1943

• The first Chiropractic Act of Texas passed, with crippling provision and an unconstitutional provision.

• The Keeler Award for 1943 was awarded to H. W. Watkins, D.C.

Finally, in 1943 the first Chiropractic Act of Texas passed.

As the law was conceived and submitted by the combined Texas State Chiropractic Association and Texas Chiropractic Research Society it was not controversial, having the support of both groups.  

But the Texas Medical Association persuaded the Senate to attach amendments designed to cripple the chiropractors in years to come, and the bill passed with these crippling provisions and was signed into law.  

But the 1943 law had a fatal defect in its constitutionality in that it did not restrict chiropractors to a portion of the human body, instead of its entirety.  

The seventeenth President of the Texas Chiropractic Association, Hugh Warren, serves a  third term.