Bill Text: TX HB586 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of certain members of the Texas State Guard or Texas National Guard for burial in the state cemetery.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-18 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [HB586 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB586-Introduced.html
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By: Kleinschmidt | H.B. No. 586 |
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relating to the eligibility of certain members of the Texas State | ||
Guard or Texas National Guard 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 12 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); [ |
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(6) a person specified by order of the committee under | ||
Subsection (e); and | ||
(7) a person who: | ||
(A) served as a member of the Texas State Guard or | ||
Texas National Guard for at least 10 years before the person's | ||
death; or | ||
(B) died as a result of an injury sustained while | ||
serving on active duty as a member of the Texas State Guard or Texas | ||
National Guard. | ||
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, 2011. |