BILL ANALYSIS |
H.B. 265 |
By: Hilderbran |
State Affairs |
Committee Report (Unamended) |
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
According to interested parties, a large proportion of the state's office space is leased property. This large amount of leased real estate costs the state millions of dollars a year that could be saved by moving various state agencies to state-owned facilities. H.B. 265 seeks to stop unnecessary spending and to use state-owned property to house government agencies that currently occupy rented or leased space and, in doing so, to boost economically struggling cities and further facilitate the progress of government.
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RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
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ANALYSIS
H.B. 265 amends the Government Code to require the Texas Facilities Commission, in making a determination that state-owned space is not available to a state agency under the applicable prerequisites for leasing space for a state agency, to consider all available state-owned space in Texas, regardless of whether using state-owned space would require the agency to move all or part of the agency's operations to a different geographic location in Texas. The bill makes the commission's delegation to a state agency, including an institution of higher education, of the authority to enter into lease contracts for space contingent on a determination by the commission that state-owned space is not available, as provided by the bill's provisions.
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EFFECTIVE DATE
September 1, 2011.
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