- (a) The legislature must specify an item's historical or cultural significance to the state before designating the item as a state symbol.
(b) The legislature may not designate any of the following as a state symbol:
- (1) a commercial product or an item that promotes or advocates the use of a commercial product;
- (2) an individual;
- (3) an event; or
- (4) a place.
- (c) To be effective, a resolution proposing designation of an object as a state symbol must be referred to and reported by the appropriate committee in each house in the manner provided for bills.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 395, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.