Bill Text: TX SB1400 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the location of the Alamo Cenotaph.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [SB1400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1400-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the location of the Alamo Cenotaph.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred to Culture, Recreation & Tourism [SB1400 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1400-Comm_Sub.html
By: Campbell, Hall | S.B. No. 1400 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 1, 2019; March 14, 2019, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources & | ||
Economic Development; April 25, 2019, reported adversely, with | ||
favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 10, | ||
Nays 0; April 25, 2019, sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1400 | By: Flores |
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relating to the location of the Alamo Cenotaph. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter K, Chapter 2166, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 2166.5012 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2166.5012. ALAMO CENOTAPH. (a) In this section, | ||
"Alamo Cenotaph" means the memorial to the Alamo defenders located | ||
in the Alamo complex. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Subchapter I, Chapter 31, Natural | ||
Resources Code, or any other law, the City of San Antonio, or any | ||
other entity, may not move the Alamo Cenotaph from the location | ||
where the cenotaph was first placed following its completion | ||
unless: | ||
(1) the move is approved in a public hearing by at | ||
least two of the following: | ||
(A) the commissioner of the General Land Office; | ||
(B) one member of the Texas Historical Commission | ||
who is designated by the commission to represent the commission; | ||
and | ||
(C) one officer of the Daughters of the Republic | ||
of Texas who is designated by the organization's officers to | ||
represent the organization; and | ||
(2) the cenotaph is moved: | ||
(A) temporarily for repairs; or | ||
(B) permanently to a location within the Alamo | ||
Plaza. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
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