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 Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:
1-7 (e) If the adjutant general receives notice from the asset
1-8 management division of the General Land Office as provided by
1-9 Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, the adjutant general shall
1-10 produce a report evaluating the military use of any real property
1-11 under the management and control of the department or the Texas
1-12 National Guard Armory Board. The adjutant general shall evaluate
1-13 the use of the property as required by this subsection according to
1-14 military criteria for use of real property.
1-15 (f) Not later than August 1 of the year in which the
1-16 commissioner of the General Land Office submits a report as
1-17 provided by Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, the adjutant
1-18 general shall submit a preliminary report of the report required
1-19 under Subsection (e) to the commissioner of the General Land Office
1-20 identifying the real property used for military purposes. Not
1-21 later than September 1 of the year in which the commissioner of the
1-22 General Land Office submits a report as provided by Section 31.157,
1-23 Natural Resources Code, the adjutant general shall submit the
1-24 report as required by Subsection (e) to:
2-1 (1) the governor;
2-2 (2) the presiding officer of each house of the
2-3 legislature;
2-4 (3) the Legislative Budget Board; and
2-5 (4) the governor's budget office.
2-6 SECTION 2. Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, is
2-7 amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
2-8 (d) In any year that the division will evaluate property
2-9 under the management and control of the adjutant general's
2-10 department or the Texas National Guard Armory Board, the division
2-11 shall notify the adjutant general's department before the division
2-12 begins the evaluation.
2-13 SECTION 3. Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, is
2-14 amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to
2-15 read as follows:
2-16 (d) If under the adjutant general's report submitted as
2-17 provided by Section 431.030, Government Code, the adjutant general
2-18 determines that real property under the management and control of
2-19 the adjutant general's department or the Texas National Guard
2-20 Armory Board is used for military purposes, the commissioner may
2-21 not recommend a real estate transaction involving that real
2-22 property in the final report submitted as provided by Subsection
2-23 (e).
2-24 (e) The final report shall be submitted to the governor, the
2-25 presiding officers of both houses of the legislature, the
2-26 Legislative Budget Board, and the governor's budget office not
2-27 later than September 1 of each year. If the report contains an
3-1 evaluation of a sale of property, it must also contain an
3-2 evaluation of the lease potential of the property.
3-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
3-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-9 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3465 was passed by the House on May
7, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in
Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3465 on May 25, 1997, by a non-record
vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3465 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 23, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor