1-1     By:  Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister)            H.B. No. 3294
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 10, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the sale of flags flown over the Capitol and similar
 1-9     items.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 301, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 301.033 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 301.033.  SALE OF TEXAS FLAGS AND SIMILAR ITEMS.  Either
1-14     house of the legislature may acquire and provide for the sale of
1-15     Texas flags and  other items carrying symbols of the State of
1-16     Texas.
1-17           SECTION 2.  Section 497.010, Government Code, is amended by
1-18     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-19           (c)  It is an exception to the application of this section
1-20     that the article or product sold is a state flag or similar item
1-21     produced for sale or distribution by the legislature under Section
1-22     301.033.
1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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