1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the display of certain flags at the Capitol building. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Section 443.024 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 443.024. DISPLAY OF THE TEXAS AND UNITED STATES FLAGS. 1-7 (a) The flag of the State of Texas and the flag of the United 1-8 States shall be flown on the same pole above the south door of the 1-9 Capitol building. 1-10 (b) The flag of the State of Texas alone shall be flown 1-11 above the north door of the Capitol building. 1-12 (c) In the event that the flags shall be flown at half 1-13 staff, the flag of the United States alone shall be flown above the 1-14 south door and the flag of the State of Texas alone shall be flown 1-15 above the north door of the Capitol building. 1-16 (d) On the occasion of the flying of the POW/MIA flag, the 1-17 POW/MIA flag and the flag of the United States shall be flown above 1-18 the south door of the Capitol building and the flag of the State of 1-19 Texas alone shall be flown above the north door of the Capitol 1-20 building. 1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1925 was passed by the House on May 11, 1999, by a non-record vote. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1925 was passed by the Senate on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor