HB 2703 88-0 (2023)
Author: Guillen, Ryan
Relating to a study on alternatives to litigation for disputed land title claims.
House: State Affairs
Referred to State Affairs
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Interim Studies | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | Property Interests--Real Property | SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed
HB 3165 88-0 (2023)
Author: Holland, Justin | et. al.
Relating to the establishment, administration, and use of the Texas land and water conservation fund.
House: Natural Resources
Received from the House
| Agriculture | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | CONSERVATION OF WILDLIFE | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LAND & WATER CONSERVATION BOARD | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Parks & Wildlife--Parks | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION BOARD, TEXAS STATE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed | State Finances--Management & Control | STATE HIGHWAY FUND | WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, TEXAS | WATER--CONSERVATION | Water--Development | Water--General
HB 3812 88-0 (2023)
Author: Jetton, Jacey
Relating to the establishment and use of the Texas Infrastructure Fund.
House: State Affairs
Referred to State Affairs
| BRIDGES & CAUSEWAYS | BROADBAND NETWORKS | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Highways | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE | State Finances--Management & Control | TOLL ROADS & TOLL BRIDGES | TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | Transportation--Aviation | Transportation--Miscellaneous | Transportation--Railroads | Water--Navigation & Ports
HB 4573 88-0 (2023)
Author: Goldman, Craig
Relating to the issuance of a permit by the commissioner of the General Land Office for a wind power facility on coastal public land; authorizing a fee; providing a civil penalty.
House: State Affairs
Referred to State Affairs
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS (ERCOT) | Energy--Wind | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | INSURANCE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | PERMITS | PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION | RAILROAD COMMISSION | TRANSPORTATION, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF
HB 4712 88-0 (2023)
Author: Hayes, Richard
Relating to the burden of proof in a suit or administrative proceeding to establish that an area is subject to the public beach easement.
House: Natural Resources
Referred to Natural Resources
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 1303 88-0 (2023)
Author: Middleton, Mayes | et. al.
Relating to the issuance of a permit by the commissioner of the General Land Office for a wind power facility on coastal public land; authorizing a fee; providing a civil penalty.
Senate: Natural Resources & Economic Development
Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL OF TEXAS (ERCOT) | Energy--Wind | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | INSURANCE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | PERMITS | PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
SB 2485 88-0 (2023)
Author: Kolkhorst, Lois | et. al.
Relating to the establishment, administration, and use of the land and water conservation fund.
Senate: Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Referred to Water, Agriculture, & Rural Affairs
| Agriculture | CONSERVATION EASEMENTS | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LAND & WATER CONSERVATION BOARD | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Parks & Wildlife--Parks | Property Interests--Real Property | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed | State Finances--Management & Control | WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, TEXAS
SB 2550 88-0 (2023)
Author: Middleton, Mayes
Relating to the line of vegetation following a meteorological event.
Senate: Natural Resources & Economic Development
Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | Disaster Preparedness & Relief | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
HB 1315 86-0 (2019)
Author: Flynn, Dan
Relating to the continuation and functions of the School Land Board.
House: Land & Resource Management
Referred to Land & Resource Management
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Mines & Mineral Resources | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Finances--Management & Control | Sunset--Commission Bills
HB 1328 86-0 (2019)
Author: Flynn, Dan
Relating to the operations and functions of the Veterans' Land Board and the sunset review date for and programs administered by the board.
House: Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Left pending in committee
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Housing--General | Military & Veterans | Sunset—Required Reviews | VETERANS' LAND BOARD
HB 1523 86-0 (2019)
Author: Nevárez, PonchoSponsor: Buckingham, Dawn
Relating to the continuation of the regulation of land surveyors and the transfer of the regulation to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, following the recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; changing fees.
House: Licensing & Administrative Procedures Senate: Business & Commerce
Effective on 9/1/19
| ENGINEERS & ENGINEERING | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions | PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS, TEXAS BOARD OF | PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, TEXAS BOARD OF | SENATE, TEXAS | STATE AGENCIES' RULES | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | Sunset--Commission Bills | SURVEYORS
HB 1581 86-0 (2019)
Author: Geren, Charlie
Relating to the sale of electric power to and the imposition of a tax on the gross receipts of electric power for certain public customers.
House: State Affairs
Referred to State Affairs
| Education--School Districts | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION | Taxation--General | Utilities--Electric
HB 1868 86-0 (2019)
Author: Lozano, J. M. | et. al.
Relating to the creation of the Texas Rural Water Advisory Council.
House: Agriculture & Livestock Senate: Water & Rural Affairs
Referred to Water & Rural Affairs
| Agriculture | AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | RURAL WATER ADVISORY COUNCIL, TEXAS | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed | Water--General
HB 2263 86-0 (2019)
Author: Paddie, Chris | et. al.Sponsor: Hancock, Kelly
Relating to the sale of electric power to certain public customers.
House: State Affairs Senate: Business & Commerce
See remarks for effective date
| Education--School Districts | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION | Utilities--Electric
HB 2418 86-0 (2019)
Author: Nevárez, Poncho
Relating to a written response by the General Land Office to a request by a governmental entity to use certain real property owned by the state.
House: Land & Resource Management
Referred to Land & Resource Management
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
SB 607 86-0 (2019)
Author: Watson, Kirk | et. al.Sponsor: Flynn, Dan
Relating to the operations and functions of the Veterans' Land Board and the sunset review date for and programs administered by the board.
House: Defense & Veterans' Affairs Senate: Veteran Affairs & Border Security
Effective on 9/1/19
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Housing--General | Military & Veterans | STATE GUARD, TEXAS | Sunset—Required Reviews | VETERANS' LAND BOARD
SB 608 86-0 (2019)
Author: Watson, Kirk | et. al.Sponsor: Paddie, Chris
Relating to the continuation and functions of the School Land Board.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Education
Effective on 9/1/19
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Mines & Mineral Resources | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Finances--Management & Control | Sunset--Commission Bills
SB 617 86-0 (2019)
Author: Buckingham, Dawn | et. al.
Relating to the continuation of the regulation of land surveyors and the transfer of the regulation to the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, following the recommendations of the Sunset Advisory Commission; changing fees.
Senate: Business & Commerce
Referred to Business & Commerce
| ENGINEERS & ENGINEERING | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions | PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS & LAND SURVEYORS, TEXAS BOARD OF | PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS, TEXAS BOARD OF | SENATE, TEXAS | STATE AGENCIES' RULES | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | Sunset--Commission Bills | SURVEYORS
SB 2116 86-0 (2019)
Author: Hancock, Kelly
Relating to the sale of electric power to certain public customers.
Senate: Business & Commerce
Left pending in committee
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION | ROYALTIES | Taxation--Energy Resources | Utilities--Electric
SB 2440 86-0 (2019)
Author: Taylor, Larry
Relating to the Texas school finance system, including the creation of the bicentennial education fund, the establishment of the Texas Education Investment Management Organization, and the management and investment of the permanent school fund.
Senate: Education
No action taken in committee
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND | BICENTENNIAL EDUCATION FUND | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | EDUCATION INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION, TEXAS | EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers | Education--School Districts | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Salaries & Expenses | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | State Finances--Appropriations | State Finances--Management & Control
HB 3423 85-0 (2017)
Author: Lambert, StanSponsor: Uresti, Carlos
Relating to the recording by a county clerk of certain documents relating to the sale or lease of public school land.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: State Affairs
Effective on 9/1/17
| County Government--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 2104 84-0 (2015)
Author: Lucio III, Eddie
Relating to procedures for the management, sale, or lease of certain state-owned real property and the management or collection of related funds, including disputed oil and gas royalties owed to the state.
House: Land & Resource Management
Laid on the table subject to call
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | ROYALTIES | State Finances--Management & Control
SB 903 84-0 (2015)
Author: Hancock, KellySponsor: Lucio III, Eddie
Relating to procedures for the management, sale, or lease of certain state-owned real property and the management or collection of related funds, including disputed oil and gas royalties owed to the state.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Business & Commerce
Effective on 9/1/15
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | ROYALTIES | State Finances--Management & Control
SB 1616 84-0 (2015)
Author: Lucio, Jr., Eddie
Relating to the composition of the Texas Water Development Board.
Senate: Agriculture, Water & Rural Affairs
Referred to Agriculture, Water, & Rural Affairs
| AGRICULTURE, COMMISSIONER OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, TEXAS | Water--Development | Water--General
HB 100 83-0 (2013)
Author: Taylor, Van | et. al.
Relating to unit operations for oil, gas, or oil and gas production or carbon dioxide storage.
House: Energy Resources
Left pending in committee
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | OIL & GAS MAJORITY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT | RAILROAD COMMISSION | ROYALTIES
HB 2089 83-0 (2013)
Author: Herrero, Abel
Relating to the powers and duties of the General Land Office, including the abolition of the Texas Facilities Commission and the transfer of its duties to the General Land Office.
House: Land & Resource Management
Referred to Land & Resource Management
| FACILITIES COMMISSION, TEXAS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Interim Studies | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Finances--Management & Control | VETERANS' LAND BOARD
HB 3131 83-0 (2013)
Author: Lucio III, Eddie
Relating to the line of vegetation and authorized development in certain beach areas; authorizing a fee.
House: Land & Resource Management
Referred to Land & Resource Management
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | GULF OF MEXICO | Property Interests--Real Property
HB 3459 83-0 (2013)
Author: Eiland, CraigSponsor: Taylor, Larry
Relating to access to and protection of certain coastal areas.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on 9/1/13
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 136 83-0 (2013)
Author: Ellis, Rodney
Relating to unit operations for oil, gas, or oil and gas production or carbon dioxide storage.
Senate: Natural Resources
Referred to Natural Resources
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | OIL & GAS MAJORITY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT | RAILROAD COMMISSION | ROYALTIES
SB 1561 83-0 (2013)
Author: Taylor, Larry
Relating to the determination of the boundaries of, and the enforcement of the law governing access to, public beaches.
Senate: Natural Resources
Not again placed on intent calendar
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SJR 13 83-0 (2013)
Author: Eltife, Kevin | et. al.Sponsor: Larson, Lyle
Proposing a constitutional amendment limiting to two the number of consecutive terms for which a person may be elected or appointed to hold certain state offices.
House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs
Reason for vote recorded in Journal
| AGRICULTURE, COMMISSIONER OF | ATTORNEY GENERAL | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | Elections--Candidates | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Legislature | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | RAILROAD COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | State Officers | TERM LIMITS
HR 232 82-1 (2011)
Author: Pitts, Jim
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1.
