Section 442.073 - Historic Site Account(a) The historic site account is a dedicated account in the general revenue fund.(b) The account consists of: (1) credits made to the account under Section 151.801, Tax Code;(2) transfers to the account;(3) interest earned on the account;(4) fees and other revenue from operation of a historic site; and(5) grants and donations accepted under Section 442.074.(c) A fee or other revenue generated at a historic site must be credited to the account.(d) Except as provided by Subsection (e), money in the account may be used only to administer, operate, preserve, repair, expand, or otherwise maintain a historic site or to acquire a historical item appropriate to a historic site. (e) The commission may make an expenditure from the account for a historic site that is not described by Section 442.072(a). The commission shall provide notice of an expenditure described by this subsection to the Legislative Budget Board not later than the 30th day after the date the commission makes the expenditure. The Legislative Budget Board may establish the procedure by which the commission provides notice to the board under this subsection. (f) Money in the account may not be used to pay employee benefits or benefit-related costs. Notwithstanding any other law, the account is exempt from any applicable employee benefits proportionality requirement.Tex. Gov't. Code § 442.073
Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 56,Sec. 3, eff. 9/1/2023.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 503,Sec. 1, eff. 1/1/2020 only if the constitutional amendment proposed by the 86th Legislature, Regular Session, 2019, requiring the automatic appropriation of the net revenue received from the collection of state taxes imposed on the sale, storage, use, or other consumption in this state of certain sporting goods to the Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Historical Commission is approved by the voters. The measure was approved by the voters.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 178,Sec. 5, eff. 9/1/2019.Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159, Sec. 11, eff. 6/15/2007.