Bill Text: TX HB1057 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating November 7 as Victims of Communism Day.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 25-2)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-26 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB1057 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB1057-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 1057 | ||
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| relating to designating November 7 as Victims of Communism Day. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.080 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.080. VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM DAY. (a) November 7 is | ||
| Victims of Communism Day in memory of the more than 100 million | ||
| people who died and countless others who suffered under communist | ||
| regimes. | ||
| (b) Victims of Communism Day may be regularly observed by | ||
| appropriate ceremonies and activities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 1057 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 15, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 2, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 1057 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 13, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 29, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
