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.