1-1 By: Hightower (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 1979 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 1, 1995; 1-3 May 2, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 5, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 5, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the procedures for selling state property under the 1-9 management and control of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 496.0021 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 496.0021. SALE OF DEPARTMENT REAL PROPERTY. (a) The 1-14 board may sell state-owned real property under the board's 1-15 management and control at the real property's fair market value. 1-16 The General Land Office shall negotiate and close a transaction 1-17 under this section on behalf of the board using procedures under 1-18 Section 31.158(c), Natural Resources Code. Proceeds from the 1-19 transaction shall be deposited in the Texas capital trust fund. 1-20 (b) The board may authorize the sale of land directly to a 1-21 local government at fair market value without the requirement of a 1-22 sealed bid sale if the local government acquires the property for 1-23 use as a local correctional facility. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *