85R9298 KLA-D
By: Turner H.B. No. 1499
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appropriation of money from the economic
stabilization fund for maintenance, renovation, and repair of
certain state buildings.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. In addition to other amounts appropriated to the
Texas Facilities Commission for the state fiscal biennium ending
August 31, 2019, $500 million is appropriated out of the economic
stabilization fund to the Texas Facilities Commission for that
state fiscal biennium for purposes of providing general building
maintenance for, and renovating and repairing, state buildings for
which the commission provides facilities management services under
Section 2165.007, Government Code, or under the terms of a
memorandum of understanding. Maintenance, renovation, and repairs
for which money appropriated under this section may be used
includes maintenance, renovation, and repairs of electrical,
mechanical, plumbing, and sewer systems.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017, but only
if the Act receives a vote of two-thirds of the members present in
each house of the legislature, as provided by Section 49-g(m),
Article III, Texas Constitution.