Bill Text: TX HB3780 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a state secondary Internet website domain name server.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB3780 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3780-Introduced.html
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By: Capriglione | H.B. No. 3780 |
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relating to the establishment of a state secondary Internet website | ||
domain name server. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter H, Chapter 418, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 418.193 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 418.193. SECONDARY INTERNET WEBSITE DOMAIN NAME | ||
SERVER. (a) In this section, "domain name server" means a server | ||
connected to the Internet that acts as a directory of Internet | ||
website domain names and the websites' corresponding Internet | ||
Protocol (IP) addresses and that translates between the domain name | ||
and IP address to allow an individual to search for an Internet | ||
website by domain name. | ||
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall | ||
select an appropriate department or entity of an institution of | ||
higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, to | ||
develop and build a secondary Internet website domain name server. | ||
(c) The governor is responsible for managing the operations | ||
of the secondary Internet website domain name server and may | ||
contract with a third party to maintain and manage the operations of | ||
the domain name server. | ||
(d) The governor may deploy the domain name server at the | ||
governor's discretion. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective | ||
date of this Act, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall select a department or entity of an institution of higher | ||
education to develop and build a secondary Internet website domain | ||
name server, as described by Section 418.193, Government Code, as | ||
added by this Act. | ||
(b) The department or entity of an institution of higher | ||
education selected by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board, as described by Subsection (a) of this section, shall | ||
complete building the domain name server not later than December | ||
31, 2018. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |