By Goolsby                                             H.B. No. 104
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to research fees charged by certain libraries in the state
    1-3  library system.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 441, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 441.139 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 441.139.  RESEARCH FEES FOR FOR-PROFIT ENTITIES.  (a)
    1-8  Notwithstanding other provisions of this subchapter, a library,
    1-9  including a public library, in a city with a population of
   1-10  1,000,000 or more and that has adopted a council-manager form of
   1-11  government, may charge a reasonable fee to a for-profit business
   1-12  entity for providing in-depth research services or research support
   1-13  relating to the entity's business activities.
   1-14        (b)  A library may not charge a fee under this section in
   1-15  circumstances under which charging a fee is not allowed by federal
   1-16  law for federal funding purposes.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.