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  86R8702 YDB-D
 
  By: Hefner H.B. No. 1400
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to monthly reports on preservation, maintenance, and
  restoration expenses for the Alamo complex.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter I, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
  Code, is amended by adding Section 31.4535 to read as follows:
         Sec. 31.4535.  MONTHLY EXPENSE REPORTS. (a) Any public or
  private entity that enters into an agreement with this state to
  provide a service or other benefit to preserve, maintain, or
  restore the Alamo or Alamo complex shall submit to the land office a
  monthly report detailing any service or benefit provided during the
  preceding month for those purposes.
         (b)  The land office and any other state agency that in any
  month uses money appropriated or donated to the agency by a public
  or private entity to pay an expense incurred by the agency during
  the preceding month for the preservation, maintenance, or
  restoration of the Alamo or Alamo complex shall prepare a monthly
  report detailing the expense.
         (c)  A report under this section must be submitted in the
  format required by the land office not later than the third business
  day of the month following the month in which a cost charged under
  Subsection (a) or an expense incurred under Subsection (b) occurs.  
  The report must include:
               (1)  the date the service or benefit was provided or the
  expense was incurred;
               (2)  the amount charged;
               (3)  the name of the vendor who provided the service or
  benefit or billed for the expense; and
               (4)  a brief description of the specific service,
  benefit, or expense.
         (d)  The land office shall post each monthly report submitted
  under this section on the land office's Internet website not later
  than the fifth business day after the date the report is submitted
  by posting a link to the report on the land office's home page.
         SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply only to
  a cost charged or expense incurred on or after the effective date of
  this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.