AN ACT

 1-1     relating to title to materials and equipment in the state library

 1-2     system.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 441.136, Government Code,

 1-5     is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (e)  The commission shall include in its rules provisions

 1-7     necessary to ensure compliance with the standard financial

 1-8     management conditions developed under Chapter 783 with regard to

 1-9     the purchasing of library materials and equipment [that title to

1-10     library materials and equipment that have a cost for each unit of

1-11     less than $300 and that are purchased with funds appropriated under

1-12     this subchapter is held by the library for which the materials and

1-13     equipment were purchased, and that title to materials and equipment

1-14     that have a cost for each unit of $300 or more is held by the Texas

1-15     State Library].

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1386 passed the Senate on

         April 17, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1386 passed the House on

         April 29, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

         Approved:

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                     Date

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                   Governor