By Solis                                              H.B. No. 1619
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property by
    1-3  the Texas Employment Commission.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY.  (a)  The Texas
    1-6  Employment Commission may convey all or any portion of the interest
    1-7  of the state in the real property described by Section 2 of this
    1-8  Act, together with all improvements located on the property, for
    1-9  the consideration and under the terms it considers appropriate.
   1-10        (b)  A quorum of the Texas Employment Commission may execute
   1-11  and deliver a deed conveying the property.
   1-12        (c)  Competitive bidding is required for a conveyance under
   1-13  this Act.
   1-14        (d)  Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, does not apply
   1-15  to the conveyance authorized by this Act.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.  The real property
   1-17  authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act consists of
   1-18  the following described tract of land:
   1-19        All that certain property situated in Cameron County, Texas,
   1-20  described as follows, to-wit:  All of Lots Number Ten (10), Eleven
   1-21  (11), and Twelve (12), of Block Number Seventy-five (75), Original
   1-22  Townsite of the City of Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas, according
   1-23  to the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 2, Page 14, Map and
    2-1  Plat Records of Cameron County, Texas.
    2-2        SECTION 3.  DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.  The proceeds from a
    2-3  conveyance under this Act shall be deposited in the unemployment
    2-4  compensation special administration fund to be used for the
    2-5  acquisition of other real property, for the construction or
    2-6  improvement of facilities of the Texas Employment Commission, or
    2-7  otherwise as the United States Department of Labor may direct.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-9  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.