1-1 By: Jones of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 2540
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to allowing the Texas State Library and Archives
1-9 Commission to assist public libraries with public information
1-10 technology grants.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 441.135(b), Government Code, is amended
1-13 to read as follows:
1-14 (b) The program of state grants shall include one or more of
1-15 the following:
1-16 (1) system operation grants, to strengthen major
1-17 resource system services to member public libraries and regional
1-18 library system services to member libraries, including grants to
1-19 reimburse other libraries for providing specialized services to
1-20 major resource systems and regional library systems;
1-21 (2) incentive grants, to encourage public libraries to
1-22 join together into larger units of service in order to meet
1-23 criteria for major resource system membership or regional library
1-24 system membership;
1-25 (3) establishment grants, to help establish public
1-26 libraries that will qualify for major resource system membership or
1-27 regional library system membership in communities without public
1-28 library service; <and>
1-29 (4) equalization grants, to help public libraries in
1-30 communities with relatively limited taxable resources to meet
1-31 criteria for major resource system membership or regional library
1-32 system membership; and
1-33 (5) public information technology grants, to help
1-34 public libraries make state, local, and federal government
1-35 information that is accessible through the Internet or electronic
1-36 bulletin board systems available to the public through computer
1-37 terminals at a library.
1-38 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-39 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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