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Senate Bill 211 |
Senate Author: Nichols et al. |
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Effective: 6-14-13 |
House Sponsor: Dutton |
Senate Bill 211 amends the Education Code, Government Code, and Natural Resources Code relating to the functions of the Texas Facilities Commission (TFC) and to certain property development plans. Among other provisions, the bill continues TFC until September 1, 2021; prohibits TFC from leasing, selling, or otherwise disposing of real property or an interest in real property located in the Capitol Complex; and authorizes TFC to develop or operate a qualifying project in the Capitol Complex if the legislature specifically authorizes the project by general law and the Partnership Advisory Commission approves the project before TFC enters into a comprehensive agreement for the project. The bill requires TFC to prepare a Capitol Complex master plan and submit it to the State Preservation Board and the General Land Office for review and comment. The bill sets out procedures relating to the board's disapproval, modification, and approval of the plan. The bill also requires TFC to adopt a comprehensive process for planning and developing state property in its inventory and for assisting state agencies in space development planning.
Senate Bill 211 revises requirements, procedures, and other provisions relating to public and private facilities and infrastructure projects. The bill requires TFC to develop a comprehensive capital improvement and deferred maintenance plan that clearly defines the capital improvement needs and critical and noncritical maintenance needs of state buildings. The bill sets out requirements relating to the disposal of property acquired by a political subdivision or an assistance organization from a state agency under statutory provisions governing surplus and salvage property. The bill requires, out of the money received from the lease of space in state-owned parking lots and garages, an amount equal to the costs associated with those leases to be appropriated only to TFC to pay those costs.
Senate Bill 211 exempts TFC from a duty to provide facilities management services to the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas School for the Deaf but transfers facilities maintenance duties from those schools to TFC.