By Greenberg, Turner of Coleman, Delisi, H.B. No. 3465
75R11083 PAM-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the disposition of certain state property designated
1-3 for military use.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 431.030, Government Code, is amended by
1-6 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
1-7 (e) The adjutant general shall identify any real property
1-8 designated for military use by this state that is not being used or
1-9 is being substantially underused and submit a report identifying
1-10 the real property to the General Land Office for the purpose of
1-11 preparing the property review required by Subchapter E, Chapter 31,
1-12 Natural Resources Code. The adjutant general shall identify
1-13 property as required by this subsection according to military
1-14 criteria for use of real property.
1-15 SECTION 2. Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, is
1-16 amended by amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection
1-17 (d) to read as follows:
1-18 (b) Except as provided by Subsection (c), the [The] division
1-19 shall identify the real property not being used or being
1-20 substantially underused and make recommendations to the
1-21 commissioner regarding the use of the property or regarding a real
1-22 estate transaction involving the property. The recommendations
1-23 shall include an analysis of the highest and best use to which the
1-24 property may legally be placed. It shall include recommendations
1-25 for alternative uses of the property addressing potential for
2-1 commercial or agricultural lease of the property or any other real
2-2 estate transaction or use that the division may deem to be in the
2-3 best interest of the state. The division shall solicit proposals
2-4 and shall accept any unsolicited proposals about real estate
2-5 transactions involving the property that would be of significant
2-6 benefit to the state.
2-7 (c) The division is not required to identify real property
2-8 as required by Subsection (b) if the real property is designated
2-9 for military use by this state. After the adjutant general
2-10 identifies real property designated for military use by this state
2-11 as not being used or being substantially underused as provided by
2-12 Section 431.030, Government Code, the division shall make
2-13 recommendations to the commissioner regarding the use of the
2-14 property or regarding a real estate transaction involving the
2-15 property as provided by this section.
2-16 (d) The division shall, on completion of a review, submit to
2-17 the commissioner any information pertinent to the evaluation of a
2-18 real estate transaction involving the real property, including the
2-19 current market value of the property and including an evaluation of
2-20 any proposals received from private parties that would be of
2-21 significant benefit to the state. If the division submits an
2-22 evaluation of a sale of property, it must also submit an evaluation
2-23 of the lease potential of the property.
2-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-25 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.