1-1     By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 640
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 23, 1999; February 24, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
 1-4     Military Installations; March 4, 1999, reported favorably by the
 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 4, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to display of the POW/MIA flag.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is
1-11     amended by adding Section 2165.006 to read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 2165.006.  DISPLAY OF POW/MIA FLAG.  (a)  In this
1-13     section, "POW/MIA flag" means the National League of Families
1-14     POW/MIA flag identified by 36 U.S.C. Section 189.
1-15           (b)  The POW/MIA flag shall be displayed at each state office
1-16     building on:
1-17                 (1)  the third Saturday in May, "Armed Forces Day";
1-18                 (2)  the last Monday in May, "Memorial Day";
1-19                 (3)  the 14th day of June, "Flag Day";
1-20                 (4)  the fourth day of July, "Independence Day";
1-21                 (5)  the 11th day of November, "Veterans Day"; and
1-22                 (6)  "National POW/MIA Recognition Day."
1-23           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29     passage, and it is so enacted.
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