The Texas Senate on Monday approved legislation to create the Texas State Music Museum in Austin.

The museum, which would not receive state money, would be run by a nonprofit foundation and pay rent and utilities in a state-owned building to be built on the site of a parking lot east of the Bullock Texas State History Museum, said Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, author of Senate Bill 1147.

Watson said he expected ground to be broken for the building’s parking garage in "a few months" at the site on the southeast corner of North Congress Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

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