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