By: Whitmire S.B. No. 1068 73R4770 GWK-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds 1-3 for projects relating to facilities of corrections institutions. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 4(a), Chapter 696, Acts of the 70th 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 601d-1, Vernon's Texas 1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (a)(1) The authority may issue up to $500 million in general 1-9 obligation bonds and distribute bond proceeds to appropriate 1-10 agencies for use for acquiring, constructing, or equipping new 1-11 facilities or for major repair or renovation of existing 1-12 facilities, corrections institutions, including youth corrections 1-13 institutions, and mental health and mental retardation 1-14 institutions. 1-15 (2) The authority may issue up to $400 million in 1-16 general obligation bonds, in addition to the amount authorized by 1-17 Subsection (a)(1) of this section, and distribute bond proceeds to 1-18 appropriate agencies for the same uses as authorized by Subsection 1-19 (a)(1) and to the Department of Public Safety for the purchase, 1-20 repair, and renovation of the Austin Independent School District 1-21 administration building adjacent to the Department of Public Safety 1-22 state headquarters, for the purpose of expanding the department's 1-23 state headquarters' central office building. 1-24 (3) The authority may issue up to $1.055 billion in 2-1 general obligation bonds, in addition to the amounts authorized by 2-2 Subsections (a)(1) and (a)(2) of this section, and distribute bond 2-3 proceeds to appropriate agencies for use for acquiring, 2-4 constructing, or equipping new prisons and substance abuse felony 2-5 punishment facilities to confine criminals and youth corrections 2-6 institutions, for major repair or renovation of existing prison 2-7 facilities and youth corrections institutions, and for the 2-8 acquisition of, major repair to, or renovation of other facilities 2-9 for use as state prisons, substance abuse felony punishment 2-10 facilities, or facilities in which pilot programs established as 2-11 provided by Section 614.011, Health and Safety Code, are conducted. 2-12 (4) The authority may issue up to $1 billion in 2-13 general obligation bonds, in addition to amounts authorized by 2-14 Subsections (a)(1), (a)(2), and (a)(3) of this section, and 2-15 distribute bond proceeds to appropriate agencies for use for 2-16 acquiring, constructing, or equipping new facilities or for major 2-17 repair or renovation of existing facilities of corrections 2-18 institutions. 2-19 (5) The bond proceeds may be used to refinance an 2-20 existing obligation for a purpose described by this subsection. 2-21 The authority may issue general obligation bonds authorized under 2-22 Subsection (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section to refund revenue bonds 2-23 issued under this Act. 2-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on the date on which the 2-25 constitutional amendment proposed by __J.R.__, 73rd Legislature, 2-26 Regular Session, 1993, takes effect. If that amendment is not 2-27 approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. 3-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 3-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 3-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 3-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 3-7 terms, and it is so enacted.