Bill Text: TX SB1693 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to designating November 7 as Victims of Communism Day.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-09 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB1693 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1693-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Fallon | S.B. No. 1693 | |
| (Oliverson, Miller, Bonnen of Galveston) | ||
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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 662.071 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.071. 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, 2019. | ||
