Bill Text: TX HB768 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the application of the public and private facilities and infrastructure contracting requirements to technology facilities.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [HB768 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB768-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 768 | ||
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| relating to the application of the public and private facilities | ||
| and infrastructure contracting requirements to technology | ||
| facilities. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 2267.001(10), Government Code, as added | ||
| by Chapter 1334 (S.B. 1048), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, Regular | ||
| Session, 2011, is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (10) "Qualifying project" means: | ||
| (A) any ferry, mass transit facility, vehicle | ||
| parking facility, port facility, power generation facility, fuel | ||
| supply facility, oil or gas pipeline, water supply facility, public | ||
| work, waste treatment facility, hospital, school, medical or | ||
| nursing care facility, recreational facility, public building, | ||
| technology facility, or other similar facility currently available | ||
| or to be made available to a governmental entity for public use, | ||
| including any structure, parking area, appurtenance, and other | ||
| property required to operate the structure or facility and any | ||
| technology infrastructure installed in the structure or facility | ||
| that is essential to the project's purpose; or | ||
| (B) any improvements necessary or desirable to | ||
| unimproved real estate owned by a governmental entity. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2013. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 768 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 18, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 1, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 768 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 15, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
