Amend HB 733 by adding the following section, appropriately
numbered, and renumbering the existing sections appropriately:
      SECTION ____. Section 2165.004, Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      Sec. 2165.004.  LEASE OF SPACE TO PUBLIC TENANTS IN <CERTAIN>
STATE-OWNED BUILDINGS. (a)  The commission or a state agency with
charge and control of a state building may enter into a lease
agreement with a department, commission, board, agency, or other
instrumentality of the state, a political subdivision of the state,
or the federal government or its instrumentalities for space in the
<an office> building <subject to Chapter 2166>.  Except as provided
by Subchapter E or other law, the commission may not lease space in
a state office <the> building to an individual, private
corporation, association, partnership, or other private interest.
      (b)  The commission or a state agency with charge and control
of a state building may adopt rules necessary to implement this
section.
      (c)  In this section, "political subdivision" includes a
county, municipality, school district, water or irrigation
district, hospital district, council of governments, or regional
planning commission.