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.

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