76R10073 MCK-F
By Hunter H.B. No. 3047
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3047:
By Isett C.S.H.B. No. 3047
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to eligibility for burial in the State Cemetery.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 2165.256(d) and (e), Government Code,
1-5 are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (d) Persons eligible for burial in the State Cemetery are:
1-7 (1) a former member of the legislature or a member who
1-8 dies in office;
1-9 (2) a former elective state official or an elective
1-10 state official who dies in office;
1-11 (3) a former state official or a state official who
1-12 dies in office who has been appointed by the governor and confirmed
1-13 by the senate and who served at least 12 years in the office to
1-14 which appointed;
1-15 (4) a person specified by a governor's proclamation,
1-16 subject to review and approval by the committee under Subsection
1-17 (e);
1-18 (5) a person specified by a concurrent resolution
1-19 adopted by the legislature, subject to review and approval by the
1-20 committee under Subsection (e); and
1-21 (6) a person specified by order of the committee
1-22 [under Subsection (e)].
1-23 (e) The committee shall review proclamations under
1-24 Subsection (d)(4) and resolutions under Subsection (d)(5). A
2-1 person specified in a proclamation or resolution is eligible for
2-2 burial in the State Cemetery only if the committee, following its
2-3 review, finds that the person specified made a significant
2-4 contribution to Texas history and only if, based on that finding,
2-5 the committee approves the person's burial in the cemetery. [The
2-6 committee may by order authorize a burial under Subsection (d)(6)
2-7 only during a period in which the legislature is not convened in
2-8 regular or special session and only if the committee finds that the
2-9 person made a significant contribution to Texas history.]
2-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.