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.