Legislation authored by Carlos Bee

Includes legislation with Carlos Bee as the primary author for the 34th through 35th 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.

35th Regular Session
SB 21 Caption: Relating to making appropriation to pay the mileage and per diem of the Presidential Electors of Texas for the Year 1917.
SB 22 Caption: Relating to protecting the lives, health and morals of women workers, establishing an Industrial Welfare Commission for Women; providing penalties; making an appropriation.
SB 24 Caption: Amending a law relating to the rights of foreign corporations in Texas under permits.
SB 25 Caption: Relating to exempting the Catholic Womens' Homes and Associations used exclusively for the purpose of furthering religious work from taxation.
SB 26 Caption: Relating to the granting of licenses to attorneys at law so as to require applicant for license to apply to the board of legal examiners in the supreme judicial district in which the applicant resides.
SB 27 Caption: Relating to salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court of Criminal appeals and Courts of Civil Appeals and District Judges.
SB 28 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to the granting of divorces.
SB 29 Caption: Relating to appealing a law relating to apprentices.
SB 30 Caption: Relating to regulating the submission of facts to juries in civil cases, directing the time and manner of preparing charges, special issues and instructions, submission to counsel for objections, reading to the jury and a review of same on appeal.
SB 31 Caption: Relating to the appointments by certain officers of deputies or assistants and fixing maximum amount allowed same in certain counties.
SB 34 Caption: Relating to providing a salary for district attorneys in counties having a population of more than 100,000 population, etc.
SB 62 Caption: Relating to the construction of macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes by providing a fund for the maintenance of the roads and turnpikes so constructed.
SB 93 Caption: Relating to establishing the State Highway Department and creating a State Highway Commission and the office of State Highway Engineer.
SB 94 Caption: Relating to providing that the franchise tax on foreign corporations therein levied shall be based upon that proportion of the total authorized capital stock of such corporation as the gross receipts of such corporation from its Texas business bears to its total gross receipts.
SB 95 Caption: Relating to providing that the permit fees for corporations payable to the Secretary of State under certain provisions shall be based upon the capital stock of corporations domestic and foreign issued and outstanding and that such permit fees shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars.
SB 96 Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to kill or in any manner injure the winged quadruped known as the common bat.
SB 97 Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person other than the lawful owner to use, traffic in, purchase, sell, convert, mutilate, destroy or to refuse to return any milk cans, milk bottles, milk jars, butter boxes, ice cream cans or ice cream tubs branded or stamped by or bearing the private mark of the owner.
SB 98 Caption: Relating to providing for salaries of Clerks of the Courts of Civil Appeals and the payment of costs collected by said clerks into the State Treasury.
SB 109 Caption: Relating to empowering the trustees of any school district, upon petition of parents or guardians, to require said trustees to establish and maintain free kinder-garten, for the training of children under the scholastic age down to and including five years, and to provide for trained kindergarten teachers.
SB 138 Caption: Relating to providing for an appeal from interlocutory orders overruling motions to vacate orders appointing receivers.
SB 158 Caption: Relating to creating the office of county superintendent of public instruction, designating the counties to be effected.
SB 206 Caption: Relating to 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 associate justices of the Supreme Court and of the Courts of Civil Appeals; providing for compensation of certain justices of the Courts of Civil Appeals while acting as herein provided.
SB 207 Caption: Relating to amending statutes relating to authorizing the formation of corporations for the construction of interurban railways to own, construct and operate union depots and the right to acquire public utilities in and adjacent to the cities and towns within or through which said companies operate.
SB 208 Caption: Relating to forbidding transaction of business under an assumed name, with certain exceptions; fixing a penalty.
SB 234 Caption: Relating to creating and incorporating the San Antonio Independent School District, and defining its boundaries.
SB 252 Caption: Relating to the establishment, maintenance and management of experimental apiaries under the direction of the Director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, for the purpose of experimenting with the culture of honey bees; making appropriations.
SB 253 Caption: Relating to the compensation for Ex Officio Services when same may be allowed by the Commissioners' Court.
SB 262 Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns to require the filling up, draining and regulating of any places which shall be unwholesome or have stagnant water therein, and to make inspection of premises.
SB 263 Caption: Relating to authorizing the incorporation of towns or villages containing more than two hundred and less than ten thousand inhabitants.
SB 310 Caption: Relating to prescribing qualifications of the county superintendent of public instruction, fixing the salary thereof, providing that no present commissions shall be impaired, allowing commissioners' courts and boards of county school trustees to provide clerical and supervisory help.
