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.