73R6397 DWS-F By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 687 Substitute the following for H.B. No. 687: By Gutierrez C.S.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.