82R24742 E
By: Madden, Sheffield, Laubenberg H.B. No. 2404
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2404:
By: Zedler C.S.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:
(1) the Governor's Mansion;
(2) the State Capitol;
(3) state employee dormitory housing; or
(4) a state agency the real property of which is
governed by Section 31.155(d).
(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 percent of the difference between the fair market rental value of
the housing provided to an employee determined under Subsection (b)
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.