Legislation authored by Rogers Caswell Kelley

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54th Regular Session
SB 78	Caption: Relating to amending the Election Code of the State of Texas relating to assessments and filing fees of candidates in primary elections; changing the basis of assessment and the method of payment of the filing fee for candidates for Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals in primary elections; fixing the filing fee for the office of Lieutenant Governor; fixing the time for payment of fees.
SB 94	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts by excepting from the definition of "Motor Carrier" and "Contract Carrier," and exempting from the provisions of such Acts any person transporting fresh iced fish or shellfish from coastal production-landing points to packing or freezing plants upon the filing of certain insurance; providing for the repeal of all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act; providing that if any section, sentence, clause, phrase, word or part of this Act be held invalid or unconstitutional it shall not affect the remaining portions.
SB 159	Caption: Relating to changing the name of Willacy County Water Control and Improvement District Number One, a water control and improvement district having its territory within the Counties of Hidalgo and Willacy, in the State of Texas to Hidalgo and Willacy Counties Water Control and Improvement District Number One.
SB 168	Caption: Relating to creating the Lower Rio Grande Commission of the State of Texas, providing for a Commission to be composed of three (3) members, to be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, setting out their qualifications, tenure, organization, salary and duties, making provisions for appointment of a secretary, hydrographers, engineers, lawyers and other employees to aid in the accomplishment of the purposes of the Commission; requiring records, minutes and accounts to be kept, designating and defining certain waters as being the property of the State of Texas and over which the Commission shall exercise jurisdiction; providing for the Commission to make all rule necessary for its government and proceedings, providing for the establishment and maintenance of an office, providing that it shall be the duty of the Commission to administer, manage and control the distribution of the defined waters in and below the International Reservoir highest upstream now and hereafter constructed to those persons, firms, associations, public and private corporations and other water users entitled to share in beneficial uses of the waters of the Rio Grande in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas.
SB 169	Caption: Relating to providing for the reappropriation of funds heretofore appropriated for the construction and equipment of State Hospitals for tuberculosis patients to replace the State's facilities at Weaver Baker Sanatorium; appropriating funds heretofore or hereafter granted by the Federal Government or any State agency for this purpose.
SB 176	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to extend the duration of the Special 138th District Court and the Special 139th District Court through August 31, 1958.
SB 177	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to provide that the practice in the County Court at Law of Cameron County and the appeals and writs of error therefrom shall conform to laws relating to county courts.
SB 189	Caption: Relating to amending the Code of Criminal Procedure pertaining to fees allowed district or county attorneys, by raising the fee allowed for conviction of misdemeanors; raising the fees allowed when the defendant pleads guilty before a Justice of the peace or is convicted on a plea of not guilty before a Justice of the Peace; raising the fee allowed where pleas of guilty are accepted in the justice court at a time other than the regular term thereof; repealing all laws in conflict.
SB 226	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts relating to the speed of vehicles on highways; changing the prima facie lawful speed limits for certain classes of vehicles operated under certain conditions.
SB 297	Caption: Relating to authorizing counties on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico having islands within their boundaries susceptible of development for recreational purposes to issue bonds for the construction of roads on such islands, secured by a pledge of tolls to be charged for the use thereof and further by the levy of a tax.
SB 298	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Court of Cameron County to issue bonds, time warrants and certificates of indebtedness, payable from the Constitutional Road and Bridge Fund of the county, and to levy and collect taxes in payment therefor, for the purpose of acquiring right-of-way for designated state highways and for such other road and bridge purposes that may now be authorized by law, and providing terms and conditions relating thereto.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to providing for the formation of corporations for the purpose of issuing variable annuity contracts of insurance; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict.
SB 374	Caption: Relating to providing that any oil, gas and mineral lease, or oil and gas lease, heretofore granted for a valid consideration by any city, including home rule cities, town, village, county or any of the following political subdivisions of this state: water control and improvement districts, water control and preservation districts, water control districts, water improvement districts, water power control districts, water supply districts, or irrigation districts, shall not be cancelled or held void or voidable because the lessor in any such lease or leases has failed to give notice by newspaper published in the county in which the leased lands are located of the intention to grant any such oil, gas and mineral lease, or oil and gas lease, on lands belonging to such lessor, stating the time and place where bid of such leases were to have been received.
SB 390	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering navigation districts heretofore or hereafter organized to provide for and administer a retirement, disability and death compensation fund for officers and employees of the district; providing for the investment, reinvestment and change of investment of such funds; authorizing the Commissioners of said district to adopt a plan or plans for effectuating the purpose of this Act, to provide rules and regulations governing all such compensation and from time to time to change any such plan, rule or regulation; and providing that the recipients or benefits of such fund shall not be eligible for any other pension retirement fund or direct aid from the State of Texas, unless the fund created hereunder is released to the State as a condition precedent to receiving such other aid.
SB 392	Caption: Relating to making permanent the Special 138th District Court and the Special 139th District Court, such permanent courts to be known as the 138th District Court and the 139th District Court; providing for the selection and tenure of the judges of these permanent District Courts and for payment of their salaries and expenses; providing for severability.
SCR 13	Caption: Inviting Seaborn Collins to address a Joint session of the Legislature.
SCR 47	Caption: Directing the Texas Legislative Council to make a study regarding the status, rights, and privileges of women in the State legal code.
SCR 51	Caption: In memory of Adina de Zavala.
