(a) In order to adequately provide for the proper housing and administrative requirements of the Legislature, it is necessary for the Legislature to acquire and finance additional legislative office facilities in a location adjacent to the State Capitol Building so as to provide for the efficient and effective operations of state government.

(b) The Legislature desires to provide a procedure for acquiring, and to authorize the financing of, these legislative office facilities by the enactment of this article.

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(c) It is the intent of the Legislature to conduct a thorough review of the current and long-term requirements of the Legislature for office facilities and to conduct a study to determine the most economical and cost-effective method of funding the acquisition of those office facilities.

(d) It is also the intent of the Legislature to minimize delays, and thereby reduce costs, in the acquisition of adequate office facilities, and to that end it is the intent of the Legislature that the requirements of Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code be completed in an expeditious manner without undue delays.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1366, Sec. 2. Effective October 2, 1989.)