By Shapiro                                       S.B. No. 478

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the lease of space for a state agency from another

 1-3     governmental entity.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2167.051, Government Code, is amended to

 1-6     read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 2167.051. LEASING SPACE FROM ANOTHER GOVERNMENTAL

 1-8     ENTITY.  Space may be leased:

 1-9                 (1)  through an interagency contract from another state

1-10     agency;  or

1-11                 (2)  through a negotiated contract from:

1-12                       (A)  the federal government;

1-13                       (B)  a political subdivision, including a county,

1-14     municipality, school district, water or irrigation district,

1-15     hospital district, council of governments, or regional planning

1-16     commission; [or]

1-17                       (C)  a statewide Texas public retirement system

1-18     in a commercial building that is completely owned, directly or

1-19     indirectly, by the retirement system; or

1-20                       (D)  a children's advocacy center established

1-21     under Subchapter E, Chapter 264, Family Code.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     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.