SCR 52	Caption: Requesting Congress to appropriate more funding for the construction of the Pan-American Highway System.
SCR 61	Caption: Designating the week of March 7 through March 12, 1955 as Public Schools Week in Texas.
SCR 85	Caption: Recognizing Walter E. Long nd the staff of the Texas Legislative Service for their work during the Session.
SR 105	Caption: Inviting Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. to address the Senate.
SR 144	Caption: Welcoming Charles Curtis, B. F. McKee, and Henry P. Griffin to the State Capitol.
SR 147	Caption: Welcoming Raymond G. Howard, E. D. Peck, and L. E. Grantham to the State Capitol.
SR 171	Caption: Welcoming the members of the League of Women Voters form Brownsville to the State Capitol.
SR 176	Caption: Welcoming the members of the League of Women Voters of Edinburg to the State Capitol.
SR 179	Caption: Welcoming the members of the League of Women Voters of Harlingen to the State Capitol.
SR 255	Caption: Welcoming Milton D. Richardson, Jesse Dudley, Charles E. Curtis, Thurman Carter, C. G. Green, and B. F. McKee to the State Capitol.
SR 295	Caption: Granting the privileges of the floor to Gloria Sue Martin to the State Capitol.
SR 421	Caption: Welcoming John E. Lyle of Corpus Christi to the State Capitol.
53rd Regular Session
SB 11	Caption: Relating to providing for the location, construction, maintenance and operation of State Hospitals for tuberculosis patients to replace the State's facilities at Weaver Baker Sanatorium; providing for care and treatment of tubercular patients; making appropriations.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to authorizing counties in this State having a population in excess of one hundred twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census to donate and convey land to the State of Texas for the establishment of a State of Texas for the establishment of a State tuberculosis sanitorium.
SB 13	Caption: Relating to detaching certain lands from Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 14; finding notice of intent to apply for passage of such Act to have been given.
SB 26	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Board for Texas State Hospitals and Special Schools to transfer tuberculosis patients from the Weaver H. Baker Tuberculosis Sanatorium to other facilities and to the San Antonio State Tuberculosis Hospital and the Legion Sanatorium, a part of the Veterans Administration Hospital, Kerrville, Texas; providing for the care, treatment, and support of tuberculosis patients to be transferred; making necessary appropriations for the temporary rehabilitation of the Legion Sanatorium.
SB 44	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture for the operating expenses of the Citrus Division for the remainder of the calendar year of 1953, provided for its expenditures under the general provisions of House Bill No. 426, Regular Session, Fifty-second Legislature.
SB 202	Caption: Relating to validating the creation, organization, boundaries, and boundaries of Hidalgo County Water Control and Improvement District No. 15 and the annexation of lands thereto.
SB 345	Caption: Relating to providing for zoning of Padre Island lying within Cameron and Willacy Counties by the Commissioners Courts of said counties on recommendation of a zoning commission of seven members to be appointed by the said Commissioners Courts.
SCR 8	Caption: Designating March 1 through March 7, 1953 as Public Schools Week in Texas.
SCR 12	Caption: In memory of Harry S. Ridgeway.
SCR 15	Caption: In memory of William D. Woodroof.
SCR 16	Caption: Inviting Eve Ashton to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 21	Caption: Designating March 15 to March 22, 1953 as "Korean Veterans Appreciation Week" in Texas.
SCR 27	Caption: Recognizing Carlos E. Castañeda for his work in higher education.
SCR 32	Caption: Commemorating Pan-American Day on April 14, 1953.
SCR 45	Caption: Designating the Centennial Year anniversary of the Public School System in the State of Texas and recognizing all of those who contributed to its accomplishments.
SCR 59	Caption: Recognizing March 1 through March 6, 1953 as Public Schools Week in Texas.
SR 8	Caption: Welcoming Jack Parkhouse to the State Capitol.
SR 180	Caption: Welcoming the members of the League of Women Voters of Edinburg, Mission, and Harlingen to the State Capitol.
SR 223	Caption: Welcoming the students of Sacred Heart School of Edinburg to the State Capitol.
SR 237	Caption: Paying tribute to the heroes of the Battle of San Jacinto.
SR 273	Caption: Recognizing State Senator George Parkhouse on the occasion of his birthday.
53rd 1st Called Session
SB 4	Caption: Relating to finding a Communist conspiracy to be in existence committed to the overthrow of the government of the United States and of this State by force or violence, constituting a clear and present danger thereto; declaring the Communist Party of the United States, including its local or related components in Texas, illegal, depriving it of all rights, privileges and immunities otherwise incident thereto; providing for forfeiture of property to the State and procedure for recovery thereof; making membership in, or participation in the violent overthrow activities of such party a felony; providing a penalty.
SB 5	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to commit, attempt to commit, or aid in the commission of any act intended to overthrow, destroy, or alter, or assist in the overthrow, destruction, or alteration of, the constitutional form of the government of the United States, Texas, or any subdivision of either, by force or violence, or to advocate, abet, advise, or teach by any means any person to commit, attempt to commit, or aid in the commission of any such act; defining offenses and prescribing penalties, disqualifications, and forfeitures.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to creating as temporary courts the Special 138th District Court, for Willacy and Cameron Counties, and the Special 139th District Court, for Hidalgo County; making an appropriation.
SCR 1	Caption: Memorializing Congress to pass an amendment to the U. S. Constitution that places certain limits on the treaty powers and authority.
