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.