Legislation authored by Homer Platte Brelsford
Includes legislation with Homer Platte Brelsford as the primary author for the 30th through 34th 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.
| 34th Regular Session | |
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| SB 84 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the giving, refusing or qualifying instructions to the jury and reserving bills of exception. |
| SB 197 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Central West Texas State Normal College. |
| SB 213 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the collection of taxes in irrigation districts; fixing the time for the payment of such taxes; providing a penalty. |
| SB 214 | Caption: Relating to defining the means of determining who are the holders of title and evidence of title to lands in an irrigation district and who are required to sign petitions for the organization of said districts. |
| SB 215 | Caption: Relating to amending a special road law creating a more efficient road system for Eastland County, Texas. |
| SB 217 | Caption: Relating to providing for the collecting, properly housing and protecting, maintaining and exhibiting at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. |
| SB 282 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the creation of private corporations for the establishment and maintenance of oil companies with authority to contract for, lease and purchase; of the right to prospect for, develop and use coal and other minerals, by adding thereto the right to contract for the lease and purchase, of the right to prospect for, develop and use gas. |
| SB 307 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing that any life insurance company which engages in writing policies of insurance upon the lives of citizens which has left the state may return upon the filing of a sworn statement of the amount of taxes that would have been paid during their absence, not waiving the right of the State to sue for collection. |
| SB 398 | Caption: Relating to permitting any person granted a license to practice law in courts of record in other states to be admitted to practice in the State of Texas. |
| SB 425 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain special law creating more efficient road system for Eastland County. |
| SCR 7 | Caption: Providing certain appropriations in order to finance litigation against certain foreign insurance companies that are in violation of the Robertson Insurance Law. |
| SJR 11 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing a qualified voter to vote for State officers or on any proposition submitted to the voters of this State in a precinct other than the precinct of his residence under certain conditions; making an appropriation. |
| SR 8 | Caption: Restricting admittance into the Senate Reception room and providing for the removal of the Senate post office. |
| SR 39 | Caption: Increasing the number of daily journals that are printed. |
| SR 62 | Caption: Directing the Committee on Rules to investigate of a purported Executive Session of the Senate. |
| 34th 1st Called Session | |
| SR 16 | Caption: Congratulating State Sen. T. H. McGregor and his wife on the birth of their daughter. |
| SR 19 | Caption: Expressing displeasure at the fiscal management of the state penitentiary system. |
| SR 37 | Caption: Directing the Senate Committee on Civil Jurisprudence to consider certain matters related to the appointment of a successor for W. O. Stamps on the Prison Commission. |
| SR 40 | Caption: Granting the ladies' section of the State Farmers' Institute permission to use the Senate Chamber. |
| 33rd Regular Session | |
| SB 20 | Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of salaries to county attorneys of certain counties in lieu of fees heretofore paid them in misdemeanor cases and giving the Commissioners Court of such counties the power to fix such salaries, and providing for the payment of the fees heretofore paid county attorneys in such counties in misdemeanor cases into the general funds of such counties. |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to establishing the Central West Texas State Normal College providing that the state Normal School Board of Regents shall control same, fix the time of opening same, providing for examination of the title to the land donated, making an appropriation for buildings, salaries and expenses; providing for meeting of the Board of Regents for the purpose of establishing departments in said school and making contracts for buildings. |
| SB 58 | Caption: Relating to providing an adequate system of laws relating to irrigation, and declaring un-appropriated waters the property of the State; authorizing their appropriation, storage and diversion for beneficial uses; creating a board of water control and prescribing its powers, duties and compensation; limit the right to the waters of the State to beneficial uses, and declaring forfeitures for abandonment of use; conferring the right of eminent domain in aid of construction of irrigation works; prescribing penalties; authorizing the acquisition of lands by irrigation companies and requiring the alienation thereof. |
| SB 59 | Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of the live stock industry of Texas against all contagious and infectious or communicable diseases prescribing the duties of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, authorizing it to formulate rules and regulations for the protection of the live stock industry of this State against all all contagious, infectious or communicable diseases; providing penalties for violation of this Act and rules and regulations of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission. |
| SB 93 | Caption: Relating to requiring the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish a Department of Dentistry and making an appropriation. |
