Legislation authored by George Parkhouse

Includes legislation with George Parkhouse as the primary author for the 43rd through 60th Legislatures. For other types of authorship, search the Legislative Archive System.
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60th Regular Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to repealing Penal Code relating to Sunday Closing Law.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of the North Central Texas Airport Authority in Dallas and Tarrant Counties, Texas; prohibiting certain conduct of Authority personnel and directors and providing for a penalty therefor.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relating to exemption from insurance laws with limitations.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to the dissolution of judicial districts under certain circumstances.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the maintenance of public roads and highways in Dallas County.
SB 62	Caption: Relating to authorizing the construction of improvements at certain institutions of The University of Texas System in Dallas, Houston, and Galveston, Texas; providing for a method of payment.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to Employees' Retirement System of Texas, membership, creditable service, military service, retirement, disability retirement benefits, etc.; providing an effective date.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities with a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more according to the then last preceding Federal Census to incur total bonded indebtedness in an amount not exceeding ten (10%) per cent of the total assessed valuation of property shown by the last assessment roll of such a city, notwithstanding the limit of total bonded indebtedness fixed in dollars by the city charter is a lesser amount.
SB 91	Caption: Relating to the compensation of district judges assigned to sit for judges of the Court of Domestic Relations, the Court of Domestic Relations No. 2, and the Juvenile Court of Dallas County.
SB 92	Caption: Relating to providing for the recordation of certain claims of water rights and imposing limitations on the exercise of such claims; providing for the adjudication and administration of water rights.
SB 105	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to exempt from taxation property of all fraternal organizations for so long as the property is owned and used for charitable, benevolent, religious, and educational purposes, and is not in whole or in part leased out to others or otherwise used with a view to profit.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to public junior colleges for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1967.
SB 148	Caption: Relating to amending certain statute authorizing the granting of seasonal and temporary permits to appropriate water, by limiting to three (3) years the period of time for which a temporary permit may be granted.
SB 206	Caption: Relating to repealing the Penal Code article relating to adultery as justification for homicide committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife.
SB 275	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal code relating to permissible abortions.
SB 423	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to provide that it shall be lawful to practice optometry under a trade name and in multiple offices and to advertise such practice.
SB 439	Caption: Relating to prescribing a method of ascertaining assessable value for tax purposes of property of any trust forming part of a pension plan, disability or death benefit plan, profit-sharing or stock bonus plan of an employer for the exclusive benefit of employees or their beneficiaries by providing for deduction of liabilities to employees and their beneficiaries.
SB 440	Caption: Relating to authorizing the establishment of a Technical University at the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas and Collin counties, with powers to award degrees.
SB 441	Caption: Relating to providing for the use of compensatory regulations for the purpose of preserving land for reservoirs, water supply, forest, and other open spaces uses.
SB 442	Caption: Relating to conferring the power of eminent domain upon the Texas Water Development Board.
SB 443	Caption: Relating to providing for the periodic review, re-evaluation, and approval by the Texas Water Rights Commission of local master plans for water development.
SB 444	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes authorizing the Texas Water Development Board to create a centralized data bank for all hydrologic data collected in this state, providing for the travel expenses for certain employees; transferring the functions of the State Reclamation Engineer to the Texas Water Development Board; declaring unlawful the construction or maintenance of levees without approval of plans by the Texas Water Development Board; providing penalties.
SB 445	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the sponsorship of water resource development projects in the state.
SB 446	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes so as to authorize the Texas Water Development Board to purchase or retire outstanding prior lien water bonds of a political subdivision.
SB 532	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by changing the basis upon which the State Board of Insurance is authorized to give each city, town, village or locality credit for reducing fire hazards.
SB 572	Caption: Relating to the imposition and collection of a Limited Sales, Excise and Use Tax.
SCR 5	Caption: In memory of John W. Runyon.
SCR 15	Caption: In memory of Gordon B. McFarland, Sr.
SCR 16	Caption: In memory of Van M. Lamm.
SCR 21	Caption: In memory of S. T. Chandler.
SCR 38	Caption: In memory of Karl St. John Hoblitzelle.
SCR 59	Caption: Instructing the Governor to return S. J. R. No. 3 to the Enrolling clerk of the Senate in order to make certain corrections.
SCR 62	Caption: Recognizing the Byer-Rolnick Corporation for its contributions to industry within the State.
SCR 65	Caption: Recognizing the Dallas Board of Relators on the occasion of their 50th Anniversary.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to authorize the Legislature to delegate the authority to abolish or dissolve judicial districts.
SJR 3	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to establish a retirement, disability and death compensation fund for officers and employees of the state, so as to create as an agency of the State of Texas the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
SJR 8	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to provide that a corporate body with banking and discounting privileges whose place of business designated in its charter is in a county of more than 500,000 inhabitants may be authorized to engage in business at more than one place within the county.
SJR 37	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to give Dallas County the power to issue bonds for the construction, maintenance and operation of macadamized, graveled or paved roads and turnpikes, or in aid thereof.
SJR 39	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas to establish a retirement, disability and death compensation fund for officers and employees of the state; creating as an agency of the State of Texas the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
SR 46	Caption: Welcoming James Sattler, et al. to the State Capitol.
SR 111	Caption: Commemorating the Birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
SR 333	Caption: In memory of Henry E. Bell.
SR 373	Caption: In memory of John Wayne Mower.
SR 476	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to Sibyl Hamilton.
SR 486	Caption: Welcoming the Insurance Department of Southern Methodist University to the State Capitol.
SR 551	Caption: Welcoming the students of St. James Elementary school of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 555	Caption: Welcoming the members of Girls Scout Troop No. 530 of Irving to the State Capitol.
SR 748	Caption: Welcoming the members of Cub Pack 191 from Winnetke Elementary School to the State Capitol.
SR 757	Caption: Welcoming the members of Girls Scout Troop 105 from Mary Immaculate School of Farmers Branch to the State Capitol.
59th Regular Session
SB 6	Caption: Relating to repealing Acts of 1963, 58th Legislature, Page 953, Chapter 378, Section 1, designated as Article 2752a, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, relative to Competitive Bidding on certain contracts by Board of Trustees of Common School Districts.
SB 13	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation property of the Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, together with property of its subordinate Lodges and appendant Orders, for so long as the property so exempted is owned by and exclusively used by said Grand Lodge of Texas or its subordinate lodges and appendant Orders, and not in whole or in part leased out to others or otherwise used with a view to profit; amending certain statutes.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to state credit unions, loans and investments thereof, directors and officers thereof, dividends thereof, annual reports and joint accounts.
SB 23	Caption: Relating to creating a municipal court in and for the City of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of 650,000 or more population according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, to create a metropolitan transit authority, which shall have the power and authority to acquire, own, establish and operate transit facilities.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code by making it unlawful for any person formally charged with or convicted of a felony and confined in prison to escape therefrom, or from the lawful custody of an officer, or any other person authorized by law to have such prisoner in his custody; prescribing a penalty.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful for any person formally charged with or convicted of a misdemeanor and confined in jail to escape therefrom, or the lawful custody of an officer, or any other person authorized by law to have such person in his custody; prescribing a penalty for violation thereof.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to providing for the sale and issuance of a patent on certain lands in Hopkins County with a reservation of all minerals along with the leasing rights to the State.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to Joint Boards of Park Commissioners.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Probate Code so as to provide that either the father or the mother is entitled to appointment as guardian of the estates of the minor children by the marriage if the parents live together.
SB 102	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws relative to the liability of railroads and other carriers; providing that the carriers shall not be liable as at common law for loss, damage or injury to goods, wares and merchandise when transported on rates dependent upon a value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon in writing as the released value of the goods when authorized or required by order of the Railroad Commission.
SB 144	Caption: Relating to authorizing the further issuance of One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000.00) in Texas Water Development Bonds.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to water resources and water rights and water resources and water rights administration; changing the name of the Texas Water Commission to the Texas Water Rights Commission.
SB 146	Caption: Relating to the reorganization of the state agencies that administer laws relating to water resources administration and development and to the powers and functions of those agencies; making certain amendments.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to murder by arson and willful burning; to provide for a punishment where death by arson or willful burning is occasioned without malice aforethought.
SB 175	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to provide that after the sixth year of organization or incorporation of an insurance company the State Board of Insurance shall examine its financial condition and ability to meet its liabilities, as well as its compliance with the laws of this state, once in each three (3) years, or oftener, as the State Board of Insurance deems necessary.
SB 185	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the qualifications of the Adjutant General.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to creating Dallas South Water and Sewer Authority, a Conservation District, comprising the territory contained in Cedar Hill, De Soto, Lancaster, Woodland Hills and the City of Duncanville in Dallas County, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and diverting, impounding, storing, treating and transporting the same.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code, relating to authorized investments by a life insurance company in certain securities.
SB 300	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to licensing and the categories and fees of dealers under the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code.
SB 301	Caption: Relating to adding to the Insurance Code a new Article providing that nothing in such Code shall prohibit a life insurance company from guaranteeing to issue individual life insurance policies on other than the term plan without evidence of insurability, and defining "qualified pension or profit-sharing plan".
SB 351	Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the maintenance of the public roads and highways in Dallas County by authorizing the county to issue certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring right-of-way for designated state highways or federal highways when the acquisition of such right-of-way is approved by the State Highway Commission, and payment of expenses in connection with such acquisition.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing for the investment of funds of the Trinity River Authority and authorizing said Authority to trade its bonds for land required for the purposes of said Authority.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas to define the term "Creditor Agent"; providing that policies of insurance shall be delivered only by insurers authorized to do business in this state and shall be issued only through licensed insurance agents and creditor agents.
SB 370	Caption: Relating to the definition of "money, property, or other valuable thing" in Penal Statutes.
SB 453	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Business Corporation Act by providing for deposit of costs in a suit by a shareholder or shareholders on behalf of corporation where the ownership interest of the complainants is less than a certain minimum.
SB 462	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the method of procedure of amending municipal zoning ordinances; authorizing cities of 300,000 population or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to have the city plan commission or zoning commission hold public hearings on any proposed changes or amendments to the zoning ordinance in lieu of having additional notice and hearings before the governing body of the city.
SB 517	Caption: Relating to authorizing Hospital Districts located in counties having a population in excess of 900,000 according to the most recent Federal Census to construct, enlarge, furnish, equip and operate a parking station or stations in the vicinity of any hospital within such Districts.
SCR 5	Caption: In memory of Robert Lee Thornton.
SCR 8	Caption: In memory of Winston Churchill.
SCR 17	Caption: Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System to purchase a site and erect a building.
SCR 30	Caption: Granting Gulf Bitulithic Company and Texas Bitulithic Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 31	Caption: Granting L. H. Lacy Company and Frank L. King, Jr., permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 32	Caption: Granting Texas Bitulithic Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 69	Caption: In memory of Eugene Vierling Spence.
SCR 86	Caption: Recognizing the Hedgecock Artificial Limb Company for their advances made in design and quality of artificial limbs.
SCR 102	Caption: In memory of Joe Dave Scott.
SCR 108	Caption: Recalling H. B. No. 699 from the House for further consideration.
SJR 19	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas declaring state policy regarding optimum development of water reservoirs; providing for the use of the Texas Water Development Fund under such conditions as the Legislature may prescribe by General Law in the acquisition and development of storage facilities and any system of works properly appurtenant thereto.
SR 4	Caption: In memory of E. J. Morehead.
SR 21	Caption: Welcoming the Journalism students from Southern Methodist University to the State Capitol.
SR 45	Caption: Recognizing Dawson Duncan for his service.
SR 55	Caption: Recognizing the Garland football team for winning a state championship.
SR 116	Caption: Welcoming the members of Boy Scout Troop 503 of the Clara Oliver School to the State Capitol.
