By Goolsby                                            H.B. No. 1010
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the Texas Historical Commission's designation of a
 1-3     structure or property owned by the state as a historic structure.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Chapter 442, Government Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Section 442.017 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 442.017.  STRUCTURE OR PROPERTY OWNED BY STATE. (a)
 1-8     This section applies only to a structure or property owned by the
 1-9     state.
1-10           (b)  The commission may not designate a structure or property
1-11     as a state archeological landmark or a Recorded Texas Historic
1-12     Landmark or take any other action that causes the structure or
1-13     property to be treated as a historic structure or a historic
1-14     property for purposes of this chapter or other law unless the
1-15     commission has the prior approval of the state governmental entity
1-16     that holds title to the structure or property in the name of the
1-17     state or that has charge and control of the structure or property
1-18     under state law.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Any of the following actions taken after January
1-20     1, 2001, by the Texas Historical Commission in relation to a
1-21     structure or property owned by the state is void unless the action
1-22     was taken with the prior approval of the state governmental entity
1-23     that held title to the structure or property in the name of the
1-24     state or that had charge and control of the structure or property
 2-1     under state law:
 2-2                 (1)  a designation of a structure or property as a
 2-3     state archeological landmark or a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark;
 2-4     or
 2-5                 (2)  another action that caused the structure or
 2-6     property to be treated as a historic structure or a historic
 2-7     property for purposes of Chapter 442, Government Code, or other
 2-8     law.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-10     a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-11     provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
2-12     Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-13     Act takes effect September 1, 2001.