By: Watson S.B. No. 836
(In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2015; March 4, 2015,
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
April 20, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; April 20, 2015,
sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 836 By: Watson
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to management services for the physical facilities of the
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas
School for the Deaf.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 30.022(h-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(h-1) The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
SECTION 2. Section 30.052(h-1), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(h-1) The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
SECTION 3. Section 2165.007(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall
provide facilities management services in relation to all state
agency facilities in Travis County or a county adjacent to Travis
County. The commission's duty does not apply to:
(1) a facility owned or operated by an institution of
higher education;
(2) military facilities;
(3) facilities owned or operated by the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice;
(4) facilities owned or operated by the Texas Juvenile
Justice Department;
(5) facilities owned or operated by the Texas
Department of Transportation;
(6) the Capitol, including the Capitol Extension, the
General Land Office building, the Bob Bullock Texas State History
Museum, any museum located on the Capitol grounds, the Governor's
Mansion, and any property maintained by the Texas Historical
Commission under Sections 442.0072 and 442.0073;
(7) a facility determined by the commission to be
completely residential;
(8) a regional or field office of a state agency;
(9) a facility located within or on state park
property;
(10) the property known as the Finance Commission
Building described by deed recorded in Volume 5080, Page 1099, of
the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas; or
(11) the property known as the Credit Union Department
Building described by deed recorded in Volume 6126, Page 27, of the
Deed Records of Travis County, Texas[;
[(12) facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
for the Blind and Visually Impaired; or
[(13) facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
for the Deaf].
SECTION 4. (a) Not later than September 1, 2015, the
following are transferred from the Texas School for the Blind and
Visually Impaired to the Texas Facilities Commission:
(1) all remaining powers, duties, functions,
programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Blind and
Visually Impaired relating to the maintenance of the school's
physical facilities;
(2) any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are directly related to
implementing a power, duty, function, program, or activity
transferred under this subsection; and
(3) all property and records in the custody of the
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are related to
a power, duty, function, program, or activity transferred under
this subsection and all funds appropriated by the legislature for
that power, duty, function, program, or activity.
(b) The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
the Blind and Visually Impaired shall enter into a memorandum of
understanding that establishes a plan for the identification and
transfer of the records, personnel, property, and unspent
appropriations of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
Impaired that are used for purposes of the commission's powers and
duties directly related to the maintenance of the school's physical
facilities under Section 30.022, Education Code.
SECTION 5. (a) Not later than September 1, 2015, the
following are transferred from the Texas School for the Deaf to the
Texas Facilities Commission:
(1) all remaining powers, duties, functions,
programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Deaf relating
to the maintenance of the school's physical facilities;
(2) any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
for the Deaf that are directly related to implementing a power,
duty, function, program, or activity transferred under this
subsection; and
(3) all property and records in the custody of the
Texas School for the Deaf that are related to a power, duty,
function, program, or activity transferred under this subsection
and all funds appropriated by the legislature for that power, duty,
function, program, or activity.
(b) The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
the Deaf shall enter into a memorandum of understanding that
establishes a plan for the identification and transfer of the
records, personnel, property, and unspent appropriations of the
Texas School for the Deaf that are used for purposes of the
commission's powers and duties directly related to the maintenance
of the school's physical facilities under Section 30.052, Education
Code.
SECTION 6. 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, 2015.
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