H.B. No. 1979 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the procedures for selling state property under the 1-3 management and control of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 496.0021 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 496.0021. SALE OF DEPARTMENT REAL PROPERTY. (a) The 1-8 board may sell state-owned real property under the board's 1-9 management and control at the real property's fair market value. 1-10 The General Land Office shall negotiate and close a transaction 1-11 under this section on behalf of the board using procedures under 1-12 Section 31.158(c), Natural Resources Code. Proceeds from the 1-13 transaction shall be deposited in the Texas capital trust fund. 1-14 (b) The board may authorize the sale of land directly to a 1-15 local government at fair market value without the requirement of a 1-16 sealed bid sale if the local government acquires the property for 1-17 use as a local correctional facility. 1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.