By Carona                                        S.B. No. 544

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the procedure by which a municipality may dispose of

 1-3     certain land.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 253.001(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  Land owned, held, or claimed as a public square [or

 1-8     park] may not be sold unless the issue of the sale is submitted to

 1-9     the qualified voters of the municipality at an election and is

1-10     approved by a majority of the votes received at the election.

1-11     However [;  provided, however], this provision shall not apply to

1-12     the sale of land or right-of-way for drainage purposes to a

1-13     district, county, or corporation acting on behalf of a county or

1-14     district.

1-15           SECTION 2.  Sections 253.001(e), (f), and (g), Local

1-16     Government Code, are repealed.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act to Section

1-18     253.001, Local Government Code, apply only to the disposition of

1-19     land under a contract made on or after the effective date of this

1-20     Act.  The disposition of land under a contract made before that

1-21     date is governed by the law in effect when the contract was made,

1-22     and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-23           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-24     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-1     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

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

 2-3     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-4     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-5     passage, and it is so enacted.