52nd Regular Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to amending certain statutes apportioning the State of Texas into Senatorial Districts; naming the counties composing each district; providing that each district shall be entitled to elect one Senator.
SB 21	Caption: Relating to creating the County Court at Law of Hidalgo County; making said court a court of record; prescribing its jurisdiction, civil, including matters of eminent domain, criminal and probate, and conforming to such jurisdiction the jurisdiction of the County Court of Hidalgo County and the jurisdiction of the district court of the 92nd Judicial District.
SB 28	Caption: Relating to adopting and establishing a new code relating to public waters of the State to be known as the Surface Water Code.
SB 29	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Citrus Commission Act; providing methods for the better enforcement of said Act and the means and regulations issued thereunder.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to authorizing the appointment, by the District Attorney for the 79th Judicial District, of an Assistant District Attorney for the 79th Judicial District and an Investigator in the 79th Judicial; fixing the compensation of said investigator and assistant and providing for the manner in which same shall be paid; providing for the powers and duties of said assistant and investigator; authorizing said investigator to serve as probation officer in the 79th Judicial District.
SB 145	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to practice chiropody without a valid license duly registered in the District Clerk's Office; providing for the keeping of a "Chiropody Register" by every District Clerk; defining those regarded as practicing chiropody.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to amending the Uniform Act regulating traffic on highways so as to exempt from this section vehicles used in the actual harvesting and transporting of perishable fresh fruits or vegetables from the fields to a packing or processing plant.
SB 190	Caption: Relating to authorizing Road District Number 4 of Nueces County to purchase, own, operate, maintain, repair and improve the existing causeway, bridges, and ferries between the City of Aransas Pass and the City of Port Aransas and to pay the cost of acquiring, repairing and improving same from the proceeds of bonds heretofore or hereafter issued under Section 52, Article III of the Constitution.
SB 208	Caption: Relating to amending certain articles providing for Juvenile Board in certain counties, fixing the salaries of the members thereof.
SB 216	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts providing for the salary of the Judge of the County Court of Law of Nueces County.
SB 217	Caption: Relating to amending certain Acts so as to exempt motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers, owned and used exclusively in the service of the United States Government, the State of Texas or any political subdivision of the State of Texas or any political subdivision of the State of Texas, or a county or any political subdivision thereof from the payment of license or registration fees to the State of Texas.
SB 259	Caption: Relating to authorizing cities and towns on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico to purchase, construct, own, maintain, improve, repair, operate, or lease any wharf, pier, pavilion, dock, harbor or boat basin, and such other facilities as may be deemed advisable in connection therewith, including ferries.
SB 279	Caption: Relating to providing that Hidalgo County, Texas, may deposit with the State Treasurer an amount sufficient to pay, and for the purpose of paying, all of its water improvement bonds together with the interest thereon to the date when they become due or optional for prior payment and the contract premium, if any.
SB 280	Caption: Relating to providing that the State ad valorem tax levied under Article 8, Section 1a, of the Constitution of Texas, in the Counties of Nueces, Jim Wells, Jim Hogg, Brooks, Kleberg, Willacy and Duval, heretofore donated and granted to the City of Corpus Christi, be paid to said city in an amount sufficient to discharge all obligations payable from such donation and grant.
SB 281	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts to define certain words; providing for approval of bonds by the Attorney General and registration by the Comptroller of Public Accounts; making bonds eligible for purchase by certain Insurance Companies.
SB 302	Caption: Relating to providing for the payment of traveling expenses of members of the Commissioners' Courts in certain counties.
SB 324	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by changing the provisions regarding the Water Control and Improvement Districts to which said Act applies.
SB 325	Caption: Relating to appropriating Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1500), or so much thereof as is necessary, to the Judiciary Section-Comptroller's Department for the payment of salary due the District Attorney of the Twenty-eighth (28th) and One Hundred and Fifth (105th) Judicial Districts for the period beginning with the effective date of the 1950 Federal Census and ending August 31, 1951.
SB 401	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain Independent School Districts to issue refunding bonds due serially and bearing interest at a rate or rates not to exceed three and one-half (3 1/2%) per cent interest per annum, for the purpose of refunding outstanding term refunding bonds bearing graduated rates of interest.
SB 446	Caption: Relating to permitting Boards of Trustees of Independent School Districts having control of a Junior College, to divest themselves of the control of said Junior College by placing control thereof in a Board of Regents of nine (9) members.
SB 472	Caption: Relating to validating all proceedings relating to numerical re-designation of all fresh water supply districts.
SB 473	Caption: Relating to amending certain acts by permitting navigation districts which have heretofore or which may hereafter adopt plans for the construction of a grain elevator to place management of said elevator in a Board of Trustees during the time said elevator is encumbered to secure revenue bonds issued for the acquisition thereof.
SCR 1	Caption: Inviting Erle Cocke, Jr., to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 38	Caption: Inviting Donald R. Wilson to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 45	Caption: Authorizing the Texas College of Arts and Industries to accept donation of certain land by King Ranch and Lon Hill.
SCR 53	Caption: In memory of R. B. Creager.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment relating to the expenditure of public money for the establishment and maintenance of a Bureau of Immigration.
SJR 6	Caption: Proposing an amendment authorizing the appointment of Notaries Public for the State at large.
SR 37	Caption: Naming Rita Rhea Ramsey Princess of the Senate.
SR 43	Caption: Inviting John E. Lyle, Jr., to address the Senate.
