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          AN ACT
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        relating to the composition and employees of the Texas Funeral  | 
      
      
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        Service Commission. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 651.054, Occupations  | 
      
      
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        Code, is amended to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (a)  Members of the commission serve staggered six-year  | 
      
      
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        terms, with the terms of one-third of the members expiring in each  | 
      
      
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        odd-numbered year.  [A member may not be appointed for more than one 
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          full term, except that a member appointed to fill an unexpired term 
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          with less than three years remaining in the unexpired term may be 
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          reappointed to the commission for one full term.] | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  Subsection (b), Section 651.060, Occupations  | 
      
      
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        Code, is repealed. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 221 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        May 9, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 221 passed the House on  | 
      
      
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        May 22, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 148, Nays 0, two  | 
      
      
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        present not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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                  Governor |