By Goolsby                                            H.B. No. 3294
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the sale of flags flown over the Capitol and similar
 1-3     items.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 301.033 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 301.033.  SALE OF TEXAS FLAGS AND SIMILAR ITEMS.  Either
 1-8     house of the legislature may acquire and provide for the sale of
 1-9     Texas flags and  other items carrying symbols of the State of
1-10     Texas.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 497.010, Government Code, is amended by
1-12     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-13           (c)  It is an exception to the application of this section
1-14     that the article or product sold is a state flag or similar item
1-15     produced for sale or distribution by the legislature under Section
1-16     301.033.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23     passage, and it is so enacted.