[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1285 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1285

To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 relating to authorization of 
   appropriations for construction of public buildings by committee 
                          resolution approval.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 10, 1993

 Mr. Glickman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Public Works and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 relating to authorization of 
   appropriations for construction of public buildings by committee 
                          resolution approval.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Public Buildings Act Amendments of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS ACT OF 1959.

    Section 7(a) of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 606(a)) 
is amended--
            (1) by inserting after the third sentence the following: 
        ``No resolution of approval shall be adopted by such committee 
        for construction, alteration, purchase, or acquisition of a 
        building before the Administrator has submitted to the 
        committees a prospectus of the proposed facility.'';
            (2) in paragraph (4) by striking ``and'' following 
        ``available'' and inserting a comma; and
            (3) in paragraph (4) by inserting after ``proposed action'' 
        the following: ``, and that the vacancy rate, in the State 
        within 30 miles of the proposed facility, for commercial office 
        space comparable to that to be provided by the proposed 
        facility is greater than 10 percent unless the Administrator 
        certifies in the prospectus that material and substantial 
        savings will accrue to taxpayers of the United States from the 
        proposed facility''.

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