Overview
Texas. Legislature.
Legislative Council.
Records concerning the
Constitutional Convention of 1974
1973-1976
These records are
drafts of convention rules, drafts of articles and sections of the
constitution, minutes, budgets, legislation and bill analyses, intra-agency
memoranda and correspondence, questionnaires, comparative analyses and subject
index to the constitution, publications and printed matter, drafts of articles
for publication and other staff papers, and press releases dating from 1973 to
1976. The records document the Texas Legislative Council's assistance to the
Constitutional Convention of 1974, the Senate Standing Committee on the Texas
Constitution, and the Special Joint Committee on Constitutional
Implementation.
8 cubic ft.
English.
Restrictions on Access
None.
Restrictions on Use
None.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item and cite the series), Records concerning the
Constitutional Convention of 1974, Texas Legislative Council. Archives and
Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Agency History
On March 1, 1949, during the Regular Session of the 51st Texas
Legislature, Senate Bill 316 was introduced, providing for the creation of the
Texas Legislative Council. During the period that these records cover, the
Legislative Council was composed of seventeen members: the President of the
Senate (ex officio), the Speaker of the House (ex officio), five senators, and
ten representatives. Senators were appointed by the Senate President, i.e., the
Lieutenant Governor; representatives by the House Speaker. An Executive
Director was selected by the entire membership.
Responsibilities of the Council include the investigation of agencies
and officers of the state and statutory revision without substantive change.
The Council is authorized to sit between legislatures and is assisted by a
large staff. During the legislative session, upon the request of a member or
committee, Council staff will draft legislation and reports. In addition, staff
members may testify before committees and prepare written statements. Under the
general direction of the executive director, the staff is organized into five
major divisions: Administration, Legal, Research, Document Production, and
Information Systems.
From September 1974 until December 1975, the Texas Legislative Council
participated in the constitutional revision process through a temporary Office
of Constitutional Research.
Scope and Contents of the Records
These records are drafts of convention rules, drafts of articles and
sections of the constitution, minutes, budgets, legislation and bill analyses,
intra-agency memoranda and correspondence, questionnaires, comparative analyses
and a subject index to the constitution, publications and printed matter,
drafts of articles for publication and other staff papers, and press releases
dating from 1973 to 1976. The records document the Texas Legislative Council's
assistance to the Constitutional Convention of 1974, the Senate Standing
Committee on the Texas Constitution, and the Special Joint Committee on
Constitutional Implementation.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily
reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to
provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
Organization of the Records
These records are organized into two series:
- Draft rules of the Constitutional Convention of 1974, 1973, 0.5
cubic ft.
- Office of Constitutional Research records, 1974-1976, 7.5 cubic
ft.
Index Terms
The terms listed here were used to catalog the
records. The terms can be used to find similar or related records.
Corporate Names:
Texas.
Legislature.
Committee on the Texas
Constitution.
Texas.
Legislature.
Special Joint Committee on
Constitutional Implementation.
Subjects:
Constitutions--Texas.
Constitutional
conventions--Texas.
Places:
Texas--Constitution.
Document Types:
Drafts
(documents)--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Minutes--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Budgets--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Legislative
records--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Memorandums--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Correspondence--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Indexes--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Press
releases--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Publications--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Questionnaires--Texas--Constitutions--1973-1976.
Functions:
Developing Texas
constitutions.
Related Material
The following materials are offered as
possible sources of further information on the agencies and subjects covered by
the records. The listing is not exhaustive.
Texas State
Archives
Constitutional Convention of 1974, Records, 1973-1974, 153
cubic ft.
Constitutional Convention of 1875, Records, 1875, 0.5 cubic
ft.
Constitutional Revision Commission, Records, 1973-1974, 77
cubic ft.
Texas Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations,
Records, 1971-1989, 29 cubic ft.
Processing Information
Michael R. Green, November 1983
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1976/064, 1979/023
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information
Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the
Texas Legislative Council on January 1, 1976 and October 20, 1978.
