1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the notice of a sale or an exchange of land by a

 1-3     political subdivision.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 272.001(a), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  Except for the types of land and interests covered by

 1-8     Subsection (b), (g), (h), or (i), and except as provided by Section

 1-9     253.008 [253.007], before land owned by a political subdivision of

1-10     the state may be sold or exchanged for other land, notice to the

1-11     general public of the offer of the land for sale or exchange must

1-12     be published in a newspaper of general circulation in either the

1-13     county in which the land is located or, if there is no such

1-14     newspaper, in an adjoining county.  The notice must include a

1-15     description of the land, including its location, and the procedure

1-16     by which sealed bids to purchase the land or offers to exchange the

1-17     land may be submitted.  The notice must be published on two

1-18     separate dates and the sale or exchange may not be made until after

1-19     the 14th day after the date of the second publication.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1296 was passed by the House on April

         3, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 1296 was passed by the Senate on

         April 28, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor