By:  Hinojosa                                                     S.B. No. 526
	(In the Senate - Filed February 15, 2005; February 28, 2005, 
read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental 
Relations; April 14, 2005, reported favorably by the following 
vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 14, 2005, sent to printer.)


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Government Code, are repealed.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.



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