By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1160
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the Texas School for the Blind and
    1-2  Visually Impaired to lease certain real property.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 11.09 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 11.09.  LEASE OF CERTAIN PROPERTY OF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR
    1-7  THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED.  (a)  The Texas School for the
    1-8  Blind and Visually Impaired may lease available real property on
    1-9  the school's campus located at 1100 West 45th Street, Austin,
   1-10  Travis County, to a private, nonprofit corporation that provides
   1-11  print-handicapped persons with auditory materials.  The lease must
   1-12  provide that the corporation must use the property for those
   1-13  services.
   1-14        (b)  In determining the fair market consideration for the
   1-15  lease, actual benefits to be received by the school, the school's
   1-16  students, and the blind and visually impaired community in the
   1-17  state may be considered.
   1-18        (c)  The asset management division of the General Land Office
   1-19  shall negotiate the terms of the lease, determine the most suitable
   1-20  location for the lease, and close the transaction on behalf of the
   1-21  school as provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
   1-22  Code.  The asset management division is not required to transact
   1-23  the lease by sealed bid or public auction.
    2-1        (d)  Proceeds from the real estate transaction conducted
    2-2  under this section shall be deposited in a separate account in the
    2-3  general revenue fund and appropriated to the Texas School for the
    2-4  Blind and Visually Impaired for the functions and purposes of the
    2-5  school as provided by Section 11.062 of this code.  This subsection
    2-6  is exempt from the application of Section 403.094(h), Government
    2-7  Code.
    2-8        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  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,
   2-13  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-14  passage, and it is so enacted.