1-1 By: Junell (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 3367
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1997;
1-3 April 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State
1-4 Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to state buildings and to the authority of the General
1-9 Services Commission to obtain title to and retain control of
1-10 certain property located outside of Austin.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 2166.054(c), Government Code, is
1-13 repealed.
1-14 SECTION 2. Section 2165.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-15 read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 2165.005. Naming of State Buildings. (a) This section
1-17 prescribes the procedure for naming a building owned by the state,
1-18 including a building financed under the Texas Public Finance
1-19 Authority Act (Article 601d, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes).
1-20 (b) The commission shall submit names proposed for a new
1-21 state building to be used as a state or regional headquarters by a
1-22 state agency, or proposals to rename an existing state building
1-23 which is used as a state or regional headquarters by a state
1-24 agency, to the presiding officers of the house of representatives
1-25 and the senate.
1-26 (c) The name proposed by the commission for a state building
1-27 to be used as a state or regional headquarters by a state agency
1-28 may be approved and authorized only by concurrent resolution passed
1-29 by the legislature and signed by the governor.
1-30 (d) The commission shall submit names proposed for a state
1-31 building which will be used as a local headquarters by a state
1-32 agency to the presiding officers of the house of representatives
1-33 and the senate and the members of each body in whose district the
1-34 building is located.
1-35 (e) The name proposed by the commission for a state building
1-36 to be used as a local headquarters by a state agency may be
1-37 approved and authorized only with the consent of the governor and
1-38 the presiding officers of the house of representatives and the
1-39 senate.
1-40 (f) [(d)] A building which will be used as a state or
1-41 regional headquarters for a state agency, other than a university
1-42 building or a prison, may bear the name of a person only if the
1-43 person is deceased and was significant in the state's history.
1-44 SECTION 3. Section 2165.005, Government Code, as amended by
1-45 this Act, takes effect on September 1, 1997.
1-46 SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies to
1-47 real property or buildings acquired by the General Services
1-48 Commission before, on, or after the effective date of this Act.
1-49 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-50 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-54 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-55 passage, and it is so enacted.
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