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        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | 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. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | 
      
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        |  | 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. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Chief Clerk of the House | 
      
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        |  | I certify that H.B. No. 768 was passed by the Senate on May | 
      
        |  | 15, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
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        |  | ______________________________ | 
      
        |  | Secretary of the Senate | 
      
        |  | APPROVED:  _____________________ | 
      
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        |  | Governor |