AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the leasing of classroom space for an institution of
 1-2     higher education.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 2167.001, Government
 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (b)  This chapter does not apply to:
 1-7                 (1)  aircraft hangar space;
 1-8                 (2)  radio antenna space;
 1-9                 (3)  boat storage space;
1-10                 (4)  vehicle parking space;
1-11                 (5)  residential space for a Texas Department of Mental
1-12     Health and Mental Retardation program;
1-13                 (6)  residential space for a Texas Youth Commission
1-14     program;
1-15                 (7)  space to be used for less than one month for
1-16     meetings, conferences, conventions, seminars, displays,
1-17     examinations, auctions, or similar purposes;
1-18                 (8)  district office space for members of the
1-19     legislature;
1-20                 (9)  space used by the Texas Employment Commission;
1-21     [or]
1-22                 (10)  residential property acquired by the Texas
1-23     Department of Housing and Community Affairs or the Texas State
1-24     Affordable Housing Corporation that is offered for sale or rental
 2-1     to individuals and families of low or very low income or families
 2-2     of moderate income; or
 2-3                 (11)  except as provided by Section 2167.007, classroom
 2-4     and instructional space for an institution of higher education.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  Subchapter A, Chapter 2167, Government Code, is
 2-6     amended by adding Section 2167.0051 to read as follows:
 2-7           Sec. 2167.0051.  CLASSROOM AND INSTRUCTIONAL SPACE.  (a)  An
 2-8     institution of higher education may not lease classroom and
 2-9     instructional space unless the portion of the building to be used
2-10     by the institution complies with the applicable standards and
2-11     specifications under the architectural barriers law, Article 9102,
2-12     Revised Statutes.
2-13           (b)  An institution of higher education may  lease classroom
2-14     and instructional space through competitive bidding in accordance
2-15     with Section 2167.053 or through competitive sealed proposals in
2-16     accordance with Section 2167.054 or may negotiate for that space on
2-17     making a determination that competition is not available and shall
2-18     include provisions to obtain a lease contract for classroom and
2-19     instructional space in accordance with Section 2167.055.
2-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-26     passage, and it is so enacted.
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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1569 passed the Senate on
         April 15, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
         the Senate concurred in House amendments on May 28, 1999, by the
         following vote:  Yeas 30, Nays 0.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Secretary of the Senate
               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1569 passed the House, with
         amendments, on May 22, 1999, by the following vote:  Yeas 144,
         Nays 0, two present not voting.
                                             _______________________________
                                                 Chief Clerk of the House
         Approved:
         _______________________________
                     Date
         _______________________________
                   Governor