SB 329 Caption: Relating to building, establishing and maintaining upon land owned by the State a Pasteur Institute and Bacteriological Laboratory; making an appropriation.
SB 362 Caption: Relating to providing the period in which acknowledgments to deeds shall be held to be properly recorded.
SB 363 Caption: Relating to prescribing the time of holding terms of courts in the Thirty Eighth Judicial District.
SB 400 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws by providing for a training school for nurses in connection with County Hospitals.
SB 419 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws providing for the exemption of certain Fraternal Beneficiary Associations by providing that the exemptions contained therein shall apply to organizations issuing disabilities benefits not exceeding a certain amount.
SB 423 Caption: Relating to restoring and conferring upon the county court of Kerr County the civil and criminal jurisdiction belonging to said court under the Constitution and general statutes of Texas.
SB 456 Caption: Relating to providing a House for Lepers and to provide for the isolation, care and treatment of person suffering with leprosy; making an appropriation.
SB 463 Caption: Relating to authorizing the formation of corporations under the general corporation laws for the purpose of producing cotton, sugar cane and rice as their principal business.
SB 470 Caption: Relating to the assessment, levy and collection of an additional ad valorem tax for the maintenance and support of the public free schools and the erection and equipment of public school buildings in cities and towns which have heretofore or which may hereafter assume the control of the public schools within their limits.
SB 472 Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Bexar County, Texas.
SB 474 Caption: Relating to setting aside the building now used as a General Land Office for use by the Daughters of the Republic and the Texas Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy; making an appropriation.
SB 479 Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road law for Duval County, Texas.
SCR 14 Caption: Providing for the distribution of currency from the Republic of Texas as a momento.
SCR 26 Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 502.
SR 14 Caption: Inviting former Senator Julius Real to address the Senate.
SR 41 Caption: Providing for printing in the Senate Journal the remarks of Senator Johnston made relating to S.R. No. 40.
SR 87 Caption: Recalling S.B. No. 34 from the House.
SR 127 Caption: Providing for the return of H.B. No. 792 to the House.
SR 128 Caption: Providing for a prorate among the Senators the unexpended portion of the allowance made for telephone and telegraph accounts.
35th 1st Called Session
SB 6 Caption: Relating to creating a permanent text book commission for the State of Texas.
SB 23 Caption: Relating to providing a home, care and treatment for persons afflicted with leprosy.
SB 47 Caption: Relating to amending Act authorizing the County Attorney in counties having a population in excess of 100,000 inhabitants where there is also a district attorney, to appoint deputies or assistants.
SB 48 Caption: Relating to amending Art. 418 and Art. 419, Court Criminal Procedure, 1911, providing for appointment of bailiffs in counties of 100,000 population.
SB 49 Caption: Relating to prescribing qualifications of county superintendents.
SB 50 Caption: Relating to creating the office of grand jury stenographer.
SB 72 Caption: Relating to adding territory to the Saspamco Independent School District in Bexar County.
SR 14 Caption: Providing for the acceptance of a portrait of John A. Wharton from George W. Littlefield.
SR 38 Caption: Recognizing Senator Hudspeth on the occasion of his birthday.
35th 2nd Called Session
SCR 2 Caption: Inviting J.T. Heflin to address the Legislature on the subject of pink boll worm infestation.
35th 3rd Called Session
SB 45 Caption: Relating to fixing a schedule of salaries for county superintendents, providing that no present commission shall be impaired, allowing commissioners courts and boards of county school trustees to provide clerical and supervisory help, providing for removal from office and the filling of vacancies by the county school trustees.
35th 4th Called Session
SB 26 Caption: Relating to the salaries of county superintendents of public instruction, increasing the salaries of said county superintendents, providing for office expenses.
SB 39 Caption: Relating to regulating conditions to be maintained by factories, etc., where women are employed.
SB 45 Caption: Relating to requiring applicants for license to practice law to produce the proof of the existence the same or similar statute in the State from which the applicant immigrates; validating all license issued by the clerk of the supreme court.
SB 62 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to delinquent children.
SB 83 Caption: Relating to authorizing the acknowledgments of written instruments and the taking of depositions of witness in the military or naval service by officers authorized under the Military Laws of the United States to administer oaths.
SB 106 Caption: Relating to prohibiting conversion, destruction or mutilation of milk cans or other containers.
34th Regular Session
SB 28 Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relating to trial courts submitting cases to the jury on special issues.
