Legislation authored by Ralph Hall
Includes legislation with Ralph Hall as the primary author for the 58th through 62nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 62nd Regular Session | |
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| SB 4 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the Texas Civil Air Patrol Commission. |
| SB 5 | Caption: Relating to microfilming and retention of records by counties. |
| SB 6 | Caption: Relating to insurance claims for total loss by fire of personal property. |
| SB 7 | Caption: Relating to prohibitions against disturbing religious meetings; providing penalties. |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Department of Public Safety to maintain a detachment of narcotic agents available for dispatch to cities, counties, independent school districts, or other political subdivisions in certain circumstances. |
| SB 55 | Caption: Relating to the amount to be retained by counties of collections made on license fees on certain motor vehicles. |
| SB 57 | Caption: Relating to establishing the duties of Public School Principals. |
| SB 86 | Caption: Relating to establishing standards of conduct of legislators, other elected officials, and officers of State agencies in the area of possible conflict between their private interests and official duties, establishing penalties for malfeasance, establishing a State Ethics Committee. |
| SB 132 | Caption: Relating to the power and authority of certain courts, to punishment for contempt and powers of justices of the peace. |
| SB 133 | Caption: Relating to the absence from office of a county judge. |
| SB 194 | Caption: Relating to re-enacting and amending Statutes relating to Driver's, Chauffeur's and Commercial Operator's licenses, exemptions, who may not be licensed, application of minors, restricted licenses, expiration and renewals, fees, medical advisory board, suspending certain, issuance of personal identification certificates, fee therefor, etc. |
| SB 195 | Caption: Relating to establishing a Public Records Commission of Texas to supervise and control microfilm recording of public records in Texas. |
| SB 196 | Caption: Relating to arrest without warrant of persons about to escape after committing a misdemeanor involving violence against another person. |
| SB 197 | Caption: Relating to providing a presumption that a person knowingly receives or conceals stolen property under certain circumstances |
| SB 198 | Caption: Relating to the certification of schools offering instruction at pre-school, kindergarten or elementary grade levels. |
| SB 199 | Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure relative to interception of wire or oral communications. |
| SB 200 | Caption: Relating to expulsion from state-supported institutions of higher education of students engaging in vandalism, destruction of property, or disruptive activities. |
| SB 201 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting the resistance of any lawful arrest by an officer; providing penalties. |
| SB 202 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of search warrants to search for and seize evidence of a crime. |
| SB 203 | Caption: Relating to the possession of bookmaking paraphernalia; providing penalties. |
| SB 204 | Caption: Relating to increasing the minimum penalty for murder. |
| SB 205 | Caption: Relating to charging more than one offense in an indictment. |
| SB 206 | Caption: Relating to the penalty for assault with intent to murder. |
| SB 207 | Caption: Relating to the teaching of a course in the public schools on the dangers of crime and narcotics. |
| SB 208 | Caption: Relating to the creation of mutual aid law enforcement task forces by agreements between counties or municipalities. |
| SB 209 | Caption: Relating to increasing the minimum penalty for robbery. |
| SB 306 | Caption: Relating to providing an ordinance which may be adopted by a city or county relating to the establishment of a motion picture licensing and review board. |
| SB 307 | Caption: Relating to the seizure of obscene materials and injunctive and other judicial proceedings concerning obscene materials and materials harmful to minors. |
| SB 368 | Caption: Relating to the composition of the State Board of Health. |
| SB 429 | Caption: Relating to providing procedures for a class action by any consumer in this state to restrain a person from engaging in a course of fraudulent or unconscionable conduct in relation to consumer transactions and for other appropriate relief. |
| SB 430 | Caption: Relating to deceptive trade practices and consumer protection. |
| SB 502 | Caption: Relating to the supervision fees and examination fees of credit unions. |
| SB 585 | Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to membership of Board of Regents of the University of Texas System. |
| SB 763 | Caption: Relating to amending Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, relating to fees which county clerks and clerks of county courts shall receive for their services. |
| SB 764 | Caption: Relating to amending Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, relating to fees which county clerks and county recorders shall receive for their services. |
| SB 765 | Caption: Relating to amending Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, providing for absenteel voting in counties having county election commissions. |
| SB 766 | Caption: Relating to amending Title 50 of the Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, known as the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 767 | Caption: Relating to providing minimum specifications for filing of legal instruments, documents and papers in the office of the County Clerk and the County Recorder. |
| SB 768 | Caption: Relating to amending the Private Detectives, Private Investigators, Private Patrolmen, Private Guards and Managers Act. |
| SB 769 | Caption: Relating to "Regional Planning Commissions" to provide the authority to counties, cities, and political subdivisions and/or instrumentalities to enter into cooperative agreements with one another to eliminate duplication of activities. |
| SB 770 | Caption: Relating to the authority and procedure for governing and administering certain state college and university programs leading to baccalaureate and graduate degrees in nursing and continuing education in nursing; providing an effective date. |
