1-1 By: Greenberg, King (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1556 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997; 1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 International Relations, Trade, and Technology; May 8, 1997, 1-5 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; 1-6 May 8, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-8 AN ACT 1-9 relating to establishing Internet electronic mail addresses for 1-10 state agencies. 1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-12 SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 2054, Government Code, is 1-13 amended by adding Section 2054.120 to read as follows: 1-14 Sec. 2054.120. ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS. (a) A state agency 1-15 shall establish an Internet electronic mail address for the agency. 1-16 The state agency may publish the electronic mail address and use 1-17 electronic mail to communicate with the public. The state agency 1-18 may consult with the Department of Information Resources to 1-19 establish its electronic mail address. 1-20 (b) In this section, "Internet" means the largest 1-21 nonproprietary nonprofit cooperative public computer network, 1-22 popularly known as the Internet. 1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-29 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-30 * * * * *