(a) The commission may lease space for a state agency in accordance with this chapter and the agency's specifications if:
- (1) state-owned space is not otherwise available to the agency; and
- (2) the agency has verified it has money available to pay for the lease.
- (b) In making a determination under this section that state-owned space is not available to a state agency, the commission must consider all reasonably available state-owned space in this state, regardless of whether utilizing state-owned space would require the agency to move all or part of the agency's operations to a different geographic location in this state.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 41, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 224 (H.B. 265), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2011.