By Hunter                                       H.B. No. 2884

      75R7648 MLS-D                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the archives of the governor's office.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 441.010, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to read as

 1-6     follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (f), a [A] book,

 1-8     picture, document, publication, or manuscript received through

 1-9     gift, purchase, or exchange or on deposit, from any source, for use

1-10     of the state, except an item subject to control of the State

1-11     Preservation Board, constitutes part of the state library and shall

1-12     be placed in the state library for use by the public.  With the

1-13     advice of the commission, the State Preservation Board may

1-14     determine the placement and removal of items in buildings under the

1-15     board's care.

1-16           (f)  With the advice of the commission, the governor may

1-17     place the governor's archives in an institution of higher education

1-18     or an alternate archival institution for use by the public.

1-19           SECTION 2.  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.