By Maxey H.B. No. 2018
75R5056 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the allocation of space to state agencies.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 2165.104, Government Code, is amended by
1-5 amending Subsections (a), (b), and (d) and adding Subsections (f)
1-6 and (g) to read as follows:
1-7 (a) The commission periodically shall study the space
1-8 requirements of state agencies that occupy space under the
1-9 commission's charge and control, including state-owned space and
1-10 space leased from other sources. Each state agency that occupies
1-11 space under the commission's charge and control shall conduct
1-12 periodic analyses to identify usable and exempt space and determine
1-13 if each location meets the requirements of Subsection (c). Each
1-14 state agency shall submit a copy of each space analysis to the
1-15 commission and the Legislative Budget Board.
1-16 (b) The commission shall use the results of the study to:
1-17 (1) determine the optimal amount of space required for
1-18 various state agency uses; [and]
1-19 (2) co-locate certain administrative field offices of
1-20 state agencies in the same geographic area; and
1-21 (3) allocate space to state agencies in the best and
1-22 most efficient manner possible.
1-23 (d) The commission shall conduct a study under this section
1-24 at least once each state fiscal biennium. Each study must include
2-1 transition plans for the co-location of certain state agency
2-2 administrative field office space developed under Section
2-3 2165.1061.
2-4 (f) The Legislative Budget Board shall include information
2-5 on a state agency's space use in performance reports produced under
2-6 Section 322.011.
2-7 (g) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the commission may
2-8 not approve any new lease for usable office space for a state
2-9 agency that allocates more than an average of 153 square feet per
2-10 agency employee.
2-11 SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 2165, Government Code, is
2-12 amended by adding Section 2165.1061 to read as follows:
2-13 Sec. 2165.1061. CO-LOCATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE FIELD OFFICES
2-14 OF STATE AGENCIES. (a) The commission shall identify areas of the
2-15 state in which more than one state agency operates an
2-16 administrative field office. The commission shall review the
2-17 leases and the office arrangements of these state agencies and
2-18 study the feasibility of co-locating offices located in the same
2-19 geographic area.
2-20 (b) The commission, in cooperation with the affected state
2-21 agencies, shall develop transition plans for the co-location of
2-22 administrative field offices in certain locations. Each plan must
2-23 include the costs and benefits of co-location.
2-24 (c) The commission shall also study the potential for
2-25 co-locating a state agency field office with an office of a federal
2-26 agency in the same geographic area.
2-27 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
3-1 SECTION 4. 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.