By Maxey H.B. No. 2472 76R8711 CLG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to authorizing certain state agencies to enter into lease 1-3 and sublease agreements with private service providers. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 531, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 531.051 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 531.051. LEASES AND SUBLEASES OF CERTAIN OFFICE SPACE. 1-8 (a) A health and human services agency, with the approval of the 1-9 commission, or the Texas Workforce Commission or any other state 1-10 agency that administers employment services programs, may lease or 1-11 sublease office space to or from a private service provider that 1-12 contracts with the agency to enable agency eligibility and 1-13 enrollment personnel to work with the provider if: 1-14 (1) client access to services would be enhanced; and 1-15 (2) the colocation of offices would improve the 1-16 efficiency of the administration and delivery of services. 1-17 (b) Subchapters D and E, Chapter 2165, do not apply to a 1-18 state agency that leases or subleases office space to a private 1-19 service provider under this section. 1-20 (c) Subchapter B, Chapter 2167, does not apply to a state 1-21 agency that leases or subleases office space from a private service 1-22 provider under this section. 1-23 (d) A state agency is delegated the authority to enter into 1-24 a lease or sublease under this section and may negotiate the terms 2-1 of the lease or sublease. 2-2 (e) To the extent authorized by federal law, a state agency 2-3 may share business resources with a private service provider that 2-4 enters into a lease or sublease agreement with the agency under 2-5 this section. 2-6 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.