78R3273 MCK-D

By:  Wentworth                                                    S.B. No. 336


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to marketing an annual print by the state artist for two-dimensional media. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 444, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 444.032 to read as follows: Sec. 444.032. ANNUAL PRINT BY TEXAS STATE ARTIST. (a) The commission shall market an annual limited edition print by the Texas state artist for two-dimensional media selected under Article 6139k, Revised Statutes, as added by Chapter 1412, Acts of the 77th Legislature, Regular Session, 2001. (b) The commission shall establish a committee consisting of artists and commission employees to select the work of art to be used for the limited edition print. The committee shall work with the Texas state artist for two-dimensional media to design the print. (c) The commission shall ask the Texas state artist for two-dimensional media to donate to the commission the work of art to be used for the limited edition print. (d) The commission shall develop a marketing plan to advertise and sell the limited edition prints in the gift and souvenir shops in the Capitol and the General Land Office Building, on the commission's Internet site, and in other suitable markets. (e) The commission shall: (1) sell at a public auction the original work of art from which the limited edition prints are made; and (2) hold and charge an admission fee for a signing event at which the Texas state artist for two-dimensional media personally signs limited edition prints purchased at the event. (f) The commission shall deposit the first $100,000 of the proceeds from the admission fee for the signing event and the sale of the limited edition prints and the original work of art in each fiscal year to the credit of the Texas Commission on the Arts operating fund. The commission shall deposit additional proceeds in each fiscal year to the credit of the Texas cultural endowment fund. SECTION 2. Not later than January 15, 2005, the Texas Commission on the Arts shall report on the effectiveness of the program created under Section 444.032, Government Code, as added by this Act, and make recommendations about expanding the program to market a work of art by the Texas state artist for three-dimensional media. The commission shall provide the report to the: (1) lieutenant governor; (2) speaker of the house of representatives; and (3) chair of each committee of the legislature with primary responsibility over the commission. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.