Detailed Description of the Records
Draft rules of the Constitutional Convention of 1974,
1973,
0.5 cubic ft.
This series consists entirely of rules drafted in 1973 by the
Texas Legislative Council for the 1974 Constitutional Convention. These records
complement later drafts of rules prepared during the convention.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Draft rules of the Constitutional
Convention of 1974, Records concerning the Constitutional Convention of 1974,
Texas Legislative Council. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas
State Library and Archives Commission.
1979/023-1
Constitutional Convention Rules - drafts,
1973
Office of Constitutional Research records,
1974-1976,
7.5 cubic ft.
From September 1974 until December 1975, the Texas Legislative
Council participated in the constitutional revision process through a temporary
Office of Constitutional Research. Types of records include drafts of articles
and sections of the constitution, minutes, budgets, legislation and bill
analyses, intra-agency memoranda and correspondence, questionnaires,
comparative analyses and a subject index to the constitution, publications and
printed matter, drafts of articles for publication and other staff papers, and
press releases. The records date from 1974 to 1976.
Requests for information or proposals for constitutional change
were channeled to the Office of Constitutional Research, which also provided
research assistance to the Senate Standing Committee on the Texas Constitution
and the Special Joint Committee on Constitutional Implementation. The 1974-1975
revision process focused on simplification without substantive change. Various
approaches were considered: article-by-article revision of the constitution,
single resolution revision, constitutional simplification with interlocking
articles, and a citizens' constitutional convention.
Subjects associated with the records include: bankruptcy, city and
county government, education, elections, Executive Department, judiciary,
legislative procedures in Texas and other states, minority representation in
the revision process, modes of amending the constitution, special districts,
and state agencies and their creation.
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Office of Constitutional Research records,
Records concerning the Constitutional Convention of 1974, Texas Legislative
Council. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and
Archives Commission.
Office of Constitutional Research,
1974-1975
64th Legislature - Files on Impeachment:
4-25/354
Important correspondence - Impeachment
4-25/354
Impeachment Related Materials
[Rules; form resolutions, oaths for use in trial,
possible changes in special rules of impeachment, possible schedule of
events]
4-25/354
Carillo's Pleas in District Court
4-25/354
Forms of Impeachment
4-25/354
Bits and Pieces - Impeachment Book
4-25/354
Letter from Terry Doyle, Counsel to the Board of
Managers
4-25/354
Possible changes in Special Rule
4-25/354
New Media Resolution
4-25/354
The Resolution - Special Rules -
Testimony
4-25/354
Forms of Subpoenas and Compensation
64th Legislature - Simplification:
4-25/349
Official Drafts of Simplification - Hutchinson to
Gammage
4-25/350
Simplification - Hutchinson to Gammage
4-25/351
Patman (Senate Joint Resolution)
4-25/351
Reynolds - ACIR Simplification
4-25/351
Ribak - CRC Document - Joint Resolution
4-15/338
Side-by-Side Comparison of Proposed Constitution with
Present Constitution
4-15/338
Working Papers and First Drafts of Side-by-Side
Comparison
4-25/339
