Bill Text: TX HB1492 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the National Museum of the Pacific War museum fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB1492 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1492-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of the National Museum of the Pacific War museum fund.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective immediately [HB1492 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB1492-Comm_Sub.html
By: Miller, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Buckingham) | H.B. No. 1492 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 2017; | ||
May 4, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance; | ||
May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12, | ||
Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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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; | ||
and | ||
(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. 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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