Bill Text: TX SB221 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the composition and employees of the Texas Funeral Service Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB221 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB221-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 221
(In the Senate - Filed May 3, 2013; May 3, 2013, read first
time and referred to Committee on Government Organization;
May 7, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
Nays 0; May 7, 2013, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the composition and employees of the Texas Funeral
Service Commission.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 651.054, Occupations
Code, is amended to read as follows:
(a) Members of the commission serve staggered six-year
terms, with the terms of one-third of the members expiring in each
odd-numbered year. [A member may not be appointed for more than one
full term, except that a member appointed to fill an unexpired term
with less than three years remaining in the unexpired term may be
reappointed to the commission for one full term.]
SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 651.060, Occupations
Code, is repealed.
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, 2013.
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