Texas Statutes
Subchapter A. Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Section 441.017. Cost Recovery for Records Storage Services

Sec. 441.017. COST RECOVERY FOR RECORDS STORAGE SERVICES. (a) This section:
(1) applies to a record stored by the commission for a state agency; and
(2) does not apply to a record that is under the permanent control of the commission for archival purposes.
(b) The commission shall establish and keep current a cost recovery schedule for its records storage services. The schedule shall show the total cost, including indirect costs, to the commission of its records storage services.
(c) Each state agency that will use the commission's records storage services during a state fiscal biennium shall send to the commission an estimate of the amount and nature of the services that the agency will use during the biennium. The commission shall prescribe:
(1) the time that the estimate must be sent; and
(2) the information that must be included in the estimate.
(d) The commission shall base its legislative appropriations request for providing records storage services to other agencies for the biennium on the estimates received under Subsection (c). The commission's appropriations request must:
(1) show the estimated cost for each agency for records storage services; and
(2) identify the estimated amount that would need to be appropriated from the general revenue fund, account in the general revenue fund, or other fund or account to recover fully the commission's costs in providing records storage services for other agencies.
(e) The legislature may appropriate money to pay the commission's costs in providing records storage services for an agency:
(1) to the commission; or
(2) to the agency, which shall pay the commission its costs as the services are provided.
(f) In this section, "agency" means a state executive, judicial, or legislative department, institution, board, or commission, including an eleemosynary institution.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 86, Sec. 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.