1-1  By:  Luna                                              S.B. No. 956
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1995; March 8, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
    1-4  March 20, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 11, Nays 0; March 20, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                            By:  Wentworth
    1-7  Amend S.B. No. 956, SECTION 1 (page 1, lines 5-7; committee
    1-8  printing page 1, lines 17-19) to read as follows:
    1-9        "SECTION 1.  CONVEYANCE REQUIRED.  The General Land Office
   1-10  may convey, on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the
   1-11  real property described by Section 2 of this Act."
   1-12                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-13                                AN ACT
   1-14  relating to the conveyance of certain state-owned real property in
   1-15  Bexar County.
   1-16        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-17        SECTION 1.  CONVEYANCE REQUIRED.  The General Land Office
   1-18  shall convey, on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the
   1-19  real property described by Section 2 of this Act.
   1-20        SECTION 2.  PROPERTY DESCRIPTION.  The real property subject
   1-21  to this Act is:
   1-22              (1)  Tract One:  Lot 10, Block 2, New City Block 589,
   1-23  City of San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; and
   1-24              (2)  Tract Two:  the North 45 feet of the South 95 feet
   1-25  of Lots 11 and 12, Block 2, New City Block 589, City of San
   1-26  Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE.  (a)  The General
   1-28  Land Office shall convey the real property described by Section 2
   1-29  of this Act in the manner prescribed by Section 31.158, Natural
   1-30  Resources Code.  The real property may be sold in whole or in part.
   1-31        (b)  An owner of land with a boundary common to a tract
   1-32  described by Section 2 of this Act has, with respect to the tract
   1-33  to which the owner's property adjoins, a preference right to
   1-34  purchase the tract before it is made available for sale to another
   1-35  person.  Each person entitled to a preference under this subsection
   1-36  has an equal preference.
   1-37        (c)  A person entitled to a preference under Subsection (b)
   1-38  of this section may not purchase the tract for less than the
   1-39  tract's market value, as determined by an appraiser employed by the
   1-40  General Land Office.
   1-41        SECTION 4.   EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-42  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-43  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-44  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-45  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-46  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-47  passage, and it is so enacted.
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