By: Lindsay S.B. No. 927 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of the Texas Department of Transportation 1-2 to acquire certain real property. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 203, Transportation Code, 1-5 is amended by adding Section 203.0521 to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 203.0521. ACQUISITION OF REMAINDER. (a) If a proposed 1-7 acquisition of a tract of real property under Section 203.052 would 1-8 leave the owner of the property a remainder of the tract, the 1-9 commission shall offer to purchase the remainder if the commission 1-10 determines that: 1-11 (1) the remainder has little or no value or utility to 1-12 the owner; or 1-13 (2) the entire tract could be acquired for 1-14 substantially the same compensation as the partial tract. 1-15 (b) The department may acquire the remainder under this 1-16 section only if the owner of the property consents to the 1-17 acquisition of the remainder. 1-18 (c) The department is not required to make an offer on a 1-19 remainder if an appraisal or environmental investigation indicates 1-20 the presence of hazardous materials or substances. 1-21 (d) The department and its designated agents may enter a 1-22 remainder to conduct an appraisal, survey, or environmental 1-23 investigation to determine whether the department will offer to 2-1 acquire the remainder. 2-2 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-7 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-8 passage, and it is so enacted.