BILL ANALYSIS
Senate Research Center H.B. 1833
80R6784 TAD-F By: Cook, Robby et al. (Jackson)
AUTHOR'S / SPONSOR'S STATEMENT OF INTENT
Currently, the law allows for a specific list of people who can be buried in the State Cemetery, including legislators, a person specified by a governor's proclamation, or a person specified by a concurrent resolution adopted by the legislature. Texas Rangers are not on the list of those who can be buried in the State Cemetery.
H.B. 1833 allows honorably retired officers of the Texas Rangers who served at least 12 years as an officer or an officer of the Texas Rangers who has either served at least 12 years or who dies in the line of duty to be buried in the State Cemetery.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS
SECTION 1. Amends Section 2165.256(d), Government Code, to add to the list of persons eligible for burial in the State Cemetery an honorably retired officer of the Texas Rangers who served at least 12 years as an officer or an officer of the Texas Rangers who has either served at least 12 years in the Texas Rangers or who died in the line of duty.
SECTION 2. Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2007.