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.

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