By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 478

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the lease of space for a state agency from another

 1-2     governmental entity.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2167.051, Government Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 2167.051. LEASING SPACE FROM ANOTHER GOVERNMENTAL

 1-7     ENTITY.  Space may be leased:

 1-8                 (1)  through an interagency contract from another state

 1-9     agency; or

1-10                 (2)  through a negotiated contract from:

1-11                       (A)  the federal government;

1-12                       (B)  a political subdivision, including a county,

1-13     municipality, school district, water or irrigation district,

1-14     hospital district, council of governments, or regional planning

1-15     commission; [or]

1-16                       (C)  a statewide Texas public retirement system

1-17     in a commercial building that is completely owned, directly or

1-18     indirectly, by the retirement system; or

1-19                       (D)  a children's advocacy center established

1-20     under Subchapter E, Chapter 264, Family Code.

1-21           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

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

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.