1-1  By:  Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)             H.B. No. 735
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 6, 1995;
    1-3  March 7, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Finance; May 19, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 19, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 735                By:  Zaffirini
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to uses of balances in the inaugural fund; making an
   1-11  appropriation.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 401, Government Code, is
   1-14  amended by adding Section 401.011 to read as follows:
   1-15        Sec. 401.011.  INAUGURAL ENDOWMENT FUND.  (a)  To the extent
   1-16  that the balance of the inaugural fund exceeds $100,000 plus the
   1-17  amount necessary to cover fund obligations, on the date the
   1-18  inaugural committee is dissolved that balance shall be transferred
   1-19  to an account in the general revenue fund to be known as the
   1-20  inaugural endowment fund.  The fund shall be administered and
   1-21  expended in accordance with this section.
   1-22        (b)  The fund may be expended for decorating, furnishing,
   1-23  preserving, or improving the Capitol, the Governor's Mansion, or
   1-24  other state property of historical significance or for grants in
   1-25  support of public schools or public libraries at the discretion of
   1-26  the inaugural endowment fund committee.
   1-27        (c)  The inaugural endowment fund committee is composed of
   1-28  the chair of the Texas Historical Commission, a person appointed by
   1-29  the governor, a person appointed by the lieutenant governor, and a
   1-30  person appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
   1-31  Notwithstanding other law, the spouse of the governor, of a member
   1-32  of the legislature, or of another state officer may be appointed to
   1-33  the committee.  The governor shall designate the chair of the
   1-34  committee from among the members.
   1-35        (d)  Appointed members of the committee serve for terms of
   1-36  two years, expiring on the third Tuesday in January in odd-numbered
   1-37  years.  Committee members serve without compensation or
   1-38  reimbursement for travel or personal expenses incurred in carrying
   1-39  out committee duties, except that the service of the chair of the
   1-40  Texas Historical Commission is considered an additional duty of
   1-41  that office and expenses for that person shall be reimbursed by the
   1-42  commission to the same extent as for performance of other
   1-43  commission duties.
   1-44        (e)  Operations of the committee may not be conducted at
   1-45  state expense, and committee functions may not be carried out
   1-46  through the use of state personnel or equipment.
   1-47        (f)  Not later than October 1 of each year, the committee
   1-48  shall file a report with the secretary of state detailing
   1-49  expenditures made during the 12 months ending on the September 1
   1-50  preceding the report.  The secretary shall publish the report in
   1-51  the Texas Register.
   1-52        (g)  The committee is a governmental body for purposes of
   1-53  Chapters 551 and 552 but is not subject to Chapter 2001.
   1-54        (h)  Sections 403.094 and 403.095 do not apply to the
   1-55  inaugural endowment fund.
   1-56        (i)  This section expires September 1, 1999.
   1-57        SECTION 2.  For the biennium ending August 31, 1995, the
   1-58  balance of the inaugural endowment fund is appropriated to the
   1-59  committee established pursuant to Section 401.011, Government Code,
   1-60  as added by this Act, for the purposes provided by that section.
   1-61        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-62  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-63  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-64  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-65  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-66  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-67  passage, and it is so enacted.
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