Bill Text: TX HB1589 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the awarding of the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1589 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1589-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the awarding of the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB1589 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1589-Comm_Sub.html
By: Cortez, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Van de Putte) | H.B. No. 1589 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2013; | ||
April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on | ||
Veteran Affairs and Military Installations; May 9, 2013, reported | ||
favorably by the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 9, 2013, sent | ||
to printer.) |
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relating to the awarding of the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 431.131(d), 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 [ |
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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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