By:  West                                             S.B. No. 1569
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       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
 2-1     Department of Housing and Community Affairs or the Texas State
 2-2     Affordable Housing Corporation that is offered for sale or rental
 2-3     to individuals and families of low or very low income or families
 2-4     of moderate income; or
 2-5                 (11)  classroom and instructional space for an
 2-6     institution of higher education governed by Chapter 51, Education
 2-7     Code; however, an institution of higher education may not enter
 2-8     into a lease contract for classroom and instructional space unless
 2-9     the institution complies with the architectural barriers law,
2-10     Article 9102, Revised Statutes.
2-11           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.