The Records Management Assistance team provides records consulting services for all state agencies and local governments in Texas. Visit our Contact page to identify your assigned analyst.
We provide consulting services and training (in-house and online) on topics like records retention, inventory, disposition, managing electronic records, emergency planning, and more. This blog is used to communicate general information. If you require assistance with a records management issue, please contact us at (512) 463-7610 or slrminfo@tsl.texas.gov.
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This blog is open to all readers, but is written primarily for records management personnel in 150+ state agencies and 10,000+ local governments in the State of Texas.
A local government is defined as “a county, including all district and precinct offices of a county, municipality, public school district, appraisal district, or any other special-purpose district or authority.” (Local Government Code §201.003(7))
A state agency is defined as “any department, commission, board, office, or other agency in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government created by the constitution or a statute of this state and includes an eleemosynary institution but does not include the office of a member of the legislature or the lieutenant governor; […] any university system and its components and any institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code, except a public junior college, not governed by a university system board; […] the Texas Municipal Retirement System and the Texas County and District Retirement System; and […] any public nonprofit corporation created by the legislature whose responsibilities and authority are not limited to a geographical area less than that of the state.” (Government Code §441.180(9))