1-1 By: West S.B. No. 1569
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 6, 1999,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
1-5 April 6, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the leasing of classroom space for an institution of
1-9 higher education.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 2167.001, Government
1-12 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) This chapter does not apply to:
1-14 (1) aircraft hangar space;
1-15 (2) radio antenna space;
1-16 (3) boat storage space;
1-17 (4) vehicle parking space;
1-18 (5) residential space for a Texas Department of Mental
1-19 Health and Mental Retardation program;
1-20 (6) residential space for a Texas Youth Commission
1-21 program;
1-22 (7) space to be used for less than one month for
1-23 meetings, conferences, conventions, seminars, displays,
1-24 examinations, auctions, or similar purposes;
1-25 (8) district office space for members of the
1-26 legislature;
1-27 (9) space used by the Texas Employment Commission;
1-28 [or]
1-29 (10) residential property acquired by the Texas
1-30 Department of Housing and Community Affairs or the Texas State
1-31 Affordable Housing Corporation that is offered for sale or rental
1-32 to individuals and families of low or very low income or families
1-33 of moderate income; or
1-34 (11) classroom and instructional space for an
1-35 institution of higher education governed by Chapter 51, Education
1-36 Code; however, an institution of higher education may not enter
1-37 into a lease contract for classroom and instructional space unless
1-38 the institution complies with the architectural barriers law,
1-39 Article 9102, Revised Statutes.
1-40 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-41 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-42 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-43 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-44 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-45 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-46 passage, and it is so enacted.
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