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, subject to approval by the State Preservation
1-10 Board of the monument location and design.
1-11 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-17 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1368 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1368 on May 19, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 0,
1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1368 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor