Bill Text: TX SB640 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the state agencies responsible for providing facilities management services for certain state buildings allocated for legislative use.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective on 9/1/23 [SB640 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB640-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 640

AN ACT
relating to the state agencies responsible for providing facilities
management services for certain state buildings allocated for
legislative use.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 301, Government Code, is
amended by adding Section 301.073 to read as follows:
Sec. 301.073. FACILITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR SPACE
OCCUPIED BY LEGISLATURE. (a) In this section, "facilities
management services" has the meaning assigned by Section 2165.007,
except that the term does not include utility services or utility
expenses.
(b) Notwithstanding Section 2165.007 or 2165.057(a) or
other law and except as otherwise provided by this section, the
State Preservation Board is responsible for providing:
(1) for the Sam Houston Building, the facilities
management services designated by the administrative head of the
senate;
(2) for the John H. Reagan Building, the facilities
management services designated by the administrative head of the
house;
(3) for an interior portion of the Robert E. Johnson
Building occupied by a single legislative agency, the facilities
management services designated by the administrative head of that
legislative agency; and
(4) for any portion of the Robert E. Johnson Building
not covered by Subdivision (3) and for the attached parking
facility known as state parking garage P, the facilities management
services designated by the administrative head of the Texas
Legislative Council in consultation with the other affected
legislative agencies occupying space in the building.
(c) The Texas Facilities Commission shall:
(1) provide any facilities management service for a
facility listed in Subsection (b) that has not been designated to be
performed by the State Preservation Board;
(2) operate and maintain the central utility plant in
the Sam Houston Building;
(3) subject to Subdivision (4), operate and maintain
the chiller utility plant attached to the Robert E. Johnson
Building; and
(4) as part of phase 2 construction of the Capitol
Complex master plan developed under Section 2166.105:
(A) connect the Robert E. Johnson Building to the
centralized chilled water distribution system described by that
plan; and
(B) subsequently decommission the chiller
utility plant attached to the Robert E. Johnson Building, except
for portions of the plant needed to provide backup chilled water for
the building's data center or other critical infrastructure
identified by the administrative head of the Texas Legislative
Council.
(d) The Texas Facilities Commission shall transfer to the
State Preservation Board an amount of money sufficient to reimburse
the board for the costs incurred by the board to perform the
services described by Subsection (b), including any deferred
maintenance project performed by the board.
(e) This section does not, and may not be construed to,
specifically commit the control of any public buildings or grounds
to the State Preservation Board for purposes of Section 2165.002 or
any other law.
(f) The administrative head of the appropriate legislative
agency may select an entity to provide construction management and
oversight of a project undertaken to repair or rehabilitate a
facility described by Subsection (b) that is funded by money
appropriated to the State Preservation Board. The entity selected
is exclusively responsible for providing construction management
and oversight of the project, notwithstanding Section 2165.001,
Chapter 2166, or other law. On the request of the administrative
head of the legislative agency, from the money appropriated to the
State Preservation Board to fund the project, the board shall
transfer to the legislative agency the amount of money necessary
for the legislative agency to pay the costs the agency incurs in
connection with the project.
(g) For the chamber and committee rooms occupied by the
house and senate in the Capitol, Capitol Extension, and any
legislative office building, the administrative head of agency for
the appropriate house shall specify the scope, manner, and
performance of all work related to audiovisual systems, including
sound systems.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 640 passed the Senate on
March 23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2023, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 640 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 24, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 118,
Nays 20, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor