Legislation authored by Barbara Jordan
Includes legislation with Barbara Jordan as the primary author for the 60th through 62nd Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
| 62nd Regular Session | |
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| SB 79 | Caption: Relating to creating the Fair Employment Practices Commission and providing for its regulation of discriminatory acts in employment; providing penalties. |
| SB 80 | Caption: Relating to creating a Texas Department of Community Affairs. |
| SB 81 | Caption: Relating to the requirement that contracting agencies of the State of Texas, any county, city, town, school district, water district, hospital district, or other political subdivision of the State shall include nondiscrimination provisions by reason of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in all directly or indirectly publicly funded contracts for supplies, materials, services or equipment. |
| SB 82 | Caption: Relating to permits for construction of public housing on urban renewal land. |
| SB 83 | Caption: Relating to providing a duty-free lunch period for teachers actively engaged in the instruction of public school children, providing funds, providing that the duty-free lunch period shall not result in a lengthened school day. |
| SB 135 | Caption: Relating to the exemption of persons employed as firemen from tuition and laboratory fees for courses in fire science offered by state-supported institutions of collegiate rank. |
| SB 264 | Caption: Relating to workmen's compensation for employees of certain drainage districts. |
| SB 265 | Caption: Relating to amending the employers' liability and workmen's compensation laws of this state. |
| SB 289 | Caption: Relating to creating and establishing a Department of Labor of the State of Texas and transferring to that Department duties and functions of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and its Commissioner, and making provisions for the assumption of such duties and responsibilities by the Secretary of the Department, and creating divisions within the Department to administer and enforce existing laws specified. |
| SB 319 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of the University of Texas System and the governing boards of other health related State-supported institutions and certain nonprofit health related institutions located in certain medical centers to form an association to operate a laundry system on a cooperative basis solely for the benefit of such institutions. |
| SB 337 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the Boards of Regents of the University of Texas System to establish, maintain, and operate System Nursing Schools as branches of the University of Texas Nursing School (System-wide) and to make coordinating agreements and joint appointments. |
| SB 380 | Caption: Relating to authorizing cooperation and contracts among political subdivisions of this State. |
| SB 381 | Caption: Relating to authorizing the State to furnish technical assistance to local governments in regulating the physical development of unincorporated areas. |
| SB 382 | Caption: Relating to amending "Municipal Annexation Act" to provide authority for cities to regulate the construction and maintenance of structures and the use and development of land within areas of extraterritorial jurisdiction. |
| SB 383 | Caption: Relating to authorizing counties to regulate subdivision development and construction standards in unincorporated areas. |
| SB 384 | Caption: Relating to creating an Urban Assistance Board, establishing its method of appointment, membership and procedure, providing for per diem and expenses for members, establishing meeting procedures, authorizing the employment and assignment of staff, setting forth functions. |
| SB 385 | Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Housing Finance Corporation. |
| SB 586 | Caption: Relating to authorizing Board of The University of Texas System to establish maintain and operate a clinical nursing school. |
| SB 647 | Caption: Relating to the powers and duties of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Texas. |
| SB 730 | Caption: Relating to providing that cities, counties, other political subdivisions, agencies and departments of the State of Texas authorized by any law in this State to provide Workmen's Compensation Insurance for their employees shall provide such coverage in accordance with Article 5.76, Insurance Code of Texas. |
| SB 731 | Caption: Relating to amending the employers' liability and workmen's compensation laws of this State. |
| SB 732 | Caption: Relating to amending the employer's liability and workmen's compensation laws of this State. |
| SB 798 | Caption: Relating to the extension of workmen's compensation insurance to employees of hospital districts that have been or may be created by the Legislature Section 9, Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Texas. |
| SB 878 | Caption: Relating to reports on the employment of the handicapped. |
| SB 908 | Caption: Relating to the granting of tuition scholarship to nursing students at certain State-supported institutions of higher education. |
| SB 923 | Caption: Relating to creating the "Redevelopment Housing Corporation". |
| SCR 33 | Caption: Preserving environmental quality. |
| SCR 34 | Caption: Concerning the need for more mortgages for housing from the Texas Pension and Retirement Systems. |
| SCR 45 | Caption: Granting Southern Pacific Transportation Company permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 50 | Caption: Requesting and authorizing State Building Commission to create a parking area primarily for the handicapped. |
| SCR 119 | Caption: Granting Frank R. Washburn permission to sue the State of Texas. |
| SCR 121 | Caption: Suspending Joint Rules in order that S.B. No. 289 might be considered at any time. |
| SJR 41 | Caption: Providing for amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas, exempting personal automobiles from ad valorem taxation by political subdivisions of the state on or after January 1, 1973, but authorizing the state to tax personal automobiles at one per cent of full value or such higher amount as may be established by statute. |
| SR 429 | Caption: Extending congratulations on birth of son to Mr. and Mrs. William K. Moers, Houston. |
| SR 589 | Caption: Extending welcome to teachers and students, history classes, Woodson Junior High School, Houston. |
| SR 679 | Caption: Providing for the creation and appointment by the Lieutenant Governor of a Senate Committee to study problems at Prairie View A&M College. |
| SR 718 | Caption: In memory of Whitney M. Young. |
| SR 767 | Caption: Extending welcome to sponsors and students, Social Service Club, Booker T. Washington High School. |
| SR 838 | Caption: Extending welcome to teachers and students, Texas Southern University. |
| SR 1068 | Caption: Extending congratulations to James Allison, State President of Young Democratic Clubs. |
| SR 1316 | Caption: Extending congratulations to Board of Education, Houston Independent School District. |
| SR 1420 | Caption: Extending appreciation and admiration to H.J. (Hank) Brown for his many years of faithful service to the working men and women of Texas. |
| SR 1479 | Caption: Providing for the creation of an Interim committee to study workmen's compensation. |
| 62nd 1st Called Session | |
| SR 35 | Caption: Relating to the composition of State Senatorial Districts for Harris County. |