1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1160
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 7, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 7, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Harris of Dallas x
1-10 Rosson x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Leedom x
1-14 Lucio x
1-15 Luna x
1-16 Nelson x
1-17 Patterson x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 Sibley x
1-20 West x
1-21 Whitmire x
1-22 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1160 By: Lucio
1-23 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-24 AN ACT
1-25 relating to the authority of the Texas School for the Blind and
1-26 Visually Impaired to lease certain real property.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 11, Education Code, is
1-29 amended by adding Section 11.09 to read as follows:
1-30 Sec. 11.09. LEASE OF CERTAIN PROPERTY OF TEXAS SCHOOL FOR
1-31 THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED. (a) The Texas School for the
1-32 Blind and Visually Impaired may lease available real property on
1-33 the school's campus located at 1100 West 45th Street, Austin,
1-34 Travis County, to a private, nonprofit corporation that provides
1-35 print-handicapped persons with auditory materials. The lease must
1-36 provide that the corporation must use the property for those
1-37 services.
1-38 (b) In determining the fair market consideration for the
1-39 lease, actual benefits to be received by the school, the school's
1-40 students, and the blind and visually impaired community in the
1-41 state may be considered.
1-42 (c) The asset management division of the General Land Office
1-43 shall negotiate the terms of the lease, determine the most suitable
1-44 location for the lease, and close the transaction on behalf of the
1-45 school as provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 31, Natural Resources
1-46 Code. The asset management division is not required to transact
1-47 the lease by sealed bid or public auction.
1-48 (d) Proceeds from the real estate transaction conducted
1-49 under this section shall be deposited in a separate account in the
1-50 general revenue fund and appropriated to the Texas School for the
1-51 Blind and Visually Impaired for the functions and purposes of the
1-52 school as provided by Section 11.062 of this code. This subsection
1-53 is exempt from the application of Section 403.094(h), Government
1-54 Code.
1-55 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-56 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-57 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-58 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-59 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-60 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-61 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-62 * * * * *
1-63 Austin,
1-64 Texas
1-65 April 7, 1993
1-66 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-67 President of the Senate
1-68 Sir:
2-1 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
2-2 1160, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-3 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-4 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-5 pass and be printed.
2-6 Harris of
2-7 Dallas, Chairman
2-8 * * * * *
2-9 WITNESSES
2-10 FOR AGAINST ON
2-11 ___________________________________________________________________
2-12 Name: Bob Umstattd x
2-13 Representing: Recording For The Blind
2-14 City: Austin
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2-16 Name: Lewis M. Roch x
2-17 Representing:
2-18 City: Austin
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2-20 Name: Karen M. Neeley x
2-21 Representing: Recording For The Blind
2-22 City: Austin
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2-24 Name: Kathleen Coyne x
2-25 Representing: Recording For The Blind
2-26 City: Austin
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