By Junell                                       H.B. No. 3366

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the authority of the General Services Commission to

 1-3     sell or dispose of real property.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2166.052(b), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The commission may not sell or otherwise dispose of real

 1-8     property of the state except by specific authority:

 1-9                 (1)  granted by the legislature if the legislature is

1-10     in session; or

1-11                 (2)  granted jointly by the governor and the

1-12     Legislative Budget Board if the legislature is not in session.

1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.