| 1 | 1 | | By: Kolkhorst S.B. No. 2229 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to directing Blinn College to transfer control and custody |
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| 7 | 7 | | of the Washington-on-the-Brazos Museum Building and its contents to |
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| 8 | 8 | | the Texas Historical Commission. |
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| 9 | 9 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 10 | 10 | | SECTION 1. Blinn College is hereby directed to transfer |
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| 11 | 11 | | control and custody of the Washington-on-the-Brazos Museum |
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| 12 | 12 | | Building and its contents, known as the "Star of the Republic |
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| 13 | 13 | | Museum," situated in the area acquired by the State of Texas under |
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| 14 | 14 | | the provisions of Chapter 3 (H.B. 11), General Laws, Acts of the |
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| 15 | 15 | | 34th Legislature, 1st Called Session, 1915, and known as |
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| 16 | 16 | | Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park, to the Texas Historical |
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| 17 | 17 | | Commission. |
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| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 2. It is the intent of the legislature that every |
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| 19 | 19 | | provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word |
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| 20 | 20 | | in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act to |
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| 21 | 21 | | each person or entity, are severable from each other. If any |
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| 22 | 22 | | application of any provision in this Act to any person, group of |
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| 23 | 23 | | persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be invalid for any |
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| 24 | 24 | | reason, the remaining applications of that provision to all other |
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| 25 | 25 | | persons and circumstances shall be severed and may not be affected. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 3. The transfer required by Section 1 of this Act |
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| 27 | 27 | | shall take place not later than December 1, 2017. |
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| 28 | 28 | | SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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