Legislation authored by Earle Bradford Mayfield

Includes legislation with Earle Bradford Mayfield as the primary author for the 30th through 32nd 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.

32nd Regular Session
SB 9	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment and maintenance of five district schools for the education of white students in the Agricultural, Mechanical and domestic Arts and Sciences.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to requiring the rendition and payment of taxes upon notes, bonds and bills by the owners thereof; providing a penalty.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to providing that the owners, lessees, operators or receivers of all cotton gins in this State shall write or stamp with indelible ink the word 'tare' and the weight of the bagging and ties to which the cotton is wrapped.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the operation of street cars and interurban cars unless such cars are provided with screens or vestibules which will protect the operator.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to amending law relating to a system of State, county and city depositories for State, county and city funds, as amended; so as to further define what banks or banking institutions may become State depositories, and providing for the advertising of bids for the safe keeping and the payment of the deposits of said funds; and further regulating such depositories.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending an Act defining what shall be a full crew on passenger trains run by railroad companies.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of the teaching of cotton grading in the State Normal Schools, County Institutes and all other Industrial Institutes that may hereafter be established.
SB 186	Caption: Relating to amending an Act relating to "The State Institution for the Training of Juveniles," providing for religious services at said institution and the employment of a chaplain.
SB 219	Caption: Relating to requiring individuals and corporations heretofore or hereafter convicted of violation of the Anti-trust laws of this State to file annual reports with the Secretary of State; providing penalties.
SB 225	Caption: Relating to conferring powers upon the commissioners courts of the counties of this State and authorizing said courts, to appropriate and use any sum or sums of money not exceeding one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars per year for Farmer's Co-operative Demonstration work in their respective counties along the same lines as this work is or may be conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture.
SB 285	Caption: Relating to providing that the State Board of Embalming shall make annual reports to the State Health Officer and shall pay a certain portion of all fees collected by it into the State Treasury.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to taking Basque County from under the provisions of the law relating to the destruction of wolves and other wild animals.
SB 335	Caption: Relating to incorporating the Meridian Independent School District in Bosque county, Texas, for free school purposes only, defining its boundaries, and providing for a board of trustees; divesting the city of Meridian, its mayor, City Council and Board of Trustees of the public free schools within said city, of the control of its public free schools, and of the title to school property therein, and vesting the same in the said Meridian Independent School District and its board of trustees, and prescribing the rights, powers, privileges and duties of said Meridian Independent School District and its board of trustees.
SB 350	Caption: Relating to defining the offense of "Hazing", providing a penalty.
32nd 1st Called Session
SB 26	Caption: Relating to preventing cruelty to animals and providing for the sanitary and humane treatment of fowls and other birds; prescribing penalties.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to amending the charter of the city of Temple in Bell county, Texas.
31st Regular Session
SB 12	Caption: Relating to amending Article 3231, Chapter XI (11), Title LXII (62), of the Revised Civil Statutes, 1895, relating to the verdict of justice in civil cases, so as to provide that nine members of the jury concurring may render a verdict in the district court, and five jurors in the county courts and courts of justice of the peace.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to amending Article 1316, Title 30, Revised Civil Statutes, relating to charges and instruction to juries.
SB 42	Caption: Relating to prohibiting the buying and selling of pools or receiving or making bets on horse racing; providing a penalty; repealing Chapter CLXV (165) of the Laws of the Twenty-ninth Legislature.
SB 156	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment and maintenance of an agricultural experiment station to be located in the Twenty-eighth Senatorial District composed of Bosque, Coryell, Hamilton and Bell counties.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to compelling common carriers engaged in commerce by railroads to equip their locomotives, tenders, and similar vehicles with certain safety devices and appliances and providing penalties.
SB 240	Caption: Relating to defining what shall be a full crew on passenger trains, run by railroad companies or receivers of railroad companies in this State, what shall be a full crew on freight, gravel or construction trains run by such railroad companies or receivers and what shall be a full crew on light engines run by such railroad companies and receivers; providing for certain cases to which the Act shall not apply; imposing a penalty for each violation by any railroad company or receiver of any of the provisions of the act.
30th Regular Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to prohibiting legislative counsel, agents or representatives from attempting to influence members of the Legislature otherwise than by appearing before the committees thereof, or by newspaper publications, public addresses, written or printed statements of briefs filed with the Secretary of State.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to deal in futures, post or publish future quotations, permit the use of property for such purpose, furnish telegraph or telephone messages relative to futures, permit telegraph or telephone wires, instruments or equipments to be used for transmitting or receiving such messages, or to remain in any place where such business is transacted, and defining such offenses and prescribing penalties therefor and procedure in trials of such offenses.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to regulating and placing certain restrictions upon the shipment and transportation of intoxicating liquors into any county, justice precinct, school district, city or town, or subdivision of a county within this State where the sale of intoxicating liquors has been prohibited under the laws of this State, and fixing penalties for the violations of this Act.
SB 125	Caption: Relating to declaring every person, firm or corporation operating a line of palace, parlor or sleeping cars to be a common carrier; and providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
SB 184	Caption: Relating to placing Bosque County under the provisions of certain law relating to wolves and other wild animals, and providing for the destruction thereof.
SB 193	Caption: Relating to regulating the practice in the district, county and justice courts in this State; providing a penalty against the judges thereof for wrongfully assuming jurisdiction contrary to law, giving jurisdiction to the district court of the county where the defendants or either of them reside at the time the wrongful suit was brought.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to regulating elections, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
SB 254	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of any witness who may have been recognized, subpoenaed or attached and given bond for his appearance before any grand jury out of the county of his residence to give testimony in a criminal case, and who shall appear in compliance with the obligation of such recognizance or bond.
SB 263	Caption: Relating to providing for the survey and re-survey of lands owned or claimed by the State of Texas, or which the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem it expedient to have surveyed or re-surveyed in order to determine whether such land is owned or should be claimed or sued for by the State of Texas to have such survey or re-survey made.