By Isett                                              H.B. No. 3443
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the provision of a bronze state seal by the Texas
 1-3     Veterans Commission to a cemetery that reserves an area for the
 1-4     burial of veterans and their immediate families.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 434, Government Code, is
 1-7     amended by adding Section 434.0077 to read as follows:
 1-8           Sec. 434.0077.  BRONZE STATE SEAL FOR CERTAIN CEMETERIES.
 1-9     (a)  The commission shall establish a program under which the
1-10     commission provides a bronze state seal to each perpetual care
1-11     cemetery in the state:
1-12                 (1)  in which an area of the cemetery is reserved for
1-13     the burial of veterans and their immediate families; and
1-14                 (2)  for which an application for the seal is made to
1-15     the commission.
1-16           (b)  Section 17.08, Business and Commerce Code, and any other
1-17     statute that conditions the use of the state seal does not apply to
1-18     the mounting of a bronze state seal received by a cemetery under
1-19     this section in the offices or on the grounds of the cemetery.
1-20           (c)  The commission by rule shall prescribe the manner in
1-21     which the owners of a cemetery, a veterans group, or a veteran or
 2-1     the family of a veteran may apply for a bronze state seal on behalf
 2-2     of a cemetery under this section.
 2-3           (d)  The legislature may appropriate money to the commission
 2-4     to implement this section, including money to obtain the bronze
 2-5     state seals.
 2-6           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-7     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-8     emergency and imperative public necessity that the constitutional
 2-9     rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house
2-10     be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, and that this Act
2-11     take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is
2-12     so enacted.