Legislation authored by Henry Lewis Darwin
Includes legislation with Henry Lewis Darwin as the primary author for the 33rd through 38th 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.
| 38th Regular Session | |
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| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to making provision for an opening exercise, in all the class and assembly rooms of the public schools of this State, to consist of readings, without comment, of appropriate passages from the Bible with religious or patriotic song. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute regulating elections and prescribing certain qualifications of voters by making same conform to absentee voting as provided for in the recent amendment to the State Constitution. |
| SB 179 | Caption: Relating to reducing the amount of bond required of depositories of independent school districts. |
| SB 180 | Caption: Relating to fixing the time and limiting the term of employment of superintendent, principal and teachers in independent school districts. |
| SB 183 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Common School District, to be known as Common County Line School District no. 49, composed of parts of Fannin and Hunt counties. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the election of the county school trustees and prescribing additional duties of said trustees. |
| SB 252 | Caption: Relating to providing for means of settlement of debts of municipal corporations where abolished or where de facto municipal corporations are declared void by court of competent jurisdiction. |
| SB 406 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting commissioners' courts and supervisors of levee improvement districts from letting any contract calling for or requiring the expenditure of two thousand ($2,000) dollars or more without first submitting same to competitive bids and publishing notice of the proposed letting of such contract. |
| SR 5 | Caption: Inviting R. E. L. Knight to address the Senate. |
| SR 13 | Caption: Requesting the Board of Control to extend the hours of operation for the Capitol Elevator. |
| SR 17 | Caption: Providing for an increase in the wages of Senate Pages. |
| SR 24 | Caption: Appointing Senator Doyle to the Committee on Judicial Districts. |
| SR 25 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to arrange memorial services for former State Senator F. M. Gibson. |
| SR 39 | Caption: Providing payment for certain services rendered to the Senate. |
| SR 40 | Caption: Inviting former State Senator Henry McDonald to address the Senate. |
| SR 43 | Caption: Adding an additional member to the Senate Pages. |
| SR 47 | Caption: In memory of the mother of former Lt. Governor Lynch Davidson. |
| SR 84 | Caption: Adding May Price to the enrolling and engrossing staff. |
| 38th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 46 | Caption: Relating to providing for the collection of delinquent taxes of levee improvement districts; providing a method of procedure therefor. |
| SB 59 | Caption: Relating to creating an Illiteracy Commission for Texas, defining the powers and duties of said commission, and making an appropriation for the work to be carried on under the direction of said commission. |
| SR 22 | Caption: Expressing hope that the ongoing negotiations for the recognition of Mexico will be successful. |
| SR 41 | Caption: Providing for the appointment of legal council in relation to suits against the State regarding the enforcement of certain alleged contract for educational textbooks. |
| 38th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for control of Pink Bollworm. |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to creating an Illiteracy Commission for Texas, defining the powers and duties of said commission, and making an appropriation for the work to be carried under the direction of said commission. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Commending the Methodist Centenary for their offer to finance the construction of a women's dormitory on the campus of the University of Texas. |
| SR 6 | Caption: Providing the salary for the Lieutenant Governor's page. |
| SR 9 | Caption: Increasing the salaries of certain Senate employees. |
| SR 10 | Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to gather and preserve certain historical documents belonging to President Samuel Houston. |
| SR 26 | Caption: Providing for post session work for the Senate employees. |
| SR 27 | Caption: Designating a porter for the Senate Chamber. |
| SR 28 | Caption: Granting the Austin Volunteer Firemen's Association permission to use the Senate Chamber in April 1924. |
| 37th Regular Session | |
| SB 45 | Caption: Relating to repealing the civil statute providing for occupation tax for dealers selling pistols. |
| SB 52 | Caption: Relating to amending the present Act creating the State Highway Department, the proposed amendment aiming to redistribute the registration money on motor vehicles, etc. |
| SB 141 | Caption: Relating to making it a felony to withdraw collateral or a trust fund from a bank except to pay indebtedness. |
| SB 197 | Caption: Relating to the manufacture of mattresses and for the marking or branding of same as well as renovated mattresses, etc. |
| SB 204 | Caption: Relating to amending present law by providing when judgments shall become dormant and judgment liens inoperative. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to providing for women to serve as petit and grand jurors. |
| SB 228 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing a separate room for women when women and men compose a jury. |
| SB 264 | Caption: Relating to inmates of the Confederate Home, and inmates of the Confederate Woman's Home, shall be entitled to receive pension payments equal to one-half the amount they would be entitled to receive if they were not inmates of such home. |
| SB 313 | Caption: Relating to appropriating Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars to purchase the "Aitken Collection" of four thousand (4,000) volumes on English Literature, owned by H. B. Wrenn of Chicago on which the University of Texas has an option to buy for Twenty ($20,000) Dollars. |
| SB 336 | Caption: Relating to providing for the amendment of the present law further restricting the approval by the Governor of deficiency appropriations, etc. |
| SJR 6 | Caption: Relating to an amendment to the Constitution relating to the compensation of members of the Legislature. |
| 37th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to preventing the introduction into the State of Texas of the destructive cotton pest, Pectinophora gossypiella, Saunders, known as and hereinafter referred to as the pink bollworm, and to control and eradicate such insect pest when and where discovered in this State. |
| SB 54 | Caption: Relating to providing for the renewing of the contract for the purchase of State textbooks. |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of bonds by county, or city; providing for the emergency sale of such bonds at less than par. |
| SB 65 | Caption: Relating to proposing to increase the per diem of the members of the Highway Commission. |
