Texas § GV.445.012 - MUSEUM FUND

§ GV.445.012. MUSEUM FUND

MUSEUM FUND. (a) Money and securities received by the museum shall be held in trust outside the treasury by the comptroller in a special fund to be known as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum fund. The museum may spend money received by the museum for any purpose connected with the museum. (b) The comptroller shall manage and invest the fund on behalf of the museum as directed or agreed to by the museum. Interest, dividends, and other income of the fund shall be credited to the fund. (c) The museum shall prepare a detailed annual report on the fund. That report must describe the status of the fund, list all donations to the fund, including the name of each donor, and list all disbursements from the fund, including the purpose of each disbursement. (d) The state auditor, based on a risk assessment and subject to the legislative audit committee's approval of including the review in the audit plan under Section 321.013 , may review the annual report on the fund, and any information used in preparing the report as the auditor determines necessary, and shall report any findings or recommendations to the museum and the legislative audit committee. (e) The fund is not subject to Subchapter F , Chapter 404 . A provision of this chapter or other law that provides for the deposit of money or another thing of value into the fund prevails over Subchapter F , Chapter 404 . (f) Subtitle D, Title 10, does not apply to a purchase or lease made with money from the fund. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 15, eff. May 21, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 785, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.