Art. 14c. The Golden Trowel Award.
Grand Lodge hereby establishes the Golden Trowel Award to be presented to any living member of a Texas Lodge who has consistently demonstrated outstanding and exemplary service to his respective Lodge through any one or combinations of Masonic and community service. The Committee on Masonic Education and Service is authorized and directed to prepare and distribute, to the Lodges, the guidelines by which this award can be made. Such guidelines shall be binding on the Lodges and may be amended by the Committee on Masonic Education and Service from time to time. (Adopted 1995)
The rules promulgated by the Committee on Masonic Education & Service state that the Lodge Golden Trowel Committee is to be "comprised of 3 of the 5 most immediate, and available, living Past Masters of the Lodge." and that "A member who has served as Master or a Warden is not eligible for the award until three years after the date he completes his term of office in a Texas Lodge."