Bill Text: TX SB770 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against naming public property after certain elected officials and former elected officials.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB770 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB770-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to a prohibition against naming public property after certain elected officials and former elected officials.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-19 - Committee report sent to Calendars [SB770 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB770-Introduced.html
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| By: Uresti | S.B. No. 770 | |
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| relating to a prohibition against naming public property after | ||
| certain former elected officials. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 2165.005(b) and (d), Government Code, | ||
| are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (b) Subject to Section 2204.752, the [ |
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| submit names proposed for a new state building to be used as a state | ||
| or regional headquarters by a state agency, or proposals to rename | ||
| an existing state building which is used as a state or regional | ||
| headquarters by a state agency, to the presiding officers of the | ||
| house of representatives and the senate. | ||
| (d) Subject to Section 2204.752, the [ |
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| submit names proposed for a state building which will be used as a | ||
| local headquarters by a state agency to the presiding officers of | ||
| the house of representatives and the senate and the members of each | ||
| body in whose district the building is located. | ||
| SECTION 2. The heading to Chapter 2204, Government Code, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| CHAPTER 2204. ACQUISITION AND NAMING OF LAND OR PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC | ||
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| SECTION 3. Chapter 2204, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subchapter I to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER I. NAMING OF PUBLIC PROPERTY | ||
| Sec. 2204.751. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "public | ||
| property" means real property, including a road, building, or other | ||
| improvement to real property, owned by this state or a political | ||
| subdivision of this state. | ||
| Sec. 2204.752. PROHIBITED PRACTICE. Notwithstanding any | ||
| other law, public property, or any part of public property, may not | ||
| be named after a former elected official before the fifth | ||
| anniversary of the date the former elected official last held | ||
| elective office. | ||
| SECTION 4. 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. | ||
