1-1     By:  Jackson                                          S.B. No. 1656
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
 1-4     March 31, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
 1-5     Nays 0; March 31, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to creating a recognition day on February 19 in honor of
 1-9     Texas joining the Union.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 662.046 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 662.046.  STATE OF TEXAS ANNIVERSARY REMEMBRANCE DAY
1-14     (STAR DAY).  (a)  February 19 is State of Texas Anniversary
1-15     Remembrance Day (STAR Day) in honor of Texas joining the Union and
1-16     the day that James Pinckney Henderson became the first governor of
1-17     the State of Texas in 1846.
1-18           (b)  State of Texas Anniversary Remembrance Day (STAR Day)
1-19     shall be regularly observed by appropriate and patriotic programs
1-20     in the public schools and other places to properly commemorate the
1-21     annexation of this state and to inspire a greater appreciation for
1-22     the history of this state.
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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