Reported enrolled
| ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION, TEXAS | Alcoholic Beverage Regulation | ATTORNEY GENERAL | BOND REVIEW BOARD | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | CORRECTIONS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | COURT ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF | Courts--General | CRIMINAL JUSTICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS | EDUCATION, COMMISSIONER OF | Education--Higher--General | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers | Education--School Districts | EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON STATE | EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS (ERS) | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | FACILITIES COMMISSION, TEXAS | FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF | Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION, TEXAS | Health--General | HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS | HISTORICAL COMMISSION, TEXAS | HOUSING & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | INFORMATION RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF | Insurance--General | Insurance--Health & Accident | LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD | Legislature | MEDICAID | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | PARKING | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Property Interests--Homestead | PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF | RAILROAD COMMISSION | Resolutions--Conf. Comm. Reports | Retirement Systems--Teachers | Salaries & Expenses | SALVAGE YARDS & SALVAGE DEALERS | SECRETARY OF STATE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | STATE BAR OF TEXAS | STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON | State Finances--Appropriations | State Finances--Budget | State Finances--Management & Control | Taxation--Cigarette | Taxation--Franchise | Taxation--General | Taxation--Motor Fuels | Taxation--Sales | Taxation--State | TEXAS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND | TEXAS ENTERPRISE FUND | Tobacco Products | UNCLAIMED PROPERTY | Vehicles & Traffic--Vehicle Registration | VETERANS COMMISSION, TEXAS | WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
SB 1 82-1 (2011)
Author: Duncan, Robert | et. al.Sponsor: Pitts, Jim
Relating to certain state fiscal matters; providing penalties.
House: Appropriations Senate: Finance
See remarks for effective date
| AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF | ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION, TEXAS | Alcoholic Beverage Regulation | ATTORNEY GENERAL | BOND REVIEW BOARD | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | CORRECTIONS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | COURT ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF | Courts--General | CRIMINAL JUSTICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS | EDUCATION, COMMISSIONER OF | Education--Higher--General | Education--Primary & Secondary--Charter Schools | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers | Education--School Districts | EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON STATE | EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS (ERS) | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | FACILITIES COMMISSION, TEXAS | FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF | Family--Parent & Child | Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION, TEXAS | Health--General | HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS | HISTORICAL COMMISSION, TEXAS | HOUSING & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | INFORMATION RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF | Insurance--General | Insurance--Health & Accident | Lawyers | LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD | Legislature | MEDICAID | Mines & Mineral Resources | OFFICE OF RURAL AFFAIRS IN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE | Oil & Gas | PARKING | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | PEACE OFFICERS | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS | Probate--Guardians & Related Trusts | PROCESS SERVERS | Property Interests--Homestead | PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF | RAILROAD COMMISSION | Retirement Systems--Teachers | RURAL AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF | RURAL HEALTH & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL, TEXAS | Salaries & Expenses | SALVAGE YARDS & SALVAGE DEALERS | SECRETARY OF STATE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | STATE BAR OF TEXAS | STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON | State Finances--Budget | Taxation--Alcoholic Beverages | Taxation--Cigarette | Taxation--General | Taxation--Motor Fuels | TEXAS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND | TEXAS ENTERPRISE FUND | Tobacco Products | UNCLAIMED PROPERTY | Vehicles & Traffic--Driver's Licenses | Vehicles & Traffic--Vehicle Registration | VETERANS COMMISSION, TEXAS | WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
SCR 5 82-1 (2011)
Author: Duncan, RobertSponsor: Pitts, Jim
Instructing the enrolling clerk of the senate to make corrections in S.B. No. 1.
Signed by the Governor
| ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION, TEXAS | Alcoholic Beverage Regulation | ATTORNEY GENERAL | BOND REVIEW BOARD | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | CORRECTIONS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | COURT ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF | Courts--General | CRIMINAL JUSTICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS | EDUCATION, COMMISSIONER OF | Education--Higher--General | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers | Education--School Districts | EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON STATE | EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS (ERS) | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | FACILITIES COMMISSION, TEXAS | FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF | Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION, TEXAS | Health--General | HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS | HISTORICAL COMMISSION, TEXAS | HOUSING & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | INFORMATION RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF | Insurance--General | Insurance--Health & Accident | LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD | Legislature | MEDICAID | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | Open Records | PARKING | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Property Interests--Homestead | PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF | RAILROAD COMMISSION | Resolutions--Corrective | Retirement Systems--Teachers | Salaries & Expenses | SALVAGE YARDS & SALVAGE DEALERS | SECRETARY OF STATE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | STATE BAR OF TEXAS | STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON | State Finances--Budget | Taxation--General | TEXAS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND | TEXAS ENTERPRISE FUND | Tobacco Products | UNCLAIMED PROPERTY | Vehicles & Traffic--Vehicle Registration | VETERANS COMMISSION, TEXAS | WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
SR 130 82-1 (2011)
Author: Duncan, Robert
Suspending limitations on conference committee jurisdiction, S.B. No. 1.
Reported enrolled
| ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION, TEXAS | Alcoholic Beverage Regulation | ATTORNEY GENERAL | BOND REVIEW BOARD | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | CORRECTIONS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | COURT ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF | Courts--General | CRIMINAL JUSTICE, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | EDUCATION AGENCY, TEXAS | EDUCATION, COMMISSIONER OF | Education--Higher--General | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | Education--Primary & Secondary--Teachers | Education--School Districts | EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON STATE | EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF TEXAS (ERS) | ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, TEXAS COMMISSION ON | FACILITIES COMMISSION, TEXAS | FAMILY & PROTECTIVE SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF | Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | FOUNDATION SCHOOL PROGRAM | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | GUARANTEED STUDENT LOAN CORPORATION, TEXAS | Health--General | HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD, TEXAS | HISTORICAL COMMISSION, TEXAS | HOUSING & COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF | INFORMATION RESOURCES, DEPARTMENT OF | Insurance--General | Insurance--Health & Accident | LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD | Legislature | MEDICAID | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | PARKING | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Property Interests--Homestead | PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF | RAILROAD COMMISSION | Resolutions--Conf. Comm. Reports | Retirement Systems--Teachers | Salaries & Expenses | SALVAGE YARDS & SALVAGE DEALERS | SECRETARY OF STATE | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | STATE BAR OF TEXAS | STATE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, COMMISSION ON | State Finances--Appropriations | State Finances--Budget | State Finances--Management & Control | Taxation--Cigarette | Taxation--Franchise | Taxation--General | Taxation--Motor Fuels | Taxation--Sales | Taxation--State | TEXAS EMERGING TECHNOLOGY FUND | TEXAS ENTERPRISE FUND | Tobacco Products | UNCLAIMED PROPERTY | Vehicles & Traffic--Vehicle Registration | VETERANS COMMISSION, TEXAS | WORKFORCE COMMISSION, TEXAS
HB 1213 81-0 (2009)
Author: Rios Ybarra, TaraSponsor: Lucio, Jr., Eddie
Relating to the promulgation by the commissioner of the General Land Office of rules authorizing the use on a public beach of a golf cart for the transportation of a person with a physical disability.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | Disabilities, Persons with | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Vehicles & Traffic--General
HB 1445 81-0 (2009)
Author: Bonnen, DennisSponsor: Huffman, Joan
Relating to the authority of certain political subdivisions to erect or maintain shore protection structures and the location of the line of vegetation in relation to those structures.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Political Subdivisions
HB 2074 81-0 (2009)
Author: Bonnen, Dennis | et. al.Sponsor: Hegar, Glenn
Relating to the designation by the commissioner of the General Land Office of critical coastal erosion areas for purposes of the coastal erosion response plan.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on 9/1/09
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
HB 2387 81-0 (2009)
Author: Bonnen, Dennis | et. al.Sponsor: Hegar, Glenn
Relating to the authority of the General Land Office to undertake coastal erosion studies and projects in conjunction with qualified project partners.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on 9/1/09
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Eminent Domain | Property Interests--Real Property
HB 3461 81-0 (2009)
Author: Orr, RobSponsor: Watson, Kirk
Relating to the powers and duties of the School Land Board and the commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
HB 3632 81-0 (2009)
Author: Geren, CharlieSponsor: Averitt, Kip
Relating to the authority of the state to acquire, sell, or exchange certain land.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 3986 81-0 (2009)
Author: Bonnen, Dennis | et. al.
Relating to the closure of certain man-made passes between the Gulf of Mexico and inland bays by the commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Land & Resource Management
Laid on the table subject to call
| AMUSEMENT PARKS & CARNIVAL RIDES | Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | GULF OF MEXICO | Parks & Wildlife--General
SB 1135 81-0 (2009)
Author: Hegar, Glenn
Relating to the authority of the General Land Office to undertake coastal erosion studies and projects in conjunction with qualified project partners.
Senate: Natural Resources
Left pending in committee
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Eminent Domain | Property Interests--Real Property
SB 1136 81-0 (2009)
Author: Hegar, Glenn
Relating to the designation by the commissioner of the General Land Office of critical coastal erosion areas for purposes of the coastal erosion response plan.
Senate: Natural Resources
Left pending in committee
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 2043 81-0 (2009)
Author: Williams, TommySponsor: Bonnen, Dennis
Relating to the closure or modification of certain man-made passes between the Gulf of Mexico and inland bays by the commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: International Relations & Trade
See remarks for effective date
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | GULF OF MEXICO
SB 2049 81-0 (2009)
Author: Averitt, Kip
Relating to the authority of the state to acquire, sell, or exchange certain land.
Senate: Natural Resources
Removed from local & uncontested calendar
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 1114 80-0 (2007)
Author: King, Tracy
Relating to the annual privilege fee required to be paid to the commissioner of the General Land Office by the grantee of an easement to use certain public land for certain purposes.
House: Land & Resource Management
Referred to Land & Resource Management
| Economic & Industrial Development--Rural | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Utilities--Electric
HB 1138 80-0 (2007)
Author: Leibowitz, DavidSponsor: Watson, Kirk
Relating to the authority of the General Land Office to accept grants.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Employees
HB 1556 80-0 (2007)
Author: Pickett, Joseph
Relating to the management of certain public land.
House: Land & Resource Management
Postponed
| Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 1723 80-0 (2007)
Author: Gallego, Pete
Relating to the imposition and use of a fee on groundwater exported from public school land.
House: Natural Resources
Left pending in committee
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Special Districts & Authorities--Water & Utility | Water--Rights
SB 455 80-0 (2007)
Author: Watson, Kirk
Relating to the authority of the General Land Office to accept grants.
