By Edwards                                            H.B. No. 1368
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the site of the Emancipation Juneteenth memorial
 1-3     monument.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 448, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 448.034 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 448.034.  LOCATION OF MONUMENT.  The site of the
 1-8     monument established under this chapter shall be on the State
 1-9     Capitol grounds.  In this section, "State Capitol grounds" means
1-10     the area south of the Capitol, north of 11th Street, and inside the
1-11     historic cast-iron fencing.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.