1-1 By: Harris S.B. No. 1070
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 14, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
1-4 March 22, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; March 22, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to legislative space needs and space management.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (b-1), Section 4.01, State Purchasing
1-11 and General Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil
1-12 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b-1) The space in the old State Board of Insurance State
1-14 Office Building, located on San Jacinto Street between 11th and
1-15 12th streets in Austin, the Sam Houston Building, and the John H.
1-16 Reagan Building are <is> allocated to the legislature and
1-17 legislative agencies for their use. On written notice signed by
1-18 both presiding officers and delivered to the commission, the
1-19 following buildings are allocated to the legislature and
1-20 legislative agencies to the extent described in the notice:
1-21 Lorenzo de Zavala State Library and Archives Building, Stephen F.
1-22 Austin Building, Lyndon B. Johnson Building, and William B. Travis
1-23 Building. On receipt of notice under this section, the commission
1-24 shall begin immediately to undertake the relocation of agencies
1-25 occupying space in buildings allocated to legislative use. The
1-26 space must be made available for legislative use on a date
1-27 determined by the presiding officers. The presiding officers of
1-28 each house of the legislature shall jointly decide the allocation
1-29 of the space within each <the> building.
1-30 SECTION 2. Section 27, Texas Public Finance Authority Act
1-31 (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), is amended to read
1-32 as follows:
1-33 Sec. 27. <PURCHASE AND RENOVATION OF TEXAS EMPLOYMENT
1-34 COMMISSION PROPERTY.> (a) The construction of a legislative
1-35 services office building <Texas Employment Commission shall sell to
1-36 the commission office buildings and parking facilities in its
1-37 possession in or near the Capitol Complex, and the commission shall
1-38 purchase and renovate the buildings> and parking facilities, at an
1-39 estimated cost of $46,000,000,<. The purchase and renovation> is
1-40 approved for financing in accordance with Section 9 of this Act and
1-41 bonds may be issued to finance the construction <purchase and
1-42 renovation> in accordance with Section 10 of this Act.
1-43 (b) <After the office buildings have been acquired, the
1-44 commission may, from funds made available by the authority,
1-45 renovate the facilities as necessary for occupancy in accordance
1-46 with the allocation of space within the building made under
1-47 Subsection (c) of this section. In negotiating the price for the
1-48 Texas Employment Commission facilities, the commission shall
1-49 consider the cost to the Texas Employment Commission of alternative
1-50 space outside the Capitol Complex. The commission shall also
1-51 consider the price in the context of the reasonable rates that
1-52 might otherwise be paid by prospective occupying state agencies for
1-53 rent in comparable space.>
1-54 <(c)> The space in the office building <buildings> and
1-55 parking facilities is allocated to the legislature and legislative
1-56 agencies for their use. The presiding officers of each house of
1-57 the legislature shall jointly decide the allocation of the space
1-58 within the building <buildings> and facilities.
1-59 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-60 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-61 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-62 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-63 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-64 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-65 passage, and it is so enacted.
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