, 1935-08-05
1O4 New Laws To
Become Effective
For Texans Friday

AUSTIN, Aug. 8. R-Texans will
have l04 new laws added to al
ready crowded statute books this
week.
Bills affecting public and private
welfare in sundry ways will become
laws Friday. the ninetieth day after
adjournment Of the legislatures
regular session. The group consti-
tutes about one-fourth Of the bill
crop of the four-month meeting.
Thirteen OF the laws viii affect
single counties, many Of the 81
others, while general in terms, will
apply to only small minoritieS. Still
others will correct antiquities and
minor omissions in civi statutes.
Most important in interest and
effect is the act creating a depart
ment Of public safety as an agency
to weld the ranger force and state
highway patrol into a modernized
state police system.
Bureaus Of intelligence, COM
m~unications, education, and iden-
LITIGATION and records will comprise
the department. The rangers and
highway patrol. retaining their
identities, will form two of three
departmental divisions, the third
being the headquarters division.
Three commissioners Of public
safety will manage the department
through a director. In advance 2.
the acts becoming law. Governor
Alfred selected George w. Getting
ham Of Houston. Albert Sidney
Johnson and Ernest GoenS OF Tyler
to be commissioners.
Another new law for the safety
Of Texans will prohibit owners of
livestock from permitting animals
70 run at large on highways with
fenced rights-of-way. Violations
viii face a fine Of up to 5000.
A new penal offense will be Gre
ated, that OF attempted burglary
of q vessel, steamboat or railroad
car. Law enforcement against this
type Of crime has been difficult for
only effected burglaries constituted
a violation.
Venue for murder trials viii be
broadened BY another act. A per-
son charged with murder may, BY
the act, be tried in the county
where The body was found, as well
a. in the county where the fatal in
jury was done or death occurred.
To enable a closer study Of con-
victS' behavior and records, the
board OF pardons and paroles will
be moved to Huntsville, site Of the
main prison, while another act will
give prison guards a substantial
salary boost.
Two businesses will be added to
those under state regulation. but
restrictions Oh a third will be re-
Taxed slightly.
and supervised by the board Of
embalming, while transportation
agents. who conduct travel bureaus,
will be regulated by the railroad
commission.
Restrictions on nurses training
schools will be modified to permit
such schools in small hospitals.
That act will reduce the minimum
size Of hospitals permitted to con-
duct nurses schools from that pre-
Tously set by the board Of nurse
examiners.
Depression period refinancing by
Sundry subdivisions will be aided
by several bills validating issuance
Of bonds and tax levies, while an
other relief act will cancel all ad
valorem taxes delinquent prior to
December 81, 1929. 1t will effec-
tuate a constitutional amendment
adopted several years ago.
Another hard-times bill win ex-
pand the items Of family property
n;ent Of debts Property % exempt
henceforth will include not only the
family homestead and kitchen pots
anc pans. along with a cemetery
sot, two horses and a wagon, but
also 'one dog as well as wearing
apparel, twenty head Of goats"
and flockS of chickens, turkeys,
ducks. geese and guineas.
Texts for teaching the German
language, expunged from Texas
high schools during the World War,
again will enter the approved list
for which the textbook commits
sion may make adoptions. The act
ESQ will permit adoption Of texts
.cr teaching Czech.
"A new law to safeguard patriotism
in schools will become effective
concurrently. Because OF evidences
Communism and other un-American
doctrines were being taught. Texas
teachers in the futures must swear
allegiance to the constitutions OF
Texas and the United States.
Three years will be added to the
maximum age Of persons given free
tuition in schools. while another act
affecting the educational system
will permit consolidation Of tax
assessing. collecting and legal de-
partmentS OF two or more inde-
pendent school districts.
The southern states Jim Crow
law" viii be extended to motor buses.