73R7028 LJD-F
          By Naishtat                                           H.B. No. 1985
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1985:
          By Linebarger                                     C.S.H.B. No. 1985
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the authority of the Texas School for the Blind and
    1-3  Visually Impaired to lease certain real property.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 11.09 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 11.09.  LEASE OF CERTAIN PROPERTY OF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR
    1-8  THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED.  (a)  The Texas School for the
    1-9  Blind and Visually Impaired may lease available real property on
   1-10  the school's campus located at 1100 West 45th Street, Austin,
   1-11  Travis County, to a private, nonprofit corporation that provides
   1-12  print-handicapped persons with auditory materials.  The lease must
   1-13  provide that the corporation must use the property for those
   1-14  services.
   1-15        (b)  In determining the fair market consideration for the
   1-16  lease, actual benefits to be received by the school, the school's
   1-17  students, and the blind and visually impaired community in the
   1-18  state may be considered.
   1-19        (c)  The asset management division of the General Land Office
   1-20  shall negotiate the terms of the lease, determine the most suitable
   1-21  location for the lease, and close the transaction on behalf of the
   1-22  school as provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
   1-23  Code.  The asset management division is not required to transact
    2-1  the lease by sealed bid or public auction.
    2-2        (d)  Proceeds from the real estate transaction conducted
    2-3  under this section shall be deposited in a separate account in the
    2-4  general revenue fund and appropriated to the Texas School for the
    2-5  Blind and Visually Impaired for the functions and purposes of the
    2-6  school as provided by Section 11.062 of this code.  This subsection
    2-7  is exempt from the application of Section 403.094(h), Government
    2-8  Code.
    2-9        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-14  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-15  passage, and it is so enacted.