR 21	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 324 from the Governor.
SCR 24	Caption: Granting Ben M. Terrell leave of absence.
36th Regular Session
SB 99	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles regulating the licensing of Attorneys at Law in the State of Texas, prescribing their qualifications.
SB 110	Caption: Relating to defining live stock commission merchants; requiring such merchants to give bond; providing for renewal of such bond; imposing penalties for pursuing the occupation of live stock commission merchant when bond has not been made, or when there has been an intentional breach of said bond; requiring remittances of the proceeds of stock sold by such commission merchant to be made to the consignees within forty eight hours after such sale has been made, either in certified check or bank exchange, unless waived in writing by such consignee.
SB 111	Caption: Relating to authorizing any town or city in this State which may have been, or may hereafter be chartered or organized under the laws of Texas, or by special act or charter, to develop or lease any oil or mineral lands owned or held by such town or city; also authorizing such cities and towns to provide for the health, comfort, convenience, recreation and amusement of the citizens of such town or city, and to use the public places, parks and reservoirs owned by such town or city, and to make necessary regulations and reasonable charges therefor.
SB 119	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to provide, in substance, that when the judgment of the lower court is affirmed or reversed and rendered, that the Court of Civil Appeals or the Supreme Court in which said suit is pending, shall at the same time render judgment against the party appealing, together with the sureties on the appeal, or Superdedeas Bond for the amount of the judgment so rendered, and providing that said court shall make disposition as to costs as may be deemed proper.
SB 134	Caption: Relating to defining junk dealers; requiring such dealers to keep a record of junk transactions; forbidding the purchase of certain articles by such dealers form minors; prescribing penalties.
SB 135	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute of the Penal Code of Texas so as to remove the exception for sale of provisions before 9:00 a.m. on Sundays.
SB 168	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns heretofore organized under any of the laws of this State, either general or special, or which may be hereafter organized in this State, to provide for the health, comfort, convenience, recreation and amusement of the citizens of such towns or cities, and to use the public places, parks and reservoirs owned by such city, and to make all necessary regulations and reasonable charges therefor.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to authorizing any town or city in this State now organized, or which may be hereafter organized, under the laws of Texas, or operating under a special act or charter, to lease any oil or mineral land owned or held by such town or city, provided that the same shall not apply to any streets or alleys, public squares or any lands dedicated by any person, or persons, for public use, in such town or city.
SB 179	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles so as to vest in the Commissioners Courts of certain counties the right to fix the compensation of the chief probation officer at not to exceed $2,400.00 per annum.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the employment of children under fifteen (15) years of age to labor in certain occupations so as to provide that in counties of one hundred thousand (100,000) population or over, the duties heretofore devolved upon the county judge by the original Act shall hereafter be performed by the chief probation officer in such counties, and re-enacting the said section of said statutes in all other respects.
SB 190	Caption: Relating to giving authority to every city incorporated under the laws of Texas, having a population of twenty-five thousand (25,000) or more to require the payment of a Permit Fee, not to exceed Two ($2.00) Dollars, from the owners and operators of motor vehicles and motor cycles, living within the limits of such city, as a prerequisite to the right to the use of its streets by such vehicles.
SB 191	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to cover the cost of installation and equipment of a heating plant at the Grubbs Vocational College, Arlington, Texas.
SB 194	Caption: Relating to requiring every person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of operating a garage or repair shop within this State, for the repairing, rebuilding, repainting of automobiles, or engaged in electrical work in connection with automobiles, to keep a register containing a description of every car upon which the work of repair is performed or which is bought or sold; making unlawful the possession of an automobile with the engine number chiseled off; providing punishment for violation of this Act.
SB 206	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to regulating the operation of motor vehicles on public highways.
SB 229	Caption: Relating to providing for the better enforcement of the Traffic Laws of this State, regulating the Public Highways by motor vehicles; providing for the employment of Sheriff's deputies; regulating the disposition of fines collected in the prosecutions contemplated by this Act.
