Legislation authored by Wright Chalfant Morrow
Includes legislation with Wright Chalfant Morrow as the primary author for the 33rd 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 13 | Caption: Relating to providing that no penalty shall be collected for the non-payment of ad valorem taxes for six months. |
SB 39 | Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating the nomination by political parties of candidates for State offices. |
SB 80 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the plea of general denial and prescribing its effects. |
SB 127 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute fixing the compensation of district judges. |
SB 168 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the transfer of causes from the various courts of civil appeals and providing the manner thereof. |
SB 243 | Caption: Relating to placing the State University, the Agricultural and Mechanical College, the State School of Mines and the Prairie View Normal School under the management of one board; defining the qualifications and duties of such board. |
SB 267 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act authorizing commissioners courts to establish and create improvement districts to prevent overflows. |
SB 295 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute defining the offense of Barratry and fixing the punishment therefor. |
SB 296 | Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Statute creating a Central Board of Law Examiners, defining their powers and duties, providing for the examination of applicants for admission to the bar. |
SB 297 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the appointment of official stenographers; prescribing the manner of making up statement of facts on appeal from the transcript of the stenographer's notes shall be construed. |
SB 298 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to any party or parties to any civil suit wherein a temporary injunction may be granted or refused, or have been granted shall be dissolved or motion to dissolve overruled, may appeal from the order or judgment granting or refusing or dissolving or refusing to dissolve such injunction to the Court of Civil Appeals. |
SB 299 | Caption: Relating to exempting county fairs from all taxes and to provide what shall be exhibited in order to constitute a County Fair; also to provide for a school of instruction and to provide that every county fair shall be held annually; providing a penalty. |
SB 339 | Caption: Relating to empowering the Supreme Court to make and enforce rules of pressure, pleading, practice, procedure and appeal for all courts of the State. |
SB 364 | Caption: Relating to amending existing laws as to include mutual building and loan associations. |
SB 371 | Caption: Relating to authorizing County Commissioners' Courts to create and establish levee improvement districts. |
SB 375 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain General Law prescribing the time for holding court in the Sixty-sixth Judicial District; prescribing the length of terms of said court. |
SB 402 | Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the appointment of county auditors. |
SJR 3 | Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the State Supreme Court shall consist of a chief justice and four associate justices; describing their qualifications, tenure of office and compensation. |
SR 28 | Caption: Providing for the scheduling of committee meetings from January 20 to February 1, 1915. |
SR 37 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Senate Rules. |
SR 41 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Senate Rules. |
SR 66 | Caption: Providing for each Senator the privilege to call up any bill if they secure unanimous consent. |
SR 98 | Caption: Requesting the reconsideration of the final passage of S. B. No. 45. |
34th 1st Called Session | |
SB 37 | Caption: Relating to providing for immediate publication of all laws that become effective from the date of passage; making an appropriation. |
SR 10 | Caption: Requesting the Governor to add the subject of printing Acts of the Legislature to the Call of the Session. |
33rd Regular Session | |
SB 47 | Caption: Relating to amending the Revised Civil Statutes, on the subject of escheat, by making it the duty of the attorney general to institute all suits and proceedings necessary to recover for the state all property that has heretofore or that may hereafter escheat. |
SB 100 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 3 of the Revised Statutes, 1911, Concerning the marital rights of parties, defining the separate and community property of the husband and wife, conferring upon the wife power to make contracts, authorizing suits on such contracts, repealing article 4625, Title 66, Chapter 3, Revised Statutes, and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict therewith. |
SB 166 | Caption: Relating to amending articles of the Code of Criminal Procedure, relating to charges and instructions to juries in cases of the grade of felony, so as to provide that the charge in such cases shall be read to the jury before the argument begins, with certain exceptions and providing for the form and manner of taking exceptions to the charge. |
SB 167 | Caption: Relating to the collection of taxes heretofore, and that may hereafter be levied, making such taxes a lien on the land taxes, establishing and continuing such lien and providing for the sale and conveyance of the land delinquent for taxes. |
SB 168 | Caption: Relating to regulating the practice of dentistry in the state, providing for the appointment of a board of dental examiners. |
SB 179 | Caption: Relating to defining murder and fixing a penalty therefor. |
SB 250 | Caption: Relating to road superintendents; providing for an election to determine whether or not a road superintendent shall be employed. |
SB 251 | Caption: Relating to regulating the operation of pool and billiard halls and tables for profit; imposing an occupation tax; requiring a license and a bond and prescribing the conditions of the bond thereof; providing penalty. |
SB 321 | Caption: Relating to repealing the laws requiring assignments of error in civil cases and providing that motion for a new trial in such cases constitute the assignments of error. |
SB 322 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting corporations created for the purpose of constructing and maintaining magnetic telegraph or telephone lines to set their poles, piers, abutments, wires and other fixtures, upon, along or across, any public roads, streets and waters of this state, without first obtaining permission to do so. |
SB 393 | Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Hill County, Texas, making the county commissioners of said county ex-officio road commissioners and prescribing their duties as such and providing for their compensation as such road commissioners and defining the powers and duties of such county commissioners. |
SB 424 | Caption: Relating to reorganizing the Fourteenth Judicial District of the State of Texas, and to reorganize the Fortieth Judicial Districts of the State of Texas, and to provide that Rockwall county shall be taken from the Fortieth Judicial District of the State of Texas and transferred to the Fourteenth Judicial District of the State of Texas. |
33rd 1st Called Session | |
SB 9 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 132 (one hundred thirty two) of the acts of the regular session of the 33rd legislature to provide for the indeterminate sentence of persons convicted of felonys, and for the termination of such sentence and to provide for the parole and release of convicts. |
SB 12 | Caption: Relating to indeterminate sentence - amending Chapter 132 Acts of the Thirty-third Legislature relating thereto. |
SB 13 | Caption: Relating to amending Chapter 150 of the laws of the 33rd Legislature requiring applications under oath to be made for witnesses in felony cases; providing penalties. |
SB 45 | Caption: Relating to creating the Files Valley Orphan's Home Independent School District, providing for the appointment of trustees of said district, defining boundaries thereof. |