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.