Bill Text: TX HB3616 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating October as Persons with Disabilities History and Awareness Month.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/11 [HB3616 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3616-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 3616 | ||
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| relating to designating October as Persons with Disabilities | ||
| History and Awareness Month. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 662, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 662.109 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.109. PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES HISTORY AND | ||
| AWARENESS MONTH. (a) October is Persons with Disabilities History | ||
| and Awareness Month to: | ||
| (1) increase public awareness of the many achievements | ||
| of people with disabilities; | ||
| (2) encourage public understanding of the disability | ||
| rights movement; and | ||
| (3) reaffirm the local, state, and federal commitment | ||
| to providing equality and inclusion for people with disabilities. | ||
| (b) Persons with Disabilities History and Awareness Month | ||
| shall be regularly observed by appropriate celebration and | ||
| activities to promote respect for and better treatment of people | ||
| with disabilities in this state. | ||
| (c) Each public school may: | ||
| (1) elect to observe Persons with Disabilities History | ||
| and Awareness Month; and | ||
| (2) determine the appropriate activities by which the | ||
| school observes Persons with Disabilities History and Awareness | ||
| Month. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 3616 was passed by the House on May 3, | ||
| 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
| No. 3616 on May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, | ||
| 3 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 3616 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