SR 119	Caption: Welcoming Brad Taylor and his wife to the State Capitol.
SR 224	Caption: Welcoming students of San Isidro and La Grulla High Schools and their teachers to the State Capitol.
51st Regular Session
SB 5	Caption: Relating to authorizing an election for the purpose of creating a County-wide School Equalization Fund in certain counties; providing a savings clause and repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 6	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, making eligible all counties entitled to receive apportionment under the Officers' Salary Law.
SB 7	Caption: Relating to making eligible all counties entitled to receive apportionment under the Officers' Salary Law; providing a savings clause; repealing all other laws or parts of laws in conflict with any provisions of this Act.
SB 8	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in all Judicial Districts in this state.
SB 47	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing electric cooperatives shall pay some taxes as other corporations engaged in same business.
SB 79	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to the Livestock Sanitary Commission for the enforcement of House Bill No. 19 of the 50th Legislature, entitled: "Livestock-Foot and Mouth Disease-Quarantine."
SB 111	Caption: Relating to providing for an open season on deer, turkey, quail and doves in McMullen County, Texas.
SB 112	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that in counties having only one district court and having a juvenile board, such board shall designate the county or district court of such county as the Juvenile Court for said county, and in all other counties having only one district court, but no juvenile board, the County Judge and the District Judge of such county shall designate the county or district court of such county as the Juvenile Court.
SB 156	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Hidalgo County Road District Number 10 in Hidalgo County, Texas for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads and turnpikes, or in aid thereof; providing that the provisions of this Act shall prevail in the event of conflict with any other General or Special Laws; providing that if any provision hereof is held to be invalid such holding shall not affect the other provisions hereof.
SB 158	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, provide for the selection of Judges of the Corporation Courts in cities heretofore or hereafter Incorporated under or adopting or amending their charters under Article II, Section 5, of the Constitution of the State of Texas, in the manner specified in the Charters of such cities; repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 176	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to drive or operate any motor or other vehicle upon any beach in the State at a rate of speed in excess of twenty-five (25) milers per hour during the daytime and in excess of twenty (20) miles per hour during the nighttime, or at any time while the operator of such vehicle is intoxicated; providing for arrest without warrant for such violations; defining beach and providing the penalty.
SB 188	Caption: Relating to providing procedure for the annexation, by certain cities and towns, with the consent of the corners, of land or territory, to the extent of one-half mile in width, which is vacant and without residents, or no which less than three qualified voters reside, contiguous and adjacent to any incorporated city or town having a population of five thousand (5,000) or less inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census; providing that this Act shall be cumulative with other laws on the subject of annexation of territory by cities and towns.
SB 212	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Road District Number 9 of Hidalgo County, Texas, under Article III, Section 52 of the Constitution of Texas for the purpose of construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof; providing that the provisions of this Act shall prevail in the event of conflict with any other General or Special Laws; providing that if any provision hereof is held to be invalid such holding shall not affect the other provisions hereof.
SB 235	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation to the State Department of Agriculture, Division of Horticulture and Plant Quarantines, for the purpose of employing personnel and paying their expenses to search for and inspect host plants of dangerous citrus insect, pest or plant diseases, especially for Citrus Black Fly, on road stations leading into the Citrus Belt of Texas and on International Bridges between the United States and the Republic of Mexico.
SB 236	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for appeals to the Court of Civil Appeals in forcible entry and detainer suits; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
SB 246	Caption: Relating to to repealing the special game law (buck deer) for Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties.
SB 264	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, creating a lien on domestic vessels for wharfage, dockage, etc., by any Navigation District or Port, deep-water or otherwise, within the territorial limits of the State of Texas; preserving the validity of any provisions of this Act not specifically held to be unconstitutional.
SB 265	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act so as to authorize Navigation Districts coming within the scope of said Act to increase the terms of office of their Navigation and Canal Commissioners to six-year terms.
SB 304	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the exemption from taxation of property owned by certain veterans' service organizations.
SB 305	Caption: Relating to create the 105th Judicial District and the 105th District Court for the counties of Nueces, Kleberg, and Kenedy; providing a saving clause; repealing conflicting laws and making this Act cumulative of other laws.
SB 359	Caption: Relating to granting an easement to the United States in and to the bed and the banks of the Rio Grande River from Ft. Quitman to the mouth of said river for the construction of Government Projects.
SB 360	Caption: Relating to authorizing certain types of property defined therein as "Urban Property," situated within, and subject to taxation by, certain types of water control and improvement districts or water improvement districts, described in the Act, now existing or hereafter to be created, to be excluded from such districts by proceedings and upon conditions prescribed in the Act.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its agency Cameron County, to which State General Ad Valorem taxes have been adopted or granted; enacting other matters relating to the subject.
SB 362	Caption: Relating to authorize Commissioners' Courts to purchase, build or construct buildings and other permanent improvements to be used for annual and agricultural products, and/or livestock and mineral products of the county, and providing for the location and payment therefor.
SB 363	Caption: Relating to preserving the faith and credit of the State and its agency, Hidalgo County, to which State General Fund Ad Valorem Taxes have been donated or granted; enacting other matters relating to the subject.
SB 405	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for certain County Court jurisdiction in Willacy County to be placed in the 107th District Court; repealing all laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict and making this Act cumulative of all existing laws governing such Courts; providing a severability clause.
