By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 526
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to a county's authority to impose a records archive fee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 118.025, Local
Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
(e) The funds generated from the collection of a fee under
this section may be expended only for the preservation and
restoration of the county clerk's records archive. The county
clerk shall designate the public documents that are part of the
records archive for purposes of this section. The designation of
public documents by the county clerk under this subsection is
subject to approval by the commissioners court in a public meeting.
SECTION 2. Subsection (g), Section 118.011, and Subdivision
(4), Subsection (a), and Subsection (k), Section 118.025, Local
Government Code, are repealed.
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, 2005.