By Wise                                         H.B. No. 1729

      75R5801 MLS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to furnishing printed copies of state publications

 1-3     released only in an electronic format to the Texas State Library.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 441.103(c), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (c)  On the release of a state publication in an electronic

 1-8     format and for the purpose of further distribution of the

 1-9     publication, a state agency shall provide the Texas State Library:

1-10                 (1)  either:

1-11                       (A)  on-line access to the publication; or

1-12                       (B) [(2)]  copies of the publication on an

1-13     electronic external storage device in the number of copies

1-14     prescribed by the commission but not to exceed 75; and

1-15                 (2)  if the publication is released in an electronic

1-16     format only, copies of the publication in a printed format in the

1-17     number of copies prescribed by the commission but not to exceed 75.

1-18           SECTION 2.  Section 441.104, Government Code, is amended to

1-19     read as follows:

1-20           Sec. 441.104.  DUTIES OF TEXAS STATE LIBRARY. The Texas State

1-21     Library shall:

1-22                 (1)  acquire, organize, and retain state publications;

1-23                 (2)  collect state publications and distribute them to

1-24     depository libraries;

 2-1                 (3)  establish a microform program for the preservation

 2-2     and management of state publications and make available state

 2-3     publications in microform to depository libraries and other

 2-4     libraries at a reasonable cost;

 2-5                 (4)  periodically issue a list of all state

 2-6     publications that it has received to all depository libraries and

 2-7     other libraries on request;

 2-8                 (5)  catalog, classify, and index all state

 2-9     publications that it receives and distribute the cataloging,

2-10     classification, and indexing information to depository libraries

2-11     and to other libraries on request;

2-12                 (6)  ensure that state publications are fully

2-13     represented in regional and national automated library networks;

2-14                 (7)  index all state publications that are available in

2-15     an electronic format and make the index available in an electronic

2-16     format and a printed format;

2-17                 (8)  provide on-line access to state publications that

2-18     can be accessed on-line;  [and]

2-19                 (9)  provide other depository libraries appropriate

2-20     access, at no charge, to state publications available in an

2-21     electronic format; and

2-22                 (10)  provide printed copies of state publications that

2-23     are available only in electronic format to depository libraries and

2-24     other libraries on request.

2-25           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-26           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 3-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 3-2     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 3-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.