By Hunter                                             H.B. No. 1085
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to state agency records management officers.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 441.182(e), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           (e)  As part of the records management program established
 1-7     under this section, the commission shall:
 1-8                 (1)  operate the state records center for the
 1-9     economical and efficient storage, accessibility, protection, and
1-10     final disposition of inactive and vital state records; [and]
1-11                 (2)  perform micrographic and other imaging services
1-12     for the protection, accessibility, and preservation of state
1-13     records;
1-14                 (3)  provide a mandatory or optional, as determined by
1-15     the commission, training and continuing education program to
1-16     records management officers to assist them in administering records
1-17     management programs in each state agency as required under this
1-18     subchapter; and
1-19                 (4)  provide, with the cooperation of the Department of
1-20     Information Resources, training for records management and
1-21     information technology staff to assist them in managing records in
1-22     an electronic format.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 441.184(a), Government Code, is amended
1-24     to read as follows:
 2-1           (a)  Each state agency head shall act as or appoint a records
 2-2     management officer for the state agency to administer the agency's
 2-3     records management program.  An employee of an agency is eligible
 2-4     to be appointed as the agency's records management officer only if
 2-5     the employee holds a position in which the employee reports
 2-6     directly to the agency head or to a person with a title
 2-7     functionally equivalent to deputy executive director.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-9           SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
2-10     441.184(a), Government Code, applies only to a person appointed as
2-11     a records management officer on or after the effective date of this
2-12     Act.
2-13           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.