Bill Text: TX SB694 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the National Museum of the Pacific War museum fund.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-24 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB694 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB694-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Buckingham, Hinojosa | S.B. No. 694 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed January 31, 2017; February 15, 2017, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Natural Resources & | ||
| Economic Development; April 3, 2017, reported adversely, with | ||
| favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, | ||
| Nays 1; April 3, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 694 | By: Zaffirini | |
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| relating to the creation of the National Museum of the Pacific War | ||
| museum fund. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 442.053(c), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (c) The commission shall deposit the proceeds of revenue | ||
| bonds or other revenue obligations issued under this section in | ||
| accordance with Chapter 1232 [ |
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| the repair, renovation, improvement, expansion, and equipping of | ||
| the museum. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 442, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 442.056 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 442.056. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PACIFIC WAR MUSEUM | ||
| FUND. (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Commission" means the Texas Historical | ||
| Commission. | ||
| (2) "Fund" means the National Museum of the Pacific | ||
| War museum fund. | ||
| (b) The National Museum of the Pacific War museum fund is | ||
| created as a fund outside the state treasury. The commission shall | ||
| administer the fund but may contract with the Admiral Nimitz | ||
| Foundation for administration of the fund. The fund consists of: | ||
| (1) admissions revenue from operation of the museum; | ||
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| (2) donations made to the commission for the museum. | ||
| (c) Money in the fund may be spent without appropriation and | ||
| only to administer, operate, preserve, repair, expand, or otherwise | ||
| maintain the museum. | ||
| (d) Interest and income from the assets of the fund shall be | ||
| credited to and deposited in the fund. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 442.054, Government Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. The Texas Historical Commission is required to | ||
| implement Section 442.056, Government Code, as added by this Act, | ||
| only if the legislature appropriates money specifically for that | ||
| purpose. If the legislature does not appropriate money | ||
| specifically for that purpose, the commission may, but is not | ||
| required to, implement that section using other appropriations | ||
| available to the commission for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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