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.
1-37 * * * * *