SB 239	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute so as to authorize the County Commissioners' Court in counties having a population of over one hundred thousand (100,000) according to the U.S. census of 1910, to have the option of leasing from the Board of Prison Commissioners all convicts sent to the penitentiary from such counties, where the convictions do not exceed two years in length, and providing for the terms upon which such convicts can be obtained by said counties.
SB 257	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the right of eminent domain of railways so as to provide that if any railroad corporation be unable to agree with the owner for the purchase of any real estate, or the material thereon, required for the purpose of its incorporation or the transaction of its business, etc., such corporation may acquire such property in the manner provided by law.
SB 326	Caption: Relating to providing for the organization, incorporation and admission and the regulation, taxation and control of incorporated mutual insurance companies, other than life.
SB 349	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to incorporation of oil development companies.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to conserving the oil and gas resources of the State of Texas; investing the Railroad Commission of Texas with authority to make all needful rules and regulations with respect to the conservation of said resources; prescribing offenses against said Act, and providing for the punishment therefor.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of witnesses brought before the Court of Criminal Appeals on any hearings requiring the production of oral testimony; providing that such witnesses shall receive the same compensation as witnesses in ordinary felony cases, and that the officers summoning said witnesses shall be paid the same fees as for like services in ordinary felony cases.
SB 380	Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Court of Criminal Appeals and the Clerk of said Court in original cases filed in said court all of the powers conferred by the laws of this State upon the District Courts and the clerks thereof in the issuance of subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and all other process.
SR 35	Caption: Inviting former Senator D.M. Alexander to address the Senate.
SR 57	Caption: Recalling SB 37 from the House.
SR 90	Caption: Inviting former Senator W.A. Hanger to address the Senate.
36th 2nd Called Session
SB 82	Caption: Relating to defining livestock commission merchants; requiring such merchants to give bond.
SB 93	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing for an election by the qualified voters in a town incorporated for free school purposes only for the purpose of authorizing and incorporated city or town.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to amending the Rural School Appropriation passed at the Regular Session of the Thirty Sixth Legislature.
SB 171	Caption: Relating to incorporating and creating the Oak Lawn Independent School District, of Tarrant County, Texas, for free school purposes only.
36th 3rd Called Session
SB 92	Caption: Relating to establishing a system of public roads and bridges for Tarrant County and to empower the commissioners court thereof.
36th 4th Called Session
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending the Tarrant County Road Law.
35th Regular Session
HB 36	Caption: Relating to creating a Commission of Appeals and to define the powers and duties thereof; and the furnishing of rooms for their use in the Capitol.
HB 37	Caption: Relating to regulating the use and operation of vehicles upon the public highway; to provide for the licensing, registration, and identification of motor vehicles; to provide for the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to declare the laws of the road to regulate traffic; to provide penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
HB 38	Caption: Relating to defining the original and appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and regulating the practice therein.
HB 39	Caption: Relating to relieving the crowded condition of the dockets of the Supreme Court by further regulating the mode in which and the conditions on which judgments of the Courts of Civil Appeals may be brought before the Supreme Court for revision, granting additional powers to the Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court and of the Courts of Civil Appeals.
HB 138	Caption: Relating to the interchangeable jury law, to regulate the selection, organization and custody of juries in all cases except capital and lunacy cases in counties where there are now three or more district courts.
HB 141	Caption: Relating to fixing the venue of suits against corporations for the purpose of enforcement of any corporation laws.
HB 148	Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person other than the lawful owner to use or destroy any milk and cream cans or bottles branded or stamped with the private mark of each owner.
HB 177	Caption: Relating to the inspection of steam boilers; prescribing penalties.
HB 178	Caption: Relating to the holding of inquests by the justice of the peace; amending the Code of Criminal Procedure.
HB 179	Caption: Relating to defining junk dealers and prescribing conditions under which they may conduct business; prescribing penalties.
