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                                                                  S.B. No. 1603




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.

                                                                              




______________________________    ______________________________
President of the Senate             Speaker of the House
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1603 passed the Senate on 
April 16, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.




______________________________ 
   Secretary of the Senate             
	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1603 passed the House on 
April 30, 2003, by the following vote:  Yeas 139, Nays 0, two 
present not voting.




______________________________ 
   Chief Clerk of the House            



Approved:


______________________________ 
            Date



______________________________ 
          Governor