SECTION 3.5. Standard Exemptions for State Publications in All Formats

The following publications are exempt from the State Publications Depository Program and shall not be provided to the commission:

(1) agendas;

(2) advertisements;

(3) alumni materials;

(4) announcements;

(5) artwork (graphical representations without textual information);

(6) calendars;

(7) codes (as compendia);

(8) complex relational databases;

(9) contracts;

(10) correspondence;

(11) course schedules and materials;

(12) curriculum catalogs (departmental only);

(13) drafts of plans, reports;

(14) fiction;

(15) forms and instruction manuals for their completion;

(16) fund raising materials;

(17) grant proposals, bids;

(18) hearings (transcripts of);

(19) job listings;

(20) laws (as compendia);

(21) literary criticisms;

(22) memorabilia;

(23) memoranda (including e-mail);

(24) news or press releases;

(25) newsletters and subscriber lists meant only for employee, faculty or student use;

(26) non-fiction university press publications not aligned with the commission's collection development policy;

(27) notices of sale;

(28) opinions and orders issued by state courts;

(29) daily or weekly periodicals (that are summarized in monthly or quarterly publications);

(30) personnel manuals;

(31) photographs;

(32) poetry;

(33) policy handbooks intended only for internal use;

(34) programs (announcements of events, training sessions);

(35) recruitment materials;

(36) reprints (reissued without change);

(37) rules and regulations after 1976 (as compendia);

(38) standards (as compendia);

(39) stationery;

(40) student publications (those produced by students);

(41) telephone directories meant only for employee, faculty, or student use;

(42) training materials;

(43) unedited compilations of data or information submitted via forms or other means from individuals or entities under the regulation of a state agency; and

(44) volunteer newsletters.

Source Note: The provisions of this §3.5 adopted to be effective November 18, 2015, 40 TexReg 8021; amended to be effective August 29, 2023, 48 TexReg 4638