1-1 By: Junell (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.B. No. 3366 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 1997; 1-3 April 24, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the authority of the General Services Commission to 1-9 sell or dispose of real property. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2166.052(b), Government Code, is amended 1-12 to read as follows: 1-13 (b) The commission may not sell or otherwise dispose of real 1-14 property of the state except by specific authority: 1-15 (1) granted by the legislature if the legislature is 1-16 in session; or 1-17 (2) granted jointly by the governor and the 1-18 Legislative Budget Board if the legislature is not in session. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-20 SECTION 3. 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 * * * * *