AN ACT
1-1 relating to the acceptance of gifts by certain state agencies.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 575.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 575.003. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT BY STATE AGENCY GOVERNING
1-6 BOARD. A state agency that has a governing board may accept a gift
1-7 only if the agency has the authority to accept the gift and a
1-8 majority of the board, in an open meeting, acknowledges the
1-9 acceptance of [approves accepting] the gift not later than the 90th
1-10 day after the date the gift is accepted.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-12 applies only to a gift accepted by a state agency on or after that
1-13 date. A gift accepted by a state agency before the effective date
1-14 of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the gift
1-15 was accepted, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 183 passed the Senate on
March 18, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 183 passed the House on
May 8, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor