1-1     By:  Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)                H.B. No. 2512

 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 State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the authority of the Texas State Library and Archives

 1-9     Commission to accept donations and services from certain sources.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 441.006(b), Government Code, is amended

1-12     to read as follows:

1-13           (b)  The commission may:

1-14                 (1)  purchase, as state property, any suitable book,

1-15     picture, or similar item, within the limits of the annual

1-16     legislative appropriation;

1-17                 (2)  receive a donation or gift of money, [or]

1-18     property, or services on any terms and conditions it considers

1-19     proper as long as the state does not incur financial liability;

1-20                 (3)  accept, receive, and administer federal funds made

1-21     available by grant or loan to improve the public libraries of this

1-22     state; [and]

1-23                 (4)  contract or agree with the governing body or head

1-24     of a county, city, or town of this state to meet the terms

1-25     prescribed by the United States and consistent with state law for

1-26     the expenditure of federal funds for improving public libraries;

1-27     and

1-28                 (5)  participate in the establishment and operation of

1-29     an affiliated nonprofit organization whose purpose is to raise

1-30     funds for or provide services or other benefits to the commission.

1-31           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-32           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-33     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-34     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-35     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-36     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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