By:  Carona                                            S.B. No. 819

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the design, manufacture, and sale of certain

 1-2     commemorative items relating to the state.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Chapter 2172, Government Code, is amended by

 1-5     adding Section 2172.006 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 2172.006.  MANUFACTURE AND SALE OF CERTAIN COMMEMORATIVE

 1-7     ITEMS.  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the

 1-8     commission may negotiate and contract with a privately owned

 1-9     business entity for the design and manufacture of:

1-10                 (1)  an official state lapel pin for purchase by

1-11     members and former members of the house of representatives;

1-12                 (2)  an official state lapel pin for purchase by

1-13     members and former members of the senate;

1-14                 (3)  an official state ring for purchase by members and

1-15     former members of the house of representatives; and

1-16                 (4)  an official state ring for purchase by members and

1-17     former members of the senate.

1-18           (b)  The commission must submit any design of an official

1-19     state lapel pin or ring to the State Preservation Board for its

1-20     approval.

1-21           (c)  Only a member or former member of the legislature may

1-22     purchase an official state lapel pin or ring manufactured under

1-23     this section.  The member or former member must use the member's or

 2-1     former member's personal funds for the purchase.

 2-2           (d)  The commission by rule shall establish the purchase

 2-3     price for a lapel pin or ring.  After payment of amounts required

 2-4     under the contract and recovery of its costs of administering this

 2-5     section, the commission shall deposit any remaining funds received

 2-6     from the sale of items under this section to the credit of the

 2-7     Texas preservation trust fund.

 2-8           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.