By Greenberg H.B. No. 3465 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. 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.