By Cook H.B. No. 70
74R747 MI-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to nomination procedures for designation of certain
1-3 buildings or sites as state archeological landmarks.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 191.092, Natural Resources Code, is
1-6 amended by adding a new Subsection (c) and relettering existing
1-7 Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows:
1-8 (c) The committee may not consider for designation as a
1-9 state archeological landmark a building or site owned by a county
1-10 or municipality unless the building or site:
1-11 (1) if owned by a county, has been nominated for
1-12 designation by:
1-13 (A) a resolution of the commissioners court; or
1-14 (B) a petition signed by registered voters of
1-15 the county in a number equal to 10 percent of those voters voting
1-16 in the preceding gubernatorial election; or
1-17 (2) if owned by a municipality, has been nominated for
1-18 designation by:
1-19 (A) a resolution of the governing body of the
1-20 municipality; or
1-21 (B) a petition signed by registered voters of
1-22 the municipality in a number equal to 10 percent of those voters
1-23 voting in the preceding gubernatorial election.
1-24 (d) Before the committee may designate a structure or
2-1 building as a state archeological landmark, the structure or
2-2 building must be listed on the National Register of Historic
2-3 Places.
2-4 (e) <(d)> The committee shall adopt rules establishing
2-5 criteria for the designation of a structure or building as a state
2-6 archeological landmark.
2-7 (f) <(e)> The committee shall consider any and all fiscal
2-8 impact on local political subdivisions before any structure or
2-9 building owned by a local political subdivision may be designated
2-10 as a state archeological landmark.
2-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.