1-1     By:  Clark (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                 H.B. No. 1296

 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     Intergovernmental Relations; April 17, 1997, reported favorably by

 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 17, 1997, sent to

 1-6     printer.)

 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-8                                   AN ACT

 1-9     relating to the notice of a sale or an exchange of land by a

1-10     political subdivision.

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

1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 272.001(a), Local Government Code, is

1-13     amended to read as follows:

1-14           (a)  Except for the types of land and interests covered by

1-15     Subsection (b), (g), (h), or (i), and except as provided by Section

1-16     253.008 [253.007], before land owned by a political subdivision of

1-17     the state may be sold or exchanged for other land, notice to the

1-18     general public of the offer of the land for sale or exchange must

1-19     be published in a newspaper of general circulation in either the

1-20     county in which the land is located or, if there is no such

1-21     newspaper, in an adjoining county.  The notice must include a

1-22     description of the land, including its location, and the procedure

1-23     by which sealed bids to purchase the land or offers to exchange the

1-24     land may be submitted.  The notice must be published on two

1-25     separate dates and the sale or exchange may not be made until after

1-26     the 14th day after the date of the second publication.

1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.

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