82R5106 YDB-F
 
  By: Bonnen H.B. No. 924
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
 
AN ACT
 
  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 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); [and]
               
               (6)  a person specified by order of the committee under
 
  Subsection (e);
               
               (7)  an honorably retired officer of the Texas Rangers
 
  who served at least 12 years as an officer; and
               
               (8)  an officer of the Texas Rangers who:
                     
                     (A)  served at least 12 years as a Texas Ranger; or
                     
                     (B)  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, 2011.