The United States -- Excluding its
Environs
[Information gathered from other states regarding
constitutional revision]
Calling a Brand New Convention:
4-25/340
Authority of the Texas Legislature to Call a
Constitutional Convention
4-25/340
Price's Convention
4-25/340
Meier's Constitutional Convention
4-25/340
Coleman's Con-Con
4-25/340
Mauzy's Constitutional Convention
4-25/340
Clark's Con-Con
4-25/340
Gammage's Convention
4-25/340
Election Laws
4-25/340
1919 Concurrent Resolution Calling
Con-Con
4-25/340
1875 Joint Resolution Calling Con-Con
Committees on Constitution:
4-25/341
House Committee
4-25/341
Senate Committee
4-25/341
Either/Both/or Neither House or Senate
Committees
Subject Index to Proposed Constitution
Constitutions to be Sent:
[Correspondence, working papers -- distribution of
information]
4-25/341
Tabloids Sent
4-25/341
Constitutions Sent
4-25/341
The Two Amendments That Passed
[SJR 3 and HJR (House Joint Resolution) 6]
4-25/341
Information Packet on Proposed
Constitution
4-25/341
Xeroxed "original" of Packet on Proposed
Constitution
4-25/341
The Constitution in Spanish and Pertinent Information
Regarding Distribution
4-25/341
HB (House Bill) 1134 - Numbering Ballot
4-25/341
Publicizing/Publication - Whatever
4-25/341
Sample Ballots
4-25/341
Vote on SJR 11
4-25/341
Enrolled SJR 11
4-25/341
Amendments to SJR 11
4-25/342
SJR 11 - House Second Printing
4-25/342
SJR 11 - House First Printing
4-25/342
Committee Amendment [SJR 11]
[two folders]
4-25/342
Amendments to SJR 11
4-25/343
General Information - Revision by
Amendment
4-25/343
Amendments on More than One Subject -
Draft
4-25/343
Effect Dates of Amendments
4-25/343
Equal Rights Amendment
4-25/343
Miscellaneous Amendments
4-25/343
Comparison of SJR 11 with Single-Shots
4-25/343
Individual Article Submissions
4-25/343
Education:
4-25/343
Simplification - Article VII
4-25/343
Public School Financing
4-25/343
Coleman - Exempting Petroleum Tax
4-25/343
Kubiak - Revision of Article VII
4-25/343
Executive:
4-25/343
McKinnon Amendment - Article IV, Section
12
4-25/343
Simplification - Article IV
4-25/343
In Case of Emergency - Article IV
4-25/343
Finance:
4-25/343
Water Bonds
4-25/343
Simplification - Article VIII
4-25/343
Coleman - Exempting Petroleum Manufacturing Tax from
Highway Fund
4-25/343
Munson - Article VIII
4-25/343
Grant Jones - Article VIII
4-25/344
General Provisions:
4-25/344
Simplification - Article X
4-25/344
Pari-Mutuel Betting - Gambling
4-25/344
The Judiciary:
4-25/344
Index to Judicial Provision of Proposed
Constitution
4-25/344
Judiciary Side-by-Side Comparison
[comparison of Judiciary Articles written by the
Constitution Convention, the Constitutional Revision Commission and the Chief
Justice's Task Force]
4-25/344
Chief Justice's Task Force
[revised Judiciary Article]
4-25/344
Simplification - Article V
4-25/344
The Legislature:
4-25/344
Article III
[draft bill prepared for Senator Sherman]
4-25/344
Simplification - Article III
4-25/344
State Agencies - Renewals
[draft bill]
4-25/344
Local Government:
4-25/344
Simplification - Article IX
4-25/344
Kaster - Article IX
[draft bill]
4-25/344
Rights and Suffrage:
4-25/344
Simplification - Articles II and VI
4-25/344
Simplification - Article XI
4-25/345
Lieutenant Governor Correspondence
4-25/345
Correspondence - Incoming, General
Correspondence
4-25/345
Organizations with Whom We Corresponded More or Less
Frequently:
4-25/345
Texas Bar Association
4-25/345
The Infamous John Bebout Folder
4-25/345
Texas Research League
4-25/345
Correspondence - Outgoing:
4-25/345
Constitutional Revision Task Force
