By: Brimer  S.B. No. 246
         (In the Senate - Filed January 18, 2007; January 30, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Administration;
  April 17, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7,
  Nays 0; April 17, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the management and maintenance of certain land located
  south of the Sam Houston Building by the State Preservation Board.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 443.007, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
         (e)  The board shall manage and maintain the two adjacent
  landscaped areas bordered and separated by contiguous concrete
  sidewalks abutting the south side of the Sam Houston Building.
         SECTION 2.  Charge and control of the land described by
  Subsection (e), Section 443.007, Government Code, as added by this
  Act, is transferred from the Texas Building and Procurement
  Commission to the State Preservation Board.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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