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.