1-1     By:  Greenberg, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)   H.B. No. 3465

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;

 1-3     May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran

 1-4     Affairs and Military Installations; May 17, 1997, reported

 1-5     adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following

 1-6     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3465               By:  Patterson

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to relating to the disposition of certain state property

1-11     designated for military use.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 431.030, Government Code, is amended by

1-14     adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as follows:

1-15           (e)  If the adjutant general receives notice from the asset

1-16     management division of the General Land Office as provided by

1-17     Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, the adjutant general shall

1-18     produce a report evaluating the military use of any real property

1-19     under the management and control of the department or the Texas

1-20     National Guard Armory Board.  The adjutant general shall evaluate

1-21     the use of the property as required by this subsection according to

1-22     military criteria for use of real property.

1-23           (f)  Not later than August 1 of the year in which the

1-24     commissioner of the General Land Office submits a report as

1-25     provided by Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, the adjutant

1-26     general shall submit a preliminary report of the report required

1-27     under Subsection (e) to the commissioner of the General Land Office

1-28     identifying the real property used for military purposes.  Not

1-29     later than September 1 of the year in which the commissioner of the

1-30     General Land Office submits a report as provided by Section 31.157,

1-31     Natural Resources Code, the adjutant general shall submit the

1-32     report as required by Subsection (e) to:

1-33                 (1)  the governor;

1-34                 (2)  the presiding officer of each house of the

1-35     legislature;

1-36                 (3)  the Legislative Budget Board; and

1-37                 (4)  the governor's budget office.

1-38           SECTION 2.  Section 31.156, Natural Resources Code, is

1-39     amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:

1-40           (d)  In any year that the division will evaluate property

1-41     under the management and control of the adjutant general's

1-42     department or the Texas National Guard Armory Board, the division

1-43     shall notify the adjutant general's department before the division

1-44     begins the evaluation.

1-45           SECTION 3.  Section 31.157, Natural Resources Code, is

1-46     amended by amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsection (e) to

1-47     read as follows:

1-48           (d)  If under the adjutant general's report submitted as

1-49     provided by Section 431.030, Government Code, the adjutant general

1-50     determines that real property under the management and control of

1-51     the adjutant general's department or the Texas National Guard

1-52     Armory Board is used for military purposes, the commissioner may

1-53     not recommend a real estate transaction involving that real

1-54     property in the final report submitted as provided by Subsection

1-55     (e).

1-56           (e)  The final report shall be submitted to the governor, the

1-57     presiding officers of both houses of the legislature, the

1-58     Legislative Budget Board, and the governor's budget office not

1-59     later than September 1 of each year. If the report contains an

1-60     evaluation of a sale of property, it must also contain an

1-61     evaluation of the lease potential of the property.

1-62           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-63     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-64     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

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

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.

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