By Haywood S.B. No. 1386
75R7113 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to title to materials and equipment in the state library
1-3 system.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 441.136(e), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (e) The commission shall include in its rules provisions
1-8 necessary to ensure compliance with the standard financial
1-9 management conditions developed under Chapter 783 with regard to
1-10 the purchasing of library materials and equipment [that title to
1-11 library materials and equipment that have a cost for each unit of
1-12 less than $300 and that are purchased with funds appropriated under
1-13 this subchapter is held by the library for which the materials and
1-14 equipment were purchased, and that title to materials and equipment
1-15 that have a cost for each unit of $300 or more is held by the Texas
1-16 State Library].
1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.