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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