SB 406	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that minors above the age of eighteen (18) years, who are in the armed forces, and those above the age of eighteen, who have been discharged from the armed forces of the United States, may have their disabilities of minority removed under certain conditions; providing that this Act shall be cumulative.
SB 415	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relating to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operations and maintenance of causeways, bridges and tunnels by certain counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico.
SB 422	Caption: Relating to creating a County Court at Law of Nueces County, Texas, and prescribing its jurisdiction; repealing specified previous Acts; providing that this Act shall be severable.
SB 423	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for additional compensation for county auditors in counties of (90,000-225,000).
SB 426	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for compensation of all members of Juvenile Boards in certain counties having a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) or over.
SB 427	Caption: Relating to authorizing Commissioners' Courts of counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico and in which is located any island or islands suitable for park purposes, to create a Board of Park Commissioners in such counties; providing this Act shall be cumulative; providing this Act shall be severable.
SB 437	Caption: Relating to creating and establishing Hidalgo County Road District Number 11 in Hidalgo County, Texas, under Article III, Section 52 of the Constitution of Texas for the purpose of the construction, operation, and maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads or turnpikes, or in aid thereof; providing that the provisions of this Act shall prevail in the event of conflict with any other General or Special Laws; providing that if any provision hereof is held to be invalid such holding shall not affect the other provisions hereof.
SB 501	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of the General Revenue Fund of the State of Texas to the Agricultural and Mechanical College (the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station System) for the benefit of Sub-Station No. 15-Weslaco, Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars for the next biennium beginning September 1, 1949, and ending August 31, 1951, for continued research and personnel to restore irrigation soils.
SCR 18	Caption: Endorsing the effort to have the name of William Crawford Gorgas to be inscribed in the New York Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
SCR 26	Caption: Inviting Perry Brown to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 36	Caption: Directing the creation of a committee to study the water rights of the State of Texas.
SCR 37	Caption: Designating the port on Red Fish Bay in Willacy County as Port Mansfield.
SCR 48	Caption: Inviting M. E. Sadler to address a Joint Session of the Legislature.
SCR 50	Caption: Granting Glenn D. Thomas permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 57	Caption: Recognizing the observance of Memorial Day in Texas.
SCR 61	Caption: Granting the Pacific Securities Corporation permission to sue the State of Texas.
SCR 69	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider H. B. No. 47.
SCR 72	Caption: Directing S. B. No. 93 go into effect immediately upon passage.
SJR 1	Caption: Proposing an amendment to Section 2 of Article VI of the Constitution, repealing the provision making the payment of a Poll Tax a qualification of an elector; providing for the necessary election, proclamation and publication by the Governor, and making an appropriation.
SR 47	Caption: In memory of William Parnill.
SR 48	Caption: Welcoming the students of Big Foot Independent School to the State Capitol.
SR 84	Caption: Directing the creation of the Senate block portrait.
SR 103	Caption: In memory of Frank M. Kemp.
SR 104	Caption: Welcoming Nancy Tally to the State Capitol.
SR 105	Caption: Urging the citizens of Texas to observe Army Day on April 6, 1949.
SR 115	Caption: Inviting former Attorney General William McCraw to address the Senate.
SR 116	Caption: Welcoming the students of Azle High School to the State Capitol.
SR 137	Caption: Welcoming the students of Pearshall High School to the State Capitol.
51st 1st Called Session
SB 25	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, authorizing and empowering the Commissioners Court of each county of this State, where said county has acquired a water supply from subterranean waters for county purposes, to sell, contract to sell and deliver to any public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of this State, for use or resale, any or all such water not needed for county purposes; repealling all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith to the extent of the conflict only; providing that if any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Act is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining portion shall not be affected thereby.
SB 30	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, changing the time and terms of holding the terms of District Court in Jim Wells, Starr, Brooks and Duval Counties, constituting all of the counties in the 79th Judicial District of Texas.
SB 32	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the appointment of a bailiff and probation officer by the District Judge of the 105th Judicial District for Nueces County in said district.
SB 36	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for the approval of the County Commissioners' Court to the appointment of members of the Board of Park Commissioners; providing that this Act be cumulative of all other laws but shall take precedence in event of conflict with other laws; providing a severability clause.
SB 37	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing for certain County Court jurisdiction in Willacy County to be placed in the 107th District Court, including appeals in condemnation proceedings; repealing all laws in conflict herewith to the extent of such conflict and making this Act cumulative of all existing laws governing such courts; providing a severability clause.
SB 38	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, concerning the collection of delinquent taxes on tracts of land 1,000 acres or more which are owned by 20 or more persons in undivided interest; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of other existing laws, except in so for as the same conflict herewith; repealing all conflicting laws to the extent of the conflict.
SCR 22	Caption: Suspending the Joint Rules of the Legislature in order to consider S. B. No. 36.
50th Regular Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts; naming the counties composing each district; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
SB 20	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, fixing the compensation of District Attorneys in all Judicial Districts in this state.
SB 74	Caption: Relating to granting and donating of certain taxes on all property in Hidalgo County, by changing the period in said Act from the years 1935 to 1948, both inclusive, to the years 1935 to 1954, both inclusive; providing that if any part of this Act be held unconstitutional if shall not affect any other part of this Act.
SB 75	Caption: Relating to providing for more equitable salaries for elective county superintendents of public instruction in certain rural counties; repealing all laws in conflict therewith.
SB 76	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, acquisition of and payment for causeways, bridges and tunnels by certain counties in Texas so as to eliminate certain restrictions as to the location of such causeways, bridges and tunnels.
