By: Van de Putte  S.B. No. 238
         (In the Senate - Filed January 23, 2013; January 29, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs and
  Military Installations; April 15, 2013, reported favorably by the
  following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 15, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the awarding of the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 431.131, Government
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (d)  The legislature by concurrent resolution may direct the
  governor to award the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor to a person
  nominated by the nominating committee. The committee chairs
  serving on the nominating committee shall jointly prepare a
  concurrent resolution directing the governor to award the medal to
  a person nominated. The legislature may direct the medal to be
  awarded only during a regular session and may not, during a regular
  session, direct the medal to be awarded to more than:
               (1)  one person for service in the state or federal
  military forces during the period beginning after 1835 but before
  1956; and
               (2)  one person for service in the state or federal
  military forces after 1955 [during a regular session].
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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