By:  Hartnett                                         H.B. No. 1614
       73R5287 CBH-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to notification of a community center's intent to acquire
    1-3  real property.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 534.021(a) and (b), Health and Safety
    1-6  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  A community center must receive from the department
    1-8  prior written approval to acquire real property, including a
    1-9  building, if the acquisition involves the use of department funds
   1-10  or local funds required to match department funds.  In addition,
   1-11  the community center must notify each local agency that appoints
   1-12  members to the board of trustees not later than the 61st day before
   1-13  it enters into a binding obligation to acquire the property.  The
   1-14  commissioner, on request, may waive the 60-day notification
   1-15  requirement on a case-by-case basis.
   1-16        (b)  A community center must notify the department and each
   1-17  local agency that appoints members to the board of trustees not
   1-18  later than the 61st day before it enters into a binding obligation
   1-19  to acquire real property, including a building, if the acquisition
   1-20  does not involve the use of department funds or local funds
   1-21  required to match department funds.  The commissioner, on request,
   1-22  may waive the 60-day requirement on a case-by-case basis.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-24  applies only to a binding obligation to acquire real property
    2-1  entered into on or after the effective date of this Act.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-3  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-4  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-5  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-6  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.