[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2904 Introduced in House (IH)]


104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2904

  To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to ensure that any lease 
  entered into by a Federal agency for office, meeting, storage, and 
other space necessary to carry out the functions of the Federal agency 
 shall be subject to the leasing requirements of the Public Buildings 
                              Act of 1959.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 1996

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
             Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Public Buildings Act of 1959 to ensure that any lease 
  entered into by a Federal agency for office, meeting, storage, and 
other space necessary to carry out the functions of the Federal agency 
 shall be subject to the leasing requirements of the Public Buildings 
                              Act of 1959.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the 
Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 606) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(g) Applicability to Leases of Federal Agencies.--The provisions 
of this section and sections 11 and 12 of this Act shall apply to any 
lease of space by a Federal agency in the same manner and to the same 
extent as such provisions would apply if such space were being leased 
by the Administrator; except that certain functions which the 
Administrator would carry out under such provisions if such space were 
being leased by the Administrator shall be carried out by the Federal 
agency.''.
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