1-1 By: Moncrief S.B. No. 440
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 8, 1999; February 10, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 1, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8,
1-5 Nays 0; March 1, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the review of the Texas Funeral Service Commission
1-9 under the Texas Sunset Act.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection N, Section 2, Chapter 251, Acts of the
1-12 53rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1953 (Article 4582b, Vernon's
1-13 Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-14 N. The Texas Funeral Service Commission is subject to
1-15 Chapter 325, Government Code (Texas Sunset Act). Unless continued
1-16 in existence as provided by that chapter, the commission is
1-17 abolished and this Act expires September 1, 2001 [2003].
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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