SR 307	Caption: Welcoming the students of the Saint Paul School of Nursing to the State Capitol.
SR 308	Caption: Welcoming the students and sponsors of the John Fickling School to the State Capitol.
SR 309	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in the caption of S. B. No. 19.
SR 421	Caption: Recognizing the City of Garland and its Chamber of Commerce for brining various manufacturing and distributing corporations to Texas.
SR 459	Caption: In memory of Gus K. Weatherred.
SR 555	Caption: Recognizing the citizens of Mineral Wells for their efforts in reopening the Baker Hotel.
SR 664	Caption: Recognizing the members of the Finance Subcommittee for their work on H. B. No. 12.
SR 708	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 102.
SR 788	Caption: In memory of Henry Peyton Kucera.
SR 801	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 145.
SR 815	Caption: In memory of E. H. Banks.
SR 825	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 146.
SR 826	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 145.
SR 829	Caption: Recognizing Southern Methodist University, its faculty and students on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
59th 1st Called Session
SCR 7	Caption: In memory of Senator W. C. Graves.
SR 50	Caption: In memory of Mollie V. Brundage.
58th Regular Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of Texas relating to the defenses and exemptions applicable under a certain Article which provides criminal penalties for certain acts involving obscene articles.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to withholding a portion of the compensation of officers and employees of the State of Texas and its political subdivisions, on their authorization, for purchase of United States Savings Bonds or for investment in or payment to a credit union.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to state credit unions, loans and investments therein, the maximum rate of interest and other charges on loans made thereby, and the supervision, examination, examiners fees, expenses, bylaws, board of directors, officers, audits, dividends, dissolution, conversion, and liquidation thereof, capital and surplus, advisory commission, and slander or libel of credit unions; imposing penalties for violation.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to authorizing the acquisition and development of storage facilities by the Texas Water Development Board under certain conditions.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to amending and repealing statutes relating to the Texas Banking Code of 1943 relative to providing for the appointment of bank examiners; for perpetual corporate existence for state banks; for the investigation of charter applications for the State Banking Board and payment of expenses thereof; for real estate loans, limitations and exceptions; authorizing bank stockholders and employees to take acknowledgments of instruments in which the bank is interested; defining "banking house"; providing for equal application of state law to state and national banks.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to charges for installation by water, light, gas or telephone companies.
SB 71	Caption: Relating to providing that it shall be lawful (as to length) to operate over the highways and roads a combination of vehicles designed and used exclusively for the transportation of automobiles, trucks, and buses where the length of such combinations does not exceed sixty (60) feet and no trailer or semi-trailer in such combination exceeds the length of forty (40) feet, provided that it shall be unlawful to operate over the highways and roads combinations or trailers in excess thereof.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities, as defined therein, to provide for the extension, enlargement and construction of improvements to the water and sewer systems, either or both, under certain circumstances and conditions and to assess a part of the cost of such improvements against benefited property and the owners thereof.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to the creation of Padre Island National Seashore.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to ad valorem taxation and the administration of the ad valorem tax.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to administration of the ad valorem tax on property to be cited as the "Fractional Assessment Act".
SB 109	Caption: Relating to ad valorem taxation to be cited as "The Equitable Assessment Act".
SB 110	Caption: Relating to ad valorem taxation of state and national banking corporations.
SB 111	Caption: Relating to the Appraisal Services Act; providing for the making of contracts for appraisal services for ad valorem tax purposes by taxing units; providing for reports; providing for duties and responsibilities of tax administration officials; prohibiting contracts contingent on delivering a certain total of valuation.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to providing that no school district shall receive, or be credited with, from the Available School Fund and the Foundation School Fund in any one year less than Ninety-two Dollars ($92.00) per pupil in average daily attendance; providing an effective date.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to providing for the compensation of the Assessor and Collector of Taxes in assessing and collecting State and County taxes.
SB 114	Caption: Relating to enacting the College Building Fund Act of 1963 relating to institutions of higher learning.
SB 115	Caption: Relating to making the costs of the free textbook program a prior claim on the Available School Fund; providing an effective date.
SB 116	Caption: Relating to funding the pensions payable to the widows of Confederate Veterans and eligible former Texas Rangers and their widows; providing an effective date.
SB 117	Caption: Relating to repealing statutes relating to admissions tax; providing an effective date.
SB 118	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Commission on State and Local Tax Policy.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to amending statutes relative to perpetual care cemeteries.
SB 128	Caption: Relating to providing that when certain legal holidays fall upon Sunday, then the Monday next following such Sunday shall be a legal holiday for banking purposes.
SB 142	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more population according to the last preceding or any future Federal Census, to create a Metropolitan Transit Authority, which shall have the power and authority to acquire, own, establish and operate transit facilities.
SB 165	Caption: Relating to creating within the Governor's office a commission to be known as the "Vehicle Equipment Safety Commission".
SB 191	Caption: Relating to creating two County Courts of Dallas County at Law to be known and designated as County Court of Dallas County at Law Number 3 and County Court of Dallas County at Law Number 4.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to creating an additional Probate Court in Dallas County to be known as Probate Court Number 2 of Dallas County; declaring the effective date of the Act.
SB 205	Caption: Relating to creating three additional District Courts and two additional Criminal District Courts in Dallas County, Texas, such Courts to be known as the 162nd Judicial District, the 163rd Judicial District, the 164th Judicial District, the Criminal Judicial District Number 4 and the Criminal Judicial District Number 5 of Dallas County, Texas, each of such districts to be composed of Dallas County, Texas alone.
SB 215	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of the State of Texas to provide for the valuation of certain guarantees in life insurance policies and coupons; enacting the Standard Valuation and Non-Forfeiture Laws.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to the Employees Retirement System of Texas, providing for the calculation of occupational disability retirement benefits; providing for the payment of occupational death benefit allowance to surviving spouse, etc.; providing an effective date.
SB 233	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas to clarify when life insurance policies shall be incontestable.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas by eliminating the requirement that the name and age of each insured, the beneficiary, and a designation of all provisions reducing or limiting payments be included on the face of the policy.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities having a population over 650,000 according to the most recent Federal Census to construct buildings, improvements and structures to be used in its park or fairgrounds for exhibitions, concessions and entertainment, to acquire land therefor, and to acquire, repair, improve and enlarge buildings and structures for such uses.
SB 356	Caption: Relating to more specifically expressing certain existing powers of certain hospital districts, and also granting additional and cumulative powers to such hospital districts.
SB 372	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of parking station authorities in counties having a population in excess of 900,000 according to the most recent Federal Census.
SB 380	Caption: Relating to exemptions to the tax on stores and mercantile establishments.
SB 435	Caption: Relating to providing procedure for treatment of persons believed to be sexual psychopaths.
SB 436	Caption: Relating to certain exemptions from the inheritance tax applicable to certain non-residents.
SB 451	Caption: Relating to motor carriers and regulations by the Railroad Commission to further define transporting property for compensation.
SB 477	Caption: Relating to authorizing creation and organization of a committee to study ways and means of treating, correcting and rehabilitating sociopathic personalities.
SB 522	Caption: Relating to providing for the minimum and maximum salaries of certain public officials in counties having a population of not less than nine hundred thousand (900,000) nor more than one million (1,000,000).
SB 523	Caption: Relating to fixing and making certain the amount of compensation to be paid from county funds by counties having a population of nine hundred fifty thousand (950,000) or more, as compensation to district and criminal district judges in such counties; providing for the compensation of substitute judges.
SCR 17	Caption: Granting the Socony Mobil Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 27	Caption: Recognizing the American Legion as they hold their National Convention of 1964 in Dallas.
SCR 34	Caption: Authorizing the erection of a memorial on the Capitol Grounds to the 49th Armored Division.
SCR 39	Caption: In memory of Stuart Malcolm McGregor.
SCR 47	Caption: Recognizing Howard Payne College for establishing the Douglas MacArthur Academy of Freedom.
SCR 49	Caption: Recognizing the City of Grand Prairie on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
SCR 51	Caption: Granting the Producing Properties, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 54	Caption: Recognizing Blackie Sherrod for winning the National Headliners Club Award.
SCR 67	Caption: Recognizing Angus Wynne, Jr. as the State of Texas' official representative at the 1964 World's Fair in New York City.
SCR 69	Caption: Recognizing the City of Carrollton on the occasion of their 50th anniversary.
SCR 73	Caption: Recognizing KRLD-TV for devoting time on their channel to a discussion of proposed changes to the Texas Criminal Code.
SCR 90	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider S. B. No. 522 at any time.
SCR 91	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider S. B. No. 523 at any time.
SJR 12	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment providing an exemption from ad valorem property taxation by the State or any of its political or governmental subdivisions of certain intangible personal property; providing for the taxation of the shares of stock of state and national banks, intangible property of insurance companies, reserves of savings and loan and building and loan associations and certain other intangible assets.
SJR 13	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to provide that in lieu of two hundred and fifty dollars of household and kitchen equipment being exempt from ad valorem taxation that household equipment may be exempt from taxation as the Legislature may provide; providing further that all bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued by the State of Texas, or its political or governmental subdivisions be exempt from ad valorem taxes.
SJR 14	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment providing that if the State ad valorem taxes levied for school and school free textbook purposes, for the payment of pensions to the widows of Confederate Veterans and eligible Texas Rangers and their widows and to pay the principal and interest on notes and bonds issued are no longer levied the Legislature of Texas shall authorize the issuance of Seventy-five Million Dollars ($75,000,000) in general obligation bonds of the State of Texas to be called College Building Bonds; providing that the maximum interest rate on the bonds shall be Four Per Cent (4%); providing that the terms of the bonds shall not exceed ten (10) years; providing that the Legislature shall prescribe the terms of the bonds and the proportions of each eligible institution's share in the proceeds.
SJR 15	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment providing that from and after January 1, 1968, no ad valorem property tax shall be levied for State purposes; donating all State ad valorem property taxes, penalties and interest delinquent on February 1, 1968, to the counties in which they were levied and assessed; providing that the delinquent taxes, penalties and interest donated to the counties may be used by receiving counties.
SJR 28	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment so as to include within the scope of homesteads and homestead exemptions that real property of an unmarried adult, male or female, which is used for the purposes for which the existing homestead laws apply.
SR 230	Caption: In memory of Robert Lanier Clark.
SR 299	Caption: Welcoming the students of Saint Mark's School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 301	Caption: Welcoming the students of Richardson Independent School District to the State Capitol.
SR 353	Caption: Welcoming the members of the Dallas County Republican Women's Clubs to the State Capitol.
SR 364	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Howell Shelton, Mrs. James Krise, and their children to the State Capitol.
SR 390	Caption: Recognizing the City of Grand Prairie on the occasion of their 100th anniversary.
SR 400	Caption: In memory of Martha Louise Steward.
SR 402	Caption: In memory of Daniel M. Jacoby.
SR 403	Caption: In memory of Roger A. Jutras.
SR 422	Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Gardner to the State Capitol.
SR 457	Caption: In memory of Betty Boyd Logan.
SR 470	Caption: In memory of R. D. Gorham.
SR 504	Caption: Welcoming the students of St. Pius X School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 510	Caption: Welcoming the students of Saint Cecilia's School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 519	Caption: Paying tribute to the memory of Henry Ford.
SR 592	Caption: Welcoming the members of the various Dallas area Democratic Women's Clubs to the State Capitol.
57th Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for broadening the present law governing the Texas Water Development Board and defining its duties.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute giving the Texas Water Board greater latitude with respect to transfer of moneys between statutory Funds.
