1-1 By: Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Moncrief) H.B. No. 687
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the disposal of certain records by commissioners
1-23 courts.
1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-25 SECTION 1. Section 194.017, Local Government Code, is
1-26 amended to read as follows:
1-27 Sec. 194.017. DISPOSAL OF ORIGINALS. The commissioners
1-28 court of a county may authorize by order the disposal of an
1-29 original paper record from which a microfilm or an optical image
1-30 record is made if the county clerk certifies to the court that:
1-31 (1) the original negative microfilm of the record
1-32 fully meets the requirements of the American National Standards
1-33 Institute for archival quality, density, resolution, and
1-34 definition; or
1-35 (2) the optical image of the record meets the
1-36 standards approved by the Texas State Library and Archives
1-37 Commission.
1-38 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-39 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-43 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-44 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-45 * * * * *
1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 May 20, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
1-53 referred H.B. No. 687, have had the same under consideration, and I
1-54 am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
1-55 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
1-56 Armbrister,
1-57 Chairman
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 WITNESSES
1-60 FOR AGAINST ON
1-61 ___________________________________________________________________
1-62 Name: Craig Pardue x
1-63 Representing: Dallas County
1-64 City: Dallas
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1-66 Name: Jim Jackson x
1-67 Representing: Dallas County Commis. Ct.
1-68 City: Dallas
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2-2 Name: Jeff Icke x
2-3 Representing: Bexar County Commis. Ct.
2-4 City: San Antonio
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2-6 Name: William D. Power x
2-7 Representing: County Judges & Commis.
2-8 City: Marshall
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2-10 Name: Maxine Darst x
2-11 Representing: Co. Judges & Comm. Assoc.
2-12 City: Kaufman
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2-14 Name: Ray Holbrook x
2-15 Representing: Galveston County
2-16 City: Galveston
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2-18 Name: Susan Wendel x
2-19 Representing: Tx Assoc. of Counties
2-20 City: Austin
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