1-1 By: McCall (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 211 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993; 1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 10, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 10, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Harris of Dallas x 1-9 Rosson x 1-10 Carriker x 1-11 Henderson x 1-12 Leedom x 1-13 Lucio x 1-14 Luna x 1-15 Nelson x 1-16 Patterson x 1-17 Shelley x 1-18 Sibley x 1-19 West x 1-20 Whitmire x 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to the reporting of certain technological innovations 1-24 developed by state agencies. 1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-26 SECTION 1. In this Act, "state agency" means an office, 1-27 institution, or other agency that is in the executive branch of 1-28 state government, has authority that is not limited to a 1-29 geographical portion of the state, and was created by the 1-30 constitution or a statute of this state, but does not include an 1-31 institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, 1-32 Education Code. 1-33 SECTION 2. (a) On or before January 31 of each year, each 1-34 state agency shall report to the attorney general technological 1-35 innovations developed by the agency that have potential commercial 1-36 application, are proprietary, or could be subject to protection 1-37 under intellectual property laws and that were developed: 1-38 (1) during the preceding calendar year; or 1-39 (2) before the preceding calendar year but not 1-40 previously reported to the attorney general. 1-41 (b) The attorney general may prescribe a form for the 1-42 report. 1-43 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-44 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-45 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-46 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-47 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-48 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-49 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-50 * * * * * 1-51 Austin, 1-52 Texas 1-53 May 10, 1993 1-54 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-55 President of the Senate 1-56 Sir: 1-57 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred H.B. 1-58 No. 211, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed 1-59 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do 1-60 pass and be printed. 1-61 Harris of 1-62 Dallas, Chairman 1-63 * * * * * 1-64 WITNESSES 1-65 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 211.