By: Jackson S.B. No. 1656 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to creating a recognition day on February 19 in honor of 1-2 Texas joining the Union. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is 1-5 amended by adding Section 662.046 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 662.046. STATE OF TEXAS ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE DAY 1-7 (STAR DAY). (a) February 19 is State of Texas Anniversary 1-8 Remembrance Day (STAR Day) in honor of Texas joining the Union and 1-9 the day that James Pinckney Henderson became the first governor of 1-10 the State of Texas in 1846. 1-11 (b) State of Texas Anniversary Remembrance Day (STAR Day) 1-12 shall be regularly observed by appropriate and patriotic programs 1-13 in the public schools and other places to properly commemorate the 1-14 annexation of this state and to inspire a greater appreciation for 1-15 the history of this state. 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.