73R7569 LJD-F By McCall H.B. No. 211 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the reporting of certain technological innovations 1-3 developed by state agencies. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. In this Act, "state agency" means an office, 1-6 institution, or other agency that is in the executive branch of 1-7 state government, has authority that is not limited to a 1-8 geographical portion of the state, and was created by the 1-9 constitution or a statute of this state, but does not include an 1-10 institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, 1-11 Education Code. 1-12 SECTION 2. (a) On or before January 31 of each year, each 1-13 state agency shall report to the attorney general technological 1-14 innovations developed by the agency that have potential commercial 1-15 application, are proprietary, or could be subject to protection 1-16 under intellectual property laws and that were developed: 1-17 (1) during the preceding calendar year; or 1-18 (2) before the preceding calendar year but not 1-19 previously reported to the attorney general. 1-20 (b) The attorney general may prescribe a form for the 1-21 report. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted.