By:  Glaze                                              H.B. No. 81
       73R537 KLL-F
                                 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.