By:  Rosson                                           S.B. No. 1282
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the authority of the School Land Board to dedicate
    1-2  permanent school fund land for public uses in exchange for
    1-3  non-monetary consideration:
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 51, Natural Resources Code, is amended by
    1-6  adding Section 51.052(j) to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 51.052.  CONDITIONS FOR SALE OF LAND.
    1-8        (j)  The board, in its sole discretion and in the best
    1-9  interests of the permanent school fund as determined by the board,
   1-10  and without regard to requirements of local governments as to the
   1-11  necessity of any such dedication, may dedicate permanent school
   1-12  fund land to any governmental unit for the benefit and use of the
   1-13  public in exchange for non-monetary consideration with a value
   1-14  reasonably equivalent to or greater than the value of the dedicated
   1-15  land, if the board determines that such an exchange would benefit
   1-16  the permanent school fund.  The asset management division of the
   1-17  land office shall determine the value of the non-monetary
   1-18  consideration, and shall file a copy of its determination with the
   1-19  commissioner.  Examples of public purposes for which permanent
   1-20  school fund land may be dedicated under this subsection include,
   1-21  but are not limited to, (i)  rights-of-way for public roads,
   1-22  utilities, or other infrastructure, (ii)  public schools,
   1-23  (iii)  public parks, (iv)  government offices or facilities,
    2-1  (v)  public recreation facilities, and (vi)  residential
    2-2  neighborhood public amenities.
    2-3        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-4  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-5  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-6  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-7  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.