By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1702

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the records of the executive office of the governor.

 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 441.010, Government Code, is amended by

 1-4     adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:

 1-5           (f)  In consultation with the commission, a governor may

 1-6     designate an institution of higher education or alternate archival

 1-7     institution in the state, in lieu of the Texas State Library and

 1-8     Archives, as the repository for the records of the executive office

 1-9     of the governor created or received during that governor's term of

1-10     office.  Such alternative repository shall administer the records

1-11     in accordance with normally accepted archival principles and

1-12     practices and shall ensure that the records are available to the

1-13     public.  The terms of any such alternative repository arrangement

1-14     shall be recorded by the commission through a memorandum of

1-15     understanding, deposit agreement, or other appropriate

1-16     documentation.

1-17           SECTION 2.  If House Bill No. 1812, Acts of the 75th

1-18     Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is enacted and becomes law, the

1-19     provisions of that Act relating to the records of the executive

1-20     office of the governor and to the repeal of Section 441.010,

1-21     Government Code, in its entirety shall prevail over the provisions

1-22     of this Act.

1-23           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.