Bill Text: TX SB1177 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a task force to evaluate state-owned artifact collections.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1177-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a task force to evaluate state-owned artifact collections.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-07 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1177 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1177-Comm_Sub.html
By: Birdwell, et al. | S.B. No. 1177 | |
(Shaheen) | ||
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relating to the establishment of a task force to evaluate | ||
state-owned artifact collections. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. DEFINITION. In this Act, "task force" means the | ||
task force established under Section 2 of this Act. | ||
SECTION 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF TASK FORCE. A task force is | ||
established to manage artifact collections owned by this state. | ||
SECTION 3. TASK FORCE MEMBERSHIP. (a) The task force is | ||
composed of representatives of the: | ||
(1) Texas Historical Commission; | ||
(2) General Land Office; | ||
(3) Texas State Library and Archives Commission; | ||
(4) Parks and Wildlife Department; | ||
(5) State Preservation Board; and | ||
(6) Texas Facilities Commission. | ||
(b) The executive director of each state agency represented | ||
on the task force shall appoint an employee of the agency to serve | ||
as the agency's representative on the task force not later than | ||
October 1, 2021. | ||
(c) The member representing the Texas Facilities Commission | ||
must have engineering and architectural expertise. | ||
SECTION 4. REIMBURSEMENT FOR EXPENSES. A member of the task | ||
force is not entitled to compensation for service on the task force | ||
but is entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses incurred by | ||
the member while conducting the business of the task force as | ||
provided by the General Appropriations Act. | ||
SECTION 5. DUTIES OF TASK FORCE. For each state agency | ||
represented on the task force, the task force shall: | ||
(1) evaluate the need for a separate collections | ||
facility for the agency and compare use of a separate collection | ||
facility to a secure centrally located joint collections facility | ||
with a processing laboratory for repair, cleaning, re-housing, and | ||
light conservation of state artifacts, including cost estimates for | ||
maintaining a separate collections facility for each agency | ||
compared to a joint collections facility; | ||
(2) analyze the storage capacity for the agency's | ||
collections to determine whether the agency's collections facility | ||
is adequate for the agency's successful stewardship of its | ||
collections over the next five years and 10 years; | ||
(3) review the option of establishing a | ||
disaster-secure collections facility with separate storage areas | ||
for each agency; | ||
(4) review the recommendations in the Texas Historical | ||
Commission's December 2018 response to the Sunset Advisory | ||
Commission decisions on creating a searchable public catalog of | ||
state-owned collections to determine cost estimates for | ||
implementing the recommendations and a process for implementing the | ||
recommendations; and | ||
(5) assess any unmet need of the agency regarding | ||
state-owned collections as determined by the task force. | ||
SECTION 6. REPORT. Not later than December 1, 2022, the | ||
task force shall report the task force's findings and | ||
determinations under Section 5 of this Act to the governor, | ||
lieutenant governor, speaker of the house of representatives, and | ||
standing committees of each house of the legislature with primary | ||
jurisdiction over the history and culture of this state. | ||
SECTION 7. EXPIRATION. The task force is abolished and this | ||
Act expires September 1, 2023. | ||
SECTION 8. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect September | ||
1, 2021. |