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.