Bill Text: TX HB2404 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the imposition of a privilege fee for state-owned housing provided to certain state employees by a state agency.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-04 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2404 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2404-Comm_Sub.html
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 |
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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. |