Senate: Natural Resources
Not again placed on intent calendar
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Employees
SB 654 80-0 (2007)
Author: Seliger, KelSponsor: Pickett, Joseph
Relating to the management of certain public land; providing for penalties.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective immediately
| Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SJR 66 80-0 (2007)
Author: Williams, Tommy
Proposing a constitutional amendment to create real estate and investment special fund accounts within the permanent school fund and to allow for transfers between those accounts, to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office or another statutorily designated entity to manage real estate portfolio investments of the permanent school fund, and to allow the returns from permanent school fund real estate portfolio investments to be added to the available school fund for the support of public schools.
Senate: Finance
Left pending in committee
| Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HB 3471 79-0 (2005)
Author: Gallego, Pete
Relating to restrictions on the leasing of and export of groundwater from public school land; imposing a fee.
House: Natural Resources
Left pending in committee
| Civil Remedies & Liabilities | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Special Districts & Authorities--Soil & Water Conservation | Water--General
SB 164 79-0 (2005)
Author: Wentworth, JeffSponsor: Hunter, Bob
Relating to the statutory requirements for the term and residency of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Government Reform Senate: Government Organization
Effective immediately
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | State Officers
SB 1273 79-0 (2005)
Author: Jackson, MikeSponsor: Geren, Charlie
Relating to the establishment of the Texas farm and ranch lands conservation program.
House: Land & Resource Management Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on 9/1/05
| Agriculture | CONSERVATION EASEMENTS | FARM & RANCH LANDS CONSERVATION ADV COUNCIL, TEXAS | FARMLAND & RANCHLAND CONSERVATION COUNCIL, TEXAS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property | REAL ESTATE RESEARCH CENTER, TEXAS
SB 1416 78-0 (2003)
Author: Staples, Todd
Relating to the transfer of the powers and duties of the comptroller of public accounts relating to state administration of the property tax system to the commissioner of the General Land Office.
Senate: Finance
Referred to Finance
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | Education--Primary & Secondary--Finance | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions | Taxation--Property-Appraisals & Appraisal Districts | Taxation--Property-State Administration | Taxation--Property-Tax Rate | Taxation--School District
HB 3696 76-0 (1999)
Author: Hawley, JudySponsor: Lucio, Jr., Eddie
Relating to the approval of assignments of oil and gas leases covering certain state land.
House: Energy Resources Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on 9/1/99
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 2448 70-0 (1987)
Author: Colbert, PaulSponsor: Sarpalius, Bill
Relating to the authority of the commissioner of the General Land Office to trade state agency land for other land for the purpose of creating a site suitable for the Superconducting Supercollider.
House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs
Effective immediately
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER ACCELERATOR PROJECT
SB 845 70-0 (1987)
Author: Caperton, KentSponsor: Hackney, Clint
Relating to the administration of certain interests in certain state lands by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the School Land Board; authorizing penalties.
House: Energy Senate: Natural Resources
Placed on General State Calendar
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 1256 70-0 (1987)
Author: Parker, Carl
Relating to the sale of certain state-owned property by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Senate: State Affairs
Reported favorably w/o amendments
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 2438 69-0 (1985)
Author: Kuempel, EdmundSponsor: Traeger, John
Relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in Comal County by the General Land Office.
House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs
Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
| COMAL COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 1340 69-0 (1985)
Author: Truan, CarlosSponsor: Oliveira, René
Relating to requiring in certain leases for the production of oil and natural gas entered into by the school land board a provision prohibiting unauthorized discharges of solid waste from oil and gas exploration development or production structures.
House: Energy Senate: Natural Resources
1st Printing sent to Comm. on Cal.
| Environment--Solid Waste | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SB 390 68-0 (1983)
Author: Leedom, John
Relating to fees imposed by the Veterans Land Board, the General Land Office, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and boards for the lease or sale of public lands.
Senate: State Affairs
No action taken
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | VETERANS' LAND BOARD
SB 1353 68-0 (1983)
Author: Parker, Carl
Relating to the conveyance of certain state real property in Jefferson County to the city of Port Arthur and to the reservation of the mineral, sand, gravel, and shell ownership and exploitation rights by the state.
House: State Affairs Senate: Intergovernmental Relations
Referred to Committee on State Affairs
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | JEFFERSON COUNTY | PORT ARTHUR, CITY OF | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 1429 68-0 (1983)
Author: Sharp, John
Relating to the relinquishment and release of all conditions of use, encumbrances, easements, requirements, reservations, trusts and limitations, concerning certain submerged land in Calhoun County, Texas, already conveyed to City of Port Lavaca, Texas by Patent dated September 29, 1921 of record in Volume 11, Page 517, Deed Records of Calhoun County, Texas.
Senate: Intergovernmental Relations
No action taken
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 1582 67-0 (1981)
Author: Bock II, BennieSponsor: Santiesteban, H.
Relating to certain fees charged by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Environmental Affairs Senate: Natural Resources
Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
HB 2015 67-0 (1981)
Author: Turner, Jim
Relating to the patenting of certain land by the General Land Office.
House: Environmental Affairs
Referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 2395 67-0 (1981)
Author: Florence, Buck
Relating to the exchange of certain lands for the purpose of creating a state park in Presidio and Brewster counties.
House: Environmental Affairs
Committee report printed and sent to Committee on Calendars
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT | Parks & Wildlife--Parks | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
HJR 117 67-0 (1981)
Author: Thompson, SenfroniaSponsor: Caperton, Kent
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents for certain public free school fund land.
House: Constitutional Amendments Senate: State Affairs
Signed by the Governor
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HJR 118 67-0 (1981)
Author: Turner, Jim
Constitutional amendment authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents for certain public free school fund.
House: Constitutional Amendments
Referred to subcommittee
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
SB 845 67-0 (1981)
Author: Santiesteban, H.
Relating to certain fees charged by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Environmental Affairs Senate: Natural Resources
Referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SCR 132 67-0 (1981)
Author: Sarpalius, Bill
Granting Billy M. Gillman permission to sue the state.
Senate: Administration
Referred to Committee on Administration
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | GILLMAN, BILLY M. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 133 67-0 (1981)
Author: Sarpalius, Bill
Granting Lloyd Muennick permission to sue the state.
Senate: Administration
Referred to Committee on Administration
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | MUENNINK, LLOYD | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SJR 53 67-0 (1981)
Author: Caperton, Kent
Proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents for certain public free school fund land held in good faith under color of title at least 50 years as of November 15, 1981.
House: Constitutional Amendments Senate: State Affairs
Referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments
HB 1709 65-0 (1977)
Author: Chavez, MelchorSponsor: Longoria, Raul
Relating to the appointment of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to serve as a master in certain suits instituted by a commissioner court to partition certain tracts of land; making other provisions relative to the master and the findings and recommendations of the master; prescribing the authority of the court in such cases.
House: Environmental Affairs Senate: Economic Development
Considered by committee in public hearing
| Courts--Personnel | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HCR 47 65-0 (1977)
Author: Uher, D.R.Sponsor: Schwartz, A.R. "Babe"
Authorizing Kathleen Burke Dunbar to sue the State of Texas and Bob Armstrong, Commissioner of the General Land Office.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by the Governor
| DUNBAR, KATHLEEN BURKE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 124 65-0 (1977)
Author: Wieting, Leroy J.Sponsor: Schwartz, A.R. "Babe"
Granting Emory M. Spencer, et al., permission to sue the state.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by the Governor
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SPENCER, EMORY M. | WARD, HOWELL
HCR 184 65-0 (1977)
Author: Wyatt, Jr., JoeSponsor: Jones, Gene
Granting permission to Primary Fuels, Inc., Salomen Brothers, Paul R. Haas, L.A. McNeil, and Emmet C. Wilson to sue the state.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by the Governor
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HAAS, PAUL R. | MCNEIL, L. A. | PRIMARY FUELS, INC. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SALOMON BROTHERS | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | WILSON, EMMET C.
HJR 22 65-0 (1977)
Author: Kubiak, Dan
Proposing an amendment to Article IV, Sections 4, 22, and 23, of the Texas Constitution, so as to change the term of office for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, comptroller of public accounts, treasurer, commissioner of the general land office, secretary of state, and certain statutory state officers from foru years to two years.
House: Constitutional Amendments
Referred to subcommittee
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | COMPETENCY ADVISORY COMMITTEE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | SECRETARY OF STATE | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
SCR 90 65-0 (1977)
Author: Schwartz, A.R. "Babe"Sponsor: Wyatt, Jr., Joe
Permission to sue the State of Texas by Mitchell Energy Corporation and Mitchell Energy Offshore Corporation.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by Governor
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | MITCHELL ENERGY CORPORATION | MITCHELL ENERGY OFFSHORE CORPORATION | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SCHOOL LAND BOARD
SCR 112 65-0 (1977)
Author: Jones, Gene
Granting Primary Fuels, Inc., Salomon Brother, Paul R. Haas, L.A. McNeil and Emmet C. Wilson permission to sue the State of Texas.
House: Judicial Affairs
Referred to Committee on Judicial Affairs
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HAAS, PAUL R. | MCNEIL, L. A. | PRIMARY FUELS, INC. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SALOMON BROTHERS | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | WILSON, EMMET C.
SCR 3 65-2 (1978)
Author: Creighton, TomSponsor: Hanna, Joe
Granting Bertha Street, E. Bruce Street, M. Boyd Street, and Talus, Inc. permission to sue the state.
House: Judiciary Senate: Administration
Signed by Governor
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | STREET, BERTHA | STREET, E. BRUCE | STREET, M. BOYD | TALUS, INC.
HB 1482 64-0 (1975)
Author: Caldwell, Neil
Relating to the boundary lines of counties and independent school districts from the coastline to the three marine league line.
House: State Affairs
Referred to subcommittee
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | GULF OF MEXICO
HB 1847 64-0 (1975)
Author: Slack, Richard C.
Relating to the payment and disposition of royalties from oil and leases covering land leased by the school land board, a board for lease other than the Board for Lease of University Lands, and certain surface owners leasing Relinquishment Act land.
House: Energy Resources
Considered by committee in public hearing
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | ROYALTIES
HCR 33 64-0 (1975)
Author: Cates, PhilSponsor: Sherman, Max
Directing certain agencies to mark the boundaries of the Canadian River.
House: Environmental Affairs Senate: Natural Resources
Signed by Governor
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | CANADIAN RIVER | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PARKS & WILDLIFE COMMISSION | Parks & Wildlife--Hunting & Fishing | Resolutions--Legislative Policy
HCR 130 64-0 (1975)
Author: Clark, BillSponsor: McKnight, Peyton
Granting permission to W. M. Burney and Charles R. Halstead to sue the state.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by Governor
| BURNEY, W. M. | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HALSTEAD, CHARLES R. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 42 64-0 (1975)
Author: Longoria, RaulSponsor: Torres, Ruben M.