4-25/345
CRC Mailout,
September 30, 1974
4-25/345
General Correspondence
4-25/345
Letter to Citizens Interested in Constitutional
Revision
4-25/345
Letter to 63rd Legislature
4-25/345
CRC Meeting,
October 4, 1974
4-25/345
Mail Out of Hutchison's Simplification
4-25/346
Correspondence - R. Steve Bickerstaff
4-25/346
Correspondence - R. Steve Bickerstaff,
September - December, 1974
4-25/346
Correspondence - re: Travel to Explain Proposed
Constitution
4-25/346
Nelson Wolff
4-25/346
Employees
4-25/347
Gammage - Article-by-Article
[Drafts of Bill submitting an article-by-article
revision of the constitution prepared for Senator Bob Gammage]
4-25/348
Committee Amendment (Gammage)
4-25/348
More Gammage
4-25/348
Gammage-A.G. - Work Drafts
4-25/348
The A.G.'s Gammage
4-25/348
[Working drafts of article-by-article submission of
constitution]
Articles, Publications, Etc.:
4-25/352
Alternatives for Revision
4-25/352
Kerry's Analysis
[Summary Analysis of Proposed
Constitution]
4-25/352
Pros and Cons
4-25/352
New! Improved!! Substantive and Non-Substantive
Changes SR 32 and SJR 11
4-25/352
Differences Between SJR 1 and SJR 11 and Con-Con SR
32
4-25/352
Southwest Law Journal Article
[Proposed Constitution for Texas]
4-25/352
Steve's Big Article on Article VIII
4-25/352
Patman's Newsletters to Constituents on
Constitution
4-25/352
Proposed Revision - Article for LBJ School of Public
Affairs by Janice C. May
4-25/352
Institute for Urban Studies Articles on Proposed
Constitution
4-25/353
Analysis of Comptroller's Report
4-25/353
Legislative Budget Board Report on Fiscal Implications
of Proposed Constitution
4-25/353
Bar Journal Article
[Multi-Amendment Revision of the Texas
Constitution
4-25/353
Summary Comparison - Fiscal Implications of Proposed
Constitution
4-25/353
Newspaper Coverage
4-25/353
Why Farmers/Teachers/Elderly Should be For the
Proposed Constitution
4-25/353
Good BS and Better BS - Press Releases
4-25/353
Judge Calvert's Analysis of Proposed
Constitution
Speeches:
4-25/353
McKnight's Anti-Constitution Speeches
4-25/353
Lieutenant Governor's Speeches for San
Antonio
4-25/353
The Ultimate in BS - Speeches
[Sample speeches on proposed constitution]
4-25/353
Election Results,
November 4, 1975
Senate Standing Committee on the
Texas Constitution, 64th Legislature,
1975
4-25/332
Committee Meetings and Hearings Schedule
4-25/332
Committee Minutes
4-25/332
Subcommittee on Rules
4-25/332
Proposals on Possible Rule Changes for House and
Senate Subcommittees
4-25/332
Joint Rule on Constitutional Conference
Committee
4-25/332
Committee Budget Approval
4-25/332
Scripts of Committee Testimonies
4-25/332
House Committee and Chairmen
4-25/332
House members of Constitutional Revision
Committee
4-25/332
Administration Procedure
4-25/332
Senate Budget (Committee)
4-25/332
SJR's Referred to Committee
4-25/332
Requests for Hearings
4-25/332
Senators SJR Hearing Requests
4-25/332
SJR Bill Analyses
4-25/332
HJR Bill Analyses
4-25/332
Fiscal Note Requests
4-25/332
SJR Fiscal Note
4-25/332
Committee Testimonies
4-25/333
Comparisons of Major Differences of Finance Provisions
of SJR 1, SJR 11 and SJR 39
4-25/333
Materials Relating to SJR 1 and SJR 11
4-25/333
Committee Substitute SJR 11
4-25/333
Package for CSSJR 11 with information on Separate
Articles
4-25/333
SJR First House Printing,
April 2, 1975
4-25/333
SJR's and Status Under SJR 11
4-25/333
House Committee Amendments to Committee Sub. HJR
#56
4-25/333
Nonsubstantive Changes Between SR #32 and SJR Subst.
#11
4-25/333
Substantive Changes Between SR #32 and SJR Subst.
