Bill Text: TX SB640 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to the state agencies responsible for providing facilities management services for certain state buildings allocated for legislative use.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB640 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB640-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Schwertner, Huffman S.B. No. 640
(In the Senate - Filed January 26, 2023; February 17, 2023,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business & Commerce;
March 16, 2023, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 16, 2023,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 640 By: Nichols

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the maintenance of certain state buildings allocated
for legislative use and their grounds.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 2165.007, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (b) and except as otherwise
provided by this subsection, the State Preservation Board is
responsible for providing general building and grounds maintenance
for the Sam Houston Building, the Robert E. Johnson Building and the
attached chiller utility plant and parking facility known as state
parking garage P, and the John H. Reagan Building. The commission
shall operate and maintain the central utility plant in the Sam
Houston Building. This subsection may not be construed to
specifically commit the control of any public buildings or grounds
to the State Preservation Board for purposes of Section 2165.002 or
any other law.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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