Granting permission to the parties, as that term is hereinafter defined, to sue the State of Texas to establish any and all claims which they ahve or assert to lands within the three tracts of land hereinafter described; providing that the term "parties" means the following named persons, firms, or corporations, their respective heirs, personal representatives, successors, and assigns, together with any and all other persons, firms, or corporations who are which any court of competent jurisdiction may determine are necessary or proper parties to the litigation here authorized, whether such joinder is effected by intervention or joinder as involuntary plaintiffs or as defendants, and who as defendants would ahve a permissive or compulsory counterclaim or cross-claim which might be asserted against the State of Texas; providing that the tracts with regard to which suit may be brought, either separately or concurrently, are as follows; providing that the venue of the suit or suits be in any district court in any county in which any one of the tracts is located, and that in the event the suit is filed, service of citation and other required process be made on the attorney general and on the commissioner of the general land office; providing that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as an admission by the State of Texas, or any of its agents, employees, departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, of liability or of the truth of any allegations asserted by the claimant but the alleged cause of action must be proved under the laws of this state as in other civil cases; providing that nothing in this resolution shall be construed as a waiver of any defense of fact or law available to the State of Texas or any of its agents, employees, departments, agencies, or political subdivisions, but every defense is specifically reserved.
House: Judicial Affairs Senate: Administration
Signed by Governor
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | CAMERON COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | KENEDY COUNTY | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SOUTH PADRE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, INCORPORATED, ET AL. | WILLACY COUNTY
SCR 71 64-0 (1975)
Author: McKnight, Peyton
Granting permission to W.M. Burney and Charles R. Halstead to sue the State of Texas and the Commissioner of the General Land Office in any court of competent jurisdiction in Leon County, Texas; providing that nothing in this resolution may be construed as an admission by the State of Texas or by any of its departments, agencies or political subdivisions, of liability or of the truth of any allegation asserted by claimants, but the alleged cause of action must be proved under the laws of this State as in other cases; providing that nothing in this resolution may be construed as a waiver of any defense of law or fact available to the State of Texas or to any of its departments, agencies or political subdivisions, and every defense is specifically reserved.
Senate: Administration
Referred to Committee on Administration
| BURNEY, W. M. | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HB 548 63-0 (1973)
Author: Kaster, James J.Sponsor: Santiesteban, H.
Authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office in conjunction with the Governor to convey to private individuals or entities any title of the State of Texas in certain sections of land situated in El Paso County under certain conditions in exchange for other land of equal value in the vicinity of the Hueco Tanks State Park.
House: State Affairs Senate: State Affairs
Vetoed by the Governor
| EL PASO COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HCR 101 63-0 (1973)
Author: Cobb, L. DeanSponsor: Adams, Don
Requesting commissioner of General Land Office to survey Canadian River banks along boundaries of state-owned land.
House: State Affairs Senate: Administration
Filed without Governor's signature
| CANADIAN RIVER | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Legislative Policy
SCR 78 63-0 (1973)
Author: Snelson, W.E. "Pete"Sponsor: Craddick, Tom
Granting Penroc Oil Corporation et al permission to sue the State.
House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence
Signed by Governor
| BRAMBLETT, C. R. | DONAHUE, A. C. | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | INTERNATIONAL SULPHUR & MINERALS, INC. | JORDAN, DAN | PENROC OIL CORPORATION | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 91 63-0 (1973)
Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"Sponsor: Nugent, James E.
Granting Ethel and Edith Cavitt permission to sue the state.
House: Judiciary Senate: Jurisprudence
Signed by Governor
| CAVITT, ETHEL & EDITH | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HB 1122 62-0 (1971)
Author: Cavness, Don
Relating to permitting extensions of the term of oil and gas leases issued by the commissioner of the general land office for no more than 390 days.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
HB 1427 62-0 (1971)
Author: Coats, Sam
Relating to the organization and establishment of a system of land use for the state to be administered by the Land Commissioner.
| City Government--Land Use & Zoning | County Government--Land Use & Zoning | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LAND USE MANAGEMENT ACT, TEXAS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 629 62-0 (1971)
Author: Hightower, JackSponsor: Cavness, Don
Relating to permitting extensions of the term of oil and gas leases issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for no more than 390 days.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SB 715 62-0 (1971)
Author: Kennard, Don
Relating to the organization and establishment of a system of land use for the State to be administered by the Land Commissioner.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LAND USE MANAGEMENT ACT, TEXAS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Admin. Procedure
SB 759 62-0 (1971)
Author: Kennard, Don
Relating to amending Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, whereby the Land Commissioner is authorized and required to charge certain fees for the use of the State.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 1018 62-0 (1971)
Author: Kennard, Don
Relating to providing for an inventory of all land uses within the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 1023 62-0 (1971)
Author: Wilson, Charles
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell and convey to the Boy Scouts of America the State's interest in and to a certain tract of land in Henderson County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HENDERSON COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HCR 44 62-3 (1972)
Author: Hale, L. DeWitt
Granting the City of Corpus Christi permission to sue the State of Texas.
| CORPUS CHRISTI, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 6 62-4 (1972)
Author: Hale, L. DeWittSponsor: Bridges, Ronald W.
Granting permission to the City of Corpus Christi to sue the State of Texas and the General Land Office to resolve disputes relating to the land known as Cayo del Oso.
| CORPUS CHRISTI, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 32 62-4 (1972)
Author: Calhoun, FrankSponsor: Tippen, Bill
Granting permission to Harding Oil Company or James L. Lamb and Delta Drilling Company to sue the state or to join the state as a party to the suit.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HARDING OIL COMPANY | LAMB, JAMES L. | MIDLAND COUNTY & DELTA DRILLING COMPANY | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HB 351 61-0 (1969)
Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"
Relating to provide that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on behalf of the State of Texas or any fund belonging thereto, is authorized to execute agreements that provide for the operation of areas as a unit for the exploration, development and production of sulphur and to commit to such agreements the royalty interests in sulphur reserved to or provided for the State or any fund thereof by law, in or in connection with any patent, award or mining claim, in any contract of sale, or under the terms of any lease lawfully made by an official, board, agent, agency or authority of the State; providing for the approval of such agreements by the School Land Board if the agreements commit royalty interests in lands set apart by the Constitution and laws of this State for the Permanent Free School Fund and the several asylum funds, in river beds, inland lakes, and channels, and the area within tidewater limits, including islands, lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, reefs, and the bed of the sea; providing for execution of such agreements by the owners of the soil if they cover lands leased for sulphur under Texas Statutes.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 1023 61-0 (1969)
Author: Hawkins, Jack Ross
Relating to issuance of patents on headright, homestead, preemption, scrip surveys, surveyed school land, and vacant and unsurveyed land.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property
SB 158 61-0 (1969)
Author: Christie, Joe William | et. al.
Relating to provide that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on behalf of the State of Texas or any fund belonging thereto, is authorized to execute agreements that provide for the operation of areas as a unit for the exploration, development, and production of sulphur and to commit to such agreements the royalty interests in sulphur reserved to or provided for the State or any fund thereof by law, in or in connection with any patent, award or mining claim, in any contract of sale, or under the terms of any lease lawfully made by an official, board, agent, agency or authority of the State; providing for the approval of such agreements by the School Land Board if the agreements commit royalty interest in lands set apart by the Constitution and laws of this State for the Permanent Free School Fund and the several asylum funds, in river beds, inland lakes, and channels, and the area within tidewater limits, including islands, lakes, bays, inlets, marches, reefs, and the bed of the sea, etc.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources
SCR 18 61-0 (1969)
Author: Hightower, Jack
Granting the heirs of William Pelham Humphries permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | WELCH, MATTIE MCDANIEL, ET AL.
HCR 8 61-2 (1969)
Author: Davis, George HaroldSponsor: Herring, Charles
Granting Gene Ashby permission to sue the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the State of Texas.
| ASHBY, GENE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 14 61-2 (1969)
Author: Hale, L. DeWitt
Granting the heirs of Pelham Humphries permission to sue the land commissioner and the State of Texas.
| EWING, JOHN CECIL, ET AL. | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 6 60-0 (1967)
Author: Pipkin, Maurice Snow "Pip"
Directing the closing of the Capitol Grounds to motor vehicles in preparation for Inaugural ceremonies.
| CORPUS CHRISTI, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 63 60-0 (1967)
Author: Crews, David William
Granting V. F. Neuhaus permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NEUHAUS, V. F. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 14 60-0 (1967)
Author: Brooks, Chet
Granting Nassau, Inc. permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NASSAU, INC, | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 88 60-0 (1967)
Author: Bates, Sr., James S. "Jim"
Granting J. W. Luttes, et al. permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LUTTES, J. W. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HB 358 59-0 (1965)
Author: Slack, Richard C.
Relating to providing for the classification of certain patented lands in Reeves County and the issuance of a corrected patent to the state to conform to said re-classification.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 464 59-0 (1965)
Author: Slack, Richard C.
Relating to providing for the classification of certain patented lands in Reeves County and the issuance of a corrected patent from the state to conform to said re-classification.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 498 59-0 (1965)
Author: Cain, Pat | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to execute agreements on behalf of the Permanent University Fund of the State of Texas that provide for the payment by University oil and gas lessees of compensatory royalty in lieu of drilling offset wells that may be required to protect University lands from drainage from wells located on adjacent University or non-University acreage.
| Education--Higher--Finance | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | ROYALTIES
HB 534 59-0 (1965)
Author: Slack, Richard C.
Relating to providing for the reclassification of patented, unpatented lands in Reeves County and the issuance of a patent or corrected patent to conform to said reclassification.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HCR 33 59-0 (1965)
Author: Simpson, Joshua M. "Red"
Granting P. R. Nichols permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NICHOLS, P. R. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HCR 98 59-0 (1965)
Author: Peeler, Travis A.
Granting the Del Cayo Development Corporation permission to sue the State of Texas.
| CAYO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SB 188 59-0 (1965)
Author: Herring, Charles
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to execute agreements on behalf of the Permanent University Fund of the State of Texas that provide for the payment by University oil and gas lessees of compensatory royalty in lieu of drilling offset wells that may be required to protect University lands from drainage from wells located on adjacent University or non-University acreage.
| Education--Higher--Health Institutions | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND | ROYALTIES
SCR 22 59-0 (1965)
Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"
Granting H. L. Brown, Jr., Clem E. George, Richard S. Brooks, David Fasken, Florence W. Lathrop, Tom Brown Drilling Co. and Oscar Bourg Drilling Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
| BROWN, H. L., JR., ET AL. | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
SCR 109 59-0 (1965)
Author: Moore, W.T. "Bill"
Granting Eugene Marsh, James Carl Marsh, Ernest George Marsh, Jr., Russell W. Marsh, Earle R. Marsh, Gladys Louise Marsh Porterfield and J. Earl Porterfield permission to sue the state of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | MARSH, EUGENE, ET AL. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State
HB 921 58-0 (1963)
Author: Alaniz, John C.
