1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to state buildings and to the authority of the General

 1-3     Services Commission to obtain title to and retain control of

 1-4     certain property located outside of Austin.

 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 2166.054(c), Government Code, is

 1-7     repealed.

 1-8           SECTION 2.  Section 2165.005, Government Code, is amended to

 1-9     read as follows:

1-10           Sec. 2165.005.  Naming of State Buildings.  (a)  This section

1-11     prescribes the procedure for naming a building owned by the state,

1-12     including a building financed under the Texas Public Finance

1-13     Authority Act (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).

1-14           (b)  The commission shall submit names proposed for a new

1-15     state building to be used as a state or regional headquarters by a

1-16     state agency, or proposals to rename an existing state building

1-17     which is used as a state or regional headquarters by a state

1-18     agency, to the presiding officers of the house of representatives

1-19     and the senate.

1-20           (c)  The name proposed by the commission for a state building

1-21     to be used as a state or regional headquarters by a state agency

1-22     may be approved and authorized only by concurrent resolution passed

1-23     by the legislature and signed by the governor.

1-24           (d)  The commission shall submit names proposed for a state

 2-1     building which will be used as a local headquarters by a state

 2-2     agency to the presiding officers of the house of representatives

 2-3     and the senate and the members of each body in whose district the

 2-4     building is located.

 2-5           (e)  The name proposed by the commission for a state building

 2-6     to be used as a local headquarters by a state agency may be

 2-7     approved and authorized only with the consent of the governor and

 2-8     the presiding officers of the house of representatives and the

 2-9     senate.

2-10           (f) [(d)]  A building which will be used as a state or

2-11     regional headquarters for a state agency, other than a university

2-12     building or a prison, may bear the name of a person only if the

2-13     person is deceased and was significant in the state's history.

2-14           SECTION 3.  Section 2165.005, Government Code, as amended by

2-15     this Act, takes effect on September 1, 1997.

2-16           SECTION 4.  The change in law made by this Act applies to

2-17     real property or buildings acquired by the General Services

2-18     Commission before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.

2-19           SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-24     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-25     passage, and it is so enacted.

         _______________________________     _______________________________

             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3367 was passed by the House on April

         22, 1997, by a non-record vote.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3367 was passed by the Senate on May

         20, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor