Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 2848 amends the Antiquities Code of Texas to authorize the Texas Historical Commission to contract with a qualified institution to serve as a repository of artifacts in the custody of the commission. The bill designates the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History as the repository for marine artifacts, but provides for the museum's loan of such artifacts to other qualified institutions, clarifies that the museum does not own the marine artifacts it holds as a repository, and allows the commission to contract with additional institutions to serve as repositories of marine artifacts. The commission may also authorize an archeological repository to loan artifacts and curated items to a qualified institution for public display.