#11
4-25/333
SJR 1 review of Basic Constitutional Document
Considered by Con-Con
4-25/333
Senate Committee Final Floor Reports
[Blue draft]
4-25/333
Senate Local and Uncontested Calendar 64th Session -
Admin. Committee
4-25/333
Supply Receipts
4-25/333
SJR's Referred to Senate Committee List from Calendar
Clerk
4-25/333
Odds and Ends
Senate Joint Resolutions:
4-25/334
2 (Adams)
4-25/334
5 (Harrington)
4-25/334
6 (Mengden)
4-25/334
7 (Mengden)
4-25/334
8 (Schwartz)
4-25/334
9 (Ogg)
4-25/334
10 (Mengden)
4-25/334
15 (Gammage)
4-25/334
19 (Gammage)
4-25/334
22 (Mengden)
4-25/334
23 (Mengden)
4-25/334
24 (Gammage)
4-25/334
25 (Traeger)
4-25/334
26 (Lombardino)
4-25/334
27 (Doggett)
4-25/334
28 (Mengden)
4-25/334
29 (Mengden)
4-25/334
30 (McKinnon)
4-25/334
31 (Mengden)
4-25/334
32 (Lombardino)
4-25/334
33 (Braecklin)
4-25/334
35 (Mengden)
4-25/334
36 (Williams)
4-25/334
37 (Lombardino)
4-25/334
38 (Parman, Farabee)
4-25/334
39 (Jones)
4-25/334
41 (Longoria)
4-25/334
42 (Clower)
4-25/334
44 (Clower)
4-25/334
45 (Traeger)
4-25/335
46 (Ogg)
4-25/335
47 (Traeger)
4-25/335
48 (Mengden)
4-25/335
49 (Sherman)
4-25/335
50 (Schwartz)
4-25/335
53 (Braecklein)
4-25/335
55 (Jones)
4-25/335
56 (Ogg)
4-25/335
58 (McKnight)
4-25/335
60 (Jones)
4-25/335
61 (Jones)
4-25/335
63 (Traeger)
4-25/335
SCR 55 (Gammage)
4-25/335
HJR 6 (Munson)
4-25/335
HB 1134 (Hutchison-Gammage)
4-25/335
SB 99 (Meier)
4-25/335
SB 114 (Gammage)
4-25/335
SB 1048 (Gammage)
Special Joint Committee on
Constitutional Implementation
4-25/336
List of Committee members and their addresses; Members
assigned to subcommittees
4-25/336
Memo on the Creation of Subcommittees with Resolutions
No. 1 and 2
4-25/336
Memo on Rules for the Committee plus
attachment
4-25/336
Memo and List of Public Officials and Organizations
Affected by the Proposed Constitution
4-25/336
Memo and attachments on Areas of Implementation of the
Proposed Constitution
4-25/336
Memo and Attachment on Substantive Changes Made in the
Text of the Constitution Between Convention Submission Resolution No. 32 and
Senate Joint Resolution No. 11
4-25/336
Letters from Tom Reavley and William Wells in which
they accept to assist committee
4-25/336
Letter and enclosed materials: (1) Legislation passed
by the 64th Legislature, Regular Session, contingent on adoption of one or more
of the amendments to be noted on in November 1975; and (2) A report on Possible
Items of Implementation indicating the items according to their need as
determined by the staff.
