By Fraser S.B. No. 640 76R1670 MCK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to display of the POW/MIA flag. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 2165.006 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 2165.006. DISPLAY OF POW/MIA FLAG. (a) In this 1-7 section, "POW/MIA flag" means the National League of Families 1-8 POW/MIA flag identified by 36 U.S.C. Section 189. 1-9 (b) The POW/MIA flag shall be displayed at each state office 1-10 building on: 1-11 (1) the third Saturday in May, "Armed Forces Day"; 1-12 (2) the last Monday in May, "Memorial Day"; 1-13 (3) the 14th day of June, "Flag Day"; 1-14 (4) the fourth day of July, "Independence Day"; 1-15 (5) the 11th day of November, "Veterans Day"; and 1-16 (6) "National POW/MIA Recognition Day." 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.