1-1     By:  Shapiro                                           S.B. No. 478

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 6, 1997; February 11, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;

 1-4     April 21, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 21, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the lease of space for a state agency from another

 1-9     governmental entity.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 2167.051, Government Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 2167.051.  LEASING SPACE FROM ANOTHER GOVERNMENTAL

1-14     ENTITY.  Space may be leased:

1-15                 (1)  through an interagency contract from another state

1-16     agency; or

1-17                 (2)  through a negotiated contract from:

1-18                       (A)  the federal government;

1-19                       (B)  a political subdivision, including a county,

1-20     municipality, school district, water or irrigation district,

1-21     hospital district, council of governments, or regional planning

1-22     commission; [or]

1-23                       (C)  a statewide Texas public retirement system

1-24     in a commercial building that is completely owned, directly or

1-25     indirectly, by the retirement system; or

1-26                       (D)  a children's advocacy center established

1-27     under Subchapter E, Chapter 264, Family Code.

1-28           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-33     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-34     passage, and it is so enacted.

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