1-1     By:  Pitts (Senate Sponsor - Nelson)                   H.B. No. 527

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Finance; April 25, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 11, Nays 0; April 25, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the sale or lease of superconducting super collider

 1-9     property given to a county by the United States Department of

1-10     Energy.

1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-12           SECTION 1.  Chapter 270, Local Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Section 270.008 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 270.008.  DISPOSAL OF SUPER COLLIDER PROPERTY.  (a)  If

1-15     the United States Department of Energy returns or gives to any

1-16     county any property that was used or was to be used in connection

1-17     with or by a superconducting super collider high-energy research

1-18     facility, the county may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the

1-19     property by a method determined by the commissioners court of the

1-20     county.

1-21           (b)  A commissioners court disposing of property under this

1-22     section is not required to comply with any provision of this title,

1-23     including Sections 263.001 and 272.001, requiring a public auction

1-24     or bidding process for the disposal of property.

1-25           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-26     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-27     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-28     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-29     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-30     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-31     passage, and it is so enacted.

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