Bill Text: TX HB2809 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain Texas Rangers for burial in the state cemetery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-21 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2809 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB2809-Introduced.html
85R14940 TYPED | ||
By: Cyrier | H.B. No. 2809 |
|
||
|
||
relating to the eligibility of certain Texas Rangers for burial in | ||
the state cemetery. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2165.256(d), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(d) Persons eligible for burial in the State Cemetery are: | ||
(1) a former member of the legislature or a member who | ||
dies in office; | ||
(2) a former elective state official or an elective | ||
state official who dies in office; | ||
(3) a former state official or a state official who | ||
dies in office who has been appointed by the governor and confirmed | ||
by the senate and who served at least 10 years in the office to which | ||
appointed; | ||
(4) a person specified by a governor's proclamation, | ||
subject to review and approval by the committee under Subsection | ||
(e); | ||
(5) a person specified by a concurrent resolution | ||
adopted by the legislature, subject to review and approval by the | ||
committee under Subsection (e); and | ||
(6) a person specified by order of the committee under | ||
Subsection (e). | ||
(7) an honorably retired Texas Ranger who served at | ||
least 10 years as a commissioned officer of the Texas Rangers or a | ||
commissioned officer of the Texas Rangers who dies in office after | ||
10 years of service as a Texas Ranger or a commissioned officer of | ||
the Texas Rangers died in the line of duty. | ||
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, 2017. |