H.B. No. 1829

AN ACT

relating to the preservation, maintenance, and improvement of the Capitol and the Capitol grounds.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 443.030, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

Sec. 443.030. SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS. (a) The board may establish, maintain, and participate in the operation of one or more organizations of persons whose purpose is to raise funds for or provide services or other benefits to the board. The [Such an] organization may be incorporated as a Texas nonprofit corporation.

(b) The board shall contract with a nonprofit corporation formed to assist in the preservation, maintenance, and improvement of the Capitol and the Capitol grounds to develop and implement a plan for the solicitation and acceptance of gifts, grants, devises, and bequests of money, other property, and services to be used to preserve, maintain, and improve the Capitol and the Capitol grounds. The board may contract with a nonprofit corporation described by Subsection (a) or another nonprofit corporation.

SECTION 2. The State Preservation Board shall enter into the contract required by Section 443.030, Government Code, as amended by this Act, not later than September 1, 2018.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.

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President of the Senate Speaker of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1829 was passed by the House on April 6, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.

______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

I certify that H.B. No. 1829 was passed by the Senate on May 11, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________

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Governor