By Greenberg                                          H.B. No. 3585

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to authorizing the General Services Commission to convey

 1-3     certain state-owned property to the City of Austin.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  (a)  The General Services Commission may convey,

 1-6     on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the real property

 1-7     described by Subsection (e) of this section to the City of Austin.

 1-8           (b)  The purchase and sale agreement relating to the

 1-9     conveyance authorized by this section:

1-10                 (1)  shall require the City of Austin to pay cash

1-11     consideration in an amount that is equal to at least the fair

1-12     market value of the real property as determined by an appraisal

1-13     performed by the General Land Office; and

1-14                 (2)  may require other terms and conditions negotiated

1-15     by the General Services Commission and the City of Austin.

1-16           (c)  The General Services Commission may transfer the real

1-17     property only by a special warranty deed.

1-18           (d)  Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, does not apply

1-19     to the conveyance authorized by this section.

1-20           (e)  The real property is described alternatively as:

1-21                 (1)  a 20.206 acre parcel described as Lots 1-2, Block

1-22     A, Lots 1-11, Block B, Lots 1-3, Block C, Wilbarger Place, Section

1-23     One, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas; and

1-24                 (2)  20.206 acres situated in the Henry Warnell Survey,

 2-1     Abstract Number 793, and in the Joseph Burleson Survey, Abstract

 2-2     Number 62, in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas.

 2-3           SECTION 2.  The proceeds from the conveyance shall be

 2-4     deposited in the state treasury and may be used only by the General

 2-5     Services Commission for relocating operations of the State Aircraft

 2-6     Pooling Board from the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport to the

 2-7     airport located in Travis County, Texas, known, on the effective

 2-8     date of this Act, as the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

 2-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-15     passage, and it is so enacted.