Bill Text: TX SB1327 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the Alamo preservation fund and the establishment of an Alamo preservation fund advisory committee.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-18 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB1327 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB1327-Introduced.html
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By: Menéndez | S.B. No. 1327 |
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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. |