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.
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