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