1-1     By:  Haywood                                          S.B. No. 1386

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 19, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 4, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 4, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to title to materials and equipment in the state library

 1-9     system.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 441.136, Government Code,

1-12     is amended to read as follows:

1-13           (e)  The commission shall include in its rules provisions

1-14     necessary to ensure compliance with the standard financial

1-15     management conditions developed under Chapter 783 with regard to

1-16     the purchasing of library materials and equipment [that title to

1-17     library materials and equipment that have a cost for each unit of

1-18     less than $300 and that are purchased with funds appropriated under

1-19     this subchapter is held by the library for which the materials and

1-20     equipment were purchased, and that title to materials and equipment

1-21     that have a cost for each unit of $300 or more is held by the Texas

1-22     State Library].

1-23           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-24           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-25     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-26     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-27     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-28     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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