Bill Text: TX SB566 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the purchase of periodicals by state agencies and certain state officers and to prohibiting state agencies from providing financial support to the news media.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to State Affairs [SB566 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB566-Introduced.html
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| By: Springer | S.B. No. 566 | |
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| relating to the purchase of periodicals by state agencies and | ||
| certain state officers and to prohibiting state agencies from | ||
| providing financial support to the news media. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2113.107, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) In this subsection, "state agency" includes the | ||
| legislature and an agency in the legislative branch of state | ||
| government. Except as provided by this subsection, a state agency | ||
| may not use appropriated money to purchase a periodical. A member | ||
| of the legislature may purchase one subscription to each periodical | ||
| that is published in the district the member represents. A state | ||
| officer who is elected in a statewide election may purchase one | ||
| subscription to each periodical that is published in this state. | ||
| This subsection does not apply to a purchase for or by a state | ||
| museum, a state library or archive, or an institution of higher | ||
| education library. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 2113, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 2113.108 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 2113.108. NEWS MEDIA. Except as provided by Section | ||
| 2113.107(h), a state agency may not use appropriated money to | ||
| sponsor, partner with, donate to, or otherwise provide financial | ||
| support to any news media. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
