81R8 MSE-D By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1574 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to the requirement that the county clerk of certain counties prepare a written records management and preservation services plan. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 118.0216(e), Local Government Code, is amended to read as follows: (e) [In a county that is adjacent to an international boundary, the county clerk shall prepare an annual written plan for funding the automation projects and records management and preservation services performed by the clerk. After a public hearing, the plan shall be considered for approval by the commissioners court. Funds from the records management and preservation account may be expended only as provided by the plan.] All expenditures from the records management and preservation account shall comply with Subchapter C, Chapter 262. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section 118.0216(e), Local Government Code, applies only to a requirement that a county clerk prepare an annual written plan on or after the effective date of this Act. A plan adopted before the effective date of this Act and expenditures under that plan are subject to the requirements of Section 118.0216(e), Local Government Code, as that law existed on the date the plan was adopted, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. 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, 2009.