73R780 SOS-D
By Kamel H.B. No. 126
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to county library privileges from an established library.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 323.011(a) and (b), Local Government
1-5 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (a) Instead of establishing a county library, the
1-7 commissioners court of a county may<, on petition of a majority of
1-8 the voters in the county,> contract for library privileges from an
1-9 established library.
1-10 (b) The contract must provide that the established library
1-11 assume the functions of a county library within the county,
1-12 including municipalities in the county, and must provide that the
1-13 librarian of the established library hold or secure a county
1-14 librarian's certificate from the Texas State Library and Archives
1-15 Commission. The commissioners court may contract to pay annually
1-16 to the established library out of the general <county free library>
1-17 fund of the county an amount on which the parties may agree.
1-18 SECTION 2. 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,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.