73R537 KLL-F By Glaze H.B. No. 81 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the title to certain property exempt from the statewide 1-3 personal property accounting system or in the possession of certain 1-4 entities providing emergency medical services. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 12, Health and Safety Code, 1-7 is amended by adding Section 12.054 to read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 12.054. DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN DEPARTMENT PROPERTY. 1-9 (a) This section applies only to property that is surplus or 1-10 salvage property under Article 9, State Purchasing and General 1-11 Services Act (Article 601b, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), and 1-12 that is: 1-13 (1) exempt under Section 12.053 from the statewide 1-14 personal property accounting system; or 1-15 (2) lawfully in the possession of an emergency medical 1-16 services provider or governmental entity as those terms are defined 1-17 by Section 773.003. 1-18 (b) The department may negotiate directly with an emergency 1-19 medical services provider or governmental entity to transfer title 1-20 to property covered by this section for which the department 1-21 determines that it holds title. The department and the provider or 1-22 governmental entity may mutually agree upon the value of the 1-23 property and shall take any action incident to the transaction that 1-24 is required by federal law. 2-1 (c) The department shall initiate necessary procedures under 2-2 Article 9, State Purchasing and General Services Act (Article 601b, 2-3 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), to dispose of surplus or salvage 2-4 property for which the department does not transfer title under 2-5 this section. 2-6 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 2-7 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.