79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1011, Chapter 92 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1011, Chapter 92

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to restrictions on and reporting of certain expenditures by registered lobbyists.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 424, Chapter 79 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 424, Chapter 79

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the deadline for passing the examination for a license to practice medicine in this state.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 441, Chapter 80 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 441, Chapter 80

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to application of the professional prosecutors law to the district attorney for the 112th Judicial District.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 446, Chapter 81 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 446, Chapter 81

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the reduction in value or expiration of a stored value card.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 449, Chapter 82 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 449, Chapter 82

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the conversion of certain mutual life insurance companies to insurance holding companies and stock life insurance companies.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 550, Chapter 83 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 550, Chapter 83

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the compensation of security personnel of certain courts, including the payment of compensation for the bailiff of the 106th District Court.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 571, Chapter 84 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 571, Chapter 84

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the hours of sale and consumption of wine at a winery.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 580, Chapter 85 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 580, Chapter 85

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the installment payment of ad valorem taxes by certain veterans.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 644, Chapter 86 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 644, Chapter 86

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the eligibility of persons to participate in the public sale in certain counties of certain real property.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 262, Chapter 74 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 262, Chapter 74

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to benefits from the Employees Retirement System of Texas for law enforcement officers commissioned by the Texas State Board of Pharmacy.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 321, Chapter 75 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 321, Chapter 75

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the jurisdiction of the 396th District Court.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 359, Chapter 76 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 359, Chapter 76

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to notice regarding rental car damage waivers.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 374, Chapter 77 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 374, Chapter 77

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the repeal of the statutory provision regarding the adoption and use by the Texas Water Development Board of a capital spending plan for certain state-funded water-related programs under the board's jurisdiction.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 376, Chapter 78 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 376, Chapter 78

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to a pilot program for language interpreter services under the medical assistance program.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 718, Chapter 87 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 718, Chapter 87

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to boundaries of emergency services districts.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 895, Chapter 88 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 895, Chapter 88

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the processing of certain election ballots voted early.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 896, Chapter 89 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 896, Chapter 89

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of and the appointment of certain election officers.
Date: May 17, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers. (open access)

Improvements in Electric Foot Warmers.

Patent for adjustments in the mechanics of electric foot warmers.
Date: May 17, 1870
Creator: Littlepage, Caleb
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Pitmen. (open access)

Improvement in Pitmen.

Patent for "a new and and useful Improvment in Crank and Pitman;" (lines 3-5) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 17, 1870
Creator: Kealy, Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Poke. (open access)

Animal Poke.

Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the opposite side of which the adjacent ends of the said bars are pivoted" (lines 78-83).
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Stracener, Upton W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Knee Pad and Protector. (open access)

Knee Pad and Protector.

Patent for a new and improved knee pad. This design consists in "the combination of a body or main portion, padding contained therein, a re-enforcing piece secured to the said main portion, and a spring interposed and bearing between said main portion and re-enforcing piece . . . [a] cap-piece for knee-protectors slitted from its opposite edges . . . forming flaps, combined with connections for securing said flaps to the body of the cap-piece" (lines 72-81).
Date: May 17, 1887
Creator: Ridgill, Angus G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Locomotive Headlight. (open access)

Locomotive Headlight.

Patent for a new and improved train headlight. This design "has for its object to improve locomotive head-lights by so constructing the reservoir and burner and mounting the same that they may be easily removed from and connected with the reflector without moving the latter; and it consists of a reservoir for the head-light having certain features of novelty and in various improvements in the apparatus as a whole" (lines 11-19).
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Jobling, Lance L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hand Car. (open access)

Hand Car.

Patent for a new and improved handcar. This design "is to provide for hand-cars a motive power which will produce a high rate of speed and which will enable a hand-car to be propelled in either direction without necessitating turning the car end for end" (lines 9-14). It consists of "an opening in its platform disposed over one of the axles, a rectangular casing arranged over the opening, a drive-shaft journaled in the sides of the casing, a train of gears consisting of cog-wheels and pinions connecting the drive-shaft and the axle, and the crank-handles arranged at the ends of the drive-shaft" (lines 64-71).
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Parker, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ice Making and Blocking Machine. (open access)

Ice Making and Blocking Machine.

Patent for a new and improved ice machine. This design consists in "the combination of a non-conductive casing containing a freezing tank having water supply and discharge pipes, a water-tight diaphragm supported in said casing above the bottom of said tank having downwardly-tapered hollows in its upper surface and corresponding upwardly-tapered molds in its under surface, and a refrigerating medium contained within the said casing over said diaphragm and filling the hollows in the latter" (lines 82-91).
Date: May 17, 1887
Creator: Knox, George F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History