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.
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