By Shapleigh                                          S.B. No. 1390
         76R7537 BDH-F                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Records Management Interagency Coordinating
 1-3     Council.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Sections 441.203(d), (e), and (f), Government
 1-6     Code, as added by Chapter 873, Acts of the 75th Legislature,
 1-7     Regular Session, 1997, are amended to read as follows:
 1-8           (d)  The state records administrator shall serve as executive
 1-9     secretary of the council and shall supervise the staff  of the
1-10     council.  The Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the
1-11     General Services Commission may employ staff to administer their
1-12     state records management programs and to assist the council under
1-13     Subsection (e).  The council's other member agencies shall provide
1-14     any  additional [the] staff required by [for] the council.  Subject
1-15     to approval of the council and to available funds, the Texas State
1-16     Library and Archives Commission and the General Services Commission
1-17     may enter into a contract or agreement to assist the council in
1-18     performing duties under Subsection (e).
1-19           (e)  The council shall:
1-20                 (1)  review the activities of each member agency that
1-21     affect the state's management of records;
1-22                 (2)  study issues related to the creation, management,
1-23     use, protection, and final disposition of electronic state records;
1-24                 (3)  study other records management issues; and
 2-1                 (4) [(3)]  report its findings and any recommended
 2-2     legislation to the governor and the legislature not later than
 2-3     November 1 of each even-numbered year.
 2-4           (f)  The council may require the cooperation of other state
 2-5     agencies in a study conducted under Subsection (e).  The council
 2-6     shall adopt policies that coordinate the activities of each member
 2-7     agency and that make other improvements in the state's management
 2-8     of records.  The council shall adopt policies under this subsection
 2-9     using the rulemaking procedures prescribed by Chapter 2001.
2-10           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.