| SB 771 | Caption: Relating to animals running at large on any U.S. highway or state highway or farm-to-market road. |
| SB 772 | Caption: Relating to residence restrictions on appointment of members of the Board of Regents of North Texas State University. |
| SB 773 | Caption: Relating to amending articles of the Penal Code of Texas, 1925. |
| SB 774 | Caption: Relating to requiring applicants for renewal of operator's, commercial operator's, or chauffeur's licenses to make verified statements of whether or not they are subject to Texas arrest warrants for moving traffic offenses. |
| SB 775 | Caption: Relating to certain fees of county judge. |
| SB 776 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 777 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 778 | Caption: Relating to authorizing and providing for union recognition and collective bargaining for firefighters employed by cities, towns, and other political subdivisions of the State. |
| SB 779 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting any person who has been convicted of a felony or who has received probation from a felony offense from possessing certain weapons away from the premises upon which he lives. |
| SB 780 | Caption: Relating to the minimum time which must be served before release on parole from a penal or correctional institution of this state. |
| SB 781 | Caption: Relating to the authority of counties and of their political subdivisions to enter into contracts with one another for performance of governmental functions. |
| SB 782 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 783 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Consumer Protection Department and prescribing its organization, powers, duties, and functions. |
| SB 784 | Caption: Relating to the collection of a certain county vehicle registration fee under certain circumstances. |
| SB 785 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 786 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Control to take bids on contracts to remove rough fish from public fresh waters as requested by the Parks and Wildlife Department. |
| SB 787 | Caption: Relating to establishing a State Board of Shorthand Reporter Examiners to examine and certify official shorthand court reporters and providing standards, procedures, and qualifications for certification. |
| SB 788 | Caption: Relating to changing the name of the Texas Highway Patrol to Texas State Troopers. |
| SB 789 | Caption: Relating to delinquent taxpayers. |
| SB 790 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 791 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 792 | Caption: Relating to providing for the receiving, safekeeping and disbursing of all moneys belonging to the county by the County Treasurer. |
| SB 793 | Caption: Relating to microfilming, to retention of records by counties, and to supervision of microfilm quality. |
| SB 794 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 795 | Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code. |
| SB 852 | Caption: Relating to the negotiability of promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness of a consumer. |
| SB 853 | Caption: Relating to traveling in a motor vehicle with an alcoholic beverage in an open container. |
| SB 854 | Caption: Relating to creating an Institute of Health Science to be known as the Texas Womens University Institute of Health Science at Denton as a separate institution placing the management and control of the institute as a separate institution in the Board of Regents of Texas Womens University and its successors. |
| SB 855 | Caption: Relating to defining "destructive device" and "explosive", forbidding the manufacture, sale, possession, detonation, or attempted detonation of destructive devices, forbidding the collection of materials to be used in the manufacture of destructive devices and the sale of such materials when the intent of their use is known. |
| SB 856 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Alcoholic Beverage Commission to maintain a detachment of investigators for the enforcement of Texas Liquor Control Act for use by counties, cities and other political subdivisions in certain circumstances. |
| SB 857 | Caption: Relating to maintaining order on the campuses or facilities of state-supported institutions of higher education. |
| SB 858 | Caption: Relating to prohibiting knowingly tampering with, adjusting, altering, changing, setting back, disconnecting or failing to connect the odometer of a motor vehicle so that the odometer shows more or less miles traveled for the purpose of deceiving a purchaser; providing a penalty. |
| SB 869 | Caption: Relating to amending Code of Criminal Procedure, limiting the authority of the medical examiner in instances where autopsy might be required and making available to the family of the decedent a copy of the autopsy report. |
| SB 897 | Caption: Relating to protecting the consumer and encouraging the highest standards of construction safety by requiring the use of safety glazing materials in hazardous locations in residential, commercial or public buildings. |
| SB 898 | Caption: Relating to residence restrictions on appointment of the members of the Board of Regents of East Texas State University. |
| SB 899 | Caption: Relating to the creation of the 199th Judicial District composed of Collin County. |
| SB 929 | Caption: Relating to the creation, establishment, maintenance, operation and powers of the Grayson County Airport Authority pursuant to Article IX, Section 12, of the Texas Constitution. |
| SB 953 | Caption: Relating to validating the incorporation of all cities and towns of more than one thousand five hundred (1,500) and less than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) inhabitants, heretofore incorporated or attempted to be incorporated under the general laws of Texas under the Commission form of government. |
| SB 1008 | Caption: Relating to amending various laws pertaining to the affairs of counties, cities, and school districts in order to recognize the effect of the recent federal census; providing an effective date. |
