By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 956
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
    1-2  Bexar County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  CONVEYANCE REQUIRED.  The General Land Office may
    1-5  convey, on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the real
    1-6  property described by Section 2 of this Act.
    1-7        SECTION 2.  PROPERTY DESCRIPTION.  The real property subject
    1-8  to this Act is:
    1-9              (1)  Tract One:  Lot 10, Block 2, New City Block 589,
   1-10  City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; and
   1-11              (2)  Tract Two:  the North 45 feet of the South 95 feet
   1-12  of Lots 11 and 12, Block 2, New City Block 589, City of San
   1-13  Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE.  (a)  The General
   1-15  Land Office shall convey the real property described by Section 2
   1-16  of this Act in the manner prescribed by Section 31.158, Natural
   1-17  Resources Code.  The real property may be sold in whole or in part.
   1-18        (b)  An owner of land with a boundary common to a tract
   1-19  described by Section 2 of this Act has, with respect to the tract
   1-20  to which the owner's property adjoins, a preference right to
   1-21  purchase the tract before it is made available for sale to another
   1-22  person.  Each person entitled to a preference under this subsection
   1-23  has an equal preference.
   1-24        (c)  A person entitled to a preference under Subsection (b)
    2-1  of this section may not purchase the tract for less than the
    2-2  tract's market value, as determined by an appraiser employed by the
    2-3  General Land Office.
    2-4        SECTION 4.   EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
    2-5  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-9  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-10  passage, and it is so enacted.