1-1     By:  Greenberg, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)  H.B. No. 3585

 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 State

 1-4     Affairs; May 16, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 13, Nays 0; May 16, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to authorizing the General Services Commission to convey

 1-9     certain state-owned property to the City of Austin.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  (a)  The General Services Commission may convey,

1-12     on behalf of the state, the state's interest in the real property

1-13     described by Subsection (e) of this section to the City of Austin.

1-14           (b)  The purchase and sale agreement relating to the

1-15     conveyance authorized by this section:

1-16                 (1)  shall require the City of Austin to pay cash

1-17     consideration in an amount that is equal to at least the fair

1-18     market value of the real property as determined by an appraisal

1-19     performed by the General Land Office; and

1-20                 (2)  may require other terms and conditions negotiated

1-21     by the General Services Commission and the City of Austin.

1-22           (c)  The General Services Commission may transfer the real

1-23     property only by a special warranty deed.

1-24           (d)  Section 31.158, Natural Resources Code, does not apply

1-25     to the conveyance authorized by this section.

1-26           (e)  The real property is described alternatively as:

1-27                 (1)  a 20.206 acre parcel described as Lots 1-2, Block

1-28     A, Lots 1-11, Block B, Lots 1-3, Block C, Wilbarger Place, Section

1-29     One, City of Austin, Travis County, Texas; and

1-30                 (2)  20.206 acres situated in the Henry Warnell Survey,

1-31     Abstract Number 793, and in the Joseph Burleson Survey, Abstract

1-32     Number 62, in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas.

1-33           SECTION 2.  The proceeds from the conveyance shall be

1-34     deposited in the state treasury and may be used only by the General

1-35     Services Commission for relocating operations of the State Aircraft

1-36     Pooling Board from the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport to the

1-37     airport located in Travis County, Texas, known, on the effective

1-38     date of this Act, as the Austin Bergstrom International Airport.

1-39           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-40     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-41     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-42     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-43     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-44     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-45     passage, and it is so enacted.

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