By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 640
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to display of the POW/MIA flag.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is
 1-4     amended by adding Section 2165.006 to read as follows:
 1-5           Sec. 2165.006.  DISPLAY OF POW/MIA FLAG.  (a)  In this
 1-6     section, "POW/MIA flag" means the National League of Families
 1-7     POW/MIA flag identified by 36 U.S.C. Section 189.
 1-8           (b)  The POW/MIA flag shall be displayed at each state office
 1-9     building on:
1-10                 (1)  the third Saturday in May, "Armed Forces Day";
1-11                 (2)  the last Monday in May, "Memorial Day";
1-12                 (3)  the 14th day of June, "Flag Day";
1-13                 (4)  the fourth day of July, "Independence Day";
1-14                 (5)  the 11th day of November, "Veterans Day"; and
1-15                 (6)  "National POW/MIA Recognition Day."
1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.