Relating to providing that the Commissioner of Agriculture, Comptroller of Public Accounts, State Treasurer, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall hereafter be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, rather than elected.
| AGRICULTURE, COMMISSIONER OF | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
HCR 64 58-0 (1963)
Author: Barnes, Ben Frank
Granting Tectonic Oil, Inc., permission to sue the State of Texas, the Land Commissioner of Texas and members of the School Land Board of the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | TECTONIC OIL, INC.
HJR 75 58-0 (1963)
Author: Alaniz, John C.
Relating to proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the Governor to appoint the Comptroller of Public Accounts, the State Treasurer, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the Commissioner of Agriculture; proposing an amendment to a certain Article of the Constitution to exclude therefrom the offices of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, the State Treasurer, the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| AGRICULTURE, COMMISSIONER OF | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
SCR 40 58-0 (1963)
Author: Bates, Sr., James S. "Jim"
Granting J. W. Luttes and Shell Oil Company permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LUTTES, J. W. | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SHELL OIL COMPANY
SCR 52 58-0 (1963)
Author: Rogers, Andrew J. "Andy"
Granting W. D. Scarbrough, Jr. and W. D Scarbrough, Sr. permission to sue the State of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Suits vs. State | SCARBOROUGH, W. D., JR. | SCARBOROUGH, W. D., SR.
HB 487 57-0 (1961)
Author: Wells, Halen Gill
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas based upon the possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected field notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SURVEYORS
HB 1073 57-0 (1961)
Author: McIlhany, Grainger Walter
Relating to providing for the sale of certain surveyed unsold school land to the City of Dodson, in the County of Collingsworth.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 546 56-0 (1959)
Author: Woolsey, W. N. "Bill"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to lease certain submerged lands lying in Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces County, Texas.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NUECES COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 719 56-0 (1959)
Author: Glusing, Ben A. | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and empowering the Commissioner of the General Land Office, action for and on behalf of the State of Texas, to execute grants of easements in, on and across all unsold Public Free School Land, and in, on and across all islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs owned by the State within the tidewater limits, and in, on and across that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, to Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4, as may be necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes for which said District was created, for rights of way, for pipe lines and for the installation of all works, facilities, plants, and appliances in any and all manners incident to, helpful and necessary for securing, storing, processing, treating, transporting, and selling an adequate supply of fresh water.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 181 56-0 (1959)
Author: Krueger, Culp | et. al.
Relating to amending certain acts by providing for revision and compilation of Abstract Volumes by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 326 56-0 (1959)
Author: Reagan, Bruce A.
Relating to authorizing and empowering the Commissioner of the General Land Office, acting for and on behalf of the State of Texas, to execute grants of easements in, on, and across all unsold Public Free School Land, and in, on, and across all islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs owned by the state within the tidewater limits, and in, on, across that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, to Nueces County Water Control and Improvement District Number 4, as may be necessary and convenient to carry out certain purposes.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NUECES COUNTY WATER CONTROL & IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 4 | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD | Special Districts & Authorities--Water & Utility | Special Districts & Authorities--Water Control Improve Dist.
SB 425 56-0 (1959)
Author: Owen, III, Frank
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to sell an estate upon special limitation in certain Public Free School Land situated in El Paso County to the County of El Paso.
| EL PASO COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 54 56-3 (1959)
Author: Woolsey, W. N. "Bill"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to lease certain submerged lands lying in Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | NUECES COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 597 55-0 (1957)
Author: Slack, Richard C.
Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for the prospecting of land belonging to the State for certain minerals; providing for the filing of an application with the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 761 55-0 (1957)
Author: Matthew, C. T. "Pete"
Relating to amending certain Acts by providing for revision and compilation of Abstract Volumes by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 764 55-0 (1957)
Author: Cory, Richard Henry "Dick"
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to enter into an agreement or agreements with the appropriate agency of the Federal Government to contract for a survey of the Texas Gulf Coast line for purpose of determining the low water contour along said Gulf Coast line.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
HB 824 55-0 (1957)
Author: Myatt, Ted W.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue permits to persons, firms or corporations for the construction of certain structures or excavations in the tide waters of this State upon terms and conditions and after prescribed application, notice, hearing and other procedures.
| BUILDING CONSTRUCTION | Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | PERMITS
SJR 7 55-0 (1957)
Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Texas fixing the term of office of the Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Commissioner of Agriculture at four years.
| AGRICULTURE, COMMISSIONER OF | ATTORNEY GENERAL | COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
HB 37 55-1 (1957)
Author: Lee, John Ruskin | et. al.
Relating to amending Statutes pertaining to the issuance or extension of oil and gas leases by the Board for Lease of University Lands, restricting the sale of such leases to persons or corporation who do not import foreign crude oil into the United States and who are not subsidiaries or affiliates of such importing companies; providing for the obtaining of lists of such importing companies by the Board for Lease of University Lands from the Railroad Commission of Texas; prohibiting the approval or filing of an assignment or transfer of an oil and gas lease on University lands to a company importing foreign crude oil into the United States.
| Education--Higher--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
HB 38 55-1 (1957)
Author: Lee, John Ruskin | et. al.
Relating to the leasing of lands owned by the State for the production of oil and natural gas; providing for qualifications for applicants to lease lands owned by the State by prohibiting bids of companies importing crude oil, their subsidiaries and affiliates.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 10 55-1 (1957)
Author: Owen, III, Frank
Relating to authorizing the execution of easements on state lands by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in connection with soil conservation and flood prevention projects.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Special Districts & Authorities--Soil & Water Conservation
HB 425 54-0 (1955)
Author: Carpenter, Frank H.
Relating to amending certain Laws relating to the granting by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Board of Regents of the University of Texas of certain easements and right-of-ways on and across public lands.
| Education--Higher--Institutions & Programs | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
HB 565 54-0 (1955)
Author: White, Richard Crawford
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the State of Texas to sell Public Free School Land situated in El Paso County, Texas to the City of El Paso, Texas.
| EL PASO COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 581 54-0 (1955)
Author: Thurmond, George Murat
Relating to authorizing the Game and Fish Commission to purchase and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell certain school land in Brewster County; providing the price to be paid insofar; providing for the filing of an application to purchase; providing that the sale of such land shall be subject to outstanding easements, leases and permits; providing for the reservation of all minerals to the State of Texas and the leasing of same; providing for the manner of payment by the Game and Fish Commission.
| BREWSTER COUNTY | GAME & FISH COMMISSION | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 705 54-0 (1955)
Author: Seeligson, Frates Slick
Relating to providing for payment of an amount equal to one per cent (1%) of each bid on mineral lease and land sales as a special sale fee; providing that such special payments on high bids be deposited to the General Revenue Fund; providing that failure to remit the special fee shall not render a bid void; providing for demand of payment of such fee; providing a penalty for failure or refusal to make such payment.
| COMPETITIVE BIDDING | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 706 54-0 (1955)
Author: Seeligson, Frates Slick
Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an increase in the amount of certain fees; fixing the effective date.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 719 54-0 (1955)
Author: Saul, Charles Leroy | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected filed notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board; providing that said resurveys shall not shift the lines of any survey where the lines of said surveys have been fixed by a court decree or by contract in writing between the parties; providing that deeds of acquittance so issued shall inure to the benefit of all holders of a portion of a survey, and that said deeds of acquittance shall not disturb the divisional or partitioning lines of surveys where said surveys are divided into smaller tracts.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 295 54-0 (1955)
Author: Owen, III, Frank
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the State of Texas to sell Public Free School Land situated in El Paso County, Texas, to the City of El Paso, Texas.
| EL PASO COUNTY | EL PASO, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 323 54-0 (1955)
Author: Martin, Crawford Collins
Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an increase in the amount of certain fees charged by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 335 54-0 (1955)
Author: Fly, William S. "Bill"
Relating to amending certain Statutes providing that development and operations upon areas including in Article 5353, Revised Civil Statutes, 1925, shall be done in such manner as to prevent pollution of water, destruction of fish, oysters and other marine life, and obstruction of navigation; providing that the Commission of the General Land Office shall promulgate and enforce the necessary rules and regulations.
| Environment--Water | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Admin. Procedure
SB 381 54-0 (1955)
Author: Bracewell, Jr., Joseph Searcy
Relating to authorizing and providing a method for the Commissioner of the General Land Office to lease to the Houston Yacht Club certain submerged lands in Galveston Bay adjacent to certain tract of land conveyed to San Jacinto Bay Corporation, in deed recorded in Vol. 697, page 460, Deed Records of Harris County, and prescribing the terms and conditions of said lease.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HARRIS COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 241 53-0 (1953)
Author: Fisk, Jack Gordon
Relating to providing for the leasing of islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes and reefs, owned by the State within tidewater limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas, and all unsold public free school land, both surveyed and unsurveyed, and all rivers and channels belonging to the State, for the production of minerals except sand, shell, gravel, gold, silver, platinum, cinnabar, and other metals.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 462 53-0 (1953)
Author: Owen, III, Frank
Relating to mineral leases heretofore issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas covering rivers, channels, unsold school lands, both surveyed and unsurveyed, or any area within tidewater limits, including islands, lakes, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, the bed of the sea, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico now or hereafter within the jurisdiction of Texas, providing that in the event production of oil or gas shall cease from any cause, such lease shall not terminate if additional drilling or reworking operations are conducted.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 521 53-0 (1953)
Author: Bryan, Sr., Jack C.
Relating to providing for the authority of State Land Commissioner to cause the resurvey and remarking of original Land lines and survey corners of the State.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SURVEYORS
HB 749 53-0 (1953)
Author: Saul, Charles Leroy | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected field notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SURVEYORS
HB 794 53-0 (1953)
Author: Warden, John A.
Relating to authorizing and empowering the Land Commissioner of the State of Texas to execute certain leases of that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 294 53-0 (1953)
Author: Rogers, Andrew J. "Andy"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes under certain conditions.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SURVEYORS
HB 387 52-0 (1951)
Author: Gurley, Dorothy
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of lands heretofore sold and forfeited prior to September 1, 1945, and on which applications for reinstatement and payment of delinquent interest has been made to the General Land Office prior to March 5, 1951, and on which there are no intervening rights of third persons.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | TERRELL COUNTY
HB 479 52-0 (1951)
Author: LaFont, Harold M.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in the State of Texas, where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon possession and acquiescence for twenty-five (25) years; authorizing the present owners of said surveys to purchase excess acreage revealed by said corrected field notes at a price to be set by the School Land Board.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 679 52-0 (1951)
Author: Pearson, Lee Roy | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land forfeited prior to September 1, 1945, and on which applications have been filed for reinstatement prior to March 15, 1951, and on which there are no intervening rights of a third person.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HOWARD COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 682 52-0 (1951)
Author: Bryan, Sr., Jack C.
