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Texas Senate Bill SB2543

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12 By: Hancock S.B. No. 2543
2- (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 2025; April 3, 2025, read
3- first time and referred to Committee on Veteran Affairs;
4- April 28, 2025, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
5- Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 28, 2025,
6- sent to printer.)
7-Click here to see the committee vote
8- COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 2543 By: Hancock
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137 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
148 AN ACT
15- relating to the amount of certain revenue that may be used for and
16- the location of state veterans cemeteries.
9+ relating to the location of and the amount of certain revenue that
10+ may be used for state veterans cemeteries.
1711 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1812 SECTION 1. Sections 164.005(f) and (h), Natural Resources
1913 Code, are amended to read as follows:
2014 (f) The board, the chairman of the Texas Veterans
2115 Commission, and two representatives of the veterans community
2216 selected by the chairman of the Texas Veterans Commission shall:
2317 (1) establish the guidelines for determining:
24- (A) the location and size of state veterans
25- cemeteries that are funded by a grant from the United States
26- Department of Veterans Affairs [veterans cemeteries]; and
18+ (A) the location and size of veterans cemeteries;
19+ and
2720 (B) the eligibility for burial in a veterans
2821 cemetery; and
2922 (2) select [up to seven] locations across the state
30- for state veterans cemeteries that are funded by a grant from the
31- United States Department of Veterans Affairs [veterans
32- cemeteries].
23+ for veterans cemeteries.
3324 (h) The board may use [Of the] funds available in the
3425 veterans' land fund, the veterans' housing assistance fund, and the
35- veterans' housing assistance fund II that may be used for state
36- veterans cemeteries that are funded by a grant from the United
37- States Department of Veterans Affairs [veterans cemeteries, the
38- board may spend not more than $7 million each fiscal year] to plan
39- and design, operate, maintain, enlarge, or improve state veterans
40- cemeteries that are funded by a grant from the United States
41- Department of Veterans Affairs [veterans cemeteries]. The board
42- may not use funds from the veterans' land fund, the veterans'
43- housing assistance fund, or the veterans' housing assistance fund
44- II to acquire land to be used for a veterans cemetery.
26+ veterans' housing assistance fund II that may be used for veterans
27+ cemeteries[, the board may spend not more than $7 million each
28+ fiscal year] to plan and design, operate, maintain, enlarge, or
29+ improve veterans cemeteries. The board may not use funds from the
30+ veterans' land fund, the veterans' housing assistance fund, or the
31+ veterans' housing assistance fund II to acquire land to be used for
32+ a veterans cemetery.
4533 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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