73R8669 RWS-D By Ogden, Corte H.B. No. 2120 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2120: By Moffat C.S.H.B. No. 2120 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to cemeteries on land owned by The Texas A&M University 1-3 System. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 86.24 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 86.24. ESTABLISHMENT OF CEMETERY. (a) The board may 1-8 dedicate Texas A&M University land to be used and operated as a 1-9 perpetual care cemetery. 1-10 (b) Section 711.008, Health and Safety Code, does not apply 1-11 to a cemetery established under this section. 1-12 (c) Appropriations from the general revenue fund may not be 1-13 used to establish or operate a cemetery under this section. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.