1-1 By: Goolsby (Senate Sponsor - Harris) H.B. No. 3515 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997; 1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on State 1-4 Affairs; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: 1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the transfer, sale, or exchange of real property 1-9 between the General Services Commission and the City of Austin. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2166.052, Government Code, is amended by 1-12 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows: 1-13 (c) The commission may enter into a contract with the City 1-14 of Austin to govern the transfer, sale, or exchange of real 1-15 property and interests in real property, including the vacation of 1-16 street rights-of-way, easements, and other interests, as necessary 1-17 or advantageous to both parties. The agreement may provide for the 1-18 transfer, sale, or exchange by one party in favor of the other for 1-19 a reasonable value established by the parties and may provide for a 1-20 transfer, sale, or exchange to be credited against future property 1-21 or interests to be transferred, sold, or exchanged between the 1-22 parties. Section 272.001, Local Government Code, does not apply to 1-23 a transaction governed by this section. 1-24 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-30 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-31 * * * * *