SB 22	Caption: Relating to authorize the establishment of special county-wide day schools for deaf scholastics between the scholastic age of six (6) and twenty-one (21), in all counties having a population of three hundred thousand (300,000) inhabitants.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code of the State of Texas to provide the term of office of the Governor shall be four (4) years.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute; relating to protected assignments of accounts receivable; to change the definition of "account" or "account receivable" by deleting the provision therein with reference to sums of money accruing to a contractor for labor performed or material furnished on any public or private construction contract, and substituting therefor a provision excluding from the said definition an assignment to a surety company by such contractor in the application for a surety bond.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Insurance Code relating to adding certain public utility gas corporate securities as eligible investments for Texas insurance companies.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to authorized investments by a guardian of an estate of money on hand belonging to the ward beyond that which may be necessary for the education and maintenance of such ward; amending the Texas Probate Code authorizing such guardian to invest such money in interest-bearing time deposits which may be withdrawn on or before one year after demand in any bank to the extent that the payment of such deposit is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
SB 41	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to provide for the status of licenses of master plumbers, journeyman plumbers and plumbing inspectors, so long as employed by any city, town or village of five thousand (5,000) or more inhabitants, and regulating the fees for persons so employed.
SB 50	Caption: Relating to amending a the Insurance Code to permit any independent school district situated in a county having a population of over hundred fifty thousand (150,000) to pay premiums for group life insurance wholly or partly from its funds for its employees.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing for the election of school trustees by majority vote and providing for a second election in the event no candidate receives such vote at first election.
SB 57	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to permit contributions by employers to premiums for contracts insuring their employees under group policies.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act to grant state employees, who executed waivers in the Employees Retirement System of Texas, the privilege of qualifying all of their service as a state employee for retirement purposes, and setting forth the conditions and requirements to permit such service to be granted; granting state employees, who withdraw funds from the Employees Retirement System of Texas and cancel their accounts, the privilege of reinstating all of their state service for retirement purposes.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities of 500,000 or more population according to the last preceding or any future federal census, to create a Metropolitan Transit Authority, which shall have the power and authority to acquire, own, establish and operate transit facilities.
SB 72	Caption: Relating to requiring persons to obtain permits to drill injection wells, or to convert existing wells into injection wells, for the disposal of industrial and municipal waste; providing penalties for violation.
SB 84	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to require that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting property.
SB 85	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to require that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting property.
SB 86	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to require that notice of hearing on assessments for street improvements be mailed to a railway or street railway owning abutting property, and further to provide that failure to give such notice shall be a defense in a suit to enforce any such assessments.
SB 87	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute so as to require that notice of hearing on assessments for highway improvements be mailed to railways and street railways owning abutting or nearby property.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code of the State of Texas to fix the speed of motor vehicles engaged in this state, including those used for the business of transporting passengers for compensation or hire.
SB 128	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas by redefining the term "net assets" and providing for certain data processing systems to be considered as admitted assets of a life insurance company.
SB 129	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to deposits of securities or lawful money of the United States or conveyance of real estate in trust in an amount equal to the legal reserve of all of the outstanding policies in force of any life insurance company; relating to the effect and value of deposits and amount of legal reserve; repealing an Article relating to fees for making deposits.
SB 130	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code relating to the authorized investments of life insurance companies.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to independent examinations of state credit unions, regulation of their bonds, authorization of membership officers, authorization of loan officers and authorizations of dividends and credits for state credit unions; relating to amending a certain Statute to authorize the Banking Commissioner to cause credit unions to have an independent examination by any certified public accountant or licensed public accountant, as well as one or more credit union examiners.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to investments of the assets of the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
SB 173	Caption: Relating to providing that in counties having a population of nine hundred thousand (900,000) or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census, in which a parental home and school for dependent and delinquent children shall have been established, the Commissioners Court may appoint a board of managers to manage and control said home and school.
SB 195	Caption: Relating to validating certain proceedings of Home Rule Cities.
SB 197	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute making bonds issued by certain cities for airport purposes eligible as security for public funds and as investments for certain funds.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to validating the annexation of territory by all cities of five hundred (500) inhabitants or less heretofore incorporated under the General Laws of Texas, and being located within two counties, one of which having a population of five hundred thirty-eight thousand, four hundred ninety-five (538,495), and the other having a population of forty-seven thousand, four hundred thirty-two (47,432).
SB 221	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code pertaining to investments by life, health or accident insurance companies in real estate by adding a paragraph permitting such companies to acquire, secure, retain, hold and convey production payments subject to restrictions and limitations.
SB 234	Caption: Relating to amending the Teachers' Retirement System Act to provide for the inclusion of military duty in World War I in calculating retirement benefits.
SB 237	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas to exchange lands in Dallas County, Texas, and to execute deeds with the Dallas County Hospital District, Dallas County, Texas, and to convey the site received in exchange to the governing board of the Children's Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, to be used as a teaching facility fully integrated with the medical program of The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas.
SB 246	Caption: Relating to requiring applicants making requests to the State Board of Water Engineers to designate underground water reservoirs or any subdivision thereof to pay a sufficient sum to cover the cost to the State of making a study and gathering factual data upon which to base the designation, etc.
SB 247	Caption: Relating to fixing and making certain the amount of compensation to be paid from county funds by counties having a population of five hundred thousand (500,000) or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census and having five (5) or more Civil District Courts and two (2) or more Criminal District Courts, as compensation to District, Criminal District, Domestic Relations and Juvenile Judges in such counties.
SB 271	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code of Texas to extend the time within which insurance companies must hold an annual meeting for the election of directors.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act making the Joint Board of Park Commissioners a body corporate and politic and providing that title to the park properties and facilities shall be vested in said Board.
SB 327	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to exempting showrooms and display rooms from the mercantile store license fee.
SB 398	Caption: Relating to transferring to the State Board of Water Engineers the powers and duties originally vested in the State Reclamation Engineer.
SB 402	Caption: Relating to creating an additional District Court in Dallas County to be known as Criminal District Court No. 4 of Dallas County.
SB 409	Caption: Relating to validating the additions of land and annexations to Dallas County Water Control and Improvement District No. 6; providing that this Act shall not effect any District now in litigation.
SB 440	Caption: Relating to authorizing any independent school district having within its boundary all or part of three (3) or more incorporated cities or towns and having a seven member governing board with three-year terms of office to adopt the provisions and method herein prescribed providing for the election of a seven member, three-year term board of trustees on the basis of area and place numbered positions.
SB 443	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county having in excess of nine hundred thousand (900,000) population according to the most recent Federal Census to issue bonds for the purposes of erecting and equipping a courthouse and jail and county branch office buildings and acquiring sites therefor.
SB 446	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relating to providing that in counties having a population of nine-hundred thousand (900,000) or more according to the last preceding Federal census, that certain parties or persons may in any special or primary election designate one watcher for each polling place using machines.
SB 466	Caption: Relating to amending the Water Safety Act to provide for the issuance of serial number to certain vessels; to prescribe certain equipment; to regulate certain activities; to prohibit local fees; to empower game wardens with certain authority; to provide the manner in which the Highway department may construct and finance certain facilities.
SCR 3	Caption: In memory of Fred Farrel Florence.
SCR 9	Caption: Directing the creation of a Committee to designate a Poet Laureate of Texas.
SCR 50	Caption: Recognizing Robert Lee Thornton, Sr. for the service to the City of Dallas.
SJR 3	Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to provide that the term for the office of Governor shall be four years and no holder of that office shall succeed himself.
SJR 6	Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas providing that school taxes theretofore voted in any independent school district, the major portion of which is within Dallas County, shall not be abrogated, canceled or invalidated by a change in boundaries nor shall bonds voted, but unissued, at the time of such change, be invalidated by such change.
SJR 11	Caption: Relating to proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas authorizing the Texas Water Development Board to use funds on deposit in the Water Development Fund for the additional purpose of acquiring storage facilities in reservoirs and to dispose of such storage facilities upon such terms as the Legislature shall prescribe.
SR 9	Caption: In memory of W. Bryan Simmons.
SR 16	Caption: In memory of Bennie Lloyd Larrabee, Sr.
SR 140	Caption: Welcoming the students of Hockaday School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 227	Caption: Welcoming Joel Barry Bond and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Bond to the State Capitol.
SR 283	Caption: Recognizing Tom Keene and Robert "Skipper" Trimble for their efforts during the celebration of "Old South Week" at Southern Methodist University.
SR 329	Caption: Welcoming the students of Greenhill School for Boys and Girls in Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 356	Caption: Welcoming Mr. and Mrs. M. L. King, et al. to the State Capitol.
SR 385	Caption: Welcoming the Insurance students from Southern Methodist University.
SR 399	Caption: Welcoming John Worrell and the students of St. George Day School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 423	Caption: Welcoming the students of San Saba Junior High School to the State Capitol.
SR 441	Caption: welcoming the students of Bethel Lutheran School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 463	Caption: Recognizing Margaret Ward on the occasion of her birthday.
SR 481	Caption: Welcoming the Southern States Apprenticeship Conference to the State of Texas.
SR 528	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Charles Pitts, et al. to the State Capitol.
57th 1st Called Session
SB 38	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the discontinuing of territory as a part of certain cities.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code making unlawful and void any part of an agreement, arrangement or other device which requires or permits a carrier to pay a levied charge, allowance, assessment or compensation to any person or organization if such charge, allowance, assessment or compensation is dependent or contingent upon the use of another mode of transportation; prescribing penalty therefor.
SB 54	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute to more clearly definine the elements to be included in the facilities to be constructed by an eligible city for final delivery of treated water to such city so as to include the provision of intermediate reservoirs to be used wholly or in part for storing water from the water supply project, and to provide pumping equipment and pipeline facilities to and from such intermediate reservoirs.
SB 55	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute relating to the discontinuing of territory as a part of certain cities.
SCR 2	Caption: In memory of Joe Clark Thompson, Jr.
SCR 26	Caption: Recognizing O. G. McClain, Lon C. Hill, Archie Kahan and others for establishing the Ed Felder Memorial Fund at Texas A&M College.
SR 8	Caption: In memory of Gary Herods.
SR 35	Caption: Welcoming Ralph Lofland and his grandson to the State Capitol.
SR 45	Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. John Swank to the State Capitol.
SR 49	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Henry Coke and her son to the State Capitol.
57th 2nd Called Session
SR 1	Caption: Welcoming the family Mr. and Mrs. John Hamburger to the State Capitol.
SR 5	Caption: Welcoming Virginia L. Leech, et al. to the State Capitol.
57th 3rd Called Session
SB 9	Caption: Relating to validating under certain conditions proceedings relating to the adoption of home rule charters in counties of five hundred thousand (500,000) or more according to the last preceding Federal Census, validating the charters so adopted, and providing that such charter so adopted shall constitute the home rule charter of the city; providing that this Act shall not be construed as validating the adoption of any charter or the charter if the validity of the charter adoption proceedings or of the charter are involved in litigation on the effective date of this Act and such litigation is ultimately determined against the validity thereof.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act changing the name of the Board of Water Engineers to the Texas Water Commission and prescribing certain duties, powers and functions thereof; providing for the appointment of a Chief Engineer and prescribing his duties, powers and functions.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute exempting certain organizations and persons from the filing of certain applications and the payment of certain fees.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Election Code relating to the filing fees of candidates for office in counties having a population of one million (1,000,000) or more, according to the last preceding Federal Census; and in counties having a population of not less than six hundred thousand (600,000) and not more than one million (1,000,000) according to the last preceding Federal Census, and relating to the filing fees of candidates for State Representative in State Representative Districts containing eight (8) and not more than nine (9) or more counties.
SCR 1	Caption: Providing for Sine Die adjournment of the 57th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, on Wednesday, January 3, 1962.
SCR 2	Caption: Providing for Sine Die adjournment of the 57th Legislature, 3rd Called Session, on Thursday, January 4, 1962.
SCR 4	Caption: Granting W. H. Nichols and Company, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 5	Caption: Recognizing the Institute of Certified Texas Assessors of the Texas Association of Assessing Officers for their work.
