By Junell H.B. No. 3366 75R8558 MLS-D 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.