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.