Committee hears bills to create Freedmen’s cemetery designation and codify historic‑cemetery program
Senate bills to create a historic Texas Freedmen’s Cemetery designation and to codify the state’s historic cemetery program were presented; Texas Historical Commission staff described the designation as a notification tool and explained the commission’s discretion in applying it.
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Senate Bill 217 (historic Texas Freedmen’s Cemetery designation) and Senate Bill 586 (placing a popular historic‑preservation program into statute) were presented to the committee by Senator West and received resource testimony from the Texas Historical Commission.
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