1-1  By:  Truan                                             S.B. No. 246
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed February 3, 1993; February 3, 1993,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on International
    1-4  Relations, Trade, and Technology; February 17, 1993, reported
    1-5  favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
    1-6  February 17, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Truan              x                               
   1-10        Barrientos         x                               
   1-11        Bivins                                         x   
   1-12        Brown              x                               
   1-13        Carriker                                       x   
   1-14        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-15        Lucio              x                               
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Wentworth          x                               
   1-18                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-19                                AN ACT
   1-20  relating to the conveyance of property from a county to Texas A&I
   1-21  University Foundation, Inc.
   1-22        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-23        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 263, Local Government Code,
   1-24  is amended by adding Section 263.055 to read as follows:
   1-25        Sec. 263.055.  CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY FROM COUNTY TO TEXAS
   1-26  A&I UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, INC.  (a)  A county may convey surplus
   1-27  personal or real property of the county at a private sale to Texas
   1-28  A&I University Foundation, Inc., for any fair consideration
   1-29  approved by the commissioners court of the county.
   1-30        (b)  Property conveyed under this section must be used for
   1-31  higher education purposes in the county that conveyed the property.
   1-32  If at any time after the date a conveyance of real property is
   1-33  executed under this section the real property is used for a purpose
   1-34  other than a higher education purpose, ownership of the property
   1-35  reverts to the county that conveyed the property.
   1-36        (c)  For a conveyance under this section to be effective, the
   1-37  commissioners court must authorize the conveyance by an order
   1-38  entered in its minutes.  The order must:
   1-39              (1)  describe the property to be conveyed;
   1-40              (2)  state the consideration to be paid; and
   1-41              (3)  direct the county judge of the county to execute
   1-42  in the name of the county a conveyance to Texas A&I University
   1-43  Foundation, Inc., and to promptly make the conveyance on payment of
   1-44  the consideration to the appropriate officer of the county.
   1-45        (d)  An instrument of conveyance executed by the county judge
   1-46  must be in the form and contain the covenants and warranties
   1-47  prescribed by the commissioners court.
   1-48        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-49  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-50  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-51  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-52  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-53  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-54  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-56                                                         Austin,
   1-57  Texas
   1-58                                                         February 17,
   1-59  1993
   1-60  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-61  President of the Senate
   1-62  Sir:
   1-63  We, your Committee on International Relations, Trade, and
   1-64  Technology to which was referred S.B. No. 246, have had the same
   1-65  under consideration, and I am instructed to report it back to the
   1-66  Senate with the recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-67                                                         Truan,
   1-68  Chairman
    2-1                               * * * * *
    2-2                               WITNESSES
    2-3                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
    2-4  ___________________________________________________________________
    2-5  Name:  Dr. Manuel Ibanez                         x
    2-6  Representing:  Texas A & I University
    2-7  City:  Kingsville, Tx
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    2-9  Name:  Mr. A.M. Wiederkehr                       x
   2-10  Representing:  Texas A & I Foundation
   2-11  City:  Dallas, Tx
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   2-13  Name:  Mr. Don Brown                                           x
   2-14  Representing:  Tx Higher Ed. Coordinating
   2-15      Bd
   2-16  City:  Austin, Tx
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