By Jackson                                            S.B. No. 1656
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to creating a recognition day on February 19 in honor of
 1-3     Texas joining the Union.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Section 662.046 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 662.046.  STATE OF TEXAS ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE DAY
 1-8     (STAR DAY).  (a)  February 19 is State of Texas Anniversary
 1-9     Remembrance Day (STAR Day) in honor of Texas joining the Union and
1-10     the day that James Pinckney Henderson became the first governor of
1-11     the State of Texas in 1846.
1-12           (b)  State of Texas Anniversary Remembrance Day (STAR Day)
1-13     shall be regularly observed by appropriate and patriotic programs
1-14     in the public schools and other places to properly commemorate the
1-15     annexation of this state and to inspire a greater appreciation for
1-16     the history of this state.
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.