By: Gallegos S.B. No. 984
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the preservation, operation, and maintenance of
1-2 historical resources and the powers and duties of the Texas
1-3 Historical Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Section 443.0081 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 443.0081. CONSULTATION WITH HISTORICAL COMMISSION. The
1-8 board shall seek and consider the advice of the Texas Historical
1-9 Commission before approving construction modifications of the
1-10 Capitol, Capitol grounds, or General Land Office Building that may
1-11 impact the historic architecture as documented in the master plans.
1-12 SECTION 2. Subsections (i), (o), and (p), Section 442.005,
1-13 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-14 (i) The commission may provide loans or matching grants to
1-15 assist the preservation of a historic structure significant in
1-16 Texas or American history, architecture, archeology, or culture.
1-17 As a condition of a loan or grant for the preservation of a
1-18 historic property, the commission may require that the recipient
1-19 provide reports and other evidence that funds are used for the
1-20 purposes of the loan or grant and provide continuing reports or
1-21 other evidence, over an appropriate period, that the property is
1-22 being preserved in a manner consistent with the terms of the loan
1-23 or grant.
2-1 (o) The commission may enter into contracts with federal,
2-2 other state, or local governmental agencies or institutions and
2-3 with qualified private institutions to carry out the purposes of
2-4 the commission [this chapter].
2-5 (p) The commission may accept a gift, grant, devise, or
2-6 bequest of money, securities, services, or property to carry out
2-7 any purpose [the purposes] of the commission, including funds
2-8 raised or services provided by a volunteer or volunteer group to
2-9 promote the work of the commission. The commission may participate
2-10 in the establishment and operation of an affiliated nonprofit
2-11 organization whose purpose is to raise funds for or provide
2-12 services or other benefits to the commission, and the commission
2-13 may contract with such an organization for the performance of any
2-14 duty imposed on the commission [this chapter].
2-15 SECTION 3. Subsections (a) and (e), Section 442.0086,
2-16 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-17 (a) The commission shall identify, preserve, interpret, and
2-18 place monuments at sites in and outside this state that are
2-19 historically significant to this state because of:
2-20 (1) military action or service at the sites; or
2-21 (2) other significant events of a military nature at
2-22 the sites that shaped the history of this state.
2-23 (e) The commission may seek assistance from federal, other
2-24 state, and local governmental entities in carrying out the
2-25 commission's duties under this section.
3-1 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-2 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.