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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