By: Horn H.B. No. 1446
73R3761 MJW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the appointment or employment of veterans of certain
1-3 conflicts by public agencies.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 1, Chapter 357, Acts of the 49th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1945 (Article 4413(31), Vernon's
1-7 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 1. From and after the effective date of this Act, in
1-9 every public department, commission, board, and government agency,
1-10 and upon all public works of this State, all honorably discharged
1-11 soldiers, sailors, marines, members of the air corps and coast
1-12 guard of the United States, nurses in military service of the
1-13 United States, and all women in military service of the United
1-14 States in the different auxiliary services thereof, in the
1-15 Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, China Relief
1-16 Expedition, World War I and World War II, <or in> any other
1-17 military conflict in which the United States of America has been a
1-18 participant, <or> the war in Korea after June 24, 1950, <or> the
1-19 Viet Nam conflict after July, 1953, conflicts in Beirut, Lebanon,
1-20 and Grenada between August 24, 1982, and July 31, 1984, the
1-21 conflict in Panama between December 20, 1989, and January 31, 1990,
1-22 or Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm between August 2, 1990, and
1-23 the date of cessation of hostilities related to that operation as
1-24 determined by the United States government, and the widows and
2-1 orphans of such personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States,
2-2 who are and have been citizens of Texas for not less than five (5)
2-3 years preceding the date of application in pursuance of this Act,
2-4 and are competent and fully qualified, shall be entitled to
2-5 preference in appointment or employment over other applicants for
2-6 the same position having no greater qualification; provided, that
2-7 this Act shall not apply or benefit any person who was a
2-8 conscientious objector at the time of his or her discharge from any
2-9 of the military services herein mentioned.
2-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-16 passage, and it is so enacted.