1-1     By:  Uher (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)                H.B. No. 2738

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Criminal Justice; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to authorizing the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to

 1-9     convey real property in exchange for property of equivalent fair

1-10     market value.

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

1-12           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 496, Government Code, is

1-13     amended by adding Section 496.0032 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 496.0032.  EXCHANGE OF REAL PROPERTY.  (a)  The board

1-15     may convey real property under the board's management and control

1-16     to a third party if the third party conveys real property of an

1-17     equivalent fair market value to the board.

1-18           (b)  The General Land Office shall negotiate and close a

1-19     transaction under this section on behalf of the board.

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,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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