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          A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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          AN ACT
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        relating to a public duty justification for conduct of a service  | 
      
      
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        member of the Texas military forces. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subchapter E, Chapter 437, Government Code, is  | 
      
      
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        amended by adding Section 437.2235 to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               Sec. 437.2235.  PUBLIC DUTY JUSTIFICATION.  Section 9.21,  | 
      
      
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        Penal Code, applies to conduct of a service member of the Texas  | 
      
      
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        military forces ordered into service of this state by proper  | 
      
      
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        authority that is performed in the service member's official  | 
      
      
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        capacity. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |