Legislation authored by Charles Russell Buchanan
Includes legislation with Charles Russell Buchanan as the primary author for the 35th through 36th 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.
| 36th Regular Session | |
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| SB 48 | Caption: Relating to creating the Colorado Independent School District in Mitchell County, Texas, as the successor of a district of the same name and territory, under the general laws, and describing such territory. |
| SB 49 | Caption: Relating to increasing the civil jurisdiction of the County Court of Mitchell County. |
| SB 50 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to fees chargeable by the General Land Office of Texas. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to creating a board of examiners of land surveyors that shall serve without pay and prescribing their duties; prescribing the subjects in which applicants for land surveyors' license shall be examined; prescribing the duties of licensed land surveyors and qualifications of county surveyors and fixing their jurisdiction and fixing the compensation of licensed land surveyors; prescribing penalty for the violation of this Act. |
| SB 78 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to pipe lines so as to remove the limitation of the right of common carrier pipe lines organized under said statute to condemn only for pipe lines not exceeding eight inches in diameter; granting right of eminent domain. |
| SB 85 | Caption: Relating to recovering to the public free school fund the excess in surveys made for individuals, railroad companies, and the State or the school fund, by virtue of certificate issued for the construction of railroads and other works of internal improvements. |
| SB 98 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to reports of local insurance associations. |
| SB 109 | Caption: Relating to recovering the public free school fund the excess in surveys made for individuals, railroad companies, and the State or the school fund, by virtue of certificates issued for the construction of railroads and other works of internal improvements. |
| SB 127 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale, lease, transfer, patenting and forfeiture of land belonging to the Public Free School Fund, the Lunatic Asylum Fund, the Blind Asylum Fund, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum Fund, and the Orphan Asylum Fund, and to repeal certain acts relating to the sale of public school and asylum lands, relating to the sale of public lands, and the reservation all minerals in all the land included in this Act. |
| SB 128 | Caption: Relating to amending certain articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the State Institution for the Training of Juveniles. |
| SB 176 | Caption: Relating to validating the Charter and incorporation of the City of Stamford adopted by the qualified voters of said city, since the enactment of certain statute. |
| SB 199 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale of oil and gas, coal and lignite, that may be in any of the surveyed or unsurveyed public free school land that is now unsold and that which may now be sold, but which may hereafter revert to the public free school fund by forfeiture or other recovery. |
| SB 282 | Caption: Relating to providing for the care, maintenance and instruction of blind babies and children too small or too backward to enter the State School for the Blind. |
| SB 336 | Caption: Relating to amending certain statute relating to the proceedings for the removal of a county seat |
| SB 345 | Caption: Relating to validating sales of public free school land sold on September 25, 1895. |
| SB 375 | Caption: Relating to validating all sales of public free school lands, made the third day of March, A.D. 1896, under the provisions of certain Act, where all the requirements of sale, under said Act have been met by the purchasers of said lands save and except the requirement of settlement. |
| SR 34 | Caption: Establishing rules for obtaining witnesses for the hearing of the Glasscock-Parr contest. |
| SR 60 | Caption: Authorizing the advance of funds to officer in the Glasscock-Parr contest to pay automobile hire for transport of witnesses. |
| 36th 2nd Called Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to the proceedings for the removal of county seat. |
| SB 56 | Caption: Relating to leasing islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, reefs and marshes owned by the State within tide water limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas, and unsurveyed public free school lands, for the production of oil and natural gas. |
| SB 60 | Caption: Relating to amending Acts relating to the maximum fees that may be retained by county judges and other county officers. |
| SB 85 | Caption: Relating to providing that under emergency conditions, transfers of the state school apportionment of a child of school age may be made from any county of the State to any other county of the State, with the approval of the State Superintendent and of the State Board of Education, and that children so transferred shall share in the apportionment of the county funds of the county to which they are transferred. |
| SB 165 | Caption: Relating to to creating a County Court at Law for Eastland County, Texas, defining and establishing the jurisdiction of said Court and defining the jurisdiction retained by the County Court of Eastland County. |
| SB 170 | Caption: Relating to creating the Graford Independent School District in Palo Pinto County. |
| 36th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to creating the Lorraine Independent School District in Mitchell and Nolan Counties, Texas, as the successor of a district of the same name and territory, under the general laws, and describing such territory. |
| SB 17 | Caption: Relating to creating the Ninetieth Judicial District of Stephens County. |
| SB 18 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Eastland County, Texas. |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to creating the Ninety-first Judicial District. |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to amending the act establishing the Aspermont Independent School District of Stonewall County so as to change the metes and bounds of such. |
| SB 86 | Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to provide for expert cotton graders. |
| SB 102 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws by withdrawing the un-surveyed public free school lands from the operation of the provisions of said Chapter; providing for the application for and issuance of permits to prospect for oil and gas on such lands. |