SB 40 Caption: Relating to limiting the number of hours of labor that females may be required to perform in a single week.
SB 49 Caption: Relating to regulating the submission of facts to juries in civil cases.
SB 57 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the granting of divorces.
SB 85 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the employment of stenographers by the Courts of Civil Appeals.
SB 108 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to County Superintendent of Public Instruction, their election qualifications duties and compensation.
SB 109 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the power of Commissioners' Courts to establish school districts to change district lines and to give metes and bounds for such districts.
SB 116 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the establishment, organization, and control of public high schools in the common school districts of Texas; making an appropriation.
SB 125 Caption: Relating to reorganizing and conferring additional powers, duties and authority on the State Board and Department of Health; making an appropriation.
SB 138 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regulating and defining the practice of nursing and creating a board of Nurse Examiners; providing the qualifications of trained nurses and fixing suitable penalties.
SB 153 Caption: Relating to authorizing the Railroad Commission of Texas to require Railroad Companies or receivers thereof operating lines within the state to construct and operate spur tracks connecting with their main lines or branch lines and extending to private industries or businesses; fixing penalties.
SB 155 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the appointment by the Supreme Court of stenographers; fixing their salaries and making an appropriation therefor.
SB 160 Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for Railroad Commission to pay expense of rate hearing.
SB 173 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute prescribing a tax for menageries, wax works, side-shows and exhibitions.
SB 174 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the adoption of a system of uniform text books and the appointment of a Text Book Board; prescribing penalties.
SB 181 Caption: Relating to establishing an Industrial Welfare Commission for Women and prescribing its powers and duties and providing for the fixing of minimum wages and the standard condition of labor for such workers; providing penalties and making an appropriation.
SB 193 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the bonds of County Collectors.
SB 195 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to official court stenographers.
SB 231 Caption: Relating to preserving, propagate and protect wild game, wild birds and wild fowl of the State, to provide adequate penalties for the unlawful taking, slaughter, sale, purchase or shipment thereof; providing for the appointment of deputy game commissioners and fixing their salaries, defining the duties and powers of the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner and his deputies.
SB 232 Caption: Relating to creating a Bureau of Labor Statistics and providing for a Commissioner thereof.
SB 238 Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the granting of licenses to attorneys at law so as to require applicant for license to apply to the Board of Legal Examiners of the Supreme Judicial District in which such applicant resides.
SB 248 Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to unlawful carrying of arms.
SB 319 Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor to kill or in any manner injure the winged quadruped known as the common bat.
SB 323 Caption: Relating to creating the "County court of Bexar County for Criminal Cases," to define the jurisdiction thereof, and to conform to such change the jurisdiction of the County Court of Bexar County, fixing the salary of the judge of the County Court of Bexar County for Criminal Cases; providing for the appointment and election of the judges of said court hereby created.
SB 376 Caption: Relating to providing that an election may be held in certain school districts to determine whether or not a majority of voters desire that text books shall be furnished to pupils by the school trustees of said district free of charge and be paid for out of local tax funds.
SB 385 Caption: Relating to amending the special road law for Gillespie County by providing payment in lieu of road services.
SB 414 Caption: Relating to the preservation of certain varieties of fish in the Medina river valley.
SB 424 Caption: Relating to the time of holding the terms of the District Court in the Thirty Eighth Judicial District.
SR 21 Caption: Appointing Senator Cowell to the Committee on Educational Affairs.
SR 25 Caption: Inviting certain citizens of Beaumont to address the Senate.
SR 36 Caption: Providing for the display of the meeting times of the different Senate Committees.
SR 49 Caption: Inviting former State Senators A. W. Houston and McDonald Meachum to address the Senate.
SR 50 Caption: Endorsing the Presidential administration of Woodrow Wilson.
SR 63 Caption: Restricting the use of the Senate Chamber for the remainder of the Session.
SR 86 Caption: Requesting the Attorney General to issue an opinion on whether Senators are able to access certain records of the Secretary of State.
SR 90 Caption: Inviting former Lieutenant Governor George D. Neal to address the Senate.
SR 92 Caption: Requesting the Senate to remain in session on Monday, February 22, in observance of George Washington's Birthday.
SR 134 Caption: In memory of former State Sen. John W. Woods.
SR 144 Caption: Inviting former State Sen. Julius Real to address the Senate.
SR 147 Caption: Directing the creation of committees to inform the Governor and the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to adjourn sine die.
34th 1st Called Session
SR 38 Caption: Endorsing the effort of beautification of the Texas Post Road by planting trees.