Relating to providing for the authority of State Land Commissioner to cause the resurvey and remarking of original Land Lines and survey corners of the State; giving the Commissioners Court of each county the authority to co-operate with said Land Commissioner by the employment of County Surveyors or Licensed State Land Surveyors on a yearly basis whose duty shall be that of a resurveying of all original State Land Grants, their lines and establishing of corners and the maintenance of said lines and corners.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 728 52-0 (1951)
Author: Sadler, Harley Herman
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of lands heretofore sold and forfeited prior to September 1, 1945, and on which applications for reinstatement and payment of delinquent interest has been made to the General Land Office prior to April 11, 1951, and on which there are no intervening rights of third persons.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 146 52-0 (1951)
Author: Hardeman, Dorsey B.
Relating to amending certain acts so as to clarify the requirement for payment of delay rentals and royalties during the period that the primary term of any oil, gas, or mineral lease heretofore or hereafter issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office is suspended because the lease is involved in litigation relating to the validity of the lease or to the authority of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue the lease.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 307 52-0 (1951)
Author: Hardeman, Dorsey B.
Relating to providing that the Commissioner of the General Land Office, on behalf of the State of Texas or any fund belonging thereto, is authorized to execute agreements that provide for the operation of areas as a unit for the exploration, development and production of oil and gas, or either of them, and to commit to such agreements the royalty interests in oil and gas, or either of them, reserved to the State or any fund thereof by law.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 884 51-0 (1949)
Author: Childress, Hiram
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Fisher County forfeited prior to September 1, 1941 and on which applications have been filed for reinstatement prior to April 15, 1949, and on which there are no intervening rights of a third person; providing for all principal and interest shall be made prior to reinstatement.
| FISHER COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 956 51-0 (1949)
Author: McIlhany, Grainger Walter
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Wheeler County forfeited prior to August 1, 1941, and after January 1, 1941, where the lands have been improved by the present occupant to the extent of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000) or more, providing that the provisions of this Act shall not apply as to intervening rights of third parties.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | WHEELER COUNTY
SB 452 51-0 (1949)
Author: Bullock, Pat M.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Fisher County forfeited prior to September 1, 1941 and on which applications have been filed for reinstatement prior to April 15, 1949, and on which there are no intervening rights of a third person.
| FISHER COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SJR 11 51-0 (1949)
Author: Vick, Kyle A.
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Texas fixing the salaries of certain constitutional officers by amending Section 23 of Article 4, as amended, of the Constitution of the State of Texas fixing the salary of the Comptroller, Treasurer and Commissioner of the General Land Office at Ten Thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars per annum; providing for its submission to the voters of the State of Texas as required by the Constitution, and making an appropriation therefor.
| COMPETENCY ADVISORY COMMITTEE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | Salaries & Expenses | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
HB 28 51-1 (1950)
Author: Craig, William Jenkins "Bill"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Hutchinson County forfeited prior to February 2, 1943, and after January 1, 1943, and where the lands have been occupied by the original purchaser of said lands from the State for a period of twenty-seven years or more.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HUTCHINSON COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 76 51-1 (1950)
Author: King, Samuel Leslie
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reinstate sales of land in Wilbarger County forfeited prior to August 1, 1943, ans after January 1, 1943, where the lands have been improved by the present occupant to the extent of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000) or more, providing that the provisions of this Act shall not apply as to intervening rights of third parties.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | WILBARGER COUNTY
SB 5 51-1 (1950)
Author: Hazlewood, Grady
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of General Land Office to re-instate sales of land in Hutchinson County, Texas, forfeited after September 1, 1942, and prior to February 1, 1943, and where the lands have been occupied or used by the original purchaser for a period of twenty-seven years or more.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HUTCHINSON COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 206 50-0 (1947)
Author: Heflin, James McDonald
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell 100 acres of land out of the Solomon Smith Survey, Abstract 254, in Waller County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | WALLER COUNTY
HB 748 50-0 (1947)
Author: Timmons, Jerome Blake | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to execute contracts committing the oil and gas interests of the State to lawful agreements with the approval of the School Land Board if the oil and gas interests are set apart for Permanent Free School Fund and the several asylum funds, and of the board, agent, agency or authority of the state vested with authority to lease or approve the leasing of lands for oil and gas in other lands or areas; authorizing administrators, executors, guardians, or other fiduciaries administering estates under the control and jurisdiction of the County Courts to execute contracts committing to lawful agreements the oil and gas interests of the estates with the approval of the County Courts; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | ROYALTIES
SB 42 50-0 (1947)
Author: Carney, Howard A.
Relating to fixing the terms of leases covering certain submerged lands now or hereafter within the jurisdiction of the State of Texas; providing for the amendment of existing leases of such lands; declaring provisions hereof severable; repealing all laws and parts of laws in conflict.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 223 49-0 (1945)
Author: Sallas, Jonathan Benjamin
Relating to repealing certain Articles by providing that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may have not more than 1500 copies of Supplemental Abstracts of patented, titled and surveyed lands printed and bound for distribution and providing that the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall have the authority to sell and distribute the undisposed of Volumes and Abstracts provided for in Chapter 291, Acts of the 47th Legislature, 1941.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 228 49-0 (1945)
Author: Greer, Julian Preston
Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an increase in the amount of certain fees; providing for the elimination of certain fees and the addition of others; fixing the effective date.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 101 49-0 (1945)
Author: Hazlewood, Grady | et. al.
Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for an increase in the amount of certain fees; providing for the elimination of certain fees and the addition of others; fixing the effective date.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER
SB 122 49-0 (1945)
Author: Lane, Wardlow William
Relating to providing that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may have not more than fifteen hundred (1500) copies of Supplemental Abstracts of patented, titled and surveyed lands printed and bound for distribution; providing that the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall have the authority to sell and distribute the undisposed-of volumes of Abstracts.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
SB 229 49-0 (1945)
Author: Lane, Wardlow William | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the School Land Board, to enter into agreements whereby the State's royalty interests in natural gas reserved in or retained in any patent or contract of sale or under the terms of any lease executed by an agent of the state under the Relinquishment Act or any lease executed and issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, except leases covering land belonging to The University of Texas, are pooled and consolidated with other interests in natural gas so as to form pooled areas; fixing a minimum royalty to be received by the state; repealing all laws in conflict herewith; providing a savings clause.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 12 48-0 (1943)
Author: Isaacks, Samuel Jackson "Sam"
Relating to regulating the granting of electric power and transmission line right of way easements, or leases of sites for electric substations and the easements thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, on and across public lands of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Utilities--Electric
HB 35 48-0 (1943)
Author: Sallas, Jonathan Benjamin
Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the granting of telephone, telegraph, electric transmissions on and/or power line right of ways and/or easements, or leases of sites for electric substations and the easements thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, on and across public lands of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Utilities--Electric | Utilities--Telecommunications
HB 125 48-0 (1943)
Author: Gilmer, Claud Henry
Relating to amending certain Statues by providing that certain oil leases shall not be valid until approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
HB 126 48-0 (1943)
Author: Gilmer, Claud Henry
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by and with the consent and approval of the School Land Board, to enter into and approve pooling of public school lands and lands in which the public free school fund owns a mineral interest with privately owned lands for the purpose of oil and gas development; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 141 48-0 (1943)
Author: Huffman, Calvin Combest "Cal" | et. al.
Relating to amending certain Statutes by providing for the conditions of payment for state lands in the event of the death of any purchase of school land.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 476 48-0 (1943)
Author: Walker, David B.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, assign, and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind and character directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the thirty-five (35) acre park situated in Hillsboro in Hill County, Texas, and known as Jefferson Davis State Park, to the Robert E. Vaden Post, No. 4, of the American Legion of Hill County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | HILLSBORO, CITY OF | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 489 48-0 (1943)
Author: Sallas, Jonathan Benjamin | et. al.
Relating to amending certain acts providing for mineral prospect permit applications; providing for rental payment to accompany applications.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 78 48-0 (1943)
Author: Morris, George C.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, by and with the consent and approval of the School Land Board, to enter into and approve pooling of public school lands and lands in which the Public Free School Fund owns a mineral interest with privately owned lands for the purpose of oil and gas development; repealing all laws in conflict herewith.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 94 48-0 (1943)
Author: Metcalfe, Penrose B.
Relating to amending certain Acts to provide for the granting of telephone, telegraph, electric transmission and/or power line right of ways and/or easements, or leases of sites for electric sub stations and the easements thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, on and across public lands of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Utilities--Electric | Utilities--Telecommunications
SB 106 48-0 (1943)
Author: Aikin, Jr., A.M.
Relating to requiring certain oil and gas leases to be approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SB 281 48-0 (1943)
Author: Sulak, Louis J.
Relating to providing that it is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association of persons, to reproduce, print or prepare or to sell or furnish any printed, multigraphed or mimeographed list or lists prepared by or under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, offering for sale or lease any State or Public School Land, and providing a penalty therefor.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 123 47-0 (1941)
Author: Sharpe, Ben H. | et. al.
Relating to providing for the revision and compilation of the abstracts of patented, titled, and surveyed land by the Commissioner of the General Land Office; making an appropriation for the printing and binding of same; providing for the distribution and sale of same by the Comptroller of Public Accounts.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 238 47-0 (1941)
Author: Lanning, Royston Conrad "Doc"
Relating to providing for the leasing of all islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, and reefs owned by the State within tidewater limits, and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 9 46-0 (1939)
Author: Smith, Paris | et. al.
Relating the purchase and application of unsurveyed school lands or land vacancies.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SCHOOL LAND BOARD
SB 27 44-0 (1935)
Author: Regan, Kenneth Mills
Relating to making an appropriation of one thousand ($1,000) dollars to be used by the Commissioner of the General Land Office for binding and repairing records and documents of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Finances--Appropriations
SB 206 44-0 (1935)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept, approve and file corrected field notes to any survey of land in Swisher County where said corrected field notes are made by a duly authorized official land surveyor and based upon the "Hutchinson Iron Pipe Survey."
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SWISHER COUNTY
HB 6 43-0 (1933)
Author: Hughes, Sarah Tilghman | et. al.
