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SENATE BILL 728 |
SENATE AUTHOR: Nelson et al. |
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EFFECTIVE: See below |
HOUSE SPONSOR: Pitts |
Senate Bill 728 amends the Government Code to transfer authority regarding the control, management, and disposal of real property relating to the superconducting super collider research facility from the Texas National Research Laboratory Commission to the General Land Office.
In addition, the act amends the Natural Resources Code to grant the land commissioner authority to dispose of and convey state property relating to the super collider. Senate Bill 728 provides that a person or the heirs of a person who conveyed property to the state for the super collider has a preference right to buy back the land for at least fair market value before it is offered for sale on the open market. The act also amends the Tax Code to clarify that a chief appraiser may not consider the period during which agricultural land was owned by the state in determining whether land has been diverted to a nonagricultural use.
The act takes effect September 1, 1997, except for provisions related to the preference right purchase land, which take effect January 1, 1998.