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.