Relating to regulating the granting of pipeline right of way easements, and the terms thereof and the rates to be charged therefor, across public lands of Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 99 43-0 (1933)
Author: Johnson, Andrew Percy
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsever class, kind or character directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the 26.5 acre Park Site situated near Con Can Post Office in Uvalde County, Texas, to A. B. Mayhew.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Parks & Wildlife--Parks | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | UVALDE COUNTY
HB 218 43-0 (1933)
Author: Jones, Walter E. | et. al.
Relating to requiring the Land Commissioner to ascertain and determine the amount of bonus and rental money due the State, and by whom due, under the operation, terms, and conditions of the Relinquishment Act, authorizing the Land Commissioner to settle and compromise such debts with the debtors on the basis of actual amounts found due less all just and lawful credits.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
HB 560 43-0 (1933)
Author: Clayton, William Edwin | et. al.
Relating to providing for the issuance of patents to certain lands formerly claimed by the State of New Mexico.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 33 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGill, Joseph
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the re-purchase of public school land situated in Culberson County.
| CULBERSON COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 61 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine
Relating to validating the surveys of all lands heretofore or hereafter made and returned to the General Land Office, vesting the title to lands included within the lines of said surveys as returned to the General Land Office, in the parties for which same were made and their heirs, successors and assigns.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 72 42-0 (1931)
Author: Harrison, Julian P. | et. al.
Relating to providing for the issuance of patents to the bona fide occupants and claimants of lands which have been found by the Supreme Court of the United States to be in Texas, under the Decree of New Mexico vs. Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 114 42-0 (1931)
Author: Moore, Helen | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind or character, belonging to the State of Texas, in and to certain abutting property known as the Texas City or Government Dike, to the City of Texas City in Galveston County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | TEXAS CITY, CITY OF
HB 121 42-0 (1931)
Author: McGregor, Temple Harris
Relating to providing that the commissioner of the general land office be authorized and directed to search out, locate, describe and plat all tracts, lots, pieces and parcels of land lying and being within the city limits of the city of Austin and belonging to the State of Texas.
| AUSTIN, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 358 42-0 (1931)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine
Relating to amending certain statutes relating to the sale and lease of oil and gas leases on coastal areas and unsold unsurveyed school land.
| Education--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 376 42-0 (1931)
Author: Burns, I. J.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title, and interest of whatsoever class, kind, or character directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas in and to that tract of land known as the Melvin Park Site situated at the edge of the town of Melvin, in McCulloch County, Texas, to D. J. Malstrom.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | MCCULLOCH COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 463 42-0 (1931)
Author: Johnson, Arthur C.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the repurchase of Public School Land in Dallam County.
| DALLAM COUNTY | Education--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 847 42-0 (1931)
Author: Keller, Jack
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and reward all applications for re-purchase of Public school land situated in Brewster County and Loving County, Texas.
| Education--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 70 42-0 (1931)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, to deed, convey, assign and/or transfer all right, title and interest of whatsoever class, kind or character, directly or indirectly belonging to the State of Texas, except the mineral rights herein, in and to certain abutting property known as the Texas City or Government Dike, to the City of Texas City in Galveston County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | TEXAS CITY, CITY OF
SB 205 42-0 (1931)
Author: Patton, Nat | et. al.
Relating to authorizing and directing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State to lease Red Fish Reef to C.E. Biggers of San Leon, Galveston County for a period of ten years for the purpose of making said Reef, or Island, suitable as a place for public use and recreation.
| Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 343 42-0 (1931)
Author: Parrish, Pinkney L. "Pink"
Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Board for Lease of University Lands to employ a geologist for the purpose of investigating the mineral bearing possibilities and potential value of the lands belonging to the public free school fund.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 544 42-0 (1931)
Author: Greer, Julian Preston
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the repurchase of certain public school land located in El Paso County, Texas.
| EL PASO COUNTY | FORECLOSURES | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 595 42-0 (1931)
Author: Neal, Mary Elizabeth "Margie" | et. al.
Relating to providing for the sale of oil and gas leases on the Sabine River bed in Gregg County.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SJR 10 42-0 (1931)
Author: Woodul, Sr., Walter Frank
Proposing an amendment increasing the salary of the Comptroller, Treasurer and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars.
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | Salaries & Expenses | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
HB 72 42-3 (1932)
Author: Wagstaff, Robert McAlpine | et. al.
Relating to requiring the land commissioner to ascertain and determine the amounts of bonus and rental money due the state in certain cases.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 8 41-0 (1929)
Author: Kemble, Sr., George Clark | et. al.
Relating to defining, regulating and licensing real estate brokers, real estate agents and real estate salesmen within the State of Texas, to create a State Board of Examiners to operate in conjunction with the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and providing for the appointment of such examiners, and fixing their qualifications, compensation and tenure of office; providing a penalty.
House: State Affairs
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions | REAL ESTATE AGENTS | REAL ESTATE BROKERS | REAL ESTATE EXAMINERS, TEXAS BOARD OF | SENATE, TEXAS | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed
HB 49 41-0 (1929)
Author: Acker, Sr., Walter P. | et. al.
Relating to providing an extension of the term of certain Oil and Gas Permits from a period of two (2) years to a period of five (5) years from their respective dates.
House: State Affairs
| CHAMBERS COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMITS
HB 111 41-0 (1929)
Author: Storey, Cecil | et. al.
Relating to providing for the sale and ease of minerals in and on University lands; providing for re-surveying, dividing and marketing said lands.
House: Public Lands & Buildings
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | ROYALTIES | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
HB 144 41-0 (1929)
Author: Pool, Adrian C.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to employ additional clerks from February 1, 1929, until September 1, 1929, and making appropriation therefor.
House: Appropriations
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Salaries & Expenses | State Employees | State Finances--Appropriations
HB 154 41-0 (1929)
Author: Williams, William Thomas "Willie"
Relating to providing for the sale by the Commissioner of the General Land Office at auction of oil and gas leases on unsold public free school and asylum land, fresh water lakes, river beds and channels, islands, salt water lakes, bayous, inlets, marshes, reefs and that part of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction of Texas.
House: Judiciary
| AUCTIONS & AUCTIONEERS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 376 41-0 (1929)
Author: Williams, William Thomas "Willie"
Relating to granting and selling to the city of Austin, Texas, 6.46 acres of land, more or less, situated in Travis county.
House: Public Lands & Buildings
| AUSTIN, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | TRAVIS COUNTY
HB 424 41-0 (1929)
Author: Storey, Cecil | et. al.
Relating to giving any person, association or corporation in the actual possession of any unsold school or asylum lands in the State the fee ownership thereof in good faith under a grant or sale from the State.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 433 41-0 (1929)
Author: Tillotson, Leonard E. | et. al.
Relating to empowering the Texas Prison Board to formulate a policy for the operation of the present system and for its centralization and re-organization; providing for authority to the Board to make sales of prison system lands in furtherance of a plan of centralization of the system, and with authority to effect exchanges of prison system lands for other lands suitable to the purpose of centralization of the system; and providing the conditions under which such sales shall be made.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | Corrections--Jails & Prisons | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR | PRISON BOARD, TEXAS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE | State Finances--Appropriations
HB 449 41-0 (1929)
Author: McGill, Joseph
Relating to amending certain laws providing for procedure to determine availability of contested school land vacancies; requiring evidence of payment of surveying expenses; limiting compensation of surveyors of vacancies.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SURVEYORS
HB 602 41-0 (1929)
Author: Graves, Harry N.
Relating to the State Penitentiary and the state prison system; making an appropriation.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | Corrections--Jails & Prisons | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | PRISON BOARD, TEXAS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SENATE, TEXAS | STATE BOARD OF CONTROL | State Finances--Appropriations
SB 82 41-0 (1929)
Author: Wirtz, Alvin Jacob | et. al.
Relating to providing for the sale of oil and gas in and on University lands.
| Education--Higher--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | LEASE OF UNIVERSITY LANDS, BOARD FOR | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions--Newly Proposed | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
SB 101 41-0 (1929)
Author: Hornsby, John William
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to employ additional clerks from February 1st, 1929 until September 1, 1929; making an appropriation.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Salaries & Expenses | State Employees | State Finances--Appropriations
SB 104 41-0 (1929)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to requiring the Land Commissioner to ascertain certain facts before granting application for oil permits.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMITS
SB 257 41-0 (1929)
Author: Berkeley, Benjamin Franklin
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and award all applications for the repurchase of public school land forfeited and reappraised under Chapter 94, an Act approved March 19, 1925, and as amended by Chapter 25, an act approved October 27, 1926, for which applications or the first payment therefor were filed in the Land Office after the expiration of the time allowed by law for the filing thereof but for which applications and the first payment were so filed.
| Education--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 271 41-0 (1929)
Author: Small, Sr., Charles Clinton "Clint"
Relating to giving any person, association or corporation in the actual possession of any unsold school or asylum lands a preference or prior right to purchase the same under any laws in force at the time of such purchase.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 342 41-0 (1929)
Author: Holbrook, Thomas Jefferson
Relating to the State Penitentiary and the State Prison System; making an appropriation.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | Corrections--Jails & Prisons | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | PRISON BOARD, TEXAS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | SENATE, TEXAS | STATE BOARD OF CONTROL | State Finances--Appropriations
SB 446 41-0 (1929)
Author: Wirtz, Alvin Jacob | et. al.
Relating to extending oil and gas permits and combinations thereof issued on University lands.
| Education--Higher--General | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMITS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 607 41-0 (1929)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas to issue an oil and gas lease to H.M. Holden his heirs and assigns for a term of five years and as long thereafter as oil, gas or any other mineral is produced in paying quantities.
| AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND | Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Oil & Gas | PERMITS | ROYALTIES
SJR 21 41-0 (1929)
Author: Thomason, William Edgar
Proposing an amendment fixing the compensation of the State Comptroller of Public Accounts, the State Treasurer and the Commissioner of the General Land Office; making an appropriation.
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Resolutions--Constitutional Amendments | Salaries & Expenses | State Officers | STATE TREASURER
SB 197 41-2 (1929)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to the issuance of an oil and gas lease to Henry Holden.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SB 39 41-5 (1930)
Author: Berkeley, Benjamin Franklin
Relating to providing for procuring and filing in the General Land Office certain papers, maps, sketches and reports relating to the survey of lands by virtue of certificates issued by the State to The Texas & Pacific Railway Company and its predecessors in title, now in the custody of said railway company, the same to become archives of the General Land Office.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Transportation--Railroads
HB 18 40-0 (1927)
Author: Daniel, Roy Joyner | et. al.
