73R6397 DWS-F
          By Jones of Dallas                                     H.B. No. 687
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the disposal of certain records by commissioners
    1-3  courts.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 194.017, Local Government Code, is
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 194.017.  DISPOSAL OF ORIGINALS.  The commissioners
    1-8  court of a county may authorize by order the disposal of an
    1-9  original paper record from which a microfilm or an optical image
   1-10  record is made if the county clerk certifies to the court that:
   1-11              (1)  the original negative microfilm of the record
   1-12  fully meets the requirements of the American National Standards
   1-13  Institute for archival quality, density, resolution, and
   1-14  definition; or
   1-15              (2)  the optical image of the record meets the
   1-16  standards approved by the Texas State Library and Archives
   1-17  Commission.
   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.