S.B. No. 21
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the State Cemetery.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 4.10, State Purchasing and General
    1-4  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is
    1-5  amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and by adding
    1-6  Subsections (a-1) and (b-1) to read as follows:
    1-7        (a-1)  In addition to the property described as Lot No. 5,
    1-8  Division B, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, the following
    1-9  property is dedicated for cemetery purposes as part of the State
   1-10  Cemetery:
   1-11  BEING APPROXIMATELY 50.00 ACRES OF LAND OUT OF AND A PORTION OF THE
   1-12  FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT OF LAND.  75.688 RECORD ACRES OF LAND OUT
   1-13  OF THE GEORGE W. SPEAR SURVEY IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY,
   1-14  TEXAS, DESCRIBED BY DEED TO THE STATE OF TEXAS AS RECORDED IN
   1-15  VOLUME 76, PAGE 225, OF THE DEED RECORDS OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS,
   1-16  SAID 75.688 ACRE TRACT OF LAND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS
   1-17  FOLLOWS:
   1-18        1)  Bounded on the west by Bull Creek Road.
   1-19        2)  Bounded on the north by the following subdivisions in the
   1-20  City of Austin, Texas,
   1-21              A)  Shoal Village Section 2, as recorded in Plat Book
   1-22  5, Page 150 of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas,
   1-23              B)  Shoal Village Section 3, as recorded in Plat Book
   1-24  6, Page 71, of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas,
    2-1              C)  Shoal Village Section 5, as recorded in Plat Book
    2-2  6, Page 72, of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas,
    2-3              D)  Shoal Village Section 6, as recorded in Plat Book
    2-4  7, Page 7, of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas,
    2-5              E)  Shoal Village Section 7, as recorded in Plat Book
    2-6  14, Page 80 of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas,
    2-7              F)  Oak Haven Section 3, as recorded in Plat Book 11,
    2-8  Page 40, of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas.
    2-9        3)  Bounded on the east by the centerline of Shoal Creek,
   2-10        4)  Bounded along the south by Ridgelea, a subdivision of
   2-11  record in the City of Austin, Texas, as recorded in Plat Book 4,
   2-12  Page 258 of the Plat Records of Travis County, Texas.
   2-13        (b)  The persons eligible for burial in the State Cemetery
   2-14  are as follows:
   2-15              (1)  present and former members of the Texas
   2-16  Legislature;
   2-17              (2)  present and former elective state officials;
   2-18              (3)  present and former state officials who have been
   2-19  appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate and who have
   2-20  served at least 12 years in the office to which appointed;
   2-21              (4)  persons specified by a governor's proclamation,
   2-22  subject to review and approval by the Texas Historical Commission
   2-23  under Subsection (b-1) of this section; <and>
   2-24              (5)  persons specified in a concurrent resolution
   2-25  adopted by the legislature, subject to review and approval by the
   2-26  Texas Historical Commission under Subsection (b-1) of this section;
   2-27  and
    3-1              (6)  persons specified by order of the Texas Historical
    3-2  Commission under Subsection (b-1) of this section.
    3-3        (b-1)  The Texas Historical Commission shall review
    3-4  proclamations under Subsection (b)(4) of this section and
    3-5  resolutions under Subsection (b)(5) of this section.  A person
    3-6  specified in a proclamation or resolution is eligible for burial in
    3-7  the State Cemetery only if the commission, following its review,
    3-8  finds that the person specified made a significant contribution to
    3-9  Texas history and only if based on that finding the Texas
   3-10  Historical Commission approves the person's burial in the cemetery.
   3-11  The Texas Historical Commission may by order authorize a burial
   3-12  under Subsection (b)(6) of this section only during a period in
   3-13  which the legislature is not convened in regular or special session
   3-14  and only if the commission finds that the person made a significant
   3-15  contribution to Texas history.
   3-16        (c)  Grave spaces shall be allotted for a person eligible for
   3-17  burial and for his or her spouse, together with his or her
   3-18  unmarried child or children, which child or children shall be
   3-19  buried alongside his, her, or their parent or parents, provided
   3-20  that such child on the effective date of this Act or at the time of
   3-21  his or her death is a resident in any state eleemosynary
   3-22  institution.  Children other than those hereinabove made eligible
   3-23  for burial may not be included.  The size of a grave plot may not
   3-24  be longer than eight feet nor wider than three <five> feet times
   3-25  the number of persons of one family authorized hereunder to be
   3-26  buried alongside one another.
   3-27        SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas Historical Commission shall
    4-1  undertake a study of the persons eligible under law for burial in
    4-2  the State Cemetery and make recommendations to the 75th Legislature
    4-3  concerning the persons eligible.  The commission shall consider in
    4-4  particular whether persons who have made significant contributions
    4-5  to Texas history in the fields of business, literature, arts, or
    4-6  science should be included in the list of eligible persons.
    4-7        (b)  This section expires January 1, 1997.
    4-8        SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act to Subdivision
    4-9  (3), Subsection (b), Section 4.10, State Purchasing and General
   4-10  Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes),
   4-11  concerning the eligibility for burial in the State Cemetery of
   4-12  present and former appointed state officials, does not apply to
   4-13  persons who were eligible before the effective date of this Act and
   4-14  who have made reservations for that purpose with the State
   4-15  Purchasing and General Services Commission.  Those persons remain
   4-16  eligible under the prior law, and the prior law is continued in
   4-17  effect for that purpose.
   4-18        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   4-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   4-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   4-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   4-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   4-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   4-24  passage, and it is so enacted.