By: Hinojosa S.B. No. 1574
(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2009; March 17, 2009, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; April 6, 2009, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 6, 2009, sent to printer.)
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. Subsection (e), Section 118.0216, 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 Subsection
(e), Section 118.0216, 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 Subsection (e), Section 118.0216,
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.
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