1-1     By:  Ogden                                            S.B. No. 1702

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

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

 1-4     April 7, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 7, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the archives of the governor's office.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 441.010, Government Code, is amended by

1-11     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (f) to read as

1-12     follows:

1-13           (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (f), a [A] book,

1-14     picture, document, publication, or manuscript received through

1-15     gift, purchase, or exchange or on deposit, from any source, for use

1-16     of the state, except an item subject to control of the State

1-17     Preservation Board, constitutes part of the state library and shall

1-18     be placed in the state library for use by the public.  With the

1-19     advice of the commission, the State Preservation Board may

1-20     determine the placement and removal of items in buildings under the

1-21     board's care.

1-22           (f)  With the advice of the commission, the governor may

1-23     place the governor's archives in an institution of higher education

1-24     or an alternate archival institution for use by the public.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

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