1-1  By:  Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Leedom)                 H.B. No. 104
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1993;
    1-3  May 18, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Armbrister         x                               
   1-10        Leedom             x                               
   1-11        Carriker           x                               
   1-12        Henderson                                     x    
   1-13        Madla                                         x    
   1-14        Moncrief           x                               
   1-15        Patterson          x                               
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Shapiro                                       x    
   1-18        Wentworth          x                               
   1-19        Whitmire                                      x    
   1-20                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-21                                AN ACT
   1-22  relating to research fees charged by certain libraries in the state
   1-23  library system.
   1-24        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-25        SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 441, Government Code, is
   1-26  amended by adding Section 441.139 to read as follows:
   1-27        Sec. 441.139.  RESEARCH FEES FOR FOR-PROFIT ENTITIES.
   1-28  (a)  Notwithstanding other provisions of this subchapter, a
   1-29  library, including a public library, in a city with a population of
   1-30  1,000,000 or more and that has adopted a council-manager form of
   1-31  government, may charge a reasonable fee to a for-profit business
   1-32  entity for providing in-depth research services or research support
   1-33  relating to the entity's business activities.
   1-34        (b)  A library may not charge a fee under this section in
   1-35  circumstances under which charging a fee is not allowed by federal
   1-36  law for federal funding purposes.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-39  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-40  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-41  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-42  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-44                                                         Austin,
   1-45  Texas
   1-46                                                         May 25, 1993
   1-47  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-48  President of the Senate
   1-49  Sir:
   1-50  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-51  referred H.B. No. 104, have had the same under consideration, and I
   1-52  am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-53  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-54                                                         Armbrister,
   1-55  Chairman
   1-56                               * * * * *
   1-57                               WITNESSES
   1-58                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-59  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-60  Name:  Larry Casto                                             x
   1-61  Representing:  City of Dallas
   1-62  City:  Dallas
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