By Bosse H.B. No. 2228 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the Texas Transportation Commission to 1-3 acquire certain real property. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 4, Article 6674w-3, 1-6 Revised Statutes, is amended by adding paragraph (6) to read as 1-7 follows: 1-8 (6) If only a portion of a parcel of land is needed 1-9 for highway purposes, the commission may, in its discretion, 1-10 acquire by purchase the entire parcel if the fair market value of 1-11 the part taken plus damages to the remainder is greater than or 1-12 equal to the fair market value of the entire parcel. Any land 1-13 acquired under this paragraph that is not needed for highway 1-14 purposes may be leased by the department pursuant to Chapter 757, 1-15 Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987 (Article 1-16 6673a-3, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), or may be sold or 1-17 exchanged pursuant to Chapter 99, General Laws, Acts of the 42nd 1-18 Legislature, Regular Session, 1931 (Article 6673a, Vernon's Texas 1-19 Civil Statutes). 1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.