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Chapter 1352
S.B. No. 482
1 AN ACT
2 relating to the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
4 SECTION 1. Subtitle D, Title 4, Government Code, is amended
5 by adding Chapter 449 to read as follows:
6 CHAPTER 449. TEXAS HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE COMMISSION
7 SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
8 Sec. 449.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
9 (1) "Commission" means the Texas Holocaust and
10 Genocide Commission.
11 (2) "Genocide" means any of the following acts
12 committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
13 ethnical, racial, or religious group as such:
14 (A) killing members of the group;
15 (B) causing serious bodily or mental harm to
16 members of the group;
17 (C) deliberately inflicting on the group
18 conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical
19 destruction in whole or in part;
20 (D) imposing measures intended to prevent births
21 within the group; or
22 (E) forcibly transferring children of the group
23 to another group.
24 (3) "Holocaust" means the killing of approximately six1
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Texas. Legislature. Senate. 81st Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 482, Chapter 1352, legislative document, June 19, 2009; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth149679/m1/1/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.