By:  Whitmire                                         S.B. No. 1612

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the disposition of proceeds from the sale of

 1-2     state-owned real property under the management of the Texas

 1-3     Department of Criminal Justice.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 496.0021, Government

 1-6     Code, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  The board may sell state-owned real property under the

 1-8     board's management and control at the real property's fair market

 1-9     value.  The General Land Office shall negotiate and close a

1-10     transaction under this section on behalf of the board using

1-11     procedures under Section 31.158(c), Natural Resources Code.

1-12     Proceeds from the transaction shall be deposited in the general

1-13     revenue fund [Texas capital trust fund].

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.