By Hunter H.B. No. 1085
76R4028 BDH-F
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 the chief deputy to the agency head.
2-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-8 SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section
2-9 441.184(a), Government Code, applies only to a person appointed as
2-10 a records management officer on or after the effective date of this
2-11 Act.
2-12 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.