Bill Text: TX HB419 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating the first Friday in November as Texas Arbor Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective immediately [HB419 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB419-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 419 | ||
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| relating to designating the first Friday in November as Texas Arbor | ||
| 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 662.056 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.056. TEXAS ARBOR DAY. (a) The first Friday in | ||
| November of each year is Texas Arbor Day to encourage the planting | ||
| and cultivation of forest, shade, and ornamental trees throughout | ||
| the state. | ||
| (b) Texas Arbor Day shall be regularly observed by | ||
| appropriate ceremonies and activities. | ||
| 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 419 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 3, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 2, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 419 was passed by the Senate on May 8, | ||
| 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
