Texas 2015 - 84th Regular

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1		-	By: Watson S.B. No. 836
2		-	(Rodriguez of Travis)
	1	+	S.B. No. 836
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5		-	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	4		AN ACT
7	5		relating to management services for the physical facilities of the
8	6		Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas
9	7		School for the Deaf.
10	8		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
11	9		SECTION 1. Section 30.022(h-1), Education Code, is amended
12	10		to read as follows:
13	11		(h-1) The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
14	12		facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
15	13		school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
16	14		reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
17	15		2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
18	16		the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
19	17		SECTION 2. Section 30.052(h-1), Education Code, is amended
20	18		to read as follows:
21	19		(h-1) The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
22	20		facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
23	21		school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
24	22		reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
25	23		2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
26	24		the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
27	25		SECTION 3. Section 2165.007(b), Government Code, is amended
28	26		to read as follows:
29	27		(b) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall
30	28		provide facilities management services in relation to all state
31	29		agency facilities in Travis County or a county adjacent to Travis
32	30		County. The commission's duty does not apply to:
33	31		(1) a facility owned or operated by an institution of
34	32		higher education;
35	33		(2) military facilities;
36	34		(3) facilities owned or operated by the Texas
37	35		Department of Criminal Justice;
38	36		(4) facilities owned or operated by the Texas Juvenile
39	37		Justice Department;
40	38		(5) facilities owned or operated by the Texas
41	39		Department of Transportation;
42	40		(6) the Capitol, including the Capitol Extension, the
43	41		General Land Office building, the Bob Bullock Texas State History
44	42		Museum, any museum located on the Capitol grounds, the Governor's
45	43		Mansion, and any property maintained by the Texas Historical
46	44		Commission under Sections 442.0072 and 442.0073;
47	45		(7) a facility determined by the commission to be
48	46		completely residential;
49	47		(8) a regional or field office of a state agency;
50	48		(9) a facility located within or on state park
51	49		property;
52	50		(10) the property known as the Finance Commission
53	51		Building described by deed recorded in Volume 5080, Page 1099, of
54	52		the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas; or
55	53		(11) the property known as the Credit Union Department
56	54		Building described by deed recorded in Volume 6126, Page 27, of the
57	55		Deed Records of Travis County, Texas[;
58	56		[(12) facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
59	57		for the Blind and Visually Impaired; or
60	58		[(13) facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
61	59		for the Deaf].
62	60		SECTION 4. (a) Not later than September 1, 2015, the
63	61		following are transferred from the Texas School for the Blind and
64	62		Visually Impaired to the Texas Facilities Commission:
65	63		(1) all remaining powers, duties, functions,
66	64		programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Blind and
67	65		Visually Impaired relating to the maintenance of the school's
68	66		physical facilities;
69	67		(2) any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
70	68		for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are directly related to
71	69		implementing a power, duty, function, program, or activity
72	70		transferred under this subsection; and
73	71		(3) all property and records in the custody of the
74	72		Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are related to
75	73		a power, duty, function, program, or activity transferred under
76	74		this subsection and all funds appropriated by the legislature for
77	75		that power, duty, function, program, or activity.
78	76		(b) The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
79	77		the Blind and Visually Impaired shall enter into a memorandum of
80	78		understanding that establishes a plan for the identification and
81	79		transfer of the records, personnel, property, and unspent
82	80		appropriations of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
83	81		Impaired that are used for purposes of the commission's powers and
84	82		duties directly related to the maintenance of the school's physical
85	83		facilities under Section 30.022, Education Code.
86	84		SECTION 5. (a) Not later than September 1, 2015, the
87	85		following are transferred from the Texas School for the Deaf to the
88	86		Texas Facilities Commission:
89	87		(1) all remaining powers, duties, functions,
90	88		programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Deaf relating
91	89		to the maintenance of the school's physical facilities;
92	90		(2) any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
93	91		for the Deaf that are directly related to implementing a power,
94	92		duty, function, program, or activity transferred under this
95	93		subsection; and
96	94		(3) all property and records in the custody of the
97	95		Texas School for the Deaf that are related to a power, duty,
98	96		function, program, or activity transferred under this subsection
99	97		and all funds appropriated by the legislature for that power, duty,
100	98		function, program, or activity.
101	99		(b) The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
102	100		the Deaf shall enter into a memorandum of understanding that
103	101		establishes a plan for the identification and transfer of the
104	102		records, personnel, property, and unspent appropriations of the
105	103		Texas School for the Deaf that are used for purposes of the
106	104		commission's powers and duties directly related to the maintenance
107	105		of the school's physical facilities under Section 30.052, Education
108	106		Code.
109	107		SECTION 6. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
110	108		a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
111	109		provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
112	110		Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
113	111		Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
	112	+	______________________________ ______________________________
	113	+	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
	114	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 836 passed the Senate on
	115	+	April 23, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 28, Nays 2.
	116	+	______________________________
	117	+	Secretary of the Senate
	118	+	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 836 passed the House on
	119	+	May 20, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 136, Nays 6, one
	120	+	present not voting.
	121	+	______________________________
	122	+	Chief Clerk of the House
	123	+	Approved:
	124	+	______________________________
	125	+	Date
	126	+	______________________________
	127	+	Governor