1-1 By: Turner S.B. No. 1018
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1995; March 8, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 9, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 13,
1-5 Nays 0; March 9, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to a cemetery on land owned by The Texas A&M University
1-9 System.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 86, Education Code, is
1-12 amended by adding Section 86.24 to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 86.24. ESTABLISHMENT OF A CEMETERY. (a) The board may
1-14 dedicate land owned by The Texas A&M University System within the
1-15 Bush Presidential Library site to be used as a cemetery.
1-16 (b) Subchapter C, Chapter 711, Health and Safety Code, does
1-17 not apply to a cemetery established under this section.
1-18 (c) Appropriations from the general revenue fund may not be
1-19 used to establish or operate a cemetery under this section.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-25 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-26 passage, and it is so enacted.
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