By Barrientos S.B. No. 1677
74R9852 JRD-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to studying the feasibility of constructing a
1-3 motion-picture soundstage facility on state-owned property in
1-4 certain counties and authorizing the construction if it is
1-5 feasible; making an appropriation.
1-6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-7 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 444, Government Code, is
1-8 amended by adding Section 444.029 to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 444.029. MOTION-PICTURE SOUNDSTAGE FACILITY. (a) The
1-10 commission, after consulting with the governor's Music, Film,
1-11 Television, and Multimedia Office, shall contract with a private
1-12 entity to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of
1-13 constructing, through a contract with a private entity, and
1-14 operating, through a contract with a private entity, a motion-
1-15 picture soundstage facility on state-owned real property in Travis
1-16 or Williamson County.
1-17 (b) The commission shall issue requests for proposals for
1-18 conducting the study not later than November 1, 1995. The study
1-19 must be completed not later than July 31, 1996.
1-20 (c) The study must include:
1-21 (1) an evaluation of the costs of constructing and
1-22 operating the facility;
1-23 (2) an evaluation of available methods to finance
1-24 construction of the facility;
2-1 (3) an evaluation of how other state agencies and
2-2 local governments in Travis or Williamson County could share in the
2-3 construction costs and ownership of the facility;
2-4 (4) an evaluation of the amount of rental revenues
2-5 that would be derived from the facility and of payments the
2-6 facility could generate for the governmental owners of the facility
2-7 in lieu of taxes on improvements and personal property related to
2-8 the facility;
2-9 (5) an evaluation of potential sites for the facility;
2-10 (6) an evaluation of how the state and other
2-11 governmental owners of the facility could contract with a private
2-12 entity to manage the facility; and
2-13 (7) an evaluation of how the state and other
2-14 governmental owners of the facility could cooperate with private
2-15 entities to provide for the construction of separate support
2-16 facilities for the soundstage facility.
2-17 (d) On completion of the study, if the commission determines
2-18 that a project to construct and own the facility in accordance with
2-19 this section is feasible, the commission shall propose a project
2-20 plan for construction, ownership, and management of the facility.
2-21 The commission shall submit the plan to the Legislative Budget
2-22 Board not later than September 1, 1996. The plan must include:
2-23 (1) the text of any interagency or intergovernmental
2-24 agreements that are necessary for joint sharing of costs and
2-25 revenues associated with the facility;
2-26 (2) a budget for constructing the facility; and
2-27 (3) methods to finance construction of the facility.
3-1 (e) If the Legislative Budget Board gives its prior approval
3-2 to the expenditure of money appropriated to the commission for the
3-3 purpose of constructing the facility and related project expenses,
3-4 the commission may execute contracts with:
3-5 (1) other governmental entities to share the costs,
3-6 revenues, and ownership of the facility, including costs associated
3-7 with construction; and
3-8 (2) private entities for the construction or
3-9 management of the facility.
3-10 (f) The commission and the other facility owners must manage
3-11 the facility through a contract with a private entity. The
3-12 contract must be awarded in accordance with applicable state
3-13 procurement laws.
3-14 (g) On approval of the expenditure of money appropriated to
3-15 the commission for the purpose of constructing the facility and
3-16 related project expenses by the Legislative Budget Board, charge
3-17 and control of the real property selected by the commission for the
3-18 facility site in the plan submitted to the Legislative Budget Board
3-19 is transferred to the commission. The commission may share title to
3-20 the facility and other improvements on the facility site related to
3-21 the construction of the facility with the other owners of the
3-22 facility.
3-23 (h) Any revenues received by the commission under this
3-24 section that are not appropriated to the commission for the
3-25 administration of this section shall be deposited to the credit of
3-26 the Texas cultural endowment fund. Any revenues received by
3-27 another state agency under this section may be used by the agency
4-1 for its costs related to the administration of this section or for
4-2 other costs related to the operation of the agency.
4-3 SECTION 2. In addition to other amounts appropriated to the
4-4 Texas Commission on the Arts for the state fiscal biennium ending
4-5 August 31, 1997, the amount of $10,000,000 is appropriated out of
4-6 the general revenue fund to the Texas Commission on the Arts for
4-7 the state fiscal biennium ending August 31, 1997, for the purposes
4-8 described by Section 444.029, Government Code, as added by this
4-9 Act. Not more than 2.5 percent of that amount may be expended for
4-10 the purpose of conducting the feasibility study described by
4-11 Sections 444.029(a)-(c), Government Code, as added by this Act.
4-12 None of the remaining amounts may be expended without the prior
4-13 approval of the Legislative Budget Board.
4-14 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
4-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
4-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
4-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.