| SB 129 | Caption: Relating to providing the owners of public free school land purchased from the State after January 1, 1907, and prior to January 1, 1913, shall have a right to purchase the same after forfeiture in cases where land is forfeited for the non-payment of interest. |
| SB 252 | Caption: Relating to amending the statutes providing that certain corporations may obtain charters or have their charters amended so as to include two or more purposes, with restrictions. |
| SB 308 | Caption: Relating to preventing compulsory prostitution of women. |
| SB 309 | Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the buildings and other property owned and operated by the Young Men's Christian Associations, and the Young Women's Christian Associations, where such property is used exclusively for furthering the interests of religious work, and not for profit. |
| SB 356 | Caption: Relating to creating a road commission for Callahan County by making the members of the commissioners' court ex-officio members of said commission, and defining duties, powers, salaries and qualifications of the same; fixing penalties. |
| SB 379 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of the several counties of Texas to create and establish irrigation districts. |
| SB 384 | Caption: Relating to amending article 377 of the Revised Statutes, 1911, pertaining to cash reserves of State banks. |
| SB 386 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Howard County, Texas, and making the county commissioners of said county, ex-officio road commissioners, and prescribing their duties as such and providing for the compensation of such road commissioners; fixing penalty for violation of this Act. |
| SB 409 | Caption: Relating to amending article 869 of the revised penal code of 1911, so as to include Haskell county in the list of counties exempted. |
| SB 410 | Caption: Relating to amending article 7355 of the revised statutes of 1911, so as to provide that an occupation tax on auctioneer's shall not apply to persons who do not regularly follow that calling. |
| SB 445 | Caption: Relating to amending article 518 or Revised Civil Statutes pertaining to the duties of the commissioners of insurance and banking. |
| SB 465 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Stephens County, Texas. |
| SB 476 | Caption: Relating to creation of an independent school district out of certain territory in Taylor county and to alter the boundaries of the adjoining independent school district. |
| SB 489 | Caption: Relating to the fees of district and county surveyors. |
| 33rd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 14 | Caption: Relating to amending Title 104, Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, prescribing penalties; repealing Chapters 1-8 of Title 79 of the Revised Statutes of 1895. |
| SB 26 | Caption: Relating to providing for the appointment of Notaries Public. |
| 29th Regular Session | |
| HB 210 | Caption: Relating to providing for the subdividing of counties into school districts. |
| HB 260 | Caption: Relating to creating the county of Ross out of parts of Eastland, Comanche, Brown, Coleman and Callahan counties. |
| HB 358 | Caption: Relating to permitting a defendant convicted of a felony to enter into a recognizance or bail bond pending his appeal. |
| 28th Regular Session | |
| HB 131 | Caption: Relating to regulating the running of passenger trains. |
| HB 132 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act pertaining to certain stock running at large within certain counties. |
| HB 205 | Caption: Relating to creating the Fifty-second Judicial District of the State of Texas composed of the Counties of Coryell, Hamilton and Comanche. |
| HB 297 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Eastland county, Texas, and making the county commissioners of said county ex-officio road commissioners, and prescribing their duties as such, and providing for their compensation of road commissioners, and providing for the appointment of road overseers, and defining their duties, and for the working of county convicts upon the roads of said county, and providing for officers' fees, and rewards for the capture of escaped convicts, and authorizing the working of county convicts partly upon the county convict farm as well as upon the public roads, or partly upon both in the discretion of the county commissioners court, and making provisions applicable as far as practicable to convicts when worked on county farms, and to provide for the summoning of teams for road work and for an allowance of time of road service for same, and fixing a penalty for violation of this Act, and to repeal all laws in conflict with this Act as to Eastland county; and to authorize the commissioners court of Eastland county to create the office of Superintendent of Public Roads and Highways of Eastland county. |
| HB 309 | Caption: Relating to levying an occupation tax on every person, firm or association of persons engaged in buying and selling State or county warrants. |
| HB 416 | Caption: Relating to providing that in suits upon life insurance policies it shall be no defense that the insured committed suicide. |
| HB 509 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the duties of railroad agents. |
| HB 510 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the duties and liabilities of railroad corporations. |
| HB 511 | Caption: Relating to providing penalties for failure in the performance of certain duties required of train dispatchers. |
| HB 544 | Caption: Relating to creating the county of Ross out of parts of Eastland, Comanche, Brown, Coleman and Callahan counties, to provide for its organization, holding court therein. |
| 28th 1st Called Session | |
| HB 20 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to duties and liabilities of railroad corporations. |
| HB 21 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relative to the duties and liabilities of railroad corporations, regulating the duties of train-dispatchers. |