78R5769 MTB-D
By: Cook of Colorado H.B. No. 3045
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the limitation on the allocation of office space to
state agencies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2165.104(c), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(c) To the extent possible without sacrificing critical
public or client services, the commission may not allocate usable
office space, as defined by the commission, to a state agency under
Article I, II, V, VI, VII, or VIII of the General Appropriations Act
or to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the Texas
Education Agency, the State Board for Educator Certification, the
Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund Board, or the Office of
Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System in an amount that
exceeds an average of 135 [153] square feet per agency employee for
each agency site. To the extent that any of those agencies
allocates its own usable office space, as defined by the
commission, the agency shall allocate the space to achieve the
required ratio. This subsection does not apply to:
(1) an agency site at which fewer than 16 employees are
located;
(2) warehouse space;
(3) laboratory space;
(4) storage space exceeding 1,000 gross square feet;
(5) library space;
(6) space for hearing rooms used to conduct hearings
required under the administrative procedure law, Chapter 2001; or
(7) another type of space specified by commission
rule, if the commission determines that it is not practical to apply
this subsection to that space.
SECTION 2. The Texas Building and Procurement Commission
shall review its allocations of usable office space after the
effective date of this Act and bring those allocations into
compliance with Section 2165.104(c), Government Code, as amended by
this Act, as soon as practicable.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.