SCT S.B. 1386 75(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


STATE FEDERAL & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
S.B. 1386
By: Haywood (Hunter)
4-22-97
Committee Report (Unamended)


BACKGROUND 

Currently, libraries that participate in the Texas State Library System
may purchase materials using system funds.  The law requires the state to
maintain title to any purchase of materials over $300. There are concerns
that the paperwork for processing titles for the state is overly costly
and time consuming.  This bill would raise the amount of purchase to which
the state must maintain title from $300 to $1,000. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 1386 sets forth provisions for title to materials and
equipment in the state library system. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

Rulemaking authority is granted to the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission in SECTION 1 (Section 441.136(e), Government Code) of this
bill. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 441.136(e), Government Code, to require the
Texas State Library and Archives Commission to include in its rules
provisions necessary to ensure compliance with the standard financial
management conditions developed under Chapter 783, Government Code,  with
regard to the purchasing of library materials and equipment, rather than
provisions necessary to ensure that title to library materials and
equipment that have a cost for each unit of less than $300 and that are
purchased with funds appropriated under this subchapter is held by the
library for which the materials and equipment were purchased, and that
title to materials and equipment that have a cost for each unit of $300 or
more is held by the Texas State Library.   

SECTION 2. Effective date: September 1, 1997.

SECTION 3. Emergency clause.