By Berlanga, Luna, Seaman, Hawley H.B. No. 2848
75R8961 SMH-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the curation of artifacts and other items in the
1-3 custody of the Texas Historical Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 191.058, Natural Resources
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 191.058. CURATION [DISPLAY] OF ARTIFACTS.
1-8 SECTION 2. Section 191.058, Natural Resources Code, is
1-9 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
1-10 (d) The committee may contract with a qualified institution
1-11 for the institution to serve as a repository for artifacts and
1-12 other items in the custody of the committee. The Corpus Christi
1-13 Museum of Science and History is the repository for marine
1-14 artifacts. The committee may contract with other qualified
1-15 institutions to serve as additional repositories for marine
1-16 artifacts. The committee may authorize an archeological repository
1-17 to loan artifacts and other items curated by the repository to a
1-18 qualified institution for public display.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.