1-1 By: Carter (Senate Sponsor - Duncan) H.B. No. 1925 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999; 1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the display of certain flags at the Capitol building. 1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-10 SECTION 1. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by 1-11 adding Section 443.024 to read as follows: 1-12 Sec. 443.024. DISPLAY OF THE TEXAS AND UNITED STATES FLAGS. 1-13 (a) The flag of the State of Texas and the flag of the United 1-14 States shall be flown on the same pole above the south door of the 1-15 Capitol building. 1-16 (b) The flag of the State of Texas alone shall be flown 1-17 above the north door of the Capitol building. 1-18 (c) In the event that the flags shall be flown at half 1-19 staff, the flag of the United States alone shall be flown above the 1-20 south door and the flag of the State of Texas alone shall be flown 1-21 above the north door of the Capitol building. 1-22 (d) On the occasion of the flying of the POW/MIA flag, the 1-23 POW/MIA flag and the flag of the United States shall be flown above 1-24 the south door of the Capitol building and the flag of the State of 1-25 Texas alone shall be flown above the north door of the Capitol 1-26 building. 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 * * * * *