1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a historical artifacts program under the Texas
1-3 Historical Commission.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 442, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Section 442.0145 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 442.0145. TEXAS HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS PROGRAM; FUND.
1-8 (a) The commission shall administer a program to assist
1-9 municipalities, counties, museums, and county historical
1-10 commissions with the development or improvement of museum
1-11 facilities used to display historical artifacts discovered in Texas
1-12 that are significant in Texas or American history.
1-13 (b) The Texas Historical Artifacts Program fund is created
1-14 as a separate account in the general revenue fund. The fund is
1-15 composed of money appropriated to the fund, money deposited to the
1-16 fund under Subsection (c), and interest received from investments
1-17 of money in the fund that the comptroller shall allocate to the
1-18 fund. Sections 403.095 and 404.071 do not apply to the fund or to
1-19 interest received from investments of money in the fund. Money in
1-20 the fund may be spent only as provided by the commission under this
1-21 section.
1-22 (c) The commission may accept, for deposit in the Texas
1-23 Historical Artifacts Program fund, grants or other donations from
1-24 any source.
2-1 (d) The commission shall establish rules governing the use,
2-2 administration, and distribution of the Texas Historical Artifacts
2-3 Program fund. The rules must ensure that money in the fund is used
2-4 only for the purposes prescribed by Subsection (a), including
2-5 paying the expenses of administering the program.
2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1223 was passed by the House on May
8, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 1223 on May 27, 1999, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 1223 on May 29, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 141,
Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1223 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 25, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
1223 on May 30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor