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  89R16110 CS-D     By: Bhojani H.B. No. 4444       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the authority of a public library to provide   multilingual resources for emerging communities.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subtitle C, Title 10, Local Government Code, is   amended by adding Chapter 338 to read as follows:   CHAPTER 338. LIBRARIES           Sec.   338.001.     MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES. (a) In this   section:                 (1)     "Emerging community" means a group of people who   share a common ethnicity and have a positive population growth rate   in a county.                 (2)     "Population growth rate" means the rate of   population growth between the last two federal decennial censuses.           (b)     A public library may use any money available to the   library, including state money, to provide multilingual library   services and resources for the three fastest growing, non-English-   or Spanish-speaking, emerging communities in the county in which   the library is located.           (c)     A public library that provides multilingual library   services and resources under this section may:                 (1)     provide easily accessible online or digital   multilingual library services and resources; and                 (2)     implement a plan to communicate the availability   of multilingual library services and resources to the relevant   emerging communities.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.