SCR 8	Caption: Granting Ellis Carp permission to sue the Texas State Board of Examiners in Optometry.
SR 46	Caption: Recognizing First Lady Jean Daniel for her work to compile the history of the Governor's Mansion.
56th Regular Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to providing for the regular reporting under the penalties of perjury, of facts relating to the organization, operation, affiliation, and financial conduct of labor unions; prohibiting the use of funds for certain purposes; providing for penalties for violation of the Act.
SB 19	Caption: Relating to prohibiting engaging in and attempting to engage in the business of buying, selling, exchanging, dealing or trading in motor vehicles on Sunday; imposing penalties for violation thereof.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to providing that state, county and other officials who refuse to permit the public examination of records except those designated by law as not open to public inspection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; providing a penalty therefor.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board of Regents of The University of Texas to exchange lands in Dallas County, Texas, and execute deeds with Southwestern Medical Foundation.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts in reference to the construction and financing of water supply projects under contracts between eligible cities and river authorities and the financing by such cities of intakes, pumping stations and equipment, pipelines, treatment and filtration plants and intermediate and terminal reservoirs.
SB 92	Caption: Relating to expenses of members of the Commissioners Court in connection with the use of privately owned automobiles for traveling on official business within the county.
SB 109	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that the limitations thereof as to amounts of insurance on any employee shall not apply to amounts of insurance issued on other than the term plan in connection with a pension plan which amounts do not exceed the amounts required at normal retirement date to provide the pension specified by the plan.
SB 146	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the creation of the Texas National Guard Armory Board so as to change membership of the Board.
SB 147	Caption: Relating to promoting safety by regulating vessels, water skiing, and aquaplaning upon the waters of this state; prescribing certain penalties.
SB 148	Caption: Relating to the rights, duties, and liabilities of issuers of securities, transfer agents, and other parties with respect to fiduciary security transfers; providing an effective date.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by regulating payment of dividends.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to exempting from regulation by the Railroad Commission of Texas the transportation of passengers or property by motor vehicle wholly within a city, town or village and the commercial zone thereof.
SB 213	Caption: Relating to amending certain provisions of Article III, Section 49-c of the Constitution creating the Texas Water Development Board.
SB 214	Caption: Relating to bonds, undertakings, recognizances, guarantees or other obligations executed by surety companies duty qualified to do business in Texas.
SB 232	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts pertaining to the Employees Retirement System of Texas.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to examination fees for credit unions.
SB 282	Caption: Relating to providing that effective September 5, 1960, all corporations heretofore created with purposes authorized by certain Statutes shall become subject to the provisions of the Texas Business Corporation Act.
SB 288	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts relative to the inspection and standard setting of county jails.
SB 289	Caption: Relating to authorizing any nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of this state for charitable purposes and affiliated or associated with a medical center having a recognized medical school and which has for its purpose the support of medical facilities dedicated to the use and benefit of the public, situated in certain counties, to exercise the power of eminent domain.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Municipal Retirement System; providing for establishment and operation of a "Supplemental Benefits Fund" as an additional and separate fund within the System to provide supplemental benefits for disabilities sustained as a direct result of performance of duty by designated employees of municipalities electing to participate in said Fund.
SB 305	Caption: Relating to amending the Right-to-work Law so as to provide employees of cities and towns conditions of employment with governing bodies thereof.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts pertaining to Credit Life Insurance and Credit Health and Accident Insurance.
SB 319	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts pertaining to group life insurance to allow the insurance of the amount of indebtedness of a borrower or the face amount of a loan or loan commitment made to a debtor with seasonal income for general agricultural or horticultural purposes.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to amending certain act by providing an exception to the Texas Agents Qualification and License Law for Agent of Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies authorized to do business in Texas for those selling credit life.
SB 344	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes by broadening and specifically setting out exemptions from the inheritance tax on certain foreign bequests; providing for application to persons dying before the effective date under given conditions.
SB 345	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by requiring every report, statement, certificate, affidavit or other document required by or under any provision of the Insurance Code or Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Insurance to be acknowledged, sworn to, or made under oath, and to be filed or deposited with the State Board of Insurance or the Commissioner of Insurance, to be verified by written declaration under penalties of perjury.
SB 346	Caption: Relating to amending the insurance code relative to deposits of securities or lawful money of the United States or conveyance of real estate in trust in an amount equal to the legal reserve of all of the outstanding policies in force of any life insurance company.
SB 382	Caption: Relating to electricians and the regulation of electricians and electrical work; prescribing penalties for the violation of this Act.
SB 384	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code; providing for unearned premium reserves.
SB 398	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to the definition and description of a slot machine.
SB 426	Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code to provide for non-partisan or independent candidates for electors for the President and Vice President of the United States.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to validating contracts between a district or authority created under the provisions of the Constitution, and cities, towns or villages created under the General Laws, whereby the district or authority agrees and contracts to furnish a water supply.
SB 487	Caption: Relating to terms of office of school trustees in certain school districts.
SCR 20	Caption: In memory of Hubert M. Harrison.
SCR 30	Caption: In memory of Bobby James.
SCR 33	Caption: Directing the Legislature, the Governor, and the heads of governmental departments to factor inn the effects on the business environment when considering legislation or discretionary actions.
SCR 45	Caption: In memory of Boude Storey, Sr.
SCR 69	Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to study certain laws relating to Adult Probation and Parole.
SCR 73	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature to allow either chamber to consider S. B. No. 282.
SJR 5	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex.
SR 84	Caption: Welcoming the students of Mesquite High School to the State Capitol.
SR 132	Caption: Welcoming Pat Gibbons and his daughter, Jane, to the State Capitol.
SR 245	Caption: Welcoming Carol Ann Young to the State Capitol.
SR 258	Caption: Welcoming Susan and Janet Bishop to the State Capitol.
SR 288	Caption: Inviting the Garland High School A Capella Chorus to perform for the Senate.
SR 361	Caption: Welcoming the students of Greenhill School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 370	Caption: In memory of Alice Flack Blundell.
SR 373	Caption: Welcoming the students of Our Lady of Good Counsel Academy of Dallas.
SR 389	Caption: Welcoming the students of Carrollton High School to the State Capitol.
SR 442	Caption: Welcoming the students of Saint James School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 443	Caption: Welcoming the students of the Insurance Department of Southern Methodist University to the State Capitol.
SR 447	Caption: In memory of Harry Clay Withers.
SR 576	Caption: Welcoming the students of St. Cecilia School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
56th 1st Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to authorizing the creation of county building authorities to acquire, own and operate a public building to be used principally as a county courthouse in counties having a population in excess of six hundred thousand (600,000).
SB 5	Caption: Relating to terms of office of school trustees in certain school districts.
SCR 1	Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass remedial legislation to protect Americans from the irresponsible actions of union leaders such as Jimmy Hoffa.
SCR 3	Caption: In memory of D. A. Greenwell.
SCR 6	Caption: In memory of Ben E. Bradford.
SR 14	Caption: Welcoming the students of Saint Elizabeth School of Port Neches to the State Capitol.
SR 19	Caption: In memory of Joel R. Bond.
SR 28	Caption: Recognizing the staff of the "Texas Parade" magazine for their continuous work of covering the State.
SR 54	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day the family of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Vail.
SR 118	Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Starkey Duncan to the State Capitol.
56th 2nd Called Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to provide for the exchange of benches in the three County Criminal Courts of Dallas County, Texas.
SB 24	Caption: Relating to creating the County Building Authority Act applicable only in counties having a population in excess of 600,000 and which own and use, in conjunction with other structures, a courthouse which is more than thirty (30) years old or has not been completely renovated or remodeled within a thirty (30) year period.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to facilitate the issuance of revenue bonds by Trinity River Authority of Texas.
SCR 1	Caption: In memory of John W. Carpenter.
SR 45	Caption: Welcoming the family of Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Johnson to the State Capitol.
56th 3rd Called Session
SB 14	Caption: Relating to validating the additions of land and annexations to Dallas County Water Control and Improvement District No. 6.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to provide minimum and maximum salaries of certain officials in all counties of the state having a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) inhabitants or more according to the last preceding Federal Census.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to providing that effective September 5, 1960, all corporations heretofore created with purposes authorized by certain Statutes shall become subject to the provisions of the Texas Business Corporation Act.
SB 25	Caption: Relating to creating an additional domestic relations court in Dallas County.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to creating an additional domestic relations court in Dallas County.
SCR 2	Caption: Recognizing the TEMCO Aircraft Corporation for their contributions to the development of the Corvus missile.
SR 6	Caption: In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Duckworth.
SR 8	Caption: Welcoming Ann and Steve Connor to the State Capitol.
SR 19	Caption: Welcoming the members of Rainbow Juvenile Association of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 38	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor to John Grizzaffi to the State Capitol.
SR 49	Caption: Recognizing the TEMCO Aircraft Corporation for its development of the new Corvus Missile.
SR 50	Caption: requesting the Building Commission to continue repairs to the old General Land Office Building.
55th Regular Session
SB 2	Caption: Relating to providing for the levy and collection of fees a stated rates for claiming the right to use or divert, or to use or divert, certain waters.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Water Development Board, and prescribing its composition, powers and duties; authorizing the issuance by the Board of One Hundred Million Dollars in state bonds to create the Texas Water Development Fund.
SB 4	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas Stream Pollution Control Board and prescribing its composition, method of appointment, authority, powers, duties and responsibilities.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to amending certain laws declaring as abandoned all certified filings heretofore filed with and permits heretofore issued by the Board of Water Engineers and permits hereafter issued by the Board of Water Engineers or its successor, which certified filings and permits authorize the appropriation of public waters, when no part of the waters authorized to be appropriated has ever been put to beneficial use at any time during a ten year period preceding the effective date of this Act or the date of cancellation proceedings authorized hereby.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to requiring persons to obtain permits to drill injection wells, or to convert existing wells into injection wells, for the disposal of industrial and municipal waste.
SB 8	Caption: Relating to requiring that no person shall be a member of the governing body of any type of water district or water authority providing a waterworks system supplying water for municipal and domestic use and sanitary sewer service, unless he shall be an actual resident in and a bona fide inhabitant of such water district.
SB 10	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes so as to require written notice to the Board of Water Engineers and the district's board of directors of any substantial alteration in plans and specifications of district projects approved by said Board; authorizing inspection by the Board during construction.
SB 11	Caption: Relating to authorizing State departments to use certified mail in lieu of registered mail.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to require those drilling or deepening a commercial water well to keep a well log record thereof and deliver or mail to the Board of Water Engineers a copy of such log; prescribing penalties.
SB 13	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to prescribe the procedure for granting or refusing a petition for the organization of a water control and improvement district; providing for certain factors to be considered by the Board of Water Engineers or Commissioners' Court.
SB 14	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to authorize a water control and improvement district to have a wider and more descriptive choice of names to designate it.
SB 15	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to prescribe those who may appear and contest the creation of a water control and improvement district.
SB 16	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for an appeal to the proper District Court of any decision made by the board of directors of a water control and improvement district excluding or failing to exclude lands from the district.
SB 17	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation for the Water Resources Committee.
SB 27	Caption: Relating to providing more adequate means for "eligible cities" to prevent contamination of their water supplies and the water of the Trinity River watershed; to obtain more efficient and economical sewage transportation and disposal (including treatment), and to enable such cities to render adequate water and sewer service.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to add with certain qualifications the purpose of recharging of underground water reservoirs to those purposes for which the public waters of the state may be appropriated.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for organized driver education for pupils in the public free schools of Texas who have attained a certain age and the inclusion of allocations for professional driver education teacher units in the Foundation School Program Act.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to dividends and guaranty funds for credit unions.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to authorizing an "eligible" city, as defined herein, to employ the alternative procedure of issuing its negotiable revenue bonds, within the maximum amount prescribed herein, secured by the revenues of its waterworks system or its waterworks and sanitary sewer systems, and to utilize the proceeds from such bonds.