SB 77	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, relative to the remission of certain taxes to the counties of Willacy and Cameron for flood protection by changing the period in said act from twenty-five to forty years.
SB 78	Caption: Relating to making emergency appropriations for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1947, for the construction of a greenhouse and laboratory.
SB 133	Caption: Relating to appropriating Two Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-six and 66/100 ($2,666.66) Dollars out of the General Revenue to pay the salary of the District Attorney of the Twenty-eighth Judicial District for the term beginning January 1, 1947, and ending August 31, 1947.
SB 191	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, by making eligible all counties entitled to receive apportionment under the officer's salary Law.
SB 231	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, providing that the provisions of the Act shall apply only to the Navigation Districts in this state having a city containing three hundred seventy five thousand (375,000) population or more.
SB 244	Caption: Relating to fixing an open season for hunting, taking or killing quail in Kleberg and Kenedy Counties.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to appropriating funds to the State Department of Agriculture, such funds to appropriated for the remainder of the fiscal year ending August 31, 1947.
SB 266	Caption: Relating to amending a previous Act, validating certain sales made by water improvement district and water control and improvement districts.
SB 267	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to kill or attempt to kill deer or wild quail, or to trap or molest same in Duval County, for a period of five (5) years; providing a penalty; repealing all conflicting laws.
SB 304	Caption: Relating to providing for the creation of county-wide independent school districts in counties having a scholastic population of not more than twenty-five hundred (2500) and having not more than two school districts which have conducted schools within the past two years; enacting other provisions relating to the subject; enacting other provisions relating to the subject.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to fixing an open season on buck deer in Cameron, Hidalgo, and Willacy Counties.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to granting easement to any navigation district which has one or more boundaries coincident with any part of the international boundary; providing that this Act shall be cumulative of all existing laws on the subject of this Act; providing that if any section, word, phrase, clause or sentence in this Act shall be declared unconstitutional for any reason, the remainder of this Act shall not be affected thereby.
SB 338	Caption: Relating to extending the gulfward boundaries of all coastal counties of this state.
SB 361	Caption: Relating to creating the Texas State Guard Reserve Corps from former members of the Texas Defense Guard, Texas State Guard, Texas National Guard and former members of the armed forces of the United States of America; repealing all laws in conflict; providing a saving clause.
SB 382	Caption: Relating to authorizing the State Parks Board to accept title in behalf of the State of Texas to the Port Isabel Lighthouse and the site on which it is located.
SB 400	Caption: Relating to declaring the sovereignty of Texas along its Gulfward seacoast; amending a previous Act.
SCR 23	Caption: Inviting the President of Mexico Miguel Aleman to address a joint session of the Legislature.
SCR 45	Caption: Directing the Enrolling Clerk of the House to make changes to reference in amendment to House Bill No. 257.
49th Regular Session
SCR 35	Caption: Suspending Joint Rules so as to permit the Senate to consider S.B. No. 311 on May 24, 1945.
48th Regular Session
SB 3	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts; naming the counties composing each district.
SB 12	Caption: Relating to making the theft of pneumatic tires a felony; providing a penalty therefor.
SB 64	Caption: Relating to repealing the Employment Agency Law as passed by the Thirty-eighth Legislature in 1923; providing an Employment and Labor Agency Law for Texas; providing for enforcement by civil proceedings; providing penalties.
SB 125	Caption: Relating to granting of aid to certain school districts under certain conditions.
SB 253	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners Courts in counties where any navy base, camp, station or yard, is located, to create a military zone adjacent to such camp, base, station or yard; prescribing penalties for violation thereof.
47th Regular Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the operation of vehicles on the public highways of Texas.
SB 18	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation for the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District, for each of the fiscal years ending August 31, 1942, and August 31, 1943.
SB 51	Caption: Relating to requiring all railroad companies to equip cabooses with electric lights; providing a penalty.
SB 99	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing for the minimum salary for a Secretary-Treasurer to be chosen from among the board members of the Texas College of Arts and Industries.
SB 101	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the employment of a stenographer or clerk by the County Judge of certain counties; fixing salary of same.
SB 117	Caption: Relating to authorizing navigation districts to acquire, extend, construct, repair, build, develop and maintain certain improvements in aid of deep water navigation without taxation and to borrow money therefor from the federal government or any other source.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to amending certain Act providing that the Commissioners' Courts in certain counties may fix the salary of the County Treasurer at any sum not less than Six Hundred ($600.00) Dollars per year and not more than Twenty-seven Hundred ($2,700.00) Dollars per year.
SB 309	Caption: Relating to apportioning the State into Senatorial districts.
SB 310	Caption: Relating to providing for the establishment of a District Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
SB 311	Caption: Relating to amending certain Article providing for commissions to be paid to County Treasurers for various counties in Texas.
SB 312	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court in counties not embraced in a regularly constituted District Attorney's District or Criminal District Attorney's District, and wherein the State of Texas is represented in all criminal matters arising in such county by a County Attorney, to designate such office as the office of Criminal District Attorney of such county.
SB 378	Caption: Relating to providing a more efficient road law and creating a more efficient road system for Webb County, and empowering the Commissioners' Court of said County to provide and adopt rules and regulations for the construction, purchase, and operation of the roads and bridges of said County.
