By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 917
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property by
    1-2  the Texas Employment Commission.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY.  (a)  The Texas
    1-5  Employment Commission may convey all or any portion of the interest
    1-6  of the state in the real property described by Section 2 of this
    1-7  Act, together with all improvements located on the property, for
    1-8  the consideration and under the terms it considers appropriate.
    1-9        (b)  A quorum of the Texas Employment Commission may execute
   1-10  and deliver a deed conveying the property.
   1-11        (c)  Competitive bidding is required for a conveyance under
   1-12  this Act.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.  The real property
   1-14  authorized to be conveyed under Section 1 of this Act consists of
   1-15  the following tract of land:
   1-16        All that certain property situated in Cameron County, Texas,
   1-17  described as follows, to-wit:  All of Lots Number Ten (10), Eleven
   1-18  (11), and Twelve (12), of Block Number Seventy-five (75), Original
   1-19  Townsite of the City of Harlingen, Cameron County, Texas, according
   1-20  to the map or plat thereof recorded in Volume 2, Page 14, Map and
   1-21  Plat Records of Cameron County, Texas.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.  The proceeds from a
   1-23  conveyance under this Act shall be deposited in the Unemployment
    2-1  Compensation Special Administration Fund to be used for the
    2-2  acquisition of other real property, for the construction or
    2-3  improvement of facilities of the Texas Employment Commission, or
    2-4  otherwise as the United States Department of Labor may direct.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-6  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-7  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-8  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-9  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-10  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-11  passage, and it is so enacted.