SB 122	Caption: Relating to prohibiting misleading advertisements for the sale or transfer of any article, material, product or merchandise.
SB 139	Caption: Relating to leasing the Texas Hall of State Building located in the City of Dallas, situated in Fair Park.
SB 140	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to permit officers of counties, cities and towns to enter into or become pecuniarily interested in contracts with the county, city or town when the material, goods, merchandise or services covered by the contract are available from only one source.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code pertaining to investments by life, health or accident insurance companies in real estate, permitting such companies to acquire, secure, hold and convey, in addition to real property now authorized by law, branch office buildings as shall be requisite for its accommodation in the transaction of its business and for lease and rental subject to certain restrictions, limitations and exceptions.
SB 142	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to regulate the investment of the funds of life insurance companies.
SB 176	Caption: Relating to repealing Statutes relating to corporation owning and operating street railway or motor buses selling school students 20 tickets at half fare.
SB 230	Caption: Relating to authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds by school districts and containing provisions relating to such bonds.
SB 290	Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the maintenance of the public roads and highways in Dallas County by authorizing the county to issue certificates of indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring right-of-way for designated state highways or federal highways when the acquisition of such right-of-way is approved by the State Highway Commission, and payment of expenses in connection with such acquisition.
SB 338	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts pertaining to the Employee Retirement System of Texas; prescribing the conditions upon which this Act shall become effective as a law.
SB 381	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that all qualified voters shall have the right to vote in elections to confirm the organization of water control and improvement districts; provided that such validation shall not become effective if the formation, organization, proceedings, boundaries, plans, authority or activities of the district are involved in litigation upon the effective date of this Act.
SB 391	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide that whoever uses any telephone in any manner with intent to harass, annoy, torment, abuse, threaten or intimidate another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned in the county jail or both.
SB 396	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts providing transportation at State expense for certain school children who reside within a city that has a public transportation system when it is impractical for such children to use the city public transportation system.
SB 414	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay judgment of Magnolia Petroleum Company against the State of Texas.
SB 454	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for hospitalization and medical and surgical care for members of the military forces of this State who shall be wounded, disabled, or injured, or who shall contract disease or illness in line of duty while in the service of this State; providing for funeral expenses and accrued pay and allowances to be paid to the estate in the event of death; making an appropriation.
SCR 11	Caption: Granting Bi-Stone Fuel Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 19	Caption: Granting Texas Power and Light Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 40	Caption: Urging Congress to propose a Constitutional amendment relating to the government engaging in the field of business.
SCR 81	Caption: Urging Congress to amend the Constitution relating to the procedure of amendment.
SCR 82	Caption: Urging Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution regarding the election of the President and Vice President.
SCR 83	Caption: Urging Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution relating to financing the budget.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas to create an agency of the State of Texas with the authority to issue $100,000,000.00 in negotiable bonds of the State of Texas to acquire conservation storage space in reservoirs created by dams or structures.
SJR 2	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas authorizing the issuance and sale of bonds by the State of Texas to create the Texas Water Development Fund to provide financial assistance to certain political subdivisions or bodies politic and corporate of the State of Texas in the conservation and development of the water resources of the State.
SJR 13	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas relating to establishment of a retirement, disability and death compensation fund for officers and employees of the State.
SR 23	Caption: In memory of Jean Baptiste Adoue, Jr.
SR 31	Caption: Welcoming Beckham and his wife to the State Capitol.
SR 33	Caption: In memory of Curtis Hancock.
SR 62	Caption: Welcoming Philip Whitley to the State Capitol.
SR 68	Caption: Requesting the Secretary of Defense to withdraw certain remarks.
SR 98	Caption: In memory of Jeb Stuart Long.
SR 187	Caption: Welcoming students of Our Lady of Good Counsel Academy and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 241	Caption: Welcoming students of Greenhill School for Boys and Girls and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 249	Caption: Recognizing J. L. Latimer for receiving the National Brotherhood Citation by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
SR 306	Caption: Welcoming Former Senator Wilbourne Collie to the State Capitol.
SR 359	Caption: Welcoming students of Southern Methodist University and Charles Eversole to the State Capitol.
SR 369	Caption: Welcoming students of Richardson High School and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 370	Caption: Welcoming students of Mesquite High School and their teachers to the State Capitol.
SR 394	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. Allen Duckworth and her daughter and son to the State Capitol.
SR 403	Caption: Welcoming students of St. James School and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 506	Caption: Welcoming W. O. Reed and his wife and Bob McCarthy to the State Capitol.
SR 515	Caption: Welcoming Mrs. M. B. Grayson and Mrs. Robert E. Lyons to the State Capitol.
55th 1st Called Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to providing for the Texas Water Planning Act of 1957; creating the Texas Water Resources Planning Division within the State Board of Water Engineers.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings in connection with city tax bonds heretofore favorably voted for off street parking, or park and off-street parking purposes.
SB 22	Caption: Relating to facilitating cooperation in the over-all program of water conservation, with reference to validation of bonds by court procedure, with certain exceptions and provisions.
SCR 4	Caption: Urging Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
SCR 9	Caption: Granting Joe White permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 10	Caption: Granting George T. Abell, and et al., permission to sue the State of Texas.
SR 43	Caption: In memory of C. P. Van Winkle.
SR 82	Caption: Recognizing Margaret Mayer for her journalism.
SR 90	Caption: In memory of Martin Weiss.
55th 2nd Called Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to constituting a local law for the further maintenance of public highways, by authorizing the Commissioners Court of Dallas County to expend proceeds of bonds heretofore and hereafter voted by Road District No. 1 of Dallas County, for the purpose of providing for drainage of state highway rights-of-way and adjacent lands where such drainage is made necessary by the construction, widening or improvement of such highways.
SR 56	Caption: Recognizing Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc.
54th Regular Session
SB 44	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act by providing that an individual shall be disqualified for unemployment compensation benefits for any benefit period where his unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a labor dispute at the factory, establishment or other premises (including a vessel) at which he is or was last employed, or because of a labor dispute at another place, either within or without this state, owned or operated by the same employing unit which owns or operates the premises at which he is or was last employed, and supplies materials or services necessary to the continued and usual operation of the premises at which he is or was last employed.
SB 45	Caption: Relating to regulating strikes and picketing; to declare a public policy; to declare unlawful certain types of strikes and picketing; to provide the authority for a trial judge to order an election; prescribing the type of ballots to be used and the eligibility of employees to vote in such elections; to prescribe remedies; to provide conditions under which civil proceedings may be instituted.
SB 46	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing that suits to enjoin strikes or picketing for an unlawful purpose or conducted in an unlawful manner may be brought in the county where the strike or picketing occurred, or in the county of residence of a defendant, or in Travis County when suit is brought by the State of Texas and the State, its agencies or a political subdivision thereof is a party; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict with such subsection.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to regulating transportation of persons for hire or compensation over the public roads, highways, and bridges of this State whether as a common carrier, contract or charter carrier, or as a transportation agency or as a bureau, or as a broker for hire to obtain a co-traveler or co-travelers to share the expense of the trip proposed or otherwise, or to act as an intermediary in connection therewith, or as a broker for hire, agent or otherwise, unless the motor vehicle used in connection therewith is properly equipped with license plate issued by the Railroad Commission of Texas under the laws of the State of Texas.
SB 56	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for a senior college at Arlington State College, prescribing courses of study, and providing an effective date.
SB 68	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to interfere with the performance by a railroad or common carrier motor carrier of its common carrier duties where a labor union or striking employees are picketing or causing to be picketed the premises or approach to the premises of an employer (not a railroad or common carrier motor carrier); making it unlawful for the employees of such railroad or common carrier motor carrier to refuse to pass through a picket line or pickets for the purpose of switching loaded or empty railroad cars or loaded or empty motor vehicles from or to the picketed employer; providing penalties and providing for restraining orders and injunction and civil damages; declaring the provisions of the Act to be severable.
SB 71	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to funeral establishments to permit same to be located in cemeteries.
SB 80	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to make it a misdemeanor offense for a clerk to issue a marriage license to applicants under twenty-one in case of males or under eighteen in case of females without the consent of parents or guardian or County Judge and without requiring substantial evidence of age; prescribing form of consent; authorizing the clerk to require evidence; prescribing a penalty; making an exception; containing a separability clause.
SB 95	Caption: Relating to creating Ten Mile Creek Water Control and Improvement District; defining its boundaries; providing for the annexation of additional territory; defining its powers and duties, and making the General Laws of the State of Texas relating to water control and improvement districts applicable to the district; providing for a Board of Directors for the government of said District; authorizing the issuance of bonds and providing for the payment and security thereof; making applicable to the District Title 52, relating to eminent domain; enacting a saving clause and other provisions relating to the District.
SB 106	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes relating to law licenses granted to graduates of the law schools of certain universities entering military service, as as to provide the same rights to graduates of certain law schools entering the employ of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes providing for exemption from the requirements of passage of the State Bar Examination as to any subject or subjects which the candidate has satisfactorily passed prior to entering the Military Service or Merchant Marine Service, or the service of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in certain law schools provided such applicants are graduates of such law schools, so as to provide the same rights to graduates serving with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SB 121	Caption: Relating to providing for the granting of corporate charters to subordinate churches, congregations, parishes, committees or any other religious organizations of the Orthodox Church and other like institutions and orders organized for religious purposes which are incorporated under the laws of Texas; providing for the rights of the subordinate; providing for the revocation of the charters of the subordinates by such parent.
SB 122	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by designating the purpose for which and the manner in which life insurance companies may secure, hold and convey real property; adding thereto subdivision 5 authorizing certain life insurance companies with the prior approval of the Board of Insurance commissioners, and subject to certain other limitations, to purchase or lease lands and to erect thereon improvements for the production of income; designating such properties located within this State as "Texas Securities".
SB 127	Caption: Relating to establishing as a permanent District Court the Special Criminal District Court of Dallas County, heretofore established as a temporary District Court, to be known as the Criminal District Court No. 3 of Dallas County; making necessary appropriations.
SB 144	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to the Texas Municipal Retirement System.
SB 170	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by providing that license fees collected hereunder shall be placed with the State Treasurer in a separate fund, known as the Local Recording Agents' and and Solicitors' License Fund; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
SB 200	Caption: Relating to appropriating money out of the General Revenue Fund to the Secretary of State in his official capacity, to be by him placed in the suspense account as provided in Article 7057b, V.C.S.
SB 223	Caption: Relating to authorizing out-of-state trust companies and banks, including national banks, to act in certain fiduciary capacities in the state of Texas, and national banks, with their principal offices in this sate, are permitted so to act in such other states, territories or the District of Columbia, by the laws thereof; providing conditions upon which such rights to act in the State of Texas may be exercised, and a penalty for failure to comply therewith.
SB 224	Caption: Relating to amending an Act providing for the creation of county-wide Hospital Districts in counties having a population of 190,000 or more, and Galveston County; providing for an election in the county in question to create such District and to assume hospital indebtedness; providing for the levy of taxes by the Commissioners' Court for hospital purposes; providing for the issuance of bonds by the Commissioners' Court upon authorization by the property taxpaying voters, for the purpose of the creation and expansion of a hospital system, such bonds to be the obligation of the hospital district; providing for the approval of such bonds; providing for an election on the question of bonds; providing for the issuance or refunding bonds without an election.
SB 239	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to school bus transportation provided in the Foundation School Program Act.
SB 275	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to protected Assignments of Accounts Receivable regardless of whether such accounts are in existence at the time notice of assignments is filed; defining "Account" or "Account Receivable"; providing for the form and filing of notices relating thereto; providing for the filing, cancellation, satisfaction, and release of such notice; and providing the duties and fees of the County Clerk in connection therewith; providing that the recording of such notices shall constitute constructive notice regardless of whether the contract out of which the accounts arose was in the contemplation of the assignor and assignee when the notice of assignment was executed.
