1-1     By:  Edwards (Senate Sponsor - Harris)                H.B. No. 1368
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Administration; May 10, 1999, reported favorably, as amended, by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                               By:  Harris
 1-8           Amend H.B. No. 1368, in SECTION 1 as follows:
 1-9           (1)  In Section 448.034, Government Code, after "Capitol
1-10     grounds" and before the period (page 1, line 24) add ", subject to
1-11     approval by the State Preservation Board of the monument location
1-12     and design".
1-13           (2)  Strike the second sentence of Section 448.034,
1-14     Government Code (page 1, lines 24-26).
1-15                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16                                   AN ACT
1-17     relating to the site of the Emancipation Juneteenth memorial
1-18     monument.
1-19           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 448, Government Code, is
1-21     amended by adding Section 448.034 to read as follows:
1-22           Sec. 448.034.  LOCATION OF MONUMENT.  The site of the
1-23     monument established under this chapter shall be on the State
1-24     Capitol grounds.  In this section, "State Capitol grounds" means
1-25     the area south of the Capitol, north of 11th Street, and inside the
1-26     historic cast-iron fencing.
1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.
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