By Solis of Bexar H.B. No. 2064 76R7412 JRD-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the collection of a fee by municipal clerks for the 1-3 management and preservation of municipal records. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subtitle A, Title 6, Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Chapter 190 to read as follows: 1-7 CHAPTER 190. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS 1-8 PROVISIONS AFFECTING MUNICIPALITIES 1-9 Sec. 190.001. RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION FEE. In 1-10 addition to the amounts that a municipal clerk may charge for 1-11 providing a copy of a document under Subchapter F, Chapter 552, 1-12 Government Code, or under another law, a municipal clerk may charge 1-13 a records management and preservation fee as an additional fee in 1-14 an amount equal to five percent of the amount the clerk would 1-15 otherwise charge for the copy. Money received from the records 1-16 preservation fee may be used only for the management and 1-17 preservation of municipal records. 1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.