By Duncan                                             S.B. No. 1161
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to standards and specifications applicable to certain
 1-3     buildings subject to requirements relating to architectural
 1-4     barriers.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Article 9102, Revised Statutes, is
 1-7     amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-8           (h)  When the portion of a building described by Subsection
 1-9     (a)(3) of this section that is leased or occupied by the state is
1-10     3,000 square feet or less and another state agency or political
1-11     subdivision does not lease or occupy more than 50 percent of the
1-12     remaining portion of the building, the commissioner, in determining
1-13     whether the building complies with the standards and specifications
1-14     adopted under this article, shall consider the building as a whole
1-15     and whether other comparable office space at a competitive price is
1-16     available in the locality in which the building is located.  If the
1-17     building as a whole provides a reasonable accommodation to persons
1-18     with disabilities using the building, the failure of the state
1-19     leased or occupied portion of the building that is 3,000 square
1-20     feet or less to comply with a particular standard or specification
1-21     adopted under this article does not prevent the commissioner from
1-22     determining that the building as a whole is in compliance with the
1-23     adopted standards and specifications.
1-24           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-1     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-2     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-3     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-4     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-5     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-6     passage, and it is so enacted.