1-1     By:  Berlanga, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Truan)        H.B. No. 2848

 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

 1-4     Natural Resources; May 17, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown

 1-8     Amend H.B. 2848 as follows:

 1-9           In SECTION 2 of the bill, adding new subsection 191.058(d),

1-10     Natural Resources Code, on page 1, line 36, after "display.",

1-11     insert the following:  "The Corpus Christi Museum of Science and

1-12     History:

1-13                 (1)  does not own the artifacts for which it serves as

1-14     a repository; and

1-15                 (2)  shall make available for loan to a qualified

1-16     institution for display the marine artifacts for which it serves as

1-17     a repository."

1-18                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-19                                   AN ACT

1-20     relating to the curation of artifacts and other items in the

1-21     custody of the Texas Historical Commission.

1-22           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-23           SECTION 1.  The heading to Section 191.058, Natural Resources

1-24     Code, is amended to read as follows:

1-25           Sec. 191.058.  CURATION [DISPLAY] OF ARTIFACTS.

1-26           SECTION 2.  Section 191.058, Natural Resources Code, is

1-27     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-28           (d)  The committee may contract with a qualified institution

1-29     for the institution to serve as a repository for artifacts and

1-30     other items in the custody of the committee.  The Corpus Christi

1-31     Museum of Science and History is the repository for marine

1-32     artifacts.  The committee may contract with other qualified

1-33     institutions to serve as additional repositories for marine

1-34     artifacts.  The committee may authorize an archeological repository

1-35     to loan artifacts and other items curated by the repository to a

1-36     qualified institution for public display.

1-37           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-38     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-39     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-40     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-41     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-42     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-43     passage, and it is so enacted.

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