Sec. 443.0103. CAPITAL RENEWAL TRUST FUND. (a) The capital renewal trust fund is created as a trust fund outside the treasury with the comptroller and shall be administered by the board, as a trustee on behalf of the people of this state, to maintain and preserve the Capitol, the General Land Office Building, their contents, and their grounds. The fund consists of money transferred to the fund:

(1) at the direction of the legislature; or

(2) in accordance with this section.

(b) Money in the fund may be used only for the purpose of maintaining and preserving the Capitol, the General Land Office Building, their contents, and their grounds.

(c) The interest received from investment of money in the fund shall be credited to the fund.

(d) The board may transfer money from any account of the Capitol fund to the capital renewal trust fund, other than money that was donated to the board, derived from a security or other thing of value donated to the board, or earned as interest or other income on a donation to the board, if the board determines that after the transfer there will be a sufficient amount of money in the applicable account of the Capitol fund to accomplish the purposes for which the account was created.

(e) The board may transfer money from the capital renewal trust fund to any account of the Capitol fund, provided that money transferred shall only be used for the purposes outlined in Subsection (b).

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 10, eff. May 21, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 549, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 31, 2001.

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (S.B. 1338), Sec. 3, eff. June 17, 2011.