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.