By: Madden H.B. No. 2404

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the imposition of a privilege fee for state-owned housing provided to certain state employees by a state agency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Natural Resources Code, is amended by adding Section 31.1531 to read as follows:

Sec. 31.1531. STATE-OWNED HOUSING. (a) This section does not apply to the Governor's Mansion, the State Capitol, or state employee dormitory housing.

(b) Not later than September 1 of each year, the land office shall:

(1) determine the fair market rental value of state-owned housing provided to a state employee by a state agency; and

(2) notify each state agency that provides state-owned housing to state employees of the fair market rental value of the employee housing provided by that state agency.

(c) A state agency that provides state-owned housing to a state employee and does not recover 100 percent of the determined fair market rental value of the housing from the employee shall require as a condition of occupancy that the employee remit a monthly privilege fee to the school district in which the state-owned housing is located not later than the first day of each month that the employee occupies the housing.

(d) A monthly privilege fee under this section is equal to 20% of the difference between the fair market rental value of the housing provided to an employee determined under Subsection (a) and the amount, if any, paid by the employee for the housing.

(e) A state agency shall immediately remove an employee required to make a monthly privilege fee from the state housing occupied by the employee if the employee does not remit the fee by the third day of the month.

SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to a monthly privilege fee due on or after October 1, 2011.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.