By Hunter                                             H.B. No. 2883

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the eligibility of certain federal officials for burial

 1-3     in the State Cemetery.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2165.256, Government Code, is amended by

 1-6     adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:

 1-7           (k)  In addition to other persons specified as eligible under

 1-8     this section and subject to the same privileges, requirements, and

 1-9     conditions that are applicable to those persons and their family

1-10     members, the following persons and their appropriate family members

1-11     are eligible for burial in the State Cemetery:

1-12                 (1)  a former United States senator or representative,

1-13     or a United States senator or representative who dies in office,

1-14     who was elected or appointed to represent this state;

1-15                 (2)  a former president or vice president of the United

1-16     States, or a president or vice president who dies in office, who

1-17     resided in this state at the time of election;

1-18                 (3)  a former presidential cabinet appointee, or a

1-19     presidential cabinet appointee who dies in office, who was

1-20     confirmed by the United States Senate and who was born in this

1-21     state and resided in this state at the time of appointment;

1-22                 (4)  a former United States Supreme Court justice, or a

1-23     United States Supreme Court justice who dies in office, who was

1-24     born in this state and resided in this state at the time of

 2-1     appointment; and

 2-2                 (5)  a former presidential elector who was elected or

 2-3     appointed to represent this state.

 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.