By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3465

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the disposition of certain state property.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 31.156, Natural Resources

 1-5     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (b)  The division shall identify the real property not being

 1-7     used or being substantially underused and make recommendations to

 1-8     the commissioner regarding the use of the property or regarding a

 1-9     real estate transaction involving the property.  Except that the

1-10     indentification of unused or underused for real property which is

1-11     utilized for military purposes shall be made by the Adjutant

1-12     General of the State of Texas.  The Adjutant General shall make

1-13     determinations of unused or underused according to military

1-14     criteria for use of real property.  The recommendations shall

1-15     include an analysis of the highest and best use to which the

1-16     property may legally be placed.  It shall include recommendations

1-17     for alternative uses of the property addressing potential for

1-18     commercial or agricultural lease of the property or any other real

1-19     estate transaction or use that the division may deem to be in the

1-20     best interest of the state.  The division shall solicit proposals

1-21     and shall accept any unsolicited proposals about real estate

1-22     transactions involving the property that would be of significant

 2-1     benefit to the state.

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

 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.