By Seaman, Morrison, Uher, et al. H.B. No. 1223 76R5386 BDH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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.