Amend SB 544 by striking all below the enacting clause and
substituting the following:
      SECTION 1.  Section 253.001, Local Government Code, is
amended by adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
      (h)  The election requirement of Subsection (b) does not
apply to a conveyance of a park if:
            (1)  the park is 1.25 acres or less;
            (2)  the governing body finds, after a public hearing,
that the property is no longer usable and functional as a park and
that the conveyance is in the best interest of the public;
            (3)  any proceeds from the conveyance will be used only
for the acquisition of additional park land in the municipality;
            (4)  the park was acquired by the municipality:
                  (A)  from the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development;
                  (B)  by tax sale or foreclosure; or
                  (C)  by dedication in lieu of a tax sale or
foreclosure; and
            (5)  the conveyance is made on or after September 1,
1997.
      This subsection expires on September 1, 2002.
      SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
      SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby
suspended.