Bill Text: TX SB2229 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 2229 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to directing Blinn College to transfer control and custody of the Washington-on-the-Brazos Museum Building and its contents to the Texas Historical Commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-29 - Referred to Administration [SB2229 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB2229-Introduced.html



	By: Kolkhorst	S.B. No. 2229


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to directing Blinn College to transfer control and custody
	of the Washington-on-the-Brazos Museum Building and its contents to
	the Texas Historical Commission.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Blinn College is hereby directed to transfer
	control and custody of the Washington-on-the-Brazos Museum
	Building and its contents, known as the "Star of the Republic
	Museum," situated in the area acquired by the State of Texas under
	the provisions of Chapter 3 (H.B. 11), General Laws, Acts of the
	34th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1915, and known as
	Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park, to the Texas Historical
	Commission.
	SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that every
	provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word
	in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to
	each person or entity, are severable from each other. If any
	application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of
	persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any
	reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other
	persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected.
	SECTION 3. The transfer required by Section 1 of this Act
	shall take place not later than December 1, 2017.
	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.