SB 419	Caption: Relating to providing for a supplemental scholastic census in school districts where there is an unusual increase in population due to location of camps, reservations, or building projects by Federal or State Governments; providing for the request by the County Superintendents for such census.
SB 454	Caption: Relating to extending oil and gas mineral leases granted by the State on areas covered by the coastal waters of the State or within the Gulf of Mexico in cases in which the War Department refuses to grant permits to the lessee or the owner of the lease to drill thereon, providing for annual applications by the lessee to the War Department for permits, providing for the payment of rentals during the extended term of the lease, providing that if a permit is granted during the extended term of the lease the lease will continue in force thereafter if the lessee commences operations within sixty (60) days after obtaining a permit and so long as the lessee shall continue drilling operations or if oil is discovered so long as oil, gas or other mineral is produced.
SB 486	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that officers, enlisted men, selectees or draftees of the Army, Army Reserve, National Guard, Navy, Naval Reserve, or the Marine Corps of the United States, stationed within this State by assignment to duty, shall be permitted to enroll their children in State institutions of higher learning by paying the tuition fees and other fees or charges provided for residents of the State without regard to the length of time such officers, enlisted men, selectees or draftees have been stationed on active duty within the State.
SB 488	Caption: Relating to providing that any Water Improvement District heretofore organized under the provisions of Section 52 of Article 3 of the State Constitution which has heretofore been or which may hereafter be converted into a Water Control and Improvement District may be and become again converted into a Water Improvement District, setting out the manner and method of such conversion.
46th Regular Session
SB 1	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to prescribing a formula and fixing the load limit which may lawfully be transported on motor vehicles outside the limits of an incorporated city or town.
SB 2	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act fixing the load limit which may be lawfully transported on commercial motor vehicles outside the limits of an incorporated city or town.
SB 3	Caption: Relating to providing for licensing of operators, commercial operators and chauffeurs; making it unlawful for certain persons to operate a school bus or any motor vehicle while in use as a public or common carrier of persons; providing a penalty.
SB 107	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to imposing a penalty for the stealing or assisting in stealing of citrus fruit from orchards.
SB 108	Caption: Relating to making an emergency appropriation of Thirty-five Thousand ($35,000) Dollars for the Texas College of Arts and Industries at Kingsville, Texas.
SB 124	Caption: Relating to providing for the prevention and control of disease; giving the State Health Officer and the State Board of Health authority to promulgate orders, rules and regulations for the protection of the public health; amending certain the Vital Statistic Law and laws relating to the transportation of dead bodies.
SB 151	Caption: Relating to authorizing the presiding judge in any contested civil case involving land titles to determine whether or not the cause or the defense if unmeritorious in fact and substance and in his discretion, upon the request of the prevailing party, to fix and render judgment for a reasonable Attorney's fee.
SB 152	Caption: Relating to adding a new clause in a certain Act removing agricultural employees from the provisions of unemployment compensation law; defining agricultural labor.
SB 153	Caption: Relating to providing that in all civil cases submitted to juries on special issues in the District and County Courts of this state, no complaint or objection to the form or content of any special issue so submitted may be considered by the trial court, unless such complaint be accompanied by a proper special issue or definition to be submitted in lieu of the one or ones so objected to.
SB 154	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act by providing that tax limitations shall not run against assessments made on property of American Rio Grande Western Land and Irrigation Company.
SB 160	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act providing that the Boards of Directors may refinance bonds already issued.
SB 180	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate of tax to be levied for the purpose of issuing bonds and maintaining the public schools in school districts in certain counties.
SB 181	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the admission of recorded instruments without proof.
SB 193	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Highway Commission to convey right of way to Federal Government for international roads.
SB 206	Caption: Relating to simplifying proceedings in delinquent tax suits.
SB 220	Caption: Relating to fixing the salary of County Auditors in all Counties having not less than fifty-one thousand seven hundred seventy-nine (51,779) inhabitants and not over fifty-two thousand (52,000) inhabitants according to the last preceding Federal Census.
SB 221	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for the creation of private corporations for the purpose of processing and scouring wool, hair, and mohair for profit.
SB 222	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Statute providing for an injunction against the maintenance of livestock in certain cases.
SB 247	Caption: Relating to providing for election of officers in water improvement districts of more than 100,000 acres or in two counties.
SB 248	Caption: Relating to providing that all bonds which have been issued and sold in counties with a population of not less than eight thousand one hundred seventy-eight (8,178) and not more than eight thousand two hundred seventy-eight (8,278) people, according to the last preceding Federal Census shall be entitled to participate in the State Highway Fund.
SB 249	Caption: Relating to confirming and validating all patents issued by the State of Texas in confirmation of Spanish or Mexican Land Grants or Titles issued by the Spanish or Mexican government prior to the Texas Revolution of 1836; relinquishing the title or interest of the State of Texas in any such Spanish or Mexican Land Grants or Titles, and which patents have been issued and outstanding for a period of ten (10) year prior to the effective date of this Act.
SB 250	Caption: Relating to authorizing any county, one or more boundaries of which is coincident with any part of the International Boundary between the United States and Mexico, which may have entered into an agreement with the United States to acquire and upon request to convey to the United States land or interest in land desired by the United States in aid of navigation, irrigation, flood control or improvement of water courses, to secure said land or interest therein for ultimate conveyance to the United States.
SB 251	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful and a felony to make, issue, execute, give, sign, deliver, pass, or circulate a worthless check; providing a penalty for violation.
