1-1  By:  Berlanga (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)            H.B. No. 2022
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1995;
    1-3  May 12, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 17, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 12,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the construction of laboratory and office facilities
    1-9  for the Texas Department of Health; granting authority to issue a
   1-10  bond.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Section 24A(b), Texas Public Finance Authority
   1-13  Act (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (b)  The following projects are approved:
   1-16                          Project                      Estimated Cost
   1-17       1.  Aircraft Maintenance Shop and Office
   1-18             Facilities in Travis County                   $2,787,000
   1-19       2.  Cosmetology Commission Building in Travis
   1-20             County                                         1,520,000
   1-21       3.  Hazardous Materials Testing Laboratory for the
   1-22             Texas Department of Health in Travis County    1,350,000
   1-23       4.  New Warehouse and Renovation of Existing
   1-24             Warehouse for the State Purchasing and General
   1-25             Services Commission in Travis County           2,990,000
   1-26       5.  Purchase and Renovation by the State Purchasing
   1-27             and General Services Commission of real property
   1-28             which is located in, or partially or wholly
   1-29             within 1,000 feet of:  the Capitol Complex,
   1-30             Travis County, and the John H. Winters Human
   1-31             Services Complex, Travis County               10,000,000
   1-32       6.  Records and Equipment Warehouse for the State
   1-33             Board of Insurance in Travis County            1,538,000
   1-34       7.  State Board of Insurance Building in Travis
   1-35             County                                        59,937,000
   1-36       8.  State Data Processing Disaster Recovery
   1-37             Operations Center in Travis County             3,011,000
   1-38       9.  Purchase and Renovation of New Headquarters and
   1-39             Warehouse for State Purchasing and General
   1-40             Services Commission in Travis County           2,000,000
   1-41       10. Purchase and Renovation of an Office Building
   1-42             in Travis County                              43,500,000
   1-43       11. Laboratory and Office Facilities for the
   1-44             Texas Department of Health                    42,300,000
   1-45                 TOTAL                    $170,933,000 <$128,633,000>
   1-46        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-47  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-48  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-49  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-50  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-51  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-52  passage, and it is so enacted.
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