1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 183
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 March 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the acceptance of gifts by certain state agencies.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 575.003, Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 575.003. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFT BY STATE AGENCY GOVERNING
1-13 BOARD. A state agency that has a governing board may accept a gift
1-14 only if the agency has the authority to accept the gift and a
1-15 majority of the board, in an open meeting, acknowledges the
1-16 acceptance of [approves accepting] the gift not later than the 90th
1-17 day after the date the gift is accepted.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-19 applies only to a gift accepted by a state agency on or after that
1-20 date. A gift accepted by a state agency before the effective date
1-21 of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the gift
1-22 was accepted, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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