SB 283	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts authorizing the appointment of a Purchasing Agent for Dallas County and prescribing his duties and salary; prescribing the mode, manner and method by which supplies, materials, equipment and machinery may be purchased, and making it a misdemeanor and a violation of the law, and fixing a penalty for violation of the provisions relative thereto.
SB 302	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts to redefine "Wholesale Fish Dealer" and "Retail Fish Dealer".
SB 303	Caption: Relating to amending State Employees Retirement System Act relative to Optional Allowance for Service Retirement to make payments to beneficiaries.
SB 314	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts creating the Dallas County Water Supply and Control District; relating to changing the method of selecting the directors for said District.
SB 334	Caption: Relating to defining and regulating the practice of practical nursing in this State; requiring all persons engaged in practical nursing to be licensed through the State Board of Health and requiring payment of certain license fees; prescribing the qualifications for licenses; providing for approval and licensing of schools of practical nursing and for payment of fees for such licenses; making other provisions relative to issuance, renewal, suspension and revocation of licenses; prescribing certain offenses and fixing a penalty therefor; providing for severability.
SB 357	Caption: Relating to a definition of adjacent or contiguous cities and towns; regulating telephone rates and service within and between adjacent or contiguous cities or towns of a certain population in counties of a certain population; requiring telephone companies to provide facilities and equipment necessary for intercity service; providing a penalty; providing a severability clause.
SB 358	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Banking Code of 1943 so as to authorize state banks or trust companies to sell mortgages to the Federal National Mortgage Association, or any successor thereof; providing that such institutions may make capital contributions, and receive stock therefor, in connection with such sales, as may be required by law; repealing conflicting laws.
SB 375	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by extending the duration of the Special Criminal District Court of Dallas County.
SCR 24	Caption: Requiring all state supported colleges and universities to telecast certain football games.
SCR 32	Caption: Recognizing the WFAA radio station program "Early Birds" on its 25th anniversary.
SCR 34	Caption: Granting the Austin Bridge Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 59	Caption: Instructing the Senate Enrolling Clerk to make certain corrections in S. B. No. 127 and S. B. No. 395.
SCR 62	Caption: Granting Magnolia Petroleum Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 66	Caption: Instructing the Senate Engrossing Clerk to prepare a duplicate bill of S. B. No. 314 in order for it to be properly endorsed.
SJR 8	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas by repealing Section 62a, Article XVI of the Constitution of the State of Texas, and substituting therefor a new section 62a, authorizing needed changes in and revision of the State Employees Retirement System of Texas, providing for the necessary election, form of ballot, proclamation and publication and making an appropriation to defray the necessary expenses of proclamation, publication, and holding the election.
SR 24	Caption: In memory of Reuben Wright Jackson.
SR 32	Caption: In memory of Elmer Lincoln Scott.
SR 43	Caption: In memory of Joseph Patrick Lynch.
SR 57	Caption: Welcoming the students of Mesquite High School to the State Capitol.
SR 73	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day H. A. Walker, L. E. Starke, Howard Taylor, and J. R. Storey.
SR 84	Caption: In memory of William S. Henson.
SR 97	Caption: Recognizing Jerome K. Crossman for being selected as an outstanding citizen of Dallas.
SR 125	Caption: Welcoming the students of De Soto High School to the State Capitol.
SR 128	Caption: Welcoming the students of Camp Woodland Springs of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 159	Caption: Welcoming the members of the Southern Methodist University baseball team to the State Capitol.
SR 265	Caption: Welcoming the students of Southern Methodist University to the State Capitol.
SR 270	Caption: In memory of John Genaro.
SR 283	Caption: Welcoming the students of Dallas Pilot Institute for the Deaf to the State Capitol.
SR 303	Caption: In memory of Pelham K. Wallace.
SR 349	Caption: Welcoming the students of Greenhill School of Dallas to the State Capitol.
SR 366	Caption: Recognizing Pearl C. Anderson for her philanthropic donation to the City of Dallas.
SR 431	Caption: Inviting Fess Parker to address the Senate.
SR 436	Caption: In memory of David Lefkowitz.
53rd Regular Session
SB 25	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that any bank or trust company doing business in this State may, at its option, close on Saturday or on any other week-day and that such day shall be deemed to be a legal holiday for bank purposes.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to amending the Policemen's, Firemen's, and Fire Alarm Operators' Pension Fund and Benefit Acts for certain cities and towns with 432,000 or more inhabitants
SB 33	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the creation of private corporations to engage in the business of employment or labor agencies recruiting workers for employment and dissemination of information in connection thereto, and for the performance of any lawful act in connection therewith.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing that any corporation organized under the certain provisions may make provision for employees to purchase or take option to purchase shares of stock of such corporation.
SB 41	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relative to admission taxes on places of amusement, so as to change the base rate of the tax as to admissions to theaters, motion picture theaters, operas, plays and like amusements and so as to provide for penalties for failure to make the quarterly report or to make a false or incomplete report or failure to pay the tax when due.
SB 43	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes by providing for making loans and investing funds on real estate security under certain conditions; providing for notice to the Banking Commissioner and supervision by him in case of liquidation; providing for converting a State Credit Union to a Federal Credit Union.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code to change the period of examination of companies by the Board of Insurance Commissioners to three years.
SB 63	Caption: Relating to prescribing the liability of owners of dogs; authorizing persons bitten, injured or attacked by dogs to recover damages from the owners of said dogs under certain circumstances.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code so as to authorize corporations for the purpose of operating local insurance agencies.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to providing for constructing, operating and maintaining a turnpike between the Cities of Dallas and Fort Worth.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to make the General Laws of Texas relating to maintenance taxes and bonds of Independent School Districts separated from municipal control.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to power of Texas Employers Insurance Association to pay dividends.
SB 142	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes by authorizing the commissioners' court to order publication of the record of its proceedings, in whole or in part, in some newspaper of general circulation in the county.
SB 143	Caption: Relating to amending the Insurance Code by re-defining the term "Texas Securities" to include within the definition the debentures, preferred stock and common stock of any solvent electric public utility company or its holding company incorporated in Texas and doing business in the State.
SB 155	Caption: Relating to creating an agency for the licensing and regulation of private detectives, investigators, patrolmen, guards and watchmen in this State; providing a penalty for the violation of the Act.
SB 303	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of county-wide hospital districts in counties having a population of 190,000 or more, and Galveston County, according to the last preceding Federal Census.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts of certain counties to adopt a major highway plan and to establish building lines or set-back lines along such thoroughfares, and to create a Board of Adjustment relating thereto.
SCR 11	Caption: Granting Henry J. Wallace, Ava Cain Hamilton Price, Hunter Price, Jr., Effie Wallace Briscoe, Rayburn M. Hamilton, D. Wallace Hamilton, and Berta Ila Williams permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 73	Caption: Suspending the Joint rules of the Legislature in order to allow the Senate to consider H. B. No. 632 at any time.
SJR 2	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment by providing that the Legislature may authorize the creation of county-wide Hospital Districts in certain counties if approved by the qualified voters at an election.
SR 5	Caption: In memory of Virginia Falls Clark.
SR 18	Caption: Welcoming Charles Pierce and Jerome Thornton to the State Capitol.
SR 35	Caption: In memory of Tom C. Gooch.
SR 38	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor for a day to John Kennedy England.
SR 46	Caption: In memory of Christian C. Weinsel.
SR 47	Caption: In memory of Eric C. Gambrell.
SR 64	Caption: Inviting Gaynor Maddox to address the Senate.
SR 75	Caption: Congratulating State Senator Gus J. Strauss on the occasion of his birthday.
SR 78	Caption: Welcoming Jane Angeline Hardwick to the State Capitol.
SR 82	Caption: In memory of James M. Floyd.
SR 92	Caption: In memory of Joe E. Cooper.
SR 96	Caption: In memory of Mrs. Martin A. Row.
SR 111	Caption: Recognizing Ben H. Wooten for outstanding service and public devotion to the city of Dallas and the State of Texas.
SR 213	Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment to make treaty law subordinate to the U. S. Constitution.
SR 221	Caption: In memory of Mrs. Z. M. Duckworth.
SR 274	Caption: Recognizing Rita Rhea Ramsey on the occasion of her birthday.
SR 287	Caption: Commending Allen Duckworth and the Dallas Morning News for calling attention to the effort to return the tidelands to the jurisdiction of Texas.
SR 290	Caption: Recognizing Fred M. Lange for his services to the community and the State.
53rd 1st Called Session
SB 23	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of the Adult Probation and Parole Law, for the operation of a paid parole program under the supervision of the Board of Pardons and Paroles; appropriating and providing for an increase in salaries in accordance with any general pay increase for State employees which may be enacted at this session of the Legislature.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor for any person to enter a vehicle or railroad car not his own without the consent of the owner or lessee and to negligently set fire thereto, and prescribing the penalty therefor; making injury or destruction of any part of the vehicle or railroad car by fire while such person is still therein prima facie evidence of a violation of this Act.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to making it a misdemeanor for any person to enter a house, building, structure, vehicle or railroad car not his own without the consent of the owner or lessee and to negligently set fire thereto, and prescribing the penalty therefor; making injury or destruction of any part of the house, building, structure, vehicle or railroad car by fire while such person is still therein prima facie evidence of a violation of this Act.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to the crime of burglary and arson, so as to provide that if any person commits burglary and fire is communicated to the house, building or structure burglarized while the person committing the burglary is still therein, the same shall be prima facie evidence that he also committed arson.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities having more than 300,000 population to issue Airport Revenue Bonds.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to amending and re-enacting Statutes relating to creating an advisory civil judicial council; providing that the council shall be known as the Texas Judicial Council; adding to its duties a study of courts having criminal jurisdiction, the rules and procedure in criminal trials and appeals and the gathering of statistics and the making of recommendations regarding these procedures; providing that retired judges shall be eligible for membership on the Council.
SB 48	Caption: Relating to creating a special interim committee to make a study of laws of this state relating to crimes and criminal procedures; making an appropriation.
SCR 2	Caption: Urging the President of the United States to review and countermand a certain order from Veteran's Administration regarding the consolidation of certain district offices.
SCR 20	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to allow the consideration of S. B. Nos. 32, 33, and 34.
SR 25	Caption: Welcoming the students of Mesquite High School to the State Capitol.
SR 28	Caption: In memory of Tom E. Brani
SR 44	Caption: In memory of Ida King.
SR 49	Caption: In memory of Edward Henry Cary.
SR 54	Caption: Recognizing Julius Schepps for his being awarded the Linz Award of 1953.
SR 58	Caption: Recognizing Arthur L. Kramer, Jr. for his contributions to the community of Dallas.
SR 76	Caption: Directing the presentation of a portrait of Albert C. Prendergast to the Senate.
SR 77	Caption: In memory of George Thomas Kean.
52nd Regular Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide increased penalty for violation of gross weight and axle load limit of commercial motor vehicles, cancellation of operator's and driver's licenses.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to provide for suspension and cancellation of permits for violation of gross weight and axle load limit.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to creating an additional County Criminal Court for Dallas County, Texas; prescribing the jurisdiction of said Court; prescribing the powers of said Court; prescribing the terms thereof, the practice therein and the appeals therefrom; providing for the appointment and election of a judge of said Court.
SB 33	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes regulating the issuance of marriage licenses; prescribing penalties.
SB 34	Caption: Relating to providing for the release, in whole or in part, of certain powers of appointment, the manner and form of accomplishing such releases, the legal effect of such releases, the validation of certain of such releases executed prior to the effective date of this Act.
