By: Ellis S.B. No. 1603
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to charitable contributions by state employees to the
General Land Office's Adopt-A-Map/Adopt-A-Document Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
Code, is amended by adding Section 31.0655 to read as follows:
Sec. 31.0655. STATE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS TO
ADOPT-A-MAP/ADOPT-A-DOCUMENT PROGRAM. For purposes of Subchapter
I, Chapter 659, Government Code:
(1) the land office, for the sole purpose of managing
the Adopt-A-Map/Adopt-A-Document Program, is considered an
eligible charitable organization entitled to participate in the
state employee charitable campaign; and
(2) a state employee is entitled to authorize a
deduction for contributions to the land office for the purposes of
managing the Adopt-A-Map/Adopt-A-Document Program as a charitable
contribution under Section 659.132, Government Code, and the land
office may use the contributions for the purpose of preserving
historic maps and documents under that program.
SECTION 2. The General Land Office is entitled to
participate in the state employee charitable campaign conducted
during the autumn of 2003 without regard to any limitation on the
time during which an organization must apply to participate in the
campaign.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.