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1-13     repealed.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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