By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1070
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to legislative space needs and space management.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b-1), Section 4.01, State Purchasing
    1-4  and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
    1-5  Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b-1)  The space in the old State Board of Insurance State
    1-7  Office Building, located on San Jacinto Street between 11th and
    1-8  12th streets in Austin, the Sam Houston Building, and the John H.
    1-9  Reagan Building are <is> allocated to the legislature and
   1-10  legislative agencies for their use.  On written notice signed by
   1-11  both presiding officers and delivered to the commission, the
   1-12  following buildings  are allocated to the legislature and
   1-13  legislative agencies to the extent described in the notice:
   1-14  Lorenzo de Zavala State Library and Archives Building, Stephen F.
   1-15  Austin Building, Lyndon B. Johnson Building, and William B. Travis
   1-16  Building.  On receipt of notice under this section, the commission
   1-17  shall  begin immediately to undertake the relocation of agencies
   1-18  occupying space in buildings allocated to legislative use.  The
   1-19  space must be made available for legislative use on a date
   1-20  determined by the presiding officers.  The presiding officers of
   1-21  each house of the legislature shall jointly  decide the allocation
   1-22  of the space within each <the> building.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  Section 27, Texas Public Finance Authority Act
   1-24  (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
    2-1  as follows:
    2-2        Sec. 27.  <PURCHASE AND RENOVATION OF TEXAS EMPLOYMENT
    2-3  COMMISSION PROPERTY.>  (a)  The construction of a legislative
    2-4  services office building <Texas Employment Commission shall sell to
    2-5  the commission office buildings and parking facilities in its
    2-6  possession in or near the Capitol Complex, and the commission shall
    2-7  purchase and renovate the buildings> and parking facilities, at an
    2-8  estimated cost of $46,000,000,<.  The purchase and renovation> is
    2-9  approved for financing in accordance with Section 9 of this Act and
   2-10  bonds may be issued to finance the construction <purchase and
   2-11  renovation> in accordance with Section 10 of this Act.
   2-12        (b)  <After the office buildings have been acquired, the
   2-13  commission may, from funds made available by the authority,
   2-14  renovate the facilities as necessary for occupancy in accordance
   2-15  with the allocation of space within  the building made under
   2-16  Subsection (c) of this section.  In negotiating the price for the
   2-17  Texas Employment Commission facilities, the commission shall
   2-18  consider the cost to the Texas Employment Commission of alternative
   2-19  space outside the Capitol Complex.  The commission shall also
   2-20  consider the price in the context of the reasonable rates that
   2-21  might otherwise be paid by prospective occupying state agencies for
   2-22  rent in comparable space.>
   2-23        <(c)>  The space in the office building <buildings> and
   2-24  parking facilities is allocated to the legislature and legislative
   2-25  agencies for their use.  The presiding officers of each house of
   2-26  the legislature shall jointly decide the allocation of the space
   2-27  within the building <buildings> and facilities.
    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 from and after its
    3-7  passage, and it is so enacted.