By Truan S.B. No. 627 74R780 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the Texas State Library and Archives 1-3 Commission to negotiate an agreement with the appropriate 1-4 authorities in Mexico for the exchange of certain Alamo and San 1-5 Jacinto battle flags. 1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 441, Government Code, is 1-8 amended by adding Section 441.0115 to read as follows: 1-9 Sec. 441.0115. AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO. The commission may 1-10 negotiate an agreement with the appropriate authorities in Mexico 1-11 under which Texas will trade or lend to Mexico the flags of the 1-12 Toluca Battalion, Guerrero Battalion, and Matamoros Battalion 1-13 captured at the Battle of San Jacinto, and Mexico will trade or 1-14 lend to Texas the flag of the New Orleans Greys captured at the 1-15 Battle of the Alamo. An agreement under this section: 1-16 (1) may not affect title to the flags; 1-17 (2) may provide that Texas will restore the San 1-18 Jacinto flags to a suitable condition and Mexico will restore the 1-19 Alamo flag to a suitable condition before the trade or loan of the 1-20 flags; and 1-21 (3) is not valid if it is not approved by the governor 1-22 and by the appropriate authority for approval under the laws of 1-23 Mexico. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-5 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-6 passage, and it is so enacted.