SB 35	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes to make judgments of Court of Civil Appeals conclusive on the law and facts in certain cases.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to prescribing the liability of owners of dogs; authorizing persons bitten or injured by dogs to recover damages form the owner or owners thereof under certain circumstances; making it unlawful to own, harbor or have in custody any dog that bites, injures or attacks a person lawfully upon the property of the scene of the injury; limiting the application of this Act.
SB 49	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing a penalty for violation of safety glass provisions of Uniform Traffic Code.
SB 60	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for adult probations and parole; making an appropriation.
SB 61	Caption: Relating to protecting the public health by requiring that all persons licensed to practice the healing art in the State of Texas must in the professional use of their name identify the system of the healing art which they are licensed to practice; to provide for the enforcement of this Act, and penalties for its violation.
SB 81	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to re-define the term "exceptional children" and to include exceptional children teacher units in computing total current operating costs of school districts.
SB 113	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code to provide gross weight formula and limiting to 38,000 pounds all commercial vehicles, truck-tractors, trailers, semi-trailers or combination thereof on all highways outside of limits of incorporated cities or towns.
SB 128	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by providing that Policemen and Firemen and Fire Alarm Operators may, while serving their probationary period have the benefits of the Act.
SB 141	Caption: Relating to creating "North Texas Municipal Water District," comprising the territory contained within the cities of Garland, Princeton, Plano, Mesquite, Wylie, Rockwall, Farmersville, McKinney and Forney, for the purpose of providing a source of water supply for municipal, domestic and industrial use and processing and transporting the same.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes to provide a two-year limitation in connection with suits involving freight charges on property transported by common carriers within the State of Texas.
SB 192	Caption: Relating to providing for and regulating the use of photographic copies of business and public records as evidence in judicial and administrative proceedings.
SB 229	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts defining "Average Prior Service Compensation"; providing that former employees who return to State service may be eligible for the same retirement benefits as other State employees.
SB 248	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts so as to authorize Dallas County Flood Control District to issue bonds.
SB 267	Caption: Relating to amending the anti-trust laws of the State by providing that it is a conspiracy in restraint of trade where any employer and any labor union or labor organization, or other organization, make an agreement or combination whereby persons not members of such union shall be denied work by such employer, or whereby such membership is made a condition of employment, or whereby such union acquires an employment monopoly.
SB 269	Caption: Relating to amending Statutes relating to date for election of board of directors of insurance companies in this State.
SB 303	Caption: Relating to authorizing counties having a population in excess of 600,000 inhabitants to create the office of County Fire Marshal.
SB 322	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of a Commission on Uniform State Laws, the appointment of Commissioners thereto, and making an appropriation for the same.
SB 374	Caption: Relating to prescribing the powers, duties and obligations of cities including Home Rule cities and those operating under General Law or special charters having a population in excess of four hundred twenty-five thousand (425,000) inhabitants with reference to properties of levee improvement districts which have heretofore been annexed or which may hereafter be annexed by such cities.
SB 375	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure to provide for the service of citation to sureties of a defendant where the recognizance or bail bond has been forfeited and the sureties have not been exonerated from liability thereon.
SB 383	Caption: Relating to amending Dallas County Road Law by creating County Planning Board outside of incorporated cities or towns of Dallas County.
SB 391	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles pertaining to the custody, care, education and support of minor children so as to give any District Court where a minor child and the legal guardian have resided for six months jurisdiction to enforce, amend, change or make such order concerning the child as it deems necessary, including the power of contempt in such cases providing for filing such suits, notice and making certain certified copies of records prima facie evidence and also giving the Court power to allow reasonable attorneys fees.
SCR 17	Caption: Granting R. E. Garber permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 24	Caption: In memory of E. P. Simmons.
SCR 29	Caption: In memory of C. S. Slatton.
SJR 14	Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the Legislature to provide a Retirement, Disability and Death Compensation Fund for the elective officers and employees of the State and County as well as the appointive ones.
SR 15	Caption: In memory of Hal F. Buckner.
SR 17	Caption: Urging that Texas employers do not deny members of the National Guard employment.
SR 61	Caption: Authorizing the Senate Investigating Committee to investigate all labor organizations.
SR 106	Caption: Recognizing the Dallas Morning News and Allen Duckworth for their story on the Tidelands.
SR 120	Caption: Welcoming Jim Gatewood and his wife, Virginia Gatewood, and Anne Gatewood to the State Capitol.
SR 178	Caption: Welcoming Richardson G. Scurry, Jr., to the State Capitol.
SR 206	Caption: Welcoming students of Grand Prairie and their teacher to the State Capitol.
SR 223	Caption: In memory of Alex F. Weisberg.
SR 267	Caption: In memory of Eli Sanger.
SR 289	Caption: in memory of Sol Dreyfuss.
SR 290	Caption: In memory of William Arthur Browning.
SR 296	Caption: In memory of Marion Francis Webster.
SR 302	Caption: Welcoming Judy Webb, Sybil Wyche and Nita Fraser to the State Capitol.
51st Regular Session
HB 22	Caption: Relating to repealing an Act levying an emergency luxury excise tax.
HB 166	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act regarding the Texas Municipal Retirement System; providing for the lending of not in excess of $50,000 to said System from the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas, and making an appropriation therefor; and for the the repayment by the System of such advancement; declaring the Act to be severable.
HB 303	Caption: Relating to conferring upon all incorporated cities and towns power and authority to regulate, supervise, control and license all persons, firms or corporations engaged in the business of conducting auction sales of jewelry, diamonds, previous or semi-precious stones, watches, clocks, gold, silver and plated ware, stationery, glassware, porcelain, bric-brac and providing that such cities and towns shall have authority to prescribe appropriate penalties for the violation of any ordinance, or ordinances passed in pursuance thereto; declaring the terms of this act to be severable.
HB 315	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, reducing the minimum years of Creditable Service to be eligible for State Employees Retirement System benefits; providing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 316	Caption: Relating to appropriate money out of the State Highway funds to pay the judgment, interest, and costs in favor of Christine Mayes Wallace, in Cause No. 88216-C, styled Christine Mayes Wallace, et vir, Morris Wallace vs. The State of Texas and the State Highway Department, in the 68th District Court of Dallas County, Texas.
HB 349	Caption: Relating to validate all subdivisions and detachments of territory from common school districts and common county line school districts and the annexation thereof to contiguous independent school districts; validating the enlarged independent school districts resulting therefrom and conferring upon such independent districts all the powers possessed in their original statues or by other independent school districts; validating the acts of all school officials pertaining thereto; validating all independent school districts so enlarged whether by all or only a portion of the common school district so subdivided, declaring the territory so subdivided and annexed to be legal and integral parts of such enlarged districts; validating all elections and other acts for spreading all the prior obligations of said independent district over their entire territory after such enlargement; validating all taxes of such districts; validating all bonds issued in such enlarged districts and the elections authorizing the same; validating the closing of elementary schools in such annexed territory, sale of school property, disposition of the proceeds.
HB 360	Caption: Relating to suspending a previous Act so as to regulate retirement compensation for State employees.
HB 380	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain independent school districts to issue bonds to finance building programs and issue them in installments as funds are needed; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of other laws but shall take precedence in event of conflict with any other laws; providing a severability clause.
HB 440	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to adult probation and parole; making an appropriation; containing a saving clause; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
HB 508	Caption: Relating to amending Article 432 of the Penal Code relating to Nepotism so as to provide shall not apply to persons holding offices or positions two years prior to the time an officer or board member related to them takes office; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
HB 588	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring premarital examinations for syphilis; providing penalties for the violation thereof.
HB 597	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring prenatal examinations for syphilis; providing penalties for the violation thereof.
HB 621	Caption: Relating to amend a previous Act, to require additional safety equipment on certain vehicles operated upon the highways of this State; providing for repeal of all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this Act to the extent of such conflict.
HB 662	Caption: Relating to requiring all cities, towns, and villages incorporated have prepared and file revised maps showing additional territory annexed by their corporate boundaries.
HB 666	Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its Agency the Dallas County Flood Control District, to which State General Fund ad valorem taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters related to the subject.
HB 678	Caption: Relating to amending previous Articles of the Texas Civil Statues, relative to insurance companies.
HB 713	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for a seven (7) ex officio member Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of Texas; providing a savings clause; repealing all laws in conflict.
HB 764	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court in all counties in this State having a population of not less than 375,000 according to the last preceding Federal census, to impound for the purpose of inspection, evidence and public safety, any motor vehicle demolished or disabled by reason of a wreck or collision on the public highways or roads in said counties, and which motor vehicle is unable to proceed safely under its own power, or when the occupants, owners or persons last in charge thereof before such wreck or collision are physically unable to drive the said motor vehicle.
HB 778	Caption: Relating to providing that members of any retirement, disability and death compensation fund established by any county shall have the right to designate a beneficiary to whom his contributions to such fund, with interest if any thereon, shall be paid in event of death of the member before retirement.
HB 785	Caption: Relating to amend previous Act, relative to the transportation of vehicles carrying other vehicles.
HB 836	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, prescribing powers and duties of the Texas State Board of Examiners in Optometry; repealing all laws in conflict herewith and declaring that the remainder of the Act shall not be affected by the unconstitutionality or invalidity of any part thereof.
HB 899	Caption: Relating to validating certain orders of Boards of Directors of water control and improvement districts which have installed and are operating water distribution systems and sewer collection and disposal plants and which have issued ad valorem bonds on such systems payable also out of revenues therefrom and which districts have been enlarged by such orders granting petitions of land owners filed with said districts that lands described in such petitions be added to said districts.
HB 943	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to membership in the State Employees Retirement System.
HB 972	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the publication of certain proposed Constitutional Amendments.
HJR 38	Caption: Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Texas authorizing the Legislature to provide for a State-wide system of retirement and disability Pensions for appointive officers and employees of the several counties of this State.
HJR 41	Caption: Proposing an Amendment to Article IX of the Constitution of the State of Texas providing for Counties to take over the full responsibility for the erection, construction, maintenance and support of a hospital or hospital system which may now be jointly operated by a County and a City.
HR 116	Caption: Proposing an amendment to the House Rules.
50th Regular Session
HB 29	Caption: Relating to establishing a pension system for employees of cities and towns of this State; repealing conflicting laws; containing a saving clause; making this Act effective immediately.
HB 120	Caption: Relating to empowering the courts of record of the State of Texas having original jurisdiction of criminal actions to suspend the imposition or execution of sentence and to place defendants on probation under certain conditions; repealing laws in conflict; providing that if any part of this Act is declared unconstitutional it shall not the validity of the remainder of the Act; defining certain terms; providing for an appropriation.
HB 168	Caption: Relating to providing a Retirement System for aged and incapacitated State employees.
HB 237	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing, empowering and directing the State Board of Control to erect and maintain the Dallas State Hospital within not more than five (5) miles from the City limits of Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, the same being composed of the Dallas Psychopathic Hospital and the State Cancer and Pellagra Hospital.
HB 363	Caption: Relating to providing that every child in certain school districts who is seven years and not more than sixteen years old, shall be required to attend school.
HB 386	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to finding and declaring that there exist in cities of the State blighted areas, resulting in depreciated values, impaired investments and inability of said areas to pay reasonable taxes; that the acquisition, clearance, and redevelopment and reconstruction of such blighted areas, and the sale or lease of the land within such areas for redevelopment in accordance with a redevelopment plan of such city are public uses and purposes and governmental functions; providing for the appointment, qualification and tenure of office of the Commissioners of the Authority; providing that if any portion of this Act is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby; providing that insofar as the provisions of this Act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other, this Act shall control.
