Bill Text: TX HB2841 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2841 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to the appropriation of money from the economic stabilization fund for maintenance and repairs at institutions of higher education.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Referred to Appropriations [HB2841 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB2841-Introduced.html

	84R11177 KLA-D

	By: Turner of Tarrant	H.B. No. 2841



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the appropriation of money from the economic
	stabilization fund for maintenance and repairs at institutions of
	higher education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. (a) The legislature finds, in part based on
	information concerning deferred maintenance included in the annual
	reports required by Section 61.05821, Education Code, that there is
	a demonstrated need to fund previously deferred maintenance and
	repairs of buildings and facilities at general academic and
	health-related institutions of higher education.
	(b) In addition to other amounts appropriated to the Texas
	Higher Education Coordinating Board for the state fiscal biennium
	ending August 31, 2017, $500 million is appropriated out of the
	economic stabilization fund to the Texas Higher Education
	Coordinating Board for that state fiscal biennium for purposes of:
	(1) allocating, in the manner provided by Subsection
	(c) of this section, a portion of the money to each institution of
	higher education that was included in the board's 2012 report on
	accumulated deferred maintenance needs at institutions of higher
	education as having deferred necessary maintenance of the
	institution's buildings and facilities; and
	(2) distributing the allocated amounts to those
	institutions of higher education to be used during that state
	fiscal biennium for previously deferred maintenance and repairs,
	infrastructure support, and rehabilitation of buildings and
	facilities at those institutions.
	(c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
	allocate money to each institution of higher education described by
	Subsection (b)(1) of this section in the proportion that the cost of
	the deferred maintenance at that institution as specified in the
	2012 report described by that subdivision bears to the total cost of
	the deferred maintenance at all institutions of higher education as
	specified in that report.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015, 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.