By Davis H.B. No. 2242
75R7292 MI-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the management of historic sites.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 442.005, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 adding Subsection (t) to read as follows:
1-6 (t) The commission annually shall submit to the Parks and
1-7 Wildlife Department written recommendations regarding the
1-8 management of the historic sites under the Parks and Wildlife
1-9 Department's control.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 13.005(c), Parks and Wildlife Code, is
1-11 amended to read as follows:
1-12 (c) In formulating a plan for preservation, [and]
1-13 development, and management of a historical area, the department
1-14 may consider comments on the plan made by the Texas Historical
1-15 Commission.
1-16 SECTION 3. (a) The Texas Historical Commission in
1-17 cooperation with the Parks and Wildlife Department and other
1-18 appropriate agencies shall establish the Texas Cultural Heritage
1-19 Partnership by developing and maintaining the Texas Heritage Plan.
1-20 The Texas Heritage Plan may address the following elements:
1-21 (1) a mechanism to consider findings and
1-22 recommendations of reports directed toward effective management of
1-23 the state's historic resources;
1-24 (2) a mechanism to provide for systematic inventory of
2-1 public and private historic resources in the state;
2-2 (3) a regional organization and review structure
2-3 consisting of 6 to 10 regions;
2-4 (4) a system to provide for rating and setting
2-5 priorities for historic resources;
2-6 (5) an advisory board or oversight structure to
2-7 interface with the Texas Historical Commission, the Parks and
2-8 Wildlife Department, and other relevant agencies; and
2-9 (6) a system to provide for effective marketing and
2-10 promotion of historic sites.
2-11 (b) The Texas Heritage Plan shall be submitted to the
2-12 legislature not later than January 31, 1999.
2-13 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-14 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.