HB 284	Caption: Relating to requiring the giving of an additional supersedeas bond in cases pending on appeal or writ of error in the Supreme Court or the Courts of Civil Appeal wherever the execution of the original bond becomes insufficient by reason of the death or insolvency of the sureties.
HB 285	Caption: Relating to authorizing probate courts when administering an insolvent estate whose principal assets consist of encumbered property to order the equity of the decedent to be sold.
HB 286	Caption: Relating to the assessment and collection of taxes levied in improvement districts for the purpose of constructing levees.
HB 287	Caption: Relating to the maintenance of suits by foreign corporation in courts of this state.
HB 288	Caption: Relating to the registration of chattel mortgages and to provide the effect to be given to the registration to such mortgages.
HB 307	Caption: Relating to the taking and returning of depositions.
HB 308	Caption: Relating to the plea of privilege.
HB 309	Caption: Relating to the filings and service of pleadings and motions and copies thereof.
HB 310	Caption: Relating to regulating the pleadings and judgment in cases of trespass to try title.
HB 311	Caption: Relating to prescribing what facts an application for appointment of a guardian shall contain.
HB 312	Caption: Relating to prescribing the requisites and concerning the submission of charges to the jury in civil cases.
HB 313	Caption: Relating to prescribing the facts that shall be alleged in petition for partition of real estate.
HB 314	Caption: Relating to the notice of motions in pending suits.
HB 315	Caption: Relating to prescribing the time for filing answer in case of citation by publication.
HB 394	Caption: Relating to providing relief for the Courts of Civil Appeals.
HB 395	Caption: Relating to prescribing the fees to be paid by mutual building and loan companies.
HB 458	Caption: Relating to providing that the matter of submitting a case to the jury on special issues shall be discretionary with the trial court.
HB 494	Caption: Relating to conferring upon the Railroad Commission authority to require railway companies to construct passenger depots and regulating procedure in suits brought for the enforcement of such orders.
HB 548	Caption: Relating to providing that if any action or suit be commenced within the proper period of limitation and the same should be dismissed from court without a trial, that the plaintiff shall have twelve months after the date of dismissal to commence a new action.
HB 634	Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of a State landscape architect.
HB 698	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Railroad Commission to compile data relative to the cost of handling freight on the different railroads and divisions of railroads in this State.
HB 809	Caption: Relating to amending Article 1255 of the Penal Code regarding unlawful trespass.
HR 32	Caption: In memory of Paul Waples of Fort Worth, Texas.
HR 73	Caption: Commending The Brownsville Sentinel for providing citrus for the House.
HR 75	Caption: Inviting F.A. Williams to address the Legislature.
HR 102	Caption: Relating to the consideration of House bills by the Senate.
35th 1st Called Session
HB 45	Caption: Relating to providing compensation for the county attorney in counties having a population of more than 100,000 according to the United States Census of 1910, where there is no district attorney.
HB 49	Caption: Relating to amending the law relating to the holding of inquests.
HB 87	Caption: Relating to creating a State Council of Defense, defining its powers and duties, making an appropriation to carry on the work of said Council of Defense.
35th 2nd Called Session
HCR 3	Caption: Granting Ben M. Terrell leave of absence.
35th 3rd Called Session
HB 37	Caption: Relating to amending law regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles upon the public highways; providing penalties for the violation of certain provisions.
35th 4th Called Session
HB 72	Caption: Relating to creating a Commission of Appeals.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to defining appellate jurisdiction of courts of civil appeals.
HB 74	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts defining the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.
HB 127	Caption: Relating to declaring venereal diseases to be contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health; providing for and requiring physicians and others to report cases of such diseases; prohibiting any person from knowingly exposing another to infection from venereal disease; investing the state, county and local health officers with all authority now provided for the enforcement of quarantine regulations to enforce said provisions; providing a penalty.
HB 143	Caption: Relating to providing for the nomination of the judges of the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the Courts of Civil Appeals of this state by the different political parties in this state by conventions in place of primaries.