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Committee hears bills to create Freedmen’s cemetery designation and codify historic‑cemetery program
Summary
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.
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.
Senator West said SB 217 would mirror the existing historic Texas cemetery designation program but would specifically allow…
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