SB 252	Caption: Relating to creating a special road law for Zapata County, Texas, providing that said County may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its Road and Bridge Fund as of January 1, 1939, setting forth the method of operation.
SB 267	Caption: Relating to validating bonds of non-home rule cities used for construction of public utilities.
SB 288	Caption: Relating to authorizing and empowering the State Highway Commission to expend State Highway funds in the acquisition of existing toll bridges and the construction and maintenance of free bridges across the Rio Grande River between the State of Texas and the Republic of Mexico.
SB 294	Caption: Relating to amending the Texas Citrus Marketing Act providing for the control or the volume of shipments of citrus fruit grown in the area defined in said Texas Citrus Marketing Act by authorizing the fixing of a minimum price on citrus fruit.
SB 316	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation to defray the equitable portion which the State of Texas should make available to the United States Government, or its agencies for completion of the water survey of the Rio Grande River and its watershed from Fort Quitman south to the mouth of the Rio Grande River.
SB 317	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Courts in counties having a population of not less than twelve thousand, one hundred ninety (12,190) inhabitants and not more than twelve thousand, one hundred and ninety-five (12,195) inhabitants, according to the last preceding Federal Census, to levy a direct tax of not more than Ten (10c) Cents on the One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars assessed valuation for health purposes, for the purpose of building, equipping and maintaining a hospital.
SB 318	Caption: Relating to providing for the amount that may be allowed by County Boards of Trustees to the County Superintendents of Public Instruction for office and traveling expenses in certain counties.
SB 319	Caption: Relating to fixing the maximum rate for school purposes in all Independent and Common School Districts in certain counties.
SB 320	Caption: Relating to making an appropriation out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District, for each of the fiscal years ending August 31, 1940, and ending August 31, 1941, to aid said District in making the necessary surveys and preparing the necessary plans for its construction program.
SB 329	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act relating to the creation of the Nueces River Conservation and Reclamation District Act; to provide that the whole of Webb County shall be removed from and excluded from the provisions thereof; creating the Webb County Conservation and Reclamation District.
SB 330	Caption: Relating to amending a certain Act conferring upon the State Highway Department authority to issued permits for operation of vehicles on the public highways in the transportation of perishable fruits, vegetables, livestock or livestock feed stuffs in a weight or load limits now or hereafter allowed by law therefore to be transported over a State Highway.
SB 331	Caption: Relating to an apportioning the State into Senatorial Districts.
SB 332	Caption: Relating to providing for the construction, maintenance and operation of Toll Highways and facilities; declaring same to be public rights and duties; providing for the manner of incorporation thereof.
SB 333	Caption: Relating to authorizing and making it the duty of the Commissioner of the Agriculture to establish, maintain and enforce a quarantine against any dangerous insect pest or plant disease not heretofore widely distributed within the State.
SB 334	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court of McMullen County to pay bounties on coyote scalps in McMullen County to preserve game in said County.
SB 367	Caption: Relating to authorizing the Commissioners' Court in any county having a population of not less than ten thousand three hundred ninety-nine (10,399), and not more than ten thousand four hundred ninety-nine (10,499), according the last preceding Federal Census, to allow each County Commissioner certain traveling expenses while traveling on official business.
SB 368	Caption: Relating to amending certain Sections of an Act relating to the bonding and licensing of dealers in citrus fruit in the State of Texas.
SB 386	Caption: Relating to permitting any defendant to testify and providing that he shall not be compelled to testify; providing that it shall not be error for the jury to comment in their deliberations upon the failure of the defendant to testify.
SB 387	Caption: Related to providing for the method of summoning a special venire in capital cases.
SB 388	Caption: Relating to providing that in all cases where two or more defendants are jointly indicted, the right of severance and to separate trials shall be vested in the discretion of the Court.
SB 411	Caption: Relating to defining coloring matter and its composition, manufacture, sale and use in connection with citrus fruit.
SB 412	Caption: Relating to providing for rural school supervisor in counties having a population of not less than two thousand eight hundred fifty (2,850) and not more than two thousand eight hundred seventy-five (2,875) inhabitants, in lieu of Teachers' Institutes.
SB 413	Caption: Relating to making it unlawful to take fish or shrimp except with certain prescribed tackle in certain waters of Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces County, Texas; providing a penalty for violation of any provision of the Act.
SB 417	Caption: Relating to authorizing incorporated cities, towns or villages, Independent School Districts, Common School Districts, Drainage Districts, Water Control and Improvement Districts, Water Improvement Districts or Navigation Districts in this State to avail themselves of the services of County Tax Assessors and Collectors.
SB 464	Caption: Relating to providing for the jurisdiction of the County Court of Duval County; conferring upon said Court complete civil and criminal jurisdiction and general jurisdiction of the Probate Court due said Court under the Constitution and General Laws of Texas.
SB 484	Caption: Relating to creating a Special Road Law for McMullen County, Texas, providing that said county may fund or refund the indebtedness outstanding against its road and bridge fund as of May 15, 1939.
SCR 23	Caption: Authorizing appropriation from the contingent expense fund to pay for a portrait of Governor James V. Allred to be placed in the rotunda of the Capitol.
SCR 53	Caption: Authorizing the Enrolling Clerk to make certain correction in HB 852.
SCR 65	Caption: Supporting the validity of the remainder of SB 320 in the case that any individual part of the bill should be judged invalid.
SJR 16	Caption: Proposing a constitutional amendment increasing the number of State Senators to thirty-five (35).