By: Geren (Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst) H.B. No. 1829
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 2017;
April 24, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on
Administration; May 9, 2017, reported favorably by the following
vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 9, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the preservation, maintenance, and improvement of the
Capitol and the Capitol grounds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 443.030, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 443.030. SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS. (a) The board may
establish, maintain, and participate in the operation of one or
more organizations of persons whose purpose is to raise funds for or
provide services or other benefits to the board. The [Such an]
organization may be incorporated as a Texas nonprofit corporation.
(b) The board shall contract with a nonprofit corporation
formed to assist in the preservation, maintenance, and improvement
of the Capitol and the Capitol grounds to develop and implement a
plan for the solicitation and acceptance of gifts, grants, devises,
and bequests of money, other property, and services to be used to
preserve, maintain, and improve the Capitol and the Capitol
grounds. The board may contract with a nonprofit corporation
described by Subsection (a) or another nonprofit corporation.
SECTION 2. The State Preservation Board shall enter into
the contract required by Section 443.030, Government Code, as
amended by this Act, not later than September 1, 2018.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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