| SB 1011 | Caption: Relating to defining the term "impacted property" as certain described real property in Grayson County, located adjacent to or near the western end of Eisenhower State Park, the term "owner" as the owner or lessee of impacted property, the term "guest" as the guest or employee of an owner, and the term "Department" as the State Parks and Wildlife Department. |
| SB 1014 | Caption: Relating to authorizing governing bodies of cities and counties to impose a tax on the sale, preparation and service of certain alcoholic beverages. |
| SB 1032 | Caption: Relating to providing for the authorization and issuance by any city or town which has by duly adopted resolution, order or ordinance approved or approved in principle a New Community plan in connection with a New Community Development project under the federal Urban Growth and New Community Development Act of 1970. |
| SCR 51 | Caption: Granting L.L. Haney, et ux, permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 56 | Caption: Granting Glyn Swindell permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 70 | Caption: Providing for Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar on any day. |
| SCR 76 | Caption: Creating Governor's Small Business Committee. |
| SCR 88 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to J. L. Huffines, Jr. for his service to the State of Texas. |
| SJR 46 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, so as to lower the minimum population required for a city to adopt or amend a home rule charter to include certain cities. |
| SJR 47 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution, prohibiting the Legislature from fixing the salary or allowances of any official or employee paid wholly from county funds in certain circumstances. |
| SJR 48 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution, relating to the ineligibility of state officials for certain other offices and interest in contracts. |
| SJR 49 | Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution, relating to ineligibility of persons holding other offices. |
| SR 40 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Burgamy. |
| SR 126 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lambert and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dunn of Plano. |
| SR 549 | Caption: Extending welcome to Augusto Vivas of Lima Peru. |
| SR 568 | Caption: Extending welcome to Miss Mary Lea Pemberton. |
| SR 569 | Caption: Extending welcome to Miss Phyllis Mathews. |
| SR 570 | Caption: Extending welcome to Miss Judy Brown. |
| SR 694 | Caption: Extending welcome to Jerry Smith, et al. |
| SR 697 | Caption: Extending commendation to Mrs. Betty Mischen, "Teacher of the Year". |
| SR 800 | Caption: Providing for the appointment by the Lieutenant Governor of a Local and Uncontested Bills Calendar Committee to be composed of seven members. |
| SR 877 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Max Hardesty and children. |
| SR 883 | Caption: Designating Mark Sechrest as Honorary Page of the Senate. |
| SR 905 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Robert Taylor on his birthday. |
| SR 996 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Mrs. Al Lien, Texas Mother of 1971. |
| SR 997 | Caption: Extending welcome to Denton National Honor Society and their sponsors. |
| SR 1069 | Caption: Extending welcome to Girl Scout Troops 7, 57,45, 26, 88, 13, 25,63,108 and 14. |
| SR 1102 | Caption: Extending the position of Honorary Page to Michael David Lee of Mesquite. |
| SR 1165 | Caption: Designating David Hedges as Honorary Page of Senate for the day. |
| SR 1219 | Caption: Extending welcome to Miss Maria Mahrer, "Miss Greenville, 1971". |
| SR 1278 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mrs. Colleen Farris. |
| SR 1396 | Caption: Designating Steven Robert Bigham and Charolette Leah Bigham as Honorary Senate pages. |
| SR 1402 | Caption: Providing for the creation of an Interim committee on Revenue and Tax Planning. |
| SR 1418 | Caption: In memory of Julius Schepps. |
| SR 1424 | Caption: Requesting the Department of Agriculture to take necessary steps to obtain reciprocity agreements with those countries exporting beef to the United States. |
| SR 1458 | Caption: Providing for the creation of an Interim committee to study consumer protection legislation. |
| SR 1502 | Caption: In memory of Dallas County Sheriff's Deputies Sam Infante, A.J. Robertson and Don Reese. |
| 62nd 1st Called Session | |
| SB 8 | Caption: Relating to the filing of financial statements by certain persons; amending Section 4, Chapter 100, Acts of the 55th Legislature, Regular Session, 1955. |
| SB 12 | Caption: Relating to filing of a financial statement by certain persons. Amending Section 4, Chapter 100 of the 55th Legislature. |
| SB 15 | Caption: Relating to the filing of finacial statements by candidates for certain offices. |
| SR 33 | Caption: Extending commendation to Chilton Board. |
| 62nd 2nd Called Session | |
| SCR 10 | Caption: Declaring Legislative Intent with regard to the adoption of H.J.R. No. 61 with respect to constitutional revision commission. |
| SCR 11 | Caption: Granting permission to L.L. Haney and wife, Betty Jo, to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 20 | Caption: Granting Glyn Swindell permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SR 53 | Caption: Extending best wishes to Mickey Mantle for a speedy recovery. |
| SR 93 | Caption: Extending welcome to "Tony" Mark Anthony Swindell. |
| SR 94 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Mrs. Ann Faragher for her outstanding achievements in the field of journalism. |
| 62nd 3rd Called Session | |
| SR 159 | Caption: Suspending Senate Rules to allow television coverage of the conclusion of a filibuster. |
| SR 209 | Caption: Extending welcome to Ralph Pully, Jr. |
| SR 338 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Texas Woman's University for significant contributions to nursing and allied health programs. |
| SR 347 | Caption: Recognizing Senator A. M. Aikin, Jr., as the "Father of Modern Texas Education," and providing that a portrait of A. M. Aikin, Jr., be hung in the Senate Chamber. |
| SR 359 | Caption: Expressing appreciation to Mrs. Minnie Meier for her service as Senate Journal Clerk and best wishes on the occasion of her retirement. |
| 62nd 4th Called Session | |
| SR 4 | Caption: Extending welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Taylor. |