1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to recognizing Texas Parents Day.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
 1-5     amended by adding Section 662.046 to read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 662.046.  TEXAS PARENTS DAY.  The second Sunday in
 1-7     August of each year is Texas Parents Day to celebrate the Texas
 1-8     family and to emphasize the importance of parents taking an active
 1-9     role in the raising and future of their children.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1196 was passed by the House on April
         16, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0, 2 present, not
         voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
         No. 1196 on May 17, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
               I certify that H.B. No. 1196 was passed by the Senate, with
         amendments, on May 13, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays
         0.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor