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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