1-1     By:  Hunter (Senate Sponsor - Shapleigh)              H.B. No. 1085
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
 1-3     April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on State
 1-4     Affairs; May 7, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 7, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to state agency records management officers.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 441.182(e), Government Code, is amended
1-11     to read as follows:
1-12           (e)  As part of the records management program established
1-13     under this section, the commission shall:
1-14                 (1)  operate the state records center for the
1-15     economical and efficient storage, accessibility, protection, and
1-16     final disposition of inactive and vital state records; [and]
1-17                 (2)  perform micrographic and other imaging services
1-18     for the protection, accessibility, and preservation of state
1-19     records;
1-20                 (3)  provide a mandatory or optional, as determined by
1-21     the commission, training and continuing education program to
1-22     records management officers to assist them in administering records
1-23     management programs in each state agency as required under this
1-24     subchapter; and
1-25                 (4)  provide, with the cooperation of the Department of
1-26     Information Resources, training for records management and
1-27     information technology staff to assist them in managing records in
1-28     an electronic format.
1-29           SECTION 2.  Section 441.184(a), Government Code, is amended
1-30     to read as follows:
1-31           (a)  Each state agency head shall act as or appoint a records
1-32     management officer for the state agency to administer the agency's
1-33     records management program.  An employee of an agency is eligible
1-34     to be appointed as the agency's records management officer only if
1-35     the employee holds a position in which the employee reports
1-36     directly to the agency head or to a person with a title
1-37     functionally equivalent to deputy executive director.
1-38           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-39           SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act to Section
1-40     441.184(a), Government Code, applies only to a person appointed as
1-41     a records management officer on or after the effective date of this
1-42     Act.
1-43           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-44     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-45     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-46     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-47     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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