4-25/337
General File
4-25/337
Correspondence
4-25/337
Committee Budget
4-25/337
Committee Rules
4-25/337
Memo - Areas of Implementation
4-25/337
Memo - Pertinent Legislation - 64th Legislature and
Possible Items of Implementation
4-25/337
Working Drafts - Priority Legislation
Subcommittee on Articles II, III, IV, VI, and
XI:
4-25/337
Correspondence
4-25/337
Article II
4-25/337
Article III
4-25/337
Article IV
4-25/337
Article VI
4-25/337
Article XI
4-25/337
Bills on Articles II, III, IV, VI, and XI,
September 25
4-25/337
Working Drafts - Bills on Articles II, III, IV, VI,
and XI
Subcommittee on Articles V and IX:
4-25/337
Correspondence
4-25/337
General Information
4-25/337
Article V
4-25/337
Article IX
Subcommittee on Articles VII, VII, and X:
4-25/337
General Information
4-25/337
Article VII
4-25/337
Article VIII
4-25/337
Article X
Texas Constitutional Convention,
1974
Materials used by R. Steve Bickerstaff during floor
debates of the Submission and Transition Committee [also called the Transition
and Submission Committee] meetings:
4-25/331
Hutchinson's Simplification
4-25/331
Gammage's SJR 11, SCR 55
4-25/331
Transition Schedule - Suffrage
4-25/331
Materials from the 63rd Legislature
4-25/331
Miscellaneous bits and pieces
4-25/335
Materials on the Education Article - Education
Committee - Transition
4-25/335
Transition Schedule: Finance, Suffrage, Local
Government, General Provisions, Legislative, Judiciary, Executive
4-25/335
Transition Schedule Amendments
4-25/329
Appropriations: Appropriations, Highway Fund,
Revenue Estimation, Special Funds, Highway user revenues, Public Purposes,
Pension and Retirement Systems
4-25/329
Limitations on the Use of Government
Revenue
4-25/329
Tax and Revenue Control
4-25/326
Finance Article: Convention State Debt, State Debt,
Convention Local Government Debt, Debt Approval Process, Assessment of
Agricultural Property, Income Tax, Property Tax, Public School Financing,
Property Tax Reform, Property Tax Exemptions, Railroad Rolling Stock,
Occupation Taxes
4-25/326
Constitutional Limitations on Taxation
4-25/326
Tax Property in Texas
4-25/326
Educational or Charitable exemptions
4-25/326
State Constitutions - Materials on the
Constitutional Convention in Louisiana
4-25/326
Some Style and Drafting
4-25/330
Simplification:
4-25/330
Articles II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X,
XI
4-25/330
Transition Schedule
4-25/330
Needed Changes from ACIR Simplification
4-25/330
Miscellaneous - AG or Court Cases
4-25/330
Materials on Louisiana Convention
4-25/330
Constitutional Convention - Enabling
Legislation
4-25/330
SB 99 - Senator Meier
Files used by R. Steve Bickerstaff during floor
debate:
General Provisions Article:
4-25/328
Coastal Resources
4-25/328
Homestead
4-25/328
Conservation Section
4-25/328
Article X, Section 5
4-25/328
Article X, Section 8
4-25/328
Community Property
4-25/328
Rights of the Handicapped
4-25/328
Article VI
4-25/328
Article X, Section 6
4-25/328
General Provisions - Working Papers
[two folders]
4-25/328
Right-to-Work
4-25/328
Article X, Section 16
4-25/328
Article X, Section 21
4-25/328
Article X, Section 22
4-25/328
Article X, Section 23
4-25/328
Article X, Section 25
4-25/328
Floor Amendments
4-25/328
Committee Report
Finance Article:
4-25/327
Finance Committee - Constitutional
Convention
4-25/327
Sec. 1, Taxation
4-25/327
Sec. 2, Ad Valorem Taxation
4-25/327
Income Tax
4-25/327
Sec. 3, Appraisal for Land
Preservation
4-25/327
Sec. 4, Ad Valorem Tax Exemptions
4-25/327
Sec. 5, Ad Valorem Tax Appeals
4-25/327
Sec. 6, Allocations and Uses of Certain
Revenues
4-25/327
Sec. 7, State Debt
4-25/327
Sec. 8, Appropriations
4-25/327
Sec. 9, Public Funds
4-25/327
Sec. 10, Public Purposes
4-25/327
Sec. 11, Report of Dedicated Funds
4-25/327
Sec. 12, Assistance Payments
Limitations
4-25/327
Miscellaneous Comments on Language
4-25/327
Miscellaneous Suggested Language - Computer
Print-Outs
4-25/327
Sec. 10, Education Article
4-25/327
Finance Committee Votes
4-25/327
Deleted Materials
4-25/327
Miscellaneous