| SB 66 | Caption: Relating to amending the act relating to the registration of motor vehicles used on the public highways in the State of Texas. |
| SB 99 | Caption: Relating to amending the act defining the boundaries of the Three P Independent School District in Fannin County. |
| 34th Regular Session | |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Highway Department and establishing a State Highway Commission and the office of State Highway Engineer; requiring the registration of motor vehicles and providing penalties for violation thereof; making an appropriation. |
| SB 112 | Caption: Relating to compulsory school attendance by children between the ages of eight and fourteen; providing that this Act shall take effect September 1, 1916. |
| SB 128 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the creation of corporations for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and operation interurban railways for the transportation of freight or passengers. |
| SB 144 | Caption: Relating to creating a negotiable instruments law. |
| SB 176 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the co-insurance clause shall not be used in policies of fire insurance, except on certain specified commodities. |
| SB 182 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Stephen F. Austin State Normal College; providing for a locating committee and the manner of locating same; making an appropriation. |
| SB 229 | Caption: Relating to creating a State Board and Department of Charities and Corrections and defining its powers and duties. |
| SB 230 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of and defining agricultural planting seeds; providing a standard of purity for such seeds, requiring their proper labeling; fixing penalties. |
| SB 270 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act making old Confederate Pensions based on income not property. |
| SB 340 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the presentation of a written statement by the shipper in lieu of an affidavit when there is no person authorized by law to administer oaths accessible at the point of shipment. |
| SB 363 | Caption: Relating to requiring sanitary mouthpieces for transmitters of all public telephones. |
| SB 372 | Caption: Relating to diminishing the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the County court of Franklin County. |
| SJR 12 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that taxation shall be equal and uniform on the same class of property; providing an appropriation. |
| SJR 16 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment granting authority to municipalities, political sub-divisions and defined districts within one or more counties to vote additional ad valorem tax for the maintenance of public roads; making an appropriation. |
| SJR 18 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the issuance of bonds for public improvements and the levying of a tax to pay the interest and sinking fund on the same. |
| SR 59 | Caption: Assigning Senator A. R. McCollum to the committee seats held by his predecessor. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 7 | Caption: Appointing additional administrative staff for the Senate. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| SB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, relating to scholastic age; and relating to the manner of taking scholastic census, and the duty of the census trustee. |
| SB 35 | Caption: Relating to the rights of married persons, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, removing the disabilities of coverture as they relate to married women, defining the rights of the wife in case the husband fails to support her and their children and regulating judgments and executions against the husband. |
| SB 43 | Caption: Relating to the gross receipt tax based upon gross receipts of wholesale dealers in or distributors of intoxicating liquors; and "wholesale dealer" being defined so as to include every individual, company, corporation selling intoxicating liquors, and providing a penalty. |
| SB 68 | Caption: Relating to amending Title 58 or the Revised Civil Statutes, so as to include "devisees or legates" among the class of persons prohibited from testifying in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians in which judgment may be rendered for or against them as such. |
| SB 155 | Caption: Relating to regulating and supervising the sale and purchase in this State, all stocks, bonds or other obligations, of private, foreign and domestic corporations, organized or proposed to be organized for profit; providing penalty. |
| SB 169 | Caption: Relating to abolishing what is known as "The Rule in Shelley's Case," and making a rule of evidence in certain cases so that the words "heirs" or "heirs of the body" shall be construed as words of purchase and not as words as limitation. |
| SB 203 | Caption: Relating to fixing the number and term of office of members constituting the governing boards of the University of Texas, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, the Normal Colleges, the College of Industrial Arts for Women, the Blind Institute, the Deaf and Dumb Institute, the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored Youths, the Confederate Home, the Confederate Woman's Home, the State Asylums for the Insane, the State Epileptic Colony, and the State Orphan's Home; fixing the term of office of members of such boards. |
| SB 209 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to make necessary repairs on the roof of the capitol. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of commissioners to investigate and report upon the system of rural credit and agricultural co-operative societies in use in various European countries, making an appropriation. |
| SB 320 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the fifth and seventh judicial districts, and to create the 73 judicial district, and fix the time of holding courts in said districts; and fix the jurisdiction of the court for the said 73 judicial district. |
| SB 348 | Caption: Relating to providing for creating private corporations for the purpose of insuring or acting as surety and guarantor of the fidelity of employees, trustees, administrators or others assuming the performance of any trust or service to act as surety on certain bonds or contracts. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to regulating and supervising the sale and purchase of all stocks, bonds or other obligations and providing penalty. |
| SB 11 | Caption: Relating to regulating the sale of stock certificates and debentures of any corporation; providing for the way and manner in which stock shall be sold; |
| SB 31 | Caption: Relating to creating a special district court for the Fifth Judicial District, prescribing its jurisdiction. |
| 33rd 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 9 | Caption: Relating to providing for the conduct of the business of public warehouseman, vesting the supervision of public warehouses in the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking; providing penalties. |