HB 387	Caption: Relating to creating a more efficient road system for Dallas County by establishing a uniform system of opening, construction, and maintenance of county roads; fixing certain penalties; declaring the construction to be placed upon this Act and requiring the Courts to take cognizance thereof; making the provisions of the Act cumulative with the General Laws on the subject when not in conflict, and in the event of conflict, making making the provisions of this Act to take control, and providing that nothing shall impair the right of the county to issue bonds under the provisions of the Constitution and the laws of this State; providing a saving clause and a repealing clause.
HB 440	Caption: Relating to repealing a certain Act; providing an Employment and Labor Agency Law for Texas; declaring it to be a violation to operate without a license and providing penalties; providing a saving clause; repealing conflicting laws.
HB 450	Caption: Relating to the construction, acquisition and operation of automotive parking stations by certain eligible cities and towns, and providing for the financing thereof; containing a severability provision; enacting other provisions relating to the subject.
HB 702	Caption: Relating to permitting certain fiduciaries to establish common trust funds and to invest trust funds therein; providing for severability of the provisions of this Act; repealing all laws inconsistent therewith.
HB 719	Caption: Relating to authorizing the separation of public schools from municipal control in certain extended municipal school districts pursuant to an election to be held for that purpose; enacting provisions incident and relating to the subject; providing that if any section or part of this of this Act is held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or the remainder of this Act
HB 801	Caption: Relating to providing in certain counties for the appointment by the District Judges of a bailiff to be in charge of the general panel in such counties; providing a saving clause.
HB 838	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the publication of certain proposed Constitutional Amendments.
HB 893	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to pay the contingent expenses, mileage and per diem of Members and the per diem of officers and employees of the Fiftieth Legislature, and to pay any unpaid accounts or expenses of the Forty-ninth Legislature.
HCR 63	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make corrections to H.B. No. 29.
HCR 69	Caption: Recalling H.B. No. 29 from the Governor.
HCR 177	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 363.
HCR 178	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider H.B. No. 386.
HCR 196	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules to consider S.B. No. 354.
HJR 23	Caption: Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment to require not less than thirty percent of all qualified voters to vote in elections for the purpose of issuing bonds, or otherwise lending public credit.
HR 1	Caption: Naming J.R. Suggs, Dallas County Judge, as temporary special page to the Speaker.
HR 89	Caption: Designating Virginia Lee Etheridge as a Mascot of the House.
HR 221	Caption: Commending the City of San Antonio and involved organizations for hosting the Legislature at the "Battle of Flowers" parade.
HR 259	Caption: Providing for copies of the Texas Almanac be provided to each Member of the House of Representatives.
HR 267	Caption: Providing for post-session work, interim employees, etc.
49th Regular Session
HB 55	Caption: Relating to providing that no person, firm, association or corporation engaged in any business enterprise in this State shall, by any method or procedure, directly or indirectly, by itself, or through any subsidiary agency owned or controlled in whole or in part by such person, form, association or corporation, sell or procure for sale or have in its possession or under its control for sale to its employees or to any person, any article, material, product or merchandise of whatsoever nature not his or its own production or not handled in his or its regular course of trade or business, with certain exceptions; providing and fixing penalties.
HB 73	Caption: Relating to providing for the prevention and control of communicable diseases; repealing all articles, sections and sub-sections of law which conflict or are inconsistent with this Act; prescribing a penalty.
HB 161	Caption: Relating to providing for the protection of unborn children and the public health by requiring premarital examinations for syphilis; providing penalties.
HB 356	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation of the sum of Seventeen Thousand, Seven Hundred Nineteen Dollars and Ten Cents ($17,719.100), or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the balance due on the cost of publication of House Joint Resolution No. 8 and House Joint Resolution No. 18 passed by the Regular Session of the Forty-eighth Legislature.
HB 573	Caption: Relating to dedicating the Eastham State Farm in Houston County, Texas and the Ferguson State Farm in Madison County, Texas, to the Texas Prison System.
HB 616	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the classification of prisoners for good conduct, industry and obedience and the commutation of time in accordance with said classification; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
HB 623	Caption: Relating to authorizing and directing the State Board of Control to purchase site for and construct at a total cost of not to exceed $1,500,000.00 of which entire cost of the amount of the purchase of the site therefor shall not exceed 10% of said total sum, for the purpose of constructing within not more than five miles from the city limits of Dallas, Texas, State Cancer and Pellagra Hospital and the Dallas Psychopathic Hospital, and both of which shall compose the Dallas State Hospital; making an appropriation.
HB 725	Caption: Relating to establishing a Municipal Pension System of Texas.
HB 863	Caption: Relating to amending the Penal Code so as to further define a "sufficient fence" and Gateway; repealing all laws in conflict with sad statutes as amended.
HB 865	Caption: Relating to prescribing an alternate method for the consolidation of cities and towns to that now prescribed in Statutes, and providing that two cities or towns in this State, over 15,000 in population, adjoining and contiguous to each other in a county in this State having a population of more than 350,000 inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal census, by amending or without amending the charter, if any, of either such municipality, may consolidate in accordance with the terms and provisions of a written contract entered into between the governing bodies of the two cities or towns, which shall become effective when and if but not until a majority of the qualified voters voting at an election in each of said cities or towns, which election need not be held in each city or town on the same day, shall vote in favor of such consolidation.
HB 870	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation from the General Revenue Fund for the publication of certain proposed Constitutional Amendments.
HCR 104	Caption: In memory of Mrs. Josephine Collins of Dallas.
HJR 10	Caption: Proposing an amendment creating the "Texas State Employees' Retirement Board"; authorizing said Board to provide a system of retirement, disability and death compensation for officers and employees of the State; providing for an election on the question of adoption of this amendment; and making an appropriation for said election.
HJR 63	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that any two or more cities or towns within any County having a population of more than three hundred thousand inhabitants in this State may consolidate under Charter Provisions or contracts, approved by a majority vote of the qualified electors thereof an election, with or without a reservation by or allocation of police, governmental and other powers to any such municipalities as a Borough or District of a consolidated city, not to be amended other than by vote of the electors of such unit, providing for proclamation, publication and election.
HR 43	Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot.
HR 44	Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot.
HR 45	Caption: Electing the children of house members to the office of mascot.
HR 103	Caption: In memory of L. V. Stockard of Dallas.
HR 256	Caption: Commending Graham Hall for his public service.
48th Regular Session
HB 297	Caption: Relating to providing for special fire fighting equipment for Dallas County.
HB 311	Caption: Relating to defining "labor union" and other terms requiring the registration of labor unions, prescribing the contents of registration statements, etc.; providing for criminal penalties.
HB 484	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes prescribing and regulating the circumstances in, and conditions upon, which insurance companies may acquire, own, use, and convey, and must convey, real estate and interests in real estate and liens upon real estate; and providing escheat for violations; providing severability.
HB 485	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statues prescribing and regulating the circumstances in, and conditions upon, which insurance companies may acquire, own, use, and convey, and must convey, real estate and interests in real estate and liens upon real estate; and providing for escheat; providing severability.
HB 486	Caption: Relating to amending certain Statutes prescribing and regulating the circumstances in, and conditions upon, which fire, marine, and inland insurance companies organized under the laws of this State may acquire, own, use and convey, and must convey, real estate and interests in real estate and liens on real estate; providing for escheat for violation; providing for severability.
HB 751	Caption: Relating to authorizing any city or town, in any county of this State having a population of more than three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) inhabitants, regardless of how incorporated, to acquire by gift, purchase, condemnation or otherwise separately or jointly with any other city, town, cities, towns or other city, town, cities, towns and county, within which such municipality is situated, property within or outside of such city, town, cities and towns for public purposes as set out in this Act.
HB 755	Caption: Relating to providing for special fire fighting equipment in all counties having a population of three hundred and fifty thousand (350,000) or more according to the last preceding Federal Census.
HCR 98	Caption: Instructing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make certain corrections to H.B. No. 297.
HJR 8	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 51 of Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Texas, providing that cities and towns in this State shall have power and authority to provide a system of retirement and disability pensions for its employees, provided, however, that no pension system shall be set up in any city until it has been approved at an election by the qualified voters entitled to vote on the question of issuance of tax supported bonds.
HJR 18	Caption: Proposing an amendment providing that counties may levy, assess and collect such taxes as may be authorized by law but not to exceed eighty cents on the one hundred dollars valuation in any one year.
HR 105	Caption: Inviting Myldred Parham, Lieutenant, to address the House.
HR 115	Caption: Designating Frank D. Summers as a Mascot of the House.
HR 172	Caption: Designating Barry Lewis Walters as a Mascot of the House.
HR 238	Caption: Designating Judith Kay Reed and Alicia Ann Reed as Mascots of the House.
HR 249	Caption: In memory of Joel Earl Lawther of Dallas, Texas.
43rd Regular Session
HB 107	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property owned or used exclusively and reasonably necessary in conducting any association engaged in promoting the religious, educational and physical development of boys and girls, young men or young women operating under a State or National organization of like character, and all endowment funds of such institution.
HB 118	Caption: Relating to providing for licenses, permits and fees for same for commercial fishermen, wholesale fish dealers, fish jobbers and retail fish dealers, and defining same.
HB 214	Caption: Relating to providing for the raising of additional revenue by levying and providing for payment and collection of taxes upon persons engaged (within this State) in certain business and providing for ascertainment, assessment, and collection of the amount of such tax to be paid to the State of Texas at times and in the manner provided in the Act.
HB 326	Caption: Relating to permitting the sale by farmers within any incorporated cities or towns the produce from said farm, unless such produce has been proven unsanitary or detrimental to the health of said community or town; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict therewith.
HB 460	Caption: Relating to repealing certain statute relating to collection of penalties on occupation taxes.
HB 614	Caption: Relating to amending the game laws pertaining to fur-bearing animals.
HB 643	Caption: Relating to providing more protection to the public in licensing of automobiles; providing for identification of automobiles, and providing penalties for the counterfeiting of automobile license tags.
HB 691	Caption: Relating to providing that canners of fish, shrimp, and oysters shall be required to procure a license and pay a tax on such marine products as is now required to be paid by wholesale dealers in marine products.
HB 698	Caption: Relating to exempting from taxation the property owned, or used exclusively, and necessary in conducting any charitable and religious association engaged in promoting the religious, educational and/or physical development of boys and girls, young men, or young women, operating under a State or national organization of like character, and all endowment funds of such institutions.
HB 737	Caption: Relating to providing for the election of delegates composing a convention held in this State for the purpose of passing upon the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
HB 794	Caption: Relating to providing for a mandatory audit of county officials, said audit to be authorized by commissioners court at regular intervals; providing for the payment therefor, the publication thereof, and the disposal of recommendations made by auditors employed as provided herein.
HR 6	Caption: Retracting permission for certain adjournment period in order to reduce further debts.
HR 18	Caption: Fixing salary, per diem, and mileage for members of the House.
HR 34	Caption: Naming William Nelson Coombes Mascot of the House.
HR 138	Caption: Requesting an opinion from the Attorney General regarding the constitutionality of HB 122 and HB 123.
43rd 1st Called Session
HB 41	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Depository Board to accept warrants drawn against the General Revenue Fund of the State as collateral to secure deposits made by the State in State Depositories.
HCR 57	Caption: Suspending certain joint rules so that the House might consider SB 39.
43rd 2nd Called Session
HCR 11	Caption: Granting Sam Tobolowsky and James Gripeotis permission to sue the State of Texas.
HR 25	Caption: Inviting Representative T.H. McGregor to address the House on the occasion of George Washington's birthday.
43rd 3rd Called Session
HB 11	Caption: Relating to granting Sam Tobolowsky and James A. Gripeotis permission to bring suit against the State of Texas and State Highway Department.
HR 18	Caption: Providing for photographs of retiring Representatives F.C. Weinert and J.L. Goodman.
43rd 4th Called Session
HR 12	Caption: Providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate the purpose and intent of officers of the Book of Texas Company in proposing to use the names of legislators as endorsers.