By: Turner S.B. No. 1018
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to a cemetery on land owned by The Texas A&M University
1-2 System.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
1-5 amended by adding Section 86.24 to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 86.24. ESTABLISHMENT OF A CEMETERY. (a) The board may
1-7 dedicate land owned by The Texas A&M University System within the
1-8 Bush Presidential Library site to be used as a cemetery.
1-9 (b) Subchapter C, Chapter 711, Health and Safety Code, does
1-10 not apply to a cemetery established under this section.
1-11 (c) Appropriations from the general revenue fund may not be
1-12 used to establish or operate a cemetery under this section.
1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.