By: Watson  S.B. No. 836
         (In the Senate - Filed February 27, 2015; March 4, 2015,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
  April 20, 2015, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 1; April 20, 2015,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 836 By:  Watson
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to management services for the physical facilities of the
  Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Texas
  School for the Deaf.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 30.022(h-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (h-1)  The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
  facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
  school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
  reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
  2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
  the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
         SECTION 2.  Section 30.052(h-1), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (h-1)  The Texas Facilities Commission shall provide all
  facilities maintenance services for the physical facilities of the
  school[, including facilities construction, cabling, facility
  reconfiguration, and any other services] as provided by Section
  2165.007, Government Code [a memorandum of understanding between
  the board and the Texas Facilities Commission].
         SECTION 3.  Section 2165.007(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  Notwithstanding any other law, the commission shall
  provide facilities management services in relation to all state
  agency facilities in Travis County or a county adjacent to Travis
  County.  The commission's duty does not apply to:
               (1)  a facility owned or operated by an institution of
  higher education;
               (2)  military facilities;
               (3)  facilities owned or operated by the Texas
  Department of Criminal Justice;
               (4)  facilities owned or operated by the Texas Juvenile
  Justice Department;
               (5)  facilities owned or operated by the Texas
  Department of Transportation;
               (6)  the Capitol, including the Capitol Extension, the
  General Land Office building, the Bob Bullock Texas State History
  Museum, any museum located on the Capitol grounds, the Governor's
  Mansion, and any property maintained by the Texas Historical
  Commission under Sections 442.0072 and 442.0073;
               (7)  a facility determined by the commission to be
  completely residential;
               (8)  a regional or field office of a state agency;
               (9)  a facility located within or on state park
  property;
               (10)  the property known as the Finance Commission
  Building described by deed recorded in Volume 5080, Page 1099, of
  the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas; or
               (11)  the property known as the Credit Union Department
  Building described by deed recorded in Volume 6126, Page 27, of the
  Deed Records of Travis County, Texas[;
               [(12)     facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
  for the Blind and Visually Impaired; or
               [(13)     facilities owned or operated by the Texas School
  for the Deaf].
         SECTION 4.  (a)  Not later than September 1, 2015, the
  following are transferred from the Texas School for the Blind and
  Visually Impaired to the Texas Facilities Commission:
               (1)  all remaining powers, duties, functions,
  programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Blind and
  Visually Impaired relating to the maintenance of the school's
  physical facilities;
               (2)  any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
  for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are directly related to
  implementing a power, duty, function, program, or activity
  transferred under this subsection; and
               (3)  all property and records in the custody of the
  Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired that are related to
  a power, duty, function, program, or activity transferred under
  this subsection and all funds appropriated by the legislature for
  that power, duty, function, program, or activity.
         (b)  The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
  the Blind and Visually Impaired shall enter into a memorandum of
  understanding that establishes a plan for the identification and
  transfer of the records, personnel, property, and unspent
  appropriations of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
  Impaired that are used for purposes of the commission's powers and
  duties directly related to the maintenance of the school's physical
  facilities under Section 30.022, Education Code.
         SECTION 5.  (a)  Not later than September 1, 2015, the
  following are transferred from the Texas School for the Deaf to the
  Texas Facilities Commission:
               (1)  all remaining powers, duties, functions,
  programs, and activities of the Texas School for the Deaf relating
  to the maintenance of the school's physical facilities;
               (2)  any obligations and contracts of the Texas School
  for the Deaf that are directly related to implementing a power,
  duty, function, program, or activity transferred under this
  subsection; and
               (3)  all property and records in the custody of the
  Texas School for the Deaf that are related to a power, duty,
  function, program, or activity transferred under this subsection
  and all funds appropriated by the legislature for that power, duty,
  function, program, or activity.
         (b)  The Texas Facilities Commission and the Texas School for
  the Deaf shall enter into a memorandum of understanding that
  establishes a plan for the identification and transfer of the
  records, personnel, property, and unspent appropriations of the
  Texas School for the Deaf that are used for purposes of the
  commission's powers and duties directly related to the maintenance
  of the school's physical facilities under Section 30.052, Education
  Code.
         SECTION 6.  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.
 
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