73R9482 E
          By Greenberg                                           H.B. No. 555
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 555:
          By Mowery                                          C.S.H.B. No. 555
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the construction of a memorial statue on the Capitol
    1-3  grounds to honor Texas pioneer women.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 443.0141 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 443.0141.  TEXAS PIONEER WOMEN'S MEMORIAL STATUE.  (a)
    1-8  The board shall provide for the construction on the Capitol grounds
    1-9  of a memorial statue to honor Texas pioneer women of every race,
   1-10  color, creed, and national origin who served Texas in capacities
   1-11  such as wife, mother, homemaker, educator, historian, artist,
   1-12  preservationist, businesswoman, landowner, political activist, and
   1-13  civic leader.
   1-14        (b)  The board shall consult with an advisory committee
   1-15  comprised of members of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas,
   1-16  Inc., District VIII, on matters relating to the design, dedication,
   1-17  and maintenance of the statue.
   1-18        (c)  The statue shall be totally funded by private donations
   1-19  raised by the advisory committee and the names of the donors shall
   1-20  not be inscribed or placed on the statue.  Funds shall be
   1-21  transferred to the board when full funding has been achieved.
   1-22        (d)  Money and securities donated to the board for the statue
   1-23  shall be credited to an account in the Capitol fund established for
   1-24  the statue.  Disbursements from the account may be made only for
    2-1  purposes related to the statue, including design, construction,
    2-2  dedication, and maintenance.
    2-3        (e)  The State Preservation Board shall approve the design
    2-4  and location of the statue and oversee its installation.
    2-5        (f)  The design of the statue must be compatible in scale,
    2-6  proportion, materials, and feeling with the early monuments erected
    2-7  on the Capitol grounds.
    2-8        (g)  The board shall invite the Daughters of the Republic of
    2-9  Texas, Inc., District VIII, to conduct the dedication ceremonies
   2-10  for the statue under guidelines established by the board.  The
   2-11  secretary of state shall publish the date of the dedication
   2-12  ceremonies in the Texas Register at least 30 days before the date
   2-13  of the ceremonies.  The board shall timely inform the secretary of
   2-14  the date.
   2-15        (h)  This section expires September 1, 1999.
   2-16        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-21  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-22  passage, and it is so enacted.