By Duncan S.B. No. 1161 76R8745 CLG-D 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.