By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 643
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to awards for members of the state or other military
 1-2     forces.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 431.134, Government Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           Sec. 431.134.  Other Awards.  The adjutant general may adopt
 1-7     rules and regulations relating to the:
 1-8                 (1)  Texas Faithful Service Medal[, which shall be
 1-9     awarded to a member of the state military forces who has completed
1-10     five years of honorable service during which the person has shown
1-11     fidelity to duty, efficient service, and great loyalty to the
1-12     state];
1-13                 (2)  Federal Service Medal[, which shall be awarded to
1-14     a person who was inducted into federal service from the state
1-15     military forces between June 15, 1940, and January 1, 1946, or
1-16     after June 1, 1950, if the service was for more than nine months];
1-17                 (3)  Texas Medal of Merit[, which may be presented to a
1-18     member of the military forces of this state, another state, or the
1-19     United States who performs outstanding service or attains
1-20     extraordinary achievement in behalf of the state or United States];
1-21                 (4)  Texas Outstanding Service Medal[, which may be
1-22     presented to a member of the military forces of this state, another
1-23     state, or the United States who has performed service in a superior
1-24     and clearly outstanding manner];
 2-1                 (5)  Texas State Guard Service Medal[, which shall be
 2-2     awarded to a person who completes three consecutive years of
 2-3     honorable service in the Texas State Guard during which the person
 2-4     has shown fidelity to duty, efficient service, and great loyalty to
 2-5     the state]; [and]
 2-6                 (6)  Texas Desert Shield/Desert Storm Campaign Medal;
 2-7     and
 2-8                 (7)  Texas Humanitarian Service Medal[, which shall be
 2-9     awarded to a person who was inducted into federal service from the
2-10     Texas National Guard after August 1, 1990, in support of Operation
2-11     Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm, without regard to the
2-12     place that the person was deployed while serving on active federal
2-13     military duty].
2-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20     passage, and it is so enacted.