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.