By Wise                                                H.B. No. 671
         76R2705 MXM-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to awards for members of the state or other military
 1-3     forces.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 431.134, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 431.134.  OTHER AWARDS.  The adjutant general may adopt
 1-8     rules and regulations relating to the:
 1-9                 (1)  Texas Faithful Service Medal[, which shall be
1-10     awarded to a member of the state military forces who has completed
1-11     five years of honorable service during which the person has shown
1-12     fidelity to duty, efficient service, and great loyalty to the
1-13     state];
1-14                 (2)  Federal Service Medal[, which shall be awarded to
1-15     a person who was inducted into federal service from the state
1-16     military forces between June 15, 1940, and January 1, 1946, or
1-17     after June 1, 1950, if the service was for more than nine months];
1-18                 (3)  Texas Medal of Merit[, which may be presented to a
1-19     member of the military forces of this state, another state, or the
1-20     United States who performs outstanding service or attains
1-21     extraordinary achievement in behalf of the state or United States];
1-22                 (4)  Texas Outstanding Service Medal[, which may be
1-23     presented to a member of the military forces of this state, another
1-24     state, or the United States who has performed service in a superior
 2-1     and clearly outstanding manner];
 2-2                 (5)  Texas State Guard Service Medal[, which shall be
 2-3     awarded to a person who completes three consecutive years of
 2-4     honorable service in the Texas State Guard during which the person
 2-5     has shown fidelity to duty, efficient service, and great loyalty to
 2-6     the state]; and
 2-7                 (6)  Texas Desert Shield/Desert Storm Campaign Medal[,
 2-8     which shall be awarded to a person who was inducted into federal
 2-9     service from the Texas National Guard after August 1, 1990, in
2-10     support of Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm,
2-11     without regard to the place that the person was deployed while
2-12     serving on active federal military duty].
2-13           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-18     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-19     passage, and it is so enacted.