84R9946 YDB-D
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 1327
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the Alamo preservation fund and the establishment of an
  Alamo preservation fund advisory committee.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
  Code, is amended by adding Sections 31.4545 and 31.4546 to read as
  follows:
         Sec. 31.4545.  ALAMO PRESERVATION FUND. (a) The Alamo
  preservation fund is a special fund in the state treasury outside
  the general revenue fund as established by Section 49-q, Article
  III, Texas Constitution.
         (b)  The land office shall manage the Alamo preservation fund
  and may accept a gift, grant, or donation of money, securities,
  services, or property to restore, preserve, maintain, operate, and
  develop the Alamo complex.
         (c)  The land office may spend money from the Alamo
  preservation fund only for the restoration, preservation,
  maintenance, operation, or development of the Alamo complex and
  only in amounts that are less than or equal to the amounts received
  by the land office from federal, local, or private sources, which
  the land office may spend for the same purposes.
         (d)  The land office shall retain not less than $25 million
  in an account in the Alamo preservation fund to be known as the
  Alamo operation and maintenance trust account. The land office may
  spend the interest and other earnings from the trust account for the
  operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Alamo complex.
         Sec. 31.4546.  ALAMO PRESERVATION FUND ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
  (a) The Alamo preservation fund advisory committee is established
  to advise the land office on expenditures of money from the Alamo
  preservation fund. The advisory committee consists of 15 members
  appointed as follows:
               (1)  three members appointed by the governor;
               (2)  three members appointed by the lieutenant
  governor;
               (3)  three members appointed by the speaker of the
  house of representatives;
               (4)  three members appointed by the commissioner of the
  land office; 
               (5)  two members appointed by the San Antonio City
  Council; and
               (6)  one member appointed by the Bexar County
  Commissioners Court.
         (b)  Members of the advisory committee serve staggered
  three-year terms with the terms of five members expiring January 1
  of each year.
         (c)  The commissioner of the land office shall appoint a
  member to serve as presiding officer of the advisory committee. 
         (d)  The advisory committee shall make recommendations to
  the land office on the best use of money in the Alamo preservation
  fund to create a world-class site to educate visitors on the history
  and importance of the Alamo in this state's fight for independence,
  to honor the people who lost their lives at the Alamo, and to
  develop the complex and surrounding grounds, including providing
  education and museum facilities, financing studies and planning,
  providing architectural services, acquiring land or buildings, and
  constructing facilities.
         (e)  Chapter 2110, Government Code, does not apply to the
  advisory committee.
         SECTION 2.  Not later than January 1, 2016, as required by
  Section 31.4546, Natural Resources Code, as added by this Act:
               (1)  the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the
  house of representatives, and the commissioner of the General Land
  Office shall each appoint three members to the Alamo preservation
  fund advisory committee and each designate one of their appointed
  members to a term expiring January 1, 2017, one to a term expiring
  January 1, 2018, and one to a term expiring January 1, 2019;
               (2)  the San Antonio City Council shall appoint two
  members to the Alamo preservation fund advisory committee and
  designate one member to a term expiring January 1, 2017, and one to
  a term expiring January 1, 2018; and
               (3)  the Bexar County Commissioners Court shall appoint
  one member to the Alamo preservation fund advisory committee to a
  term expiring January 1, 2019.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect December 1, 2015, but only
  if the constitutional amendment to establish the Alamo preservation
  fund and make a one-time transfer of money from the economic
  stabilization fund to the Alamo preservation fund is approved by
  the voters. If that amendment is not approved by the voters, this
  Act has no effect.