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.
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             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.
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                                                 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.
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                                                 Secretary of the Senate
         APPROVED:  _____________________
                            Date
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                          Governor