Bill Text: TX HB2248 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to designating September 30 as Vanessa Guillén Day.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-4)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2248 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2248-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 2248 | ||
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| relating to designating September 30 as Vanessa Guillén 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 662.082 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 662.082. VANESSA GUILLÉN DAY. (a) September 30 is | ||
| Vanessa Guillén Day in memory of the life and tragic death of | ||
| Vanessa Guillén and to increase awareness of and the military's | ||
| response to missing persons, sexual assault, and sexual harassment | ||
| cases for service members. | ||
| (b) Vanessa Guillén Day shall be regularly observed by | ||
| appropriate programs and activities. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2248 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 14, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 140, Nays 3, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2248 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 17, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
