- (a) State agencies are required to deposit or make accessible copies of all state publications that have not been exempted from the State Publications Depository Program in §3.6 of this title (relating to Standard Exemptions for State Publications in All Formats) or under §3.7 of this title (relating to Special Exemptions).
- (b) When a state publication is distributed to the public in multiple formats simultaneously, state agencies are required to provide access to or copies of that publication to the commission in all formats in which the publication is publicly distributed. State agencies are not required to provide copies to the commission of publications on electronic external storage devices if the state publications are made available by an Internet connection.
- (c) Records retention. State agencies are reminded that compliance with this chapter does not constitute compliance with records retention rules for state government records. See Texas State Records Retention Schedule (second edition or subsequent edition as applicable) and §§6.1 - 6.10 of this title for complete information about records retention requirements.
- (d) Archival publications. For those publications defined as archival (see §6.1 of this title), one copy must be submitted to the Texas State Archives in accordance with §§6.91 - 6.99 of this title.
Source Note:The provisions of this §3.2 adopted to be effective June 20, 2005, 30 TexReg 3577.