| SB 104 | Caption: Relating to creating the Olden Independent School District in Eastland County, Texas. |
| 36th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 3 | Caption: Relating to providing for the issuance of an exemption certificate to all persons otherwise qualified to vote that were not subject to pay a poll tax for the year 1919; authorizing the payment of a poll tax for female persons from October 1st, 1920 to February 1st, 1921. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws to as to provide that all proceeds paid and collected arising from activities affecting lands belong to the University of Texas shall be credited to its available fund. |
| SB 18 | Caption: Relating to amending law creating Ninetieth Judicial District. |
| 35th Regular Session | |
| SB 119 | Caption: Relating to requiring that judgments make findings as to the reasonable cash value of the property held as security, providing for appraisement of the security and for deficiency Judgment only for the amount of difference between the appraised value and the amount of the judgment. |
| SB 120 | Caption: Relating to establishing a branch of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in a certain portion of western Texas; making an appropriation. |
| SB 142 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the 32nd, 39th and 70th Judicial Districts and fixing the time for holding court in the various counties of each. |
| SB 227 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of more than 5000 inhabitants to adopt and amend their charters. |
| SB 268 | Caption: Relating to directing the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to require of county judges, etc., certain reports relating to school funds, etc. |
| SB 279 | Caption: Relating to making it an offense for any Treasurer of any School District or any officer, agent or employee thereof to fraudulently take any of the money, property or other thing of value belonging to said district; prescribing a penalty. |
| SB 300 | Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of motion picture shows, theaters and places of amusement where motion pictures are shown. |
| SB 308 | Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the Post Independent School District, in Garza County, Texas. |
| SB 351 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court to purchase poisons, etc. for the purpose of destroying prairie dogs, rabbits, rats, coyotes, wolves, wild cats, gophers, ground squirrels, English sparrows and ravens; providing procedure for the distribution and use of such poisons. |
| SB 354 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Callahan County. |
| SB 384 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the reports of local insurance associations. |
| SB 407 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the creation of the Hamlin Independent School District in Jones County so as to include additional territory; re-establishing the metes and bounds. |
| SB 417 | Caption: Relating to creating the Aspermont Independent School District in Stonewall County, Texas. |
| SB 469 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Kent County, Texas; creating a penal offense for obstructing ditches or drainways and diverting surface water or streams into the public roads of said county, and providing a penalty. |
| SB 473 | Caption: Relating to creating the Tahoka Independent School District in Lynn county, Texas, out of the territory known as Tahoka common School District No. 2 in said county. |
| SB 475 | Caption: Relating to creating the Girard Independent School District in Kent County, Texas, out of the territory known as the Girard Common School District No. 13 in said county. |
| SCR 12 | Caption: Expressing confidence in the purpose, integrity, and ability of President of Woodrow Wilson. |
| 35th 1st Called Session | |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to creating the Bethel District No. 34, a Common County Line school district in counties of Stonewall and Jones. |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to amending an Act of the Regular Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature making two million dollars appropriation for rural schools. |
| SB 40 | Caption: Relating to fixing the time at which appropriations made by the Thirty-fifth Legislature for construction of new education institutions shall be available. |
| SB 51 | Caption: Relating to Nolan county road law. |
| SB 61 | Caption: Relating to amending Article relating to the inspection of hides and animals, so as to include among the counties exempted the county of Martin. |
| SCR 17 | Caption: Granting Joe Burkett leave of absence from the State. |
| 35th 3rd Called Session | |
| SB 21 | Caption: Relating to donating the ad valorem State taxes to Stonewall and Kent counties for a period of one year. |
| SB 22 | Caption: Relating to providing for the repurchase of school land forfeited for non-payment of interest when same had been purchased between 1907 and 1917. |
| 35th 4th Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties to purchase seed to be planting on farms by poor residents of such counties. |
| SB 33 | Caption: Relating to the discovery and sale of excess acreage in School surveys and in patented alternate surveys and in surveys located by virtue of certificates issued for the construction of railroads and other works. |
| SB 34 | Caption: Relating to creation a Board of Examiners of land surveyors and prescribing their duties; prescribing a penalty. |
| SB 35 | Caption: Relating to the development of minerals in public lands by requiring applications to be filed in the General Land Office; providing for the employment of a mineral inspector and making an appropriation therefor. |
| SB 36 | Caption: Relating to amending and repealing the state statutes both relating to the delivery of patents. |
| SB 37 | Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to fees chargeable by the General Land Office of Texas. |
| SB 38 | Caption: Relating to providing for the sale, transfer, patenting and forfeiture of the land belonging to the Public Free School fund and the various asylum funds by amending certain laws relating to the sale and transfer of public school and asylum lands |
| SB 42 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court to purchase poisons and other accessories for the purpose of destroying certain animals; providing procedure for the distribution and use of such poisons. |
| SB 105 | Caption: Relating to amending Special Road Law for Scurry County. |