Relating to defining, regulating and licensing real estate brokers; creating the real estate division of the General Land Office and providing for the appointment of a supervisor of such division.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Occupational Regulation--Other Trades & Professions | REAL ESTATE BROKERS
HB 264 40-0 (1927)
Author: Brown, Henry Turner
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to revalue, reclassify and give new notice on all scrap school surveys; and to allow all applicants sixty days after such reclassification and revaluation in which to file applications to purchase said land.
| Education--School Districts | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 147 39-0 (1925)
Author: Miller, Eugene
Relating to protecting those who have filed exemption or homestead donation claims on school Section 2, S. P. Ry, Co., certificate 16/68 in Jack County, Texas, by authorizing the original preemptors or their assignees in good faith and for value to purchase, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell to them such portions as they own in good faith and for value under said preemption or homestead claim, at fifty cents (.50) per acre, after they have filed field notes in the General Land Office, and have met such requirements as the law imposes on the owners of homestead or preemption claims, and purchasers of school lands desiring patents therefor.
Senate: Public Land and Land Office
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | JACK COUNTY | Property Interests--Real Property
SB 458 39-0 (1925)
Author: Wood, Ashley Elijah
Relating to authorizing the Governor to make sale and execute a deed disposing of the South half of Block 59, East Fifth Street in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at such price and on such terms as may meet the approval of the Governor, Commissioner of the General Land Office and Attorney General.
Senate: Public Land and Land Office
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | AUSTIN, CITY OF | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 404 38-0 (1923)
Author: McFarlane, William Doddridge
Relating to extending for a period of five years from the passage of this Act all permits to prospect for oil and gas heretofore issued; and providing that all permits hereafter issued shall be for a period of five years.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMITS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 490 38-0 (1923)
Author: Price, Lloyd E. | et. al.
Relating to appropriating to the Permanent Public School Fund whatsoever land that may be recovered to the State finally in the case of the State of Texas against George Findlay and others in the Capital Syndicate Land Suit.
| COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 503 38-0 (1923)
Author: McFarlane, William Doddridge
Relating to protection of those who have filed exemption or homestead donation claims on school Section 2, S.F. Ry. Co. certificate 16/68 in Jack County, Texas.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 515 38-0 (1923)
Author: Smith, John T.
Relating to providing for the compensation to the Texas Cherokee Indians and their associate bands for certain lands in East Texas ceded them by the Republic of Texas.
| ATTORNEY GENERAL | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Governor | NATIVE AMERICANS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 239 38-0 (1923)
Author: Murphy, Sr., Charles Alfred
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue certain oil and gas leases.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas
SB 344 38-0 (1923)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to lease a group of three islands situated in Bahia Grande (Big Bay) in Cameron County for a term not to exceed fifty years to the National Association of Audubon Societies.
| CAMERON COUNTY | Coastal Affairs & Beaches | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Parks & Wildlife--General
SB 396 38-0 (1923)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to validating all sales of public school land sold to highest bidder on January 20, 1908 and now situated in Kleberg, Kenedy and Brooks counties, which are in good standing a to interest payments on the records of the General Land Office.
| BROOKS COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | KENEDY COUNTY | KLEBERG COUNTY | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 204 38-2 (1923)
Author: Burmeister, Frank H.
Relating to extending for a period of five years from the passage of this Act all permits to prospect for oil and gas heretofore issued on river beds and channels, fresh water lakes and islands therein, and on University lands, asylum lands and public school lands, surveyed or unsurveyed, which are unsold at the time this Act goes into effect.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | PERMITS | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 126 37-0 (1921)
Author: Bonham, Herbert Spencer
Relating to a certain Act regarding oil and gas that may be in unsurveyed land belonging to the public free school fund.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 186 37-0 (1921)
Author: Buchanan, Arren C.
Relating to providing for the sale of the University of Texas state lands, etc.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
SB 268 37-0 (1921)
Author: Parr, Archer "Archie"
Relating to validate the grants of land made by the crown of Spain, made to the original grantees and their heirs, land being in Webb Country, etc.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | WEBB COUNTY
HB 365 36-0 (1919)
Author: Jones, Walter Francis
Relating to amending certain statutes by providing that any part of a tract of land heretofore or hereafter sold by the State, may, in the discretion of the commissioner of the General Land Office, and regardless of the number of acres contained therein, be patented at any time upon the payment of the balance due the State for such part together with the patent fees prescribed by law.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 407 36-0 (1919)
Author: Stewart, W. W. | et. al.
Relating to amending certain laws providing the royalty and other sums and compensations to be paid to the State and owner of the surface of lands upon which permits may be granted by the State to explore for minerals or leased for production of minerals, and granting a lien upon all production produced upon the leased areas and the improvements situated thereon to secure the payment of any royalty and any sums due the State or the surface owner, arising under the operation of any portion of this Act.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 412 36-0 (1919)
Author: Barrett, Charles W.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to lease the lands owned by the State, under the control and management of the Board of Prison Commissioners, known as the penitentiary lands, and the lands under the control and management of the Board of the Institution for training of Juveniles, located in Coryell county, Texas, to any person, firm, or corporation, desiring the right to prospect for and develop petroleum, oil or natural gas thereon; providing that said leases may be executed under the terms and conditions and in the same manner, as now provided for by law, for the leasing of public free school University and asylum lands.
| CORYELL COUNTY | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 9 36-0 (1919)
Author: Dudley, Richard M.
Relating to validating sales of lands belonging to public free schools and asylum funds of the State, which were made under the provisions of certain statute.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 127 36-0 (1919)
Author: Buchanan, Charles R. | et. al.
Relating to providing for the sale, lease, transfer, patenting and forfeiture of land belonging to the Public Free School Fund, the Lunatic Asylum Fund, the Blind Asylum Fund, the Deaf and Dumb Asylum Fund, and the Orphan Asylum Fund, and to repeal certain acts relating to the sale of public school and asylum lands, relating to the sale of public lands, and the reservation all minerals in all the land included in this Act.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 70 36-2 (1919)
Author: Stewart, W. W. | et. al.
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to sell all petroleum, oil and natural gas in all lands owned by the State.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Oil & Gas | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 82 35-4 (1918)
Author: Bryan, E. R. | et. al.
Relating to amending certain acts relating to the delivery of patents.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 36 35-4 (1918)
Author: Buchanan, Charles R.
Relating to amending and repealing the state statutes both relating to the delivery of patents.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Property Interests--Real Property | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 96 33-0 (1913)
Author: Hudspeth, Claude Benton
Relating to amending the Acts of Legislature relating to validating certain surveys which for any reason might be deemed invalid, and to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents therefor; said proposed amendment being to provide for the issuance of patents in cases, otherwise valid in all respects, where certified copies of certificates have been taken out and valid re-locations made thereunder, as well as where such certificates have not been taken out, as is provided under the present law.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 247 32-0 (1911)
Author: Hudspeth, Claude Benton
Relating to the sale of the public free school and asylum lands made by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, where such sales may be defective from any cause and to quiet the titles thereto, and provide for the issuance of patents thereto.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources | Validating Acts
HB 501 30-0 (1907)
Author: Clements, Philip Holman "Phil"
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to charge certain fees, with a view of making the Land Office self-sustaining.
| Fees & Other Nontax Revenue--State | GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | State Agencies, Boards & Commissions
SB 118 30-0 (1907)
Author: Hudspeth, Claude Benton
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the consent and approval of the Governor and Attorney General, to sell the Guayule, Lechuguilla and other vegetation on school land, and to enter into contracts for the purpose of determining the commercial value of substances found upon public free school land.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 220 30-0 (1907)
Author: Murray, Sr., William Owen
Relating to authorizing the Land Commissioner to have surveyed and located certain mineral bearing school lands.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Mines & Mineral Resources | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 184 29-0 (1905)
Relating to remitting penalties on certain patents and to authorize the Commissioner of the General Land Office to deliver to the owner of the land the patent therefor upon payment of patent fee.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
SB 74 25-0 (1897)
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to forfeit all lands heretofore sold by the State under any of the various acts of the Legislature, for failure to pay any portion of the interest thereon.
| GENERAL LAND OFFICE COMMISSIONER | Public Lands, Buildings & Resources
HB 688 24-0 (1895)
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to the heirs of S. H. Carter, a patent to the north half and southeast quarter of section No. 2, block No. 1, in Fisher county, Texas.
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SB 95 24-0 (1895)
Relating to providing for the sale of all lands heretofore or hereafter surveyed and set apart for the benefit of the public free schools and several asylums, and the lease of such lands and of the public lands of the State, and the patenting of any part of said lands for church, cemetery or school house sites; and to prevent the free use, occupancy, unlawful enclosure or unlawful appropriation of such lands, and to prescribe and provide adequate penalties therefor.
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SB 195 24-0 (1895)
Relating to the relief of actual occupants of portions of the unappropriated public domain as homes.
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HB 481 22-0 (1891)
Relating to providing for the sale of all lands heretofore and hereafter surveyed and set apart for the benefit of the public free schools, the University, and the several asylums and the lease of such lands and to prevent the free use, occupancy, unlawful enclosure or unlawful appropriation of such; providing penalties.
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HB 504 21-0 (1889)
Relating to authorizing the commissioner of the general land office in certain cases to change the number of surveys made by virtue of alternate land certificates.
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SB 269 21-0 (1889)
Relating to validating certain surveys which for any reason might be deemed invalid, and authorizing the commissioner of the general land office to issue patents therefor.
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HB 172 20-0 (1887)
Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a patent to the heirs of Wilhelm Kuhlman for 320 acres of land located in Gillespie County on December 1, 1879.
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HB 283 20-0 (1887)
Relating to requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue to the heirs of James L. Holmes duplicate bounty warrant for 1920 acres of land.
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HB 463 20-0 (1887)
Relating to the relief of the heirs of Alexander Farmer, deceased.
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HB 236 19-0 (1885)
Relating to authorizing and requiring the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue a certificate for 1280 acres of land to J.B. Robertson, for military services in the army of the Republic of Texas.
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HB 270 19-0 (1885)
Relating to amending article 3856 of the Revised Statutes.
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SB 46 19-0 (1885)
Relating to the the relief of Willaim S. Boothe, S.F. Grimes, and the heirs of Henry Leftridge.
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SB 131 19-0 (1885)
Relating to amending Article 3916 of the Revised Civil Statutes.
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SB 193 19-0 (1885)
Relating to providing for the correction and revision of the abstracts of located titled and patented lands in Texas.
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SB 196 19-0 (1885)
Relating to the relief of Z.C. Collier, Thomas Collier, and Wm. Ramer.
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SB 24 18-0 (1883)
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to employ additional clerks and fixing their salaries
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SB 286 18-0 (1883)
Relating to authorizing the Commissioner of the General Land Office to issue patents now suspended for want of reports of county clerks
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