Bill Text: TX SB958 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of the Texas Facilities Commission to manage a construction project at the site of the G. J. Sutton State Office Complex in Bexar County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-09 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB958 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB958-Introduced.html
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By: Uresti | S.B. No. 958 |
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relating to the authority of the Texas Facilities Commission to | ||
manage a construction project at the site of the G. J. Sutton State | ||
Office Complex in Bexar County. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. (a) The Texas Facilities Commission is | ||
authorized to manage a construction project for a state office | ||
building and associated parking facilities for state use at a cost | ||
not to exceed $162,446,464 to be located on state-owned property in | ||
Bexar County at the site of the existing G. J. Sutton State Office | ||
Complex. | ||
(b) The project for the state office building and associated | ||
parking facilities is approved for financing in accordance with | ||
Section 1232.108, Government Code, and bonds may be issued to fund | ||
the construction of the building and facilities in accordance with | ||
Section 1232.102, Government Code. | ||
(c) The state office building shall be known as the G. J. | ||
Sutton Building and the property on the land on which the building | ||
is located shall be known as the G. J. Sutton State Office Complex. | ||
(d) The project for the state office building and associated | ||
parking facilities shall be constructed in compliance with Chapter | ||
2166, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 2. In managing and implementing the project | ||
authorized under Section 1 of this Act, the Texas Facilities | ||
Commission in collaboration with the Texas Historical Commission | ||
shall determine any opportunities for and the feasibility of | ||
preserving the existing status of the G. J. Sutton Building as a | ||
contributing building for the designation of the area as a historic | ||
district of the National Register of Historic Places. | ||
SECTION 3. The construction of a state office building and | ||
associated parking facilities for state use described by this Act | ||
is subject to the specific appropriation of funds to the Texas | ||
Facilities Commission for that purpose by a general appropriations | ||
act of the 84th Legislature. | ||
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, 2015. |