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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