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.