This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
Amend SB 201 by adding appropriately numbered sections as follows:
SECTION ____. Chapter 443, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 443.031 to read as follows:
Sec. 443.031. MANSION RENEWAL TRUST FUND. (a) The Mansion renewal trust fund is created as a trust fund outside the treasury with the comptroller and shall be administered by the board, as a trustee on behalf of the people of this state, to maintain and preserve the Governor's Mansion. The fund consists of:
(1) money transferred to the fund at the direction of the legislature; or
(2) money donated to the board for the purposes of preserving and maintaining the Governor's Mansion.
(b) money in the fund may be used only for the purpose of major repairs to or preservation of the Governor's Mansion, as determined by the board.
(c) The interest received from investment of money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
SECTION ____. Chapter 445, Government Code, is amended by adding Section 445.014 to read as follows:
Section 445.014. The board shall formulate and adopt reasonable policies for naming spaces within the museum, including the designation of rooms, exhibition halls, or other areas in honor of donors or other benefactors, if appropriate.