Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 3591 amends the Government Code to open consortium membership in the TexShare library resource-sharing program to a nonprofit organization that provides extensive library services and collections in the fields of clinical medicine and the history of medicine. Addition of such a library to the consortium is contingent on the Texas State Library and Archives Commission's ability to ensure that its inclusion does not reduce services to public libraries and libraries at institutions of higher education. The bill amends the Utilities Code to make such a library eligible also for grants under the telecommunications infrastructure fund (TIF). It requires an electing company on customer request to provide private network services to a public library or regional library system, and it revises the services requirement applicable to TIF-funded projects to cover projects that were eligible for TIF funding as of January 1, 2001.