1-1  By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 627
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 16, 1995; February 20, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on International
    1-4  Relations, Trade, and Technology; March 1, 1995, reported
    1-5  favorably, as amended, by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
    1-6  March 1, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Truan
    1-8        Amend S.B. No. 627 by adding the following as a new SECTION 2
    1-9  of the bill and renumbering the existing SECTION 2 of the bill
   1-10  appropriately:
   1-11        "SECTION 2.  (a)  The Texas State Library and Archives
   1-12  Commission may not use appropriated money but may use gifts or
   1-13  grants to restore the San Jacinto battle flags to a suitable
   1-14  condition under an agreement to trade or lend the flags that is
   1-15  made in accordance with Section 441.0115, Government Code, as added
   1-16  by this Act.
   1-17        (b)  If an agreement to trade or lend the Alamo and San
   1-18  Jacinto battle flags that is made in accordance with Section
   1-19  441.0115, Government Code, as added by this Act, does not provide
   1-20  that Mexico will restore the Alamo battle flag to a suitable
   1-21  condition before the trade or loan of the flag, the Texas State
   1-22  Library and Archives Commission may not use appropriated money but
   1-23  may use gifts or grants to restore the Alamo battle flag to a
   1-24  suitable condition after the trade or loan of the flags."
   1-25  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2                           By:  Armbrister
   1-26        Amend S.B. No. 627, SECTION 1, on page 1, line 20 (committee
   1-27  printing page 1, line 50) after the word "flags" by adding "as long
   1-28  as such conditioning does not alter the authenticity or integrity
   1-29  of the flags"
   1-30                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-31                                AN ACT
   1-32  relating to authorizing the Texas State Library and Archives
   1-33  Commission to negotiate an agreement with the appropriate
   1-34  authorities in Mexico for the exchange of certain Alamo and San
   1-35  Jacinto battle flags.
   1-36        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-37        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 441, Government Code, is
   1-38  amended by adding Section 441.0115 to read as follows:
   1-39        Sec. 441.0115.  AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO.  The commission may
   1-40  negotiate an agreement with the appropriate authorities in Mexico
   1-41  under which Texas will trade or lend to Mexico the flags of the
   1-42  Toluca Battalion, the Guerrero Battalion, and the Matamoros
   1-43  Battalion captured at the Battle of San Jacinto and Mexico will
   1-44  trade or lend to Texas the flag of the New Orleans Greys captured
   1-45  at the Battle of the Alamo.  An agreement under this section:
   1-46              (1)  may not affect title to the flags;
   1-47              (2)  may provide that Texas will restore the San
   1-48  Jacinto flags to a suitable condition and Mexico will restore the
   1-49  Alamo flag to a suitable condition before the trade or loan of the
   1-50  flags; and
   1-51              (3)  is not valid if it is not approved by the governor
   1-52  and by the appropriate authority for approval under the laws of
   1-53  Mexico.
   1-54        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-55  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-56  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-57  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-58  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-59  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-60  passage, and it is so enacted.
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