HB5616

The introduced and House-report versions proposed financial support for renovating and enhancing permanent exhibits as well as marketing and a mobile exhibit. They proposed a named dedicated account in general revenue receiving appropriations, investment interest and donations. The House-passed printing corrected numbering/cross-references and the George H. W. Bush library name, while retaining those program and fund provisions. Introduced; House report; House-passed.

The Senate committee substitute expressly required the commission to administer the program and replaced the named general-revenue dedicated fund with the commission-established account and permissive donation/appropriation deposits. It removed the separate interest-deposit provision while retaining the spending-purpose restriction. Those are committee-substitute changes. Senate substitute.

The sole indexed floor amendment, offered by Johnson and adopted May 27, struck the subdivision requiring financial support for permanent-exhibit renovation and enhancement, then renumbered the remaining duties. That deletion survives in the enrolled text: marketing and the mobile exhibit remain expressly required; the specific permanent-exhibit funding mandate does not. The act’s broader support-purpose wording remains, so the deletion should not be described as a blanket ban on all support to the libraries. The House concurred May 29. Complete amendment; amendment index; all versions; final law.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

The named libraries could gain visibility and visitors, and students and communities could gain access to traveling educational exhibits. The Historical Commission bears program and account-administration duties, with optional nonprofit participation. Actual reach, tourism effects and costs depend on implementation and available resources; the sources do not quantify them or guarantee a grant to each institution.

The final-posted May 28 fiscal note, labeled “As Passed 2nd House,” anticipates no significant state or local fiscal implication and assumes costs can be absorbed with existing resources. It describes marketing and the mobile exhibit, unlike the earlier notes that still included permanent-exhibit renovations. The note also flags the account for legislative funds-consolidation review. It supplies no dollar forecast, multi-year cost table or appropriation. This briefing does not claim that a particular amount was later appropriated, donated or spent. Final-posted fiscal note; introduced note; engrossed note; Senate-substitute note.

Review boundary: all final sections, history, all five versions, both instructions and the disposition of the single indexed amendment, and all indexed fiscal notes were read and compared. This is a review of HB5616’s program authority and duties, not an audit of a subsequent appropriation, fund balance, contract or exhibit launch.