1-1     By:  Harris                                            S.B. No. 996

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 6, 1997; March 11, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Administration;

 1-4     April 2, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,

 1-5     Nays 0; April 2, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the donation of certain surplus or salvage state

 1-9     property.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 2175.301, Government Code, is amended by

1-12     adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:

1-13           (c)  An agency in the legislative branch shall dispose of its

1-14     surplus or salvage property under a disposition system established

1-15     by the agency.  This chapter does not apply to the agency's

1-16     disposition of its surplus or salvage property under that system.

1-17     That system shall give preference to transferring the property

1-18     directly to, in order of priority:

1-19                 (1)  a public school;

1-20                 (2)  another public governmental agency; or

1-21                 (3)  an assistance organization.

1-22           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.

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