By Hunter H.B. No. 997 75R5256 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to interlibrary resource sharing and the cooperative 1-3 purchase of certain library materials. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 441, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Sections 441.0092 and 441.0093 to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 Sec. 441.0092. PLANNING FOR COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE SHARING 1-9 PROGRAM. (a) The commission shall develop a plan for a 1-10 coordinated and comprehensive statewide library resource sharing 1-11 program. 1-12 (b) The plan must concentrate on the best ways to govern, 1-13 manage, and fund a program under which all libraries in this state 1-14 supported wholly or partially by public money, including public 1-15 libraries, public school libraries, and libraries of institutions 1-16 of higher education, can: 1-17 (1) share resources by physically transferring loaned 1-18 materials, by sending copies of library documents by facsimile 1-19 transmission, and by networking electronic information resources; 1-20 and 1-21 (2) combine their buying power when purchasing access 1-22 to information in an electronic format. 1-23 (c) The commission in developing the plan shall consider the 1-24 experience of the library resource sharing programs known as 2-1 TexShare, the Texas State Electronic Library, and the Texas Library 2-2 Connection. 2-3 (d) The plan must contain recommendations to the 76th 2-4 Legislature for any specific legislation necessary to allow the 2-5 plan to be implemented. 2-6 (e) The commission shall contract with a consultant to 2-7 gather and analyze relevant information and to develop and present 2-8 a proposed plan to the commission if the commission receives money 2-9 by an appropriation, by a gift or grant, or by an interagency or 2-10 interlocal contract for that purpose. 2-11 (f) The commission shall present its plan to the presiding 2-12 officer of each house of the legislature, of the house of 2-13 representatives' State, Federal, and International Relations 2-14 Committee, and of the senate's Committee on Intergovernmental 2-15 Relations not later than October 1, 1998. 2-16 (g) This section expires September 1, 1999. 2-17 Sec. 441.0093. PILOT PROJECT TO COOPERATIVELY PURCHASE 2-18 LIBRARY MATERIALS AVAILABLE ON-LINE. (a) The commission shall 2-19 negotiate the cooperative purchase of access to one or more library 2-20 materials that are available on-line on behalf of all libraries 2-21 supported by public funds in this state that have access to the 2-22 Internet. The commission shall determine the appropriate pro rata 2-23 share that each library should pay for the purchased access unless 2-24 the contract for access provides that a library shall pay a 2-25 specified amount only when it accesses the material. 2-26 (b) This section expires September 1, 1999. 2-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 3-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.