Bill Text: TX HB1545 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the State Cemetery preservation trust fund.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-07 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1545 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1545-Introduced.html
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| By: Naishtat | H.B. No. 1545 | |
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| relating to the creation of the State Cemetery preservation trust | ||
| fund. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2165.2565 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2165.2565. STATE CEMETERY PRESERVATION TRUST FUND. | ||
| (a) The State Cemetery preservation trust fund is created as a | ||
| trust fund outside the state treasury to be held with the | ||
| comptroller in trust. The State Cemetery Committee shall | ||
| administer the fund as trustee on behalf of the people of this | ||
| state. The fund consists of money: | ||
| (1) transferred or appropriated to the fund; and | ||
| (2) received by the State Cemetery Committee under | ||
| Section 2165.256(s) and deposited to the fund by the committee. | ||
| (b) The interest received from investment of money in the | ||
| fund shall be credited to the fund. | ||
| (c) Money in the fund may be used only to: | ||
| (1) maintain, renovate, make major repairs or capital | ||
| improvements to, or preserve the State Cemetery, as determined by | ||
| the State Cemetery Committee; or | ||
| (2) acquire land in close proximity to the State | ||
| Cemetery for expansion of the cemetery. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 222.002, Transportation | ||
| Code, or any other law, as soon as practicable after the sale of | ||
| property that is the subject of Section 2165.256(b-1), Government | ||
| Code, the comptroller of public accounts shall transfer from the | ||
| state highway fund to the State Cemetery preservation trust fund, | ||
| as created by this Act, an amount of money equal to the portion of | ||
| the proceeds attributable to the sale of that property that is | ||
| required to be deposited by the Texas Department of Transportation | ||
| in a subaccount in the state highway fund for use by the State | ||
| Cemetery Committee under the terms of a memorandum of understanding | ||
| entered into between the department and the State Cemetery | ||
| Committee. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2015. | ||
