1-1 By: Linebarger (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 2125
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Armbrister x
1-10 Leedom x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Madla x
1-14 Moncrief x
1-15 Patterson x
1-16 Rosson x
1-17 Shapiro x
1-18 Wentworth x
1-19 Whitmire x
1-20 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-21 AN ACT
1-22 relating to the lease or transfer of property owned by a political
1-23 subdivision to certain private for-profit and nonprofit
1-24 organizations.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 272.001, Local Government Code, is
1-27 amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (h) to
1-28 read as follows:
1-29 (a) Except for the types of land and interests covered by
1-30 Subsection (b), <or> (g), or (h), before land owned by a political
1-31 subdivision of the state may be sold or exchanged for other land,
1-32 notice to the general public of the offer of the land for sale or
1-33 exchange must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in
1-34 either the county in which the land is located or, if there is no
1-35 such newspaper, in an adjoining county. The notice must include a
1-36 description of the land, including its location, and the procedure
1-37 by which sealed bids to purchase the land or offers to exchange the
1-38 land may be submitted. The notice must be published on two
1-39 separate dates and the sale or exchange may not be made until after
1-40 the 14th day after the date of the second publication.
1-41 (h) A political subdivision that acquires land or a real
1-42 property interest with funds received for economic development
1-43 purposes from the community development block grant nonentitlement
1-44 program authorized by Title I of the Housing and Community
1-45 Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. Section 5301 et seq.) may lease
1-46 or convey the land or interest, without the solicitation of bids,
1-47 to a private, for-profit entity or a nonprofit entity that is a
1-48 party to a contract with the political subdivision if the land or
1-49 interest will be used by the private, for-profit entity or the
1-50 nonprofit entity in carrying out the purpose of the entity's grant
1-51 or contract. The land or interest may be leased or conveyed
1-52 without the solicitation of bids if the political subdivision
1-53 adopts a resolution stating the conditions and circumstances for
1-54 the lease or conveyance and the public purpose that will be
1-55 achieved by the lease or conveyance.
1-56 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-57 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-58 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-59 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-60 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-61 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-62 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-63 * * * * *
1-64 Austin,
1-65 Texas
1-66 May 20, 1993
1-67 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-68 President of the Senate
2-1 Sir:
2-2 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
2-3 referred H.B. No. 2125, have had the same under consideration, and
2-4 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
2-5 recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
2-6 Armbrister,
2-7 Chairman
2-8 * * * * *
2-9 WITNESSES
2-10 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2125.